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2019-09-02 at 8:47 PM UTC in Are psychopaths creatures of God?
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2019-09-02 at 7:58 PM UTC in Are psychopaths creatures of God?
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2019-09-02 at 7:49 PM UTC in Official Bill Krozby LexiconWe need to aggregate a list of definitions for all of Bill Krozby's unique terms.
Weeeel: ???.
Gont: dude? gentleman?
Chicken: woman? attractive woman?
Contribute for posterity. -
2019-09-02 at 7:46 PM UTC in Are psychopaths creatures of God?
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2019-09-02 at 7:32 PM UTC in If you had $50ish to spend on a router which would you pick?
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2019-09-02 at 7:28 PM UTC in atlas tugged
Originally posted by DietPiano To answer your question, yes it is. If you want to better yourself than simply be better. Bettering yourself doesn't mean that you need to try to be something other than yourself, which is impossible.
That being said, it is not reasonable to be expect a person to be able to climb out of a well without a ladder, nor to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps when they do not have any boots.
First off, I legit thought the whole "raise yourself by the bootstraps" thing was the literal definition of libertarianism.
But also, why not build your own ladder?
In fact, "building your own ladder" has literally been my philosophical stance for dealing with life and society and so forth for my entire adult life.
The fact that nobody has direct insight into anothers' mind, though, is precisely why I have expanded my personal ideology towards a certain degree of empathy for others...
But I still, at the center of it all, believe that literally anyone can, if they set their minds and motivation to it, ameliorate their current lot in life.
But because I also retain a certain degree of skepticism regarding free will, I'll toss a few tools and parts to build a ladder down that well just in case (when I can, at least). -
2019-09-02 at 7:18 PM UTC in My crew is big and it keeps getting bigger, and that's cuz WellHung is a......okay guy, but currently overly using the word "nigger" in his thread titles.
Your N-word pass is officially revoked. I'm not sure you had one in the first place, though.
For real, though, why are you so decidedly focused on that?
Get your bike stolen recently? -
2019-09-02 at 7:01 PM UTC in atlas tugged
Originally posted by DietPiano You simply ARE the 'perfect person' you want to be, or you aren't.
Too deterministic; didn't accept.
Originally posted by DietPiano I think it very somber if for myself would I want strive to be anything or anybody but myself.
Okay, I have not actually read any Ayn Rand yet myself, but... And I'm extrapolating a bit here, admittedly...
Rand is seen as one of the "prophets" of contemporary libertarianism, right?
And, I used to be rather libertarian myself. I was a full-blown an-cap about ten years ago. I'm still kinda "an" without the "cap", libertarian socialist I suppose (if such a thing is even possible outside of paper).
If Rand's position in atlas tugged is anything like how I envision libertarianism, isn't the whole point that literally anyone can change? (Say, into some archetypal vision of perfection, for example; better themselves - rags to riches - etc).
If not, it's kind of a psychopathic view of humanity.
Then again, maybe that was what started shifting me leftwards in the first place. -
2019-09-02 at 6:29 PM UTC in atlas tuggedFor real tho, why write a thousand page novel to espouse a relatively simply philosophy?
The only philosopher who gets a pass on using narrative and poetry for such ends is Nietzsche.
I actually own a physical copy of an Ayn Rand book somewhere (all my books are in storage right now, so I can't check which one).
I haven't read it yet, tho. -
2019-09-02 at 6:25 PM UTC in atlas tugged
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2019-09-02 at 6:16 PM UTC in Spectral used to play a game called 'Who can fuck the fattest, loudest nigger?'
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2019-09-02 at 9:11 AM UTC in So what do you say when you match with a girl on tinder?
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2019-09-02 at 7:47 AM UTC in wanted: HD scat-pornI hear there exists a brief cinematic piece which features a pair of ladies in possession of a container built for the holding of fluids, which, however, in fact ends up being used to hold fecal matter - entirely for the purposes of oral consumption.
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2019-09-02 at 7:44 AM UTC in wanted: HD scat-porn
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2019-09-02 at 7:43 AM UTC in wanted: HD scat-porn
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2019-09-02 at 7:42 AM UTC in wanted: HD scat-pornY'all motherfucker(s) need Jesus.
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2019-09-02 at 7:42 AM UTC in wanted: HD scat-pornI know they say you're not supposed to kink shame, but...
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2019-09-02 at 6:39 AM UTC in So what do you say when you match with a girl on tinder?
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2019-09-02 at 6:26 AM UTC in Hoe long was your longest hangoverHangovers lasting longer than a day are pretty darn rare.
I have been drinking pretty much every single night since ~2003.
I've browned out hundreds of times, full-on blacked out maybe a dozen or so.
But I don't think I've every experienced a multi-day hangover, EXCEPT maybe after I went to a grad+dry-grad (AKA: Prom for Americans, and perhaps elsewhere) back in '02, and we had a limo fully stocked with liquor... I blacked out at the "dry"-grad (irony), and apparently passed out halfway inside the front door at my mom's house.
Apparently my mom and aunt (who was visiting that week for whatever reason) had to carry me upstairs to my bedroom.
I'm pretty sure I remember still feeling the hangover two days later. -
2019-09-02 at 6:10 AM UTC in If your friend's girlfriend was really sexy and you Had a chance to fuck her without him knowing...Intentionally and in a premeditated fashion?
Absolutely not.
But, in my earlier days, I did kinda sorta accidentally do this.
Back in ~2003-2004, I hung out with this one particular circle of friends that was kind of big, and would often segregate into smaller factions for most parties, but occasionally everyone would get together for the big 'uns.
There was this one chick I had a thing for, and we had flirted before, even made out once or twice...? Maybe? It's been so long it's hard to remember the details.
Anyway, later on, one dude from the group started dating her.
They had only been together about a month when we were all together at one of the bigger parties.
I got really drunk and hooked up with aforementioned gal.
The next day, I felt pretty bad in general, but especially bad because this dude was always one of the nicer ones out there.
15 years later, I still feel a teensy bit of guilt.
He knew and all (after the fact), btw... Which made things awkward as fuck for some time. But I think we're on okay terms now.