You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Further reading of that blog seems to indicate that this is a one-off good post, and I must continue my search for reviewers who can continually say interesting things about films
I mean I hate to retreat into subjectivity, but a lot of reviews tell me about how the reviewer felt toward the film but don't tell me much about the film or how I'll feel about it. Thus making reviews just kinda seem masturbatory
I like watching people talk about media or reading what they have to say about it, but I am always taking these opinions with a grain of salt. It can be useful in finding new things if someone has similar opinions to my own, or their opinions differ in ways that I can understand; and sometimes an alternative view on something that I already have feelings about can make me revisit that work in a new light and get more out of it as an experience. But ultimately, I know what I like and usually know why I like it, and someone else telling me that they dislike it—or that they really like something that I don't—shouldn't get me down.
I like watching people talk about media or reading what they have to say about it, but I am always taking these opinions with a grain of salt. It can be useful in finding new things if someone has similar opinions to my own, or their opinions differ in ways that I can understand; and sometimes an alternative view on something that I already have feelings about can make me revisit that work in a new light and get more out of it as an experience. But ultimately, I know what I like and usually know why I like it, and someone else telling me that they dislike it—or that they really like something that I don't—shouldn't get me down.
Yeah but I can get most of those things out of interactions with other people and that's dialogical as opposed to monological
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I like watching people talk about media or reading what they have to say about it, but I am always taking these opinions with a grain of salt. It can be useful in finding new things if someone has similar opinions to my own, or their opinions differ in ways that I can understand; and sometimes an alternative view on something that I already have feelings about can make me revisit that work in a new light and get more out of it as an experience. But ultimately, I know what I like and usually know why I like it, and someone else telling me that they dislike it—or that they really like something that I don't—shouldn't get me down.
Yeah but I can get most of those things out of interactions with other people and that's dialogical as opposed to monological
But that strikes me as a very different kind of experience. Reading or watching a review feels more private and allows you more time to consider how you feel or think about something.
Daniel Dennett looks like an evil mastermind here.
Also I can say, with a fair amount of certainty, that Penn Jilette is not right about politics and with even more certainty that Bill Maher is not right about Germ theory, and with complete certainty that Dawkins is not right about how to use twitter
You know, it's weird: I recently heard Sam Harris talking about meditation and ego death on NPR, and while I disagreed with the way he looked at religion, he otherwise struck me as perfectly reasonable and a lot more open-minded than I would have thought.
Daniel Dennett looks like an evil mastermind here.
Also I can say, with a fair amount of certainty, that Penn Jilette is not right about politics and with even more certainty that Bill Maher is not right about Germ theory, and with complete certainty that Dawkins is not right about how to use twitter
Who's the guy on the far left? He looks familiar, but I can't place the face.
You know, it's weird: I recently heard Sam Harris talking about meditation and ego death on NPR, and while I disagreed with the way he looked at religion, he otherwise struck me as perfectly reasonable and a lot more open-minded than I would have thought.
He's okay on his interests(neuroscience and buddhism).
Unfortunately, he insists on speaking outside of these things while presenting himself as an authority.
I still wonder about how Bullshit! decided recycling was a bad idea. I know there was that one study (just one, because clearly that's all it takes) that panned it, but come on, qui bono? I'm sure the trash haulers very much enjoy having two waste streams to work with.
You know, it's weird: I recently heard Sam Harris talking about meditation and ego death on NPR, and while I disagreed with the way he looked at religion, he otherwise struck me as perfectly reasonable and a lot more open-minded than I would have thought.
He's okay on his interests(neuroscience and buddhism).
Unfortunately, he insists on speaking outside of these things while presenting himself as an authority.
You know, it's weird: I recently heard Sam Harris talking about meditation and ego death on NPR, and while I disagreed with the way he looked at religion, he otherwise struck me as perfectly reasonable and a lot more open-minded than I would have thought.
He's okay on his interests(neuroscience and buddhism).
Unfortunately, he insists on speaking outside of these things while presenting himself as an authority.
That describes most big-name atheists, really.
It's really quite unfortunate.
Although Dawkins is the worst about it, insofar as I can tell.
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step into the club like a statue crying blood
hella
seriously these dudes are fucking deadly and i hope they make it big
Not entirely in a bad way though
Kimo ota Pepe
Original Pepe
HIGH TIER
Smug Pepe
Disappointed Pepe
LOW TIER
Edgy Pepe
SHIT TIER
Sad Pepe
ABSOLUTE SHIT TIER
Wojak
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
I'm curious about the woman. Considering the nature of atheistbros, she must be something special to be on the list.
also Walt Whitman battling Satan on the Moon