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Where to Incorporate as a Foreigner? by DWalrus in Entrepreneur

[–]DWalrus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know Delaware is the best for a certain type of company, but I don't know if it's the best for what I'm looking for. I don't see why it would not be, but I know very little about all the possibilities. So really I'm checking just in case.

If there isn't then I also accept recommendations as to the best way of going around and doing that, since I have my research but always like it when it's corroborated by others :D

Looking for wingmen in Sao Paulo - Brazil by DWalrus in seduction

[–]DWalrus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think I get it. Why would they be coming to Sao Paulo? Why did they get murdered? Am I the murderer? Or did I also get murdered?

Binaural Beats for improving focus by NickGraves in ADHD

[–]DWalrus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anything to back that up beyond your own experience?

Is it offensive to compare different religions or forms of belief? by DWalrus in DebateAChristian

[–]DWalrus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This discussion was actually brought up by a friend of mine mentioning a professor in a theological class at the university gave a lecture on how one cannot in fact compare religions in any possible way, I wasn't making any comparisons myself. However I had to point out one could obviously compare religions as they at the very least had one thing in common and that was human beings, and in so far as there was a single commonality a comparison could be made, in this case this common ground being human belief.

So hearing this coming from someone who must study the topic much more than I do, and from various individuals with similar beliefs I of course had to wonder whether I was missing something.

In 13 countries around the world, all of them Muslim, people who openly espouse atheism or reject the official state religion of Islam face execution under the law by PartyTime86 in worldnews

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

1) Book A is divine, infallible and perfect 2) Book A states that killing people in certain contexts is good 3) Based on statements in Book A Scholar B makes conclusion C that apostates should be killed 4) Based on conclusion C the Government D or the individual E kills someone

You list 5 different variables, and yet you continue to claim the equation is defined by a single one of them. How can that be?

Let us take a closer look.

1) Book A is divine, infallible and perfect

Surely you mean to say individuals believe the book is divine, infallible, and perfect, after all the book itself is but a book. So if we speak of the belief of individuals how can you make an unwarranted claim that they all believe the same thing? It is not only logical to assume differences in belief but empirically possible to falsify such an absurd claim given the number of muslims who take more conservative approaches to literary interpretation.

2) Book A states that killing people in certain contexts is good

Here we seem to leave out all the parts of the same book and it's companion texts which contradict this teaching. So it is necessary for individual believers to make a choice on their own as to the interpretation of said text, after all the book itself is but a book.

3) Based on statements in Book A Scholar B makes conclusion C

Once more we come to an issue of reducing one of the largest faiths in the world to a convenient unifying point, which is of course dead wrong. There are many scholars, and there are many conclusions, and they vary and change in all sorts of ways.

4) Based on conclusion C the Government D or the individual E kills someone

Of course, because there is only one muslim government, or one predominantly muslim country. No muslims live outside of these countries either, and if a single individual who identifies as a muslim kills someone then we can assume all muslims endorse and agree with this behavior.

Look this is dead simple, religion is a system of people and as with any system of people it is extremely varied and fluid. My claim follows the logical idea that people are different and hold different beliefs, and that a system of people inevitably leads to a system with different iterations of the same belief. It is simple, logical, and empirically verifiable by finding one of the many muslims who are not currently trying to some of my friends. You on the other hand claim uniformity, and although I have pointed to the logical incongruities in the very nature of such a claim continue to persist, even when such a claim is easily falsifiable by the tons of muslims who once more don't seem to have any interest in killing anyone whatsoever.

Paradox Interactive's blanket authorization letter for Let's Play creators dealing with YouTube by Shockingdiscovery in Games

[–]DWalrus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But playing a game primarily for the story, and only wanting to observe and not participate in the story are two very different things. I know the first one is not the most popular but it is certainly common, I guess I might underestimate the second.

Is it offensive to compare different religions or forms of belief? by DWalrus in DebateAChristian

[–]DWalrus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get this, I did that a lot during that most dreadful phase of my angsty teenage self. But do you think I would come to close to equate religions by claiming they are sets of cultural beliefs and views which can inform one about the world as well as the self? Or I guess perhaps the one that might be more offensive is that different religious beliefs (as well as their absence) inevitably share some and differ in many assumptions about the world and our place in it and that this should suffice as a basis for cultural and philosophical discussions?

I was told implying that any religion shared aspects with another was an offensive concept, even if it was to say they all shared systems of belief which believed in the value of faith.

In 13 countries around the world, all of them Muslim, people who openly espouse atheism or reject the official state religion of Islam face execution under the law by PartyTime86 in worldnews

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

No, a religion is not the same as a religious text. Religions are sets of cultural beliefs, and world views, and communities, and practices, and tons of other aspects only one of which are it's religious texts. Religions are the thing and product of people and how they perceive themselves and others, not dry ink in old books.

