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3991
« on: April 20, 2015, 01:47:22 AM »
Eh, I use them for medication, so yes.
3992
« on: April 20, 2015, 12:57:26 AM »
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I was talking more about the general capacity humans have to be happy. As in, not just me.
I agree that we don't live lives of such high quality that we're in danger of crossing into saccharine territory, but life gives you the opportunity to improve things for others and for yourself. And perhaps I am just an overly optimistic twit, but I do believe humanity is capable of treating itself of its self-destructive tendencies along with the other things that ail us that aren't so self-inflicted. I said this earlier, but I would just make the simple argument that happiness only comes at the cost of something. No one is ever happy for free, so to speak. Everything is indirectly sadistic in quality. Down to the food you eat. You know how many sentient creatures perish painfully at our hand just to put food on your plate? The hours of boredom and abuse the seamstresses that make your clothes endure? Everything you do has suffering attached to it down the line. I'm not saying you're not allowed to enjoy any of this stuff--if you didn't, it would be a colossal waste of the suffering. I'm just saying that I don't really buy the happiness argument when the suffering demonstrably outweighs any happiness. Unless you're going to try to argue that your food and your clothes are somehow worth all that suffering. You'd be wrong.
My problem here is that the system that we live in, that allows for this massive imbalance in the scales is not necessarily one that can't be changed or replaced provided advancement in areas like robotics and biology. What if we where able to grow and harvest meat without it being attached to a conscious being? What if were able to make human labour unnecessary in the vast majority of production of goods and services? What economic incentive would there be to maintain an economic system based on money earned through production of goods and services if we were able to provide for ourselves with robotic labour? Yes we could just choose to end the human race here and now, but wouldn't that make the struggles of our ancestors a huge waste of time, much like subjecting animals to shit conditions for the sake of mass-producing their meat so that I'll then buy and then throw in the trash, while deriving no pleasure from any of that? The way I see it, we've gotten to a point in human history where scientific advancement has accelerated to orders of magnitude beyond what we were achieving a thousand years ago, and the less than helpful perspectives and traditions of the past are being questioned and abandoned, so we might as well keep going at it, until we get to a point where we've optimized the ratio of suffering to happiness in our society. Spoiler This bit's just nitpicking, since I see the point you're making, and in a general sense I don't see it as incorrect, but... I said this earlier, but I would just make the simple argument that happiness only comes at the cost of something. No one is ever happy for free, so to speak. Everything is indirectly sadistic in quality. I would argue that there are pleasures that you can derive from things that don't require other, conscious being to suffer. Granted I'm not talking about grand things that will bring solace to the disturbed and abused, but there are small things that you can find pleasure in that don't; at least to my knowledge, require the sacrifice that most pleasures do. Personally, I take some amount of pleasure in feeling the wind blow through my fingers, and touching the bark on trees. I don't know of anyway that either of these activities are; under normal circumstances, liable to cause another creature pain in anyway.
3993
« on: April 19, 2015, 11:56:21 PM »
Being happy? Your happiness doesn't justify all the terrors that exist in the world. Not in the slightest. If you think that's a good enough reason to have a kid, you're a moron.
I was talking more about the general capacity humans have to be happy. As in, not just me. I agree that we don't live lives of such high quality that we're in danger of crossing into saccharine territory, but life gives you the opportunity to improve things for others and for yourself. And perhaps I am just an overly optimistic twit, but I do believe humanity is capable of treating itself of its self-destructive tendencies along with the other things that ail us that aren't so self-inflicted.
3994
« on: April 19, 2015, 11:29:00 PM »
No it isn't. Describe what we do that makes life worth imposing on other sentient beings.
You will fail.
Being happy?
3995
« on: April 19, 2015, 11:22:32 PM »
Scenario 1: A man rapes a woman, she gets pregnant and gives birth. Under any circumstances, should the rapist have any amount of custody over the child, and should he be required to pay child support?
Scenario 2: A woman rapes a man, she gets pregnant and gives birth. Who should get custody over the child, assuming both want it? Should the woman have to pay child support?
Scenario 1: no. Yes. Scenario 2: I don't trust your average rapist to make for a decent parent, and I don't expect a victim of rape to be automatically become the caretaker of a child they may well won't want. If the father doesn't want the child, then I suppose it's up to the orphanage for the child, unfortunately. If the man is willing to accept custody, then I don't see why he shouldn't get child support from his rapist.
3996
« on: April 19, 2015, 11:08:03 PM »
Psychological case study.
3997
« on: April 19, 2015, 11:07:09 PM »
what i described is not a "chronically depressed blob of shit", by the way
i summarized the entire human condition in two terms
people consume, and people suffer
that's pretty much ALL we do
No it isn't.
3998
« on: April 19, 2015, 11:06:10 PM »
So, you'd rid a being of the chance for happiness, on the assumption that it's only ever going to amount to being a chronically depressed blob of shit? it's not an assumption; it will happen
that's been the process for all 100 billion humans thus far
even then, it's still probably not okay to gamble with another sentient being's welfare
because sure, maybe your kid will get lucky and have an awesome life
but maybe he won't
Because things haven't improved since we figured out how to bash each other's heads in with largish rocks, right?
