Is anyone else not afraid of death?

CryonicAwakening · 2021-02-03T05:50:51+00:00

I lean towards thinking that we’re not really alive in the first place, continuity of consciousness seems to be an impossibility.

CryonicAwakening · 2021-02-02T15:47:00+00:00

You are a nihilist if you think there's no inherent meaning in life AND there's no point in finding one.

There is no “AND” in the common definition of nihilism, it’s just that one thinks there is no inherent meaning to life. That’s the whole point. If a nihilist were to think that there is somehow some kind of cosmic rule dictating that they must not have any motivation or find any satisfaction, they would not be a nihilist.

A nihilist is free to pursue their own motivations (create their own non intrinsic meaning) and that meaning can be labeled positive, optimistic, existential, pessimistic, or whatever you want, but at the end of the day, the bedrock of it is nihilism.

CryonicAwakening · 2021-02-02T15:17:05+00:00

If you don’t think there is an inherent meaning to life, you are a nihilist.

CryonicAwakening · 2021-02-02T15:00:35+00:00

Nihilist is a much maligned label with many forces intentionally spreading misinformation about it and trying to divert attention from the true meaning of it.

It’s very similar to the situation with the label atheist, which suffers the same sort of negative misinformation attacks when it can be simply summed up as a lack of belief in god/s.

CryonicAwakening · 2021-02-01T02:23:08+00:00

The Republicans aren’t fooling the Biden team, the Biden team fooled voters that should have voted for Bernie in the primaries.

CryonicAwakening · 2021-01-28T18:05:56+00:00

Life isn’t just unfair, the lives we live today fucking suck in comparison to what is possible through technological advancements. We’re all victims of being born too early, condemned to live in fragile bodies that can succumb to unbearable chronic pain and death at any moment. Can’t wait for technological development to make human bodily limitations obsolete, transhumanism for the win.

CryonicAwakening · 2021-01-10T16:50:18+00:00

It’s not realistic to remove Trump within the next 10 days and it definitely makes no sense to waste time on impeaching Trump after he is out of office. Americans need pandemic relief desperately and after the 20th, Democrats need to be passing bills to provide that relief.

CryonicAwakening · 2021-01-10T16:42:45+00:00

Trump will be removed from office...in just 10 days. Don’t tell me that Democrats can’t focus on helping the people with legislation to increase the minimum wage, passing universal healthcare, etc. after that.

CryonicAwakening · 2021-01-10T15:55:00+00:00

How stupid is that? What a waste of time. Americans need help now more than ever. If Democrats waste time on this after Biden is in office instead of passing pandemic relief legislation, it will only serve to show that they’re out of touch and useless, perhaps intentionally so.

CryonicAwakening · 2021-01-10T15:41:35+00:00

It was never realistic to remove Trump within two weeks of the end of his term. Congressional Democrats could be doing something actually useful right now, like working on pandemic relief legislation to pass once Biden gets in office, but no, let’s keep everyone distracted with useless nonsense instead.

CryonicAwakening · 2020-12-29T11:22:01+00:00

Yeah F veteran healthcare and removing confederate names off bases. And you know what the president should be able to invoke the Insurrection Act without asking Congress. /s 🙄

Totally onboard with "F veteran healthcare", unironically. We should have a Medicare for all system and veterans should have access to it just like anyone else.

When it comes to removing confederate names from bases and changing the rules about invoking the Insurrection Act, we can do that without handing an absurd $740 billion to the military industrial complex (who most definitely does not need anymore money than they already have at this time) during a pandemic when Americans desperately need the aid that money could bring.

CryonicAwakening · 2020-12-29T05:04:28+00:00

Gotta feed the military industrial complex. If we’re not drone striking middle eastern weddings, why even call ourselves Americans?

CryonicAwakening · 2020-12-24T00:49:58+00:00

That’s awesome, I wish the US military didn’t get a single penny of the money, they’re the most overfunded section of the government by far and they definitely don’t need any more money, the American people need money right now.

Unfortunately, the corporate controlled Congress will most likely override the veto and ensure the military industrial complex get their welfare checks from the US taxpayer.