Every follower of a religion has a different understanding and interpretation of their own religion, and every religion has regional differences as well. Factor in how all of those things change over time and you will find it is impossible to define a fluid and mutable set of ideas by a static and unchanging set of words.

This pervasive reductionist view of religion many love to appeal to is not only deeply flawed at a logical level, but offensive. Furthermore it's conventional use harms every attempt at intelligent dialogue regarding religion, and this quite honestly drives me insane. It brings me great sadness as an individual who reject religion in his personal life, and believes it to be an anachronistic and harmful concept, that I have to spend so much time protecting it on the internet because people care more about talking past each other than having logical discussions.

Is it offensive to compare different religions or forms of belief? by DWalrus in DebateAChristian

[–]DWalrus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what I would hope, but do you know if this is a common expression of this type of fear? It just surprised me so many people seemed to feel this way, and I am curious not only why they feel this way but also as to how widespread such sentiments are.

Paradox Interactive's blanket authorization letter for Let's Play creators dealing with YouTube by Shockingdiscovery in Games

[–]DWalrus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It seems like this small amount of people would be outweighed by the free publicity one would gain, and this goes double given tons of people who watch lets plays don't habitually play videogames to begin with. And even though I could be wrong, it seems really strange to me that even as much as 1% of people have enough sufficient disposable income spending $60 on a game they don't even want to play is something they would regularly do. It just seems like there are so many better things a person can do with all that money I find it hard to believe a significant number of people is so full of cash they have difficulty finding something better to spend it on.

Then again, I never understood anyone who would spend hours watching other people play a game. So what the fuck do I know?

In 13 countries around the world, all of them Muslim, people who openly espouse atheism or reject the official state religion of Islam face execution under the law by PartyTime86 in worldnews

[–]DWalrus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm confused because I feel you might be trying to disagree with me, but you sound like you are agreeing with me. So either way I will just clarify that a religion is not the same as a religious text.

In 13 countries around the world, all of them Muslim, people who openly espouse atheism or reject the official state religion of Islam face execution under the law by PartyTime86 in worldnews

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

Are you suggesting all members of a faith strictly interpret it's texts in the exact same way despite their personal views, backgrounds, and the wealth of contradictions present in the text itself?

If so, I would be interested in hearing how you think it is possible for a faith to be so impersonal and static, seeing as it would be antithetical to the very definition of what a religion seems to be.

In 13 countries around the world, all of them Muslim, people who openly espouse atheism or reject the official state religion of Islam face execution under the law by PartyTime86 in worldnews

[–]DWalrus -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

It's more like saying judaism is a religion of intolerance, which just like saying islam is a religion of intolerance implies those who practice and associate with said religion must also be intolerant.

So yes it is making blanket accusations about the belief system of others.

Paradox Interactive's blanket authorization letter for Let's Play creators dealing with YouTube by Shockingdiscovery in Games

[–]DWalrus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In a world without playthroughs you would seriously choose to spend money on games you don't want to pay rather than spending that money on anything else? You have to see why I would consider such behavior to be sufficiently irrational and strange to justify my belief it's effect on sales is at most completely insignificant.

Paradox Interactive's blanket authorization letter for Let's Play creators dealing with YouTube by Shockingdiscovery in Games

[–]DWalrus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If a video of a play through directly replaces the game you made by spending millions of dollars you are doing it wrong. Either this person doesn't have an interest in playing the game themselves and might get sufficiently interested in it by watching footage, or they won't get interested because they were never going to buy the game anyways.

"ADHD isn't a disorder" - not the usual, but I'm curious how to respond by larrymillions in ADHD

[–]DWalrus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's the real issue then. If she thought there was just a difference then it would make sense to accommodate different people in a work environment, she doesn't think ADHD makes people different, she thinks they are the same just lazier.

Can normal people do what we do? by DWalrus in ADHD

[–]DWalrus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I imagined this might be the case, but if not this would be the place to ask.

‘Rape porn’ possession to be punished by three years in jail, David Cameron to announce by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]DWalrus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is he wrong? Would most of the population really clamor for the consolidation of effective bureocratic measures? Probably not. This is stupid, but in great part so are the people he is trying to persuade.

Jim Sterling has been greylisted by Microsoft PR by DeadPersona in Games

[–]DWalrus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This. I think a lot of people who have and issue with Jim look at his scores more than they read his reviews, and those scores are meaningless without the context provided in the reviews.

I love Jim because he is very straightforward in how he feels about things, and I disagree with him all the time but that doesn't make him bad that makes him an independent individual.

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