3999
« on: April 19, 2015, 10:25:49 PM »
And why is bringing life into existence wrong? why create something that doesn't need to exist, if all it's going to do in the grand scheme is consume, suffer, consume, suffer, consume, suffer, consume, suffer, and then die?
So, you'd rid a being of the chance for happiness, on the assumption that it's only ever going to amount to being a chronically depressed blob of shit?
4000
« on: April 19, 2015, 07:46:55 PM »
Spoiler  I really need to use this one more often.
4001
« on: April 19, 2015, 02:59:15 PM »
Determination Embodiment
The ability to become the embodiment of determination. A variation of Ambition Manipulation and Power Manifestation.
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Users become the living embodiment of determination, making them able to do anything they are determined to do.
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Without determination for something, the user can not use this power. You'd have to be really sold on suicide to actually be able to go through with it.
4002
« on: April 19, 2015, 02:54:22 PM »
Enhance BreathFunny that I seem to have a penchant for respiratory problems.
4003
« on: April 19, 2015, 10:48:16 AM »
Get sloshed.
4004
« on: April 19, 2015, 10:39:33 AM »
I would actually mention you're a mod for a popular website (NEVER MENTION THE ACTUAL PLACE THOUGH, FOR GOD'S SAKE!).
Shows responsibility, able to talk to a variety of arseholes people and ability to diffuse somewhat tight situations.
E.g. Some crazy shopper verbally abusing you because of the price of Tetley Tea or something, when you have literally fuck-all to do with the pricing.
I kind of already have a bit too much of the corpse that lives in a library thing going on so I don't think I'd bring it up. Unless I can lie about having some sort of a social life etc <.<
Tell them you're part of a cult, they won't ask questions and that sorts out the whole social life thing.
4005
« on: April 19, 2015, 09:33:05 AM »
Orchestrate a phoney second coming. How can someone fight you if they believe you control their soul?
4006
« on: April 19, 2015, 09:23:20 AM »
Tell them you name is Lennie Small and you like small furry animals.
And da alfalfa and da wabbits and da-
i cri erytiem
4007
« on: April 19, 2015, 08:56:07 AM »
Never found an album that I could say I liked all the songs on, let alone loved them.
4008
« on: April 19, 2015, 08:51:11 AM »
plz no
4009
« on: April 19, 2015, 08:46:53 AM »
Found a picture of a business bear standing in front of some buildings.
Didn't like it much, but I saw potential in it. Cut out the buildings and added a solid red, then bam, I suddenly liked it a lot.
Funny how such a simple change can do that.
4010
« on: April 19, 2015, 08:39:29 AM »
Tell them you name is Lennie Small and you like small furry animals.
4011
« on: April 19, 2015, 08:36:35 AM »
^
4012
« on: April 19, 2015, 04:02:32 AM »
I guess I'd go with the envelope.
"Dear Ushan,
You've been dead for 30 years already. I'm so sorry.
Sincerely,
___"
Doesn't shock me that I'd forget such a meaningless piece of trivia.
4013
« on: April 19, 2015, 03:13:39 AM »
I guess I'd go with the envelope.
4014
« on: April 18, 2015, 10:14:02 PM »
wafu
Did anyone else think of Tommy Wiseau when they read that?
4015
« on: April 18, 2015, 09:31:53 PM »
So when was our egotistical monarch; Harlow, overthrown?
Now that I think about it, I feel like a miss a lot.
Both President and Monarch could previously exist with eachother in The Flood. But once the Great Schism happened, the position of Monarch was thrown out.
Didn't he just stop coming by? I guess the proper phrase would be a sudden and unannounced abdication, but that's irrelevant.
I'm the President.
History is written by the victor.
End of story.
:^)
Only in cases when the victor is capable of writing.
I won.
I can write.
Therefore I write the History.
And in cases where people other than the victor are capable of writing.
4016
« on: April 18, 2015, 09:13:18 PM »
So when was our egotistical monarch; Harlow, overthrown?
Now that I think about it, I feel like a miss a lot.
Both President and Monarch could previously exist with eachother in The Flood. But once the Great Schism happened, the position of Monarch was thrown out.
Didn't he just stop coming by? I guess the proper phrase would be a sudden and unannounced abdication, but that's irrelevant.
I'm the President.
History is written by the victor.
End of story.
:^)
Only in cases when the victor is capable of writing.
4017
« on: April 18, 2015, 09:09:56 PM »
So when was our egotistical monarch; Harlow, overthrown?
Now that I think about it, I feel like a miss a lot.
Both President and Monarch could previously exist with eachother in The Flood. But once the Great Schism happened, the position of Monarch was thrown out.
Didn't he just stop coming by? I guess the proper phrase would be a sudden and unannounced abdication, but that's irrelevant.
4018
« on: April 18, 2015, 09:02:18 PM »
So when was our egotistical monarch; Harlow, overthrown?
Now that I think about it, I feel like a miss a lot.
4019
« on: April 18, 2015, 08:35:02 PM »
On a sunday?
at 2AM?
How else do you think i get to sleep?
closing your eyes and counting sheep
People actually do that? People can actually manage sleep with out drugs or alcohol? What a time to be alive!
4020
« on: April 18, 2015, 08:27:11 PM »
oh shit
what specifically are you drinking?
Chocolate Bailys :3
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