Is sexuality knowledge or belief?

I always hated philosophy, and I am a chronic overthinker. I can tell you that I would want to be bi because then the situation I'm in would work perfectly. I'm not though, I'm gay and my situation is not working perfectly. All the thinking and reasoning I could ever do could not change that, I tried.

Your weaving of philosophical theories and the minds that put them out there make anxious remembering the philosophy course i took in college. There were so many philosophers and they never gave me a satisfying explanation for anything. They just argued and argued while everyone else lived their lives. It frustrated me as a thinker because they took all the fun out of it for me and seemed to never get anywhere. All I could think of was that each one thought they had it all figured out but they didn't. So many great minds wouldn't exist if only one person had it all figured out. It's just not comforting to me or amusing to me in the least.

I can appreciate your enthusiasm though and hope you continue to have fun with it. I really do! If you find a plausible way to have me not be gay then let me know. Please don't take offense to my thoughts. I found it funny how anxious reading this thread Made me and had to share! Carry on )))

 

The philosophy talk and my own neurotic ways...I like to think and it drives me nuts being told how to think....like I have to follow a certain path in the way I approach things. It's just me....

 

I agree! I don't really read those books either. I sometimes call myself queer instead of gay, just because the way things happened for me. That confuses people, or gives them liscense to "fill in the blanks themselves". It is very true though, people like to put others in boxes that fit their own experience.

That's why I'm most nervous to come out to the GLBTQ community. That's one of my biggest fears. My experience that has made me who I am and helped me understand who I am could get lost in the mix....

Growing up I didn't have much freedom in anything, my thoughts no one could take though, they were mine. I hold on to that, therefore my anxiety in following formulas for thinking etc....all schools of thought have some thing to add, I just don't want to follow one construct.

 

This topic is very interesting, made me dizzy though. :'D

I haven't read any books on philosophy other than the "philosopher's stone" I suck at philosophy101 too. But there is one thing that I could recall though, it's the "existence" of fallacy. (See google)

As normal deep people we tend to acquire information as we go through life, and then we apply it to different kinds of situation. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

So to make conclusions based on books we've read, to our own lives and understanding is a fallacy. Sure we could use comparisons, hyperboles, similes, metaphors and other figurative language but they still are fallacies.

theories vs laws.

Even laws could be disproved too.
K gotta drink analgesic for my headache.

I love deep people. <3

 

Sorry for joining so late into this discussion, but I think I know where you are coming from. The problem here is the Cartesian definition of knowledge, which is very narrow and means only stuff that can be arrived at by logical deduction. In this sense, not even the fact that we exist can be 'known' and can only be arbitrarily posited i.e. believed. Modern philosophy is way past beyond that discussion and a lot more open to subjective, lived and felt experience, 'the phenomenon' as ultimately, that's the only thing we have to ground ourselves on. Therefore, in the end, that's what should matter most, instead of some abstract empty formal logic. I hope this is of any help. Cheers!

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Descartes....the ultimate cutter-up of things, where everything outside one's own skin is dead; Descartes the declarer of a division between subjects and objects. Phooey!

Quick question: who is the one doing all this knowing? Is there an "I" that knows that it knows? Or is it that I am the phenomenon of knowing? What if there is no separate "I" that knows? What if reality is what happens when subject and object both collapse into a self-referential, reductio-ad-absurdum puff of smoke!

(the questions above will no doubt be worth a few more interesting retorts!)

 

I loved this description of Descartes! So satisfying to read!

 

The other day I was reading a book on yoga and the author was saying something very similar, it was about some of those philosophical dualities, mind-matter, I think. There's been that endless philosophical discussion about what takes precedence and his take was that they were one and the same thing, but viewed through two different standpoinds: inside and out. Through normal empirical observation of nature he could see the outside while through meditation he could see the inner side of it. It has some interesting parallels with your questions.