Philosophy

And we were supposed to discuss what education means to us. This guy just said "well if someone doesn't have education then they're not human. They are like animals to me." I was a little shocked at this statement and and asked if I heard correctly. His answer was " Obviously someone like you wouldn't understand such a complex topic."

"Why did I not buy x in March, I could have a 250% return right now" "Damn, I should've poured my entire fucking life savings into $BITCH when I saw that DD post on it a week ago" "I should've just held, sold way too early and now it's up $3" Been seeing a lot of posts along the lines of these statements for the past few weeks. The volatility of the market bestowing random lotto wins upon a handful of risk takers, who then proceed to (justifiably) claim bragging rights along with their newfound cash isn't helping the issue. People will, of course, daydream themselves into a similar scenario, and the likelihood of a large, UNeducated gamble increases with each "missed" opportunity perceived.

For those of you who are in your university years or a little past, we're looking at most likely a baseline hourly wage of $12.50 (CA assumption). This is what you'd be standing on your feet for 8 hours a day to earn, a daily intake of roughly $80 after taxes, all the while dealing with the du

This came to my mind as I played MGS V for the first time. It was my first Metal Gear Solid game, and I was quite alarmed by how... snappy Snake’s movement was. I mean he felt sharp to control, he did exactly what you wanted him to which I wasn’t used to from open world games set in relatively realistic settings. There was no stumbling uphill, no getting stuck on world geometry, no effort to look like how a real person would move, Snake just followed my orders and did as he was told. It was super refreshing actually.

I realized a lot of other Japanese games control this way too: Yakuza, Final Fantasy, Dark Souls, Resident Evil etc. A lot of western games on the other hand seem to have looser controls in favor of looking realistic and giving the vibe that it’s a real person walking down the street. GTA is a perfect example, your character feels so easily affected by the world around them. You can fall down a flight of stairs, recoil when you run into someone, struggle to walk uphill,

Communism, in its higher phase, seeks the abolition of state. It's, in a way, an anarchist philosophy.

Why have the distinction of "anarcho-communism" in the first place?

As the undead become hollow because they lose their purpose in life and as the tenets of Optimistic Nihilism argue that purpose isn't birthed out of the commands of some omnipotent diety or created out of thin air but instead is to be found in the trenches of everyday living, that is the thing which no-one can take from you.

I've been getting into sci-fi lately but all of the recommendations have not been my cup of tea really. Someone recommended the Palladium Wars series. Its good, but the writing is too simple for me. I hope this isn't perceived as condescending, but if a 10-year-old can read it, It really can't interest me.

Criteria I'm looking for: war, politics, space-opera dialogue, morality, etc.

Any recommendations for a more mature sci-fi book/series that has some more sophisticated prose/diction to boast?

Disclaimer: I'm not saying either of them is or isn't balanced. They've both had their times where they were ridiculously overtuned.

When Aphelios was first introduced, Riot presented him as a super gigabrain champion for turbointellectual hypergamers, who would have to carefully consider how to approach any given situation based on what gun he had, what other gun he had, what gun he was going to get next, and what each of them did passively and with their Qs, and how they interacted with his ult.

But really you just shoot them with your bubble guns and win because every gun synergizes with every other gun lmao

I think Sylas's ult is a better example of something that makes you think about how you want to approach a situation. From the start you have to think about whether or not you even want to pick Sylas based on what ults the enemy team has. Generally you can make use of at least a couple ults, especially if you're further down the pick line and get to see a bunch of what the en

Most people can’t think abstractly so they anthropomorphize abstractions and it’s turned them into shallow black and white, dot-to-dot thinkers who have to use force to get their way because they’ve lost the ability to reason and are relatively impervious to thought anyway. They focus on the “what” but not the “why” behind it, and it’s power-hungry rule mongers like priests and politicians who benefit from that.

https://www.bungie.net/en/News/Article/46567

The key part of this is: > Eververse > We recognize that the scales are tipped too far towards Tess at the moment, and Eververse was never intended to be a substitute for end game content and rewards. So, we’ll be making three changes for upcoming Seasons:

>* We’re shifting the balance of new content in favor of activity rewards over Bright Engrams. This includes adding Ghosts, Sparrows, and ships (to date found only in Bright Engrams) to achievement reward pools.

>* We'll provide a gameplay path to earn Bright Engrams and all contained rewards (including Event Engrams).

>* We’ll give players more direct purchase options and make adjustments to Bright Engrams to allow players to get the items they want more often.

