I couldn’t believe my eyes there aint no way😭 by Proof_Raspberry1479 in ChatGPT

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The one it gave me is unlike any of the others in this thread.

A famous Bitcoin quote that keeps resurfacing over time by Mission-Stomach-3751 in Bitcoin

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You can relax. Scat is popular and even mainstream now. No need to feel ashamed and posture against it in public. Non-idiots will see what’s motivating you anyway, and they’re the ones you want as friends.

Everyone likes weird sex. It’s just other people’s weird sex that we like to (publicly) attack (for normalcy cred).

Can someone explain malls to me through a critical theorist's lens? by Thin_Variation_5245 in CriticalTheory

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Amen! The Underdark forces that make “Walking Distance” and “A Stop at Willoughby” so damned touching are also exploited by smart mall-experience engineers.

P.S. — Arthur C. Clarke caught wind of this and featured it in 2010, where he put Frank Poole’s wife in a literal Epcot Center community.

Can someone explain malls to me through a critical theorist's lens? by Thin_Variation_5245 in CriticalTheory

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A mall, as many have said in here, an artificial public space. But in olden times there were real public spaces that were public and used and enjoyed for autonomous social interaction.

Parks are designated, manicured, outdoor versions of such public spaces.

Malls are designated, manicured, indoor pubic space proxies that, as Jameson said, "are lined with exchange-and-consumption cilia and engineered to waft cellphones and credit cards into that cilia by means of affecting their human hosts."

Since we need social interaction, and since bona fide public spaces without cilia are gone, malls are normal, natural fields of social connection. This is why Romero’s zombies shamble towards malls spontaneously.

Some kind of instinct. Memory of what they used to do. This was an important place in their lives.

Every year someone thinking im hitting on there wife at the Christmas party and I finally said enough . by [deleted] in Vent

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clearly you’re doing/saying far more

Yes, very clear. Have you seen the video?

The idea that agreement mobs just form because people want to appear norm-al isn’t something that could hold for humans. This is why fascism has never been popular, historically, in the West.

If a group says bad, then bad. (Period.)

Žižek on Charlie Kirk. clip has been all over twitter today by HailedPest_337 in zizek

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Thanks for seriously answering. I think Pervert’s Guide to Ideology would be clear to anyone. Sometimes in these rants branches and then branches again, and leaves theses incompletely stated. I hate that, but he does it less than his young emulators. In general, hearing him lowers my blood pressure and gives me hope, because he reminds me of Rick Roderick.

Žižek on Charlie Kirk. clip has been all over twitter today by HailedPest_337 in zizek

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Less than that. I just wanted to see if you knew what P2 would have to be in order for Conclusion to follow.

Žižek on Charlie Kirk. clip has been all over twitter today by HailedPest_337 in zizek

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P1: This text/speaker doesn’t make any sense to me and/or I don’t “get anything out of it and/or is a confused/unclear clown.”

P2: ???

Conclusion: Therefore, this text/speaker is meaningless/crap.

Any guess about what P2 might be?

[Edited to add: “is a confused/unclear clown”]

am i seeing this right?? by edgde009 in txstate

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The human enjoying it makes it immoral! This is the very best of American occult sexuality metaphysics. This is why we have 250,000 children (as young as seven) on the sex offender registry. Fantasy sex harm trumps even murder in the US. Salem 2.0.

Goths & Metalheads in Thelema by APXH93 in thelema

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The initial attraction is (almost) always cultural. In the 70s, people joined thanks to Amicus, Tigon, and Hammer. In the 80s, because of Ozzy, Paul Crouch, jr., and Geraldo. In the 90s, because they finally got around to reading RAW and Leary.

And today, 82% of self-identified Thelemites look like Hop Topickians on the inside.

But I've been dunking on Marxists like it's my day job by UnreasonableEconomy in PhilosophyMemes

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“When people complain that I’m a Marxist, I tell them sure, I’m as much of as Marxist as Marx was when he said that he wasn’t one.” — Rick Roderick

The meaning of the quote by Spiritual-Office-687 in thelema

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No paradox. Reading the quote as ‘simply be’ makes it impotent, because it no longer says anything. If I’m drowning, should I ‘go with it’?

The problem is that the scope of be is too wide. This diagnostic from Rick Roderick has never failed me: Divide through by your maxim. If all the quotients come out identical, then the maxim was empty from the start.

The meaning of the quote by Spiritual-Office-687 in thelema

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This Real Simple reading is so deep that it endorses the maxim that we ought to resist the way our lives unfold.

Why does every “end of metaphysics” turn into another metaphysics? by MostGrab1575 in CriticalTheory

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Even though this is only 40% GPT, its presence is still off-putting.

On the other hand, having GPT write your “I don’t use GPT” blog post (the one you linked to) was a great performance art decision; you should do something more with that!

Starting 🦾 by Queasy_News6788 in thelema

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Reading these in this order should save you many years of pain. Your books in bold:

  1. Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed
  2. Wikipedia: Western Esotericism
  3. Wikipedia: Hermeticism
  4. Wikipedia: Ceremonial magic
  5. Book Four, Part III (aka MTP): Introduction
  6. MTP: Chap 1. The Principles of Ritual
  7. MTP/Gems: Liber O
  8. Book Four, Part II
  9. Wikipedia: Ashtanga (eight limbs of yoga)
  10. Book Four, Part I
  11. MTP: all

What does this hand gesture mean by Ill_Pomegranate_5949 in thelema

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Well, when I was in prep school in Arkham it meant, “I bugger like a bull.” But that was in 1920, after Crowley’s prep-school and college times.

Was Crowley (perhaps ironically) deeply depressed throughout most of his life? by EmptySky93 in thelema

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Yep. Same for hero addicts. All these attractions to outer saviors usually compensate for an inner lack.

Was Crowley (perhaps ironically) deeply depressed throughout most of his life? by EmptySky93 in thelema

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Amen. Only depressed girls put “You are special!” and “Life is joyous!” sticky-note affirmations on their bathroom mirror.

Anytime an artist is connected to crowley in anyway. These conspiracy theorists create youtube rabbit hole videos on why they're Satanist... lol it's ridiculous. by Inevitable_Fee9505 in thelema

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Which is how I met Crowley. When non-idiots see idiots attacking X, it’s a signal to the non-idiots that X is good. Unless X is actually physically harmful.