See when I'm old, I'll be like the wise, worldly, lyrical type. I will be as their father, they comes to me for advices... and it won't be that hard for me to give them the wrong advices...

And if you don't, then you'll be some weird fucking outcast that doesn't know what any male under forty is talking about half of the time.

I'd probably be prime minister by now!

Socrates might have talked about universals, but it was Kant that truly made us universal thinkers. He inferred that the milky way is our galaxy sideways on, and that there are other such clusters in the sky which are not stars, but distant galaxies.

I doubt that Socrates was a platonist, lol.

Yeah, he said lots of stuff, but he also denied really knowing anything. The point of most of his discussions wasn't to prove anything positively right, but rather, to inspire doubt and wonder. To make you second guess what you believe, being offered an alternative of equal (or even greater) plausibility. He liked to approach people that figured that they were experts, or knew what was what, and then leave them a whole lot less certain of that.

His introduction of the conscience within himself, and his paralleling, or embodying it in the form of the gadfly, rousting the proud and strong steed (Athens) from complacency and sloppiness, rather than taking for granted its truth, and righteousness.

Socrates always seemed as a fable to me. A story about not taking things at face value, or at appearance, and the utility, and importance of a healthy level of doubt, and wonder. Never want to be too convinced of anything...

Got the DLCs for Shadow of Mordor, got 100% completion on full game, and then got 100% completion on the hunt one. Pain in the ass, as not only are all of the trophies shit, all of them in the lowest grade, but completing the trials of the hunt challenges were actually difficult. Kill the five war chiefs, and 20 captains, get at least 13000 points, kill at least ten captains with beasts, and finish within forty minutes. Took me a good six hours, lol. Time well spent... and when anyone asks me what I've achieved, I'll have a list all ready to go!

Gonna play the bright lord DLC next.

Trump is great...

There's no such thing as progress, there are just new problems at the cost of old ones. Lets all hold hands and discover how this will blow up in our faces as well together!

I think that the state sets that standard, that it's sometimes okay to kill people. I think that places with capital punishment will have higher murder rates, and places that have euthanasia will have higher suicide rates.

I think that we should all abandon money, and go for like a bitcoin type virtual money, causing the drastic loss of value of the current currency, and then we can pick up a ton of it for some bitcoin-esque new stuff for cheap, and pay off all of our debts!

It's okay everyone, we have Trudeau, he'll save us.

I ain't the one forwarding paradoxes, I's the one dissolvin'em.

I know that, and I'm saying that that can't be because it doesn't make any sense for the reasons I've given.

I don't think so, I realize that the point is that because they're identical, that it is impossible to rationally preference one over the other, because what could be said of one, can be said of the other as well -- but I'm saying, and you're agreeing that this obviously isn't so. One can actually come up with a bunch of things that would be true of one and not the other. Say the wind is coming in from the left, and the pig smells that one but not the one on the right (not to mention the other reasons I've given).

Indiscernability of identicals (if I'm remembering right... too lazy to look up...). As in, if two things are identical, they share all of the same properties, and there aren't two things there is one thing. Identicality of indiscernables is that if two things share all of the same properties, then they're identical. This second one is less obvious, and doesn't seem necessary.

I think that in stipulating that two things are identical, you either mean in some respect, but distinct in others, or you are stipulating that there aren't two things at all. That's just what identical means. Two things can be completely indistinguishable, indistinct, but not be identical if you reject the IOD, but stipulating that they're identical does necessitate that they share all of the same properties, and are actually the same thing.

I'm sure that I'll get plenty when I have the money but not the time.

Socrates has a whole thing for why that's so that he goes into in the Meno Dialogue. He believes that the only true evil is ignorance, and the only true good is knowledge. That there is never any question of choice or motivation, people always already want to do and be the most good, just, righteous things, we simply dispute, and don't really know what those are.

The first part is talking about like an apperception, or comprehension of something as such or such. Based in memory, we have internal impressions, or notions about the way things are right now, which is like a hypothesis, and this can either be right or wrong.

The second part is basically asking if we see only what we expect to see. It seems to me

We ought to say it, even if it isn't true -- even if it's the opposite of the truth I would go as far as. It shouldn't matter.

They can't be identical, or they couldn't be two things. Two things that are identical are the same thing, and one thing. Like superman and Clark Kent. You can't stand one over here, and one over there.

The stacks must by necessity be different in some respect, and it is this difference which makes the left one prettier. Just the fact that one is on the right, and the other on the left gives reasons, many many reasons to employ. The pigs left leg hurts and turning right is easier. It chose right last time and wants to keep things fair so goes for left. It's left hoofed, so it goes left. It's father told it on his death bed to always go down the right path, and interprets this literally, etc.

