• OK, it's on.
  • Please note that many, many Email Addresses used for spam, are not accepted at registration. Select a respectable Free email.
  • Done now. Domine miserere nobis.

Search results

  1. onesteptwostep

    How to Stop Negative Thoughts

    https://www.verywellmind.com/how-to-change-negative-thinking-3024843 Identify Your Negative Thoughts As you observe your thoughts, work on identifying and labeling cognitive distortions and negativity. For example, if you tend to view yourself as a complete success or failure in every...
  2. onesteptwostep

    Most Terrifying Ways The Deep State Is Trying To Destroy Donald Trump

    https://www.theonion.com/most-terrifying-ways-the-deep-state-is-trying-to-destro-1851287374
  3. onesteptwostep

    What are your opinions on people who make multiple accounts to troll or harass people?

    I don't think we have this issue on intpf, but I've seen plenty of alternative accounts being caught red handed in trying to steer the conversation on messaging boards. Do you think this is immoral or stupid? What goes on in the mind of these people? Should they have the right to do make alts...
  4. onesteptwostep

    Trump is done, or at least if he isn't, US democracy is screwed

    https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/28/politics/recordings-trump-team-fake-elector-ballots/index.html If the SC doesn't change their minds after this, and if Trump is still on the ballot, WTF America.
  5. onesteptwostep

    I feel like people these days have to be a scholar and a scientist before they become humans

    I mean human in the species term and the humanistic term. Like imagine what a child has to go through within our current pedagogic system. They have to master all these maths and history and the sciences before they reach sexual maturity, and they're bombarded with so much political noise and...
  6. onesteptwostep

    My argument against David Hume's take on causality

    Hume argued that causes and effects could simply be a habitual reoccurence that we observe. Hume uses an explanation of using the sunrise and sunfall as an explanation of the things that happen around us. We know from the telescopes now about the orbits of the planets and the effect mass has on...
  7. onesteptwostep

    I think AI could be as bad as social media

    I just had a thought about AI. AI usually presents an aggregated form of information, and usually this information is within the past, or something that has developed so as to show up as metadata to inform the AI. My thought is this: the driver of new ideas is not due to metadata, but something...
  8. onesteptwostep

    Apparently there's a new argument for theism called 'psychophysical harmony'.

    I still don't feel I have a strong understanding of it, so I'll be posting this video instead: To summarize, I think what the argument is that there isn't a strong explanation for why our mental states (perception) correspond to the physical world, and that theism offers a simple explanation...
  9. onesteptwostep

    I found a neat little Japanese commerical

    It's all in one take. (Pocari Sweat is like Japanese gatorade)
  10. onesteptwostep

    What's your philosophy on money or wealth?

    Do you have intrinsic beliefs about money or some philosophy on wealth? This isn't fully developed or seriously thought out on my part, but one time I came to see money as something that is more like a fuel or a currency that manifests potential. But I don't mean it in terms of status or...
  11. onesteptwostep

    So about Musk..

    Guess he should have stuck to his strengths? He's been pretty disappointing so far.
  12. onesteptwostep

    Modern American universities are as corrupt as the medieval church: Peter Thiel

    A very interesting and insightful take.
  13. onesteptwostep

    A little something on 'giving back'

    How I Overcame Homelessness Twice to Become a Billioniare I thought this was very heartful and to some degree very illuminating. Since we've been talking about morals lately, I think this the type of drive that should be told to everyone.
  14. onesteptwostep

    As a conscientious religious person, I think my generation is losing a great, deep heritage by embracing secularism

    The weekend is here boys, let's talk about the intersections of religion, politics, economy, market, and history and morality. *cracks open beer* I mean, secularism isn't bad per say, but I feel like we are losing a lot of history and cultural understanding by not tapping into the vast...
  15. onesteptwostep

    Do you think our culture mythologizes marriage and life in general?

    A lot of consumerist culture is about providing some kind of betterment in life, or at least the illusion of it, and a lot of our entertainment and entertainment figures try to ellude to a full or fruitful life, whether by the example of wealth, extravagence or filial or family bliss. We are...
  16. onesteptwostep

    Could trans ideology just a rebellion against particulars?

