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2016-05-01 at 3:24 PM UTC in Heterosexuality is a Universally Preferable BehaviourBump to see debate continue.
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2016-05-01 at 3:08 PM UTC in Where can I stash some reserve drugs that I wanna save for later?
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2016-04-30 at 4:08 PM UTC in Are there infinite dimensions?I don't think it's unreasonable to consider the possibility that something can go on forever. For example if someone accepts casualty than something must have caused the universe, and something must have caused that, and so on and so forth. It doesn't appear that a starting point is really possible if everything is caused by something before it. So is it really unreasonable to consider that there is no starting point?
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2016-04-29 at 1:35 PM UTC in Are there infinite dimensions?I think it depends what you mean but yeah, probably.
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2016-04-29 at 1:31 PM UTC in I feel like a 1 dimensional objectYou are the one-dimensional man:
In literature, as in life, we often see growth, change, and internal conflict carried out in a single character. The term one-dimensional character in a book review refers to a character who lacks depth and who never seems to learn or grow. If a character is one-dimensional, he or she does not demonstrate a sense of learning in the course of a story. Authors may use such a character to highlight a certain trait; usually an undesirable one.
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2016-04-28 at 11:57 PM UTC in Bill Krozby, you should use this pickup line during a conversation.
Actually I'm not, I praise people like sploo, roshambo and opulus for their art. And trust me I'm not jealous of your creativity, you don't even make threads, all you do is talk out of your asshole.
All I'm saying here is that malice usually never post threads, and went out of his to make a thread about me out of butt hurt
Pretty sure it was a joke Bill Krozby, you know, to be funny? Why do you think he's butthurt? -
2016-04-28 at 2:48 PM UTC in What Will Happen to America in 2016? SOMETHING BIG IS COMING...[h=1]AMERICA WILL COLLAPSE IN 2016 ?[/h]
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2016-04-27 at 9:03 PM UTC in What Will Happen to America in 2016? SOMETHING BIG IS COMING...
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2016-04-27 at 7:53 PM UTC in I'm almost back to my old self.The difference between science and religion is the difference between the quantified equations of mathematics and the unquantifiable equations of metaphor. Those who cannot focus their mental scope with sufficient precision to count must guesstimate relationships by comparing superficial attributes to derive meanings from their experiences. The errors of both science and religion are produced by logical deductions made from inherently faulty language, but the errors cannot be perceived by people who mistake their words for real things and their language for a real map. The nemesis of abstraction is that the symbol becomes the reality, and the individual differences in the real world are occulted behind the Veils of Maja. As the focus of the mind shifts from the immediately tangible world to verbal concepts, the mind becomes separated from the body and both lose their health. Paradise is a myth about a preverbal Consciousness, before men created words and subsequently mistook the symbol (idol) for reality (God); the Fall of Man and his Expulsion is the consequence of worshipping verbally fashioned images. Philosophers pretend to lead us back to reality on ways paved with more words of higher abstraction, like devils promising to lead us to Heaven. If the devil is the Father of Lies, words are surely the Mother. Philosophic disputes are word wars; those who live by their words also die by their words. Words are ultraspacial structures created by abstracting common features of significance while ignoring unique features. Words amplify similarities and eliminate differences by wave interference. Words are the product of fusing all the unique images of several structures into an ultraspacial gestalt. A gestalt exists as an extension of its material manifestations in the form of a trajectory through time and space; a mental concept extends through no fewer than four dimensions. The minds comprehends the dimensions of time; this is why intelligence is identified with the sense of time. Abstract verbal concepts are understood only as they can be comprehended within the temporal dimensions of one's mind; a mind is perceived to grow to the extent that it perceives precedents and consequences. Athena is merely the god of intellect; the ruler of consciousness is Kronus, the Overlord of Time and Change. Conscious mind is a creation of words. Experiments have found that people lacking the words to describe subtle colours are also unable to distinguish fine differences in hues, but as soon as they are given the words to define the differences between crimson, scarlet, and vermilion, for example, they no longer see all reds as red. Poets expand the common Consciousness by giving new meanings to old words and by coining new words.
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2016-04-27 at 5:07 PM UTC in I'm almost back to my old self.There was once a small village that had a lone water source. This well was the only way the people would gather drinking water. A man in the village was approached by a spirit that warned him that the well water would be tainted on a particular day, and if it is consumed it would cause you to go insane. The man tried his best to warn others in the village but his warnings fell on dead ears.
