sad_detective_man
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- Comment on Do turkeys that tell you to cook from frozen usually turn out as good as thawed ones? 1 week ago:
My brother that is a sapient animal beyond the explanation of science 🙏 it has no business near a dinner plate
- Comment on Is it possible to leverage your dreams towards more mundane things? 1 week ago:
I used to get better success when I would use certain activities to sublimate the emotions my weird or stupid dreams gave me. Going for drives, walks, or some other kind of solitary travel was my favorite method. It helps them move from being discordant or shitty thoughts don’t identify with into something I can look at, think about how it happened, then move on.
Obviously that’s not always an option for everyone though
- Comment on Is it okay for a teenager to suck their thumb in public? 1 week ago:
I didn’t even have to zoom in to know this shit is German because of course it is!
- Comment on I'm sick of bad news and contention. comment things that you love about the UK. 2 weeks ago:
Never been, but thanks for Punk music
- Comment on How original. Fucking Shakespeare over here. 2 weeks ago:
It’s a process of finding diamonds in the shit, to be sure. The genre is so saturated too. The heavy watchers I know are just at a point where they enjoy the garbage because watching garbage can be funny. I hate feeling like my time is being stolen though
- Comment on Was there ever a well-documented, widely accepted to be *false*, accusation of genocide? 2 weeks ago:
You’re welcome, but I was mistaken. Black legend is just referring to when the Spanish did it to Americans. The acutel term is called Casus Belli as seen in another commenter’s Wikipedia link to Putin’s claims about the Donbas region
- Comment on How original. Fucking Shakespeare over here. 2 weeks ago:
You’re probably right. I have grown up to be pretty pretentious about art, despite how little I understood it at formative years. Other people might be shaped by their experiences with it differently than I was
- Comment on Hate it when this happens 2 weeks ago:
It’s all this asshole’s fault
- Comment on Was there ever a well-documented, widely accepted to be *false*, accusation of genocide? 2 weeks ago:
You are literally like an Athenian bro. So elevated and bringing intellectual discourse 🙏 please bless us with yo-
Just kidding, warm up another alt and see if you can manage talking with the adults on that one
- Comment on Was there ever a well-documented, widely accepted to be *false*, accusation of genocide? 2 weeks ago:
You attacked my character 😭 why won’t anybody debate with me??? I’m just a little guy
- Comment on Was there ever a well-documented, widely accepted to be *false*, accusation of genocide? 2 weeks ago:
Wow so noble. Can’t wait for this site to be entirely inundated with annoying little dickweeds who can’t maintain an account for over a month because they don’t like the lack of attention when everyone has blocked them.
- Comment on Was there ever a well-documented, widely accepted to be *false*, accusation of genocide? 2 weeks ago:
CASUS BELLLI! That’s the word I was looking for earlier
- Comment on How original. Fucking Shakespeare over here. 2 weeks ago:
Maybe? I don’t think that’s where I learned to introspect from. But maybe the stakes are lower learning to socialize from stories
- Comment on How original. Fucking Shakespeare over here. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on How original. Fucking Shakespeare over here. 2 weeks ago:
Ahhh yes, the old idiot plot. Where would we even be as a culture without it
- Comment on Was there ever a well-documented, widely accepted to be *false*, accusation of genocide? 2 weeks ago:
This doesn’t count as an answer to your question because aside from convincing 21st century whites living in first world countries, it’s kind of a hard thing to pull off.
But similarly, did you know there’s never been a act of geopolitical aggression that hasn’t employed the use of a variant of the Black Legend? Think about it.
“The Jews were invading and subverting our governments because they have no homeland”
“Native Americans eat people, we HAVE to colonize them”
“The Moors are invading Spain, if we don’t retake the holy land they’ll never stop pushing us out of our homes”
“The Chinese will never grow up to be big and strong unless they buy enough opium”
“Gazans are a threat to the state of Israel, their religion is incompatible with us”
Kind of crazy to think that for a tactic as old as the human race, it never really gets called out when people in modern day just say it with their whole mouth.
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- Comment on Tbh, if you scroll through the memes, you know almost the same 2 weeks ago:
Oh god no. Legacy media is bad but that is way worse
- Comment on The book I borrowed and was reading became unavailable in the US *while I was reading it* 2 weeks ago:
Wait. @Mickey7 the c/shitpost grandpa?
- Comment on Air or electric powered? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Thanks 😁
- Comment on Anon reads nihilist philosophy 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Oh no
- Comment on Anon reads nihilist philosophy 4 weeks ago:
Lol what even is this?
- Comment on Anon reads nihilist philosophy 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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
