i'd greatly prefer to hold a positive view of humanity but some days it's difficult
i can tolerate a little misanthropy with that in mind
i mean you're totally right Jane, it doesn't make sense to hold humanity collectively responsible for every bad thing humans have done and in the process ignore the good
but when lots of humans are doing stupid and malicious things, well, it's depressing
to be fair, humanity does make itself rather loathable
If we are to hold humanity collectively responsible for the crimes of every individual human and group of humans than we must also hold humanity collectively responsible for the triumphs of every individual human and group of humans.
I feel like it's very, very silly to focus only on things like war and oppression when we as a species have a 5,000-year history that spans thousands and thousands of different things, any of which you could spend a lifetime studying.
Humanism in this sense appears, for instance, in Cocteau’s story Round the World in 80 Hours, in which one of the characters declares, because he is flying over mountains in an airplane, “Man is magnificent!” This signifies that although I personally have not built aeroplanes, I have the benefit of those particular inventions and that I personally, being a man, can consider myself responsible for, and honoured by, achievements that are peculiar to some men. It is to assume that we can ascribe value to man according to the most distinguished deeds of certain men. That kind of humanism is absurd, for only the dog or the horse would be in a position to pronounce a general judgment upon man and declare that he is magnificent, which they have never been such fools as to do – at least, not as far as I know. But neither is it admissible that a man should pronounce judgment upon Man
to be fair, humanity does make itself rather loathable
If we are to hold humanity collectively responsible for the crimes of every individual human and group of humans than we must also hold humanity collectively responsible for the triumphs of every individual human and group of humans.
I feel like it's very, very silly to focus only on things like war and oppression when we as a species have a 5,000-year history that spans thousands and thousands of different things, any of which you could spend a lifetime studying.
Humanism in this sense appears, for instance, in Cocteau’s story Round the World in 80 Hours, in which one of the characters declares, because he is flying over mountains in an airplane, “Man is magnificent!” This signifies that although I personally have not built aeroplanes, I have the benefit of those particular inventions and that I personally, being a man, can consider myself responsible for, and honoured by, achievements that are peculiar to some men. It is to assume that we can ascribe value to man according to the most distinguished deeds of certain men. That kind of humanism is absurd, for only the dog or the horse would be in a position to pronounce a general judgment upon man and declare that he is magnificent, which they have never been such fools as to do – at least, not as far as I know. But neither is it admissible that a man should pronounce judgment upon Man
If you have something to say to respond to what I said, you should say it yourself.
I am a boring person who can only speak through other's words.
to be fair, humanity does make itself rather loathable
If we are to hold humanity collectively responsible for the crimes of every individual human and group of humans than we must also hold humanity collectively responsible for the triumphs of every individual human and group of humans.
I feel like it's very, very silly to focus only on things like war and oppression when we as a species have a 5,000-year history that spans thousands and thousands of different things, any of which you could spend a lifetime studying.
Humanism in this sense appears, for instance, in Cocteau’s story Round the World in 80 Hours, in which one of the characters declares, because he is flying over mountains in an airplane, “Man is magnificent!” This signifies that although I personally have not built aeroplanes, I have the benefit of those particular inventions and that I personally, being a man, can consider myself responsible for, and honoured by, achievements that are peculiar to some men. It is to assume that we can ascribe value to man according to the most distinguished deeds of certain men. That kind of humanism is absurd, for only the dog or the horse would be in a position to pronounce a general judgment upon man and declare that he is magnificent, which they have never been such fools as to do – at least, not as far as I know. But neither is it admissible that a man should pronounce judgment upon Man
If you have something to say to respond to what I said, you should say it yourself.
I am a boring person who can only speak through other's words.
i remember when i was in high school they played an instrumental version of "____ in paris" and they said that it was "friends in paris" and i laughed a lot because the announcer dude was black and he said it with this straight face and just a little twinkle in his eye and it was the greatest thing
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
Mildly embarrassing things: seeing police lights and stopped cars ahead, turning a different direction because you think the road is blocked off, then turning back around when you realize the road wasn't blocked off, the police were just directing traffic
i remember when i was in high school they played an instrumental version of "____ in paris" and they said that it was "friends in paris" and i laughed a lot because the announcer dude was black and he said it with this straight face and just a little twinkle in his eye and it was the greatest thing
I know this is treading the "white people making fun of white people" line, but Watsky's version of "Ni**as in Paris" is the worst thing he has ever done. Not because the song is bad, but because of the astonishing lack of self-awareness.
