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[Xi-Xi]

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Hi amor. Do you know if SleeplessandSad is doing alright?

She probably is. She came in yesterday I believe

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What do you mean? Xi-Xi is an oracle of truth.

I agree with whatever he just said


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[Sphinxi]

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@U. A. I remember most things related to philosophy because I am aspergic about it. I spent most of last semester in my room reading philosophy papers. Now I am reading kant and he is so much more boringgggg

 

[gunmetalblue]

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[U. A.]

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Now I am reading kant

Sorry to hear this.

 

[Arvayn]

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@U. A. I remember most things related to philosophy because I am aspergic about it. I spent most of last semester in my room reading philosophy papers. Now I am reading kant and he is so much more boringgggg

Kant fucking sucks. The very idea of deontology makes me scoff and roll my eyes; so much naivete and self-righteousness...
There's a reason his name is pronounced as can't.

 

[amor.dor]

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Hi amor. Do you know if SleeplessandSad is doing alright?

Btw sorry for not responding to your post about wittgenstein but as I remember I agreed with your analysis

I talked to her and tried to calm her down; she said she was going to sleep.she is better
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[U. A.]

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I Kant stand him.

 

[gunmetalblue]

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[Sphinxi]

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Kant fucking sucks. The very idea of deontology makes me scoff and roll my eyes; so much naivete and self-righteousness...
There's a reason his name is pronounced as can't.

Concur. I just have to have read him. He's not a very good writer, it feels like he is intentionally obfuscating his points often times. Hegel was similar, where his points only really worked because his semantics are in a swamp. I might just be missing something though because obviously he is very popular and influential. FWIW, I like virtue ethics

 

[Xi-Xi]

I talked to her and tried to calm her down; she said she was going to sleep.she is better
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Was she upset about something?

 

[amor.dor]

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Kant fucking sucks. The very idea of deontology makes me scoff and roll my eyes; so much naivete and self-righteousness...
There's a reason his name is pronounced as can't.

Kant based this part of his philosophy on the comfort of his social class...that's why it doesn't work in practice.
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[Xi-Xi]

Idk anything about Denotology, I never had to study him in any psychology class. But I looked him up, and... Yup, I totally get it now, he sure is boring


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[U. A.]

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armchair philosophy works better the more of the dominant demographic you are.

 

[Sphinxi]

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There are so many great philosophers that come from the aristocracy, though. Witty, schopenhauer, sphinxi from sasu...

 

[amor.dor]

Sorry XiXi I can't talk about that.
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[U. A.]

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i still chuckle imagining Ludwig yelling about the specificity of language to toddlers.

 

[Xi-Xi]

Sorry XiXi I can't talk about that.
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What, Denotology? I mean, I know it sucks, but jeez.
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[Arvayn]

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Concur. I just have to have read him. He's not a very good writer, it feels like he is intentionally obfuscating his points often times. Hegel was similar, where his points only really worked because his semantics are in a swamp. I might just be missing something though because obviously he is very popular and influential. FWIW, I like virtue ethics

Yep. A considerable amount of our contemporary systems of ethics and morality are based on Kant's ideas and work, and people follow them whether they realize it or not; he was the one, after all, that made major steps away from relying exclusively on God-given morality (and yet he still clings to it like it's an untenably important centerpiece of ethical value), and reinforced the principle of moral responsibility that is innately assigned to all humans. As a staunch moral relativist, I absolutely hate his points.

Sometimes, I wish that we would have a society which follows Kantian philosophy less blindly and unknowingly; but then, society would also be a lot worse off if people realize that they don't have an obligation to be good, and then we may not have much of a society.

 

[amor.dor]

The only thing I use Kant for is regarding proven metaphysics, because if we don't take care of that, we could pull the Flying Spaghetti Monster out of thin air and invent anything without any basis.
Ramen
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[U. A.]

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flying ramen monster > flying spaghetti monster

 

[Sphinxi]

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I think what frustrates me about Kant's ethics is that he very clearly wants to have his cake and eat it too. I believe in G-d so I do subscribe to objective morality, but for moral relativism I usually prefer the pragmatists, but that might just be my american bias ;)

 

[amor.dor]

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flying ramen monster > flying spaghetti monster

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[Arvayn]

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Pastafarianism, eh? Not as funny as shamanism...

I have an acquaintance who's currently going through an extremely tough time. He got desperate enough that he went to see a shaman. He didn't ask why it's happening to him; he asked "Who is doing this to me?". He got told that four deities are watching him and none of them want to speak to him, and that one of them also thinks he has mommy issues (This one in particular is apparently a few thousand years old and was born during antiquity.).

Like, wow... Forsaken by four gods at once... They definitely have popcorn in their hands as we speak.
It's okay, though, because they are all lower deities; none of the cosmic big shots care. So, maybe he has a chance!

 

[Sphinxi]

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Does anyone know how to make it so that I get a message indicator for the chat window for exclusively private messages?

 

[Arvayn]

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Does anyone know how to make it so that I get a message indicator for the chat window for exclusively private messages?

In the upper right corner, click the gears icon:

It will open this menu:

Click "Notifications" at the top. From there, you'll get a list of things that you want to be notified by. Check 'private messages'.

 

[amor.dor]

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Pastafarianism, eh? Not as funny as shamanism...

I have an acquaintance who's currently going through an extremely tough time. He got desperate enough that he went to see a shaman. He didn't ask why it's happening to him; he asked "Who is doing this to me?". He got told that four deities are watching him and none of them want to speak to him, and that one of them also thinks he has mommy issues (This one in particular is apparently a few thousand years old and was born during antiquity.).

Like, wow... Forsaken by four gods at once... They definitely have popcorn in their hands as we speak.
It's okay, though, because they are all lower deities; none of the cosmic big shots care. So, maybe he has a chance!

I don't have a religion, but I'm quite critical of Christianity because it's a great tool for opportunists, with the talk of being born a sinner, placing a guilt that doesn't even exist, where the person has to follow a certain book to earn paradise in death, a place no one ever returns to, one of the biggest scams in history, from my point of view.

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[Sphinxi]

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@Arvayn I think that us for desktop notifications? I mean the green bubble with the number inside

 

[Arvayn]

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@Arvayn I think that us for desktop notifications? I mean the green bubble with the number inside

Ah, I see... Sadly, there's no way to get rid of that. It's just an indicator of how many people are currently in the chatrooms.

 

[U. A.]

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@Arvayn I think that us for desktop notifications? I mean the green bubble with the number inside

also @Arvayn actually there is:
fortunately a user here has developed a usercript that gives one much more control and generally improves the site, including this aspect.

SaSu improvements

There have been a few threads in the suggestions subforum that can be done client-side, plus some other things that annoyed me about the site ui, so I made a little userscript to fix them. It can: hide those useless chat notification bubbles hide the word "suicide" in headers and page titles...

sanctioned-suicide.net

 

[Sphinxi]

I don't have a religion

Were you raised religious?

Thank you ua and arvayn

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