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2016-07-24 at 12:06 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition​
I don't do drugs to get high. I do do drugs so I can function without crippling chronic pain. What I take, it works and I can function. I don't like to lose control, hence why I very rarely drink at all. My reasons for using drugs are much different than most of the drug use that goes on here- Malice and I don't have a lot in common, but I'd say at least for why we use drugs, we share common ground- we do it to improve the quality of our lives and be able to function.
Funny how so many opiate addicts have totally legitimate pain issues that just have to be managed, I swear on me mum, it's the truth, let me tell you. I guess for some of them it's true but you can imagine why it would be hard for someone to take you at your word on that. It's something that's basically impossible for people to verify and a very convenient justification for addiction.Translation: He's a total fag. Fuck the bees and the cows and the fish, they exist to make my tea sweet, give me a cold glass of milk in the morning a nice steak at dinner or sushi should i desire it. How is this fair? It isn't but life sucks and then you die. The cosmic die cast me to be a human, too bad lesser animals. Except for cats, cause i get value other than nutrition from them. They are lucky like that.
Do you really believe that? You seem to have some notion of ethics beyond troglodytic might-makes-right, I've seen you repeatedly rebuke child rapists to establish yourself as a better class of pedophile (an argument I'm partially amenable to), so presumably you consider children to have some right to security beyond their personal ability to maintain it. But isn't the abused child just equally maligned by the cosmic die and such is life? Don't they exist, from the perspective of a rapist, merely as a means to sexual gratification in the same way animals live, on your view, to satisfy your desires?
Now you might say "apples and oranges, human children are of the same kind as me and are thus afforded special privileges", which OK, maybe there's an argument there but you have to actually make it. You can't handwave with "that's just how things are" on the subject of animal welfare but suddenly pull normative claims out of your pocket when we start talking about humans unless you articulate why humans belong to a special class where such claims apply and why animals are not part of that class. -
2016-07-21 at 3:32 AM UTC in I FUBARD now kkkkkmacintoshplusvaporwave is so 2011 man
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2016-07-21 at 3:31 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
Hahaha, fuck Camus, I knew there were critical flaws when I first read The Myth of Sysyphus. Well, I definitely don't hate or even dislike Camus, I just disagree with him. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has a good overview of this: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/camus/
Glad you read it. Most SEP articles are pretty great, I think a lot of people kinda try to treat them as wikipedia articles: self contained rather than supplementary to the texts they treat, and are disappointed but there's some really excellent commentary in many (most?) of them.
Did you read handful of much shorter essays at the end of the book? I really liked Summer in Algiers. There's nothing philosophically profound about it but I really fell in love with the prose (at least as rendered in the O'Brien translation). Just on a pure enjoyment level I think it's one of the most enjoyable pieces of writing I've ever read, like a really striking painting or something.I also believe the author of the comic didn't fully grasp Camus' arguments and fixates on mortality as the critical factor.
I agree with this. Camus certainly had ideas about ethics but that was never his philosophical project.We're immortal. Now what do we do for the rest of eternity? Is existence still absurd? Are we truly immortal, or has the average life expectancy simply radically increased to the point where it gives the illusion to the common man, that it's only in practical sense? ("On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.")
Yes, of course existence is still absurd. It's not death that makes us absurd, although perhaps it adds a point to the existential question, it's our impulse to ask for a justification for our existence, nature's structure in such a way as to compel us to ask, and the total inability of every means within our reach to provide an answer. That doesn't change with immortality, perhaps it let's us avoid the question for longer but I think an eternal existence would be even more absurd: to defy a fundamentally mutable, dynamic universe, and have to way to explain why, that seems like a more severe contrast.Also came across an interesting, but simple line of argumentation to advocate anti-natalism (Of course I don't think it would be effective and even a mass attempt would have highly dysgenic effects).
A: "Do you think it is wrong to do anything that leads to the needless death of a person?"
B: "Yes."
A: "Does having a child lead to the death of person?"
B: "Yes."
I don't think you could get most people to commit to the idea that all action that leads to the death of a person is impermissible, besides like Kant or divine command theorists (so basically assholes). Almost everyone has a "shoot hitler" clause. You might call up the "needless" I imagine most people wouldn't consider every death to be needless or meaningless.Also, thinking about women and childbirth, particularly Hydro's actions, her posts about breast milk, all the grotesqueness that comes with pregnancy and childbirth, along with the neurological/physiological effects gave me the following thought. Aristotle viewed women as being akin to imperfect men, and similar views prevailed until relatively recently (and not for positive reasons, imo). Motherhood is the descent into animalism.
To whatever degree motherhood is a descent into animalism so is sex from the perspective of both sexes, even masturbation reduces to gaming a biological system, admission to our biological realities. Not that I think that's reason to disagree with the former thesis, but I don't think women have any particular claim to baser natures. I can't really think of a person who's intellect isn't a slave to their passions, their biology, although for each to a greater or lesser extent. -
2016-07-20 at 2:53 PM UTC in Health, Diet and Wellness. Ancient Oriental Weight loss secrets!.Also I read somewhere that Hitler IV'd meth, so there's that
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2016-07-20 at 2:53 PM UTC in Health, Diet and Wellness. Ancient Oriental Weight loss secrets!.I could smell the meth on this thread from a mile away
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2016-07-18 at 3:13 PM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
BTW Lan check your PMs.
