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You also say that it isn't a feel good position, but then say that it's like heroic, and authentic basically... which is it? Don't you see how much no...
September 27, 2017 at 21:42
Who care's if they're servile, or inauthentic? You're just speaking from some alien position, it isn't as if it's true. It wouldn't matter if it was o...
September 27, 2017 at 21:39
What's the difference?
September 27, 2017 at 21:37
So you were saying that my opinions were value laden, and therefore equally valid to everyone else's? I didn't get that... that's a silly thing to thi...
September 27, 2017 at 21:25
You ought to consider that I never posited a god, or said that I was a theist, but was speaking within a hypothetical scenario. that in no way require...
September 27, 2017 at 21:20
Dude gave me his number today, said we should do something sometime. Damn extroverts, and not thinking that's weird as fuck. People should realize tha...
September 27, 2017 at 18:45
No man... people were speaking in hypotheticals, saying that if they went to hell, then that wouldn't be fair, and only an unjust being would decide t...
September 27, 2017 at 13:32
I should also mention that "virtue signaling" isn't even an insult, and signal theorists denounce it as an insult. It just means signaling, and can on...
September 27, 2017 at 13:25
As you are to me, and I am to you. I don't know you, and you don't know me, so when I conceive of you, I construct what kind of person you are. A flim...
September 27, 2017 at 03:50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVvpjB0vB_A
September 25, 2017 at 15:39
Well, I just did some unconditional love yoga... so...
September 24, 2017 at 15:43
Mayor is probably running for office or something, he's a real go getter. Only one to have ever gotten two important trophies in his baseball league h...
September 24, 2017 at 13:54
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTLp14MKDDU 50/50...
September 24, 2017 at 12:09
What's missing, and why they're at odds is the absence of the hero. The true triad as sameness, and difference, with their impossible fusion, which is...
September 24, 2017 at 09:19
Autistics are great at math. They use the part of their brain normally used for facial recognition, to amp up their skills. Math is also neurologicall...
September 24, 2017 at 00:48
I imagine that somethings are above me, or beyond my judgement. That I'm inept to evaluate them. That I personally am not the measure of all things, a...
September 23, 2017 at 22:14
Pleasure seeking is masking agony.
September 23, 2017 at 17:25
I think that it's astonishing that anyone thinks that they're in a position to judge the creator of the fucking universe. The immeasurable arrogance o...
September 23, 2017 at 17:22
I had a lot of horrible nightstallions last night... terreeblah.
September 23, 2017 at 16:32
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHwVBirqD2s
September 22, 2017 at 22:56
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s0CpRfyYp8
September 22, 2017 at 21:41
If he's paying attention, then maybe he will! Are his dreams of the coming revolution prophet? We'll have to wait and see.
September 22, 2017 at 21:14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCPr-mbrctw
September 22, 2017 at 19:31
Just don't bug me. eh. You're no where near seeing through me.
September 22, 2017 at 18:17
Pretty sure that he's the one copying me. I didn't even know he existed until someone else that was copying me (which I'm positive of, because I figur...
September 22, 2017 at 18:09
Don't confuse weakness for strength, ignorance for knowledge, nor I/me for us/we.
September 22, 2017 at 16:37
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEJ8lpCQbyw
September 22, 2017 at 15:39
Gots sources for the horses? Or is it more just you saying it? That's fine and all. Just asking. As for whether I'm having a first or third person exp...
September 22, 2017 at 12:12
No. From the horse's mouth: "There are many aspects to the first-person mystery. The first-person view of the mental encompasses phenomena which seem ...
September 22, 2017 at 11:35
"Good people" are dangers to everyone around them, whereas "bad people" are only dangers to themselves.
September 22, 2017 at 11:14
No one seems to tell you this, but everything turns to shit in your twenties. Playtime ends, and we begin to crave meaning, and significance. We can't...
September 22, 2017 at 09:47
Nothing can be proven abstractly that isn't tautologous, nor proven to always remain true, but eventually the rubber must meet the road. To the extent...
September 22, 2017 at 09:43
The thing is that we're just creatures, and morality and ethics involves oughts. If this is something that is good to do, then it is good for everyone...
September 22, 2017 at 09:30
I can only imagine someone wanting that, rather than wanting to do it. Relationships require negotiation, and it isn't virtuous to give everything and...
September 22, 2017 at 09:16
In the case of unconditional love as regardless of external circumstances, that isn't possible, as everybody dies. People get degenerative brain disea...
September 22, 2017 at 08:30
Both those values would be fickle, and based in mood, which is never consistent, and unchanging, so their values would be inconsistently in flux. Not ...
September 22, 2017 at 08:19
? I don't get that... Isn't the introduction of qualia meant to show that not all forms of information can be rendered in the third person, which is w...
September 21, 2017 at 16:50
Rousseau thought that The Prince was satirical. There's debate about it, but Machiavelli does say outright that republics are better in the Discourses...
September 21, 2017 at 12:49
If the problem is relative equality, then consider that it simply isn't possible to elevate everyone to the top, the only thing that is possible is to...
September 21, 2017 at 08:54
It's not a socio-economic problem. Global poverty is at an all time low. Access to food, shelter, clean water and medical resources has never been as ...
September 21, 2017 at 06:16
Don't be mean 'cause you can't respond bro, but fine, I'll bow out.
September 21, 2017 at 05:10
How is that at all relevant. It doesn't mean that you know them without having any experience of them at all, and the less time spent, and attention p...
September 21, 2017 at 05:03
knowl·edge ?näl?j/Submit noun 1. facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical und...
September 21, 2017 at 04:58
? So I saw you hit someone, but I don't know that you hit them? The perceptual evidence of an event isn't how we know things about it? Then how do we?
September 21, 2017 at 04:57
Seeing anything new is of course knowledge. You didn't know that they even existed before. It isn't like "seen one seen 'em all" or something... we're...
September 21, 2017 at 04:48
No, the knowledge part is unrelated. Even "love at first sight" is conditional upon actually knowing that they exist at bare minimum. Though I think t...
September 21, 2017 at 04:44
I think that love requires knowledge. Can't love something that you don't know very well, let alone don't even know exists. So there has to be some ki...
September 21, 2017 at 04:33
Nah, it's super dangerous. Looks something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_OCOiAIU2Y
September 20, 2017 at 14:43
I didn't watch the video, but I'm sure that it's pathetically benign.
September 20, 2017 at 14:34
Well, we disagree, and it goes no further then.
September 20, 2017 at 13:50