Grant_us_eyes
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Grant_us_eyes
2d ago
This is just a philosophical argument that allows people to come to the recognition that, despite having done bad things in the past, they do not have to do bad things in the future.
But they have to stop wanting to do bad things.
I'm not saying appealing to the idea of Jesus's love as all-forgiving is wrong, mind you. I'm just pointing out it's not a magical panacea where you mumble words and all of a sudden everything is fixed.
Grant_us_eyes
2d ago
To quote scripture, 'Go forth, and sin no more.'
You equate 'cost' as if it's something to be paid to God. No. It's something you pay to yourself.
If you prefer a secular version, you can't force someone into therapy when they don't want to heal.
Grant_us_eyes
3d ago
Whenever I see this argument, I just helplessly gesture in the general direction of Joshua Graham from Fallout: New Vegas, how much the character is beloved in the community despite being extremely religious, before throwing my hands in the air and giving up, knowing I'll never be able to communicate the entire point without a multi-paragraph effort post.
To try and summarize the matter, actual redemption always comes with a cost. If you're not willing to pay the cost, you're not actually redeemed. You're just doing such to excuse your own guilt. Aella seems to just want things delivered to her on a platter, and is complaining her decisions have lead her to this point without any reflection.
You can't force redemption on someone who doesn't want to pay the price.
Grant_us_eyes
3d ago
Given the number of women I've seen intrude into forums on reddit when men get asked about if body count matters and instantly accuse them of being 'insecure' or proclaiming that it does not, no matter how many men say otherwise... maybe?
Grant_us_eyes
5d ago
It's sad that this appears to be common behavior. As I've seen all of which you've mentioned, multiple times, and every time I'm astounded by it.
People try to claim that this experience was just 'one time'. If only.
Grant_us_eyes
5d ago
There's a deep sort of intimacy certain people get from text chatting that can't be afforded from talking over the phone or face-to-face. It's like a flase telepathy, where you can strip off pretense and persona and show the 'real you' to others. For a moment, however long or brief, you can fool yourself into thinking you're someone else, the real you, unburdened by the cruel tyranny of reality.
Of course, text chatting and correspondence is no longer very popular except in niche circumstance, and yet, here we are, with Chat-GPT and character AIs to fill the void...
Or, atleast, that's my supposition on the matter.
Grant_us_eyes
6d ago
Chalky, grey-ish pastels are a neutral 'chameleon' color that reflects and attenuate to whatever you put up against it. This allows for ease of decoration when it comes to styling a room without having to worry about extreme color scheme clashes - most people focus on these colors to allow for re-sell value in their houses.
Fun aside, when my parents had to re-paint their entire house for reasons, I was the one pushing my mother for more vibrant, intense colors as opposed to said chalky, grey pastels. She had developed a bad habit of constantly repainting rooms in a succession of ever-worsening colors.
Except for one room, which she never touched - the kitchen, which was done up in a warm, rich, pumpkin-like orange.
After a long spate of harassment(and more color samples than I will confess to - Lowes should have been giving me a commission, geeze), I finally convinced her to go with the richer, warmer colors, and she no longer repaints rooms.
Grant_us_eyes
6d ago
I'm reminded of Demolition Ranch.
For those not aware of the name, Demolition Ranch is a guntuber who's been doing gun-tubing for quite a while, and recently stopped to focus on his family.
People have commented on how his later content diverged quite a bit from his early stuff, with sensationalist activities and click-baity titles and zany video cards.
When questioned about that, he basically replied that what was getting the most view count, hence the pivot. In other words, that's what getting him the money.
The attention and engagement economy, it seems, says alot about what the mass of humanity demands.
Grant_us_eyes
7d ago
I was about to say that I've never used AI, but then I realized that would be a lie - I've used AI before to put together a long string of fluffy bullshit for work in order to save myself the aggravation of putting together said fluffy bullshit.
...and I will likely use it again this week to, yet again, put together a few paragraphs of fluffy bullshit to appease the MBA types in my office.
Grant_us_eyes
9d ago
The wonders of Hoe_math. The gift that keeps on giving.
Grant_us_eyes
10d ago
...you just split suicides/suicides attempts into gendered groups, not political. Men tend to be more successful, women tend to attempt it more.
What I had one person point out that's always stuck with me, however, is that an 'attempted suicide' moment for a man is going to be different for a woman. 'Attempted suicide' in that case is going to involve a man taking out a loaded gun, staring at it for an hour, and then quietly putting it away.
The crux of the argument being, 'attempts' in this situation are going to be manifest differently and trying to measure them scientifically is going to be messy and lossy as the result.
Grant_us_eyes
10d ago
Having friends - even close ones - is a different experience from having a girlfriend/fiancé/wife you come home to every evening.
There's also the other side of this equation, when some friends get married(and have children) and the rest don't. Even worse if they move away. You're still friends, you still talk alot, but circumstances change when you can only see each other face to face once or twice a year.