    It's a long stretch, but I was thinking how certain trangenders employ the phrase 'I identify as' before saying what they are. And it made me think, identity is literally an identity for them, that the category of "I identify as..." is literally an identity for them. Now, see that I have used...
  17. onesteptwostep

    This whole Will Smith slap controversy is so dumb

    I feel like the entire internet is trying to dissect this from every angle possible, and it's crazy. The only losers in this seem to be the people who have to put up with all this chirruping about who's in the wrong more and how this informs this and damages that.. And so on. /vent
  18. onesteptwostep

    Sacredness, Freedom, and Truth

    I think there are the three notions which a thinking person should understand and develop if they wish to participate fruitfully in the life of society. Sacredness: there are things within human tradition that give pause and call for our introspection and reverence. Things like an orderly...
  19. onesteptwostep

    For the most part, I think raising kids is a pyramid scheme.

    I think we can generally agree that everyone, and I mean this literally, everyone should be given a free life where they can choose what they want to do in life and that this should go unimpeded. If this maxim is true, it should be also true that parents should focus on raising a child who is...
  20. onesteptwostep

    So what's the deal with this Metaverse thing?

    It's just basically a real life MMORPG?
  21. onesteptwostep

    Hi guys, I'm looking for a particular video

    I'm looking for a video where this guy talks about political philosophy or something while cooking some sausages, or it was pasta, I can't remember. His entire house is a mess and was pretty awfully dirty. He was doing everything with one hand because he was filming with the other. It seems...
  22. onesteptwostep

    It's possible the world will never unite as one entity, to do something like deepspace exploration.

    I've been thinking lately how one can see world history as a succession of progress, where various societies on earth develop, industrialize and modernize to the point that most will become some kind of republican democracies (representative governments), and that later on, these nations would...
  23. onesteptwostep

    I feel like one of the prerequisites for a good society is "military"

    Just jotting down thoughts to share. Historically, most nations were born out of war or conflict, and a nation's power was literally determined through miliarial strength. See or refer to your own country's history- most probably has the military as its backbone. The US- George Washington and...
  24. onesteptwostep

    A theory on the origins of deities.

    I was thinking about the origins of religions and how most tribal societies started to believe in a deity of some sort. Of course I don't have any empirical evidence, but I think deities have to do something with human will. There's a number of other theories regarding the origins of religion...
  25. onesteptwostep

    The philosophers of the past era have failed our generation

    Many philosophers in the past helped commoners, and moreover elites how to understand the world and how to progress more into the future with it. The last of these philosophers was Hegel, someone who totalized reality and claimed that reality is simply humanity propelling itself into the most...
  26. onesteptwostep

    Smart people failing to grasp theistic conceptions never cease to baffle me.

    https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210301-how-physics-could-prove-god-exists Terribly good at physics, but fails terribly at understanding theological notions. God is above materials, causality, knowledge, relations, dynamics, and powers. Apostle Paul says it well in Romans: nothing in the...
  27. onesteptwostep

    You know, to think about it, I think Donald Trump...

    Thought himself as a Dark Knight. That he would receive all the hate a good 20% of American feel, so that he can achieve something good for the country (albert they were kind of backwards). I pity the guy. But if he runs again, screw him. lol What do you guys think, do you think Donald Trump...
  28. onesteptwostep

    On purpose

    Most of those answers can be superimposed on life itself. "I don't know" "I hate myself" "I'm retarded" Don't be like them.
  29. onesteptwostep

    Time probably doesn't exist as we culturally conceptualize it

    24 hours in a day. 365 days in a year. 12 hours in the sun, 12 hours in the dark. All of this quantification of time, of seconds, minutes, hours and days and years are simply due to the Earth's rotation around the Sun in our solar system. There really is no conception of "second" that exist...
  30. onesteptwostep

    Amuse me for a second, I am going to conjure a conspiracy theory..

