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by archhn 5y ago
When I canceled, a prompt came up that said something which made me feel like I was an idiot for canceling. Something like "Are you sure you want to miss out on all the great benefits of prime?" [YES/NO]. When I pressed yes,
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Quite right, the ghost of Wittgenstein. These utterances are moves in language games. A pawn is a nonsensical entity within the game of checkers. However, that doesn't mean a pawn is "meaningless." It was a being constructed
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Such misery is a function of one's attachment to life. There are ways of overcoming this attachment, as many religions teach. My original comment is just a rehash of hell, particularly suited for the modern narcissistic mind.
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I'm using insanity as a description of a delusional state of mind, i.e., a mind that is constantly playing make believe. "I'm a free person...I'm a good person...What I'm doing is important...etc." Strictly spe
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You will die and be forgotten. Everything you do will be erased by entropy. Billions and billions of years, endless collisions and mutations, a cooling down of the universe until time itself stops. Human beings are very sensitive because we
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"To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil." - Nietzsche,
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That's the description of soma in bnw.
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Christianity without tears?
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by archhn 5y ago
Working hard to lay a solid foundation for future generations is a noble idea, but it doesn't follow that simply "working hard" will lead to that end. I don't think putting in 60+ hours a week at PepsiCo, overseeing the
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It's all pretty murky. For much of American history, a large percentage of native citizens have always been hostile to immigrants, i.e., the working class. This idea that Americans, regardless of class, just love immigrants who are wil
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"Work ethic" = "I don't want my children to be a poor slave like me. I must work my fingers to the bone. I must save my children." The corporate newspeak is honestly sickening.
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Yeah, I meant it in the sense of "You need to experience violent situations in order to prepare for a violent environment." Furthermore, by "tuning out reality," I meant "ignoring the violent undercurrent of all hum
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What's mean about it? Do you think the potential war he wishes to prepare for is more or less uncomfortable than this comment?
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You need a punch to your face -- reading books isn't going to help. My advice to you: don't try to prepare. You'd have to kill and overcome the man you are now. You don't need to be Rambo. You can be the bloated corpse f
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A hint hint if there ever was one.
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If people trusted the establishment and their institutions, "misinformation" wouldn't be a problem. People would just shrug off the rhetoric coming from the fringe. The pervasive mistrust of institutions and the establishmen
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Fiat lux! I dig it.
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The question they really ask is "Has fiction ever changed the course of history?" Nothing has changed the course of history. We're in the midst of eternity. It's all an illusion.
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People get mad because its a concept they have faith in, have been indoctrinated to believe, and they also depend on it to keep political chaos at bay. You can't just pull the ideological rug out from under them, for they will fall--in
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Interesting theory. It does appear to be incredibly naive at times when taken literally. Although there are some rather matter of fact conversations about the progression of political regimes to the point of tyranny, i.e., the post-democrat
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Everyone should read a platonic dialogue. Plato's Republic in particular due to its influence on western thought. Although some of the ideas may seem absurd from our modern point of view, it's still thought provoking and a good ex
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Incidentally, the behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner published "An apparatus for the study of animal behavior" in that same year.
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We live in a post-cultural nation. There cannot be one culture for a nation this diverse. Only the most bland, overly sanitized, vapid, consumerist culture can survive on the national level. Are you a PC or a Mac guy? Do you like Coke or Pe
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Trust the [government] scien[tists]ce. As if "science" is a pure endeavor beyond the reach of human corruption. How do I know who is acting in my best interest? Are we paying their salary, or are corporations and government agenci
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“The British are coming!” -- Paul Revere "Put a sock in it, ya wanker." -- You in 1775, probably.
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It has something to do with their "abuse program:" https://support.google.com/docs/answer/148505?hl=en . I can't find a date on this, but I assume that this article is about the implementation of thi
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Big tech has been rolling out censorship all over the place lately. People suspect that ulterior political motives are causing Google to do this. I don't think mistrusting the motives of Google means that the people here lack "rea
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The panic is people's fear of the Iron Heel[1]. For most of us, the systems we depend on are controlled by other people. In this chaotic political climate, when these systems start closing in on us, or restricting us in new ways, there
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Great point. Ultimately there are always coercive forces that put pressure on companies and individuals to comply, even if the legal system isn't directly invoked to force compliance. The case you're making is important because im
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There should be a discussion page, like on Wikipedia, for "fact checkers" to publicly interact with those who post "misleading information." It's highly upsetting that there was no process for this entity to challen

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