One More Round the Bend (Blarobbarg's half-assed journal where he recommends stuff)

**Frownland** · 04-04-2019, 07:57 AM

Determinism = woo
No morality or purpose to the universe = great reasons to be selfish (aka enjoying your life)

Blarobbarg · 04-04-2019, 08:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Determinism = woo
No morality or purpose to the universe = great reasons to be selfish (aka enjoying your life)

Ironically, I find the lack of inherent meaning a great reason to be selfless and to forge our own meaning through solidarity with others.

If we're all on earth to live until we die we can at least make the experience a little brighter for the people here with us and who come after us.

I may also just be predisposed to finding a spiritual meaning in the world around me because of my experiences, but I stand by this.

OccultHawk · 04-04-2019, 08:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Blarobbarg

Ironically, I find the lack of inherent meaning a great reason to be selfless and to forge our own meaning through solidarity with others.

If we're all on earth to live until we die we can at least make the experience a little brighter for the people here with us and who come after us.

I’m trying to live like this, too. Mostly failing tbh

**Frownland** · 04-04-2019, 08:20 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Determinism = woo

if something determines

the impossibility of free will is just science

if you haven’t come to understand that yet you’re just not thinking about it honestly

I find it much more dishonest to claim scientific certainty on something that's unfalsifiable. Do you have a way to accurately test someone making different decisions in the same scenario that accounts for sensory delay and reactivity? If our brains are wired to present options that we then choose from in response to certain stimuli (which is how I view it), would you consider that to be free will or determinism? I've yet to see any evidence that makes the free will illusion theory concrete.

Admittedly a false equivalency, but if we program AI to program AI in a way that's beyond our capacity, does the programming AI make decisions or have we made them predetermined?

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Originally Posted by Blarobbarg

Ironically, I find the lack of inherent meaning a great reason to be selfless and to forge our own meaning through solidarity with others.

If we're all on earth to live until we die we can at least make the experience a little brighter for the people here with us and who come after us.

I may also just be predisposed to finding a spiritual meaning in the world around me because of my experiences, but I stand by this.

Ja that's pretty much how I feel too, maybe a better way to put it is selfishness with an understanding of what we need to really enjoy life.

Blarobbarg · 04-14-2019, 02:56 PM

waiting

life is directed
towards blood,
towards dirt.

everything else
along the way
is just waiting

i've waited for so long

Blarobbarg · 04-18-2019, 03:55 PM

NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL PSYCHEDELIC PUNK VOL. 666

THIS ALBUM IS A GOD DAMNED MASTERPIECE AND DON'T YOU ****ERS FORGET IT

LET YOUR EARS BLEED LIKE THEY'RE IMPALED ON THE BARBS OF THIS DANGEROUSLY TASTY ALBUM

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