aluminiumtrioxid

empty like your dreams I think that my dreams (beauty, truth, solace) are more of your nightmares *cough* strawman *cough*

empty like your dreams

spoken like a true untermensch

Whenever you find yourself asking the question which, the answer is probably "both".

Outside of 4chan? Not much.

It's certainly nice to be appreciated.

****ing feminist pandering all but one of the people in positions of authority are women what about the menz

...what

The power of what now? The power meaning the appeal of left-wing populism.... You... do realize that most of Sanders' positions wouldn't count as "radical" or "populist" in any way, shape or form here in Europelandia, right?

The power of what now?

Very W40K. This pleases us.

Has it ever occurred to you that some people are just not interested in high skill floor games you need to invest hundreds of hours in to master? And that this might have something to do with Overwatch's popularity?

I wish I was born 100 years from now so I could have been a cyborg. Imagine having a WiFi-like capability built directly into your brain and being able to at any time reference any information in the collection of humanity. /drool I wonder. When Cyborg implants and limb replacements become commonplace do you suppose they will be optional? Or will the future governments see them as "for your own good" and make them mandatory. I'd imagine it will be the latter. Exercise isn't mandatory, even though it's most certainly for people's own good, and doesn't require lopping off perfectly good limbs.

I most certainly hope so; after all, the decision-making capabilities of your average person are also kind of ****. To be fair though, most humans tend to be at least passable at human-to-human interaction.

She's in HotS as well, and super fun to play... up until the moment she opens her mouth. Because then my ears start to bleed and everything is suddenly subsumed by OH GOD PLEASE MAKE IT STOP.

Is it really a relevant distinction? It is if the two aren't equivalent. Really.....its significant ? So do we now question the veracity of what people say....I have a large list of things for you guys to check I'm not saying it is, what I'm saying is that - in truth - you don't know. Its one of the things that bugs me when people try to make sweeping assumptions about people based on what they perceive as the "identity" of the poster when the great thing about the internet is that we can act devoid of identity if we want to. And that, ultimately, identity should be irrelevant to our interactions. Hence my question about whether it's really a relevant distinction.

Or the OP was lying about that part, but not about others?

Is it really a relevant distinction?

****ing communists enforcing equality

> posted in a thread about a forum member deciding to take their ball and go home okay I think he meant on purpose. Tbh. I don't think there's much difference if the outcome is the same. Granted, it might be possible that the poster in question was indeed an alt who sensed that the jig was up and decided to go out in style, and it is equally possible that she wasn't, yet she'll chill and return a few days later (she wouldn't be the first to dramatically swear off posting on these forums, then silently come back later). Nevertheless, if none of those is true, she has been chased off these forums. Might not have been intentional, but is really your intent the most important consideration there when the forum lost a unique voice whose insight and perspective wouldn't have made it a poorer place?

> posted in a thread about a forum member deciding to take their ball and go home okay

Philosophies that don't involve gods or spirits, I guess? Some schools of buddhist thought definitely apply. You know, to me, that sounds like a way nastier and more unpleasant view than "religion is merely a tool of the ruling class" you assumed 1337 is holding. Making your accusations of cynicism kind of ironic, I guess. I think it's not exactly hard to imagine what, to be honest. Memes that lend themselves well to self-propagation ("converting people to our religion is a moral duty, because otherwise they'd be consigned to hell!") or large-scale murder and taking other people's stuff on the basis of them being filthy heretics or prime candidates for sacrifice are going to be more competitive on the memetic landscape than their more introspective siblings. I'm not sure they even need to grant a competitive advantage to the societies adopting them - it's enough if they themselves can out-compete the opposition (ie. other memes).

Okay, let's try to approach the problem from a different angle. You do agree with the idea that the three core cultural pillars of western civilization are to be found in the antiquity (Greco-Roman culture, for lack of a better word), Christianity, and the Enlightenment, right? Sure, but i see the enlightment as a natural consequence of the degenerate process of hierarchy in society. It couldn't have happened of not christianity preceeded it. (...) Religion and spirituality is too inherited into the human condition for it not to exist as part of civilization. Hierarchy is... a process? Which is also degenerate? Care to unpack that a bit more? As for your other observation... it's true in a sense, but it also seems to be missing the point? I don't think religion's a part of civilization because it's "inherent to the human condition". It's a medium through which cultural mores can be efficiently communicated, and it provides a coherent way to interpret the world around you, and both of those are extremely useful functions if you want to build a civilization, but I don't think there's something unique to religion that makes it better at those things than the alternatives.

Okay, let's try to approach the problem from a different angle. You do agree with the idea that the three core cultural pillars of western civilization are to be found in the antiquity (Greco-Roman culture, for lack of a better word), Christianity, and the Enlightenment, right?