#1 2010-09-24 21:17:35
The author of this suicide "note" shot himself in broad daylight in Harvard Yard last week. It's said this missive runs to 1,900 pages.
Sorry, but I got shit to do.
Maybe one of you could post a summary for me...?
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#2 2010-09-24 22:26:18
The dude was a total technoloser who was unable to produce a decent PDF file from his steaming pile of shit. Only the first page of each subsection is available, which doesn't allow for an adequate analysis of just how fucked up the document is.
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#3 2010-09-24 22:47:43
glass houses....
I see all 1905 pages.
Loser.
But then, having read five of those pages, maybe you're the winner?
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#4 2010-09-24 23:11:48
I think the end of the last section pretty much sums up his thesis. The rest seems to be all background, though I obviously only skimmed it:
If science is to continue its purposeless advance, then
curiosity, wonder, and happiness must be disenchanted and
vivisected. Science and philosophy might be motivated by a
sense of poetic wonder, but what happens when wonder,
curiosity, and the joy of understanding have been reduced
and explained in terms of chemical reactions of the brain. Is
it possible to synthesize this knowledge with the experience
of it? How far is one willing to lie to one’s self in the belief of
the goodness of the truth when science has conquered the
non-scientific behaviors that motivate science?
If we have a technical understanding of the biochemical
basis of the experience of curiosity, wonder, amazement,
awe, and mystery themselves, does this diminish our
experience of them? Do these experiences fall into the same
category as myths, lies, and illusions? What rational basis is
there to treat them any differently? What then, does it mean
to lead a “rational life”? If science and knowledge are
supposedly pursued for its own sake, then how about the
knowledge that life has no discernable purpose, knowledge
that happiness, wonder, and curiosity are based in material
organizations that were likely selected for their evolutionary
survival value, and knowledge that there is no
fundamentally rational basis for choosing life over death.
Nihilism, noted Friedrich Nietzsche, “represents the
ultimate logical conclusion of our great values and
ideals”.
This is the bankrupt, philosophical disaster area
the West dwells in. I see no “bottom”, no limits to stop the
freefall into value nothingness. Implicit in nihilism is the
collapse of the entire human cause. The ultimate logical
conclusion of Western values is the rational self-destruction
of the West.
Is this absurd? If this is absurd then it must also be absurd
that I rage at the entire cosmos for having no ultimate
meaning.
But there is no reason to be pessimistic. There is no
justification whatsoever for a negative attitude! There is no
justification whatsoever for a positive attitude! There is no
justification whatsoever for a neutral attitude!
Who knows what will happen with certainty? I could be
strolling down the street, being beautiful, on my way to kill
myself, when suddenly I am run over by a bus.
But wait a minute. Why am I doing this? Ah, yes, now I
remember the punchline:
I’ll try anything once!
There is nothing to take seriously!
MITCHELL HEISMAN
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#5 2010-09-24 23:19:04
I stand corrected. My computer's default program for opening PDFs is Preview. Once I opened it in Adobe Reader I was able to see the whole thing.
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#6 2010-09-25 01:16:23
Modern Finnegan's Wake?
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#8 2010-09-25 03:47:05
Fuck it, I'll give it an attempt, my girlfriends on the rag anyway. Besides, I'm rather impressed that someone put 1,905 pages that are not double spaced as a suicide note...it makes all previous suicides before it seem rather half assed.
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#9 2010-09-25 04:11:40
fortinbras wrote:
Fuck it, I'll give it an attempt, my girlfriends on the rag anyway. Besides, I'm rather impressed that someone put 1,905 pages that are not double spaced as a suicide note...it makes all previous suicides before it seem rather half assed.
We applaud your sacrifice, we also expect a thorough review.
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#10 2010-09-25 04:26:59
Emmeran wrote:
fortinbras wrote:
Fuck it, I'll give it an attempt, my girlfriends on the rag anyway. Besides, I'm rather impressed that someone put 1,905 pages that are not double spaced as a suicide note...it makes all previous suicides before it seem rather half assed.
We applaud your sacrifice, we also expect a thorough review.
I'm about 40 pages in, if you include the table of contents that is. Its honestly not poorly written, the only major problem I have with it at this point is I'm wondering if suicide was a last minute objective or not. As it is reading at this point it seems like book on philosophy, with little indications that his suicide was imminent.
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#11 2010-09-26 15:36:41
Apropos of nothing, has anyone heard from Kathaksung recently???
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#12 2010-09-26 15:41:57
Here earlier in the week.
