Putting the universe in context, one horribly offensive post at a time.
This is a carry over from another thread. On the negative side ... I would go for "bad" is the action/result and "evil" is an addition of intent. This translated into the example "Cardin wants Jaune to throw sap on Pyrrha" means that Cardin is indeed doing evil, as the action is exclusively geared towards doing damage. If we leave evil aside Good and bad is about prioritizing. You have to prioritze others well being over your own to do something good. If there is no conflict, it may be good too, but it is definitely not an achievement. An example for prioritizing. I watched a Star Trek episode in which a member of the crew fell ill with an exotic desease. Holo-doc searched his database and found out that he would have to use results obtained under "questionable" (too put it very mildly) ethnic standards. He did. Then they took the moral high ground and deleted the results. Which is disgusting cheat-writing for me, because they benefitted from the tainted material and only afterward deleted it, when they did not need it anymore. And they had Holo-Doc deciding about it, whose ethical standards were probably determined with a slider bar. The organisms on earth do not have to know that they have to cooperate with each other, they just have to do it. This survival ethic is only necessary when one species accrues so much power that it can destroy itself and all (most?) of the others. This is called swarm intelligence, a multitude of individuals cooperates without dedicated explicit coordination. This is what makes capitalism so successfull, because if the ruleset is set up properly it turns greed into something benevolent.
In all religions, there is a creation story, or something is already there and made good by a being. I will use the christian creation story as framework from which to make my argument. In the Bible, when God creates the universe he kind of just exists already. But following the rules of cause and effect, everything must have a cause, from me deciding whether to drink a tea or a Coke, up to wether spend 80 dollars on a video game or Dungeons and Dragons stuff, there is a cause to my choice. From "I feel like having Coke today" to "I think that Dungeons and Dragons will bring more overall happiness to me and my friends". If this is true, Something must have caused God to exist, so he could do the effect that stuff exists. But it is established that before "God" there was nothing. This means God kind of just is, but what is the justification for this? Did a previous god wipe everything then make new god then die? If god was caused to exist, then there must be something previous to do that. Is there just an infinite number, or is there one ultimate god? Actually, I guess I just said a super long winded version of "The chicken and the egg"
I write this on another night I stay away. Listen to music and hoping to gain insight in the reason this entire planet keeps going. I call myself a realist, but really pessimist is a good way to describe me. I plan for the worst and expect the worst in everything. I rarely allow myself to be positive about anything. I’m sure most of all this comes from my shitty childhood, like most people I have a heavy baggage and on top of that I have a horrible memory so remember the happy times is hard since I dwell so much on the bad things. People want to be inspired; they want to be told that another will go by and that they can get through it. Truth it I’m just to chicken to do anything about my life in any direction. I float through most days clinging to routine like a life raft. I figure that if I wrote all these things I kept telling myself and sent it out in the world, maybe it would touch someone. I desperately want to matter. Which is totally selfish and I hate that about myself. I have 2 beautiful children and a wife that I love even if I don’t understand how she is still with me, but I have a hard time caring fully for them. When I say that I just fell horrible it’s the one reason I keep on finding a better way. I don’t want anyone to tell me it will get better or that I can get through it. That’s not it. I think I want permission to be miserable. I think I like having a tortured soul. I know now to deal with that. Being happy to me is uncomfortable, I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop and the wait is more painful than the pain for sadness and despair, but no one wants someone to be sad or depressive it’s just not what people should want. Everything in life is to find happiness, joy, a reason for living or a goal. I just have given up on most of those. I have been suicidal on a few occasions. It made me go see specialist that in term gave me meds, but I don’t want any of that, but I don’t want to disappear either. I talk to myself all the time and I hate most humans. A woman stood up for me in the bus over 2 years ago and still to that day it’s my example for the kindness of humans. Most of everything around us is bad news, or self-enjoyment content to make us drown in whatever easy pain relief we can find. Well that was a great 20 minutes of typing. Let’s try that again sometime. Life in the end WINS
(Sorry for how I write, it's the way I type) so me and my friend was having one of those what ifs' discussion and this was one of them. for some reason. I started thinking what if's when you died (regarding of how) you are somehow born again the same way you were born before. i.e if you die in 2029 and you're born in 1982, congrats you're starting over your life however, what if's you died, and born again yet you're choose a different path, or different choice? I mean how do you explain that deja vue feeling? is that possible? or is it far-fetch and way outside the ballpark.
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Gus retirement plan: shutgun. When: when he become 40 yers old. I'm warrying if he will stick to his plan. Reminder: celebrate his choise to live. ps: it was Barbaras idea to say Gus twice at the beginning of podcast. Everybody ignored her as her regular puns. And then she did not remembered about it when Gus started to use it regularely.
