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- Comment on Air or electric powered? 1 week ago:
I’ve been trying to sneak in other fonts to any oc I make. I’m definitely tired of the binary ALL CAPS or twitter screenshot
- Comment on Anon reads nihilist philosophy 1 week ago:
Thanks 😁
- Comment on Anon reads nihilist philosophy 1 week ago:
Fuck yeah I am. I’ve got a living playlist of lectures I can add this into, thank you!
Actually I see a yt video at the top of the page here, can I watch all the episodes there as an option?
- Comment on Anon reads nihilist philosophy 1 week ago:
Oh no
- Comment on Anon reads nihilist philosophy 1 week ago:
Lol what even is this?
- Comment on Anon reads nihilist philosophy 1 week ago:
Ooh you know I actually didn’t, I was just assuming he was being serious considering the secular time he existed in. But I didn’t exactly think he was talking about the results being literal eternal suffering or paradise either. In my misconception I had thought he was proposing to live as a functional faith practitioner and just reap the tangible benefits of that when you’re alive.
Oh you already know I love youtube. I’ll get to that first before the books but probably not the further Wikipedia articles I got recommended in this thread. Is it cool if I message you any thoughts she stirs up? I definitely appreciate people who can identify pro-social and useful facets of problematic ideologies.
- Comment on Anon reads nihilist philosophy 1 week ago:
Really? Maybe that’s how I got my misconception of it. My favorite thing about this thread is I’m getting a lot of stuff to reexamine, so this ones moving to the top of the list.
Dude, that would be so sick(complimentary)! I really love Monster Manuals! One of the Gnostic thought people I talked to recently actually showed me a video that was showcasing the different deities in a similar way, but as Tumblr art characters. Very entertaining.
I hadn’t considered that angle for our discussion here but that’s true. The biggest damage any Faith-based theology is doing to incentivising people to decouple from tangible reality. I won’t ever defend that, I just don’t know of a way it’s possible for anyone to widely convince people to stop doing it.
I’ll consider that last part. That seems like an idea I’ll have to examine for a bit. Thank you for engaging and for all the recommendations, Schipelblorp 🙂 Always a pleasure
- Comment on Anon reads nihilist philosophy 1 week ago:
Oh damn, this made me have to look up Pascal’s Wager in order to follow and that is NOT what I thought it was. And it’s not nearly as actionable as I was giving it credit for.
For sure, though. It’s not like Gnostic thought is terribly useful in a modern context. It’s just the joy of discovering old models of belief. Also they’re colorful. I mostly wanted to know if you have any favorite characters from it because most people who engage with that or pre-Christian cults tend to find a funny little guy that they latch onto.
There’s a couple people who I interacted with who have derived some personal viable uses from the Gnosticism, but it’s kind of way too specific to recommend widely.
- Comment on Anon reads nihilist philosophy 1 week ago:
Alright this is going to be a bit of an indulgent bpersonal diatribe, but hear me out. Generally when I’m assessing the worth of religion I try to look at the cost/benefit of it existing, not really whether it’s factually true or politically just. Catholicism definitely full of lies and its atrocities are really the same as any monarchist structure and equally indefensible. Also as you say, craven.
But here’s what people within it at the very bottom are getting from the deal:
- an accountability system that puts physical personal cost on their choices
- a working historical account getting built onto and preserved as time goes on
- a system of quasi-electoral government that was a country at one time but now gets to act as a diplomatic power in the world Just saying, those are the exact opposite of what Christianity takes from you as a person living within it
Agreed, though. That’s kind of one of the things I appreciate about Judaism, the pluralism and the de-emphasis on Faith. I’ve been dipping my toes tentatively into some Gnostic histories, and proto Christian stuff. I’ll look at the Gnostic Gospels next, then. Do you have a personal favorite little blorbo from cults of that period?
- Comment on Anon reads nihilist philosophy 1 week ago:
Sweeeet, I’ve been curious about this since my first assumption has always been that “Bros” just were doing Stoicism in its best possible interpretation. Maybe I’m too critical of it and not of them.
That’s valid and a pretty widely agreed on belief. I tend to make a few more concessions for Hebrew and Catholicism because they have controls and political structures for negating barbarism built in to their scriptures, even if those controls have failed in both past and recent history.
The difference with Christianity from those is you’re given leave by the text to engage selectively and do post-modern interpretations of what Jesus wants or the personal cost of not living up to his expectations. Like it’s not that he’s being ignored, it’s that his sacrifice canceled any price I have to pay for my actions in this life. You’re right, though. The person Christ was pretty different from the faith that inherited his name, they probably wouldn’t have had much to do with eachother if he had a choice in the matter. But mainly because he was a Jew.
- Comment on Anon reads nihilist philosophy 1 week ago:
In the text it means any choice to make that sacrifices long term benefits for instant gratification. Nietzsche was way into promoting things that give you pleasure, just not at the cost of your health and prosperity
- Comment on Anon reads nihilist philosophy 1 week ago:
Ooh, I have some opinions about Christianity’s potential to be used by bad actors. Honestly I feel pretty similar about it as I do Nietzsche but more like the architecture for doing evil has always been latent in the ideology for as long as it has existed sperate from Judaic and Gnostic faith.
I definitely would like to hear more about how exactly Broicism diverges from Stoicism though, if you have the time. You’re the first person I’ve heard say that it’s different.
