hilariouswhip

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by hilariouswhip 4y ago
> As far as I can tell, there isn't anyone on the face of the planet trying to build anything like C in order to replace it. Yeah because it would be a bad idea.
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by hilariouswhip 4y ago
Woo is merely the output of 100+ fireside retellings of a theory by someone who tried to construct a metaphysical theory without the woo.
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by hilariouswhip 4y ago
Sort of a if-everything-can-happen-it-will-happen scenario. But not what I was talking about.
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by hilariouswhip 4y ago
Sure. But concurrent consciousness is too advanced for me to think about. All I know is serial consciousness. There are all kinds of possibilities, but that barrier of Death is a clear cut-off from my perspective. What’s beyond that? I for
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by hilariouswhip 4y ago
This only says that consciousness is ever-mutating. Most would agree on that. But most would disagree on the death question: afterlife, another life, or annihilation.
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by hilariouswhip 4y ago
I didn’t mention the self or omniscience.
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by hilariouswhip 4y ago
I didn’t say that this was good or bad. I think it’s bad and hope that the Fourth Noble Truth of Buddhism is true.
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by hilariouswhip 4y ago
Yeah. Like really, you can’t see eyes well up at dusk? Or hear sniffling?
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by hilariouswhip 4y ago
He didn’t even interpret the reason for it. Just that a woman may be disgusted. You covered some reason for it on the woman’s part. While he (OP) seemed to only be talking about the man’s reason (motivation) to not act like that.
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by hilariouswhip 4y ago
Yep, something like that!
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by hilariouswhip 4y ago
The mind-body problem sounds too Cartesian. A dualism that is a bit too outdated. I personally have a weird intuition considering my cultural background: it makes sense to me that my consciousness would be “born” somewhere else when I die.
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by hilariouswhip 4y ago
I didn’t intend to brag!: it was only a means to brag about my career success.
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by hilariouswhip 4y ago
> Trotsky later claimed that Stalin amassed power as a bureaucratic mediocrity, but it was actually Yakov Sverdlov, assisted by Elena Stasova, who ran the Party machine. Stalin was not a born bureaucrat at all. He was a hard worker utter