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15001
« on: August 03, 2014, 08:37:01 AM »
BtDubs AMA = Ask Me Anything, AMA me Anything = Ask Me Anything me anything
Translation for the uninformed (OP):
You = EmoFGT I've never been an emo; I despise that sub-culture.
15002
« on: August 03, 2014, 08:36:23 AM »
What type of nihilist are you?
Epistemological, existential and moral.
On the fence when it comes to metaphysics.
you are so full of shit it hurts
here's you favorite song:
No, my favourite song is probably Carry on my Wayward Son by Kansas.
15003
« on: August 03, 2014, 08:29:33 AM »
What type of nihilist are you?
Epistemological, existential and moral. On the fence when it comes to metaphysics.
15004
« on: August 03, 2014, 07:04:29 AM »
No joke, when I got to the airports train platform in London yesterday the first thing I heard over the intercom was some bullshit about CCTV was watching and monitoring everything for the purposes if my own safety and protection.
The Orwellion crap was the first thing that came to my mind.
How are you enjoying Our Great Nation?
15005
« on: August 02, 2014, 11:27:13 PM »
Yeah. It's going offline every few minutes.
15006
« on: August 02, 2014, 10:17:55 PM »
It's one of those things you wonder why anyone would label themselves as.
It's not as if one picks and chooses; it's a descriptive measure, not a prescriptive one. So long as you're not fucking retarded.
15007
« on: August 02, 2014, 10:02:17 PM »
Bad forms of taxation
- Court costs
- Social Security
- Gun registration
- Concealed carry permits
- Income tax
- Obamacare Individual Mandate Excise Tax
- Property Taxes
- Self-Employment Taxes
- Wealth tax
- Excise tax
- Consumption tax
- Gift tax
- Inheritance tax
Okay forms of taxation
- Tolls
- Fishing license
- Hunting permits
- Traffic fines
- Tariffs
- Cigarette tax
- Corporate income tax
- Double taxation
- Federal unemployment tax
- Food service tax
- Gas tax
- Liquor tax
- Public utility tax
- Resort tax
- Sales tax
- School tax
You'd better have a damn good reason for thinking cigarette, liquor, corporation taxes and tariffs are fine.
First 2: Not a necessity and can increase health risks of people
Corporate: Corporations are not people
Tariffs: Increases domestic job growth since it's cheaper
You can't seriously call yourself a libertarian and still think taxes should be used to sway people's personal choices. Not to mention, taxation on such goods doesn't stop such behaviour and simply makes people poorer. If corporations aren't people they can't be properly taxed. Domestic job growth is meaningless if everybody is poorer because competition is being stifled.
15008
« on: August 02, 2014, 10:00:13 PM »
Nihilism sounds more like objective facts than just a philosophy.
It'd be a bit weird if a philosophy had no factual basis.
15009
« on: August 02, 2014, 09:59:03 PM »
or the fact you think I ever claimed to be insane in the first place. . .
You do it all the time. Your desperate attempts at trying to be edgy are really quite embarrassing.
No, I don't. The only possible explanations for that is that you've never picked up a dictionary, or you actually are insane. As for being edgy? What can I say? I was born with bismuth inside me.
15010
« on: August 02, 2014, 09:52:04 PM »
Wait, that's all Nihilism is? I thought it was some edgy autistic thing. With that definition, I'm a nihilist.
Be sure you aren't an existentialist.
15011
« on: August 02, 2014, 09:46:45 PM »
Bad forms of taxation
- Court costs
- Social Security
- Gun registration
- Concealed carry permits
- Income tax
- Obamacare Individual Mandate Excise Tax
- Property Taxes
- Self-Employment Taxes
- Wealth tax
- Excise tax
- Consumption tax
- Gift tax
- Inheritance tax
Okay forms of taxation
- Tolls
- Fishing license
- Hunting permits
- Traffic fines
- Tariffs
- Cigarette tax
- Corporate income tax
- Double taxation
- Federal unemployment tax
- Food service tax
- Gas tax
- Liquor tax
- Public utility tax
- Resort tax
- Sales tax
- School tax
You'd better have a damn good reason for thinking cigarette, liquor, corporation taxes and tariffs are fine.
15012
« on: August 02, 2014, 09:39:45 PM »
#StillPretendingToBeInsane2014
I don't know what's funnier, the fact that you think nihilism is insane, or the fact you think I ever claimed to be insane in the first place. . . You should try stand-up, bro.
15013
« on: August 02, 2014, 09:38:45 PM »
What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, ?This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!? Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, ?Never have I heard anything more divine??-Friedrich Nietzsche
I fuckin' love Nietzsche.
15014
« on: August 02, 2014, 08:21:08 PM »
My philosophies, unless political, don't usually come up in conversation with anybody. So, I guess a change of pace would be interesting for me. I am a nihilist, so ask me anything relating to that I guess. A quick definition for the uninformed: Nihilism (/?na?.?l?z?m/ or /?ni?.?l?z?m/; from the Latin nihil, nothing) is a philosophical doctrine that suggests the negation of one or more reputedly meaningful aspects of life. Most commonly, nihilism is presented in the form of existential nihilism, which argues that life is without objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value.[1] Moral nihilists assert that morality does not inherently exist, and that any established moral values are abstractly contrived. Nihilism can also take epistemological or ontological/metaphysical forms, meaning respectively that, in some aspect, knowledge is not possible, or that reality does not actually exist.
