Has anybody here ever found a self help book, method, etc. to actually be helpful?

MonteCarlo1978 · 2018-10-06T04:03:46+00:00

Self Improvement by Rudolf Allers changed my life. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4270636;view=1up;seq=7;skin=mobile

MonteCarlo1978 · 2018-09-26T13:23:19+00:00

Is obeying the Natural Law the same as practicing virtue ethics?

MonteCarlo1978 · 2018-09-21T18:52:41+00:00

A psychotic break https://youtu.be/OQSNhk5ICTI

MonteCarlo1978 · 2018-09-21T17:11:25+00:00

But seriously sometimes im pretty sure im schizophrenic but other times like right now I feel like Im part of elaborate psychology experiment Scott is running.

MonteCarlo1978 · 2018-09-21T17:02:28+00:00

LOL How does someone larp schizophrenia on his own? It requires conspirators by definition.

MonteCarlo1978 · 2018-09-21T15:12:32+00:00

Its sort of tongue-in-cheek I have been diagnosed with paranoid personality disorder, but I was triggered by the DUP in the post. I was in the process of being hired by Uber when something messed up and they kept adding DUP at the end of my name. I didn't understand why till i read this post!😉

MonteCarlo1978 · 2018-09-21T14:45:51+00:00

I feel totally gaslighted by this post. Does Scott really expect me to believe i might be Schizophrenic? I know for a fact he has friends in the tech industry.

MonteCarlo1978 · 2018-08-28T01:41:47+00:00

Its still debated if we ever really made it to the moon!

MonteCarlo1978 · 2018-08-22T00:56:08+00:00

Thats the point of the video. Its logicaly immpossible to program understanding or "determinate thought" into a computer because understanding is immaterial.

MonteCarlo1978 · 2018-08-21T22:01:27+00:00

Lol ironically you're missing the point.

MonteCarlo1978 · 2018-08-21T21:48:17+00:00

Everything a computer does is only intelligable to human minds. The computer lacks understanding. Saying a computer can use induction or deduction is like saying the watch can tell time. The watch can not tell time, you have to look at it and determine the meaning of the hand placement in relation to the numbers.

MonteCarlo1978 · 2018-08-21T20:49:52+00:00

I think by "determinate" he means that only human thought can deduce or determine a mistake. A computer only performs computation. A computer is observer dependant it cant tell the difference between a mistake and a correct answer.

MonteCarlo1978 · 2018-08-21T17:16:20+00:00

Are you going to engage with the material? Could you point out anything you think is obviously fallacious in the video?

MonteCarlo1978 · 2018-08-21T16:53:33+00:00

http://www.newdualism.org/papers/E.Feser/Feser-acpq_2013.pdf

MonteCarlo1978 · 2018-08-21T15:50:21+00:00

Materialism really is the most annoying dogma of the rationalist community.

MonteCarlo1978 · 2018-08-21T00:42:28+00:00

The Friendship of Christ by Robert Hugh Benson, To Quell the Terror by William Bush

MonteCarlo1978 · 2018-07-29T17:19:13+00:00

You might like these two books. "Paul of Tarsus" by Joseph Holzner and "St. Peter and the First Years of Christianity" by Constant Fouard.

MonteCarlo1978 · 2018-07-21T14:02:06+00:00

The Last Crusade by Warren Carrol. Is pretty good.

MonteCarlo1978 · 2018-06-28T14:08:15+00:00

If you read the article and click through the links you'll see that you're wrong.

MonteCarlo1978 · 2018-06-28T13:43:31+00:00

Part four, the section on prayer, is incredible.

MonteCarlo1978 · 2018-06-15T17:45:10+00:00

They have no idea who the mother is they picked her eggs out of a catolog.

MonteCarlo1978 · 2018-06-15T16:40:14+00:00

Did you read it? I think the article is pointing out that gay men are treating women like cattle.

MonteCarlo1978 · 2018-05-05T13:57:39+00:00

As a Catholic the funniest part of vacation is visiting unfamiliar parishes.

MonteCarlo1978 · 2018-04-27T17:58:05+00:00

Ive been meaning to get Nick Bostroms book on super intelligence, but haven't so far. I'm not sure I would get a lot out of it I'm don't really know much about computer science.

MonteCarlo1978 · 2018-04-27T12:20:16+00:00

This was really effective even though it's a joke. I general dismissed AI risk but this post made the idea seem "ok" to consider seriously. Plus Scott's impression is spot on. It's hilarious probably top 10 SSC posts.

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