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2019-03-10 at 3:18 AM UTC in SO. FUCKING. HIGH.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-03-11 at 9:27 PM UTC in What cocktail of drugs will gadzooks be consuming today?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-03-11 at 5:58 PM UTC in 90's Thread
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2019-03-10 at 1:22 PM UTC in Little girls are tight.Oh man don't even get me started on my parents. The most awkward state of affairs is when your parents have both brutally betrayed you AND, on other occasions, been incredibly decent.
I think my relationships with my parents and step parents are probably why I'm a 34 year old bachelor with no prospects in sight and MAJOR commitment issues.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2019-03-10 at 4:30 PM UTC in When your appetite is being suppressed by psychostimulants...I usually drink protein rich shakes or smoothies or even over grocery store nutrient rich meal replacements.
Milkshakes aren't a bad idea either.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2019-03-10 at 10:12 AM UTC in Do You Guys Think Rust Was A Little Obsessed?
Originally posted by F0N How active is this place lately? Is it mainly shitposting now or a level of debate and shitposting like it used to be? What's active member numbers like? Many old-timers still hanging around or newcomers as well? Do any stay?
Cheers by the way. Fucking hilarious we have some sort of orientation for those of us who fell off the wagon.
Peruse (at your own leisure) the following thread: https://niggasin.space/thread/34432.
I kinda tried to collate a collection of noteworthy threads that kinda encapsulate what's been going on around here since the Totse days.
There was the DH merger (not long after you, and myself, registered here). That's one of the more major events.
You will also get a bit of a better feel about who's who from Totse and Zoklet around here.
A lot of people have changed usernames.
I stuck with gadzooks all these years (despite it being kind of a silly username that I thought of 15 years ago while drunk one night).
Feel free to PM if you want even.
I like waxing nostalgic about the Totse/Zoklet/NiS cultural history.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2019-03-11 at 2:54 AM UTC in THis sit =e is dead
Originally posted by JĎ…icebox I've always wondered this about "disgusting"
That would make something pleasant "gusting"
Actually...
"gustatory" refers to the physiological sensation of "gustation".
When we taste things, we "gustate" those things.
So to say that something is "disgusting", we are saying it has taste, but it is not a desirable taste.
I lol'd when you said that tho, because this etymological connection has actually never occurred to me until you said that just now.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2019-03-11 at 6:12 AM UTC in 90's ThreadThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-03-11 at 5:47 AM UTC in 90's ThreadThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-03-11 at 5:12 AM UTC in 90's ThreadThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-03-11 at 4:16 AM UTC in 90's ThreadThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-03-11 at 4:23 AM UTC in 90's ThreadThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-03-10 at 12:20 PM UTC in Little girls are tight.
Originally posted by Sophie I don't think my "paraphilia" is a pathology. Therefore i would be a hypocrite if i were to say anyone's proclivities are more or less valid than mine. Here's another can of worms, what makes a pathology a pathology? That's something important to think about in this context.
Also, the pro pedo crowd is just edgy about their sexuality because it triggers normies. And can you blame them? I don't think so, pedos are nearly universally hated. Regardless whether they have ever touched a child inappropriately or not.
Luckily i am non-exclusive so i can like girls up to my age, but God damn, i can't imagine how shitty life would be if i could only like little girls.
Again, I am not the arbiter of what acts result in trauma and what acts don't. For thousands of years, normal families started with teenagers, and even at time pre-teens, getting married and starting to have kids. No one batted an eye.
Is this proof positive that age of consent laws are unnatural? My argument isn't a FIRM yes OR a FIRM no. It's a tricky subject.
Of course you have a vested interest in the outcome of that question, if it even is an empirical question. I get that.
Trauma is incredibly difficult to scientifically quantify.
For all we know, no teenage or preteen bride ever experienced even an iota of trauma throughout history because nobody was there to intervene with their puritan/feminist ethics.
But cognitive bias is always going to play a role. Anyone who isn't a 100% electromechanical robot is going to be influenced, to some degree, by cognitive bias.
But the thing here is that I am trying to appeal to the EXACT SAME moral principle when I'm getting into arguments against the unempathetic/sadistic pedophobes, as when I'm arguing with the genuine pedophile folks who see absolutely nothing wrong with their orientation.
