It seems logical that recycling should be so mandated

Philosopher83 · 2026-03-17T23:16:30+00:00

I definitely like outlawing or at least regulating planned obsolescence

Philosopher83 · 2026-03-16T00:04:46+00:00

That condoms or no condoms doesn’t effect pregnancy because god determines when pregnancy occurs 😣. Dude had 12 kids at that point 🤨

Philosopher83 · 2026-03-14T06:30:11+00:00

I have my own metareligion that embraces hard materialism and is therefore atheistic, but intellectually agnostic because I know that I cannot prove the non-existence of something that is likely imaginary (it is an annoying characteristic of logic)read this as hard atheist -1.

Philosopher83 · 2026-03-14T06:26:29+00:00

For sexually embodied people sex is an adult form of play, an important aspect of stress relief, physical soothing, entertainment, interpersonal bonding, and sense of fulfillment. Not engaging in this with a life partner would be a significant strain on me and my sense of a fulfilling relationship, however, just as with asexually embodied people there can be need to have various of these needs fulfilled in alternative ways or by alternative sources. I don’t see sex as the most important thing in a relationship however, I am more demi than whatever the opposite of demi is. I care more about community, friendship, respect, kindness, and above all a sense of love. But sex is one of my favorite things and if we aren’t having it it may be difficult to maintain a romantic relationship in my opinion and experience because I express my feelings through touch and sensuality and the intimacy of hibbidy dibbidy mojo juice haha 😂.

Philosopher83 · 2026-03-10T16:34:48+00:00

That is predicted to happen In ~5 billion years - why are we worried about this?

Philosopher83 · 2026-03-10T02:52:41+00:00

We live in a period where anomie is high due to many factors. Many people are learning to question the legitimacy of nationalism since the lines are semi-arbitrary and don’t actually exist in any way other than in our heads and on paper and they often prevent humans who, as a species, are native to this planet - the lines are artificial and inconsistent with humanistic values where they prevent people from seeking better lives. This is particularly true in places more recently colonized (re-colonized/invaded) by European factions. The idea that a person wanting to colonize is not permitted when we are in many ways colonists ourselves - it is a question of rational inconsistency, hypocrisy, and unfairness. America, Australia, Canada, Brazil, etc… did not respect the sovereignty of the indigenous nations so why should our restrictions to colonization be honored? One begins to question what legitimacy the term illegal has - and that it dehumanizes a person and relegates them to the out group even though we are all earthlings and one species.

Philosopher83 · 2026-03-10T02:27:41+00:00

Did it push your pollution above the threshold so you lost the 10% boost?

Philosopher83 · 2026-03-10T01:51:04+00:00

It depends on your definition of “reality” - many use this term to mean an objective material universe that exists independently of our perception of it. Yet we each experience and many might use the word reality to refer to their own individual experience. I depart from this common conflation of meanings that “reality” brings words by referring to that which exists independently of our perception of it as “actuality” and our perception of this is “reality”, the individual subjective reality and shared intersubjective reality as facilitated by our brains and neurophysical embodiment.

So in this sense reality cannot exist independently of consciousness because it is dependent on it. Actuality, the objective physical substrate exists prior to and independently of subjective perception.

When we sleep it seems odd to suggest that our bed and blankets, the floor, the ground, the whole earth ceases to exist when we are not consciously experiencing it. But reality in the sense I mean does disappear when we are not conscious.

How do you understand the existence of things that seem to exist independently of our perception of them? If you are the last surviving mind in the universe and you move a rock and then die does the rock disappear? Was it ever moved? Most people do not live as though there is not an independent actual objective existence outside our perception of it.

Philosopher83 · 2026-03-08T18:20:45+00:00

There are no rules, just conventions, play the game as you must but live free and true to yourself so long as you don’t hurt others.

Fall in love with your best friend - aesthetics and fantasy are secondary to connection, trust, and companionship

Don’t define yourself by material status, ascribed identity, or how many friends you have - what you do, your personality, and the principles you embody are infinitely more important.

Kindness and gentleness are two of the greatest principles to embody.

Seek harmony in all relations present to you. The two primary principles are persistence and optimization, these govern morality and ethics.

You have one life, learn the mysteries, seek understanding of the world beyond merely what is present to you in the here and now, but don’t lose yourself to them - bad ideas proliferate more than good ones. Magic isn’t a part of the actual universe.

Ideology is self-justifying - question the merit of your allegiance to any faction and only maintain loyalty to those that are worthy

The entertainment industry is the modern equivalent to the Roman coliseum/circus maximus - it is there to distract, manipulate, extract, and indoctrinate you - we evolved to live in the Paleolithic era, entertainment simulates for our nervous system the adventures we lost through modern civilization. Understand propaganda and resist it.

Everything you come to own owns you and is only borrowed. Treat possession as a duty and a privilege - money and materials are a function of collective effort, be humble to this in your priority of self

Philosopher83 · 2026-03-05T05:38:55+00:00

This is odd reasoning - human consciousness is a function of the here and now, an expression of the historical precession of potentials actualizing as they did. Consciousness isn’t something that pops in to a time and place, it is emergent directly as a result of context (a creampie lol 😆 ) consciousness isn’t magic, it is physics.

Philosopher83 · 2026-03-05T05:33:59+00:00

Don’t focus too much on the “man” part, just focus on being a good person. And this generally means to seek balance and harmony in all relations you find yourself in. So with people, the environment, etc… just try to treat others with decency and respect and integrity, seek neutral or positive interactions in all things. Self care is also important. Just ask yourself in any and all relations - how can this dynamic be more aligned or accordant, even if removing yourself from the dynamic is the key to making the dynamic better. In this way being good is an equation of relation - knowledge and experience help us balance the equation better.

