Total posts: 3,945
Posted in:
-->
@Double_R
"Authoritarianism and democracy are not necessarily fundamental opposites as it is possible for some democracies to possess authoritarian elements, and for an authoritarian system to have democratic elements - Wikipedia"
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@Double_R
@BigPimpDaddy
@BigPimpDaddy
Well, I didn't 'quite say that was 'my opinion.
But I 'do think that's the impression a number of people get, of the Left.
Out of curiosity, ever seen Team America: World Police, 2004?
Some people might like Republics, elected officials, or to make the rules in their own backyard.
Rather than pure Democracy of everything.
Too 'much expected selflessness and altruism maybe, in pure Democracy?
Of which it's often not 'true selflessness or altruism, people work to achieve power, control, factions, still, in Democracies.
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@Double_R
America, American values (As some see them), and the American people first.
The Democrats, News, Celebrities, are all a bunch of Commies.
Though I don't consider myself a Trump supporter, such is a guess, I'd give for 'some people's reasons.
'Not saying such reasons are or are not my own views.
Created:
-->
@thett3
Regarding Jefferson, people don't always act on their ideals, I know I don't.
Reading history, 'many people don't.
Regarding your ramblings on liberals,
Admiring and following a degree of equality, isn't bad, to my thinking, following it to an extreme 'is.
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@ludofl3x
Myself, I'm indifferent,
But also, I don't start many forums.
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@Reece101
I want all of you dead and gone just as I want all of us dead and gone. Atheism shouldn’t even need to exist. - Reece101, #272, atheism is irrational (debateart.com)
Out of curiosity,
Are you an Antinatalist?
Something even 'more than that?
Or do I misread, your post?
Created:
Posted in:
I wonder how much it costs to buy various video games?
Price would vary, I imagine.
Straw Hat Samurai Duels, was a fun game,
Created:
Posted in:
Defiance or Submission?
Anger, Agony, or Quiet Misery,
To struggle against barbed wire as it pulls tighter,
Or ease one's muscles, letting it slack.
. . .
Circumstantial, I suppose,
Situations 'depending, on whether which method will result in release,
Or release unfeasible,
What your values hold.
Created:
Whether the people involved were White 'or Black,
Some of us would have the same opinion on various legal cases.
Whether guilty or innocent.
I 'think.
'Others, would/do not.
Created:
Posted in:
Happy Thanksgiving, of which I am thankful, thinking on how I'd design a video game, has been entertaining me.
Also thankful, I worked last night, but not tonight.
Created:
Posted in:
If we made less 'variety of goods,
Would their prices be cheaper?
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@Bones
It's more the movement and momentum that they lack, theist or atheist, to kill those, not of their persuasion.
Though that's common of 'many beliefs and values.
Not that I mean to say all atheists or theists would get on board such a movement,
But such movements 'do occur.
Created:
Posted in:
Bah!
'I'd not remove it.
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@Polytheist-Witch
To be fair, I doubt all atheists hate theists.
Maybe not even a significant number,
Internet often results in vocal minority of individuals,
Resulting in an illusion of truth in statistics.
I 'think.
Created:
Posted in:
I wonder if ads would be more effective,
If they acted more like real people,
Super extroverted people of course, but human,
Hm, I suppose they do in some cases,
But it's 'still too patently obvious, and irritating,
Invasive.
A more 'real person, could make friends in video games, chat rooms, conversation,
While bringing up a product on the sly, or without obtrusion, make it seem natural.
In this I'm not even talking of 'ads I suppose, but real people sellers as well,
Really 'real people would be 'more effective at it currently.
Created:
Posted in:
I do 'vaguely recall a number of complaints about a lack of police presence in Kenosha,
But I have difficulty in finding information on the police activities and force,
The way Wikipedia describes it,
Police were there and taking 'some action, but it sounds their presence was not as high as supporters of the police being their wanted,
Their actions also sound more defensive than offensive, which isn't by 'itself bad.
The protests during the day were more peaceful, sounds, and more riotous at night.
