JUDGE NARRAGANSETT

Openly Capitalist Multi-Millionaire promoting reason over emotion and individual rights over human rights. Objectivist Atheist & Veteran

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"An emotional argument has never been won by logic"

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@QuestionAbyss lol

If the self is a fiction who published the book?

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@QuestionAbyss I was born an individual that's as special as it gets.

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@QuestionAbyss That almost sounds like social media

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@QuestionAbyss I have a great stereo, video, social media communication systems and hobbies.

I produce everyday.

The noise is self-created, has a great beat, and you can dance to it.

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@QuestionAbyss Show empirical evidence for a literal, existential Void not just a conceptual and moral vacuum.

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@QuestionAbyss No.

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He was wrong; it isn't an illusion unless one never acts on the desire.

Self-possession in the present is insufficient

Many people live second-hand, evasive, future-chasing lives.

But Michelstaedter falsely treats purposeful striving itself as an illusion.

He treats the chase for future desires as evidence that man is alienated from the present, but future-oriented action is not an escape from life. It is the normal structure of human life.

As a species, we are a conceptual being, and we survive by projecting goals into the future:

planting before harvest
studying before mastery
saving before investment
training before competence
building before use
thinking before action
producing before consuming

A purely present-tense life is subhuman, not superior.

To gain the "persuaded sense," one must be self-actualized.

Life is not a static state. Life is a process of self-sustaining and self-generated action that creates a "quality of life" that is self-fulfilling both now and tomorrow.

his error was treating a personal/cultural sickness as a metaphysical truth

Michelstaedter was perceptive, but his philosophy likely became mistaken because he universalized the conditions of a narrow, strained life into a theory of human existence.

This misconception was made from a troubled mind and led to his suicide at an early age.

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Not fundamentally, operationally.

Consciousness is reality-oriented, but not reality-guaranteed that is, consciousness is fallible, selective, embodied, emotional, and volitional.

Individuals live in reality as a concrete but can choose to ignore or deny the immediate sphere of reality that bounds and affects them.

We are built to survive in reality, not be its master.

Those who try to fight or deny reality find that the concrete hits pretty hard

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@QuestionAbyss All of them.

See my previous post.

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I need more info. Are you channeling the whole "Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of purpose" line from Nietzsche?

I would argue "we" do not at least I don't, but most do. Some have no dread at all.

Most people never find a purpose so they adopt the fantasies offered by religion and ideology to comfort themselves.

Objectivism would see this as evasion and self-abnegation under some moral or ideological disguise.

"They refuse to identify and pursue life-serving values, then convert that refusal into a moral ideal."- The Virtue of Selfishness.

These people want purpose, but instead of grounding purpose in reason, reality, production, achievement, love, and self-esteem, they accept a purpose built around populist bullshit like:

guilt
sacrifice
submission
resentment
duty without value
service to “society” [the big lie]
mystical obedience
hatred of the successful
moral glorification of suffering

These are the people who live through the opinions, approval, needs, fears, and expectations of others.

Those others are almost always con artists or the disciples of con artists.

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@PutnamCline @jacksonhinkle Not when it's fascism

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Useful idiots can't stand the light of reason and accept that communism is dead.

@FlyingHouseYeah

[Dr. Jay Ph.D. @Discipln_trader]

They always run away when you prove communism doesn't work.

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There were all different ways to get a "starter home."

In 1966 my parents "bought" an $800 2 bedroom summer cottage on 1/4 acre lot in the "country".

I didn't find out until a few years ago that they didn't just buy the cottage but actually took a promissory note on it from the original owner and paid the owner over 5 years. Plus a usage fee to the local association to use the beach. $200 a year was a lot of money to my parents but being able to get out of the city was priceless

We started going there that summer; it was a 45 minute drive from Boston and located a 10 minute walk away from a beach on the river.

Being from the inner city, I thought it was a paradise. My friends who came with us for the weekend thought we were rich.

I had no clue, but this was a simple shingled 2x4-and-plywood frame sitting on a cinderblock foundation, with thin, cardboard-like paneling over the interior walls. We were in a low rent area and when I started school there I found out my "neighborhood" was considered the other side of the tracks to the townies whose parents had grown up there.

The living room and kitchen were one big open room, and once the weather changed in the fall until the spring, it was a deep freeze with no heat and the water shut off.

After they paid it off my father "winterized" it and built an addition on it which we moved to after my siblings had all left home when I was in Jr, High.

This was a very common practice at the time, and by the end of the 70s, what had been a tree-covered area of a small town became a suburb. Still the low rent district though.

The addition cost $10k because my father and older brothers built it in one summer.

My father drove an hour back and forth every day to Boston for about 8 years till he got a transfer closer.

My father died before the mortgage was paid off but it had an insurance policy attached to pay it off.

My mother sold it in 1996 for $132k.

Last week I looked it up on Zillow $582k

Still 3 br 1 bath but new siding and a 4 car garage added.

Houses on the beach, originally $900 in 1962 are over $600k now.

When my wife and I decided to get married we bought a crack house and fixed it up.

There are always ways to get started if you are willing to sacrifice.

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@SenWarren Why steal it??

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LOL

In 1776 the Lakota attacked the Black hills, committed genocide against the local tribes, enslaved survivors and stole the land.

They then declared it a holy place.

Crusaders and Muslim extremists couldn't do it any better.

Humans have certain ways we should be aware of and strive to supress.

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@BernieSanders If you're living paycheck to paycheck that's a personal problem not Washingtons.

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@skumWgmi Lie

More clickbait

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@RBReich He's a commie just like Bobby.

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lie

Warrens talking point is crude.

“The evidence debunks that myth.” Her language treats the issue as settled. It is not.

The Congressional Budget Office’s 2021 analysis of the Raise the Wage Act examined a phased increase to $15 by June 2025. CBO estimated the policy would raise wages for many workers and reduce poverty, but also reduce employment by about 1.4 million workers in an average year after implementation, while lifting about 900,000 people out of poverty.

But she ignores her own data.

The Guardian’s review of the Seattle debate described two competing studies: a University of Washington study suggesting the sharp wage increase reduced hours and earnings for the lowest-paid workers, and a Berkeley study concluding that the policy raised worker income without the damage critics predicted.

That dispute alone weakens Warren’s certainty. If the evidence were as simple as “debunked,” Seattle would not have produced serious disagreement among economists using different datasets and control groups.

Also, Seattle is a wealthy, high-productivity, high-cost city. A $15 wage floor in Seattle is not the same economic intervention as a $15 federal minimum in rural Mississippi, West Virginia, Arkansas, or parts of New Mexico.

a large national increase to $15 can still reduce jobs or hours in lower-wage regions, among young workers, small firms, and low-margin sectors.

Plus keep in mind the Atlantic is a communist rag.

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@LilithBlack25 This actually proved Iran was the enemy