To the extent that I'll get in trouble if I don't. Otherwise my duty is to my integrity, and my ability to stay in my own good graces.

And what a brute at that... lol

Solve the problem of universals, meaning, the archetypes, with materialism, or without simply dismissing them as make-believe somehow. It really does lead to a kind of completely disoriented relativism. The worst part being, that people want to act like they've transcended it or something, and can still manage to say something true, which is not just something you either yield to, or make the world obey.

We don't really yell at each other. I was telling buddy at work the other day, when talking about parenting not to yell at his kid. Emoting seriousness is sufficient.

Yeah, thanks guys.

I'm not entirely sure of the context. In the case of living sustainable, I think that a smaller scale, and consumption of land and resources is always preferable, yes.

I read small is beautiful a few years ago on Banno's recommendation. T'was good.

You should definitely place some checks on some habits, and what you may do of bodily urges. You may have the urge to do something, simply because the person standing next to you has that urge. Be ruled by reason, not whim and habit. That's my view at least.

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/30/feature-requests/p5

Sophisticat made an add on for fire fox.

If you look at the cave painting of half human - half animal - I would say this is abstract. There is a 40,000 year old sculpture in mammoth ivory, 6 feet tall, with a lion head and human body. — Thinker

Of course. The beasts were the first gods. We spent like a million years following around predators and scavenging what they left behind.

I just explained how full of shit they are. Not just to you, but to themselves as well. They're fucking gods that can do no wrong, on the biggest of power trips. The height of megalomania.

Aphorisms? Laughorisms, stupid and flat.
Profundity? A fun-ditty, about this or that.

Though, that is my favorite one, bar none. So expect to hear it over 9000 more time.

It means I'm the greatest for not thinking I'm the greatest. Irony is a mastery of truth.

Get a real job.

You know how you quickly and easily kick the legs out from under someone's sympathy? Tell them "believe this, and it will make you better than others. It will make you a special kind of human..."

Words in themselves carry nearly zero content. The important thing is parsing sympathetic and empathetic systems. Words give you the ability to parse perception, see deeper and clearer. Paranoia is caused by strong sympathy that one lacks the empathy to parse. Gullibility is not having the sympathetic prowess to correlate all the words.

I covered why pyschos don't feel fear, but know why they don't feel guilt? Because they're so intensely, ridiculously full of shit. They simply never admit fault, or responsibility for fucking anything. They will be all like "I've never murdered... but yeah I've killed", "I've never lied, but I've used tactics", and shit like that.

You know what I did? I just forgot it all. I worked, I sang, I lived, and I forgot about all of those things I used to worry about, and read, and then one day, something happened -- and Kant came back hard to me, even though I had read his critiques twice years ago, and they hadn't made much of an impact, I didn't think. I read them around the same time I was studying Buddhism and Hegel and going to meditation, and it was them I was talking about.

I stopped the battling though, the trying to be right and smart, and good, and I just forgot about all of that stuff, because I had more important things to do.

Remembering stuff is bad for you.

God isn't a man in the sky, and if you think you've come close to intuiting the ground at the ripe old age of 11, then think again.

Yeah, people definitely love speaking about those things.

Depends on the message.

I don't have spiritual super powers. My greatest strength is starting so close to the bottom. All that's happening is that the division of labor is nerfing the shit out of us. Letting people do stuff for you steals your power.

Pink elephants sometimes. Fun to chase.

I don't like proclaimed super-humans and mediators, no.

I will say though, as for the beauty and perfection of the natural world. When I was reading Kant again about aesthetic judgments, and the exemplar. He suggested two things, that it isn't about a particular quality in the object that you can identify, and everyone would agree, like a predicate, but yet, the judgment unlike a taste, brings with it the feeling that it is the way it ought to be judged. Taken together, one would think that theoretically, anything, and everything could be seen as beautiful... and if this were so, the judgment would demand that this is how things ought to be seen.

There is no truth to be found in drug use. I used it to be dumber, easier to delude, and for the short term memory impairing effects. When you physically feel great, all you have to do is forget about your circumstances to be happy -- but then they just get worse and worse.

Solved the problem of suffering by pulling people from their families to keep fucking images alive? Great success.

Ever play elder scrolls? The dark brotherhood asks you a question when you knock on the door, "what is the world's greatest delusion?", the answer they want is "innocence". The reason for this seems obvious to me. You can't indiscriminately kill people for money unless you believe that no one is truly innocent.

Perhaps the dot in the center (not that this one is obvious to me) is maybe when something is surrounded in light, the core is darkness, and maybe when something is surrounded by darkness, the core is light.

I wonder...

Yeah, he died a childless loser with mommy issues. Left a good mechanical imprint in the sand though, ready to be aped for generations to come.

Thank you. I just need to grow up.

She spent time in the hospital and was cutting herself, and is like super ultra neurotic, and is constantly under attack, so I really really really wish she would be direct and aggressive with me.
talk disrespectful to me. Say what you think, I promise that I can take it.

She's a great artist, and all of the social workers are no longer circling, because her happiness and health has definitely improved, as my mom is super duper repressive, and she is afraid to be out after dark.

She is a totally sweat amazing human being, that everyone likes. She just needs to realize it... but I'm like the opposite of mom, so she is pretty much way too scared to do much of anything. I actually told her when she first got here that you can't tell everyone the some things. Sometimes you gotta tell some kids to be good, and others to be bad. As in, I wanted her to feel safe to do whatever...

I didn't mean, like, behind my back and stuff though... now that I've said that, and actually outlined the recent events in my head... I may have just been too sensitive, and maybe deserve it... I need to smarten up more? Is that right maybe?

I'm actually 33 in seven days, lol.