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"The fundamental question of philosophy is what should we do?"

"Absit iniuria, no, that's not it. That's not the fundamental question of philosophy?"

"Well, what is then?"

"You're not a philosopher are you?"

"I have a PhD in philosophy from Nirud University, Abdan"

"I have two PhDs, one in philosophy and the other in toad digestion."

"And ... ???"

"Toads can't digest milk."

"That's irrelevant as far as I can tell."

"Si señor, as far as you can tell."

"Ah! I see now what you mean. Toads, do they croak like frogs do?"

"You're a true philosopher mon ami"

"Merci beaucoup."
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i try to imagine what it would be like to be a Christian who after half their life suddenly realizes they were wrong, and not only that, but that the shit they once believed is actually the cause (directly or indirectly) of all the horrible social and economic suffering that billions of people have, are and will, continue to suffer.

like how do u recover from that? I'd feel dumb all over. bro I'd prolly march straight into the back room and kill myself. 

No u know what they tell themselves at that point? This is the reasoning; if there is no god, there ought not be life becuz it will be meaningless. They're secret Schopenhauereans, my friends.
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adam sandler got the mark Twain award for comedy? unbelievable. i can name ten comedian/actors that better deserved that award. sandler is a two trick pony with veeery little range. and what he does that is funny is only funny for a second and then its meh okay what else. really, what does he do other than the angry new Yorker, the acoustic guitar as dracula or the jew, and that yaba daba doobie do thing he always does?
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one of the reasons I'm a sociopath is becuz of the commercials i constantly see on TV. the same ones every day, every seven minutes. and I gotta see em becuz they're on the news channel i monitor.

now this is no bullshit as u are about to see. three times he did it (or didn't, rather). three times. i want u to fucking count it. do it.

https://youtu.be/eeHtESU1VoM
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Three times
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Not once. Not twice. Three times.
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the hard-right's nervousness over the fact that there are a lot of stupid people in the world is something aesthetic. it's not a real scientific problem. u could drop everybody's IQ by at least fifteen points and aside from there maybe being a bit more crime, nobody would have a problem surviving and living just like they would have if they didn't lose those fifteen points. nothing would be different, except u would be a little dumber. why, becuz living is so easy in the modern world; successfully navigating the environment and increasing one's chance to reproduce is very, very easy to do.

now's here's the thing. by what standard do u rate intelligence type and level if not by the fitness level of the individual/species? ah, you're gonna say 'but the quality of intelligence is going down. people are reading people magazine instead of Bertrand Russell.' okay but again: what about reading bertrand russell is necessary for the survival and reproductive success of the individual? If u don't like stupid people, move to Vienna. But don't be all like omg we're all doomed becuz everybody is getting dumber.

if being more smart just means u have a greater range of interests and are a cooler person, that's neither here nor there. if being more smart means u have a greater range of talents and capacities, that's relevant only to the degree that those talents and capacities are required for the individual to succeed reproductively and experience a relatively happy life.

these are bonuses, perks, not requirements.  if an environment is more easily adaptive to the individual and vice-versa, certain features of higher intelligence become unecessary vestigial characteristics. and u can bet that the newly automated world run by superintelligent AI is gonna make it even easier to have a good time.

being smart is twentieth century stuff. u don't need it anymore. Idiocracy is possible and sustainable, and the phenomenological nature of the individual's experience will be just like it wuz in any other logically possible world with or without fifteen more IQ points. 
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perhaps, but if you're refering to me taking issue with the cookie guy, u also need to consider this. they did that scene more than a few times I'm sure when they made the commerical.... which means that every time they did the scene, that guy had to not bite that cookie three times. now imagine what that would do to a man. i don't mean psychologically or existentially. i mean in premeditated automative redundancy of the artificial sense. it got so bad that in even the best of the takes - the one they ended up using for the commercial - u can see how contrived his motion is... how when the hand brings the cookie to the mouth, the mouth is already open a microsecond before the cookie even gets there... they arrive at the same time... like one over rehearsed motion.  he had done that cookie move so many fuckin times by now his brain didn't sequence it anymore and just ran it as one move.

in all siriusness that man may never be able to genuinely decide not to bite a cookie at the last moment, again.
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please don't have a middle class college aged white guy with good credit who looks like an environmentally friendly American jesus rake all seven of the empty bottles off the beach so he can watch with wonder as the turtles come onto the shore safely and lay their eggs thus continuing the magical circle of life, etc.

ohp, I'm too late
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Being in love is lovely, especially when the love is of a reciprocal nature, where the love between two people are magically drawn to each other, magnetically and chemically, and no other will do. When love becomes like a drug, like a constant supply of dopamine release, free and abundant and effortless.

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That looks like the jesus guy with the Kia Sportage X-Pro. R u fucking with me?
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well i got some bad news. some old audio recordings Dr. Carlisle made during sexy Ted's 90 day evaluation at Utah state prison before sentencing for the DaRonch case have recently surfaced. in one of em Ted the Bundbarian admits in third person that he's pretty much responsible for the Jersey Shore murders of 69. Said he wuz hanging out in downtown new york and ended up in one of those XXX theaters and saw some shit he ain't never seen before (Washington theaters had nothing like it). Said it sent em right over the edge. 23 year old Ted. i can only imagine what the poor kid saw in that theater. full bushed sixties chicks in a red light room all sweaty and writhing and moaning with that wah-wah peddle guitar porn music going and Ted wuz like holy fuck I can't take this no more man.

DaRonch has the clipped down parts from the two Oxygen documentaries that have the recordings.
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bro it's like everywhere i look and see bad news, capitalism's involved. last week two or three trains derail and we got a guy who thinks he's a woman (or vice versa) shoots some childrens in a school. a couple days later a guy kills everybody in a bank becuz he loses his job there. i wake up this morning and a fucking factory's on fire somewhere becuz the owner's negligence. meanwhile the war rages on in Ukraine and now china's fixin to hit Taiwan. it's like every day with this shit bro. And now the guy across the street from me - my homeboy Don - dies after being on a waiting list for kidneys for three fuckin years. I wuz just over there last week tryna help his big ass get back into his chair after he fell out of it. Guy's been on dialysis for years waiting to get some kidneys, only to end up dying two days ago. And he's retired military too. That's how we treat out veterans.
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