Though I think they fell short in providing valuable ones often outside of eververse, they did for things like zero hour ship, whisper ship, spire of stars emote, the leviathan ghost, and the scourge sparrow. T

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This post is really personal as my family has lately been in a huge fight over my cousin's, David, decision to study philosophy after he graduates highschool. I support his decision but I am literally the only one, as my whole family is against it, it resulted in fights, abusive behaviours from my family members and such. David had to lie to family members in order to follow his dream and even though everything is now settled, the atmosphere is terrible. His mother said that he wasted his life.

Their arguments are: -He will change his mind and stop liking philosophy after studying it -He will never find a job (David wants to be a philosophy teacher for now) -(About him wanting a teacher) he will find it too hard -Philosophy is too vague to be understood or studied -David was good at science so he should have studied this

Now, I have never really been interested in philosophy, I must say. I was not very good at it back in highschool, I was very gifted with literature but not philosop

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Revising how I build 2.0 Skill Trees and embracing Bungie's philosophy

As I've slowly revealed my skill trees and have taken the community feedback to heart, I've made some revisions. Not just to the skill trees themselves, but how I go about creating trees in general. Bungie told us that when they changed the format of skill trees, it was to make sure every perk you were using worked with each other. For example, in Destiny 1, Striker had a perk called Aftershocks that increased the duration of Pulse grenades, Lightning grenades, and Aftermath. The issue is, what if I was running Flashbang grenades and Death From Above? Aftershocks would be completely wasted. With the current system,, no perk is wasted and all trees live

Fuck, man. It's so exhausting.

It seems like there tends to be this internal narrative of me being on a "hero's journey" to achieve "enlightenment" and it's getting exhausting. It's ridiculous! I don't want to be on a hero's journey anymore! I don't want to be self-absorbed! I don't want to be under the impressions that I'm on some sort of "spiritual mission"! I don't want to feel as if I "know", because I fucking don't! I don't want to feel like I'm speaking to "God"! I don't want to conceptualize or intellectualize that concept anymore!

I don't want to become "enlightened"! I don't want to take myself so damn seriously! I just want to BE!

And thinking back on it, this was the theme of my most recent mushroom trip a few months back. It essentially made me realize:

1. I don't know anything, and I certainly don't read enough.
2. Because I have a learning and motivation disability that prevents me from reading regularly, I should probably see a doctor for tha

Hey all! I (like most of you, I'm sure) am worried about the state of race relations in America. I am in a mid-sized university town where our protests were so peaceful that people thanked the cops on their way out (covid removing a more radical young population may have had something to do with that also). I've been social media active, reposting and augmenting black voices, donating a few bucks to the bailout fund, etc. Everything feels so performative and effete.

The hopeless need philosophy, right? I've seen the helpful reading lists going around, but I'm wondering if there is anything that approaches philosophy. Something that links a black experience with questions of being or embodiment or social structure.

I found this article about phenomenology and race: [https://www.radicalphilosophyarchive.com/issue-files/rp95_article2_towardsaphenomenologyofracialembodiment_alcoff.pdf](https://www.radicalphilosophyarchive.com/issue-files/rp95_article2_towardsaphenomenologyofracialembo

It’s not just your body. There’s whole living being inside the womb. And I believe that men should have say because it’s their child as well, not just the woman’s. Men play a part in reproduction too, and they shouldn’t be cast aside in the matters of their offspring. I know I’ll catch heat but the whole “my body” philosophy seems kinda selfish to me.

Edit: Situations such as rape are not included in this

Very sad to see the state the game is in right now with all the upcoming nerfs, artifact enabled Trials and the new Director's Cut being more empty, meaningless promises for a game with so much potential, among all the other issues that have plagued the game since Shadowkeep launched, all my excitement for Season of the Worthy is about as lively as Cayde. Sure, I'll still play the game at least casually, because the gameplay is good enough that I don't totally feel like I'm suffering while playing, but I could just move on to other, better games that actually are rewarding me for my time playing them (shoutout to Monster Hunter World).

Edit: I'm fully ready to eat my words if this next season turns out to be something and then the love/hate cycle shall repeat once more, but for now, expectations have been set.

I'm getting a bit desperate, bear with me.

I've been planning to relearn math via Khan Academy from the 1+1 level, as i am horrible, horrible at math. However, just like in school i do not really understand what is going on, only following the formulas like a robot.

Is there a way to learn the idea of what math is? What a number is, why numbers exist, did math always exist, is math a form or did we make it up, etc etc! On an on til i reach stuff like the Munchausen trilemma and worse.

I simply cannot continue with math without being able to hold the idea of something in my head like with soft sciences. Please help me.

