AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
Interesting that you clicked on this...I hope your day is going well and you're at least finding our conversation stimulating, if you're not finding it pleasant. Looking to reinforce your beliefs about about me? Dig up some dirt? Have at it! Only cowards and scam artists make their profile private.
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AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
2mo ago
You can just not do that. I have friend groups that have nothing to do with religion. We meet based on prior meetings, or tradition if you will.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
2mo ago
That seems like a kind of crazy way to look at it. Of course Penn hasn't wanted to do that. Because humans are by nature, compassionate tribal beings. It isn't because he is lucky enough to live in a time that allows him all nice things without killing children. It is because killing children doesn't feel good and serves no purpose. You don't need the pope to tell you that.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
2mo ago
C. S. Lewis is a great author. If you are halfway to his level you can think of 1000 evil things that could be done to a person. Being creative and having the capacity to think of evil scenarios has nothing to do with being good or evil at all.
Your outlook is pretty dark considering the trajectory the human race is on towards actual physical transcendence. Maybe I am typical minding it. But people who grow up in happy and healthy environments and that don't have genetic or environmental brain damage are not screaming KILL KILL KILL. Having an intrusive thought you don't act on doesn't make you a murderer in waiting.
There is a mediocre book out there somewhere that I read 20 years ago on a plane, a large part of the plot was a nano/serum that cured all defects and disease and restored body and mind to perfect genetic baseline human health. One of the antagonist's hitmen was a sociopath that was deathly afraid of getting hit with it as it would rob him of his sociopathy by fixing his brain. All problems are physical in the end, if you can fix a damaged brain you will fix the damaged person.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
2mo ago
In the Culture Series by the sadly departed Iain M. Banks (not to be confused with his more mundane doppelganger Iain Banks) humans can decide to change sex entirely and actually become the opposite sex in a very real sense, they are exactly like someone born that sex including womb or sperm etc... Often couples that want 2 kids will take turns doing the gestating.
If humans go on long enough a perfect sex change will indeed be possible at a genetic level. Would anyone living hard in the trans debate still have a problem with it then? How could they?
I say this as someone that thinks it is ridiculous that a man can DECLARE FEMALE Michael Scott BANKRUPTCY style and crush swimming records and smackdown college girls in basketball.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
2mo ago
He blew 9/11 way out of proportion. The smart play would have been to ignore it and build the trade center back exactly how it was. That would have been the true power play. It was just a mosquito bite after all to a multi-trillion dollar economy and a country of almost 300 million. It could have been ignored. Instead, the terrorists won.
Oddly enough there was a Trump plan in the early-mid 2000's to do just that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Towers_2
Also the country basically runs on auto-pilot. You could have no president and not much would change. In fact, 8 years with no president would have been better than bush.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
2mo ago
Oh man. This is the best take I've seen all day! I mean this sincerely.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
2mo ago
I disagree with this. The human body is a replicant writ large based on a very tiny amount of informational DNA. Most of that matter is replaced regularly, you replace it a bit faster with the right stuff and...poof, you have a new person. A virus can do it. They can kill you, they can certainly change you instead. The rules aren't difficult. They are just complex.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
2mo ago
I was in my freshman year of college. I helped put together the google page of news as it was happening. I said this exact same thing then. I stand by it now. It was crazy and stupid to respond the way we did. I voted for Bush and was against leftist nonsense. It was just a bad way to respond.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
2mo ago
It was so far out of proportion or balance. They killed a few thousand people, they were not a nation state. It was an immune reaction almost killing the host.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
2mo ago
I guess I just an adaptable human. I'm a man's man today. I hunt, love to fuck, ski way too fast. If you plunked me in a woman's body tomorrow I would also love those things and I've met woman who do. Why wouldn't any curious human want to see both sides of sexuality if they could do it with perfection?
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
2mo ago
what if they lived 20 thousand years?
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
2mo ago
So what happens after everyone has had a thousand years to think about this? Personally, as an undying person?
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
2mo ago
I agree. I think the obsession with sexuality is already silly.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
2mo ago
You don't think that might be fundamentally different?
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
2mo ago
Where is your partner in all of this?
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
2mo ago
Having a partner will stop you from blowing big clouds. Because A. It looks trashy and no decent woman or man would stand for it. B. You won't feel the need to fill those empty moments with anything but clever banter!
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
2mo ago
Yes life is complex, it is also simple. You CAN reprogram cells and it will be possible to do all of this very soon. Everything is knowable and understandable and malleable.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
2mo ago
I agree!
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
2mo ago
Love it! "If my grandmother had wheels she would be a bike!" energy.
Just drink bro. Everything good that has happened to me has been a result of drinking. The only thing that really helps is if you want to take charcoal pills. But that just makes it so you can drink more without a hangover. 85% of the people on this forum are interesting high IQ shut-ins that wouldn't know what to do with a vodka shot if it spat in their face.
It makes TV and movies 10x better. It makes conversation 3x easier. It is all around a huge life enhancer. After about 1.5 to 3 drinks you'll be in the "Ballmer peak" where you are actually smarter, more coordinated and much more charming than you are with zero alcohol.
Yup. It is like this here and on slatestar. Bunch of tea totalers. Social drinking would solve 80% of the "I'm lonely" posts.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
2mo ago
I challenge you to look at this and not see what is coming very soon. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-gdp-over-the-long-run
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
2mo ago
Yup I've had 2 replies already that have straight up called me an alcoholic for suggesting drinking might be fun and improve your enjoyment of certain activities. Which it 100% without a doubt does. Same people would probably think I'm suicidal for skiing without a helmet or picking fights when the singing is done on south bank of the Liffey. Life is for living. Not sneering.
I feel sorry for people that don't drink, because when they wake up in the morning, that is the best they are going to feel all day-” ― Frank Sinatra/Dean Martin
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
2mo ago
I said they make them better and more enjoyable. He said he wanted to start drinking again to have more enjoyable interactions. I think it is a good idea. No one said anything about need. I was just pointing out what billions of people know already. Alcohol makes a lot of stuff more fun. Apparently that is a trigger in online rationalist adjacent spaces.
Isn't it more likely that you're first interaction with a small subgroup of people will be at a customer service facing job at a an oft visited business type like a coffee shop?
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