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I think that voluntary euthanasia is fine in cases where someone is suffering from physical pain, but neither trust nor think a psychologist can asses...

Eh, the entire cultural climate is ruled by this logic and is fairly poor because of that. Not everyone can, perhaps, can relate to this, but take ani...

This adds considerable nuance to the discussion that I should hope that I won't dismiss by putting to question as to whether the ultimate negation in ...

That's all well and good and all, but all that I was trying to explain was that I had confused this thread with the thread on philosophical pessimism ...

Before my grandfather, whom I lived with, died, I had a psychotic episode where, looking into the mirror, I hallucinated myself in old age dying. It w...

I think that I might've confused my reply to this thread with another one or have mixed the threads in my head up somehow. Your usage of the first-per...

On the Heights of Despair by Emil Cioran It's exactly like what you'd expect for it to be like.

Are we allowed to say what stories we voted for? I missed the deadline, and, so, am free of suspicion of so-called "dick voting", but am curious as to...

Ego named Igor, done in bad taste...Ha!

Cool story. I really liked the characterization of the protagonist's interior monologue.

Michael and Buzz screaming, "What the fuck!?"...classic!

I'm curious as to the title choice, but suppose that I'll have to wait to find out.

Truly excellent prose, here. The Percy quote seems kind of pretentious until it comes back around at the end, though.

What goes on in your mind, man?

I feel like I knew what was coming beforehand, but good foreshadowing.

I liked the language and the usage of a set of notes to deliver the story. If you just let the scientific jargon fly over your head, it's a very enjoy...

I think that you could've better highlighted a set of scenes from someone's relatively short life for a short story. It's a pretty good concept, thoug...

It kind of reminds me of "At the Bottom of Everything" by Bright Eyes, which, I guess, is a compliment.

I liked money comes and money goes and the dint of humor to the closing line.

The choice of only using dialogue, I think, particularly a conversation the character imagines to be having, works very well, but I think that you cou...

I'm surprised that so many people get banned from this site and that I haven't been banned. I barely ever even read the entire threads that I post in ...

I'm not sure that academic formalism, despite that I like this idea of teaching religion as culture, is really all that great of an approach to spirit...

I am sure that various religions and spiritualities have plenty to contribute to Philosophy. For my own relationship to spirituality, however, I hones...

There's also that, as inclined as I am to support what could be considered to be veritable of the United Nations, we should be willing to put to quest...

The last intelligent woman I met didn't want to date me because of that I am an academic. Not always, I guess? Truly free spirited dancing doesn't act...

I'm not quite so sure that I see a clear distinction. Nihilism and philosophical pessimism both posit that the human experience, for the most part, is...

I like your sentiment, but I don't know about your strategy. @"ssu", despite not adding quite enough drama to the First and Second Congo Wars, which r...

Right, but I don't think that's a good defense. It's like hating Kirsten Dunst, y'know? She's even been in a number of independent films. It's like so...

I was just pointing out that it is absurd to identify as an "incel" in the first place. It's like saying, "don't fuck me; I'm a weak misogynist." Hone...

I don't know that that truly defends incels, though. I suffer from psychosis, which is the worst of all dating maladies. I'm invariably passed by, sho...

Yes and yes, but I feel like you haven't seen what I mean about these virginity hoodies. Various Christian groups make these proud to be a virgin hood...

You seem to have this kvetch about the Kantian stealing example, but I do think that we are in agreement, though my perhaps too sensational example wa...

It's not just about being in shape, though; it's also about not having cultivated any form of personality whatsoever. I don't mind a mindless fuck, bu...

I'm not saying they're not out there. I'm just saying that it's like the equivalent of those poor young men who have to wear those hoodies that say th...

What is the point of so-called "compromise", though!? I've been on OkCupid and Tinder. The people who, without my exploitation of the aggregate, expre...

It's entirely absurd for a man to voluntarily identify as being involuntarily celibate, as there is another party. It's also absurd because of that it...

What is the point of this? I can also watch ethical porn and masturbate. In fucking some stranger, I'm after a hedonistic confidence boost. In fucking...

It's all a question as to whether Camus was a nihilistic existentialist or an existential nihilist. Cioran talks about how death is nothingness agoniz...

It doesn't boil down to Ethics. The general gist of the Socratic dialogues is that philosophers should evince a humility of thought. His whole ish is ...

Information is very boring, bookish, and formal. When we start to talk about other things, we're talking about energy. Information is that which ought...

I feel like BDSM is sort of like a certain clientele to a certain bar that I've been to, who dress in all black, stand in the back, and blow cocaine b...

I think that the problem of natural evil posits that God can not be omniscient, all-powerful, and omnibenevolent simultaneously. If God is merely omni...

Thanks! I'll try. I'm always on about writing and never really seem to get to it. Again, goodbye all. I may be back sometime in the indeterminate and ...

This time it is a charm. Best of, everyone! So long!

I'm not going to follow what happens next, but am just going to bump this thread so as to leave you with this one. So long everyone!

So, gradualist nonviolent Anarchism is just sensible Anarcho-Pacifist praxis. I have still, as an Anarcho-Pacifist, left the movement to get my life a...

Better, but there's something else which doesn't really have anything to do with anyone here.

Eh, I'm okay. I am taking off, though. Apologies for whatever. So long everyone!

Victory! ??!

Until this happens, I would just recommend that independent acts get on and surf bandcamp. You can have a Spotify as well, I guess, but bandcamp is re...