3=1+n. i like movies, metaphysics, ethics, religion, history, mathematics, pedagogy… against modernism and “civil”ization and other reductionist aesthetics
@SkeleTruth@No5mallf3at I don’t find that the atheistic metaphysics has anything going for it, as it undermines its own rational grounds if life is inherently irrational. What does “nature” mean here? I find Nietzsche useful for criticizing resentment, but I don’t think theism is always resentful
@SkeleTruth@No5mallf3at I also find the eternal recurrence beautiful! Could you say more about spiritual decadence? This is where I lose Nietzsche- I think there are sound reasons to have a theistic view of life, and I don’t find in Nietzsche something that argues against it effectively
@SkeleTruth@No5mallf3at I enjoy reading Nietzsche, but what makes him the greatest? I don’t find his argumentation compelling, but his style and confidence are attractive. Could you share more?
@traxus4420@_richiegeorge (2/2) useful once this terminology changes. it is about the nature of desire and how it is being perverted by economic and social pressures
@traxus4420@_richiegeorge this conversation is not really about discussing incel grievances, but the metagame of sexuality that incels are socially removed enough to point out without being coy about it. it is too easily reduced into discourse about ephemeral conceptions of gender/queerness to be (1/2)
LA moviegoer was arrested after pepper-spraying a man who reportedly refused to stop using his phone during a screening of ‘The Uprising.’
Two other moviegoers were also affected by the pepper spray and required medical treatment.
@WoosterJeeves2@OrthodoxOrigen i didn’t say it was sense identical, i’m sorry if It seemed I did. i meant that theologians say, in divine simplicity, they are. for us they appear differently
@WoosterJeeves2@OrthodoxOrigen i don’t really have any satisfying answer for what good-in-itself actually is. all I can say is that you know good when you see it
@WoosterJeeves2@OrthodoxOrigen I think of it more as beautiful things are good, moral goods are beautiful, and so forth. I think these terms are abused when we start judging things arbitrarily (“this person is ugly”). a person is not bad because they don’t conform to my limited opinion of aesthetics
@WoosterJeeves2@OrthodoxOrigen It is the first cause in Aristotle’s language. Importantly, it cannot be thought of as a temporal cause, but rather as a logically first (necessary in the modal sense) one
@Quincy54495101@HateKillEIon@_richiegeorge He imagines people fucking like every day as part of their routine, with many partners over time. People left over are dealt with by sex specialists who enjoy that sort of work. It’s bizarre, but so are peoples’ desires. A lot of the doubt comes from taboo, I genuinely believe
@_richiegeorge@pruett_jordan@HateKillEIon He gives the example of young children (typically boys) who love being dirty and doing gross shit, so he has them work in the sewers and take care of trash, which he assumes they will enjoy. You also hear about those plumbers who have poop fetishes— I say let ‘em run wild!
@_richiegeorge@pruett_jordan@HateKillEIon To richie: Fourier bites the bullet and reintroduces child labor, but he means this in a very different way, since there is no market and no family unit. Children are playing and through their play are socially productive