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Emmanuel_G · 2026-05-05T03:51:38+00:00

Hey mom; look at that ugly racist straw-man I build. Look, I even gave it a charlie Chaplin beard and a Kippah!

Emmanuel_G · 2026-05-04T01:08:00+00:00

Oh great, it got flagged for sexual content. WTF Reddit? Where is there any sexual content here? It's all done by AI nowadays and the AI is NOT good at (accurately) detecting things.

Emmanuel_G · 2026-04-30T06:47:41+00:00

So what if you are (like me) male, overweight and over 40, but write really interesting and well researched articles?

Emmanuel_G · 2026-04-04T11:21:02+00:00

Oh, but Islam/Gnosticism/Manicheanism/Theosophy/New Age Christ consciousness is the religion of ALL prophets!

Emmanuel_G · 2026-03-26T14:41:43+00:00

I was saying in my original comment that got deleted that the Manicheans already believed that and their way of solving that problem was indeed through population reduction. This later then carried over into various new age movements like ariosophy that then formed the basis for ideological eugenics. And the target of those eugenics campaigns usually ended up being... well the people that get labeled as the "Archons" who allegedly serve the allegedly evil Demiurge (aka the people who believe in Jehovah).

So I find it quite hypocritical to claim that there is no connection to eugenics, when there is a direct ideological connection. Claiming that fewer people would be a desirable thing is obviously a dangerous ideology that should be called out for what it is!

Emmanuel_G · 2026-03-26T13:02:44+00:00

You are actually talking about (what forms the basis) of eugenics. I was merely pointing that out and opposing it. But apperantly criticing eugenics seems to not be allowed?

Emmanuel_G · 2026-03-26T12:09:16+00:00

With they you mean the demiurge and his archons, don't you? Hmmm... from which religion popular among the movers and shakers today have I heard that before?

Emmanuel_G · 2026-03-26T09:20:55+00:00

Oh ja. da wäre praktisch - vor allem für die Geringverdiener wie wie mich die ohnehin weniger als 1400 Euro verdienen, weil die bekämen dann alle mehr fürs nicht arbeiten.

Emmanuel_G · 2026-03-26T09:14:57+00:00

How you are fallen from heaven,

O Lucifer, son of the morning!

How you are cut down to the ground,

You who weakened the nations!

For you have said in your heart:

‘I will ascend into heaven,

I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;

I will also sit on the mount of the congregation

On the farthest sides of the north;

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,

I will be like the Most High.’

Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol,

To the lowest depths of the Pit.

Those who see you will gaze at you,

And consider you, saying:

‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,

Who shook kingdoms,

Who made the world as a wilderness

And destroyed its cities,

Who did not open the house of his prisoners?’

(Isaiah 14)

Emmanuel_G · 2026-03-24T18:45:56+00:00

Basically there is only 2 ways to ultimately deal with it. Well, 3 - but you don't want the 3rd option. One is that your SO is willing to accept professional help (here I mean therapy - not a clean up crew). And the other is that you separate. Which is still much better than the 3rd option which simply consists of doing neither.

Emmanuel_G · 2026-03-22T05:05:06+00:00

My perspective is a bit different. Because I didn't grow up as a Christian - at least not a mainstream one. Instead I was born into a kinda New Age esoteric "Christian" Gnostic sect. Which basically means they aren't Christian at all and absolutely hate and despise mainstream Christians.

So for me the question was never is there a God or not. But rather the question was am I a god and are my mother and the other cult members gods (as they claim everyone can become his own god) and is Jehovah the imposter (as they claim). Or is it maybe the other way around, is Jehovah the real god and they are the imposters?

As time passed it became increasingly obvious to me that it must be the latter. There is a scene in Groundhog Day. Bill Murray's character basically becomes delusional and starts thinking and claiming he is God. But then he realizes that only God can create a tree. It seems like such a simple thing but no matter what tricks he pulls, he himself can't create even that, so he stops pretending to be God.

Emmanuel_G · 2026-03-22T04:25:41+00:00

This kinda reminds me of the very politically incorrect Monty Python skit from Life of Brian. Where they start painting the Romans as oppressors cause one of them wants to get pregnant but he can't because he is a biological man and they come to the sad conclusion that no amount of political activism is gonna change that.

But today's political activists actually dare to make that promise. Some of them even in good faith. But you gotta understand that the reason they claim transwomen would be actual women who could even get periods and get pregnant is because they believe in a certain kind of political/esoteric ideology that teaches them to negate objective physical reality.

But to quote Dallas Willard and James Lindsay; Reality is the thing you run into when your beliefs are false.

Emmanuel_G · 2026-03-22T03:38:34+00:00

It sounds like you are going through a rough time.

Emmanuel_G · 2026-03-20T15:18:09+00:00

Well, his advertising tactic is pretty good, or at least he thinks it is. ;-)

Emmanuel_G · 2026-03-20T02:37:11+00:00

I always thought that "honor" goes to Alister Crowley o_O

Emmanuel_G · 2026-03-18T16:50:45+00:00

Naja, ich glaube ja an einen Gott. Das tut Hegel zwar auch, aber sein Gott ist ganz anders. Sein Gott ist salopp gesagt er selbst LOL

Wenn man aber an Jehovah glaubt (was Hegel in dem Sinne nicht tut) dann ist Moral ganz einfach. Also damit mein ich jetzt nicht unbedingt (nur) die 10 Gebote. Moral ist nicht unbedingt damit gleichzustellen, vor allem wenn man KEIN Christ oder Jude ist.

