Cynical and bitter mutualist & consequentialist. I hate accelerationists and their apologists as much as I hate fascists.
I used to want good things, but everyone else seems to be fine with bad things. So now I’m pro-vacuum decay event.
I don’t have access to this account on non-work days
Imagining yourselves as everyone’s parents… Literal unironic paternalism.
Having a .ml as one’s actual parent sounds like a nightmare though. Absolutely a sure fire way to create an anarcho-capitalist or some shit in the natural backlash.
I’m a dude. Had an inguinal hernia and got surgery to fix it, they actually strongly insisted that I would want to take hydrocodone and prescribed me bunch after I told them I was worried about taking an opioid. “Its going to really hurt, you want to take this ahead of time.”
Turns out I was allergic and it caused me horrible nausea. Took anti-nausea meds and it caused my heart rate to spike unusually with chest pains, thought I was having a heart attack. Fun. Further, the area I was in was well known to have a unusually high number of opioid related arrests…
After I swapped to ibuprofen and was fine.
The only thing going here is that, as the tin foil hat people say, there is no such thing as “ex-CIA”.
They absolutely have not learned, they might vote dem in greater numbers and we’ll get a blue wave, but they are still going to be fundamentally moronic. The blue wave will be blunted by the in-fighting but even if its not and we also get a dem president in 2028 (we almost certainly will) the US will become increasingly hellish and miserable to live in anyway. There will be only so much a democrat can do
I intend to vote dem but that’s just self interest now. I can’t mentally invest in the suffering of masses of people that Republican vs Democrat victories will have because there is nothing I can do about it.
At this point, for your own sanity, I suggest you treat politics like the climate and weather. Which, just like real climate weather is going to get worse, not better. Focus on enjoying what time you have.
Unfortunately, I’m infected with the “Why do something unless you’re trying to get gud?”
Which means, I’ll try something for a while and if I think I have some base talent as a foundation and I don’t have anything else I’m obsessed with at the time I’m absolutely going to fixate on it until I’m really good. But if I think I’m doomed to mediocrity I completely lose interest in it. Note that I don’t have to start off good, I just need to feel an intuition of “Oh, I could go somewhere with this.”
I suck at bowling and I don’t ever want to do it. I only begrudgingly do it because friends drag me to it and if they let me I’ll sit out and just chit chat instead of actually playing.
Its consciousness, not conscience. Conscience is specifically one’s moral awareness.
Also its closer to 4 billion years.
That said, I understand her anger about stupid people. And people who slut shame can die in a fire.
I am of three minds on this issue.
The purely rational side, knowing that “evil” doesn’t really exist and there is no such thing as free will so hating people doesn’t really make sense.
The bitterly angry side, despite knowing its irrational finding pleasurable catharsis in visceral hatred of a majority of people because they’ve demonstrated that in so far that its possible to deserve anything, they’ve demonstrated they deserve my hatred. And that relating to such people is incredibly difficult and that I cannot be honest with them in person about how I feel without becoming a pariah.
And finally, the despairingly lonely side seeking a life worth living, wanting to forgive them all for my own sanity’s sake. Not wanting to accept that I’m surrounded by awful and petulantly stupid people and constantly trying to find a reason to believe that I am not… and failing. To embrace this part would be delusion or hypocrisy and yet I really want to.
American Christian Evangelicals want the end of the world prophecy to happen.
Israel fucking hates Muslims and Islam and want to reclaim their holy land. They’re Jewish supremacists.
Iran fucking hates Jews and Judiasm and really fucking hate Israel, and not because of the Gaza genocide. Out of these three, Iran would merely prefer to stick to proxy conflicts and not direct conflict, but they still fucking despise Jews.
They’re all religious nutcases. This is basically 40k level mindless hatred, every group is evil.
Its both. Its religious cope to suggest that religious belief is not a motivating factor for a significant portion of this war and its participants. Both among the owner class and working class.
Religion is fucking stupid and harmful.
They are terms for different axes of belief.
Atheist and theist refer to whether someone believes in any kind of theism. Anti-theism and pro-theism would take it further in terms of whether you want to promote or reduce the amount of theism.
Agnostic and gnostic merely indicate a level of certainty in any belief. Its extremely rare that people are perfectly neutral between atheism and theism. They usually lean in one direction or another, so agnostics are either agnostic theists or agnostic atheist. They are usually the latter, as they are also often atheists trying to minimize the social costs of being a non-believer.
That is not true. There are gnostic athiests and agnostic deists.
They’re an agnostic atheist. And which of those words they use to describe themselves effects people’s opinions of atheism and atheists. If I want to criticize them for their cowardice I’m going to.
The sooner religion and spirituality dies the better. Its mass psychosis.
You can be an agnostic deist. Agnostic just means you have no firm belief. Most people who identify as “nones” in polls are technically agnostic, even if they personally believe in a higher power. Its a lack of certainty.
Most atheists are also technically agnostic atheists. A gnostic athiest would be someone who holds the absence of any higher being or spirituality as an almost axiomatic belief. Though they merely can be so certain that the small chance they’re wrong seems irrelevant to them.
You can just call yourself an atheist. Hell, if you call yourself a pastafarian you are basically an anti-theist.
I’m about to clock out from work and I wont have access to this account until Monday morning. I may or may not respond to you after this, but I am curious enough that if you have something notable to say I probably will.
Why would I give a shit about anything you have to say after hearing something like this?
I don’t know you so I couldn’t say. It sounds like you shouldn’t if you are an incurious person or intellectually fearful person.
I don’t care about your virtue though. Why should I? We will never meet in person. We don’t need to respect each other here, that isn’t why we’re talking still. We’re here for the discourse, no?
As a matter of strategy, a very good phrase, I don’t take opinions from people who are societally suicidal.
Strategy to achieve what? I’m advocating to make things better for individuals. Conscious beings. However, the collective, society, human civilization, none of these things are themselves conscious. Why do you care about these concepts over the conscious individuals materially contained within them?
When I talk about bolstering and reinforcing a strong community, perspectives like yours are exactly the kind I’m talking about pruning. Society cannot suffer your intellectual poison. If you want to die, do it on your own terms.
I never said I wished to die. At least not in the sense that you probably think. I already exist, me dying does not close Pandora’s Box, it cements the the fact that to live at all is a horror and a tragedy. Conscious mortality is fundamentally disturbing.
I’m sad that I have ever existed because I’m doomed to face death and suffering, but mostly the former haunts me. It haunts me that my loved ones will one day die, some already have a long time ago and it still disturbs me on a fundamental level. I’m also horrified at the prospect of bringing more conscious beings to suffer the same nightmarish fate of being brought into existence strapped to a metaphorical conveyor belt ending in death and oblivion.
My only expectation of you is that you will live, and that living means something to you. The only thing you can do is disappoint me.
Because I will continue to live or commit suicide? Or are you saying either or? I’m not entirely clear one what this means. As paradoxical as it sounds I don’t legitimately know if I’m capable of suicide. Its strange to even think about given my sheer terror of death itself, but also yeah… death will happen eventually, why not rip off the bandaid? I really don’t know what is the rational choice. Perhaps I am a hypocrite in this way.
If our axioms are really fundamentally different from mine, then perhaps there is no reason for us to continue. But if any of the questions in this response to you has you reconsider anything there might be something interesting here to talk about.
So you think you and those that agree with you should have power over people but have no responsibility to them?
I legitimately don’t care if you think I’m stupid I know what you think is smart.