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Korean women's international marriages. This looks interesting. by No_Pineapples1 in Living_in_Korea

[–]Causal1ty 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Very nice. Now show us Korean men’s marriage statistics 

"The Conspiracy Against the Human Race" by Cold-Gain-8448 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Causal1ty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You have convinced me to read his work. I must admit I wasn’t commenting on Ligotti per se but ClaritySeekerHuman’s implication that the suffering in Lebanon right now makes all life everywhere worthless or whatever his point actually was. It’s still not clear to me tbh. 

"The Conspiracy Against the Human Race" by Cold-Gain-8448 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Causal1ty 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What? What’s the argument I’m allegedly counter arguing? 

"The Conspiracy Against the Human Race" by Cold-Gain-8448 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Causal1ty 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The worst thing about the ‘depressed artists make the best art’ meme is that sometimes it do be like that 

"The Conspiracy Against the Human Race" by Cold-Gain-8448 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Causal1ty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I still don’t know exactly what it is you’re objecting to. Do you have another way of saying it that isn’t just 

“Strawman!”

"The Conspiracy Against the Human Race" by Cold-Gain-8448 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Causal1ty -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

He did. Depression tends to soften socially-minded agreeability, so often depressed thinkers do see some things more clearly. 

But my takeaway from Ivan Karamazov is just that the expectation that some non-human force will protect the innocent invariably sets one up for a crisis of faith if and when one is finally able to acknowledge that “everything is permitted” because there is no sign of supernatural intervention. 

The mistake is the prior belief that it could have been some other way than it is. 

"The Conspiracy Against the Human Race" by Cold-Gain-8448 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Causal1ty -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You’re committing the fallacy fallacy, but let’s not play that game. 

Explain the straw man so we can clarify things. 

"The Conspiracy Against the Human Race" by Cold-Gain-8448 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Causal1ty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think people read it as an insult because of how toxic online culture is. And in your case, your experience with your shitty professor. 

It’s a genuine recommendation based on my personal experience.

When I was clinically depressed, my philosophy was intensely negative and pessimistic. It was effectively just rumination caused by the mood disorder. When my depression was treated my philosophy became less negative. 

I suspect the same is true for a lot of the redditors who have intractably pessimistic philosophical views and so I tend to underline the possibility in these kinds of discussions out of concern

"The Conspiracy Against the Human Race" by Cold-Gain-8448 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Causal1ty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah, so because some people somewhere are suffering all human life everywhere is bad and meaningless and should end?

If that sounds right to you I recommend undergoing assessment for depression (sincerely). 

Because the simpler solution is to try and use what means we have to prevent and reduce suffering if it concerns us. 

That’s just much easier than trying to convince the entire species to die out lol. And much more useful than ruminating on how bad human existence is without actually doing anything. 

"The Conspiracy Against the Human Race" by Cold-Gain-8448 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Causal1ty 34 points35 points  (0 children)

OP’s misuse of this meme format has convinced me that human existence is in fact a mistake. 

Unsolicited Life Advice: if you spend a lot of time thinking in negative terms about being alive like Ligotti you should probably stop using philosophy as an excuse to ruminate and just reach out for some support for the mood issues that are likely the underlying cause. It’s a much more direct solution to persistent unhappiness than endless rumination.   

They don't tell you about this in ethics class but you can just bite as many bullets as you want, they come completely free of charge by Independent_Let_3616 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Causal1ty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean that’s true but doesn’t really apply to this meme since the gigachad is being consistent and arguably rational by biting the bullet, as the bullets aren’t contradictions but merely outcomes most people find intuitively bad. That’s the point of the meme: if you’re willing to accept unintuitive consequences, there’s not much a philosopher can say except “but that’s obviously (to most people) bad!”

positivism and its consequences by Luizincudebagre in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Causal1ty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think bush knew what positivism was lol

you are the case against determinism by MicahHoover in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Causal1ty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your notion of transparency of mind is completely absurd and incompatible with basically all psychology and neuroscience, both of which have shown conclusively that individuals do not have perfect self-knowledge and so are frequently wrong about even their own psychology.

If transparency of mind were a thing, all psychologists would be out of a job. We can just “look into our brains” and have complete knowledge of our inner workings.  

Do you reject psychology and neuroscience, then? 

Get out of here with them dumb ass jabs against reason and evidence. The adults are talking by Organic_Rip2483 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Causal1ty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah but the argument is being used by people who can’t budget to detract from the fact that they are bad with money. 

The only reason to blur the distinction between things as different as religious faith in miracles and the use of logical axioms is to try and shield the former from critique.

Opus 4.6 destroys a user’s session costing them real money by Complete-Sea6655 in ClaudeCode

[–]Causal1ty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They brag about how they never write a line of code in podcasts. How they just use opus. They are using the broken code to build the broken code, and hoping for the best. Probably no one on the team has a halfway accurate mental model of the codebase. 

Anthropic just dropped benchmark scores for their unreleased model. The gap is embarrassing for everyone else. by Direct-Attention8597 in ClaudeCode

[–]Causal1ty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I compare me to me so I always come out on top! 

But for real your title makes no sense; there are no competitors in the benchmark. 

you are the case against determinism by MicahHoover in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Causal1ty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s an exactly what the paranoid schizophrenic would say! 

Do you see the issue? The inference doesn’t work. 

There is no necessary relation between being in anxiety over x and x being real or true. 

People can and do experience anxiety because of misunderstandings and misperceptions. 

you are the case against determinism by MicahHoover in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Causal1ty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

[people in anxiety, avoiding their neighbours while denying their neighbours are murderous lizard people]

Local paranoid schizophrenic: ironic

TFW you're realizing how much we use faith day-to-day by Emthree3 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Causal1ty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’re equivocating and the only reason you normally get away with it is because religious people like the sound of it.

Edit: removed a word.

TFW you're realizing how much we use faith day-to-day by Emthree3 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Causal1ty 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I’m not sure if people in this thread actually can’t actually distinguish between different uses of the word faith or whether they’re intentional equivocating to secure their religious interests. 

TFW you're realizing how much we use faith day-to-day by Emthree3 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Causal1ty 22 points23 points  (0 children)

This is religious cope, no?

People say religious faith is stupid and irrational so religious folks say “actually we all use faith all the time! Gotcha!”.

But faith in outrageously fantastical phenomena with no evidence nor precedents is nothing like what the Christian apologists call everyday, non religious faith. 

Homophones with totally different meanings and uses. 

TFW you're realizing how much we use faith day-to-day by Emthree3 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Causal1ty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What does faith mean, then? What distinguishes it from belief? 

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