• Body, baby, body, body


    I also have a giant nose! Solidarity! The sad part is that the ears and nose never stop growing either...
  • What's wrong with being transgender?


    I'm glad that my influence betters you. That's all that really matters.
  • What's wrong with being transgender?
    Normal is fiction. Nobody lives there full time.Mongrel

    Hanover is Mayor of normal town.
  • What's wrong with being transgender?


    14" bicep, neck, and calves. They're all supposed to be the same, and the biggest anyone ever had with my wrist size is 16" without PEDs.
  • What's wrong with being transgender?


    No you're right. I want it because I can't deal. You know, the guy sitting at the gates of hell in the depiction of Dante's inferno is incontinent in the Aristotelian sense, of being an addict.

    I wouldn't be posting... or talking to anyone at all if I were high though. Forgetting is the most merciful thing in the world. No matter what's been bothering me, what worries or problems I have, I get to just be distracted by idiocy for awhile.

    It's difficult being the only sane one in the asylum... I hope you have a good travel agent for the guilt trip you're sending me on!
  • Problematic scenario for subjective idealism
    "My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad." - King David.
  • What's wrong with being transgender?
    Maybe you're a lesbian. Have you thought of that? I mean with all this fluidity, it would seem terribly discriminatory to prohibit lesbianism from anyone..Hanover

    Duh! Nah, Utena showed me that I could be, not only the best at this, but be the very definition of it. It doesn't matter what or who I am, it matters what I do.

    In other news, I've got to take prednisone for a couple of weeks for a condition that is none of your God damned business (so stop fucking prying). It's like making me sweat and get a little hyped up, sort of like after drinking a bunch of coffee but without the runs. Having no real vices, having this weird buzz is kind of cool, and I can now see why people get hooked on meth. Yep, just a little anti-inflammatory meds and I'm talking about meth..

    It's lupus isn't it? it's probably lupus. I like weed a lot, more than I should (if you still do at my age, it means you're a fuck up). Heard on the radio on the way home that they're building an 800 square meter grow op factory in Leduc, biggest and most advanced in the world!

    Sorry about your inflammation.

    The point of this is that I now get how people might want to change their reality, either through meds or through the knife. And by "through the knife," I'm talking about having one's gonads lopped off, just so there's no confusion..

    All people talk about is genitals and how grossed out they are about all that when they talk about transgenderism... it's fucking weird, and dehumanizing, you know. It's one of those things that indicates that everything you know about it comes from television and rumor.

    I think I'm going to take this energy surge to the gym to get huuuuuuuge.

    No you won't.
  • What's wrong with being transgender?
    What happened to getting to know Lenny Kravitz and Bob Dylan being awesome all of a sudden? You were a belieber a little while ago! What did I do!

    Blanchard also holds a priori that there are no natal women analogs to autogynephilia because women can't be perverts. Hell of a lot more girl fags than the inverse in reality though... there has to be, as there's overwhelmingly more content aimed at them.

    I'm neither a transsexual nor an autogynephile (or crossdreamer) as my good buddy jack calls it. If I have a fetish it's for lesbians and I don't have particularly stereotypical female interests or anything, and came to the conclusion around twelve with puberty.

    I'm a bit intimidated by all you experts though... go easy on me.
  • Currently Reading
    Kant's Perpetual Peace.
    Narajuna's the tree of wisdom (until he started to get obnoxious around half way through)
    And currently Pathological lying, accusations and swindling.
  • What's wrong with being transgender?
    Not in the DSM-5, renamed to gender dysphoria, but it doesn't matter. Transition is expensive, and people want it covered under their medical coverage. The change in name also refocuses things on the psychological pain of the physical mismatch, and the effectiveness of transition in relieving this pain. Although social stigma of mental illness is bad, getting flipped off by your medical coverage is worse.
  • What's wrong with being transgender?


    I don't know what you mean, or you're responding to.
  • What's wrong with being transgender?
    Been to therapists three times, they all told me I was completely sane, charming, attractive and brilliant, and usually said that I lacked self-esteem, and needed to do more social things.

    See, I can't be insane. Insane people are nonsensical, they say idiot things like most of you guys, not smart things like me.

    Even that aside psychology is like an attempted formalization of morality, or religion. It holds to a developmental model, based on psychological maturity, and important milestone points that people can miss for various reasons, and need to be worked past. The most popular personality profiling system is hierarchical, leading to enlightenment. It's all moral language, stripped of connotation. It's how we continue to see demons, and never stopped.
  • Why ought one be good?
    May I then steal from you, murder you, and rape you? That would be fine?
  • What's wrong with being transgender?
    I wonder how it is that all women's childhoods are the same? Rich white Suburban women had an analogous childhood to every other woman that ever lived, all throughout history. They all act the same too, have all of the same sensibilities, and are just tied together by a transcontinental temporally transcendent tether of tampons.
  • A different kind of a 'Brain in a Vat' thought experiment.
    How can you know what you want if you don't know what's available? If your options are limited at all, and even worse, hidden, then you can't deliver on the promise.

