God doesn’t exist (though there is a tiny, tiny chance there’s some higher power that doesn’t intervene, because the human intelligence gap is unreasonably huge, making humans undeniably special)
Every organized religion is a cult
Free will is an illusion
Aliens most likely exist, given the insane size of the universe and we know life can exist here
Humans will still always give in to their brutal tribal instincts and that’s why the world is how it is
I believe I’d like another drink.
I believe the pen in front of me exists.
I believe it’s the duty of the strong to protect the weak.
If you can’t protect the weak, then you’re not really strong.
I agree, and well put.
- Water is wet
- The sky is blue
- Women have secrets
The sky isn’t blue.
The power of friendship (I have no friends)
What is stopping you from having friends?
Myself I guess.
I Believe in the Power of American Native
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You’re one up on me there.
Which God?
It took me longer than I’d like to think of an answer.
Maths.
Maths is good.
The world is made of magic, it just differentiated into so many forms, that one of them is science and that’s what many people believe is all there is.
I feel in the mood to explain more about this:
Similar to european school’s history classes tend to be focused on european history (we call that “eurocentrism”), our worldview is focused on humans, i think that’s called “anthropocentrism”. While humans are important, it’s not everything there is. There’s also plants and other living beings, and in fact there’s many more of them than of us. I try to consider that.
I’m calling the unity of all life “magic”, i came up with that and it’s supposed to be a play-on-words on the german word “Magen” (stomach) (representing that plants and animals are connected through an important relationship that is food). Also the stomach is the organ most physiologically/spatially central in the human body, in my opinion. So i imagine that everything’s in the human is built around that “central” organ that is the stomach. That makes sense as the intake of food is the root of all animal existence, that enables animal’s existence in the first place. Thus “everything is created from the stomach outwards”, as supportive organs to help the stomach collect and digest food.
This is an interesting take.
I like to think of Science as magic, because it really is.
Ancient peoples played with “Alchemy,” and modern chemistry is simply that. They would lose it if they knew we could “grow” diamonds, or that we have created an entirely new element.
Or that we’ve turned lead into gold, though not very cost-effectively to say the least.
- Humans are inherently lazy and mentally unflexible
- Humans are inherently evil and the veil of civilisation is really really thin.
- Humans are greedy in every aspect
- There are some exceptions,but the above applies generally
If humans are inherently evil, why is evil not the dominant force in the world? One would assume that if everyone were indeed evil, greedy, and out for themselves our existence could only be anarchy.
Who says it is not the dominant force? End stage capitalism is pretty close to anarchy and we will see what happens next.
After 25 years in healthcare and humanitarian work you get a grim perspective.
If you were correct society as a whole would already exist as true anarchy, therefore humans are not inherently evil, greedy, or out for themselves. We could not coexist in any meaningful way if that were true.
I really don’t know where you get your assumptions from but they are terrible
The only reason society exists is because of a fucktonne of rules going back several thousand years about how you are supposed to behave in a society
If you want to see what barebones humans without societal rules, read up on feral children
hy is evil not the dominant force in the world?
It is tho, capitalistic cruelty literally runs on the blood and sweat of the lower classes, if that isn’t evil I don’t know what is
I’m nitpicky about the word “believe”. So let me rephrase: I do not believe. Either I know, or I don’t know. Everything else are more or less informed speculations, assumptions or hypotheses at best.
I do not believe. Either I know, or I don’t know.
You know things but do not accept them to be true or real?
how do you know you know?
Cogito ergo sum.
Accepting a common framework of provable, i.e., measurable, repeatable, falsifiable phenomena, as a concept of “reality,” seems to be a pragmatic approach, given my sensory inputs and the processing results of my brain. This is then “knowledge.”
But ultimately, this is subordinated to the possibility of an illusion – be it like in The Matrix, or as a Boltzmann brain, or whatever. Unless there is evidence for that, it appears most practical to me to go with the above, as I don’t gain anything from racking my brain about such possible illusions of reality (even though it’s fun thinking about it).
Or you might just be wrong or uninformed. That will certainly contribute to your current beliefs. Whenever you make a decision it is based on a belief. The belief being that you’re making the best choice based on your other beliefs. Be it scientific measurements, theorems and equations, it always has a margin of error actual grandness of which we truly are unaware of, because all one can be are aware of are just models of reality embed in ones mind by sensory input one were able to recieve and ones mental capabilities. of course the beliefs which are practical are the most likely to survive the test of time, however it does not prove them to be absolutely true, they’re just true enough for their application and propagation.The world is just too complex and unpredictable for human beings to operate in without considerate use of belief.
A thing called love
What is love?
Baby don’t hurt me!
Don’t hurt me!
Does anybody love anybody anyway?
Just listen to the rhythm of my heart!
There’s a chance we could make it now!
Do you believe in love after love?
Brb gotta feel what my insides say
Life after love
These are some more lighthearted things, but here goes:
• Sonic the Hedgehog ( Sonic '06 ) wouldn’t be as fun of a game if all the bugs and glitches were gone. I live for a good glitch or six sometimes. Same without the highly difficult and janky super speed sections.
• Sonic Unleashed is an amazing game ( but the xbox/ps3 versions are the superior versions, as someone who has beat it on ps2 and xbox360 ).
• Due to the janky turn left/right movements on Sonic Lost World and just general movement jank, I am absolutely glad they have the run button to occasionally slow me down and stop me from dying.
• Also an extreme believer that the special stages ( on the 3DS version of Lost World ) are absolute cancer.
• Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl was nowhere near as good as The Wrong Trousers. I absolutely hated how they made Wallace absolutely incompetent and idiotic when it comes to normal things ( like how to use a non-electric tea pot ) when he didn’t have any technology.
• Xbox style controllers with BAXY ( right, down, left, up ) button layout are the way to go. The only exception to that belief right now is my 3rd party wired switch controller because it has a headphone jack.
I haven’t played any of the Sonic games since Sonic and Knuckles so I am going to have to take your word on all of that. haha
I am partial to how the Joycon is set up myself, but I think it is just because of how much I play it compared to alternate styled consoles.
Sonic and Knuckles special stages are so much better, in my opinion. Maybe I’m just not good at the Lost World special stages on 3DS, but I somehow struggle because they use motion controls ( moving myself and the whole system to move in a 3D environment ). Moving along in a straight line to collect balls is so much easier, in my opinion.
Also, joycons are an alright enough setup, but I personally don’t like how small they are. My hands were not made for extended unattached usage of those things.
No one needs more than 500sqft of living space per capital until poverty is eradicated
War is absurd and the consequence of greed and senile, old, fucked up and immoral men
Democracy doesn’t work without a limit on speech - specifically hate speech, authoritarianism, and ethnic superiority ideology
Fascism is the greatest concern of the western world right now
Genocide deserves instant disavowal and should convince any sane person to immediately support removing any government official or politician from office who doesn’t oppose it
Black Lives Matter, and American history has treated black Americans awfully (see prison industrial complex)
Housing isn’t an investment vehicle. Tax speculative purchasing of housing. Support government building high density housing like the HBD system in Singapore or Austria’s housing system
So 1000sqft for a couple, 1500 for a family of 3?
That seems pretty reasonable, though I’m not sure it really scales linearly. My wife and I live in appx. 1000sqft, and that’s really plenty for us. An extra 500sqft seems about right when we have a kid, but another 500 for each additional kid would be excessive.
I gave it as an upper bound.
E.g. 3500sqft for a 3-5 person family is way too large.
Mansions are basically an immoral amount of waste/greed (in the realm of >1000sqft per person, or super rich person mansions in the realm of 10,000sqft per person)