The day of the prediction came and the man left to gather water from a far away spring and upon his return he noticed that the people of his village had lost their minds. The people started calling him crazy because he didn't do as they did. Days went by and the man finally decided to drink of the well and he quickly realized that the people weren't so crazy after all. -
2016-04-26 at 5:51 PM UTC in Social engineering, scams, etc.schemin:
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2016-04-25 at 3:13 PM UTC in why i was wrong about atheism
Probably the most incisive observation on the systemic failure of UPB comes from BrainPolice, after he had considered the various debates and critiques that occurred after the book’s publication. He captures this observation in a follow-up article published on April 15, 2009 entitled Is Stefan Molyneux A Moral Nihilist In Denial?
Molyneux has little regard for nihilism—clearly, UPB was intended to be as much a stake in the ground against that mind-set as it is against men driven by religious notions. But by failing to make his case for morality, Molyneux has inadvertently created a moral nihilist’s handbook. BrainPolice explains:
[INDENT] I’ve come to the realization that the logical conclusion of his UPB should in fact be moral nihilism, because it can tell us nothing about the validity of the values themselves (it can only make an analysis of compatibility between values and the consistency between one’s values and one’s actions, but it ultimately does not tell us what one “ought†or “ought not†to do; and hence it is amoral in practice).
In fact, this point is particularly illuminated by the fact that a good deal of the people who have recently turned on Molyneux (which is made up of some people in the youtube anarchist community) have dived straight into hardcore moral nihilism. This is not purely coincidental. It makes sense because they are merely taking UPB to its logical conclusion, since at the end of the day it involves no actual ethical theory at all. In the absence of any other ethical theory, once one takes UPB to its logical conclusion and realizes that it cannot actually prove or disprove any sort of moral claim, one is left with nothing.
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Molyneux is fond of saying that attempting to argue against the validity of UPB is a self-detonating argument because by demonstrating that you value the search for truth, you are also affirming that universally preferred behaviors exist. (Although, as LaughingMan0x points out, Molyneux never successfully establishes “truth†as universally preferable.)
Ironically, Molyneux fails to see that UPB actually invalidates itself with its own, hidden, self-detonating argument.
Stefan Molyneux wrote a book.
He wanted it to be a rational proof of secular ethics.
In the book, he failed to identify why anyone would want to be moral.
Which, from his book’s perspective, actually proves that secular ethics aren’t really necessary.
Which means there is no reason why anyone would need to write UPB in the first place.
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2016-04-25 at 2:32 PM UTC in Putting selr under immense stress to man up
That would make me… nothing.
Does your room still resemble a trap house?
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2016-04-25 at 5:22 AM UTC in Putting selr under immense stress to man upIn a way Malice, I think life can be like a card game. It's not always the cards you've been dealt that matter as much as how you play the game.
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2016-04-25 at 5:15 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
It's really not! I get by on empty hedonism, and a complex of self loathing and superiority with a hope that the better angels of my nature will win out and I'll manage to choose a life as a middling academic being underpaid and overworked and largely ignored but doing something that I find a meaningful as opposed to making excessively more money than I deserve while garnering the approval of my parents and peers.
I feel like you're at least partially telling the truth, so what are the chances of flipping a switch and turning over a new leaf? I know you think I talk a lot of bullshit nonsense and yeah maybe I do but honestly I used to be a really depressed kid and found my life hopeless and somehow I'm not like that anymore. I didn't find god, I just changed my perspective. -
2016-04-25 at 3:14 AM UTC in Putting selr under immense stress to man upI like to think people are what they do.
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2016-04-25 at 1:01 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
My whole schtick is that I too fully embody the middle class ideal of delayed gratification that I'll perpetually be waiting/working for something better until I die. I was made for waiting.
I honestly don't understand how living that life is worth it. -
2016-04-24 at 11:34 PM UTC in Minecraft 1.9I don't know if I'll be able to jump on tonight but if you want I'll probably be on tomorrow during the day
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2016-04-24 at 11:18 PM UTC in Anyone here like deerhunter?
the band is probably ghey tho if you like them.
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2016-04-24 at 11:10 PM UTC in Putting selr under immense stress to man upLOL that's not being a man, that's being some basement dwelling weird kid. Why don't you man up and clean that basement up for your parents? Or man up and go to work and pay your mom some rent? Or find a girl to fuck?