    If it would do everything that it is claiming to be able to do then I'm sure everyone would, and probably someday will be pushing a similar button for at least a few hours a day.
  • Can you start philosophy without disproving scepticism?


    I agree that it is easily with the smaller rather than the enlarged image.
  • Can you start philosophy without disproving scepticism?


    Orange yellow fire color. Looks in a small little square like spot, like bottom two thirds to left, looks like flames under, a greyish ghoulish ghost thing, which has orangey yellow eyes, and our right his left eye is like all black rock shooter extra flamey with a trail going up and to the right slightly.
  • Can you start philosophy without disproving scepticism?
    Oh, I see it now. Yeah, those were the first couple that I noticed. Do you see that like flamey ghost bottom halfway left abouts, with one extra firey eye? That one's cool too.
  • Can you start philosophy without disproving scepticism?


    I think I see what you mean. Looks like a troll to me. Like dark green moss eyes, and the white bark patch for the nose. I also see a sweet adorable dragon thing that is super obvious looking. It's just up and right of center, that stick with the moss on it that is running right and slightly upward.
  • Can you start philosophy without disproving scepticism?


    Yeah, a couple. Is the wolf man the bottom center stump thing?
  • Can you start philosophy without disproving scepticism?
    Don't know what it means to be practiced at that, but when I was a kid I had a room with board paneling full of knots, and I could see a lot of eerie faces. After looking for a minute or two, I see 9.
  • Tao Te Ching appreciation thread
    Besides, one does not master the Tao, one knows it, and is refined by its subtle breezes.
  • Tao Te Ching appreciation thread
    I'm the ultimate champion of mortal kombat! It says so when you beat the game!
  • Get Creative!
    Stormy wind bellows high
    Frequent tracker numb and low
    Painted upon an artificial sky
    Botched in rage with lines of mellow

    Script lit. eyes sit, haze hits

    Flounder within the murky water
    gulp gas, and sneeze oil
    Monstrous nightmare daughter
    exhale life and endless toil

    Closed now, for thou, I vow.

    Time ends again and again
    It's mourned eternally
    Sleeping yesterday and dreaming tomorrow
    Wrapped up, warm, and maternally
    Crying with the tears we borrow.
  • If a tree falls in a forest...
    What kind of tree?
  • Nietzsche's view of truth


    So did he. Criticizing people doesn't mean that you don't admire them.
  • Nietzsche's view of truth


    He wasn't a bad guy you know.
  • Nietzsche's view of truth


    You know, he also said this:

    Buddhism does not promise, it delivers, while Christianity promises everything and delivers nothing.” —F. Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ
  • Who here believes in the Many World Interpretation? Why or why not?


    Lol, you're right I did. I'll just relocate that then...
  • Who here believes in the Many World Interpretation? Why or why not?


    You know, he also said this:

    Buddhism does not promise, it delivers, while Christianity promises everything and delivers nothing.” —F. Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ
  • Work
    If I didn't work I probably wouldn't even leave my house, and never interact with anyone. I have the social phobia... and I also find most people to just be insufferably annoying. I am generally at least a little bit angry, or annoyed all the time. That's just like my resting place, lol.

    I like my job a lot because I like physical activity and exercise, and I simply wouldn't do it nearly as often, or as intensely with getting paid, and competing with others. I do love competition a lot, and respect anyone with the self-esteem to believe themselves to be better, and wish to show it.

    This was a costly year too, so there will be no extended winter vacation of lying around. I also am really really really lazy, or just unmotivated, I guess. There is so much work to do, I should be cleaning up and fixing my house, there is a lot to do on it... but nothing's falling over, so it can wait... lol

    If I was just rich, and didn't have to work, I like to believe that I would travel the world, and be really active and outgoing... but more likely I'd travel for a year, and then go home, decay, and grow mushrooms until I die.
  • Q for Hanover: Bannon


    Not my fault that everything is terrible.
  • Nietzsche's view of truth
    To say something about usefulness though, why do we want truth to be about anything else? To be an authority, a persuasion, an impetus, an absolute reality, or what? What's the use of that beyond control, or vindication?

    I don't care about that at all. I care what people's beliefs actually are... that's way way way more useful.
  • Nietzsche's view of truth
    I'm not going to look shit up, but he talked about virtues, philosophy as confession, and also seemed to distinguish types based on virtues, and suggested that one ought not be greedy, but rather work on cultivating their natural virtue. His of course being honesty, and is implied is the virtue of all great philosophers.