14881
This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to. 14882
The Flood / Re: ITT: I ask you anything« on: August 06, 2014, 06:58:10 PM »Shaken or Stirred?Shaken. 14884
The Flood / Re: TIFU: Stories from the Reddit (Today I Fucked Up)« on: August 06, 2014, 06:18:39 PM »
Is your name Rob?
14885
Serious / Re: Anarchism Discussion Thread« on: August 06, 2014, 06:14:12 PM »This is wrong for a few reasons.Even the examples of Anarchism working are woefully deplorable. For example, Catalonia didn't work out so well; non-Anarchists were persecuted mercilessly and economic production fell during, indicating a distinct lack of social and economic efficiency. And yes, we absolutely CAN talk about human nature, given our understanding of it. People aren't totally shaped by environment, and it'd be fallacious to try and claim so. Scientists generally agree that violence is inherent to human contact, and the philosophical argument between Hobbes and Rousseau has been largely won by the former. If you want to talk nature, then you have to have a specific or non-specific definition about what is natural, and the non-specific definition works best. A State IS absolutely natural, otherwise it wouldn't have evolved in the first place - even if it did come about through largely religious and economic reasons a long time ago, it still remains demonstrably necessary. If you want to risk a specific definition of human nature, then you simply must be a Primitivist when you do it. The technology, economics and sociological factors have probably had a larger impact, combined, on how we act in comparison to the State. But not just on a consequentialist basis, on a philosophical one too; claims of moral and immoral practice are meaningless to me, and probably should be as equally meaningless to anybody wanting a serious discussion. The main thing that converted me from Anarchism, however, was probably a quote by Professor Hare - the world's leading expert in psychopaths - who stated that: "If we rely on the inherent goodness of men then we are doomed". 14886
The Flood / Re: I will also answer any question with TOTAL honesty« on: August 06, 2014, 12:16:13 PM »If you had a gun with two bullets, and you were locked in a room with Ayn Rand and Karl Marx, what would you do?I'd shoot Karl Marx twice. 14887
The Flood / Re: I will also answer any question with TOTAL honesty« on: August 06, 2014, 12:15:53 PM »Do you think you're better than people? If so, why? Yes, because I'm yet to be outmatched by my peers in areas which are important to me. No doubt some of that falls to my narcissism. 14888
The Flood / Re: I will also answer any question with TOTAL honesty« on: August 06, 2014, 12:15:09 PM »Thoughts on eternal recurrence, thoughts on why you believe you are a nihilist. And last but not least are you a moral nihilist or a existential nihilist?I think the eternal recurrence is fantastically liberating, on an individual scale. I refer to myself as a nihilist simply because I don't believe there's anything meaningful to existence. It's puts me in opposition to a lot of existentialists - including my dear Nietzsche - but I think the existentialist idea of meaning is. . . Well, juvenile. I'm an existential and moral nihilist. 14889
The Flood / Re: Some British police now carrying guns« on: August 06, 2014, 10:47:05 AM »British Police don't carry guns???Baton, pepper spray, tasers. 14890
The Flood / Re: What would be considered your 'dream job?'« on: August 06, 2014, 10:46:39 AM »
Hitman.
14891
The Flood / Re: In France, Not Impressed« on: August 06, 2014, 10:27:22 AM »
France's economy is sort of in the shitter. So much for social democracy.
They also charge you for restroom use in Germany, although I think it's only 50 cents. 14892
The Flood / Re: HONEST OPINION+AMA« on: August 06, 2014, 09:46:36 AM »
You're all right but you're wound way too tight.
