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SDBean

['Member']Joined: September 10, 2020 at 06:31Last active: October 12, 2020 at 17:371 discussions8 comments

Bio

I like religious metaphors but for full disclosure I am an atheist. I am progressive although I do like imperialism. I find there’s nothing wrong with a little healthy hedonism, egotism and maniacal dark humor. I enjoy grandiosity and I like to think of myself as a dragon once and a while.

Favourite Quotations

"It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

"Philosophy is a codeword, it means- a preferably white guy over 30 with an opinion.”
S.D.Bean

Discussions (1)

Comments

As a said "god” you’d be able to throw pagans, jews, atheists, etc. into a forever burning burning pit of fire (make it an assembly line, just keep em...
September 14, 2020 at 08:15
You don’t have a very prolific imagination then.
September 13, 2020 at 22:33
That reminds me of that "Twilight Zone” episode in which this hypochondriac makes a deal with the devil, although that guy was in idiot I’d take that ...
September 13, 2020 at 19:24
Yeah that’s not really immortality anymore... just because I said perfect immortality doesn’t mean you get a plethora of powers that go along with it ...
September 13, 2020 at 16:03
The segment on religion was just a cultural example and not remotely what I had in mind... You’re clearly not being serious.
September 13, 2020 at 05:41
Just going to say it here; right now my soul is more important to me than all the rest of the US combined. Maybe in 30 years when immortality is clear...
September 12, 2020 at 05:15
@"Mutakalem" So I can rape babies as long as they’re mine?
September 10, 2020 at 18:45
You know what? I just deleted a couple paragraphs of very extremely unlikely but the most probable God scenarios because they all came to the same dea...
September 10, 2020 at 07:43