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My "nihilism"

May 29, 2019 at 20:55 125 comments General Philosophy

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In: What's your personality like?  — view comment
I give up on trying to understand myself, at least I believe I should. I know that there is practically no limit to the way I can interpret myself to ...
July 27, 2019 at 14:38
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
We are so enlightened. Philosophers should be, like, kings or something. They just...know better...than other people.
July 24, 2019 at 20:33
In: My psychological torture and constant harassment  — view comment
I don't have nearly this many problems and they're trying to keep me locked up forever. I'm in the wrong state.
July 12, 2019 at 17:35
In: Being a pedophile  — view comment
Maybe you should just shut up, and like, not draw attention to yourself. In prison there's a distinction between those who have sex with teenagers and...
June 26, 2019 at 20:47
In: I Have Nothing You Want & Everything You Don’t Want  — view comment
You're also offering networking opportunities with the other faithful, possibly superior females to mate with (as far as what I can get), and a conven...
June 26, 2019 at 20:37
In: Is belief in the supernatural an intelligent person’s game?  — view comment
No, you don't understand. I hate sanctimonious humans and their artificial moralities. Badgers eating baby bunnies shows how amoral the natural, non-h...
June 26, 2019 at 20:33
In: Are some infinities bigger than other infinities?  — view comment
I don't know much math, but I believe the relevant terms are "Cantor's Set Theorem"
June 22, 2019 at 15:42
In: Is belief in the supernatural an intelligent person’s game?  — view comment
Why do people assume the supernatural, or gods, or whatever, should conform to our all-too-human ideas about morality? If religion is a cultural artif...
June 22, 2019 at 15:38
In: Laissez faire promotes social strength by rewarding the strong and punishing the weak  — view comment
I used to identify as anarchocapitalist. I look down on pity, altruism, etc. But I'm concerned about myself, not society. Why should I care about "soc...
June 12, 2019 at 20:46
In: Is it wrong to joke about everything?  — view comment
Humor is, broadly, an attempt to demonstrate power over the subject of the joke. However, in a lot of jokes dependent on context, it's difficult to pi...
June 12, 2019 at 20:42
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
I reckon this is mostly damnable nostalgia, but I'm sort of digging the icy artificiality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT4XtffirjE
June 08, 2019 at 16:13
In: Help With Nietzsche??  — view comment
Try this: http://www.northamericannietzschesociety.com/uploads/7/3/2/5/73251013/nietzscheana9.pdf
June 08, 2019 at 16:10
In: My "nihilism"  — view comment
I think I see where you're going with this--does math exist "out there"? and hence is it prior to biology?--I'd respond, provisionally, along the line...
June 08, 2019 at 16:08
In: My "nihilism"  — view comment
It's impossible to make choices without some rank of values, otherwise why would you prefer one thing to another? The idea that all values are subject...
June 08, 2019 at 15:56
In: My "nihilism"  — view comment
Well, you could certainly subvert this principle with a view such as "I'm not going to have kids because it's selfish".
June 08, 2019 at 15:53
In: My "nihilism"  — view comment
I'm trying to transcend social cues. The social is clearly derivative from the biological. Are you really going to try and tell me my DNA "knows" I ha...
June 08, 2019 at 15:51
In: My "nihilism"  — view comment
I'd still describe it as nihilism, at least in regard to the value of products of the human mind, which, in the case of something like "do no harm", a...
June 08, 2019 at 15:49
In: My "nihilism"  — view comment
I like how you use the word "diagnose", giving the connotation of my views being some kind of sickness. Anyway, when I said that "nothing has meaning"...
June 08, 2019 at 15:44
In: My "nihilism"  — view comment
I disagree. We're not even individuals on the level I'm talking about, we're just machines for the transmission of our selfish genes. So why not accep...
June 08, 2019 at 15:37
In: Writing for journals  — view comment
Thanks, I'd never heard of google scholar
June 08, 2019 at 15:31
In: My "nihilism"  — view comment
They're unsuccessful.
June 01, 2019 at 15:28
In: My "nihilism"  — view comment
For a biological organism, success is reproduction. With mammals this includes child-rearing. With humans one could argue it includes "culture".
June 01, 2019 at 15:07
In: My "nihilism"  — view comment
I don't think it does at all. It means my flirting has meaning. It means sex has meaning. It means dominance signaling with other males has meaning. I...
June 01, 2019 at 15:05
In: My "nihilism"  — view comment
Well of course in the long run we're all dead and then the universe will run out of heat but in the meantime we can live our biology. The idea that th...
June 01, 2019 at 14:58
In: My "nihilism"  — view comment
Sure, but the choice of purpose is totally arbitrary, and it's hard to get excited about something superfluous. What I'm saying is that I think I have...
