jaxx18

Right last words then I'm off to enjoy the sunlight, has wonderful benefits for the skin you know. Before I go though I should like to leave you with this: reason, ultimate truth, the singularity you adore is a redundent desire as dead as the God it replaced and I shall illustrate this in a single sentence, a short one mind, taken from S/Z (Roland Barthes): 'There are said to be certain Buddhists whose ascetic practices allow them to see a whole landscape in a bean' That's you by the way, the Buddhist monks, and the ascetic practices well you guessed it the perfect rationality, the formula for truth. As for the landscape... (read more)

I have returned to find, as predicted, the irony most definitely lost. When will you americans learn to appreciate such simple devices? Any chance of an explanation? Perhaps a riposte (I rather like that)? Oh never mind. Oh dear I have just noticed another howler 'a few minutes of philosophical reflection trump a few millennia of human cultural tradition.' Where do you think such philisophical epiphanies come from I wonder? Conjured much like your arguments, out of thin air? Your own subjectivism which you take great pains to distance yourself from is inescapable, you are a prisoner of mediochrity, accept it and get off your high horse. As for the rest of... (read more)

I read your article when it appeared rather aptly under a search for irrational argument. I've never wasted my time submitting to such a 'blog' before but the sheer pomposity of your prose compelled me. How rewarding to find that, as often is the case, the arrogance of weak intellect should unwittingly display its failings quite so blatantly. You have undoubtedly arrived at most probably the correct conclusion with regards to the Amanda Knox case by way of some very flawed reasoning (well done). The hubris of your 'rationality' is really quite hilarious. To quote, your knowledge of the case comprises of 'an hour on the internet' (how very diligent of you)... (read more)