TogetherTurtle

People may disagree, but what do people tend to do in practice? Typically people act as if there is no god in the moment and repent later. A belief in...

I think you need to do some field research. I think It'll make more sense to you then. If you aren't willing to do that, I'd explain it to you like th...

I think that confusion in our language is more to blame on what we do as humans and less with what language consists of. I think above someone mention...

The support your parents give you (monetary or otherwise), the positive influences others have on you, and anything else along those lines. You could ...

Does debt just mean being in the black, or does it entail social debts to people that have helped you and debt to a society that assists you in mainta...

So what would you consider a threat? Obviously anything with hostile intent, but I think it's more culturally context sensitive than that. If you're a...

I haven't been following what you guys are discussing exactly, but feel free to discuss whatever you like. I assure you I don't mind.

I got another response pretty similar to yours but a lot more complex in wording. Is this kind of what you're getting at?

Hm. What if you completely transformed yourself into something else? Something more desirable and completely unrecognizable? Would that count as "bein...

How do you do that? I understand that realistically it's impossible to never coerce anyone, but what do you think is the best way to coerce people the...

How do you decide what is a positive liberty and what is a negative one?

Is your body not considered your property? Isn't a major theme of slavery the fact that you don't own your body? I don't see how that means you don't ...

I would consider them so. Not in the traditional sense, of course, since thoughts can be transferred between individuals without the originator losing...

Ownership is a sort of freedom, yes, but the less you own the less freedom you have via ownership.

Then we're in agreement then. Freedom is lost, but it isn't inherently wrong to remove freedom. I think that what you can imagine can be influenced so...

I guess then we're left with the original question then, "What is freedom to you". There are so many different directions we can develop in and I'd be...

This seems to imply that freedom cannot be permanent, that eventually, we will hit a wall and not be able to expand our autonomy.

Does this mean you are an antinatalist? But then again, you can only imagine what you can imagine. Reality seems to limit the broadness of imagination...

Maybe you’re right, in that to start a discussion you need to first state where you stand. However, I wanted to avoid influencing the answers of other...

Yeah, I think I may have misread. It might have been later at night, sorry about that. Even so, I think it’s hard to know when you’re being influenced...

All of that assumes you know for sure that 2 means what we think it means. All I’m saying is that 2+2=4 certainly seems correct, and absolutely everyt...

Which is why I support "rolling with it". The only place that our views differ is in the possibility the future holds. I think that if we find ourselv...

None of us can see the whole picture. A good rule of thumb is to go with what seems to make sense at the time, but be willing to change if the evidenc...

To put it frankly, I don't know. We've pulled off some pretty ridiculous things in the past that just seem normal now, so I definitely think it's poss...

Because the first choice is a large upfront investment but by nature requires no upkeep. The second choice requires constant upkeep because you must c...

Perhaps something like this could be possible near or after the heat death of the universe (if we’re right in predicting it would happen anyway). I re...

So there are two approaches to freedom then, one where you eliminate anything that can hurt you and then put on the blindfold, and another where you u...

Well, I can imagine some grey areas, but it is for sure a definition.

But what of the subconscious? Even subtle gestures can influence how you live your life without you even knowing.

But what if what we learn about a sweet or salty cake helps us make a better Garash? The big picture I suppose. If we maintain our metaphor, what we k...

And what if you were free from the desire for meaning?

But in practice "broadening your view" tends to involve completely throwing out everything that was believed before. We know that the Earth revolves a...

What if you were free from the need for desire to create meaning in life?

You may have misunderstood my intention. Studying the plant for sure gives you understanding of nature, but it's impossible to confirm that the plant ...

well, probably not blindfolded.

And where did the source get their information from? I suppose even the source is just notes. Even if you were to study the inner workings of a plant,...

I suppose it's easy to be wrong about what is a threat when you've never had to deal with said threat. Good info though, it was interesting.

I'll have to set aside some time later to read all that. It looks good from what I skimmed through.

I can't help but think about how we could use the fruit to remove our artificial prison bars. Of course, that train of thought might just be a continu...

I suppose it's also worth noting that we don't know if free will does or does not exist. If you think that X doesn't exist, that seems fine, but peopl...

A strangely vicious cycle this is. Eventually, the new nation becomes one of the old nations, and a new nation comes up to replace them. I think this ...

I'll be honest with you, I'm notoriously bad at keeping anything in focus. My original intentions, my past intentions, my current intentions, and my f...

I suppose I was trying to get both from people, their experience and their speculation. The reason I bring this up is that I think when one person say...

It really relates to our own instincts as a species. We are territorial, but we are also social. We desire a place for ourselves, but we also belong t...

This kind of reminds me how, at least speaking in terms of physics, everything in the universe (besides energy) is just made up of atoms. Where a wood...

So you think more about what you don't have to do, as opposed to what you now can do. That's interesting. I'd like to hear what you have to say after ...

Ah, but what if you had freedom from the fact that you need limitations to feel free?

Human Instrumentality then, every man working for every other man. Essentially then, freedom is a state of mind, and doing what you are "supposed to d...

I assumed you were referring to your ideal freedom in relation to others as well, but if being an isolated farmer brings you your ideal freedom and pe...

I guess I never said your ideal freedom couldn’t be difficult to achieve. Well, unless you want to pull an Evangelion on everyone.