    It has to do with American politics and how Europe, or actually how the Vatican, uses pro-life to divide America. So hear me out: for a lot of Republican voters, one major issue they vote for is abortion. If anyone has studied the history of abortion and how it relates to Protestants in the US...
  31. onesteptwostep

    Dumb and dumbers from Youtube.

    I miss the dumb pointless youtube videos that defined the 2000s. Let's go back to that. Rules: 1) Videos must be under 3 minutes 2) Only 1 video per day 3) You are allowed to comment on someone's video, but if you do, you must post a video yourself
  32. onesteptwostep

    I have a theory concerning COVID and personalities.

    I think because of this pandemic, we'll have an uptick in personalities being more introverted, and that the population in general will see a rise in more introverted people. People aren't able to gather as much as they've used to, so extroversion isn't as being exercised as much. It's a simple...
  33. onesteptwostep

    How is your country faring with Corona?

    Not to flex or anything, but South Korea is, well, as most people know from the news, doing quite well. No extreme lockdown of any sort, and we've been able to minimize our deaths to around only 450~, with currently 26,000 cases confirmed. Around 24,000 recovered, so only around 2,000 have the...
  34. onesteptwostep

    Atheism [thread split Does communism suck ?]

    Atheism is just the lack of belief in a traditional deity. But atheism can set up idols for ourselves, to which we can put up false hope upon. I don't mean it as a personal thing. For me, understanding atheism is the easiest form of thought, because it requires no thought at all.
  35. onesteptwostep

    A supercomputer did some stuff on COVID samples and new theory stuff came and stuff

    https://www.biospace.com/article/-oak-ridge-researchers-use-supercomputer-on-covid-19/
  36. onesteptwostep

    Where does the meaning or make up of the word jacking off come from?

    Like I know it means masturbating, but jacking off? Like trying to jack a switch to go to sleep? In Korean the word had a different eyptomological root so I was wondering where the US one comes from. Help me, dark side of the internet? Lol
  37. onesteptwostep

    On the cultural heritage of Christmas

    https://blogs.ancientfaith.com/glory2godforallthings/2019/12/24/have-a-dickens-of-a-christmas/ Came across an article I thought people might appreciate. Merry Christmas!
  38. onesteptwostep

    How's the weather lately for everyone?

    The weather's been erratic lately for me and my body's having a hard time adapting.. my perception is cloudy most of the time with all the lethargy attached to it. Everyone else enjoying whatever season you're in? It's spring here.
  39. onesteptwostep

    Avengers ENDGAME

    Who is HYPED. Watching it on Wednesday. Skipping class to see it ^_^ Will tell you guys how it went, without spoilers of course. Bring me Thanos~!
  40. onesteptwostep

    Is pornography moral?

    Just want to armchair about a topic. Is pornography moral? We could go at this from both religious and non-religious views. To start, we'll define our terms: pornography is a recording of any sexual activity between two humans, whether it be for sexual pleasure, a quenching of lust, or sexual...
  41. onesteptwostep

    I found some funny quiz, "intersectionality"

    https://intersectionalityscore.com/ It "scores" how privileged you are by scaling your sexuality, gender, language and religion. I got a 6 lol And I'm apparently 93% more privileged than others.
  42. onesteptwostep

    Is there such thing as perfect morality?

    So I think it's common census that we as a peoples have grown to be more moral with the passing of time. Take slavery for example, or something like universal suffrage. However, it's unsure whether or not we are actually going into a more morally progressive state than we were just a moment ago...
  43. onesteptwostep

    Generally, does love find you or do you have to find it or work for it?

    Welp. So basically I think this girl I met at a certain camp has a bf- albert I never really took the time to get to know her more since I had to leave the camp prematurely- but I did get her number and a promise to "see each other" about a month later because she's taking a 'short trip' with...
  44. onesteptwostep

    What is a story?

    What is a story? What makes it so captivating and gripping for people, such as through oral speech or through books or film, and how is it advantageous to us as a species, and/or is there a certain teleology that is within stories and storytelling that we head towards? Is there supposedly a...
  45. onesteptwostep

    Let's psychoanalyze our mothers

    Why does a mother take care of her child?
Top Bottom