>"If you live inside a cave you won't how the outside looks like!" >"Things are made up of smaller things!" >"1+1=2" >"Fire is hot!" >"Some things are alive, some others are not!" >"Perfect things don't exist, unless they are perfect!" >"It's better to be a good person than to be a bad one!"
Wow, I can't believe how brilliant these Greek philosophers were. I mean, how can a human mind reach such complex and unthinkable conclusions? Truly, I'm perplexed by their intellectual capacities.
Seriously now. Why are they seen as such smart people when what they said is nothing more than any other child that is not mentally retarded can also deduce?
Were early humans that dumb? Could it be that people troughout time simply (biologically) "evolved" and got smarter as a result?
>hahahah look Greeks knew of the Peano Postulates long before the 19th century xddd Yeah except for simple day to day maths is different from algebric conotation
Jayden Collins
I think you're being slightly disingenuous and if you truly think this about Greek philosophers then you should go do more research and come up with a better meme
Wyatt Martinez
But they thought it all in ancient greek
That's a dead language, senpai, just think how long it took these guys to study it enough to be fluent
Michael Garcia
People in the past were really stupid. Just look at Greek science. For fuck's sake Aristotle thought that if you throw something it'll move in a straight line.
Greeks are just a middle piece between monkeys and modern man.
Zachary Cook
>stuff falls >if something is moving it will keep moving unless stopped >you move something by pushing it >when you push something, it pushes you back Wow, I can't believe how brilliant this Newton guy was.
Seriously now. Why is he seen as such smart guy when what he said is nothing more than any other child that is not mentally retarded can also deduce?
Isaiah Cook
So don't consider how much writing these people had and how much time meditating they spent on these questions that they had?
You know these people wrote stuff that we cant philosophically comprehend fully still.
You know because they were absent from the technology we had today they were receptive to a lot more abstract thinking than we are if we sit online all day and try to discredit philosophers because we think its funny and that our opinions are exalted thoughts that everyone needs to accept.
Jaxon Robinson
You aren't saying anything more than what a child can deduce either.
Also you aren't considering how much more each of these "sayings" go
Cooper Nguyen
Well the Greeks didn't believe any of those things to be true, so you're saying the Greeks were literally mentally retarded children.
Robert Hill
He's parodying that underage accident of birth that is OP you dumbwit. Nobody thinks a child can deduce the stuff Newton deduced, but they all seem intuitive and obvious retrospectively
Kevin Martin
Can't you see thay this is a parody of OP to show how retarded OP is? Gosh I thought Veeky Forums was smarter than that.
Owen Davis
What is hindsight bias again?
Nolan Williams
Maybe next time it'll be obvious and the post will actually be about something worth talking about
Austin Lewis
But all you did was further show how retarded the Greeks were.
Christopher Sanchez
>But all you did was further show how retarded the Greeks were. retarded =/= stupid Retarded implies the greeks were mentally handicapped, which they aren't, they are stupid by today's standards unless you can prove a child in a educational and cultural vacuum can come up with these ideas. also >"Fire is hot!" is not a greek idea, it's not even a human idea, it's a natural instinct almost all organisms with a nervous system have hard wired into them.
Logan Morales
>Aristotle thought that if you throw something it'll move in a straight line.
Dude you can actually observe that when you throw something it doesn't go in a straight line.. that's retarded, can anyone confirm that he said that?
Joseph Perez
>You know these people wrote stuff that we cant philosophically comprehend fully still.
Wat. But I try to follow your logic, indeed let's look at Hinduism - at first there are concepts, ideas that you can't comprehend - but after investing lots of time you realize how much time some people invested in the ideas themselves.. but then you realize how stupid the ideas themselves are.
Aaron Bailey
I think it was extremely obvious
Alexander Adams
newton is brillant because he could bring up a formulae to calculate gravity, he did not discover it. he also invented calculus wich is something very complex (to discover from nothing) and opens a lot of mathematic fields
Christopher Phillips
The greeks really were overrated desu senpai, now eastern philosophy on the other hand...
Mason Jenkins
>>stuff falls No, stuff is pulled. This was revolutionary
Nathaniel Phillips
This is the worst thread I've ever seen on Veeky Forums
Luke Ramirez
>"Fire is hot!" The Greeks weren't the first with this one.
Fire is everything! Now that's a Greek contribution.
