Posts by Lanny

1. 2016-05-14 at 7:22 PM UTC in Anybody here like the cramps?
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage
   No, but I do love having my period. My boyfriend doesn't hound me for sex so it's a nice break.
2. 2016-05-14 at 6:34 PM UTC in Another Drunk Phone Meeting, wooooo
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage
   Yeah, my name has been floating around for a while now. Don't particularly want to advertise it but whatever, it's not like it's that damaging. What's anyone going to do, order a bunch of pizzas to my door or something? Nigga I love pizza.
3. 2016-05-14 at 6:28 PM UTC in zoo's are fundamentally wrong
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage

   Morality is a man-made concept that is defined by the society you live in; it is subjective.

   
   Most moral theorists would disagree with that. If you're taking that to be your definition of morality from the outset them you're the one wasting our time with semantic games because it's not what the vast majority of people mean when they talk about morality.
   
   

   There is nothing called morality in nature. You cannot observe morality or test it in a laboratory.

   
   Sure, but something like, say, mathematics can not be tested in a laboratory or observed in nature (inb4 nautilus shell, that's an observation of a pattern in nature that's elegantly expressible in mathematics. It's not the same thing as seeing mathematics, in itself, in nature) but we wouldn't call it subjective.
   
   

   They have even developed philosophies to prove it, e.G., metaphysics, and epistemology, which use meaningless circular propositions to prove their points.

   
   You realize that neither metaphysics nor epistemology are actually philosophies right? They're fields within philosophy, containing a wide range of competing theories. In fact you're practicing (bad) metaphysics in this thread right now. You should probably try to, you know, learn what words mean before you use them.
   
   

   Both assume that knowledge, morality, Good and Evil exist 'a priori'.

   
   Again, just wildly not true, I don't even think that works as a sentence.
   
   

   What does 'a priori' mean: 'a priori' knowledge, in Western philosophy since the time of Immanuel Kant, knowledge that is independent of all particular experiences, as opposed to a posteriori knowledge, which derives from experience. The Latin phrases a priori (“from what is before”) and a posteriori (“from what is after”) were used in philosophy originally to distinguish between arguments from causes and arguments from effects.

   
   Thanks webster, but I'm not seeing how this relates to anything you're saying. Even if you only look at philosophies that do take morality to be knowable a priori (which is not exhaustive of moral theories by any means) I don't see how throwing a definition of the term a priori is supposed to prove anything
   
   

   Even murdering or killing humans is not an absolute; it is societal, e.G., killing in war is OK, killing someone attacking you with deadly force where you are in fear of your life is OK.

   
   So how do you account for the wide range of actions that are considered societally acceptable yet by many to be morally impermissible? Almost anyone with an idea of what morality is will assert prohibitions or duties above and beyond social acceptability. Most christians would say things like respecting your parents or showing compassion to strangers is a moral good even if not all societies. So if morality is socially defined then how can members of a society have moral beliefs contrary to the society they live in?
4. 2016-05-14 at 6:26 PM UTC in Plants aren't gonna stop growin, no matter what you do to em'
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage
   Oh shit, I'm like plant hitler. Genocide for dayz bitches!
5. 2016-05-14 at 6:39 AM UTC in Plants aren't gonna stop growin, no matter what you do to em'
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage
   Countless extinct plant species speak to the contrary.
6. 2016-05-14 at 1:36 AM UTC in what do you do on a stimulant binge?
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage
   I waver between beast-mode programming and "let's open 3,000 wikipedia tabs that I'm not going to get past the intro of". You know you've taken too much when you're in the latter, if you're losing motor skills then you're just wasting drugs and your time.
7. 2016-05-13 at 9:47 PM UTC in Last Statements of the Executed
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage

   I wonder why we give those-about-to-be-executed last statements and meal requests. The statement, I guess whatever, but the meal of their choice? Why?

   
   I don't think it's such a bad policy. Whether or not our society deems a person worthy of existence they're still a hedonic creature, they can feel pleasure and pain as acutely as any other person. We may have decided they represent a net-negative to society and that that justifies killing but they can't do much damage in a cell. We've decided we can't rehabilitate them so punishment is ultimately meaningless but we can at least make their end-of-life more pleasant. Wrongdoing ultimately does not diminish a person's claim to happiness. I say put every death row inmate on a morphine drip and just crank that shit up when it's time to off them, probably wouldn't cost significantly more than lethal injection and you'd end up with N fewer people living in existential dread re: their impending doom.
8. 2016-05-13 at 9:31 PM UTC in Another Drunk Phone Meeting, wooooo
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage

   All I gathered from this is that your name is Rihanna.

   
   
   Listen m8, I didn't want to say this in public but the admin seems to have perma-fucked the PMs. The words "rye" and "Rihanna" don't have anything in common, particularly the phonemitic decomposition of the former is not an initial substring of the latter. I hope I haven't made you feel foolish by pointing this out although the possibility that you're contemplating suicide out of embarrassment from this exposition weighs heavily on my mind. Let me just say that I'm here for you bro, I know the pain and enduring social humiliation that stems from mispronouncing words and that if you ever need a sholder to cry on I'm here for you.
   
