95% of what you percieve in your mind to be true is your reality...therefore what is truly reality and what is just the percieved reality of the individual?

Has anyone done any reading on Michel Foucault? I know that he supports Edward Said's Orientalism in a lot of ways but has anyone thought about how the two contradict one another?

it would do good, because it would allow me to formulate organized thought for myself

Ah yes, in the Garden of Eden, when man first sprang fully formed from the mud, of course, how silly of me. And let's not forget the Tower of Babel and how the Lord made people incomprehensible to each other. The "language" you would develop on your own wouldn't be much good to you because no one else would speak it, Tarzan.

foolish poolish

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You would eventually develop a "language" of your own, do you seriously think a human has no thought at all in the begining? How would humans have ever advanced? There had to be a begining, a vacuum. And shut up with all that dust and dog dander crap, your probably not smart, dont act it. Sorry but true. doesnt impress at all

Life in a vaccuum is all dust and dog dander. Knowledge is cumulative and thought dialectical. With nothing imported, there can be nothing original, only instinct. It is naive to think that you can think, in human terms, on your own. What language would you have if you had none of the "thinkings of other men" at your disposal? Grunts and belches.

What I say is not necesarily what I believe, it's just conversation. And if I did believe in that theory, which I might, then I would not want to read the thinkings of another man.

You should read La Symphonie Pastorale--it will hopefully cure you of any foolish Rousseauean notions that a vaccuum, or "nature," is preferable to inculcated knowledge.

a thinker with no others thinkstuff in brain of their own has more valuable think from my point of view, i would love to start life ovr with nothing placed in me my first years

r u a philosopher if you philosophize in others philosophies, or if u philosophize in philosphies of your own, im not sure you're cursed with think mr. philosopher

also, there is a point to make that we do not die alone, we have all existed forever and will always exist, what you do in life continues, forever affecting other individuals and their ideas, this i would say means that you do not die alone in the sense explained to us by "nycrob"