What is your honest opinion of me? 14893
The Flood / Some British police now carrying guns« on: August 06, 2014, 09:40:09 AM »
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28656324
In a little-noticed move, a small number of police officers are now routinely carrying sidearms while on patrol in much of Scotland - the first in the UK outside Northern Ireland to do so. How did this come about, and does it alter the relationship between the constabulary and the public? Saturday night in Inverness. Outside a McDonald's restaurant, a scuffle between two men breaks out. Three police officers arrive to intervene. So far, so mundane. Except that strapped around the hips of each of the policemen approaching the brawl is a holstered Glock 17 semi-automatic pistol. It's a sight that once would have been unthinkable. In this corner of the Scottish Highlands - an area with one of the lowest crime rates in the UK - the officers showing up to a relatively workaday disturbance are armed. Although every police force has a firearms unit, for decades it has been an article of faith that in the mainland UK, almost uniquely among major industrialised nations, the police do not carry guns as a matter of course. But with little fanfare at first, a policy of routinely allowing specialist officers to wear sidearms as they walk the streets of Scotland has come into being. 14894
The Flood / Re: I will also answer any question with TOTAL honesty« on: August 06, 2014, 08:49:45 AM »I THINK YOU'RE LYING TO ME. YOUR AMA THREAD IS NOW INVALID. LIAR.In all honesty, I don't even know my NI number. I have it written down somewhere but I haven't needed to un-lose it since I got employed. 14895
The Flood / Re: I will also answer any question with TOTAL honesty« on: August 06, 2014, 08:46:10 AM »WHAT IS YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER?We call it a National Insurance number. It's 1234 go fuck yourself. 14896
Serious / Re: Give me one good reason not to convert to Sikhism« on: August 06, 2014, 08:42:32 AM »How about you just take a look at the values of the religion, take what you like from it, and go about your business instead?>implying religions have any worthwhile values 14897
The Flood / Re: I will also answer any question with TOTAL honesty« on: August 06, 2014, 07:38:32 AM »14898
The Flood / Re: I will also answer any question with TOTAL honesty« on: August 06, 2014, 07:09:49 AM »Would you meet me in real life if I were to go to the land of the Engs?I wouldn't be opposed to the idea. 14899
Serious / Re: Anarchism Discussion Thread« on: August 06, 2014, 06:41:23 AM »Nope.shut up fgt 14900
Serious / Re: Give me one good reason not to convert to Sikhism« on: August 06, 2014, 06:34:25 AM »
Because, despite the nice philosophy, it's still a religion.
A monotheistic one, at that. 14901
Serious / Re: Anarchism Discussion Thread« on: August 06, 2014, 06:32:51 AM »
It would work and has worked in the past.
It would just "work" terribly. 14902
The Flood / Re: I will also answer any question with TOTAL honesty« on: August 06, 2014, 06:31:41 AM »If you're really that sociopathic, what exactly are your political goals? To make life better for everyone, or mainly just yourself? Or do you just like to wield power?The last one mainly. If I were to have any degree of power in politics, it'd be nice to go down in history as the Prime Minister who saved the country. But I'd settle for some polarisation like with Margaret Thatcher. Also, it'd be psychopathic, not sociopathic. 14903
The Flood / Re: I will also answer any question with TOTAL honesty« on: August 05, 2014, 08:18:09 PM »We are not gonna get along... Motherfucking panther. 14904
The Flood / Re: I will also answer any question with TOTAL honesty« on: August 05, 2014, 08:05:13 PM »You seem like the kind of guy who happens to have an Oedipus complex. Am I right?*vomits* 14905
The Flood / Re: I will also answer any question with TOTAL honesty« on: August 05, 2014, 07:49:12 PM »What were the instances that sparked the idea? Just random passerby or people you knew? The closest I ever came was walking down an alleyway with a hammer behind a stranger. 14906
The Flood / Re: I will also answer any question with TOTAL honesty« on: August 05, 2014, 07:44:32 PM »explainI'm bi. Actually, probably a 3-4. I don't feel emotionally connected to men. 14907
The Flood / Re: I will also answer any question with TOTAL honesty« on: August 05, 2014, 07:43:26 PM »All time favorite philosopher?Oh God. . . Um, probably Friedrich Nietzsche. Margaret Thatcher. 14908
The Flood / Re: I will also answer any question with TOTAL honesty« on: August 05, 2014, 07:42:50 PM »Have you ever just looked at someone, could be anybody, and thought to yourself, "I could kill them right now?" You've got a friend or a person standing over an edge to a big drop, or somebody's using a power tool like a saw, and you know, that said person would be so surprised by your actions, that if you wanted to, you could just give them a little push, or take the power tool and angle it just a bit farther? All the time. It's been very close a few time. 14909
The Flood / Re: I will also answer any question with TOTAL honesty« on: August 05, 2014, 07:41:16 PM »On a scale of 1-10 how gay are you?5. 14910
The Flood / I will also answer any question with TOTAL honesty« on: August 05, 2014, 07:31:15 PM »
shoot
|