"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"

- Sherlock Holmes

*squee*

You explain my madness well.

I want to go away sometimes. Go into full seclusion for months and months till I feel better about certain qualities in myself.

Every once in a while someone can push the perfect button. When it happens I want people to stay away.

But then everyone will take it personal. As if its all about them. I'll just hate you more. but In general, I care far to deeply to depart in full.

I've been wanting to write a collection of the worst arguments. In my travels I'm encountered a vast number and I was wondering if anyone wanted to post a little of there own encounters.

it feels sorta liberating

I honestly feel bad for you. Not just you, but your presenters. The public will never learn anything more than the Dramatic. And your to those that are. Honestly, logic will fail you, you need a new tactic. And fast.

On Bullshit. Like me, you might have walked by the philosophy section at the book store and saw its queer title, and immediately started to peruses. Its slim size, and its red with silver lettering title shimming at you. It's hard to simply walk away by curiosity standards. Its great marketing.

Reading over many of the Amazon.com reviews I can see that people saw this book as mix bag of good and bad. Many were drawn in by the title and had a large misconception what it entailed. A joke book, or Satire. Far from it! Its written as a academic, and philosophical paper. Thats the style, no humor, just analyst. For many including I, that's a bore. Lucky, its quaint size of 67 pages, and large spacing and lettering make it less of a sludge to read. By the time you notice its drudgery your already ¾ done.

Harry Frankfurt, Our studious author starts off asking a simple and humoring question (The only humor allowed), why so much bullshit? The world is just bursting on the scene from bullshit! This required a TV show to be created to expose the tsunami of bullshit, e.g., “The Daily Show, with Jon Stewart” (Love you Jon). And in fact a second was needed, “The Colbert Report”!

You might feel I'm making more out of this book then is needed; Witting tangents. But thats because if I continued, I'd bore myself. But some people actually care; Sodomy quicker and less painful. Lets continue.

Frankfurt, Our Stogy hero asks yet another question but less humoring, has anyone else noticed the bullshit and has also written a book. He laments, I imagine sighing to himself that very little has been done on the subject. HF does though find an essay called, “The Prevalence of Humbug” by Max Black. He, that is our stogy hero, begins to cross-examine between the rules and examples and activities we use to understand both bullshit and humbug and continues in this philosophical fashion for ¾ of the book.

I might have written a bit harsh, and indeed this is for humor sake and my own OCD problems. But its conclusion is really quite interesting and perhaps this is the spoiler of the book. If you dare to consult the evil communist regime that is, Wikipedia, you'll find it also hasn't much to say except its conclusion after the ¾ mind slogging. As HF finally sees it, "bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are."

In summary of this statement. HF find that while lies try to lead you away from the truth, It also presupposes some knowledgeable account of what the truth actually is to draw you from. In the case of bullshit, its indifferent to both. It's not a necessary condition within BS to care about truth or falsity of a claim. BS primarily looks to impress and gain the adherence of an audience unannounced to them for the purpose of advancing their own agendas. After reading this book a quote came to mind.

“When it comes to BULLSHIT...BIG-TIME, MAJOR LEAGUE BULLSHIT... you have to stand IN AWE, IN AWE of the all time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims, religion. Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told. Think about it, religion has actually convinced people that there's an INVISIBLE MAN...LIVING IN THE SKY...who watches every thing you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten special things that he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish where he will send to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry for ever and ever 'til the end of time...but he loves you. ...And he needs money! He's all powerful, all perfect, all knowing, just can't handle money!”

k thx,
Preliminary Absurdist

When is someone arrogant or self-empowered? Rightly, Arrogance is a degree of unjustified prestige. Self-empowered is a motivational mantra given to the act of self-fulfillment or betterment. The problem is these rules criss-cross for the speakers purpose. A speaker can invoke a rule change on mere disagreement or style whenever they feel threaten. When a performer is bowing or a crowd ask for an encore, is he arrogant...In most cases, not! I've been called arrogant in what I call my most tactful way possible to present a level of difference. I'll drudge on, but I'll never understand people compliance to not listen because of ethos alone. Your attack on purely style isn't because its truly foreboding but because you cling to character traits of comfort. I appeal, the irony is your arrogant!