Long past time for a good philosophical thread, doncha think?

[C l u t c H 385]

my favorite part of this thread was hopper's frantic rush to correct his misspelling of stirner's name before the system could stamp his edit

and haha you didn't break it down, someone else did

Mo punch thena bowla juice!

 

[C l u t c H 385]

Apparently so does selective quotation. It does answer your question about "how can a quote be incorrect."

Stirner probably wouldn't be thrilled that the entire middle section, the meat if you will, was excised.

Not atall. It's not incorrect, just...different.

 

[Hopper]

All without elipses or any indication he's altered the quote.

Although Max was knowwed to go out and howl at the moon long about midnite on many occasions (he hated the moon cause he couldn't control it) I don't see where planetary matters like eclipses has nuthin to do with nuthin, eh?

 

[sirkickyass]

I broke it down to the gist, eh, Kicky? Ya gotta problem wit dat? Ya tryin to say I misquoted sumthin?

Yes. By definition you misquoted.

You presented statements out of order, inserted statements that are not in the original text, and presented it in a format, with quotation marks, that made it appear to be one coherent statement. You presented words in an order never written by Max Stirner as if they were written by him verbatim.

There's significant sections from the original you've excised.

For example: "Only my cause is never to be my concern. Shame on the egoist who thinks only of himself!"

You've also taken out the entire middle section which is designed to demonstrate the selfish and egoistic nature of God's plan and design and the way in which he relates to humanity. Arguably you have completely subverted the meaning of the writing of Stirner by presenting it as a celebration of egoism rather than his much deeper point about separate kinds of egoism in individuals vs. egoism in entities.

Example: "I have no need to take up each thing that wants to throw its cause on us and show that it is occupied only with itself, not with us, only with its good, not with ours. Look at the rest for yourselves. Do truth, freedom, humanity, justice, desire anything else than that you grow enthusiastic and serve them?

They all have an admirable time of it when they receive zealous homage. Just observe the nation that is defended by devoted patriots. The patriots fall in bloody battle or in the fight with hunger and want; what does the nation care for that? By the manure of their corpses the nation comes to "its bloom"! The individuals have died "for the great cause of the nation," and the nation sends some words of thanks after them and - has the profit of it. I call that a paying kind of egoism."

 

[Hopper]

I git it now, eh, Kicky? If ya wanna quote sumthin from a book, ya gotta quote the whole damn book.

 

[Hopper]

Leave it to Kicky to try and avoid the substance of a philosophical thread and turn it all into a session of pedantry based on punctuation. You go, Kicky! Am I gunna git an infraction cause it aint in a cartoon balloon, I wonder?

 

[C l u t c H 385]

Is pedantry the word of the week?

 

[Hopper]

Is pedantry the word of the week?

I mainly just uses it cause it rhymes wit pedophile, eh, Clutch?

 

[Get Down]

Leave it to Kicky to try and avoid the substance of a philosophical thread and turn it all into a session of pedantry based on punctuation. You go, Kicky! Am I gunna git an infraction cause it aint in a cartoon balloon, I wonder?

haha i love that you break from your embarrassing character after you've been eviscerated

your contributions to this thread was a quote you didn't even realize was mangled because you didn't check up on it, and two wikipedia links

and a handful of weird "jokes"

 

[C l u t c H 385]

haha i love that you break from your embarrassing character after you've been eviscerated

your contributions to this thread was a quote you didn't even realize was mangled because you didn't check up on it, and two wikipedia links

and a handful of weird "jokes"

Slip n slide get loose!

 

[C l u t c H 385]

I mainly just uses it cause it rhymes wit pedophile, eh, Clutch?

and homophobe for that matter!

 

[sirkickyass]

I git it now, eh, Kicky? If ya wanna quote sumthin from a book, ya gotta quote the whole damn book.

No. Just actually quote something rather than taking sections of things and presenting it as if it's one solid piece of text. And don't eliminate things that change the meaning.

I note you're hardly denying the charges that you misrepresented something.