I don't have any PMs.
Is this a setup to "that's right, fix the fucking PMs"? -
2016-07-18 at 4:19 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first editionOh man, anti-natalist mercy killing. That's some romantic shit right there blood.
I'm curious though, do you consider that an accurate analysis or are you just going for what you think I would least want people to hear about me? Specifically the gay/gender confused thing is something easy to pin on me but doesn't seem like something you could get out of an honest assessment. Also "drowning out negative thoughts" or rather sublimating them into productive behaviors is almost the hallmark of mental health in some models. I think Freud has a lot of problems but one thing I think he should be commended for is the acknowledgement of natural but unacceptable impulses and our agency in assenting to them.
P.S. I've seen a lot of pretty sentiment generated around western interpretations of buddhism but I can't help but feel like, at very best, it's like taking Aquinas and using him as a representative of Christianity, and at worst really bad revisionism. The lived buddhist tradition isn't half so amenable to these intellectual fettishisations. I was in Japan recently, went to see Senso-ji, famous buddhist temple. As you approach the temple from any direction there are like a solid two blocks of shops selling souvenirs, everything you could think of, some of it vaguely branded with something buddhist but most of it not. The temple itself collects donations and is sprawling for something built in Tokyo, frankly opulent in its size. I contrast between the mercantile, opportunistic attitude embodied by the buddhism there and the pretty ascetic vaguely phenomenological tradition that's presented is like night and day. -
2016-07-17 at 9:28 PM UTC in what do you want to know?Are there problems in NP but which are not in P?
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2016-07-17 at 9:10 PM UTC in What are you reading?Huh, well that's cool. $25 an hour seems pretty great for a writing/editing gig for someone your age (or what I assume your age is). You couldn't do that and work on your own stuff nights and weekends or something? And it seems like you'd have to replace that income somehow, does a day job not get in the way or are you unemployed when you're working on your own stuff?
In any case, you're not fucking Kafka and your very sloppy personal life is already strewn all over these forums. You have an audience already invested in the book before reading a page, at least one of which is willing to pay. Whatever the quality of the writing is we want to read it, there's nothing to lose by posting it.
P.S. Has hydro read the book? -
2016-07-17 at 9:28 AM UTC in What a bleak horrible future we live in.The reason to vote for Clinton is the same reason to vote for anyone: she has policy and it's better, corrected for uncertainty, than Trump's. Like does anyone really think we've had a president since LBJ that hasn't committed whatever crimes, had a similar moral composition, than those of Hillary?
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2016-07-17 at 9:21 AM UTC in What do you buy along with condoms so you don't look like a dork?It's rare that I buy condoms from a corner store but for whatever reason the times that I have I've thrown in an extra item or two, just seemed awkward not to. I think one time it was cheetos and another time it was some soft drink. I know know why it's awkward but it is, you would think it would be like some kind of badge of honor if anything but not, just blankly looking across the counter at the aging black woman and sensation of her seeing in to your soul, her eyes boring into you such that every insecurity becomes clear. Shit's dark man, buying condoms is some shit.
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2016-07-14 at 7:01 AM UTC in Got beat up by the copsNo, I have never experienced a fugue state wherein I tried to fight the cops. That sounds like severe neuro degenerative disease or some shit right there blood, just like, fyi
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2016-07-13 at 4:32 PM UTC in That would be funny if some Top A list celebrity committed suicide.I didn't realize boxxy had an acting career
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2016-07-13 at 5:50 AM UTC in What are you reading?
How do his other fiction books compare to the gods themselves? I really had a hard time choking down a lot of it. Like *insert scientists name here* trying to stop the electron pumps, not so much for the story but GODDAMNED THE DIALOGUE jesus christ. Beg this guy, reason with that guy, hey maybe this GUY will get it. I get the feels he was trying to add, but I think he took way too long in doing it. It was like reading the same shit for 20 pages. I'm sure you know what I mean. I liked hearing about moon food, or their moon sports, about the soft ones and their weird contour line emotional signs.
The Gods Themselves definitely leaned more "literary" (or maybe some imitation thereof) than his other work, much of which is characterized by pretty utilitarian prose, if that's what you mean. Have you read any of his collections of short stories? I, Robot is probably the most famous although it has no real relation to the film. The Foundation series is probably considered his largest project in world building and is again more A to B writing, which surprisingly doesn't really increase the pace of things.Also, fuck off m8. I've made more from my writing than 20 dollars.
You said the the only copy of Hitchhiked into Conception you sold was to some English dude, as I recall it was selling for $4. I'm actually curious, have you sold some other piece of writing more successfully? -
2016-07-13 at 5:35 AM UTC in That would be funny if some Top A list celebrity committed suicide.Why? So we can watch people once again make a public spectacle of mourning a celebrity they never even met?
