Jophiel wrote:
What were we talking about? Twilight?
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The baby was the one that came closest to ending the series sooner by almost killing the nondescript plank of wood with his birth, so I'm on his side.
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Smasharoo wrote:
His posts strike me as the ranting of a doped-up shamanic vision.It's probably sadder than that. It strikes me as the result of a man too intelligent to cope with meaningless reality of human existence through ignorance, while at the same time being too creative and open minded not to try and find some reason life might not be so pointless. The detour from the path of nihilism is often spirituality for those who care for others and feel for the world as a whole. For high functioning sociopaths like me, it's trivial to say "life is meaningless, lying to yourself doesn't make it any less so". For people with empathy and intelligence, I imagine it's a constant battle to find something to cling to which makes life worth living.Edited, Dec 4th 2014 1:26pm by Smasharoo
If you try to wonder and reason why, you will miss so many delicious things set upon your plate. Devour, Devour, brief insect, understand, but do not know.
Just as Planned.
Sure, Joph. If Twilight is the metaphor you need, I'm happy it's available to you.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
lolgaxe wrote:
Jophiel wrote:
What were we talking about? Twilight?
Team werewolf-guy!
Team werewolf-guy!
Someone had told me (or I read in a post somewhere) that the baby was a girl and the werewolf had marked her is some weird claiming ritual for future mating.
(I've not read or sceen the books or movies.)
Can't sleep, clown will eat me.
Samira wrote:
It's dangerous for me to think this way for too long - the impulse to **** with people gets to be too much, and that's not the person I want to be.
That impulse hard to avoid. I think the trick is to find something reasonably productive to occupy yourself with.
Just as Planned.
I don't think I'm a high functioning sociopath
I'm sure I'm not either, but it's a convenient shorthand for my more complex personality, which even if I could articulate clearly, people wouldn't understand the nuance of. That said, I can switch empathy on or off at will and have always been able to. So...whatever that is. Hypomanic selective nihilist who loves his family.
Hey, have you read the First Law series by Abercrombie. I'm about halfway through the main trilogy, and I'm really enjoying it.
I'm sure I'm not either, but it's a convenient shorthand for my more complex personality, which even if I could articulate clearly, people wouldn't understand the nuance of. That said, I can switch empathy on or off at will and have always been able to. So...whatever that is. Hypomanic selective nihilist who loves his family.
Hey, have you read the First Law series by Abercrombie. I'm about halfway through the main trilogy, and I'm really enjoying it.
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To make a long story short, I don't take any responsibility for anything I post here. It's not news, it's not truth, it's not serious. It's parody. It's satire. It's bitter. It's angsty. Your mother's a *****. You like to jack off dogs. That's right, you heard me. You like to grab that dog by the bone and rub it like a ski pole. Your dad? Gay. Your priest? Straight. **** off and let me post. It's not true, it's all in good fun. Now go away.
Well, everyone empathises selectively, due to processing power if nothing else. A switch would be cool, then I could cane gbaji more readily.
Timelordwho wrote:
I'm not quite sure that scheming is an emotion.
Smasharoo wrote:
It's probably sadder than that. It strikes me as the result of a man too intelligent to cope with meaningless reality of human existence through ignorance, while at the same time being too creative and open minded not to try and find some reason life might not be so pointless. The detour from the path of nihilism is often spirituality for those who care for others and feel for the world as a whole. For high functioning sociopaths like me, it's trivial to say "life is meaningless, lying to yourself doesn't make it any less so". For people with empathy and intelligence, I imagine it's a constant battle to find something to cling to which makes life worth living.
Man, you nearly bring a tear to me eye.
But, despite your gracious words I still have to say you are selling yourself short. It is not a constant battle when you find something that works. Are you having a constant battle remaining a nihilist? Assuming non-meaning is equal to assuming to know the meaning. The true natural state would be complete ignorance but nature abhors a vacuum and thus we do all put our faith in something or do put our faith in nothing. The difference between your side of the fence and my side is nothing more than Hope.
