[ SECRET POST #2179 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2179 ⌋

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Don't Lie

[(Anonymous)]

http://fandomsecrets.dreamwidth.org/726144.html?thread=611918464#cmt611918464

Here is the thread. The only person signed in here is silverau. The rest are anons. People who are saying the situation is a bunch of high schoolers are lying. Here are the exact timelines for the break-ups. And yes, the point of all these break-ups is that everyone remained friends after the fact.

-My mom and dad got together in their early 20s and divorced in their mid-30s.
-My mom met her second fiance in her early 40s and they broke up in her early 50s.
-My boyfriend's childhood best friend is his ex, they dated partially through high school and college for around 5 years. She came out as a lesbian and they broke up.
-My best friend has had several short term relationships (under a year) she's remained friends with, and two long ones (3 and 4 years)- most of this was in her 20s
-I was with my ex for 4 years- this was in my 20s

[(Anonymous)]

How about linking to the parent thread for context?

http://fandomsecrets.dreamwidth.org/726144.html?thread=611864704#cmt611864704

[(Anonymous)]

My bad, I fucked up the link.

Re: Don't Lie

[(Anonymous)]

yup

these five couples triumph all the millions out there and are clearly how all mature relationships work

what is cognitive bias

Re: Don't Lie

[(Anonymous)]

Cogito ergo sum, my friend.

What can I trust if not my own experiences?

Re: Don't Lie

[(Anonymous)]

What, that's not at all what "Cogito ergo sum" means

(I haven't paid that much attention to the broader context of the argument, and it seems like your point is basically reasonable - but this is kind of a total misuse of "Cogito ergo sum" and I felt compelled to point that out)

Re: Don't Lie

[(Anonymous)]

I always interpreted Descartes' philosophy as meaning you can only trust your own experiences, since the only experiences you can be sure of are your own. It's very much a YMMV thing, now that I think about it. I'm just so used to discussing Descartes in the way myself and my boyfriend think of him as opposed to the way most people do. Old habits, you know?

Re: Don't Lie

[(Anonymous)]

Well, your take on him is what it is. But the thrust of Descartes' thought is rather that one's own experiences CANNOT be trusted - that everything can be doubted and must be doubted. It's a search to find something certain on which securely to found human knowledge, and the thing that Descrates identifies is "cogito ergo sum" - not experience, but pure, abstract thought, is the one thing which we can know certainly to exist, and from there (Descartes thinks) we can build up certain knowledge about the world and know, with certainty, that it is as we think it is.

But the whole motivation of Descartes' philosophy is that our experience is untrustworthy and that we have to doubt it and we can't rely on it and we're thrown into this profound doubt about existence because we can't rely on our own experience.