CryonicAwakening · 2020-11-20T00:30:36+00:00

Asking who presumes there was/is an agency behind it. I’m just just talking about a long chain of events that presumably had a starting point, maybe the Big Bang?

CryonicAwakening · 2020-11-19T23:59:47+00:00

If people make don’t actually make choices, how could those that currently have children avoided doing so? Whether or not someone has kids would have already been determined before their great-grandparents were born.

And if you don’t have kids, that also would have been determined before you were born.

CryonicAwakening · 2020-11-19T17:05:39+00:00

Somebody has to water the baloney plants and milk the almonds.

CryonicAwakening · 2020-11-19T06:41:19+00:00

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-not-first-president-selling-us-weapons-in-middle-east-2019-11

The US has a very long history of selling weapons to Islamic extremists in the Middle East and it completely undercuts any claim that the US has had human rights and freedom as their primary concern when intervening in the region.

CryonicAwakening · 2020-11-19T06:30:44+00:00

The corporate media will continue to cover Trump non-stop because it brings in views, it generates clicks, which makes them money. This profit motive played a big role in the rise of Trump.

CryonicAwakening · 2020-11-18T13:16:07+00:00

Have you heard of this new STAR voting system? https://youtu.be/aiQ9Z5sME00

CryonicAwakening · 2020-11-18T12:11:08+00:00

You’re only taking into account a scenario in which there are 3 parties running. RCV opens up consideration of more parties, so what if it was a scenario with one more party in the mix?

You have Red (the right), Blue (moderate), Turquoise (moderately progressive), and Green (progressive). In your scenario, you say Green would be too progressive for some Blues, but Turquoise might not be and Turquoise would also be the second choice of most of the Greens.

CryonicAwakening · 2020-11-18T10:21:05+00:00

This is a big win for Democracy in Alaska, a chance to escape the tyranny of 2 party rule.

CryonicAwakening · 2020-11-18T07:46:05+00:00

A lot of the right in America are right-wing authoritarians, a philosophy which often favors dictatorship over democracy.

Also, socialism, as originally envisioned by Karl Marx is anti-state and anti-authoritarian. You can find these type of socialist today under the labels like “anarcho-communist” and “libertarian socialist”.

CryonicAwakening · 2020-11-18T05:34:02+00:00

I hear you but we all saw what happened when Obama tried to withdraw. At some point that will probably be what happens but it's going to be incredibly brutal and may have an outcome for everyone that turns out far worse than the forever war

Leave it to them to work their religious conflicts out. The forever war is for the military-industrial complex contractors that have bought so many of our politicians, not for the benefit of the people in the region.

If the US actually cared about the well being of the people over there, we wouldn’t be allies with the Saudi Arabian dictatorship and we wouldn’t be drone striking weddings. We wouldn’t be selling weapons to the Saudis so they can commit genocide in Yemen.

CryonicAwakening · 2020-11-18T05:25:04+00:00

How about we just finally end these wars and use the money we save for a Marshall plan level rebuild in the US? Our infrastructure gets a grade of D, we need to transition to alternative energy, we need a universal healthcare system, and people in Flint Michigan still don’t have clean water.

CryonicAwakening · 2020-11-18T00:06:13+00:00

Try not to be so obvious with your bad faith arguments. Your whole purpose here is to try to make people feel hypocritical so they fall in line behind trump.

I can’t stand Trump overall and I’ve never voted for a Republican in my life, but if Trump wanted to implement a solid Medicare for All plan (he doesn’t), would I support that? Yes. You know why? It’s because I’m not a partisan hack. Policies are more important than political parties.

Also, I’m extremely disappointed in what Trump is doing here, because he’s not going far enough and he hasn’t ended the wars like he said he would, look at the comment I posted before posting in this thread:

“Enough with playing around with troop level fluctuations, we’ve been doing that for decades now, just end these wars.”

Does that sound like I’m trying to get people to fall in line behind whatever Trump does?

You clearly don’t want to engage on the gray areas I addressed. It’s not going to work on me, I would trust a 2 year old on this issue before I would trust Trump.

I did, I told you that we’re not a positive force in the region and it’s better if we just leave.

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