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#13 2010-09-26 19:50:53
Emmeran wrote:
fortinbras wrote:
Fuck it, I'll give it an attempt, my girlfriends on the rag anyway. Besides, I'm rather impressed that someone put 1,905 pages that are not double spaced as a suicide note...it makes all previous suicides before it seem rather half assed.
We applaud your sacrifice, we also expect a thorough review.
Of your girlfriend's rag, of course.
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#14 2010-09-26 22:12:07
Tall Paul wrote:
Emmeran wrote:
fortinbras wrote:
Fuck it, I'll give it an attempt, my girlfriends on the rag anyway. Besides, I'm rather impressed that someone put 1,905 pages that are not double spaced as a suicide note...it makes all previous suicides before it seem rather half assed.
We applaud your sacrifice, we also expect a thorough review.
Of your girlfriend's rag, of course.
If you want the details about that, ask him to tell you about it in a private message. I'm sure the rest of us would prefer not to know!
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#15 2010-09-26 22:34:27
fnord wrote:
Tall Paul wrote:
Of your girlfriend's rag, of course.
If you want the details about that, ask him to tell you about it in a private message. I'm sure the rest of us would prefer not to know!
09/26/10 Dear Diary - Have discovered fnord's kryptonite. Questions remain regarding potency of menstrual blood... research racial variations. Investigate delivery methods. Book trip to Haiti.
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#16 2010-09-26 23:21:19
opsec wrote:
fnord wrote:
Tall Paul wrote:
Of your girlfriend's rag, of course.
If you want the details about that, ask him to tell you about it in a private message. I'm sure the rest of us would prefer not to know!
09/26/10 Dear Diary - Have discovered fnord's kryptonite. Questions remain regarding potency of menstrual blood... research racial variations. Investigate delivery methods. Book trip to Haiti.
I don't get the "on the rag" squeamishness. I've never hesitated to have sex or go down when a woman was menstruating. You just have to clean up immediately afterward so the sheets don't stain. Otherwise-- it's just secretion. What's the big deal?
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#17 2010-09-26 23:46:18
DupeOrNot wrote:
I don't get the "on the rag" squeamishness. I've never hesitated to have sex or go down when a woman was menstruating. You just have to clean up immediately afterward so the sheets don't stain. Otherwise-- it's just secretion. What's the big deal?
Right, right. Who hasn't waited until after breakfast to wipe off the red wings. But fnord is gay (there's an epic thread about it on here somewhere). I am curious if menstrual blood will repel gays in general... I know it works for deer.
Taint?
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#18 2010-09-27 05:07:19
DupeOrNot wrote:
opsec wrote:
fnord wrote:
If you want the details about that, ask him to tell you about it in a private message. I'm sure the rest of us would prefer not to know!09/26/10 Dear Diary - Have discovered fnord's kryptonite. Questions remain regarding potency of menstrual blood... research racial variations. Investigate delivery methods. Book trip to Haiti.
I don't get the "on the rag" squeamishness. I've never hesitated to have sex or go down when a woman was menstruating. You just have to clean up immediately afterward so the sheets don't stain. Otherwise-- it's just secretion. What's the big deal?
I thought of a really great comeback line, but in the interest of world peace, I will just let it go.
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#19 2010-09-27 06:01:59
Tall Paul wrote:
DupeOrNot wrote:
opsec wrote:
09/26/10 Dear Diary - Have discovered fnord's kryptonite. Questions remain regarding potency of menstrual blood... research racial variations. Investigate delivery methods. Book trip to Haiti.I don't get the "on the rag" squeamishness. I've never hesitated to have sex or go down when a woman was menstruating. You just have to clean up immediately afterward so the sheets don't stain. Otherwise-- it's just secretion. What's the big deal?
I thought of a really great comeback line, but in the interest of world peace, I will just let it go.
I'm disappointed in you son.
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#20 2010-09-27 08:39:15
Dmtdust wrote:
Here earlier in the week.
Darn, it would have fit my hypothesis perfectly.
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#21 2010-09-27 11:51:13
fortinbras wrote:
Fuck it, I'll give it an attempt, my girlfriends on the rag anyway. Besides, I'm rather impressed that someone put 1,905 pages that are not double spaced as a suicide note...it makes all previous suicides before it seem rather half assed.
No double spacing? No place to put proofreading marks?
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#22 2010-09-27 19:21:45
fnord wrote:
Tall Paul wrote:
DupeOrNot wrote:
I don't get the "on the rag" squeamishness. I've never hesitated to have sex or go down when a woman was menstruating. You just have to clean up immediately afterward so the sheets don't stain. Otherwise-- it's just secretion. What's the big deal?I thought of a really great comeback line, but in the interest of world peace, I will just let it go.
I'm disappointed in you son.
I think that 'son' is out of the question in this case.
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