Grant_us_eyes
11d ago
Grant_us_eyes
13d ago
Apartments are literally built different in America compared to Europe.
All the urban issues most cities have come down to onerous requirements. You want European urban centers? Then start using European regulations.
Grant_us_eyes
18d ago
I was curious if there was something I'm missing, hence my question.
Granted, we're in completely different locales, so pricing is likely rather different; for me, injections of Semaglutide come at around 200$ a month(tax included).
And I won't even go into the recent scam prices they're now charging for Ozempic.
Supposedly, you can get Semaglutide even cheaper than my pricing from the same outlets pharmacies get it, as long as you're not afraid of doing a little mixing on your lonesome. I may go that route, once my prescription runs out.
Grant_us_eyes
18d ago
Exercise.
That's it.
Both I and my brother are on semaglutide, and we're both consistently working out, and I've not noticed any loss in muscle mass.
If anything, I now have much more energy, allowing myself to push harder and faster, but that's just with me.
Just out of curiosity, is there any reason you choose oral over injection?
Grant_us_eyes
18d ago
It's the classic 'Your need several years experience to get an entry-level job' problem.
No wonder people compare dating nowadays to job-hunting.
Grant_us_eyes
19d ago
Operating under the assumption that all 50 are somehow equally interested in me for some inexplicable reason, I'd work on narrowing them down to find the one that's most compatible with me in terms of personality, outlook and life goals.
And then marry her.
This assumes that I'm actually aware of your theoretical scenario. Otherwise, I'd probably come to the conclusion that they're just being nice, and nothing would come from it.
Grant_us_eyes
19d ago
There's also the slight issue that Hollywood has deformed the idea of what 'natural' and 'roided out' looks like.
Grant_us_eyes
26d ago
Ah, thank you for this. This looks to be the exact article I recall reading, as well.
Grant_us_eyes
27d ago
It's mutually beneficial for the teenager down the street to spend some time with a toddler.
Wouldn't this also have an unexpected knock-on effect of female teenagers having an elevated desire to have children?
I'm very not certain, but I seem to recall a study they did on female teenagers back when they attempted to educate them on the benefits of abstinence by making them carry around a toddler-like doll for the entire day. IIRC, the result backfired, as the teenagers reported wanting to have children more afterwards, not less.
I could be completely off on this. I'll have to research it later.
Grant_us_eyes
1mo ago
Given all the horror stories I've casually heard regarding chinese sellers and re-sellers on Amazon, I doubt they care at all.
Grant_us_eyes
1mo ago
The issue with rationalist communities is that they arose at the point in time where there still existed a remnant of Gatekeeping for the internet at large, even as the midwit hordes were beginning to clamor over the gate.
As such, everyone who got into said movement existed in an environment where most of their peers - the remnant of the old guard - were still very much on the far end of the bellcurve, if not in intelligence, then in terms of habit, mannerism, or philosophy. Things such as the (comparatively)early gay rights movement, aethism, polyamory, ect, ect - factions that were far from mainstream yet still had an active, often intelligent voice on the internet, because the people speaking about such things were often very intelligent and/or industrious, creative, and self-motivating. They had to be. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been there.
The rationalists did not - could not - understand that they were the johnny-come-lately to the various alt/punk/counterculture movements of the time, or that they were(imo) ultimately a transitory movement as a whole. They sought to mimic their betters in alot of ways, striding through open fields where chesterton fences once lay, not questioning where the rocks under their feet came from. The constant flow of individuals taking up the shield of rationalism continued to be watered down from the first moment it was established, as each successful wave of people brought an overall shift in the environment, both internet and IRL.
And so here we are. We've seen the alchemical crucible at work, we've seen the results. People have wandered the field until it's barren and the only thing left to do is dig, only to stumble across the base of all those fences and realize they were present for a very good reason. That while certain and single individuals might be able to hop across said fence and even deal with the consequences thereof, that despite looking up and admiring those people for various reasons, the horde wandering said field now has to contend with the revelation that they are not those people. They are not their heros, they are not special, and those rules existed not as a way to restrict or punish them but to tell them what to have for breakfast tomorrow.
Or, even worse, they have to come face to face with the revelation that despite them handling the trials and tribulations of no fence to be seen, that other people cannot.
So, now we've seen the end-game - a group of people with a very tenuous relationship on sanity whom carry the shield of rationalism by murdering their enemies, and the same people whom have considered themselves rationalists are now stuck in a very uncomfortable position with some very awkward questions to answer. This was an end-game that no one could have foreseen - had someone wrote a book about this, said plot-arc would likely have been received as 'cute, but unbeleivable'. Or, if you like, 'boo outgroup'.
As for where we'll go from here? Well. I don't know. I guess we'll see.
Why not? They've done it before. They explicitly went out of their way to hide the Nashville Shooter's manifesto, who was a self-claimed FtM tranny that shot up a Christian school, if you've forgotten.
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