Absoluto
5mo ago
Your use of that metaphor is telling, we need hard objects to cling to, we need something to serve as an epistemological bedrock. Something is going to be unquestionable in whatever worldview we eventually settle on, and so far us/the secularists haven’t done a good job building something on top of the bedrock of rational observation.
Absoluto
1yr ago
Ok you’ve as vaguely as possible gestured towards what Y is, but what about the X and if you’re feeling brave Y but more specifically? Up thread someone used “heroic John Wick power fantasy” but X and Y don’t seem to be the same.
Absoluto
1yr ago
So what is the “want X despite the real life consequence Y” for the fantasy of rape?
Absoluto
1yr ago
He is taking another approach to convince you of his previous post’s thesis
Absoluto
3mo ago
Dems haven’t gotten tired of screaming over nothing yet, ergo, there is still some screaming left for them to do.
Absoluto
5mo ago
What if you were executed at gitmo that would be so crazy
Is actually a good response, what is she actually getting at with this question? It’s just a hard question and no clear lesson at the end of it. Shit, can my disgust reaction of child sex come into conflict with my desire for a child to be happy before death? woah dude that’s wild.
I really don’t see what moral discovery she’s made. How about you ask me what I would do if this story happened to someone else and how I would react to hearing about it? The answer is “I would feel sad for their difficult situation in which I am epistemically paralyzed to help or judge”. That’s my answer, Aella, this isn’t philosophy, this is “would you rather fuck your dad or your mom”, and casually throwing this on twitter is probably inspiring a bunch of similar behaviour amongst impressionable young adults.
Absoluto
1yr ago
and to a significant portion of the population, it’s also brainwashed against you
Absoluto
1yr ago
Ok so you would be totally happy if Ukrainians demolished the whole city and port alongside the statue?
Absoluto
8mo ago
Do I follow “Women and Children first” or do I rush the life raft? Some people need to save the idiots/unfortunate before they save themselves and the have built in blinders to not take the selfish option. Explain the math to me and I can overcome this strange scenario where greed helps others. Otherwise, I’m rushing into that burning building.
Absoluto
6d ago
Why would you think that? Do you think a mass conversion happened that was initially unopposed by their local brothers? Do you think that rates of intermarriage were as high as between Goy Slavs?
Absoluto
3mo ago
Ok sure, I’ll respect that, but for your consideration this was an invitation to gush out a motivation. I meant it less as an authentic idea and more as an explanation of the emotional motivation that I feel is at work here.
Absoluto
1yr ago
The Captive Mind - Czeslaw Milosz
Imo criminally underrated communist dissident literature. You may have heard of it first from that Moldbug post about Scott.
It started as a collection of essays which center on the theme of how an artist reacts in the face of a totalitarian system which demands he submit his talents to the whims of the party.
Absoluto
9mo ago
Page doesn’t get to choose his height, unless you count shoes, and in that case he has been seen wearing clownishly large kingdom-heartsesque shoes.
Considering the look he IS going for otherwise I bet he would love to scale up his whole body.
Absoluto
1yr ago
It’s not a fallacy because I assume the content of his argument is not the content of your argument. I’m unable to comment on what he wrote. I have told you what I take issue with in your argument and it isn’t the part where you say Bertrand Russel said it too.
Yes but it doesn’t make it a tautology. A corollary isn’t any less true because it trivially follows from something else, and yet given the truth value of what the corollary follows, you also have “no choice but to accept it”.
For example, just because you explain survivor bias and how the jets that actually return are the ones that survive, you don’t actually take an issue with the “tautological nature”. The explanation is pointing at a gap in your understanding of logical consequences, which aren’t by any means a tautology. The same thing is happening here, natural selection must occur given certain conditions, and Darwin’s gift is forcing you to see the logical necessity.
Absoluto
30d ago
It’s not a tautology when viewed from a human scale perspective of time. It is hard for humans to imagine when wondering why organisms look the way they do all the potential descendants of the organisms that didn’t survive.
From gods eye perspective, I agree, it is obvious that natural selection happens. There is no logical alternative, you cannot not accept it.
Absoluto
4mo ago
A doctor thinks I have a SLAP Shoulder labrum tear, and I’m not exactly hyped to pay for the surgery he is suggesting I need. The pain isn’t scary, it’s just dull and occasionally annoying in certain positions, some loss of strength, and I can’t sleep on one side, so I’m bargaining in my mind about whether or not I can just find some other doctor who will recommend exercises that fix this.
Regardless I think I’m going to need a couple of MRIs looked at my multiple doctors before I go through with the procedure. The post surgery recovery doesn’t sound great either, and the idea that these injuries will set back my fitness goals, and only continue to occur in the future has me bummed out about aging. What’s the point of trying to be fit if you’re guaranteed to run into injuries which cost a chunk of change, hurt, and ruin your fitness habits in the end? I always loved going to the gym and lifting weights, so this really feels like the door on something I love is closing forever slowly. Have any of you guys deal with a similar injury or situation?
Absoluto
8mo ago
It sounds like you’re throwing on some spin there but apart from that, I agree, in fact I thought that’s what I said
Absoluto
9mo ago
I like Guerlain Bois Mysterieux, but as it’s the summer I’m wearing Dior Homme Cologne(2022) and Guerlain Neroli Outrenoir more often.
Why do you have doubts about the majority of Ukraine being anti Russia?
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