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I used to know THD pretty well, but I don’t recall ever trolling about their death

Hey, hado. Long time no see. I figured not. A lot has been up. What a world of difference a few years can make in one’s life. Despite it not feeling like much along the way

Old pals... good to see you both kicking around. I suspect many of the others have wandered off

I’m sure you’re all so glad to see me :) just popping in, hopeful to maybe see a few familiar faces. I’ll show myself out

Marco Polo indeed. Rebis, your response is good enough.

MY FRIENDS The time has come to SCREAM INTO THE VOID. Let your voices be heard, and heard, and heard. Sing a song if you wish. It doesn't matter to me. Response implies allegiance. And if anyone's seen THE DOCTOR let 'em know I'm doing well and I hope the same. To everyone else, get help if...

Good ter see ye Pizza n RB. Some old faces :)

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Come here to pay me respects Let's see what everyone elser doing Don't matter no way cos it's no different I see you all bangin lot come round here again, wouldn't be the last time. Say sorry or it's curtains for ye. The devil's got is shoes on tight and it's not the last ye've seen of im...

The death is the unimportant and uninteresting part. What's important is what happens after death. The best choice is to rot, wrapped perhaps in a light linen, worms wriggling through decomposing organs, beetles nibbling on putrid flesh, soft with the moisture of earth. -TI

It was I who hacked the account. Nerds.

I finished the book about a year ago, now. I remember reading that initial bit (the sleep paralysis) but didn't think much of it at the time (probably because it was early on in the book and I wasn't quite into it, yet). I think your take on that is good - it certainly does seem like a...

Logged in to +1 this. In my (admittedly limited) experience - I'm not that old - there are costs and benefits to most drugs (barring the really awful ones like heroin or crack or who knows what other garbage people produce), and really, anyone who is trying to tell you that a particular drug...

I only log in to post, but since I don't post much I lurk more often than not (infrequent - 1-3 times a week).

You seem to be mistaking evolution for natural selection. This is a problem. Think of it this way: Evolution is a process that happens, natural selection is one (of many) mechanisms that drive it. So, it's incorrect to assume something like what Sir Eus Lee is suggesting in the context of...

I actually logged in just to post this, so I hope that you read it. I've been in similar circumstances, both myself and others, seen it many times, etc. etc. I have experience with this, and I know that what you're feeling is real and it hurts, even though you tell yourself it's stupid and...

I got 122. I think I understood the clock questions, although at first I thought it was a trick question (or at least poorly worded) given that if you flipped the whole clock upside-down it'd still be the same time. Does anyone know the answers to 24, 26, 27, and 29? Those were the boxed...

I think that'd be a cool motif for an artist, or some sort of creative sketch. Creating people that willingly inanimate themselves, that is.

What do you mean by you "value" 1+1=3? Maybe we're misunderstanding what each other means when we say "value". All I was trying to say is that, when comparing logical conclusions, we should place a higher value on the logic that produces a less stupid result. In your example, 1+1=2 is valued...

I'm not adopting the position that morality should be based purely on science, I'm questioning it. I also just happen to be questioning the assumption that morality should be based purely on our emotions, or that there is even a direct relationship between the two. I guess I'm asking what...

So you're saying that without a value system, no decisions can be made. I don't buy it. I can easily think of situations in which I can make a decision without feeling any sort of emotion at all, and simply using reason and logic to come to a conclusion.

Well he does have the whole chapter devoted entirely to defending the integrity (among other things) of whaling (The Advocate, chapter 24) ;) What is everyone's take on the cetology chapter? (32) I'm interested in seeing what y'all think about that one. I'll hold my comments until someone...

You've still failed to address the first point adequately, as that thread talks about how emotion influences our actions... still nothing on morality, in other words what ought to be done.

OK that's cool, but I'm asking why NOW is it popular? Are you just saying that when it was studied again in the 20th century it hit on some sort of controversy that it didn't hit on directly after its release?

It seems to me that his argument is founded on two general ideas: 1. There is a biological context to morality, if we understand morality to be a subset or collection of emotions. 2. Because we don't yet understand morality in full, we can gather information not only through technological...

What exactly do you mean, OrLevitate? What do you mean by framing things? As in, projecting myself into the shoes of, say, Ishmael in certain situations? Do you have any examples of this happening to you?