After contemplating mortality for the upteenth time a grand total of two years ago, I came to a very severe and serious conclusion that reaffirmed to me why most religion is useless to me. *Ahem* YOUR CHRISTIAN HEAVEN IS SHIT Heaven - the Christian variety - is really, really stupid. Allow me to explain, and try not to crucifty me, like Big J. The base concept of Heaven is that once you die, and are proven good of heart and pure of soul, definitions that are way too strict for the modern human being, your soul ascends to Heaven to live in eternal contentment where all your needs are met. A variable paradise, quite frankly. I'd also have to assume that eternal contentment gets unbelievably boring during the eternity you spend up there. Not to mention that you are sharing space with every Heaven-bound soul, ever. So I'll just assume that it's really just a really crowded, really fancy ghetto full of bored as hell people who are just sick of being happy, teetering on the verge of complacent depression which makes them want to die again. Wait, speaking of Hell, the two aren't that different! Both offer eternal torment, but the other is more painful and the other makes you grow numb to everything! For the rest of time! Which is the true punishment? You choose! This is why I prefer reincarnation as a method of spiritual release. Not only is it not eternal, fully conscious suffering, it's also economic and efficient! It prevents spiritual entropy! Literally recycling for the soul! And people say going green is a waste of time.
What happens when a democracy votes to become Evil Does the losing Righteous Party accept the will of the people to join the dark side, but peacefully campaign extra hard next election to win it back to Not-Evil? Or will the voice of the people, and the entire democratic process, get kicked to the curb by tyrants believing they are being Righteous? To what extent can Righteous people justify violent means 'to a Good end', to throw out elections that they lose? Living in a democracy means sometimes you lose the vote on things you dont want to happen. When a nation votes to become Evil, what do good or Righteous people do in an Evil society?
Hey guys, so I made this thread because I was hoping we can have an active thread going on about how we feel. We can talk about your day, your feelings, or anything that is bothering you. I just think this is something we need, been a lot of suicides and fear going around….or maybe it’s just me. Anyways. It’s time to rant and be heard!
Earlier today I came to the conclusion that i may be fictional and it was all because of multiverse theory. For people who don't know what's multiverse theory, basically it's every time you make a decision you create multiple universes. For example you wake up in the morning and go to the kitchen to have cereal, you have two kinds of cereal Fruit Loops and Cheerios and you pick Fruit Loops. Now because you picked Fruit Loops there is now a universe where you picked the Cheerios. So if we apply multiverse theory to the big bang theory would that mean that every single possible universe exists, even the ones that have people writing about us.
I wanted to start a social experiment and see what comes up and this seemed to be the best place for it on here. I want to ask the members of this community what they notice and admire in some people who are younger than them. Something that you'd like to see a lot more of in everyone else. (Preferably something that will not biologically disappear when they're your age. e.g. hair, breasts, etc.) For the purposes of this experiment, each answer is completely separate. It doesn't matter what you think about the other answers or what they thing about yours. The only answer that matters for you on here is your own because chances are that aside from other community members that know the people you know personally, none of them has any idea what you see, where you've been, or what the people around you do. I know that a lot of people in the community have a pretty shallow pool to look at, but I'm all the more curious about them. It doesn't matter how small or insignificant it is.
talk about something that's true that messes with the mind
What designates truth over just perception? How can anyone be certain that something exists? For example, when we are children all observable evidence would suggest that Santa Claus is both real and benevolent, however when we grow older we learn that Santa is no more real than the monster under the bed. Who is to say the same isn't true for more complex observations? like the laws of physics? Discuss. Argue! REACH NEW HEIGHTS OF ENLIGHTENMENT AND EXISTENTIAL CRISIS!
Ask me anything and I'll do my best to give you an acceptable answer it. Doesn't matter what it is from philosophy to theology. I'll answer it. Let me clarify this. This forum is not for you to bash other opinions, be in an argument to win and bask in your victory, etc. It is for those who purely want to explore and understand more of both nature's of philosophy and theology.
Does the fear of death drive humanity?
Quoting Batman from Crisis of two earths. How well do you think you would react with the full realisation of the abyss? Another concept that is toyed with in similar fashion is in Bravest Warrior is the meening of forever (Paralysed horse). Getting a full grasp of abyss or forever has a harsh undertone about are place in that. Trying to grasp such a concept is vague at best. How do you react to FOREVER or the ABYSS? I personally have put too much thought into this and am running in circles with it. RT community is the only one I trust with such a thougth so I figured I will throw this at you guys :)
I'm so glad water was undrinkable in the past, so they had to invent beer. ^^
If anime becomes real, then is anime even real?
