Serious Board Ask Anybody Anything

So I thought this would be a pretty interesting idea. Since the serious board isn't suited to hosting AMAs, I figure we should have a thread where we get to pose questions to any user we like about any appropriate topic, or alternatively you could simply pose a question to liberals, conservatives, libertarians etc. as a group and whoever is a part of said group can also answer that question.

Preferably quote the OP blank and change my username to whoever you're asking the question.

Eeeh...I have nothing to ask.

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Go ahead and AMA me anything, I guess.

Go ahead and AMA me anything, I guess.

OH MY GOD WHAT IS WITH ALL THESE REDUNDANT REPLIES

Go ahead and AMA me anything, I guess.

OH MY GOD WHAT IS WITH ALL THESE REDUNDANT REPLIES

Hey, this is serious. Mind your manners.

Go ahead and AMA me anything, I guess.

OH MY GOD WHAT IS WITH ALL THESE REDUNDANT REPLIES

oops

Why do more people not realize that in order to help Africa we have to stop helping Africa?

The Fed:

Good or bad?

The Fed:

Good or bad?

Better than not having one.

Opinion on the 80/20 principle?

Opinion on the 80/20 principle?

It's actually pretty interesting, but I doubt how strong it is. It probably is the case that numerous effects are the result of comparatively fewer causes (which is a clumsy way of stating it), but there's probably a tendency to cherry-pick examples to fit the principle.

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how long until you're a liberal again? /s

Would you ever move to the US?

how long until you're a liberal again? /s

Most conservatives are still liberals in the most pertinent sense of the word, I think, and a vocal minority of today's progressives are in fact not liberals.

Would you ever move to the US?

I'll be living there for a year in 2018/19.

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Most conservatives are still liberals in the most pertinent sense of the word, I think

How do you mean?

and a vocal minority of today's progressives are in fact not liberals.

Agreed.

I'll be living there for a year in 2018/19.

Be sure to tell us what you think when it happens. Also, where in the US?

I'll be living there for a year in 2018/19.

Come to NC so we can shoot guns and smoke weed

I'm there.

Also, where in the US?

I hear Indiana's nice.

Also, where in the US?

I hear Indiana's nice.

yeehaw

enjoy driving in circles

Where, if ever, in Friedrich Nietzsche's writings, does he explicitly repudiate nihilism?

I don't doubt that he has--I just need confirmation. I haven't read anything of his.

Where, if ever, in Friedrich Nietzsche's writings, does he explicitly repudiate nihilism?

I don't doubt that he has--I just need confirmation. I haven't read anything of his.

In Kritische Studienausgabe, which is a posthumously compiled collection of his notes, Nietzsche identifies nihilism with the decline of Christianity--and thus any unified value system to guide us--and the rise of decadence. According to Nietzsche, although Christian morality was a 'weak' form of morality, it nevertheless gave people an intrinsic sense of meaning, morality and the notion of objective knowledge.

Nietzsche thought there were two reactions to this kind of nihilism, which comes about due to a collapse in the acceptance of society-wide value structures. There is a kind of passive nihilism, which he identifies in Schopenhauer's philosophy, claiming his ascetic beliefs constitute a "will to nothingness" whereby life simply turns away from itself.

The second reaction is the kind of existentialist centre of Nietzsche's philosophy. The Ubermenschen, who are fundamentally concerned with the salvation of humanity through culture. They would be, Nietzsche thought, people who made and enforced their own values, were independent from 'the herd', would probably be selfish and would accept that suffering might be necessary for himself or other people in the pursuit of great things, never be envious of the success of others and they'd be gentle towards the weak out of consciousness of their own strength. Nietzsche thought we'd be shocked by his list, as we'd expect the supermen of the future to be incredibly compassionate and deeply egalitarian, but Nietzsche contends that greatness involves qualities which many of us find disturbing.

Common examples of people like Goethe, Frederick the Great, da Vinci, Napoleon, Caesar and Voltaire.