- Comment on Anon reads nihilist philosophy 1 week ago:
Yeah not so much that. It was kind of refreshing to read something where the author gives up on trying to preempt arguments against him early in the process of creating his work (exhausting, boring, and as time goes on inevitably futile).
I meant more that the prose is full of self-certain trueisms and has that superficiality to it. It doesn’t discount his points to me either, I’m often a vibes person myself. But it offloads a lot of the cognitive work of basically finishing his philosophy onto you as you’re reading it. I think that’s probably the deeper cause of most other problems people have with his philosophy, like how bad actors took and used it for nefarious shit. But, he was a lonely guy in a lot of pain who took to writing to manage it so that’s par for the course.
- Comment on Anon reads nihilist philosophy 1 week ago:
(my body is devoid of worldly power but I low-key agree because physically building personal meaning and protecting the wilderness trumps all)
- Comment on Anon reads nihilist philosophy 1 week ago:
Thanks. Reading Wikipedia has got me a little unsure on how to interpret him. I’ll check that out next. Stoicism is kind of a personal bugbear of mine but now regardless I really want to know the truth of this guy
- Comment on Anon reads nihilist philosophy 1 week ago:
Oh, okay. Well with that summary I’m at least interested in reading more and trying to see if I can parse the satire. Thanks for pointing me in that direction
- Comment on Anon reads nihilist philosophy 1 week ago:
Ooh. Very stigmatized ethos surrounding that one. Guess I need to find out what the heck happened there
- Comment on Anon reads nihilist philosophy 1 week ago:
Just quick short thoughts before I continue reading because I really thought these are immediately striking without further dissection;
Philosophy aside, the comment on LessWrong that said “Nietzsche is a great source of aphorisms, and may be able to trigger some Deep Thoughts in readers, but a lot of his writing seems more like a sort of performance art to me. At least on a superficial level, he’s much easier to read than Kant or Hegel, but that also means he does not even try to argue his point in a rigorous way”. Spot on, this is like the main barrier to his books. I see this as the first problem you’ll encounter before getting to how fascists twisted his words into justifications for doing fuck-all
Then, I REALLY this Monthly Review article. This passage pointed out a perspective of the problem initially sounding like a misread about how “this is just doing barbarism but with extra steps” but actually pretty accurately describes how greater powers in the world will take almost anything we try to do and turn it into barbarism: The liberalization and deregulation of the most intimate sphere of the person will completely achieve the fetishism of the commodity. And the sole revolt which will from here on be permitted to the Nietzschean by power, when an irreducible part of his disarmed consciousness has, through misunderstanding, fomented some insurrection, will be total annihilation, bestiality towards the other animal which his masters will have brought into the neighbouring cage.
I still need to finish it and get to the Marxist critique but thank you for this
- Comment on Anon reads nihilist philosophy 1 week ago:
Ty! All the criticisms I’ve heard I’ve only really absorbed through cultural osmosis so I want to read some hard stuff
- Comment on Anon reads nihilist philosophy 1 week ago:
I can see the argument for that. It kind of fits the narrative of “slave morality”. Can I read these philosophers statements? I kind of want to know what they’re about
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- Comment on I guess they didn't Edge enough 1 week ago:
I appreciate a lot of race or gender humor this decade. It just takes some genuine inside knowledge to pull off and that’s not what edgelords are about. Their humor is for reducing complexity and making people alien.
- Comment on I guess they didn't Edge enough 1 week ago:
You are fortunate. It’s an annoying genre of person
- Comment on I guess they didn't Edge enough 2 weeks ago:
TBF I always enjoyed the USMC’s humor towards themselves. I don’t think anyone burns them harder they do and they go way low, like having drill chants about disintegrating marriages and Jody fucking their wives
- Comment on I guess they didn't Edge enough 2 weeks ago:
It might be low hanging fruit but I’m not above it. But there is a Catholic guy around who hasn’t learned to not provoke the hornet nest yet and I try to be nice to him
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- Comment on Every Game is an Outrage | Unpacked [7:15] 2 weeks ago:
Hmm. I am on a VPN and used those links with browsers and newpipe. This might be region locked fuckery. I tend to get the most video mobility by using S. America servers like Panama and Chile that aren’t in places that disclose to the fifteen eyes counties.
I’ll see if any Second Wind content has found its way out into peertube but that’s hit or miss. Do you recommend anything in particular?
- Comment on Every Game is an Outrage | Unpacked [7:15] 2 weeks ago:
It seems you’re right. I had tried an imbed link this time and that’s apparently a no-go. I’ll add more to the post
- Comment on Every Game is an Outrage | Unpacked [7:15] 2 weeks ago:
True that. And I think I agree with you, I remember the thing that really cemented developers taking fat L’s for a bad product was the catharsis generated by videos like The Internet Historian’s takedowns on F76 and No Man’s Sky. It was addictive, people loved seeing bad practices getting punished in a narrative and I think a lot of us are still chasing that high as a way of handling economic disenfranchisement that that we can’t otherwise do anything about.
Which is a deadly feature of social media.
- Comment on METRO 2039 | Gameplay Trailer - Renegade 2 weeks ago:
There is that. Artyom’s relationship with his communities and people is supposed to play off the games’ moral framework.
Maybe there’s something to be said about a personal arc that begins with learning to have empathy for your world/the alien arriving at having empathy for other humans. It’s not like the anthrosupremicist routes in the previous games brought him closer to other people