Disclaimer: this is NOT a suicidal post. I don't approve suicide (although I understand the people who do it) because it's a selfish act that trades the suffering of your loves ones for the rest of their life just to end your own suffering. I've been extremely depressed and wished I wasn't born at all, but since we are here we might as well enjoy life to the fullest, because even in pure darkness there is some light. Video games, movies, drawing, philosophy helped me see beauty when I couldn't find any around me. And remember, you can always keep fighting one more minute, and minutes become days, days become years... Don't choose the easy way out, choose the right one, even if it's the hardest one.

After this unexpected inspiring introduction let's move on to the actual post, which I expect to be much more positive lol.

Well let's start by saying that if you believe in any religion (life after death, reincarnation or any other) then you shouldn't have any fear right? So I'll explain

A while ago, I asked regarding whether emotions are the irrational side of reason as I am learning to explore the world of emotion in a way that I never expected before and I am realising its benefits.

This made me question my desire to be an advocate of reason as I was led to believe that logical and critical thinking should the most ideal path towards enlightenment, as I was provoked to think that way by many philosophers like Socrates, Kant, Descartes, Francis Bacon and so on.

But I was exposed to the idea of how we shape our reality which therefore shapes our way of reasoning even if two people are arguing about the same phenomenon in different ways (such as religion or how we view the universe).

And this made me question about my philosophies and beliefs, particularly my initial desire to be as rational as possible (which was very difficult to tackle).

Trying to be as rational as possible was perhaps my most ideal goal because I was led to believe that things like belief,

Today I recognized that i don’t live and work on the advices I give other people. It’s sooo fulfilling for me to explain other people the world as I see it and to see those wide opened eyes and their astonished nodding when I give them other insights into that reality. I love to see them improve and understand things. It’s so easy for me to explain to others where their problems are and how they could deal with it. But at the end of the day: I don’t listen to my own advices: I often let my Ego direct my thoughts, feelings and actions, I am sad and my whole world seems to crash just because somebody was a little bit rude to me. So: I really understand what matters and how I create my own reality but I can’t apply it. Never the less other people are so thankful for my help and I get into a really nice flow when I “teach” them. I think it shows the huge difference between explaining and applying. The huge gap between rational understanding and living/feeling the understanding.

From what it seems to me, stoicism might be the best philosophy for an INTJ. What do you guys think?

PS: Is Marcus Aurelius an INTJ?

I just watched a video critiquing Sam Harris's "The Moral Landscape". I had no idea how inept "intellectuals" like Jordan Peterson and Sam Harris are when it comes to talking about philosophy. I am mostly interested in moral philosophy and as of now I generally identify myself as a Stoic, but I feel like i'm missing something. I want to dive deeper into existentialist ideas, but I want to do it properly. I have no idea what post modernism is considering Peterson seems to be way off with his interpretation of it. I don't understanding the difference between analytic vs continental philosophy even after researching a bit on it. I guess my question is, how do I study philosophy "properly" so I can come to understand these ideas and answer this question and better be able to call out weak pseudo philosophy when I see it?

As a someone who just started exploring Savate, a common meme I notice across internet articles and historical texts is not only just how ingrained was the Boxing vs Savate is in nationalistic rivalries esp France VS Britain.......... But it becomes a reflection of kicks vs punches and later on complete striking system vs fists only after boxing was added into Chausson styles.

Just like how when karate and other styles were being introduced to North America and the UK resulted in trash talk between boxers and Greco-Roman and American derivatives wrestlers vs Asian martial arts, lots of bouts took place in the 60s-70s and the pattern was almost similar to Savate in that the "arms" only Westerners would defeat other Western practitioners of karate and kung fu and other exotic Asian styles. For much the same reason formalized Chausson professors did (lack of physical conditioning by most instructors and inexperience with dealing with fury of quick close range strikes tied with lack of fo

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I've been researching the argument over intuitions role in philosophy and it seems quite clear to me that it's role should be slim to none. Most of the arguments for intuition, like making a false equivalence between intuition and perception are so fallacious that it's baffling that someone would argue it. However, many people far smarter than I thought that using intuitions in philosophy is perfectly ok, and I'm terribly confused as to why someone would think this.

If you think intuition in philosophy is ok? If so, why? Or do you agree that the role should be little to none? Thank you

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Today I realized I need to go through some Basic Logic to prepare myself for higher level Mathematics, while learning both Basic Philosophy and Basic Logic, I've noticed that this knowledge should be absolutely essential, if HS students had Basic Logic and Basic Philosophy as an essential class then It's very likely we'd see a significant drop in religious students of future generations, for that education will clearly show how flawed religion and the concept of god is logically.

Alright, I've put it off long enough. Here, finally, is the last entry into the Philosophy of Magic series! Transmutation, the school of objects, properties, and change.

As always, you can check the full list of posts on my profile. I'm working hard to format all of these and put them into one pretty PDF for all to consume.

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