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Alan What?
[annoy my right-angled speediness]
I do wonder what the motivation to post comments on porn sites is at all, I think you usually need to sign up for an account which is also something I'm not sure I see the benefit in. Like do people experience sexual gratification tacking a comment onto a video or something? Are they earnestly trying to communicate their preference to other people jerking off? The economics of comments on porn videos is puzzling to me.
I don't know from experience but I believe that some members upload content that can only be viewed if you become their "friend" by signing up and sending them a friend request.
Aside from that I assume the motivation is similar to our own motivations to post here. You hang out on an online community long enough you become attached to it.
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Alan What?
[annoy my right-angled speediness]
Shit nigga, is this your diary? Dear niggasin.space, today I asked a girl out. Dear niggasin.space, I should get back in shape. Except nobody cares in space...
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Alan What?
[annoy my right-angled speediness]
I'll look for that and give it a read. Let me ask you some questions Lanny. If I understand what you're saying, you are saying there is no coherent definition of "the self" across time. So do you still identify with memories of your past or plan for your future? If we entirely replaced your body and brain with synthetic replacements, would you still be you?
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Alan What?
[annoy my right-angled speediness]
It's true that we are not the authors of our thoughts, as that would require thinking about what you are going to think about before you think it. But if we are not our thoughts, what are we?
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Alan What?
[annoy my right-angled speediness]
I think the subconscious are just thoughts/mental processes that we are not typically conscious of, similar to how we are not typically conscious of physical processes like your heartbeat or the digestion of food.
By comparison what does that make consciousness? Is consciousness as special or important as people tend to believe? Does free will exist or not, and do questions like this even mean anything?
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Alan What?
[annoy my right-angled speediness]
Are you your body? Sure, at least in a way. But is there a line where this stops being true? How much of yourself can be removed or replaced before you stop being you, and does this question even make sense?
Your physical existence is made up of cells - trillions of them, and each one is a living being, a little machine made out of proteins. Your cells work together to form larger structures and systems used to perform various tasks like enabling you to breathe or eat food, or to read and understand these words. If we were to remove some of your cells from your body and kept them in a specific environment, your cells will continue to live on their own, at least for awhile. Your cells can exist without you, but can you exist without your cells? If we were to remove all of your cells from your body, "you" wouldn't exist anymore.
Where is the line where a pile of your cells stops being you? If you were to donate an organ to someone does this mean that a part of you becomes a part of this other person, or is this other body keeping a part of you alive? If you and a random person were to somehow start to slowly exchange cells, one cell at a time, would we reach a point in time where you become them and they become you?
The image of "yourself" as a static thing is untenable. Almost all of your cells will have died and been replaced by new cells every at least once every 7 years or so. We are constantly changing, growing, you are not the same now as you were in the past or how you will be in the future. We know that you are made up of trillions of little things, made of smaller little things that are constantly changing. Together all those little things are not static, but dynamic. Their composition and condition is changing constantly, so we might just be a self-sustaining pattern without clear borders that gained self awareness at some point and now has the ability to think about itself through time and space but really only exists in this this exact moment.
When did this pattern start? With your conception, when the first human arose, when life first began on our planet, or when the elements that make up our bodies were first forged in a star? The human brain evolved to deal with absolutes. The fuzzy borders that make up reality are hard to grasp. Maybe ideas like beginning and end, life and death, you and me are really not absolutes, but ideas belonging to a fluent pattern in this strange and beautiful universe.
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Alan What?
[annoy my right-angled speediness]
I wasn't trying to rub anything in bud. I didn't realize you were on the verge of homelessness and lonely death. I don't hate you. You seem like a regular guy just trying to get by. Anyway, I really like those ichiban noodles.
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Alan What?
[annoy my right-angled speediness]
Why are you always mad? I try to make a nice contribution to your thread and you get all upset. Wtf? Also that isn't in my house, that's at the bar a few blocks away.
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Alan What?
[annoy my right-angled speediness]
You should invest in a large amount of booze and drugs, obviously. Then when you inevitably get fired from this new job you will have no savings to support you or finance your dreams and will not be able to afford the internet and we won't have to see you around here anymore.
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Alan What?
[annoy my right-angled speediness]
I thought about that, but when I took the capsules I opened them up and poored them onto my tongue and they tasted like mushrooms. They felt good at first, they made me realize that I probably have stomach cancer, and fundamentally don't like black people and liserds. I looked at myself in the mirror and I didn't even know who I was anymore, I felt like I was once a capybara from mexico 5000 years ago.
I took six grams, which is kind of a lot but I've been casually taking a couple grams over the last few weeks so I have a tolerance.
That's exactly what they want you to think. You're falling into their trap.
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Alan What?
[annoy my right-angled speediness]
She set you up. And those aren't capsules of powdered mushroom, you fool, it's one of their advanced mind control drugs. This is all part of Their Plan. You know what you need to do.