Then again he once rapped about being descended from a slave owner over a sample of "Party in the U.S.A." so idk.
Anyway I feel like subbing in some other word with the obligatory nod-and-wink is kinda condescending. S'why a lot of people have problems with stuff like eg. Ed Sheeran covering "Trap Queen".
to be fair, humanity does make itself rather loathable
If we are to hold humanity collectively responsible for the crimes of every individual human and group of humans than we must also hold humanity collectively responsible for the triumphs of every individual human and group of humans.
I feel like it's very, very silly to focus only on things like war and oppression when we as a species have a 5,000-year history that spans thousands and thousands of different things, any of which you could spend a lifetime studying.
Humanism in this sense appears, for instance, in Cocteau’s story Round the World in 80 Hours, in which one of the characters declares, because he is flying over mountains in an airplane, “Man is magnificent!” This signifies that although I personally have not built aeroplanes, I have the benefit of those particular inventions and that I personally, being a man, can consider myself responsible for, and honoured by, achievements that are peculiar to some men. It is to assume that we can ascribe value to man according to the most distinguished deeds of certain men. That kind of humanism is absurd, for only the dog or the horse would be in a position to pronounce a general judgment upon man and declare that he is magnificent, which they have never been such fools as to do – at least, not as far as I know. But neither is it admissible that a man should pronounce judgment upon Man
If you have something to say to respond to what I said, you should say it yourself.
I am a boring person who can only speak through other's words.
And I was agreeing anyway.
First of all that's not true.
Secondly b/c you quoted it with no context I had no way of knowing if you were agreeing with it or demonstrating it as patently absurd or what.
i remember when i was in high school they played an instrumental version of "____ in paris" and they said that it was "friends in paris" and i laughed a lot because the announcer dude was black and he said it with this straight face and just a little twinkle in his eye and it was the greatest thing
I know this is treading the "white people making fun of white people" line, but Watsky's version of "Ni**as in Paris" is the worst thing he has ever done. Not because the song is bad, but because of the astonishing lack of self-awareness.
Then again he once rapped about being descended from a slave owner over a sample of "Party in the U.S.A." so idk.
Anyway I feel like subbing in some other word with the obligatory nod-and-wink is kinda condescending. S'why a lot of people have problems with stuff like eg. Ed Sheeran covering "Trap Queen".
i usually agree but with a black dude doing it because he was doing schoolwide announcements it ended up actually being funny imo
i remember when i was in high school they played an instrumental version of "____ in paris" and they said that it was "friends in paris" and i laughed a lot because the announcer dude was black and he said it with this straight face and just a little twinkle in his eye and it was the greatest thing
I know this is treading the "white people making fun of white people" line, but Watsky's version of "Ni**as in Paris" is the worst thing he has ever done. Not because the song is bad, but because of the astonishing lack of self-awareness.
Then again he once rapped about being descended from a slave owner over a sample of "Party in the U.S.A." so idk.
Anyway I feel like subbing in some other word with the obligatory nod-and-wink is kinda condescending. S'why a lot of people have problems with stuff like eg. Ed Sheeran covering "Trap Queen".
i usually agree but with a black dude doing it because he was doing schoolwide announcements it ended up actually being funny imo
when white people do it it's just obnoxious
oh y'know I somehow just totally missed that part.
like i don't know what thefuck they thought they were doing in the 1920s with scientific socialism or science heroes or whatever the fuck
nobody knows anything
nobody knows anything!
