apocalypstyx

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by apocalypstyx 3y ago
A word replaced with one more vague one does not a robust argument make. Such a notion of universality lacks the concept of frames of reference and relies on an impoverished understanding of the concept of entropy. The argument for a cycl
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by apocalypstyx 3y ago
Maybe we should stop re-positing the specific developments of contemporary capitalism with some generic notion of civilization. A civilization is not some 'national body' that grows, matures, and dies exactly analogous to a biolo
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by apocalypstyx 3y ago
Or airplane passengers vs those on the ground. Something like 59 micro-seconds per 10 million frequent flier miles.
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by apocalypstyx 3y ago
It depends on a certain consideration. If you take the argument (which I can't remember who laid it out) that (in Christian metaphysics, was the example) the experience of the individual (self) is replicable by God but the unique soul
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by apocalypstyx 3y ago
They are disingenuously referencing trans affirmative care.
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by apocalypstyx 3y ago
> Interestingly, child sacrifice is still with us, in the form of state-sanctioned castration. Plus ça change... This isn't happening. Intersex children being force-ably sexually re-assigned, that was a thing we did for a long time
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by apocalypstyx 3y ago
> outrage over this is misplaced and typical of comfortable out of touch urbanites, Born and raised on a farm. Worked logging from the age of eighteen. Worked in housing construction and also as a plumber's assistant and as an ele
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by apocalypstyx 3y ago
It's been a lot of years since I first read Scanners Live in Vain, but I always remember the first two lines. ... Martel was angry. He did not even adjust his blood away from anger. He stamped across the room by judgment, not by sight.
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by apocalypstyx 3y ago
Social construct != not real™. A king is only a social construct. One can still order your head cut off.
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by apocalypstyx 4y ago
> I have nothing to say. I feel powerless and robbed of my own future by my parents' generation. Beware, O Sinner, for Who Promises You a Tomorrow? --St. Alphonsus of Ligouri Just as we pretend the heat death of the universe shall n
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by apocalypstyx 4y ago
The early 1800s didn't have governments?
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by apocalypstyx 4y ago
Oh, a both-sideser. Well, if that's the case, you really shouldn't care. It should be as easy for you to be one as the other, yet those who invoke 'both sides' really only ever seem to be favoring one side.
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by apocalypstyx 4y ago
While I'm on this (literally just saw this). Inside a US Neo-Nazi Homeschool Network With Thousands of Members https://www.vice.com/en/article/z34ane/neo-nazi-homeschool-o...
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by apocalypstyx 4y ago
Most people are not going to have the requisite knowledge of pedagogy. We think we know X, Y, Z, or we actually know X, Y, Z, but teaching that (especially to children) is a whole other ballgame. When your parents are your teachers, the dis
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by apocalypstyx 4y ago
As a former home-schooled child, don't do this.
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by apocalypstyx 4y ago
"On similar ground it may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation. They may manage it then, and what proceeds from it, as they please, duri
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by apocalypstyx 4y ago
You can't swim against the same stream twice.
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by apocalypstyx 4y ago
I'm sort of sick of the top talent argument. My grandfather and group sang. From what tapes I have heard of them, they didn't sound worse than any other group of Appalachian gospel/blue grass singers. My parents' wedding
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by apocalypstyx 4y ago
You can't have a war against a thing. You have a war against people, and there is always collateral damage. There is no Rousseau–Portalis doctrine when you aim inwards at the population itself. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixo
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by apocalypstyx 4y ago
>But people who write like that and don't edit it; won't care of how the AI reads it. Now human language, limited as it already is, is to be is to be humbled before machines that humans have also invented. In our inability to c
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by apocalypstyx 4y ago
> The control of funding agencies at the federal level by vested interests seems to be a major problem This is a fundamental problem with the nature of science and the nation state in that modern science is constituted by the nation stat
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by apocalypstyx 4y ago
50s women had washing machines (unless they were poor Appalachians, like my grandparents). But really when we're speaking of the 50s we're almost explicitly formulating it in terms of white suburbia. I am speaking solely of the s
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by apocalypstyx 4y ago
The real issue I find with stuff of this nature is one of aesthetic distance. It's similar to BDSM in a way: certain people fantasies about being a 'slave' but to actually enact the thing beyond the bounds of fantasy, to go f
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by apocalypstyx 4y ago
Haven't read it, but researching it a bit out of interest and came up with this https://web.archive.org/web/20210413173809/https://www.arist... from one of the authors, which you might or might not
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by apocalypstyx 4y ago
Sex Versus Survival: The Life and Ideas of Sabina Spielrein by John Launer. What Is a Minor Literature? by Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari.
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by apocalypstyx 4y ago
Plasticene.
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by apocalypstyx 4y ago
Well, Goldberg was an engineer and supposedly did construct his drawings to be 'technically' feasible.
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by apocalypstyx 4y ago
To do so is to take on metaphysical and epistemological positions inherently. That is not necessarily a bad thing. It's something that human consciousness seemingly has to do.
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by apocalypstyx 4y ago
Yes. But then we must also realize that science is to have a very narrow band in society. To quote from Mike Alder's Newton's Flaming Laser Sword > It must also be said that, although one might much admire a genuine Newtonian
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by apocalypstyx 4y ago
There is no single "they". Half of leftist theorists argue with the other half more than three quarters of the time, the other quarter they argue with themselves. And as for revolution, context is king. To the Southern slave holde

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