Noble Dust

A few of them that I'm comfortable sharing are social anxiety from being home-schooled and generally shut off from society (thus feeling like an obser...

No, I know what anxiety is. You said "out loud". Just going with your wording.

Of course. There are things I find threatening in life.

So if realizing anxiety is physically unreal isn't helpful in terms of relinquishing the source of the anxiety as well as the anxiety itself, then "on...

Wouldn't you like to know, doc? :P

So one articulates anxiety objectively by bringing anxiety to a conscious level, that is, put words to the feelings and speak it for what it is? So sp...

That, and the anxiety itself, yes.

Agreed, but that doesn't help.

So it doesn't exist?

How do you articulate anxiety objectively? What are things for what they are?

Sounds like Spinoza is just another trivial philosophical rationalization, tho?..

It's not anxiety based on a specific day.

My anxiety...?

How do we overcome unreal anxiety?

Yes, it is.

I asked a similar question here, albeit from a much different angle; it wasn’t very well received. Probably not philosophical enough, too imaginative....

Damn, looks like those rules haven't been voided, then.

ha ha

By the way, Star Wars was pretty ok.

How is that measured? And would quantity of rules automatically be a good thing? Rule 4.2 seems meaningless.

You always knew I would never become a despot. You said I would be fair. And yet now you demand tyranny. You've "washed your hands" before, and yet yo...

I await enlightenment, then.

I like that rule. But I don't consider it one of my duties to deny or accept every rule. I only did so this time because it was requested of me.

True leaders are hardly known to their followers. When the work's done right, with no fuss or boasting, ordinary people say, Oh, we did it. -Tao Te Ch...

I don't want to limit the game, so I reject rule #4.

Woah, you can do that?

Provide us with rule #4 to redeem yourself.

What do you expect me to do, descend to Earth in human form and dish out a bunch of rules that have nothing to do with each other, like we find here i...

"Thought is like a mirror. One looking at it sees his image inside and thinks that there are two images, but the two are really one." - Perush ha-Agga...

I haven't dropped the ball; no one seems to want to add a new rule.

There are a lot of conceptions of God out there. Some of them make room for a God that is both changeless and changing; Ein Sof in the Kabbalah, Paul ...

But this forum is full of so many "incredible thoughts"...

For some reason the title of this thread always makes me think of Michael Bolton's chorus on this song...sorry... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRlI...

I don't understand.

Do you feel you haven't been listened to here?

Not at all; anyone, including yourself, can add a rule, and you've added several. That gives you power, and you can use that power in many ways, inclu...

A general admonishment to the players, and to would be players: Please be thoughtful in contributing the next rule. The game can easily descend into i...

Of course I'm eternally indebted to you. But where have I shown signs of despotism? So far, I've provided a second commentary of round two of the game...

It's untrue that oppression only occurs to those who would be oppressed. And indeed, oppression is often a position from which a difficult challenge b...

I'm not in this position to pacify players, and plus, I know Janus can take it.

I never wanted this power, but here's where we stand: @"Posty McPostface" Rule one states that "Rules cannot be imposed on other rules previously made...

So within the game, then, you're willfully creating oppressive rules, with the intention that members of the game will creatively find ways around the...

No, Janus was simply going along with your rule without questioning it, and using it as leverage for power; not a sign of the Overman. The Overman wou...

My complaints have only been towards rules that prevent other reasonable rules from being made; rules that are power grabs which prevent the game from...

But now Janus has manipulated that to create rules that prevent other posters from having certain power within the game.

The fact that you're willfully playing along with that inane and random rule about hashtags in order to further your own agenda in making certain rule...

Using something so inane as the use of a hashtag as grounds for nullifying a set of rules, or a commentary on a set of rules, is pointless, and contri...

They clearly can't reach it on their own.

Unfortunately Janus is trying to ensure that that never happens.

These rules are pointless and contribute nothing to the game.