Hard pass. -
2016-07-11 at 7:40 AM UTC in What are you reading?Asimov is one of my favorite genre fiction authors. His autobiography was really interesting, his non-fiction is pretty fun too. Despite it being considered his most significant work I never could finish the Foundation series, although I want to try again after hearing his own account of it, as well as those of others, about it being an analogy to Gibbon's Decline and Fall.
Also yes §m£ÂgØL you shit, post your book, it couldn't possibly be that bad. You have sufficiently lowered our expectations and you've been offered the largest sum of your literary career for it. -
2016-07-10 at 6:50 AM UTC in What's "your drink"?
Yeah, I never thought I'd gain weight ,but I have the last year from drinking teh beer and being in my late 20's. And I'm actually looking into a way on how to get rid of my belly fat, along with handeling my alcoholism.
I've been back and forth between the upper end of healthy body weight and overweight since I was like 13, my metabolism is like tar and I sit on my ass all day so it's easy to put on the pounds. Recently I started doing one of the "calorie counter" app things on a bet with a friend and jesus, like half of the time I drink more calories in alcohol than I eat. Booze adds up I guess.
​I don't particularly enjoy alcohol, as such i don't have a particular drink neither do i know all the names but since you mentioned bloody mary, i do enjoy that. Also brandy, and this kinda' mix drink that's made with peach tree and prosecco. Call me a hipster faggot but i enjoy sweet drinks with little alcohol more than whiskey in example. Unless you have a fancy, properly aged whiskey of course.
I used to really like sweet drinks, and sweet things in general. Rum and coke was the first thing I drank regularly. The sugar isn't great for you though, makes the hangover worse, and it's harder to overdrink with like a straight rye or something. Still, my go-to drinks are mostly gins with something mildly sweet.when I do drink, vanilla coke and southern comfort. Didn't inherit the ol alcoholism gene, mom dad sister, all alkies but nope, I get redfaced, swollen lips, shut sinuses and skin irritation.
Reminds me of highschool. You probably lucked out, alcohol is a pretty shitty vice, I can't really bring myself to enjoy weed for mostly the same reason but I wish I could. I imagine it doesn't kill you half as fast plus I just can't function when stoned so there would be a natural limit on how much I could smoke.
​For a long time, my go to drink was gin and tonics, but lately I’ve been drinking spiced rum and fruit punch. Fruit punch because I don’t like cola and I couldn’t think of anything else to mix with rum.
My gin of choice is Gordon’s and for rum I drink Cruzan or Admiral Nelson’s. I know Admiral Nelson’s has a bad reputation, but it’s cheap and it tastes ok.
Neither of my parents drink now, but my dad used to drink Jack and Cokes and my mom has only drank a few times in her life and only beer.
I love Gordon's, it's cheap as hell around here too. I've had a lot of gins, even "top shelf" stuff doesn't taste as good in a G&T or gimlet as Gordon's, at least to me. I prefer Bombay sapphire in a negroni and hendricks for drinking straight, if you're into that kind of thing, but otherwise I think Gordon's is just the best gin out there.Vodka, baileys or a mix of the two, they're the two that my mum drank so I guess I got it from her and also cider but I'm a poor brit so that should be expected.
Do you drink bailey's straight? I mean I like the taste of it but I've never actually seen anyone not mix it with something. -
2016-07-09 at 5:23 AM UTC in What's "your drink"?
whatever they fuckin' have.
A man walks into a bar. The bartender asks him "what'll ya have". The man replies "whatever you fuckin' have". The bartender pauses a moment, stares at the man, and then asks "yeah, but what do you actually want? We got stuff to make whatever". The man stands there, paralyzed, he only wants what they have but in the headlights of such selection he is frozen. The bar is only a few hundred square feet and yet behind the bar they seem to have packed a vast ocean of liquor. The man's mind races as the combinatorial problem quietly mounts in the corner. A long moment passes and the bartender remains, waiting to take the man's order. Then, all of the sudden, something seems to click in the man's mind. Drenched in sweat, trembling slightly from the effort he realizes. He reaches slowly for his wallet, contorting his face as if about to place his order and then bolts for the door. The problem is intractable he realizes, he wants, no yearns, for whatever they have but in all the vast strings in the english language he can not summon a one to aid him. So realizing the futility of his endeavor he does the only thing he can: he flees the scene of the crime, never to return. "This is hell he thinks", but with the exertion of his mad dash for the door comes a certain clarity. He realizes in that crystalline moment "but it should never have been otherwise".
"Let's get a drink with Enter", a short story by Lanny -
2016-07-09 at 1:40 AM UTC in What's "your drink"?
A Boston Goblin
pretty sure that's not a thing but if it is a thing please tell me about the properties of that thingVodka and raspberry ice drink mix.
It does a body good.
Good for the urinary tract I guess. Pass on the vodka tho. A bloody mary is the only vodka drink I enjoy these days. -
2016-07-09 at 12:19 AM UTC in What's "your drink"?I used to drink white russians at work until we lost our minifridge. Still love one now and then but too many calories for me, I'll take my alcoholism without the morbid obesity thanks.