Night might be difficult to control, keep track of.
'My interpretation of why police were hesitant to act,
Is due to all the calls of disbanding the police, and complaints of their actions.
(I'm not saying the police do no wrong, or cannot improve their actions)
,
But my impression, is that it was more due to public disfavor, the 'support of the protests, than a fear of handguns.
Of course individuals such as Trump did not help, with how he phrased or thought, in what manner police ought act.
Created:
Posted in:
Leftist, is a wide spectrum, I think.
I think a 'significant number of leftists prefer having their guns, to having them taken away.
Though that's not to say there are not leftists 'for gun control, and removal.
Even without guns, mobs and groups of individuals have clashed in the past, present, future, Quite commonly.
'Maybe he would not have gone, maybe he would, maybe he would not have been targeted, maybe he would, maybe he would have been slightly beaten, maybe he would have suffered fractures, eye loss, brain injury, or death.
Unless one is taking a Boondock Saints/Punisher view of one's actions, which I'm no-
Hm, I suppose government executes people for past crimes,
But I'm still not advocating or supporting vigilantism, at this moment, probably not in future either, if I thought about it.
Point though,
Is that individuals losing their lives for past crimes, 'isn't, in a way.
The justification is 'post, so to speak,
Explanatory for blame,
Individuals with checkered pasts, and horrible deeds, we attribute responsibility for their ends, as we sometimes see a pattern,
"Well no wonder they died" people think "They kept on doing stupid stuff"
Sympathy is also lost, depending on the individual,
Whether left or right, seeing others on the opposite spectrum, often results in a loss of sympathy/understanding, Same with crimes. (Not saying it's good or bad)
Anyway, I'm rambling.
People remarking on individuals bad pasts, has more to do with an attempt to stop the martyr effect, than justify the 'action,
It's a de-justification of the 'person?
Eh, I'm just talking nonsense, but don't feel like deleting my words.
(Edit)
I suppose,
Attacking or defending the person, isn't an ad hominin in court,
Because their character is tied to their actions,
And so the blame, or mitigation of such.
Created:
Posted in:
I find it odd, that I don't see legit download websites.
Rather, content is hidden behind paywalls, or limited to the websites, with 'fake download ability, like YouTube.
Be easy enough to just have some quality control on what videos one allows,
Make sure that they're not copyrighted, or are posted by permission of author,
Or maybe that's 'more complicated than I think.
Just have a requirement for X amount of time spent on site,
Where user has to watch/read ads, and then answer questioners after, to prove they watched/read it,
Or at least 'know of the product in the add, and have been reminded of it.
Created:
Posted in:
I suppose one of the pieces of the isekai genre that bothers me,
Is it's apparent appeal of escapism,
Though that's one of the appeals of fiction I suppose,
The. . . 'quality feels different in isekai.
The suddenness of oneself being plucked from reality as it is known, bothers me a fair bit as well I suppose.
One of the reasons I'm not greatly fond of the horror genre either.
I dislike a feeling of helplessness.
The wish fulfillment, Mary Sues, harems, and morality/ethics I don't care for, just irritate me.
The 'justifications the characters give for slavery and war,
I 'just don't care for.
Admittedly not 'all of what I dislike is in 'all isekai, but it's been in a fair number of them.
Eh, problem of some anime and manga, I suppose.
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@whiteflame
I dislike the isekai genre in general, for reasons, though I read some of them from time to time.
So I'm a Spider, So What? 'Was somewhat interesting to read, as the protagonist overcame challenges,
But I stopped reading at a certain point, when their lack of humanity started to bother me.
Though when I say lack of humanity, I suppose I mean morality and ethics, as 'I value them, or value reading fiction of them.
(Edit)
Also the cute girl form, she looked like she was going to get, didn't interest me.
I prefer the idea of one becoming physically a monster, but overcoming such.
To Add a bit of an alien perspective, but the human heart to prevail.
Created:
Posted in:
I dislike how all these trials recently, are becoming backdrops to ideological positions.