   

   Ryan Rogers.

   
   Right on the given, not on the family. Amusingly my former employer seemed to think my name was Ryan Rogers for like a year before I had to ask them to reissue a check with my actual name on it.
9. 2016-05-13 at 7:15 PM UTC in Another Drunk Phone Meeting, wooooo
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage
   I called in and the dude facilitating it was like "hi, who joined?" and I said my name but I guess I slurred or mumbled so he was like "huh?" and it took me like 3 more tries including actually spelling my name out before he figured out who I am. That's how you know it's going to be a good meeting.
   
   Although indians (and this guy was one), or some subset thereof, seem to have a hard time with my name, it always comes out as "ree-ah-n". I once tried explaining the right pronunciation "start with rye, like the grain" and the dude literally just stared blankly at me for a solid 30 seconds. Since then I've started just introducing myself in the pronunciation they seem to be able to do, saves time.
10. 2016-05-11 at 4:43 PM UTC in Addictions fuckin SUCK!!!!!!!!!!
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage

    OP is a pedophile and is addicted to underdeveloped vaginas.

    
    
    We prefer the term "third world vaginas"
11. 2016-05-10 at 7:06 AM UTC in Anyone here ever playe hotline miami?
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Yee, it's fun and I like the music. It's not that "hard" though, even if it takes a number of tries, you can force your way through every level my memorizing routes, the AI is intentionally deterministic which is an interesting approach to difficulty. Levels are really only as hard as they are long. If you like that kind of gameplay you should try supermeatboy, very different aesthetic but the same basic mechanic, deterministic hairline timing only with platforming vs. topdown shooter.
12. 2016-05-10 at 6:27 AM UTC in Mathematics
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage

    I am not drawing the distinction between experience and description, but quantity and quality. Mathematics is a language which deals with quantity, and therefore has either no relation or a poor relation to the qualitative. I am tempted to say it deals wholly with quantity and has no ability to express quality in any way, but I do not know enough to say this confidently.

    
    Based on what exactly? We speak all the time of qualities in mathematics. 3, 5, and 7 all have the quality of being prime. Curves have an number of qualities. Functions have a whole bunch of qualities. And if we want to talk about modeling we can look to discrete sorts of mathematics like category theory which speaks very certainly about qualities of points under transformation. Unless you take "quality" to be somehow inherently immune to modeling (like claiming all quality is radically subjective and talking about it is meaningless) which would be dumb and immediately suspect circularity.
13. 2016-05-10 at 2:13 AM UTC in Why countblah banned me right before zoklet closed
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage

    ^ a guy that doesn't believe the jedi narrative of women being defenseless? you cuck

    
    "Women aren't defenseless, therefore it's perfectly fine to beat them" - Bill Krozby logic
14. 2016-05-08 at 2:31 PM UTC in 1 or 2?
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
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    I dislike the caliber of people you associate with
15. 2016-05-08 at 1:40 PM UTC in Is there any reason I shouldn't kill myself?
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage

    This is TL;DR but you knew this already. Jerk.

    
    It also comes in easily digestible dinosaur comics form which is probably just as good
16. 2016-05-08 at 1:31 PM UTC in So I tried to stop a mugging...
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage

    ^ i don't think he would ever be capable of that\

    
    I'll rape you, you skinny ass bitch made hipster.
17. 2016-05-08 at 6:32 AM UTC in Timbre is what we say when we run out of words to describe sound
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Truly we are auditory creatures, the world is experienced in timbre first, quality that transcends sinusoidal analysis. All the range of the human soul can be expressed as a discrete time-stream of quantities. Two dimensional is our world, two dimensional is the impulse that drives the human soul and thus in such constitutes us.
18. 2016-05-08 at 5:02 AM UTC in Why do people care who the president is?
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Foreign policy is important. Veto power doesn't mean much. Mostly it's a deeply important role because we still have vestigial neuro-psychological features that compel us towards a "strongman" model of human organization. Revolution is a fascinating event, to really feel the material nature of belief, to realize "power" is only existent insofar as we subjugate ourselves and accept the authority of another.
    
    Like think about all the generations that have passed where multi-human organization of increasingly large scale has had the day. Tribes conquer over individuals, empires over cities. Evolution moves towards increasing complexity and society is mereologically greater than any of their component-individuals. It's no longer survival of the fittest. We're cells within a larger organism and our personal fitness is largely irrelevant, our aggregate behaviour is what defines us in the meta-system. It's like fractals maaaannnnnn.
    
    Shit I'm high
19. 2016-05-07 at 10:11 PM UTC in jedi chicks are fucking HOT
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    mean*
20. 2016-05-07 at 10:01 PM UTC in Last Statements of the Executed
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Last statement of the executed: return;