hey man if what you need to do to get you through your day is to spout off “things are bad” like some off-kilter street preacher, then knock yourself out. dont let little old me and logical argument stop you. you do you - you know how to do it best! be the best you that you can be!
biological imperatives dictate that I get up in the morning, I perform my ablutions, I consume a tasty caffeinated beverage and I go off to my job like a fine, upstanding, tax-paying, obedient citizen of this great nation because I am a proud member of it. but you’re right, nothing I do matters. all I strive to be, all I work towards, it’s this black pit of woe and despair. but… perhaps what we do matters! maybe! I mean, not a fucking chance, but maybe I’m wrong! maybe there’s a shining light and the end of this desolate existence! but i doubt it.
oh yeah, you’re totally right about that 6 degrees of separation thing - the world we live in is getting smaller each and every day. as the world condenses into the singularity (as foretold) I have indeed found myself interacting with people that have different experiences. like, we brought in a new guy at work last year - he’s from Afghanistan, he worked against his people and his nation to get in good with the Americans and when they left so did he. his insights into what’s going on over there have been really interesting. but nothing that he does is going to change what’s happening to his extended family back in the old country. theres going to be famine there - perhaps not this year but very, very soon. and there’s nothing anyone can do to prevent it. nothing really matters.
is genocide bad? yeah. does it matter if you tell people that? not really
is ethnic cleansing bad? most folks would say yes. does it matter much? nope
is it bad to kill others? even if you’ve been granted absolution by your government/religious faith/community leaders? even if the voices in your head require it? maybe. there’s not a real, concrete answer for that one. the reality is that it depends on the situation. sometimes it’s perfectly acceptable to kill others - shit, you might even get a medal and raise for it if you’re lucky!
The only issue I have with your last statement is your arguments are not logically consistent.
A lot of your responses have been emotional, appealing to feelings, rather than a cohesive interconnected philosophical framework that’s internally consistent. And that’s fine, just don’t assume I’m responding in the same way.
yep, I’m an aspiring politician - or perhaps faith leader. it’s basically the same thing - lying to the proles. one needs to learn to appeal to the common man/woman/whatever. the need to find meaning of existence. the need to know what we do matters - that the individualmatters. the need to be significant, or be seen as contributing to that significance - it’s accumulation of social credit. an appeal to emotion - and yes, to feelings. feelings existed before language - and language existed before religion, but only just. tapping into that power is the only magic that truly exists
no, it’s quite all right - you respond how you respond. how you’ve been shaped to respond ;)
Christ, you’ve used a whole lot of words to say a bunch of nothing throughout this whole comment chain. This is the kind of high school nihilism that used to spew out 4chan.
hey man if what you need to do to get you through your day is to spout off “things are bad” like some off-kilter street preacher, then knock yourself out. dont let little old me and logical argument stop you. you do you - you know how to do it best! be the best you that you can be!
biological imperatives dictate that I get up in the morning, I perform my ablutions, I consume a tasty caffeinated beverage and I go off to my job like a fine, upstanding, tax-paying, obedient citizen of this great nation because I am a proud member of it. but you’re right, nothing I do matters. all I strive to be, all I work towards, it’s this black pit of woe and despair. but… perhaps what we do matters! maybe! I mean, not a fucking chance, but maybe I’m wrong! maybe there’s a shining light and the end of this desolate existence! but i doubt it.
oh yeah, you’re totally right about that 6 degrees of separation thing - the world we live in is getting smaller each and every day. as the world condenses into the singularity (as foretold) I have indeed found myself interacting with people that have different experiences. like, we brought in a new guy at work last year - he’s from Afghanistan, he worked against his people and his nation to get in good with the Americans and when they left so did he. his insights into what’s going on over there have been really interesting. but nothing that he does is going to change what’s happening to his extended family back in the old country. theres going to be famine there - perhaps not this year but very, very soon. and there’s nothing anyone can do to prevent it. nothing really matters.
is genocide bad? yeah. does it matter if you tell people that? not really
is ethnic cleansing bad? most folks would say yes. does it matter much? nope
is it bad to kill others? even if you’ve been granted absolution by your government/religious faith/community leaders? even if the voices in your head require it? maybe. there’s not a real, concrete answer for that one. the reality is that it depends on the situation. sometimes it’s perfectly acceptable to kill others - shit, you might even get a medal and raise for it if you’re lucky!
The only issue I have with your last statement is your arguments are not logically consistent.
A lot of your responses have been emotional, appealing to feelings, rather than a cohesive interconnected philosophical framework that’s internally consistent. And that’s fine, just don’t assume I’m responding in the same way.
yep, I’m an aspiring politician - or perhaps faith leader. it’s basically the same thing - lying to the proles. one needs to learn to appeal to the common man/woman/whatever. the need to find meaning of existence. the need to know what we do matters - that the individual matters. the need to be significant, or be seen as contributing to that significance - it’s accumulation of social credit. an appeal to emotion - and yes, to feelings. feelings existed before language - and language existed before religion, but only just. tapping into that power is the only magic that truly exists
no, it’s quite all right - you respond how you respond. how you’ve been shaped to respond ;)
Christ, you’ve used a whole lot of words to say a bunch of nothing throughout this whole comment chain. This is the kind of high school nihilism that used to spew out 4chan.
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and yet you keep returning, like a moth to a flame. sort of poetic. sad too - you’ve not grown at all
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