Well... I had a whole post typed up... then I guess my browser wanted to go back and I lost everything. In summary: - I've read up to where Ishmael meets the quaker captains. I think Melville's commentary on Christianity is bold, and is a major talking point. - I enjoy Melville's style...

But suicide talk is fun! :eek::storks::aufsmaul:

Gonna have to side with Lot on this one... If someone killed themselves each time it was suggested on the internet, we would all be dead. If someone is suicidal and browsing forums, they're bound to find shit that's way more fucked up than someone telling them to kill themselves. If they're...

I think you may be making this more complicated than it needs to be, although it is cool you've thought about it so much. consider that dreaming is generally thought to occur during REM sleep. those that smoke week on a regular basis (and thus don't get the "high" as much) will tend to go to...

//in for subscription purposes (and a bump to help fellow readers find). I've just begun, have a lab report due tomorrow and a midterm paper due this week, but I expect to be mostly caught up very soon. :)

for navigational purposes, the discussion on the inaugural INTPf book club... book... (heh) can be found at this link, courtesy of Absurdity: http://intpforum.com/showthread.php?t=21986 make your way on over!

I'm not certain I understand what you mean by lonely. when I think of lonely, I think of someone that is actually surrounded by people. but despite the physical proximity, there is little to no emotional connection between people. therefore I generally think of someone that is in a big city...

Let's read by chapter rather than page length, alright guys? People's copies seem to be pretty variable and it'd be easier if either everyone had the same copy (which they don't) or if we read by chapter. I don't have my copy yet... but going to the library now to pick it up. I say we try to...

Cool, thanks Polaris! When do you guys think the 'deadline' should be to vote? (if at all) In hopes that this actually turns into a thing, one needn't be upset if their first choice isn't picked right away.

The thread creator would need to add a poll post-submission, which I don't think is possible. Plus it'd only be a one-time poll. We just need people to comment here, maybe we can sort out a new thread in the meantime or after we actually choose a book. A mod's assistance would probably be...

OK, so I like this idea too. But we have to actually pick ONE (1) book to start with. We can and should make a list of books people are interested in reading. BOOK NOMINATIONS - Moby Dick - Herman Melville - Minima Moralia - Theodore W. Adorno - A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess...

Here's the link to my thread too, a couple years a ago. http://intpforum.com/showthread.php?t=14943&highlight=aquatic+ape Sorry for not seeing that disclaimer the first time round. Typical 1,000th post... I'll have to look over everything again, and reply when I have thought about it... this...

Couldn't we just wait until they're too feeble to care for themselves, and rather than pay to keep care of them with money they don't have, use them as fertilizer? Y'know, reduce eutrophication from farm runoff. Or perhaps just skip that and go straight to soylent green!

Archie, I really appreciate some of the things you've said in your post. I'm a gen Y/millennial hybrid, and I've heard much of the same things from my dad that you're saying here. I want to break down dome of the things you've said, and ask some questions, if you're up for it (of course...

I don't know but I want to be friends with this guy.

:gottwor::kinggrin: (Welcome. I am The Introvert. I too am interested in systems but my diagram is practically inverted from yours [at least on the stuff that matters])

But... I'm a screaming shell of a pokemon... I don't want to be a pokemon! Said nobody ever...

I would like to be given a cereal. Please dammit thank you.:phear:

I take probably a fairly strange stance. I don't think you (scientist) have any moral obligation at all to serve to greater good of humanity. That is to say, I don't feel as though it is your duty to present a cure to the world if you don't want to; you haven't given the people the disease...

So what about the countless people afflicted with cancer? Also, I too am confused as to how the teacher could have been morally wrong. Sounds like a case of victim-blaming to me... Certainly the teacher could have hidden the test answers better, but that doesn't excuse the actions of those...

Graduate, shun society, live in forest, read/write/ponder for a few years, return rejuvenated, realize nothing has changed, cry.

I don't see the original post by Absurdity: I assume that he deleted it, or that you made it up TO SPITE ME, YOU DEVILISH BASTARD!!! But... my rule of thumb is that once the thread resorts to who said what, and what the technical terms mean (and we change the discussion from the TOPIC to the...

I think a lot of it boils down to the intended audience, and the specific reader. For example, when reading a scientific article, some people will skip to the methods, whereas other people will be more interested in the results and conclusions. For the author, each section has to be written in...

Annnnnd interesting thread derailed....