Not that the methods and outcomes 'don't reflect ideological positions,
But it's 'really looking to me, 'especially after this Rittenhouse trial,
That people are treating this all like some high stakes sports game.
As I see a news headline about the stakes in the Aubrey case being raised,
As though, "We lost that game boy's, but we can win the next one, the enemy shall be defeated!"
It's not that I don't support people having an opinion on politics, or the courts.
But it all feels so base recently,
People blinded, or at least wearing blinders,
As they thunder about.
So many protests recently,
Why don't individuals put that effort towards helping the poor, hungry, or homeless,
If they've so much time on their hands, and burning passions?
. . .
I also don't much like change in society I suppose.
Though people who form groups and 'new societies, don't bother me so much.
And in a number of cases, I even 'agree with a number of ideals of some groups, (IF ONLY THEY"D FORM A NEW SOCIETY)
. . .
Though likely, this is much of the problem, 'I think.
Created:
Posted in:
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@Greyparrot
"I guess... Democrats used KKK intimidation to keep Jim Crow around for a long time when there were 300,000 members instead of 3000." - Greyparrot
Could the Democrats be identified as a/the Conservative Party, at that point and hapstance of time?
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@Greyparrot
"Yes. Mostly because we don't have very many actual white supremacists in the traditional sense (KKK has less than 3000 members)But the few that America does have do not practice jury intimidation. I'd like to see your proof to the contrary." - Greyparrot
'Currently, 'maybe.
But that's mainly due to their support being so weak, I imagine.
Easier to get away with outrageous acts, when one has support.
Depending on how one 'defines the Right, I'm doubtful that they're not without issues themselves.
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@TheUnderdog
I think people can pick certain values, in certain situations.
Rather than pick a value for 'all situations.
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@TheUnderdog
I hate the idea.
What defines a nation?
"A large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory."
Google tells me.
Eh, humans all pretty related, have a world history, shared culture, laws, inhabit Earth.
Though there's always groups within groups, it seems.
For why I hate the idea though, Ego, Nationalism, Loyalty, Pride.
There's no point in joining with others.
There's a point in 'winning, and my 'own people's values, ideals, culture, and blood being triumphant.
Arguing against the video's point,
I think it misses humanity.
Groups within groups, I say.
Individuals and tribes opposed.
Doesn't matter if it's a country as you and I understand the word common,
Or a gang, a faction.
"he empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide."- Romance of the Three Kingdoms, I 'think
There's 'always going to be factions, 'I think.
Look at the history of Japan, a country of warring factions.
Though maybe I'm too pessimistic.
. . .
I also worry a bit though, about 'one group of individuals having control over everything though.
Having different powers, works as a honeycomb of sorts.
Even if one falls, the others can live and carry on humanity.
Been a 'lot of crazy individuals and ruler groups in history, who've 'really messed up or killed their people before.
(edit)
Still an interesting video,
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@TheUnderdog
I 'did say roughly,
Since tradition can be convoluted or complicated.
New one's created.
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@oromagi
@TheUnderdog
I was in the Navy for 5 years, never went on a ship though, oddly enough.
There's 'going to be an unavoidable war at some point, I'd hazard.
So it seems good to have a military that 'understands war,
Though I admit I 'hate the idea of sending people to a war they'd rather not fight.
Volunteers though, who want to participate in conflict, would be good though.
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@TheUnderdog
Small government, and a valuation of freedom, does not mean anarchy.
Nor does a dislike of war, disregard it's perceived necessity at times.
Safety of the tribe, does not mean safety to strangers.
Though safety to 'invited guests, is not bad.
Your logic involves too many sudden jumps, black and white, extremes.
An absence of gray and nuance.
To me, Conservativism, 'roughly means tradition.
Groups are groups, and individuals are individuals.
People always have principles, just sometimes we don't like the one's people have.
Which is what we 'call unprincipled I suppose.
But groups and individuals are like the waves,
Appearing and falling, sometimes with honor, sometimes without.