Falcons didn't win...

No one seemed to recognize resurrected Jesus. Even more distressing though, is that Jesus totally told them he was going to resurrect on the third day, and hardly anyone even checked! They were close up with him and everything, but I don't think anyone recognized him until he told them who he was.

I only got those games cause there was a super awesome flash sale on the ps store. The first three remastered uncharted games for like $20, and injustice for like $6.

I don't wanna spend anything on games either, which is why I was talking about just going for completion.

That isn't a good picture of me, even though that's my good side.

I won't say whom my favorites are, I don't want to devastate every single one of your fragile hearts.

Un should definitely post more. Now someone else invoke him, we need three and then by the laws of the universe (and every movie I've ever seen), he must apparate.

I just beat the first three uncharteds, and then injustice. Got nothing now, haven't beaten far cry4 but it kind of blows.

Might try for 100% completion of shadow of mordor. I already got like 80% on the one play through.

He seems cooler when I'm asserting the things he thinks.

Where's that from? I know that his concept of anxiety is half a response to Kant, and also other guys I haven't read, and the "anxiety" is basically the friction between duty and freedom. The anxiety he's talking about here is a habitual, or ritualistic crippling of action. Something like, all identity is based in memory and recollection, so that the crippling anxiety is always recalled, and recreated to prevent actions by rendering the idea of them impossible to you.

So that, in this sense, anxiety is the cause of sin, but it seems to me to be an entirely negative force for action in K.

Context! Kierkegaards mortal enemies were the ironists, romanticists, relativists. I've heard it said that K would be just as well known as Nietzsche if he had written in a more accessible language, and not Dutch -- only he actually petitioned to be able to write in Dutch, rather than the more universal and academic latin that one normally would.

This "lack of passion" is rather an attack on not really believing, and feeling things fully, and powerfully -- but rather aways lukewarm, doubtful, relativistic everything, and nothing is true bullshit, and no one really feels or believes anything completely anymore.

His message wasn't that people should sin, but rather that people should really believe, and feel things fully, become entirely invested, consumed, and act with that genuineness, or good faith. This is superior to not believing or feeling anything with conviction, and not sinning, as well as doing a whole lot of nothing else either.

It ain't easy though...

If the earth were an apple, we wouldn't have ever broken its skin. The Russians (I believe it was) once did try to drill to the mantle, but then gave up half-way through. They say that we know more about the sun's core than the earth's, and in star trek, they had yet to explore the abyss in the year 2400 or whatever.

Reminds me of that episode of futurama, where the spaceship is dragged underwater, and they're like "we've just passed five atmospheres of pressure", and Fry is like "how many can it take?", so the professor responds "well, it's a spaceship, so anywhere between 0 and 1."

Damn that lippiin' lizard! He really ruffles my jammies!

I only read the first sentence, the rest seemed superfluous.

Glad that we agree with me.

So tell me Wosret, what happens if an order is given orally, but there is no written record of it or even worse? — Agustino

What could be worse? Theoretically murderers are supposed to go to jail, but they're clever pyschos, so they intricately plan in advance, and what if they killed them orally, and there is no body left... or even worse than that somehow!

I don't know much about business, CEOs and stuff, but I did think that they make the most, not because they're supposed to do the most, or even most important work or anything, but because they're supposed to take responsibility for their company to the rest of the world, and thus take on the most personal risk.

Probably doesn't work out that way in practice, few things do, but the principle seems reasonable to me.

Aren't CEO's the culpable ones though, with the most real accountability? Like, aren't they the ones hauled into count to explain why their product killed all of those babies?

Those weren't poor people by necessity, or ability, but were surely a horde of noble freegans, fighting the good fight against all of those isms you mentioned earlier.

Okay, but I also get to rummage through your garbage and keep whatever I like.

Okay, sounds awesome. Since I'm a holistic roofer, I'm going to also need to visit a few tropical places in order to spiritually estimate the earth's chakra flow. You'll have to cover it, but just like all of my work, it comes with a guarantee until the first rain.

My Dad stays with me (not the other way around), and most recently my fourteen year old sister now. She arrived like December, I think, maybe November, so unfortunately not a fantastic time to show up, but I'll make up for the shitty winter in the summer.

I don't want them to go, or I'd be all alone!

If you're in Atlanta, stop on by. — Hanover

Damn, that's really nice of you. Look how nice that Hanover is...