like there's all these really, really complicated theories that do really really well at describing what they describe but then you try to understand quantum vacuum which is literally nothing you're shit out of luck
Or whatever
just man
and nobody remembers shit
somebody could have solved a problem fifty years ago and people will still be asking it as a new question
because the people who ask questions are rightly curious and the people who read like me are rightly rightly rightly rightly
yeah well you piece of pyoueca you piecd of asodpiec of piece of talking to talking to yourself can you hear me warden can you hear me let me let me let me
this whole world is bullshit, it's nothing, none of you exist outside of my head, that's the only explanation for nothing, i jsut generate generate generate generate universe generate out of my out head of my head of my my head out head of my head of head my ohef head of head hyead of mey my my my
i'll tear you apart and i'll fix you up and i'll lovingly open up your skin and i'll cut the fascia and pull out the muscles and put in plastics but we don't know how the plastics polymeriazea polymerize backspace and metal isn't real and maybe you get sick and your cerebrospinal fluid leaks all over the implamnt but tin the end you fac emagenets amgneat magnets and the entire concept of conceptualization turns out to be bullshit and nothing makes sense and nothing is nothing
it's not like it's bad really it's just that understanding anything is impossible
i'm not having any kind of mental breakdown. oh, i think i forgot to take fluoxetine. well, these are things i usually think. i just avoid saying them. it's hard to explain. "Man, I'm so excited about my results," a coworker says. "I finally got the angle in the microtome right." and then i'd be like "KNOWLEDGE IS VOID. HOW IS IT THAT A COLLECTION OF MEAT WAVES PRESUMES TO DESCRIBE 'FACTS' AND 'TRUTH'? ALSO, MY JOB PROGRAMMING THINGS IS KIND OF BORING COMPARED TO DISSECTIONS, BUT ON THE OTHER HAND I'VE MADE INSUFFICIENT EFFORT TO KILL RATS" like some kind of asshole fucking atheist who comes into the conversation about how god is dead in well you know the deal
point is i'm always like this, really, i just don't bother saying it, i keep it in, keep it in the nothing, sex joke
i'm not having any kind of mental breakdown. oh, i think i forgot to take fluoxetine. well, these are things i usually think. i just avoid saying them. it's hard to explain. "Man, I'm so excited about my results," a coworker says. "I finally got the angle in the microtome right." and then i'd be like "KNOWLEDGE IS VOID. HOW IS IT THAT A COLLECTION OF MEAT WAVES PRESUMES TO DESCRIBE 'FACTS' AND 'TRUTH'? ALSO, MY JOB PROGRAMMING THINGS IS KIND OF BORING COMPARED TO DISSECTIONS, BUT ON THE OTHER HAND I'VE MADE INSUFFICIENT EFFORT TO KILL RATS" like some kind of asshole fucking atheist who comes into the conversation about how god is dead in well you know the deal
point is i'm always like this, really, i just don't bother saying it, i keep it in, keep it in the nothing, sex joke
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've been on an antidepressant since 2013, myself >_<
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 still don't understand why SimCity 3000 is the only main title in the series that hasn't been rerleased as a digital download
It's definitely not a compatibility thing, since my old "Unlimited" CD-ROM version of SC3K works fine under 64-bit Windows 8.1
i'm actually thinking about it because, get this, this is hilarious.
i'm in this neuroscience class, right. and we're talking about neurotransmitters, because that's the sort of thing you talk about in neuroscience class. and it's like, yeah, serotonin! see, here's how selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors work: they inhibit the reuptake of serotonin by the presynaptic nerve, so synaptic nerve pulses last longer. we go over this ind etail. some mathematical functions. diagrams. and as far as i know it's all true.
but i'm like, internally, great. why does this help depression? i rely on these things. and the answer is we don't know. we have no idea. we hve no idea at all. imagine your car breaks down and you take it to the mechanic and they're like "yep" and they paint the engine block green, and that fixes the car. that's SSRIs. you can imagine, even, some convoluted mechanism. green reflects light and prevents overheating? i don't know, i don't know.
this isn't an effect of my depression. really. it's an effect of thinking, or overthinking. combined with being pretty smart. that's me. i'm smart.
the effects of depression are mainly emotionlessness and friendlessness. normal stuff. i don't need to be insane to be a nihilist, though it helps with Des Cart Es
i'm actually thinking about it because, get this, this is hilarious.
