I passed on Gearoid's advice to our amibtious hero regarding how to have the required high quality thinking. Like any great intellectual, he poured scorn on the notion that he might have anything to learn from use of hallucinogenic substances, but he was excited about the walking notion. He recallled that Nietzsche, for one, was a great leg user, & perhaps this was indeed the secret of the presence of the right kind of thoughts in his head. He headed for the hills & returned, dishevelled & with a wild, hungry look two days later. He rushed towards his room, & began writing. This is a taste of what he produced:
"I am, therefore I think, because of the words. When you put the right words together after each other then you get ideas and when you get enough ideas together in a row then you get philosophy. This is what makes sense of what is out there & in here using the words that are in here to talk about what's out there. This is what makes us human & makes us superior to everything because of our words put together in our heads. Without the words we wouldn't be who we are which would be impossible because we are who we are & how could we not be it. We would be someone else & wouldn't even be able to know we were different than who we were without the words to think it."
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are you sure this budding genius isn't that Amanda Marcotte woman, who The Yard loves so much?
There may be some kind of hidden connection. I admit I did discover the art of bad writing through some stuff written under her name at his site, which may or may not have been written by the same philosophical genius referred to here.
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