Lincoln Gonzalez
Turn off the computer and have a few days away from the Internet. Memes are rotting your brain.
Juan Myers
weebs need to kill themselves. eastern """"philosophy""""" is retarded
Jeremiah Hill
Before greeks all we had was jewish philosophy about pleasing fake gods and chinese philosophy about why boots are best placed on your face
Plus there was also deconstructionist 2,000 years before striner in ancient greece. All the popular greek philosophers today are the ones who were declared righteous pagans by the church and best had their works preserved, there's no philosophy outside the 19-20th century that didn't exist in ancient greece already
Oliver Rogers
>he also invented calculus I like this meme, especially the part where its completely wrong
Dylan Gomez
Which philosopher was it that proved it by simply claiming that he has two hands, one on each arm? I forget.
Nolan Ramirez
Friendly reminder that Plato was a fascist that poisoned western thought.
Also, the theory of forms is fucking retarded.
Benjamin Baker
Diogenes >>>>>>>> Plato
Can you imagine how much better western society would be if it was inspired by Diogenes instead of that fuckstick Plato?
Ryan Wood
>that poisoned western thought. democracy did that tho
Adrian Walker
>Strawmaning the opposition makes my argument sound smarter
Wow, I can't beloved how brilliant OP is. I mean, how can a faggot reach such hights of rhetoric
Brayden Morris
Newton could not formulate his laws of motion, gravitation etc. without calculus; no matter how much he detested Leibniz and misappropriated Leibniz’s contribution.
Henry Ortiz
Even the most obvious things need to be said by someone.
Lucas Fisher
If you have one milk and another milk, then you have two milk.
You slack-jawed tobacco dribbling faggot
Leo Rodriguez
Diogenes is just dank memes in action. Stop being fucking retarded.
Logan Brown
do you think OP could get away with threads like this on /a/ by saying children could replicate better art than astro boy or Veeky Forums by saying children could make better food than cavemen?
Lincoln Adams
>rekt Plato during his classes in front of his students on numerous occasions >told Alexander The Great to fuck off and die >recognized that doggos are the greatest of all creatures >lived in a fucking clay wine jar >was captured by pirates and sold into slavery and was so liked by his master that he was going to set him free >spit in the face of a rich man whose house he was visiting >would sit in the middle of the marketplace and pig out on food even though it was very much against Greek custom to do so >would shit on theatre stages >would urinate on passersby that would insult him >would masturbate in public and would respond to detractors by saying "if only I could get rid of hunger by rubbing my belly too"
I don't care if he was the prototypical edgy memester. He was the man.
>several hundred pages are required in PM to prove the validity of the proposition 1+1=2.
If only they had read your brilliant post before writing all that.
Leo Barnes
None of those invented calculus. They just jumped on the bandwagon and took all the credit
Isaiah Barnes
1+1=1+1
At best.
1+1=2
is ultimately saying that
a+b=c
Jonathan Kelly
they must be pretty damn retarded
Nolan Johnson
Compared to enlightened mind like you, maybe.
Jason Garcia
you mean A+A=B
Elijah Long
>things fall down due to gravity >the faster you go, the more power you need to move >animals change over time to suit their environment >earth is round >wow earth spins around sun Wow scientists sure are smart. I cant believe how these brilliant scientists are.
Jonathan Cruz
Yes, that's what Aristotle says in Physics. Just like he says heavier objects fall faster than light ones, or that things can only keep moving as long as something keeps pushing them. It's only in the late Middle Ages that people realised it was all bullshit.
Jason Scott
>It's only in the late Middle Ages that people realised it was all bullshit.
And then in the Renaissance people went back to believing it was all true because "muh Ancients wuz smart!", kek.
Christopher Bailey
>Implying modern man is the pinacle of inteligence >Implying that in 100 years from now, people will be laughing at our present times and say we were dumb as hell.
Carter Clark
But user I'm already laughing at your strawman and your inability to use greentext properly right now!
Nicholas Lee
>several hundred pages Okay, so how many eggheads have actually verified that it proves it though?
Gavin Rodriguez
2 is defined as 1+1, there is nothing to prove.
Landon Clark
Everything you said is literally false, pick up a book you humanities cocksucker
Josiah Thomas
I'm sorry they replaced you in iron man Terrence, but this math shit has got to stop.