June 01, 2019 at 14:49
In: My "nihilism"  — view comment
Liberty to do what? I've gotten to the point where I'm staring at a glass of water in the bathroom and thinking "Well, should I drink this? Should I p...
June 01, 2019 at 14:44
In: What's your ideal regime?  — view comment
Speaking as a current prisoner of a bureaucracy, I hate them. I don't think the track record of the 60's and 70's bureaucracies are all that great (wa...
May 24, 2019 at 16:46
In: What's your ideal regime?  — view comment
The point is that the shogun or high king has little authority over the nobility. I think it's useless to say things like "you might have been born a ...
May 24, 2019 at 16:41
In: What's your ideal regime?  — view comment
You stole that from samuel beckett
May 24, 2019 at 16:35
In: Is there a need to change the world?  — view comment
Sure, not having children doesn't hurt anybody. As a question of biology, not having children being a sign of moral authority is interesting. The fact...
May 24, 2019 at 16:30
In: Is there a need to change the world?  — view comment
My generation's accomplishments are not my accomplishments. I mostly reacted against the idea that the hippies were as original as you imply. There wa...
May 24, 2019 at 16:25
In: Is there a need to change the world?  — view comment
Don't worry about it, ezra pound was nuts. There have been a lot of unorthodox attempts to reinstate medieval economic concepts of the church like "th...
May 24, 2019 at 16:22
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrfYrxvnvzI
May 22, 2019 at 20:56
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
"corn" My father is planting after dark. Far from the lights of town the bare earth under white halogens could be the surface of the moon. We pop the ...
May 22, 2019 at 20:49
In: Is there a need to change the world?  — view comment
OMG another baby boomer talking about how awesome their generation was
May 22, 2019 at 20:41
In: Is there a need to change the world?  — view comment
Having children is biology. If you're not going to have kids due to nihilism, it's a short step to suicide. Not that I care if anybody wants to off th...
May 22, 2019 at 20:37
In: Is there a need to change the world?  — view comment
I once read about a guy who did a computer simulation of segregation in urban areas: it only had a handful of transformational rules but you end up wi...
May 22, 2019 at 20:34
In: Is there a need to change the world?  — view comment
Aristotle's teaching was the basis of Catholic church doctrine on economics until the reformation. These guys don't get much of a hearing today---chec...
May 22, 2019 at 20:31
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
"march" darkness whispers the unexpected master your fears use them love your comrades but not for their sake love without pity for our sake which is ...
May 18, 2019 at 16:11
In: Unfree will (determinism), special problem  — view comment
Probably all of our choices are determined. However, we have the illusion of free will. That's all that matters. What use is it to think "I don't cont...
May 18, 2019 at 15:49
In: Is there a need to change the world?  — view comment
I might say, partly in jest, that the world is going to hell in a handbasket because we aren't killing each other on a local level. Peace creates mons...
May 18, 2019 at 15:38
In: Is there a need to change the world?  — view comment
If you really want to talk about numbers, Stalin and Mao killed a lot of people during "peace". As long as there are humans there will be human misery...
May 18, 2019 at 15:32
In: New American Member  — view comment
I like your Gadsen flag.
May 15, 2019 at 19:51
In: Is there a need to change the world?  — view comment
I don't understand why somebody wouldn't adapt to and exploit the environment as it is like the killer apes they are instead of sacrificing the meanin...
May 15, 2019 at 19:33
In: Rebirth?  — view comment
i guess ill find out when i die. why think about it till then?
May 08, 2019 at 20:49
In: Should the Possibility that Morality Stems from Evolution Even Be Considered?  — view comment
lol beautiful. you might be interested in a book I wrote "the nordtbook: an introduction to chaotic evil" ...it's on amazon. I have an entry about "th...
April 27, 2019 at 16:30
In: Should the Possibility that Morality Stems from Evolution Even Be Considered?  — view comment
It's simple: we evolved from small bands of apes. within these small bands of apes, we believed in something like justice. following urbanization, evo...
April 27, 2019 at 16:24
In: Why has post-modernism proven to be popular in literature departments but not in philosophy?  — view comment
lol I would say building castles of reason is a solipsistic/masturbatory fantasy and also that analytic philosophy is the worst offender in radicalizi...
April 27, 2019 at 16:19
In: Anti-modernity  — view comment
I didn't bother to wade into the mudfight but I know heidegger's "introduction to metaphysics" he implicitly praises the "resoluteness" of a certain n...
April 27, 2019 at 16:00
In: What is your gripe with Psychology/Psychiatry? -Ask the Clinical Psychologist  — view comment
Hopefully by the end of the year he'll put in a challenge and get an independent doc to check me out. I think my odds are pretty good; no violence in ...
April 27, 2019 at 15:54
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