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Author Topic: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread  (Read 1293874 times)

Vorthon

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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #2700 on: August 30, 2012, 04:32:23 pm »
I have a good way to summarize the recent discussion: Humanity is utterly and completely batshit.
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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #2701 on: August 30, 2012, 04:34:33 pm »
It's be boring otherwise.
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Quote from: Chesterton
For, in order that men should resist injustice, something more is necessary than that they should think injustice unpleasant. They must think injustice absurd; above all, they must think it startling. They must retain the violence of a virgin astonishment. When the pessimist looks at any infamy, it is to him, after all, only a repetition of the infamy of existence. But the optimist sees injustice as something discordant and unexpected, and it stings him into action.

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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #2702 on: August 30, 2012, 04:46:03 pm »
Quote from: Darvi on August 30, 2012, 04:26:15 pm
Not quite. No smart person perfectly rational agent would ever do that.
FTFY.
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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #2703 on: August 30, 2012, 05:10:05 pm »
Can't we just find a link to somebody saying something stupid so we can laugh and get out of fatalistic misanthropy mode?
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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #2704 on: August 30, 2012, 05:31:27 pm »
Quote from: Darvi on August 30, 2012, 04:26:15 pm
Not quite. No smart person would ever do that.

And yes, I'm totally being an elititst by saying that.

Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Aldous Huxley, Jim Morrison, John Lennon, Charles Dickens, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Bob Marley, Albert Hofmann, (probably) William Shakespeare, Lewis Carrol, Winston Churchill, Aleister Crowley, Salvador Dali, Ben Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, Thomas Jefferson, Jesus, Mohammed, Pablo Picasso and Edgar Allen Poe are among the legions who would like a word with you.

It actually turns out that many studies show those with higher IQs are more inclined towards drug use.
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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #2705 on: August 30, 2012, 05:34:41 pm »
I never said that I was right did I.
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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #2706 on: August 30, 2012, 05:37:51 pm »
Quote from: Darvi on August 30, 2012, 05:34:41 pm
I never said that I was right did I.
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Quote from: Chesterton
For, in order that men should resist injustice, something more is necessary than that they should think injustice unpleasant. They must think injustice absurd; above all, they must think it startling. They must retain the violence of a virgin astonishment. When the pessimist looks at any infamy, it is to him, after all, only a repetition of the infamy of existence. But the optimist sees injustice as something discordant and unexpected, and it stings him into action.

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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #2707 on: August 30, 2012, 05:38:18 pm »
Quote from: Darvi on August 30, 2012, 05:34:41 pm
I never said that I was right did I.

No, we just all foolishly made the assumption that people usually try to avoid being wrong.
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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #2708 on: August 30, 2012, 05:40:03 pm »
Psst: He's being facetious, not actually trying to get out of being wrong.
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Quote from: Chesterton
For, in order that men should resist injustice, something more is necessary than that they should think injustice unpleasant. They must think injustice absurd; above all, they must think it startling. They must retain the violence of a virgin astonishment. When the pessimist looks at any infamy, it is to him, after all, only a repetition of the infamy of existence. But the optimist sees injustice as something discordant and unexpected, and it stings him into action.

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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #2709 on: August 30, 2012, 05:40:37 pm »
Quote from: kaijyuu on August 30, 2012, 05:40:03 pm
Psst: He's being facetious, not actually trying to get out of being wrong.

Oh.

Herp Derp to me.
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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #2710 on: August 30, 2012, 06:12:23 pm »
It seems likely there's a third factor (affluence) which affects both the metrics they're measuring.
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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #2711 on: August 30, 2012, 10:48:16 pm »
Anyway, the premises are totally false. There is plenty of situations where poisoning yourself is the rational thing to do.
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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #2712 on: August 31, 2012, 01:04:12 pm »
Catholic friar calls Jerry Sandusky that "poor guy", because "a lot of the cases, the youngster -- 14, 16, 18 -- is the seducer".

Man....FUCK the Catholic Church. I've always been something of an apologist for Catholicism (despite being a heathen), but I'm just tired of this shit. The whole damn structure needs an organizational enema.
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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #2713 on: August 31, 2012, 01:06:03 pm »
My sympathy for the Roman Catholic Church hit zero a long, long time ago. Now it's just driving the same point into the ground.
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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #2714 on: August 31, 2012, 01:17:18 pm »
I always tried to keep in mind all the positives the Church had done over the millenia. (Plus, I grew up Lutheran, which is like Catholic minus the Pope, and German instead of Latin).

But this has become such a plank in the Church's eye that they refuse to deal with, while criticizing all the specks in the eyes of others.
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Quote from: MaximumZero on October 26, 2012, 11:28:55 pm
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Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you.
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