If we were 2 people on a desert island arguing whether or not there were any other islands... you could say no, this this is the only island and yes there is no reason not to believe that and I would indeed have no way to prove to you that what we are seeing isn't all that there is.. but you would simply say "there is no island" which I could not agree with because here we are on an island.
I'm just curious if you do realize that your hard-core stance is a self imposed prison. Probably not if you don't believe that you have a spirit to be imprisoned. All people have the potential to be animals but no animal has potential to be a person
Your mind and your consciousness is your spirit.
We both likely hope for the exact same things.. family, home, stability, children to pass on our name.. but I simply have this extra hope which is a choice for me to make. You hope for things of a temporal nature.. so do I. I also hope for things of an eternal nature.. eternal life. There should be no shame in having hope that such a thing is as plausible as a Sun during the day and a Moon at night.. This hope is plausible.. it is as plausible as existence and all of it's OTHER complexities are plausible.
and I think everyone is essentially a high functioning sociopath.. it's simply a matter of circumstantial conditioning which some biochemical exceptions.
oh and... SPACE!!!!!!!
Edited, Dec 4th 2014 6:22pm by Kelvyquayo
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and I think everyone is essentially a high functioning sociopath..
Timelordwho wrote:
I'm not quite sure that scheming is an emotion.
Kavekkk wrote:
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and I think everyone is essentially a high functioning sociopath..
I think there is a spectrum of empathy that can be whittled down in certain circumstances. what?
TirithRR wrote:
lolgaxe wrote:
Jophiel wrote:
What were we talking about? Twilight?
Team werewolf-guy!
Team werewolf-guy!
Someone had told me (or I read in a post somewhere) that the baby was a girl and the werewolf had marked her is some weird claiming ritual for future mating.
(I've not read or sceen the books or movies.)
Baby was a girl (hybrid vampire) that grew extremely fast, which is why Plankface almost died. And yes, Jacob (the werewolf guy) imprinted on her, meaning she is his soulmate and he's going to tap that *** at some point. Luckily for the plot and all the squeamish people, her speedy growing thing kicks in again and she turns out to be Jacob's age by the time they do the sex thing. Also, she stops aging rapidly, because convenience!
Please "talk up" if your comprehension white-shifts. I will use simple-happy language-words to help you understand.
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I'm sure I'm not either, but it's a convenient shorthand for my more complex personality, which even if I could articulate clearly, people wouldn't understand the nuance of. That said, I can switch empathy on or off at will and have always been able to. So...whatever that is. Hypomanic selective nihilist who loves his family.
Hey, have you read the First Law series by Abercrombie. I'm about halfway through the main trilogy, and I'm really enjoying it.
Hey, have you read the First Law series by Abercrombie. I'm about halfway through the main trilogy, and I'm really enjoying it.
Yeah, I get it, or at least I get the shorthand version.
I haven't read any Abercrombie. I'll check it out, thanks!
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Seeing as this thread is now a Samira AMA, what's your favourite Discworld?
Timelordwho wrote:
I'm not quite sure that scheming is an emotion.
Kavekkk wrote:
Seeing as this thread is now a Samira AMA, what's your favourite Discworld?
I don't know if it's my favorite, but I read Hogfather every winter.
Otherwise... Feet of Clay, maybe.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
I'm a fan of thief of time.
Also the truth, going postal, making money for non DEATH related books.
I was going through the list on the wiki and realized there could be a lot of different books in my top 5 depending on how I'm feeling.
Edited, Dec 5th 2014 12:25am by Xsarus
Also the truth, going postal, making money for non DEATH related books.
I was going through the list on the wiki and realized there could be a lot of different books in my top 5 depending on how I'm feeling.
Edited, Dec 5th 2014 12:25am by Xsarus
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I was going through the list on the wiki and realized there could be a lot of different books in my top 5 depending on how I'm feeling.
