apocalypstyx

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by apocalypstyx 5y ago
Perhaps this falls into the quadrant of Unknown Knowns.
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The very phrase 'denying the speaker's internet' posits and assumes such a thing which is beyond the speaker's pure self-conception. I would say the problem here is that, in a vacuum, what establishes the speaker's
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I don't think my point is to argue against cognitive distortions generally or against any specific mental model (as that would likely be ridiculous). (And I'm very aware of what CBT is.) It's just ... specifically this focu
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You've conflated several things. If you feel bad, that's just a fact; your self-perception is the only determiner of that. That is not necessarily the same as a situation being bad. And even that is open to interpretation: food
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A notion that seems very culturally hidebound, rather than something that describes a general state of human psychology that policy should dictate that humans should be brought into alignment with.
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What contradictory evidence is provided in the sample? It doesn't say that they drew lots. As the statement is presented it only sates that a group of people told one person they can't come. The number of tickets does not by it
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But there is the possibility they don't get hit by a bullet. No harm done. Do they still have the right to become angry of a mere possibility that didn't pan out? At that point it's pure conceptualization. 2nd, this seems
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But what gives the right to the most positive one?
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Yes, I misread. But I would still scrutinize the reasoning expressed by the sample for the same reasons.
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My question is: who is deciding what is the correct reality to perceive? For example, this from their questionnaire: >Kim’s friends told her that she could not come to the concert with them because they were unable to get enough tickets
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I've seen people with masters degrees in biology who are young earth creationists and don't believe in evolution. Never underestimate the ability of the human mind to form into the shape of a Klein bottle.
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What does this mean for those of us who eat leftover hotdogs straight from the refrigerator, no bun, no condiments, no nothing?
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This is a better scan with individuated pages. https://archive.org/details/adversariesscep00hoddgoog
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Hard times also bred the Nazis. And to say those were the hard times conversely states that prior to that were the so-called 'good times.' This might be generalized as the roaring 20s in the US (and similarly for Weimar Germany.)
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I've come to believe that 'off grid' is about the establishment and maintenance of just enough infrastructure to allow the participant(s) to sustain the fantasy that they can replicate and maintain what they perceive as norma
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Only if you spell cabbage with a b.
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Dada would like to have a noise like sheet-metal asparagus.
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Based on my readings of the contradictions in the various accounts, I would say he intended to die. He, in effect, I think, found a way of enacting the story of Empedocles, where Empedocles tries to die by jumping into a volcano so he will
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I guess it depends on the validity of the arguments put forth in Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death . The important distinction between longevity and the situation surrounding the pandemic is not the rejection of a benefit, but the
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Or those who prefer not to (for whatever reason) may be categorized in a way similar to the way we treat the suicidal. Anyone unwilling to attempt to live forever would be considered mentally ill.
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I state "we" because I think it could be argued to be a generic human practice overall, to one degree or another (wearing a wolfskin as described could be as easily attributed to any culture present where wolfs have existed, wheth
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> It's tiresome. You can't use the image of a Native American as a symbol of strength and bravery as was done by sports teams and clubs -- despite the explicit intention of honor The thing I keep thinking about, in regards to t
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There was a BBC documentary called The Secret History of Writing , where a Turkish calligrapher talks about how they save all their pencil shavings and after the person dies the pencil and paper scraps of their lifetime are used to heat th
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I don't doubt the commonplace nature of moral panic. I do, however, wonder to what degree it is culturally hidebound. It might, perhaps, be a general human characteristic, but the cultural leeway any desire or compulsion is granted i
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I doubt hauntings are distributed uniformly or that their manifestations are identical, which for me recalls the quote from A River Runs Through It : "They were Methodists, a denomination my father referred to as Baptists who could re
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If any medium can be accused of destroying the "West", it would be the novel[1]. Terror of media has been an almost constant train of thought since at least the era of Plato. But most particularly it seems that Protestant Christi
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That's because events such as these (and subsequently the comics code authority) made it legally and financially nonviable to do anything but spandex comics for kids. Before that, the contents of comics was as varied as the films and
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> We both agreed that history will look back and see these companies being responsible for the destruction of humanity. History is predicated on at least a rough continuity of records. If the rupture of that continuity of records is bad
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I can't remember the brand. I think it was one of the cheaper Roku tvs produced by a Chinese company I saw when I was looking for a replacement for my parents (reminds me of the issues with Onyx Boox devices). At this point, I just as
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Some brands/models can't even be setup without an internet connection and setting up accounts (and sometimes credit card information). Eventually, they'll probably have their own independent 5g connection.

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