Email 1000 University professors from around the world over the past two years asking them Philosophical questions

>1000 emails

You know what that reminds me of? (´･ω･`)

vgperson.tumblr.com/post/21533650696/help-the-girl-i-like-wont-respond-to-my-emails

>Listen, you irate jostling IDIOT!

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OP strikes me as
1) Eastern European
2) having a serious anger/paranoia issue
Still, funnier than most of what we've had recently. I also want an e-mail.

unless you want to make money of it, what can be bad in put one or two questions here?

Have you tried standing outside of their classes and screeching "Debate me, bruh!"

I have actually showed up to the offices of around 5 professors and they all asked me to leave as I wasn't a student.

It's a fear of mine that these people actually do exist and that they would definitely be the type to post here, but that I will never be able to tell the difference between someone mocking the character archetype or that person being the character themselves.
I wish there was a way to communicate that pretending to be an idiot on the internet isn't funny, but then, you'd miss out on the jokes. It's almost like I've come here for the same reason as the reason I'd leave here, but I can't leave because it's Veeky Forums.

Woah...

anyone respond you in a serious way?

Only a few but they only gave me book suggestions and wouldn't debate me.

ESL general? ESL general.

There's a hot German girl at my school. She's p nice.

Professors receive e-mails from cranks on a daily basis. Human nature being what it is (a thing that exists), it only makes sense that the average professor will eventually tire of such dross, and start to fuck with the people who make it.

>Professors receive e-mails from cranks on a daily basis.

Is this true?

>Human nature being what it is (a thing that exists),
leave

do you think is because they dont understand you or because they dont give a shit?.

Nope. Humans statistically tend to do certain things. Ergo, they are inclined to do certain things, and consequently human nature exists.

Prove me wrong (you can't).

As well they should, tbqh. They're being paid to teach paying students and to conduct their own researches, not to debate a security risk who saunters in off the street.

Define the parameters.

At what point does something become nature :^)?

When a phenomenon is empirically observable in a sufficiently large (and this is where I will allow myself wiggle room) sample.

It is in the nature of human beings to die, it is in the nature of human beings to seek to eat food, it is in the nature of human beings to alternately cooperate and compete with one another for social safety, access to resources, and so on. These characteristics may be said to belong to the catch-all of "human nature".

So now that I'm playing ball with your frame just a little bit, please feel free to BTFO of me with your ready argument that you have been carefully trained in (you can't).

>notice a pattern
>"It's nature."

>notice pattern
>makes joke about it

post yfw even american stand up comedians are better equipped to deal with reality than humanists and positivists

Yes.

Consider that you have a prime number's worth of cubes. You are told to arrange the cubes in such a way that the whole forms a rectangular prism (they are stacked together in such-and-such a way to form a three-dimensional rectangular figure, with no gaps). Try as you might, despite trying to come up with other examples, it turns out that, for a given prime p, there is really only one arrangement, that keeps popping up: the rectangle 1x1xp (or what amount to the same thing, 1xpx1...). And this exactly because a prime number by definition cannot be decomposed into other relevant factors that might admit of distinct figures. For this reason, the analogous and simpler experiment with squares meant to form rectangles also holds good.

We are indeed observing a pattern (this particular one holding good 100% of the time) in the world, which is exterior. We can reasonably say, that it is in the nature of prime numbers that such-and-such: this is how they behave, this is a characteristic that they have, or tend to have. Likewise, in a squishier yet still useful and meaningful way, we can speak of human nature for the really existant thing that it is.

Of course, the word "nature" as used in the English language, for example, can have multiple senses, and according to context. Perhaps according to one of these, the other user might weasal his way round (he actually can't, once the full discussion is had).

>I'm right because the internal logic of my word game is consistent.

take your shitty roleplaying to /x/