Me, too. Probably because it's really 10 series in a shared universe. The witches bore the fuck out of me is about the most useful thing I can do to rank the books. I like the guards books and the books that feature Susan. I'm less of a fan of Rincewind. I'd totally read 100 books written from the Patrician's POV.
Me, too. Probably because it's really 10 series in a shared universe. The witches bore the fuck out of me is about the most useful thing I can do to rank the books. I like the guards books and the books that feature Susan. I'm less of a fan of Rincewind. I'd totally read 100 books written from the Patrician's POV.
Disclaimer:
To make a long story short, I don't take any responsibility for anything I post here. It's not news, it's not truth, it's not serious. It's parody. It's satire. It's bitter. It's angsty. Your mother's a *****. You like to jack off dogs. That's right, you heard me. You like to grab that dog by the bone and rub it like a ski pole. Your dad? Gay. Your priest? Straight. **** off and let me post. It's not true, it's all in good fun. Now go away.
To make a long story short, I don't take any responsibility for anything I post here. It's not news, it's not truth, it's not serious. It's parody. It's satire. It's bitter. It's angsty. Your mother's a *****. You like to jack off dogs. That's right, you heard me. You like to grab that dog by the bone and rub it like a ski pole. Your dad? Gay. Your priest? Straight. **** off and let me post. It's not true, it's all in good fun. Now go away.
I agree with most of that, but I like the witches. My least favorite set would be the wizard stories that happen outside the city.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
I agree with most of that, but I like the witches.
Really? I just can't make myself care about Granny Weatherwax. I find the writing flat for those books, he doesn't seem to write the female POV very well to me. Maybe I'll give one another go, it's been a long time. It may have been that I didn't like them relative to the last of his books I'd read. I read them out of order initially.
Really? I just can't make myself care about Granny Weatherwax. I find the writing flat for those books, he doesn't seem to write the female POV very well to me. Maybe I'll give one another go, it's been a long time. It may have been that I didn't like them relative to the last of his books I'd read. I read them out of order initially.
Disclaimer:
To make a long story short, I don't take any responsibility for anything I post here. It's not news, it's not truth, it's not serious. It's parody. It's satire. It's bitter. It's angsty. Your mother's a *****. You like to jack off dogs. That's right, you heard me. You like to grab that dog by the bone and rub it like a ski pole. Your dad? Gay. Your priest? Straight. **** off and let me post. It's not true, it's all in good fun. Now go away.
To make a long story short, I don't take any responsibility for anything I post here. It's not news, it's not truth, it's not serious. It's parody. It's satire. It's bitter. It's angsty. Your mother's a *****. You like to jack off dogs. That's right, you heard me. You like to grab that dog by the bone and rub it like a ski pole. Your dad? Gay. Your priest? Straight. **** off and let me post. It's not true, it's all in good fun. Now go away.
Smasharoo wrote:
I agree with most of that, but I like the witches.
Really? I just can't make myself care about Granny Weatherwax. I find the writing flat for those books, he doesn't seem to write the female POV very well to me. Maybe I'll give one another go, it's been a long time. It may have been that I didn't like them relative to the last of his books I'd read. I read them out of order initially.
Really? I just can't make myself care about Granny Weatherwax. I find the writing flat for those books, he doesn't seem to write the female POV very well to me. Maybe I'll give one another go, it's been a long time. It may have been that I didn't like them relative to the last of his books I'd read. I read them out of order initially.
There are problems with the witch books. Early on they were flat, I agree. They become a bit more complex later.
Plus, I'm just a sucker for the maiden-mother-crone triad.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Smasharoo wrote:
His posts strike me as the ranting of a doped-up shamanic vision.
It's probably sadder than that. It strikes me as the result of a man too intelligent to cope with meaningless reality of human existence through ignorance, while at the same time being too creative and open minded not to try and find some reason life might not be so pointless. The detour from the path of nihilism is often spirituality for those who care for others and feel for the world as a whole. For high functioning sociopaths like me, it's trivial to say "life is meaningless, lying to yourself doesn't make it any less so". For people with empathy and intelligence, I imagine it's a constant battle to find something to cling to which makes life worth living.
