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Eh, it's cool. From a technical standpoint though, how does it hinder?

Mostly due to staff making announcements that are meant for everyone to see, or even making a post in a thread that is meant for everyone to see.

Example: A while back one of Sandtrap's threads had a pretty heated argument in it between Sentra and multiple other members and I intervened and told everyone to end it since his thread wasn't the place for that sort of thing. If anyone of them had me muted then they wouldn't have seen my post and quite possibly would have continued the argument.

Quote from: Elegiac on October 09, 2014, 12:06:05 PM

Cheat, man... I don't know. All we need is the ability to mute mods. They can still ban us. They're still mods, but at least we (I) won't get banned for arguing with them.

Cheat has already addressed this in at least one thread - you are not getting the ability to mute mods, as it hinders our abilities. If you are that against communicating with someone, simply ignore their posts. End of story.

Due to this, however, it should be considered by all of the staff that we should refrain from being overly biased, annoying, prone to pestering, and/or insulting to eliminate any qualms that might stem from the inability to mute and avoid us.

...there's people who actually think that?

Nigga this is the planet Earth. Relatively speaking, shit is fucking big and full of billions of humans with a spectrum of beliefs, interests, personalities, etc. etc. so wide that ET would probably throw us into the schizoid section of the intergalactic asylum.

Well it doesn't affect or bother me but that doesn't stop me from thinking it's dumb.

It's not good to waste your intellectual energy on things that don't affect you, hombre.

This is something I've considered as well, if we're thinking of the same thing.

Since I have no recollection of life before being born, from my point of view, I have always existed. Since my consciousness will be destroyed when I die, from my point of view, I will always be alive. I will have no concept of living or time when I'm dead, so (again, from my point of view) it's pointless to consider time outside of my lifespan relevant.

And then consider that after my death, maybe a trillion years from now and maybe a trillion years before (maybe in a different universe entirely) the atoms and cells and electrical signals that make me me will reconstruct in some form, maybe only in part, and I will continue on, uninterrupted.

The odds of that happening—of me coming back in some form—may be incalculable, but it makes no difference to me, from my point of view. Either it happens eventually and I will be conscious, or it doesn't and I wouldn't know otherwise anyway.

When you consider all of that, you also need to consider what 'you' actually are. What is it that constitutes 'you.' Is it your body? Your personality? You memories and identity?

You have to remember that there is something fundamental that supersedes all of those things, and that is your awareness of them. All phenomena that arise, exist, and cease within your lifespan have an observer. Even the things as intangible and personal as your memories and emotions, your intelligence, your intuition.

In death, the body is destroyed, the ego undergoes dissolution, but what happens to that which observes the body and the ego? That's the real question.

Quote from: DemonicChronic on October 09, 2014, 11:07:19 AM

Nigga please, Foman would have just carpet banned everyone.

who's going to be the first mod to successfully attempt a sep7agon carpet ban?

fts

Read your pms negro.

Over a decade ago.
Damn. . .

Quote from: DemonicChronic on October 08, 2014, 11:57:10 AM

Quote from: Flee on October 08, 2014, 07:08:49 AM

absolute certainty, which is virtually impossible to achieve,

Well existence is absolutely certain.

It's still subject to gradation. You can have idealists and materialists on the spectrum, with solipsists and eliminativists at the extreme.

Then of course you have the nihilists who claim that existence lacks a qualitative valuing system, and therefore cannot be meaningful in any sense of the word.

people can debate the nature of existence all they want. All I'm saying is that reality is here and your consciousness is here and, while anyone can deny that, the very fact that they can alludes to existence.

Wow fracking tapatalk quoting the wrong post. . .

I'm a no life deadbeat out of school mother fucker.

Lusting Your. . .

Would be a hell of a lot of work.

Hairy Pot-er.

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