15015
« on: August 02, 2014, 08:02:01 PM »
Mine is from T.S. Eliot's poem, The Hollow Men:
"This is the way the World ends, not with a bang but a whimper".
Gets me every time.
15016
« on: August 02, 2014, 07:18:12 PM »
Okay forms of taxation:
- Income tax
I have to disagree with you there. That is a terrible form of tax, at least the way it is implemented in the United States. The Constitution was amended to allow for income tax in 1913, the same year the Federal Reserve was created. 100% of all income tax collected in the US goes towards paying off the interest on our national debt. All of that currency is pocketed by the corporate elite and bankers who actually own the Federal Reserve and basically the entire Western world.
Wait, what the fuck are you talking about? The Fed rebates net earning to the treasury.
15017
« on: August 02, 2014, 07:02:30 PM »
Okay forms of taxation:
- Income tax
I have to disagree with you there. That is a terrible form of tax, at least the way it is implemented in the United States. The Constitution was amended in 1913, the same year the Federal Reserve was created. 100% of all income tax collected in the US goes towards paying off the interest on our national debt. All of that currency is pocketed by the corporate elite and bankers who actually own the Federal Reserve and basically the entire Western world.
That isn't so much a criticism of income tax as it is the way in which the U.S. government handled it.
15018
« on: August 02, 2014, 06:54:24 PM »
Bad forms of taxation:
- Corporation tax
- Inheritance tax
- Transfer or Transaction tax
- Wealth tax
- Excise tax
- Tariffs
Okay forms of taxation:
- Income tax
- Capital gains
- Property tax
Pretty boss forms of taxation:
- Negative income tax
- Land value tax
- Consumption tax
Just food for thought, really. A lot of the discussion regarding taxation doesn't seem to take into account that some forms of taxation are vastly superior to others. The solution? Do away with the bad ones.
15019
« on: August 02, 2014, 06:40:18 PM »
*sigh*
Everything's okay now.
I basically got like three hours of sleep because I had to fix everything and get the database uploaded. This DDoS shit is a nightmare.
Some sites have a thing where there is a preliminary loading screen which checks your browser. Supposedly, it helps to stop DDoS attacks.
15020
« on: August 02, 2014, 06:29:00 PM »
*sigh*
Everything's okay now.
15021
« on: August 01, 2014, 03:55:49 PM »
Wait... this is real?
Yep.
15022
« on: August 01, 2014, 03:48:33 PM »
 What the fuck, MPS?
15023
« on: August 01, 2014, 03:27:47 PM »
Because I know God is the creator of life
Notice I said life. Big Bang can still of happened but how it happened and what caused it.......well I won't go in much detail
Details pl0x, I may be an atheist but I always like a good story.
It's just a mystery that I think will only be solved once a person dies. But like the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics states that mass can't be created or destroyed, right? So how could of that small point of mass which caused the big bang exist? Where did it come from?
I'm not a science guy but just questions like that can push the thought that a super natural force, like God, is exempted from the rules and can create such
Because the scientists working on a cosmological model for decades haven't thought of the second law of thermodynamics.
15024
« on: August 01, 2014, 03:07:51 PM »
Because I know God is the creator of life
How do you know this?
He obviously doesn't, it's a barefaced lie.
15025
« on: August 01, 2014, 03:05:48 PM »
Inflation is bad. It decreases the value of the dollar and thus reduces what you can buy with it. Yes but there would be more money. Right?
What's your point, exactly?
15026
« on: August 01, 2014, 12:00:12 PM »
I remember when my ex thought I was mildly autistic.
Good times.
OT: Wouldn't surprise me, to be honest.
15027
« on: August 01, 2014, 11:58:16 AM »
Various places in Greece and Spain. Berlin in Germany. Krakow, Auschwitz and a few other places in Poland.
Might be going to Paris next year, which should be fun.
15028
« on: August 01, 2014, 11:49:33 AM »
Sky News is a pretty unbiased news outlet. BBC tends to lean slightly to the left when reporting news apparently.
Slightly?
It's one big Paul Krugman circlejerk.
Not exactly, it's only left leaning in the sense that it's not right wing at all.
I can't say I agree, but I don't really care enough about the Big Black Cock to argue the point >.>
15029
« on: August 01, 2014, 11:28:57 AM »
Sky News is a pretty unbiased news outlet. BBC tends to lean slightly to the left when reporting news apparently.
Slightly? It's one big Paul Krugman circlejerk.
15030
« on: August 01, 2014, 10:55:48 AM »
I was debating whether or not to stick this here, or the Serious board, but I want a general over-view of how people think and the information they approach. This isn't a discussion about personal beliefs or the validity of such, just your willingness to approach sources which may disagree with you (so things like newspapers, forums, magazines, videos, anything).
So, do you keep to sources already within your sphere, or do you look around for more perspective?
There are three immediate examples which come to mind for me: the BBC, the Daily Telegraph and Stefan Molyneux.
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