It's probably sadder than that. It strikes me as the result of a man too intelligent to cope with meaningless reality of human existence through ignorance, while at the same time being too creative and open minded not to try and find some reason life might not be so pointless. The detour from the path of nihilism is often spirituality for those who care for others and feel for the world as a whole. For high functioning sociopaths like me, it's trivial to say "life is meaningless, lying to yourself doesn't make it any less so". For people with empathy and intelligence, I imagine it's a constant battle to find something to cling to which makes life worth living.
Well, I wouldn't know real intellectual discourse from my own dick, so I'll have to accept this. It just reminds me of dropping acid as a teenager and philosophizing.
publiusvarus wrote:
we all know liberals are well adjusted american citizens who only want what's best for society. While conservatives are evil money grubbing scum who only want to sh*t on the little man and rob the world of its resources.
Debalic wrote:
Well, I wouldn't know real intellectual discourse from my own ****, so I'll have to accept this. It just reminds me of dropping acid as a teenager and philosophizing.
That used to be Kelvy, but Kelvy 2.0 replaced acid with Jesus. Considering how similar their posting styles are though, it would almost appear that he's simply swapped one drug for another!
"The Rich are there to take all of the money & pay none of the taxes, the middle class is there to do all the work and pay all the taxes, and the poor are there to scare the crap out of the middle class." -George Carlin
Hey, i used to go to church but stopped doing that, too. Born-agains just strike me as more weak-minded, but of course I'm probably wrong about that as well.
publiusvarus wrote:
we all know liberals are well adjusted american citizens who only want what's best for society. While conservatives are evil money grubbing scum who only want to sh*t on the little man and rob the world of its resources.
I could give 2 shits what one believes in regards to religion, but I feel those that are religious should figure out a way to reconcile their beliefs with what is "known" by science and not try & do it the other way around. Many scientists throughout the ages had religious beliefs and didn't let them get in the way of their science while still contributing. Starting from the point that "god did it all" as opposed to trying to understand His (or her) plan is an exercise in futility as far as science is concerned.
Edited, Dec 6th 2014 5:58pm by Omegavegeta
Edited, Dec 6th 2014 5:58pm by Omegavegeta
"The Rich are there to take all of the money & pay none of the taxes, the middle class is there to do all the work and pay all the taxes, and the poor are there to scare the crap out of the middle class." -George Carlin
Smasharoo wrote:
I don't think I'm a high functioning sociopath
I'm sure I'm not either, but it's a convenient shorthand for my more complex personality, which even if I could articulate clearly, people wouldn't understand the nuance of. That said, I can switch empathy on or off at will and have always been able to. So...whatever that is. Hypomanic selective nihilist who loves his family.
Hey, have you read the First Law series by Abercrombie. I'm about halfway through the main trilogy, and I'm really enjoying it.
I'm sure I'm not either, but it's a convenient shorthand for my more complex personality, which even if I could articulate clearly, people wouldn't understand the nuance of. That said, I can switch empathy on or off at will and have always been able to. So...whatever that is. Hypomanic selective nihilist who loves his family.
Hey, have you read the First Law series by Abercrombie. I'm about halfway through the main trilogy, and I'm really enjoying it.
Abercrombie's new book is getting great reviews. But I've been hesitant to start another unfinished series.
Also, I need to read 'Rogue'.
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Omegavegeta wrote:
I could give 2 shits what one believes in regards to religion, but I feel those that are religious should figure out a way to reconcile their beliefs with what is "known" by science and not try & do it the other way around. Many scientists throughout the ages had religious beliefs and didn't let them get in the way of their science while still contributing.
You do realize that like 99.9% of religious folks in the western world don't have a problem with this, right? But the .1% is the group that is paraded on your TV as an example for you to think is the norm somehow.
It's not.
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