i'm in this neuroscience class, right. and we're talking about neurotransmitters, because that's the sort of thing you talk about in neuroscience class. and it's like, yeah, serotonin! see, here's how selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors work: they inhibit the reuptake of serotonin by the presynaptic nerve, so synaptic nerve pulses last longer. we go over this ind etail. some mathematical functions. diagrams. and as far as i know it's all true.
but i'm like, internally, great. why does this help depression? i rely on these things. and the answer is we don't know. we have no idea. we hve no idea at all. imagine your car breaks down and you take it to the mechanic and they're like "yep" and they paint the engine block green, and that fixes the car. that's SSRIs. you can imagine, even, some convoluted mechanism. green reflects light and prevents overheating? i don't know, i don't know.
Sometimes I think I'm the only normal person in the world but then I realize that that is something that only someone who is crazy would genuinely think.
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i can tolerate a little misanthropy with that in mind
i mean you're totally right Jane, it doesn't make sense to hold humanity collectively responsible for every bad thing humans have done and in the process ignore the good
but when lots of humans are doing stupid and malicious things, well, it's depressing
as a cat i say people are rad because scritches
you know there's more time between the cretaceous and triassic periods than the cretaceous and now
makes you think (like it kind of actually does (a little (maybe)))
I am a boring person who can only speak through other's words.
And I was agreeing anyway.
good shit
good. shit
Chip the Ripper
all your underwear in one drawer, that i can understand
but why do that much sorting
no way no way
And I was agreeing anyway.
First of all that's not true.
like i don't know what thefuck they thought they were doing in the 1920s with scientific socialism or science heroes or whatever the fuck
nobody knows anything
nobody knows anything!
like there's all these really, really complicated theories that do really really well at describing what they describe but then you try to understand quantum vacuum which is literally nothing you're shit out of luck
Or whatever
just man
and nobody remembers shit
somebody could have solved a problem fifty years ago and people will still be asking it as a new question
because the people who ask questions are rightly curious and the people who read like me are rightly rightly rightly rightly
yeah well
you piece of pyoueca you piecd of asodpiec of piece of talking to talking to yourself can you hear me warden can you hear me let me let me let me
this whole world is bullshit, it's nothing, none of you exist outside of my head, that's the only explanation for nothing, i jsut generate generate generate generate universe generate out of my out head of my head of my my head out head of my head of head my ohef head of head hyead of mey my my my
i'll tear you apart and i'll fix you up and i'll lovingly open up your skin and i'll cut the fascia and pull out the muscles and put in plastics but we don't know how the plastics polymeriazea polymerize backspace and metal isn't real and maybe you get sick and your cerebrospinal fluid leaks all over the implamnt but tin the end you fac emagenets amgneat magnets and the entire concept of conceptualization turns out to be bullshit and nothing makes sense and nothing is nothing
it's not like it's bad really it's just that understanding anything is impossible
that's love craft may be
or the bible
point is i'm always like this, really, i just don't bother saying it, i keep it in, keep it in the nothing, sex joke
i'm in this neuroscience class, right. and we're talking about neurotransmitters, because that's the sort of thing you talk about in neuroscience class. and it's like, yeah, serotonin! see, here's how selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors work: they inhibit the reuptake of serotonin by the presynaptic nerve, so synaptic nerve pulses last longer. we go over this ind etail. some mathematical functions. diagrams. and as far as i know it's all true.
but i'm like, internally, great. why does this help depression? i rely on these things. and the answer is we don't know. we have no idea. we hve no idea at all. imagine your car breaks down and you take it to the mechanic and they're like "yep" and they paint the engine block green, and that fixes the car. that's SSRIs. you can imagine, even, some convoluted mechanism. green reflects light and prevents overheating? i don't know, i don't know.
the effects of depression are mainly emotionlessness and friendlessness. normal stuff. i don't need to be insane to be a nihilist, though it helps with Des Cart Es
i seem to have become literally nocturnal again
let me amend that remark
i seem to have become a person who just hasn't gone to sleep yet for some reason