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is it ironic that citizens in red states get more federal entitlements than citizens in blue states, or is that expected given the nature of the conservatard working class's hypocrisy?
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I'll tell you what pisses me off about this commercial. she's deliberately talking a liiiiiiitle slower (it's almost imperceptible) than normal becuz they are targeting the really old rich people who are hard-of-hearing and slow to understand technical terms, and who have loads of money sitting around ready to be invested.

instead of 'no, we use diversified strategies to position, etc, etc' i hear in the same slow, patronizing voice 'you're an old useless retard who's going to give me control of all your money.'
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I just dropped two oxycodones, a muscle relaxer and smoked some chronic, and now I'm going jogging. Have u ever heard of such a thing?
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promethean75 wrote: Sat Mar 04, 2023 5:17 pm I just dropped two oxycodones, a muscle relaxer and smoked some chronic, and now I'm going jogging. Have u ever heard of such a thing?
If it would be more inclusive of me to say so, I get about the same feeling (and aerobic workout) from a good porn flick. However, the risk of unknowingly supporting the sexploitation of a female is probably somewhere in line with the risk of unknowingly ingesting fentanyl. The only real difference is that where you'd be ending your life, I possibly might be ending someone else's chances at heaven (according to some accounts). I don't know. But something to consider. Call it a meditation on "applied ethics" if you want.
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The story gets my vote for at once getting straight to the point as to what lies at the heart of philosophy and also keeping it respectfully short. Kudos OP.
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see I can't take siriusly the heros of religious crusades. like those jihadist guys. all that fighting and killing over totally imaginary ideas. it's embarrassing man. what i can get into however is the guy who loses his house and shoots up the bank, or Geronimo, or Aatami Korpi... or John Q (a great example). now these are real problems that can create interesting heroes.
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to avoid suicide one has to have physical health first. and the more narcissistic u are, the more u will value yourself and be proud of your good health. second one has to the edge to strike out and destroy something else if it ever gets so bad that one would even consider commiting suicide. at such a point there should be no negotiating 'who's fault one's failures are' and assigning blame, etc. that's too complicated. unless u are in agonizing pain, any reason you'd have for killing yourself would involve a great disappointment of some kind (which we are not assigning blame for), and chances are very good that there are some causes, not your own, in the chain of causes that were critical in leading to your current miserable state, the drive to 'make right' should burst forth from that misery and serve to empower u and turn that destructive force outward (if only in the name of self preservation).

agonizing pain or tremendous guilt. that's it, and tremendous guilt doesn't even work becuz it makes no sense to off yourself just becuz u were drunk and ran over a whole family or something.

this is a simple instructional for people who believe in freewill, and therefore are capable of experiencing feelings like guilt, resentment, shame, etc. a way to snap them out of those immersive, emotional disturbances that cause them to ever question their own right to exist before all else.

causalists (my new term for determinists) experience none of this and would be able to immediately recognize the shit storm that is this world and the innumerable people and systems that have contributed to one's present miserable state of contemplating suicide.

if u recognize this much, and u need to siriusly, u put your own life, health and pleasure before anyone or anything.

and u can't count sacrificing yourself for your loved ones. that's not suicide in the sense that i mean it. one can certainly value and want to secure another person's life at the expense of their own. the sacrificial nature of the willingness to die in this way is substantially different than wanting to die becuz u lost your job, or spouse, or are overweight, or bullied, or bored, or reading too many Camus novels, or upset because u one day realize there is no god and think to yourself I think we're all dead meat. none of these are reason enough to kill yourself. go kill something else if u absolutely must, but never yourself.

(exempt are those reasons mentioned. u can kill yourself for those reasons only)

nothing's worse than a suicide chump
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and when i say the causalist would recognize his ego, his right to live and what he enjoys before all else, I'm not saying that this excludes the well being of all others. only that he would understand the right reasons to enjoy the well being of others... becuz it must please him in some way. not that he owes anything, not becuz he's obligated to anything, not becuz he believes he has been ordered to do so by [insert favorite god/godess].

the paradox is the fact that becuz the individual is utterly unique, he/she is both the most and least meaningful thing. least- becuz of how many we are; if there were only a couple peeps in the universe, they'd be inconceivably meaningful. most- becuz there is only one thing like u, and that is u.

a unique meaningless snowflake. Just adorable. Would you look at that.

Anyway u have to have a kind of dontaskmenian wizdom to have an understanding of what's going on here. stirner so far has provided the most existentially fun description of man imo. the creative nothing, the unique one in the heights of eigenheit.
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if the fact that god is a sadist gives the satanist license to be evil, the satanist is a hipocrit. he becomes an egoist, an immoralist, etc., all becuz he's convinced that if god is malevolent, he can be too, or else that makes god a hipocrit. these mind games happen deep in the darkened incensed lava lamp bedrooms of aspiring young satanists all the time.

see if the satanist doesn't really want the world to suck and is only becoming evil becuz he's pissed at god, he shouldn't have any right to object to god being a d*ck.

we have a revolt here, something childish and immature. the satanist is a reactionary.

when will we have our genuine stirnerite article who is not only incapable of ressentiment, but wholly unconcerned with whatever god would be up to, anyway?
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The satanist should be the better man (than god) and do benevolent stuff. He's got it totally backward if he's tryna revolt against god. See what I'm sayin?
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they won't shut the fuck up about government this and government that until they collapse, then they go begging the government to bail them out.

still decent news tho. collapsing banks are always a good sign.
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promethean75 wrote: Fri Mar 10, 2023 2:41 pm The satanist should be the better man (than god) and do benevolent stuff. He's got it totally backward if he's tryna revolt against god. See what I'm sayin?
What the fuck is a satanist anyway (apart from a fucking idiot)?

Everytime God had me in HELL, there was no 'satan' ...the last time I pleaded that the twat show up, nuffin. God has two sides, a good side, and a really really wrath fucked evil side that wo/man should never test.
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yes, a satanist is more of an idiot that a christian (not by much tho), but only becuz he's aligned himself with the losing team (he's read revelations so he knows what happens in the end). So he's either retarded or a masochist.
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and that wuzzint god messing with u, mate. god is dead. those were angels, meek spirits, that don't know what to do now that god is dead... so they just float around tryna make everyone weaker, more passive, etc., in this world of shit.  but see they mean well, that's the bitch about it. they're not bad, just terribly naive.
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promethean75 wrote: Mon Mar 13, 2023 9:20 pm yes, a satanist is more of an idiot that a christian (not by much tho), but only becuz he's aligned himself with the losing team (he's read revelations so he knows what happens in the end). So he's either retarded or a masochist.
I don't think most satanists literally believe in satan. If someone believes in satan, they're probably a christian.
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