I'm rambling.
Created:
Posted in:
@No One In Particular
Though I can't remember the particular piece, I think either Confucius or Mencius, said something along the lines of it being better to improve the people's character, than material improvements, such as roads, swords, more crops.
Which I think of from time to time,
Whenever I might have seen fiction of some old world people,
Inventing some new hardier form of rice, finding a new fertile land,
And in either case remarking on how they will be able to solve hunger, and humanity be at peace.
But of course humanity in reality, 'usually,
Grows beyond the new food threshold,
Or goes about destruction in paradise.
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@Reece101
Mostly I've forgotten my thought process, posted while sleep deprived, when peculiar thoughts and musings dash about.
Still,
I'd agree what I said was "a vague approbative understanding of what religion means to you, but then applying that to everything else."
"Can you please explain further how they’re all taken on faith and rallying around ones tribe? " - Reece101
Hm, well, looking at it, I was mentioning a number of accomplishments, I'd say we attribute to science.
Medicine, technology,
But regardless of 'living in such a society,
It doesn't follow that the inhabitants necessarily 'understand the workings of such,
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - Arthur C. Clarke
"Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced". - Barry Gehm
"Any technology, no matter how primitive, is magic to those who don't understand it." - Florence Ambrose
It's my opinion that a good many religious writings are meaningful in more than a fantastic story.
They speak of meaning psychological and social, individual and group, and the importance of such.
Sure religion 'can just be X made us, believe in X, X is good.
But such practice of religion, is not the type of religion that has impressed me in life.
Parables and Proverbs, impresses me in places,
But I'm rambling.
. . .
Point I 'think I was trying to make, is that even those who see themselves divorced from religion, are in no way disentangled from the 'essence of religion or the psychology of humanity, as I see them.
Created:
Posted in:
Humanism and naturalism, bah.
It ends up the same as religion, a direction of the 'apparent good, Of the 'moment.
Nor do I think religion 'bound to blind faith, any more than 'science bound to skepticism.
The general public doesn't understand the economy, the necessities of government, science, mechanics, medicine.
It's all taken on faith, and more often than not, it's but a rallying around one's tribe.
Not saying 'I understand all that stuff, or that some individuals aren't experts, or fairly knowledgeable,
Just feeling acidic at the moment.
Besides, what did religion and Earth contain 'but humans and nature, that man took/takes into account with religion?
Created:
Posted in:
I find the Public Moderation Log,
Amusing to read.
Feels too bad in a way, that it does not keep 'all records, but I can understand why it does not.
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@Swagnarok
Well, new Peterson videos 'are still being released on YouTube.
I haven't looked at any of his stuff for about 4 months though, till I saw this topic again.
Created:
Posted in:
1 Are you vaccinated (or getting vaccinated very soon, no need to specify which), whether you are or aren't please state why (if it's a 'no' due to rare immunodeficiency disease you don't need to specify which just say health-related)?
Yes.
I live with family, and it put their fears of me and them getting sick, to rest,
Though I got the vaccine more to avoid 'their sickness, than my own.
2 Which vaccine, why that vaccine?
Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 single-dose vaccine.
Because it was a 'single dose, and I am lazy.
3 Do you support vaccine mandates?
I am unsure.
I dislike government having too much influence over people.
Depending on precedents in history, I haven't bothered to look up, I might be more supportive of it, might not, even 'if the precedents lean 'towards vaccine mandates positively.
4 Do you believe Covid is a left-wing conspiracy?
No,
But I do have doubts now and then,
Not that I think Covid is fake,
But that the media, government, medicine, might be blowing it a bit out of proportion.
Whether due to their own misunderstandings of it,
Or because once an individual or group gets on a track, they can have difficulty getting off it.
Covid is a standard of sorts, for the left to gather under, make headway, push aside competition.
'Again, I'm not saying that Covid isn't real, or is not a threat,
Just that I have nagging thoughts in the back of my head now and then,
I've 'greatly disliked the media in recent years,
Maybe would have disliked it in years past, if I'd paid more attention then.
