Absoluto
1yr 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
2yr 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
2yr ago
So what is the “want X despite the real life consequence Y” for the fantasy of rape?
Absoluto
2yr ago
He is taking another approach to convince you of his previous post’s thesis
Absoluto
1yr ago
Dems haven’t gotten tired of screaming over nothing yet, ergo, there is still some screaming left for them to do.
Absoluto
1yr 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
2yr ago
and to a significant portion of the population, it’s also brainwashed against you
Absoluto
2yr ago
Ok so you would be totally happy if Ukrainians demolished the whole city and port alongside the statue?
Absoluto
1yr 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
9mo ago
You are saying that Russians do not consider Poland to be within the rightful Russian sphere of influence?
Absoluto
1yr 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
1yr 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
2yr 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
1yr 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
2yr 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.
Absoluto
2mo ago
Wow, great list. Loved seeing one of my personal favourites in Bois Impériale on here
Absoluto
11mo ago
Why do you think Poland, Czechoslovakia and Romania weren’t bound to happen?
It does make it not weird, everyone else at the table was saying similar things. I mean it’s still kind of performative but it’s not as if she just said that out of imbecility
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