Persians are hot.

Dark skin, black hair, two of my most important qualifications for wife material.

Luckily my girlfriend's got both, but it's a Scandinavian thing for her.

Are there people who doubt this?

Sometimes, hypothetical situations are the best way to get points across.

Quote from: Winy on October 14, 2015, 10:00:11 PM

I was forced to read this for my English class during my senior year, and I couldn't get into it. It bored the hell out of me.

Yeah. Very dry read.

I felt like I was reading something in black and white, if that makes any sense. Not literally the color of the world that Orwell was trying to portray (Although that is sort of how I felt), but it was just such an uninteresting book. And I get it, the world he lives in is suppose to be devoid of personality, and bleak, but there's a risk involved in writing about an environment like that. Too much focus on it, and the writing itself suffers from the description of the world the book is set in. I feel like Orwell sort of failed to bring life to anything by providing some alternative way of expressing emotion. It was an office cubicle of a novel.

I was forced to read this for my English class during my senior year, and I couldn't get into it. It bored the hell out of me.

Black olives don't matter.

I feel the need to clarify I'm fucking with you guys.

The Jews are literally responsible for all the world's wars.

Quote from: Winy on October 13, 2015, 10:42:52 PM

Wasn't that some dude named Flutterguy?

He changed his name to Maz, though, didn't he?

Mhmm

I can't even remember what he goes by now though

I distinctly remember asking him about why he fucked his dog on Bungle.

And he's like, "That's too personal and don't feel comfortable answering it."

Nigger, you fucked your dog, I deserve an answer.

Ew chinks

Quote from: Winy on October 13, 2015, 06:31:54 PM

You still haven't rated me : (

It's ok Winy, you're already 10/10

I don't know.

Quote from: Winy on October 10, 2015, 10:39:12 PM

I haven't shit myself in like three years

You... used to shit yourself four years ago?

By "Shit myself," I mean, "Shart."

I'm not sure what sound reason you are referring to. I know there have been times in my life when I have been fully functional as a human that may not have even happened as far as I'm concerned because of the anesthetic drugs I was made to use. Like, knowing that I was conscious, speaking, and performing normally, but not being able to remember it . . . that is what I liken the possibility of death between life to.

But you have records of this happening. Accountability, and observations made by others. More importantly, they're demonstrable. But that line of reasoning can't be magically applied to the concept of death just because it's convenient. Yeah, you didn't really experience it in your normal sense of mind because of the drugs, but you were still there, and still experiencing a provable situation. Death and pre-birth, if you ask me, probably don't work that way. It's very sound reasoning to make this conclusion.

1. Pre-birth: No sensation
2. Life: Sensation
3. Death: Stopping of processes that allow for sensation, revert back to pre-birth

There's just not really anything suggesting otherwise. I'm not saying I know what happens after we die, I'm just saying I very much support the idea that that hypothesis is the most reasonable one.

Quote from: Winy on October 12, 2015, 10:51:35 PM

I didn't feel anything before I was born, there's no compelling evidence suggesting I'll feel after, and a lot of sound reasoning suggesting it's the end.

One could assert that you just had no mechanism of memory before being born. After all none of us can describe the experience of being <2 yet we know we experienced that. Of course it's impossible to describe how experience can be had with no tangible object, I'm just playing devil's advocate for the argument of "I didn't feel being alive before this."

But it's just that; an assertion. Nothing substantial, and with no actual evidence suggesting it's the truth. I can't very well rationalize the statement, "I met the president" with, "But I just didn't remember it because I couldn't at the time."

Quote from: eggsalad on October 12, 2015, 10:37:50 PM

I want an actual answer here.
What is the value of a conversation where all positions and assertions are fundamentally equal?
A discussion where Einsteinian gravity is of equal merit as me smashing my keyboard devalues the idea of communication.

For me the value lies in seeing why people are committed to their beliefs about one form of afterlife, or the lack of any continued perceived existence whatsoever. I honestly do not hold the view that death is the end, and that's part of why I'm excited for it. Knowing that others do not feel the same way is somewhat saddening, in some ways, and conversation is a way to become closer over the matter.

How is it saddening?

Everything that makes me alive stops when I die. My brain shuts off, my heart stops, and my blood stops flowing. To me, there's no logical conclusion that can be made from this other than your sensations stop in all ways. I didn't feel anything before I was born, there's no compelling evidence suggesting I'll feel after, and a lot of sound reasoning suggesting it's the end. I can understand people who want to use faith as a means to justify this belief, but I don't understand how someone can try to reason it.