Yeah, they have a very recognizable and likable sound. Actually, there is a Running Wild tribute band called Blazon Stone, which instead of playing Ru...
I actually have a soft spot for Running Wild, Black Hand Inn was one of the albums that made me appreciate metal. It's sort of a shame what happened t...
Yes, I was a huge metalhead back in the day, I liked traditional doom, USPM, NWoBHM, a little thrash and death, and especially the classic 'speed meta...
It seems that if Schopenhauer's ethical philosophy were consistently and rigorously applied, birth would stop as a result of sex stopping. That can be...
Power metal gets a bad rap because of the legions of copycat bands in Europe and South America, but a lot of it's pretty solid. Breitenhold is dedicat...
The view I take on this is that the Democrats are the leading cultural force in America, and the left is the leading cultural force in the world. The ...
The doxa rules the world, and literally sets its limits. How does the doxa change? Well, as the transcendental condition of the world it has no condit...
Been hearing this a lot from the remain camp -- interesting look into the psychology of that side. The referendum was, broadly speaking, a nationalist...
Well, I'm not being funny about it. And yes the epicenter is college campuses, but it's all over the internet too, if you go to the right places. If y...
I think the dumb dad trope is part of it, but only at its most superficial and benign. It's an increasingly important part of virtue signaling, social...
Alright, if I was one of those leftist types, I'd say this is classic petit-bourgeois or whatever, you get the idea. It's not just a matter of individ...
Rape, alimony, infidelity. Reality of the dimorphism of the sexes that upper-cass people can't comprehend because they've never experienced it. We're ...
I don't feel any anger toward particular women, and I get along just fine day to day. I don't know many women, but I don't know many people generally,...
Well, third-wave feminism is just a branch of identity politics. The 'real' feminism which is dying (second-wave) is more about criticizing sexual and...
But getting groceries is not stupid, if you catch my meaning. If women loved men, they would be actively appalled at men's state in the world. But the...
Is it really so evident to you that women 'love' men, that citing stupid shit like 'grabbing drinks' is relevant? Meanwhile, men will just keep on dyi...
But the latter is a universal structural constant. It is undeniable that women value men as manual laborers to build the world's infrastructure, and a...
Sure it is, and in fact you just said it again: I disagree that we ought to go into interpretation assuming that what we're interpreting works or is c...
Women want men dead and in prison not as a matter of personal preference but as an institutional fact; it's what their livelihood is predicated on, an...
First of all, if you a priori don't accept any conclusion to the effect that a tenet of Epicureanism is false, on the grounds that this is uncharitabl...
There are two objections I have to this. First, it's an odd thing to say, and I don't know if it has any truth to it. Second, I'm not sure how it ties...
Okay, Good Man, here are your options: 1) Die 2) Rot in prison Anyone who tells you something else is wanted of you is lying. 'B...but that can't be t...
I have doubts both that physics is foundationally relevant to ethics (perhaps it is instrumentally) and that the Epicureans did any useful physics. Wh...
I think 'slope' is definitely more beautiful phonetically -- one syllable, a long vowel, no flaps or schwas. But maybe, yeah, the point is to pick som...
I think some of the diction is bad -- declivity, estuary -- and I also don't like all the relative clauses and piling on passive constructions. I thin...
One more metal track, perfect lyrics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWVC_VHEbds When I was young, I cast aside the shadows of my youth And I lifted ...
But why would a work on nature be relevant? Yeah, a pretty clear statement of the division is in Lives & Opinions 10.136: From the Letter to Menoeceus...
Epicureanism's main thrust and appeal was that it was not esoteric, that anyone could practice it and reap its benefits. So aside from the weakness of...
It might be that ascetic practices yield extraordinary abilities. If so, that'd be great -- unfortunately as a Westerner I'm just not familiar with th...
Coping doesn't remove the problematic thing, but makes it easier to bear. I don't think it makes sense to say that pain can become easier to bear -- f...
I doubt that Epicureanism fares much better for ordinary life -- even if it's not as bad as torture, it's questionable whether it's bearable, or wheth...
The Epicurean dilemma is that one the one hand it, against Stoicism, places emphasis on man's continuity with animals, and recognizes our ends as of t...
Nothing here resembles Dream Theater too much to me at least. But I agree, they've become drenched in low fat syrup and are hard to stomach. Early DT ...
This is a doctrine that the Epicureans' hedonistic competitors, the Cyrenaics, mocked, in my opinion rightly. The notion that remembering past pleasur...
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