Where, if ever, in Friedrich Nietzsche's writings, does he explicitly repudiate nihilism?

I don't doubt that he has--I just need confirmation. I haven't read anything of his.

In Kritische Studienausgabe, which is a posthumously compiled collection of his notes, Nietzsche identifies nihilism with the decline of Christianity--and thus any unified value system to guide us--and the rise of decadence. According to Nietzsche, although Christian morality was a 'weak' form of morality, it nevertheless gave people an intrinsic sense of meaning, morality and the notion of objective knowledge.

Nietzsche thought there were two reactions to this kind of nihilism, which comes about due to a collapse in the acceptance of society-wide value structures. There is a kind of passive nihilism, which he identifies in Schopenhauer's philosophy, claiming his ascetic beliefs constitute a "will to nothingness" whereby life simply turns away from itself.

The second reaction is the kind of existentialist centre of Nietzsche's philosophy. The Ubermenschen, who are fundamentally concerned with the salvation of humanity through culture. They would be, Nietzsche thought, people who made and enforced their own values, were independent from 'the herd', would probably be selfish and would accept that suffering might be necessary for himself or other people in the pursuit of great things, never be envious of the success of others and they'd be gentle towards the weak out of consciousness of their own strength. Nietzsche thought we'd be shocked by his list, as we'd expect the supermen of the future to be incredibly compassionate and deeply egalitarian, but Nietzsche contends that greatness involves qualities which many of us find disturbing.

Common examples of people like Goethe, Frederick the Great, da Vinci, Napoleon, Caesar and Voltaire.

and Hitler, the uberest ubermensch of them all

META COME TO FLORIDA AT SOME POINT SO WE CAN SMOKE WEED

META COME TO FLORIDA AT SOME POINT SO WE CAN SMOKE WEED

And if you feel like getting depressed by poverty and shit culture you can drop by Pensacola and say hi.

Or he can just avoid that crappy state all together.

META COME TO FLORIDA AT SOME POINT SO WE CAN SMOKE WEED

And if you feel like getting depressed by poverty and shit culture you can drop by Pensacola and say hi.

the redneck riviera certainly is a special place

META COME TO FLORIDA AT SOME POINT SO WE CAN SMOKE WEED

And if you feel like getting depressed by poverty and shit culture you can drop by Pensacola and say hi.

I'm coming to Arizona to smoke some of dat dank kush wit you and drop some e nigguh

after i get fucked with rc in shitfuckistan or whatever that state is called

META COME TO FLORIDA AT SOME POINT SO WE CAN SMOKE WEED

And if you feel like getting depressed by poverty and shit culture you can drop by Pensacola and say hi.

I'm coming to Arizona to smoke some of dat dank kush wit you and drop some e nigguh

after i get fucked with rc in shitfuckistan or whatever that state is called

You limey fuck, Pensacola is in Florida. I don't live in AZ anymore.

META COME TO FLORIDA AT SOME POINT SO WE CAN SMOKE WEED

And if you feel like getting depressed by poverty and shit culture you can drop by Pensacola and say hi.

I'm coming to Arizona to smoke some of dat dank kush wit you and drop some e nigguh

after i get fucked with rc in shitfuckistan or whatever that state is called

You limey fuck, Pensacola is in Florida. I don't live in AZ anymore.

Wait you both live in Florida?

it is ON

META COME TO FLORIDA AT SOME POINT SO WE CAN SMOKE WEED

And if you feel like getting depressed by poverty and shit culture you can drop by Pensacola and say hi.

I'm coming to Arizona to smoke some of dat dank kush wit you and drop some e nigguh

after i get fucked with rc in shitfuckistan or whatever that state is called

You limey fuck, Pensacola is in Florida. I don't live in AZ anymore.

Wait you both live in Florida?

it is ON

Yeah but I'm pretty sure rc lives like 8 hours from where I do.