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by Ramsey McNabb on knowing how other people feel.


Tragically, Hector?s father is involved in a car accident and dies. Hector is devastated. An acquaintance, Anita, tells him that she knows just how he feels. Angered at her presumption, he responds, ?No, you don?t know how I feel!? After all, how could she know how he feels? She doesn?t know what he is going through, what he is thinking and how he is feeling. No one can know how anyone else feels.

But here lies the paradox. If he claims that she cannot know how he feels, he is necessarily making an assertion about how she feels! If it is true that one person cannot know how another person feels, then it follows that he cannot know how she feels, and hence, he cannot know that she doesn?t know how he feels. His position is self-defeating. If he is right, he is wrong...

This is funny, cause...I know, that you know... that I know ...this was funny.

Here is the thing about Philosophy; Having studied it... I can tell you its the highest form of mental masturbation in the existence of science... Nothing worse than a bunch of old farts challenging each other with quips like..."and your point is...?"
It came about as a way for scientists to learn how to 'ask the right questions' (Its not about the right answers) By design, it sets out to challenge assumption and unpack predicates...

Existentialism? Puleeeeze! From Kierkegaard's living for Authenticity to Sartre's 'Existence preceeds essence' ....the only real movement to emerge from this nonsense was the feminist's (A woman is Not born, she is made... Simone de Beauvoir)

I look around me and the world is pretty f**k up... and given to meaningless pop /self-help books and other unimportant literature...

and Just when you think you have the answer to the universe...somebody comes along with a really good song and it just blows it all away...

The only philosophy worth following my freinds ...is to "Rock on!"