It just comes down to walking a mile in the other person's shoes (yeah, I know, cliche English 12 novel, but To Kill a Mockingbird was pretty educational and full of applicable wisdom).
To the same extent that I don't want to see someone who is attracted to children, even if they go so far as to act on it, be brutalized and utterly dehumanized stripped of all dignity, I also empathize with the children who MAY OR MAY NOT have been traumatized by the whole ordeal.
In my humble opinion, at least, I feel like your every day citizen has somewhat of a duty to err on the side of caution.
We may not have absolutely, incontrovertible proof that adult-child sex leaves debilitating emotional scars, but we also can't say with certainty that it's entirely harmless, can we?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2019-03-10 at 10:51 PM UTC in The Hard Problem of Consciousness
Originally posted by SHARK I don't think a philosophical zombie is conceivable in a functional sense. All you have to concede is that if there is an explanation for why a particular experience is the way it is rather than some other way. What does it mean to actually have a conscious experience? If something behaves in that way in a mechanical sense, then that is what it means to have that experience. So I don't think there is a way to conceive of a universe identical to ours but minus conscious experience.
Lanny, read I Am A Strange Loop by Doug Hofstadter. Information structures can have some very interesting properties that, in a complicated relationship, could probably be conscious, or at least think they are conscious… At which point, what is the difference?
You're not even defining consciousness.
How the fuck are you going to assert claims about such a vague, ambiguous phenomenon.
You basically just created an entire thread to state that "the hard problem is a thing."
No shit, Sherlock.
Care to provide some kind of actual contribution? Or are you just trying to drop a bunch of terms of art to give off the impression that you actually know anything?
The only depth you possess is that associated with your colon being pounded by bus station hobos.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2019-03-10 at 8:14 AM UTC in The Hard Problem of ConsciousnessRoger Penrose is a world renowned physicist who has a (entirely speculative, of course) theory that quantum activity inside of microtubules (inside of neurons) are somehow giving rise to the emergent phenomenon of conscious experience.
He's anything but a crackpot; a very prominent and respected scientist. But of course it is, at this point in time, mere speculation.
The hard problem is called that for a reason. A lot of prominent philosophers have outright emphatically stated that the hard problem is, by it's very nature, irresolvable.
Until we devise scientific equipment that can measure the immeasurable, all we're gonna get are speculative theories.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2019-03-10 at 1:34 PM UTC in What y'all reading?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-03-10 at 4:44 PM UTC in WellHung is on fire todayWellHung is good people. I'm relieved that he no longer has that grudge on me.
Water under the bridge and all that.
WellHung, if you read this, I highly recommend you try branching out a bit to the topical forums with some of your threads. It might make this place seem a bit busier.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2019-03-10 at 4:35 PM UTC in Little girls are tight.
Originally posted by Narc It has always boggled me how prisoners are so accepting of murderers yet so opposite in their judgement of child molesters tbh.
Yeah that's always struck me as kind of nonsensical.
If you're a serial rapist, you may as well kill your victims because, somehow, that results in a higher rank on the totem pole.
Especially if you can obscure any evidence of the rape having occured.
People have weird ways of comparing moral depravity.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2019-03-10 at 4:23 PM UTC in Polecat and I have already waked and baked this morning...The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-03-10 at 9:54 AM UTC in Little girls are tight.
Originally posted by Sophie He's probably just a victim of child abuse. And if not, then it doesn't really matter what he has to say because real human beings have empathy, clearly he does not.
I also don't even like jumping to that canard either.
My personal theory on it is that it's some kind of mix of motives: a bit of white knighting, combined with some major "ick factor", and a general need to scapegoat.
I mean, if homosexuality is genetically determined (or even determined from early upbringing), then it is entirely outside of one's control. Now, I'm not trying to directly equate adult homosexual sexuality with adult and child sexuality (no offense). But the underlying urge really is equivalent.
Two homosexual adults engaging in intercourse is truly a victimless crime. But, adult on child sexual intercourse, although you may disagree out of totally understandable self-preservation, is, at the very least, a VERY GREY area morally, if not outright wrong. (Obviously there is room for debate about precise age boundaries and so on).
BUT, the urge is not the person's fault in the end, and so any barbaric, sadistic, medieval, or just plain cruel and unusual punishments against someone for being a pedophile is not only unconstitutional, but just, as far as I'm concerned, objectively wrong.
