Favorite Philosophers

[Trip06]

oh and karl marx also said that for socialism to work it has to take over the whole world. OVER MY DEAD BODY!!!

Here listen to what real socialism is like>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDA7XXNHeeU

[Nancy007]

Had to bump this thread, sorry!

Kahlil Gibran. His philosophy and writings lierally changed my life in a way I could never explain. There aren't words to explain it.

[G13budsmoker]

george carlin....
RIP

[G13budsmoker]

LMAO, yeah thats why EVERYWHERE Communism has been there has Been MASS GENOCIDE of its own countrymen. Get a history book. The marines didnt storm normandy Beach for you to sit here and Praise Communism. Didnt You attend History class? Dont you know what the "red scare" was? LOL. You think The loss Of individual Rights Is something to Whim around? Fabion Socialism and Communism is nothing more than what it has always been. English lords raping the peasants. If your communism worked so well than Russia wouldnt be a 3 world country. Japan and china wouldnt execute and force 300 million people into civillan labor camps because they dont like how the Governments run. THERE GOVERNMENT OWNS THEM, We Here in the USA WE OWN OUR GOVERNMENT. We reconize the individual here. And all those vets who died in the world wars would shit on you if they were here to read your bullshit. So while you shit on our constitution and bills of rights, maybe you should think about a life of working in a textile factory for the rest of your life with no advancement. Maybe you should move out of AMERICA. THE LAND OF THE FREE!!!

well what the hell is the difference between that and what this country is doing to its own people? we send troops over seas to die everyday. oh but its ok because were fighting terrorist...shut the fuck up, we(the us government) are the damn terrorists. this is modern day genocide dumbass, but americans are so fucking stupid these days, that we will believe anything are baby sitters(US government) tell us, and are ignorant of reality. and we dont have any fucking rights these days asshole, everything has be re-defined from the original constitution to ensure that we(the people) dont have any power, only the government does. land of the free my ass. OUR GOVERNMENT OWNS US STUPID, we dont even have the free choice to decide whether or not one wants to use MJ recreationaly or not, ITS A FUCKING PLANT. we cant even decide if we want to smoke a damn plant or not? but alcohol and tobaco is perfectly fine??? WTF... try using logics next time buddy, instead of having everything already decided and chosen for you.

[BlueBlazer]

george carlin....
RIP

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I was going to say Curly Howard, but George Carlin is good too.

[Islandborn]

Jack Handey from SNL skits of old. Genius.

[Islandborn]

There are only a couple whom I study and endorse: Aristotle and Ayn Rand are the only people who acknowledge reason as the only tool to discover knowledge.

I am a new Intellectual, so far Ive gathered:
Kant was anti reason and held mysticsm as an absolute.
Nietzche, although not an altruist, thought other should be sacrificed to oneself.
Plato - complete mystic and believed any form of knowledge and success was not earned but given by God.

Ayn Rand philosophy, although completely thought of on her own, was influenced by Aristotle. Reason being the only absolute. "The philosophy for living on Earth"

Isn't Ayn Rand still atop the NYT booksellers top 10 list? Brilliant woman.

[gypski]

Tell the truth IB your favorite philosophers are Rush and Glenn followed by O'Really and Insanity. :S2:

[Zugunruhe]

David Hume
Plato
John Stewart Mill
Berkeley

[Desaturate]

Spinoza, Thoreau, Nietzsche, and Machiavelli (the Discourses more than the Prince). Emphasis on the first two.

I don't care for Ayn Rand's world view.