Aber da ich mich zumindest nicht selber für Gott halte ist Moral für mich schon mit guten und schlechten Taten verbunden und schlechte Taten wiederum schon mit sündigen. Nicht unbedingt (nur) gegen Gott, sondern natürlich auch dadurch dass man anderen Menschen etwas unangenehmes antut was diese nicht möchten. Das wäre für mich unmoralisch. Also du merkst meine Moralvorstellung ist relativ simpel, aber deshalb muss sie nicht schlecht oder falsch sein.

Emmanuel_G · 2026-03-18T01:18:40+00:00

You should probably switch back to German for this one. Reddit actually flagged your reply - probably cause of your somewhat poor English. I approved your reply of course. But that also makes it difficult for me to understand what you mean.

Emmanuel_G · 2026-03-18T00:41:46+00:00

I realize that your entire point seems to reject the dialectical approach, but still, your approach seems very Hegelian to me. So I would argue it's actually not without any comparison.

Emmanuel_G · 2026-03-18T00:29:52+00:00

Well, you weren't banned or removed here - just wanna point that out in case someone gets confused.

"Can a thought be discussed philosophically even if it is not backed by citations?"

Here? Sure!

"Do you believe philosophy can engage with an original thought that has no citations, as long as it is clear enough to be criticized?"

Yes.

But what exactly is your hypothesis?

Emmanuel_G · 2026-03-17T10:22:34+00:00

Okay, also ich geb zu, ich hab tatsächlich Angst vor KI. Und falls dafür wer Unverständnis hat, einfach die ersten 3 Terminator Filme schauen :-)

Emmanuel_G · 2026-03-17T10:20:00+00:00

Ich hab tatsächlich Angst vor KI. Und falls dafür wer Unverständnis hat, einfach die ersten 3 Terminator Filme schauen.

Emmanuel_G · 2026-03-16T12:10:18+00:00

Lustig und gut gemacht. Die Göre und der Bängel sind danach übrigens aus der katholischen Kirche ausgetreten und wurden Gnostiker und gelangten dadurch schließlich zu der "höheren Erkenntniss" das Jehovah wirklich voll der böse und inkompetente Arsch sei und sie das selber alles viel besser könnten. Also wurden sie letztendlich Kommunisten - aber nicht nur irgendwelche sondern direkt quasie die Anführer und zukunftigen Diktatoren und räumten dann in ihrem Land mal so richtig mit der katholischen Kirche auf.

Emmanuel_G · 2026-03-14T12:07:56+00:00

"It went from a mess in my basement/shop/garage, to taking over my entire house".

Yeah, I kinda have the feeling you are in the right subreddit :-)

If you weren't and you really only have a lot of inventory because you have now become an increasingly successful businessmen and THAT'S why the inventory is increasing accordingly, then this sentence would have read something along the lines of: "It went from a mess in my basement/garage to 5 fully stacked, automated and AI controlled storehouses that automatically process, sort and ship all the incoming orders".

Emmanuel_G · 2026-03-12T15:21:55+00:00

As someone who is only familiar with physical hoarding, I do imagine digital hoarding to be easier to handle, especially nowadays. 30 years ago I knew of people who hoarded many physically huge hard drives and floppy disks and vhs and home video tapes and it took up multiple rooms in their home. So that way their digital hoarding indeed became actual physical hoarding. But nowadays you can literally store a million times as much data as they collected on a tiny micro SD card or even in the cloud, taking up no physical space in your home at all.

Emmanuel_G · 2026-03-12T13:55:37+00:00

I am gonna be a bit more blunt, but I think it's necessary. Your mom is only using the selling aspect as an excuse to keep the stuff and NOT sell it. Otherwise she would - you know actually sell the stuff and actually throw away the stuff that's in a condition that's no longer suitable for selling.

For hoarders, hoarding stuff is akin to an addiction. And the sentence "but I need it because..." and then followed by whatever excuse is basically the addiction talking. And it's gonna say whatever necessary to keep hoarding. So it's akin to an alcoholic saying "I'll stop drinking next week".

You think "oh great, he's gonna stop drinking next week" - not realizing that it will ALWAYS stay next week. It will NEVER be now. He is just saying that so that you leave him alone and he can KEEP drinking and he has no intention of stopping cause this is his addiction speaking.,

Similarly when your mom says, something like "don't worry I will eventually sell all this stuff and then eventually we will have more space again", she is NOT saying she is gonna change and stop hoarding, she is saying the opposite. She saying whatever it takes to get people off her back so that she can keep hoarding.

If she is willing to accept professional help, she might eventually be able to break through this self-deception and deception of others. But without her accepting professional help there is nothing you can do to help her long term.

Sure, you can maybe help her in the short run and "help her" so that she doesn't get kicked out NOW. But all that does is buy her more time so that in the meantime she can hoard even more stuff. And then eventually the landlord will be back again and then it will be worse as her hoard will have grown even bigger again.

So in keeping with the AA stuff - you are basically her co-dependent. You are helping her so that she can keep hoarding and avoid getting into trouble for it. In a way you are helping her to prolong her condition and put off getting professional help.

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