Created:
Posted in:
Did navies ever use ships as carriers, but for smaller boats in combat?
Rather than airplanes I mean.
Created:
Posted in:
Personally, I'm expecting another Biden or Trump election, though I think there's a good chance of someone else.
Those are the two people I 'currently find most likely,
Though my 'knowledge on the subject is 'near ignorance.
Created:
Posted in:
I wonder why more people who buy lottery tickets, don't do so in groups, that when the jackpot was split, would have half a million dollars or so.
Really one doesn't need to win a bajillion dollars, just enough that life is more comfortable.
Eh, odds would 'still be terrible I assume, still, increasing your odds, without having to pay any more money in purchasing the ticket, seems decent strategy to me.
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@zedvictor4
@Reece101
That 'sounds right, but,
Religion 'speaks of what material is doing, and ought to do, 'why it does, why is should, what is useful,
And arises 'out of material conditions.
Though I'm likely confusing myself somehow.
Would the concept of a 'door be a social construct?
Plato's Forms pop to mind,
And suddenly a 'lot of things related to humans, sound a bit like social constructs.
Friendship, enemies, borders.
I say this, because I vaguely remember people handwaving concepts as social constructs, but something being a social construct, does not make it lack meaning or relevance to groups or individuals, I'd think.
Not make it good or bad in itself, simply by being a construct.
Yeah, but you wouldn't disagree with the adverse dictate because it's a 'construct, but because it's adverse to you, I'd think.
I suppose a schizophrenic hearing hallucinations or having delusions, wouldn't be material, except that it 'would, something happening in their brain/body, a malfunction.
Maybe an individual with no health problems, given to delusions or worries, wouldn't be a material problem, except some semantics in me, say it 'would be material. In the sense of how the material human is shaped by birth and experiences.
Hm, I'm unsure why this is confusing me.
Axes, hammers, screwdrivers, tools, houses, books, are constructs, simple enough.
A word, sentence, or idea is a construct, simple enough.
. . .
Hm.
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@zedvictor4
Does it matter whether something is a social construct?
Created:
Posted in:
Personally, I think genetics/race/ethnicity/species, are all meaningful constructs and/or realities.
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@thett3
There 'are a number of jobs that require college, or various certifications.
Even if they're looking to hire anyone they can.
I think college is worth the cost, though if I went, I'd make an effort to go as cheap as I can in what I choose, without experiencing significant drop in quality.
Community college, online classes, I suppose.
'If I went.
Created:
-->
@BigPimpDaddy
Personally, I don't think I would have supported the American Revolution, at the time.
Had I been around, back then.
. . .
Well, at the least, I would not have advocated for a separation from England, I think.
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@zedvictor4
If an airplane and the individual inside, crash into my house, I have the right to shoot them, and toss their corpse from my house, your way of thinking?
Course it's 'usually worse, with 'most individuals shooting down the plane in the first place, causing it to crash into their own house.
Then claiming self defense against an event they themselves caused.
. . .
'Even worse by the individual in the plane being one's child, who again, is usually 'caused into crashing by the action of the homeowner.
But eh, if a lot of people aren't bothered by parents murdering their babies.
. . .
Certainly 'I'm not much, I suppose. Given I don't protest of spend time on activist activities, but that's much par the course for myself, and my beliefs.
Ah well.
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@Discipulus_Didicit
That's one point of view, sure.
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@Discipulus_Didicit
Ever hear of a martyr?
Created:
Posted in:
Ho Hum, listening to music at half speed.
Created:
Posted in:
-->
@Ramshutu
I didn't like the Wheel of Time series,
Though the world was fleshed out, there were interesting creatures and villains.
I disliked the way the women in the book were written, as I recall.
Found them too hypocritical, pushy,
I also disliked the torture, slavery, rape, and unfortunate fates in the book,
Too much breaking the haughty for me.
Even when it occurs to villains, I don't care for it much.
Created: