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Originally Posted by roachboy
metaphors.
ask nietzsche, he'll tell you.
wittgenstein is better, though--read some of the tractatus.
the idea that the relation goes metaphor-"reality" rather than the other way round is kind of unnerving, when you think about it.
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Nietzsche also went insane.
Something that keeps coming up for me when I think about any kind of skeptical theory, those calling into doubt those things we take for granted, is whether oe not it even matters. Sure, it's interesting, but would the answer change anything? Would you behave differently?
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Omnia mutantu, nos et mutamur in illis.
All things change, and we change with them.
- Neil Gaiman, Marvel 1602
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