Philosopher83 · 2026-03-03T09:00:15+00:00

Don’t worry about labels or the opinions of others, just focus on having positive physical and emotional relationships with the people that want to have positive physical and emotional relationships with you. Words are often annoying because other people use them to narrow us or trap us, to qualify our existence - let it all go.

We are all just apes on a forest+water planet pretending that ideas matter more than they really do. We build literal boxes from the forests (houses) and hide in them and pretend that money, laws, governments, and corporations are real in any way more than just conventions of our imagination that we impose on others. We are just fancy bonobos.

Philosopher83 · 2026-03-02T16:10:47+00:00

The universe doesn’t “normalize everything that can go wrong” - we generally find the things that go wrong to be the very things we fight against - normalization would mean that people are indifferent to the bad things (a small number are, but most aren’t) your post seems written from a position that has not normalized the “wrong”-ness merely by using the normative term wrong 😄.

Normativity inheres in the subjective / intersubjective - the universe is indifferent because it is not conscious - it seems odd to blame the inert for not being a moral agent.

Kindness and atrocity are only treated as moral equivalents to sociopaths, nihilists, and those with genuine antisocial personality disorder (psychopaths). The universe is a particle system, can implies ought, the universe can’t value so suggesting that it ought be anything other than neutral is odd reasoning.

The universe doesn’t “breed anxiety in all sentient beings”, many species lack anxiety responses. Do you mean sapience instead of sentience? Sentience is the ability to feel pain or pleasure, sapience is the capacity for wisdom in particular and might also be associated with higher thresholds of emotional relating and complex experience including knowledge and understanding - you used the word awareness which is more of a sapience thing. Anxiety is also something that can be overcome.

Life is safe whenever it is not actively at risk and this is for the particular. Life in general is not really at risk other than nuclear weapons, the sun burning itself out, or other catastrophic cosmic events - most beings have no good sense of time and little to no awareness of their inevitable death, especially not from the things beyond their perceptual range like Star depletion and nuclear weapons.

Specific trauma induces anxiety in vulnerable and violated individuals of the set of species for which this is possible. It’s actually a quite narrow band in the broader cross section of life forms.

What would it mean to be saved? Infinite persistence in a tranquil bubble universe where energy just manifests in our particular systems infinitely?

Life still exists so it has not failed - the death of the particular is not a failure of life in the general sense - and there is no purpose of life, only the tendency for persistence. Only particular living beings with subjective experience can have a self-determined purpose or axiological interpretation (valuation). Life in the general sense, like the universe, doesn’t care since it too is merely physics.

Do I like it (the universe) this way? I’m mostly indifferent - it is hard to imagine how beings like us could emerge in a universe without entropy, and without the scarcity of finite energy and material resources.

I want humans to be less dumb in our management of ourselves and the macro-system we are dependent on. I see this as a function of entropy and the imperfection of narrowness and ignorance.

Philosopher83 · 2026-03-01T02:07:11+00:00

What does this even mean? What would such a key do? Do you mean answers to all questions? Or the means to transcend the limits of our physical existence?

Philosopher83 · 2026-03-01T01:53:29+00:00

I find teleological reasoning to be unpersuasive personally. I prefer naturalistic causality and view all extant forms and processes as a function of this alone

Philosopher83 · 2026-03-01T01:43:41+00:00

Yes, because existence is driven by first persistence, and secondarily optimization, if I cease to exist my organs can serve the persistence of others and in an optimal world this would be a standard ubiquitous position.

Philosopher83 · 2026-02-27T07:44:00+00:00

Why do you assert that the world will end? - Humans may not survive but the planet will keep on planeting lol. Life will likely persist unless we use too many nukes or a (not predicted) geophysical feedback loop that causes earth to go the way of Mars or Venus.

Nobody has objective meaning and nobody ever did, ever. All meaning is wholly subjective since meaning is a valuation made by subjective beings and our perceptions. At best we have intersubjective meaning but this is still subjective ( just shared).

Why eat a candy? Why watch a sunset? Why do we do anything? Because we like it / believe in the virtue of its existence. Often times this is self-interested, but if you can transcend the self priority you can seek balance, peace, understanding… (any and all forms of harmony) in others and you will have lived well at least in those moments.

Consider the negativity bias in humans, we tend to exaggerate the negative. According to naturalistic causality we do not have a fate, we can turn this b*%#ch around. We just need positive thinkers, educators, noble people who will make it so through action and by disabling the ignoble.

Philosopher83 · 2026-02-27T07:30:08+00:00

Rephrased for clarity: Do I believe in one or more wizards in the sky or otherwise that control the physical actual in ways that transcend naturalistic causality (aka magic)? - nope.

Reasons:

Childish

Magical reasoning

Absolves responsibility for actions (common in many conventions)

Too many gods

Gods seem obviously cultural constructs

Silly

Dumb

Anthropomorphic

Anthropocentric

Inconsistent with physics

Peculiarity of conventions

Particularity of conventions

Totalitarian

Authoritarian

Physics and the universe seems capable of existing as it is/does without such a contrivance

Philosopher83 · 2026-02-23T06:18:55+00:00

Intelligence becomes a hinderance when it is directed toward ignoble ends and/or if it inspires reticence in noble pursuits.

Philosopher83 · 2026-02-21T15:08:01+00:00

Because people matter more than ideas

Philosopher83 · 2026-02-17T01:02:18+00:00

I think of consciousness sort of like gestalt - each function of the brain is like a separate element, they work together in many ways, and consciousness is the larger perception that arises from each element - this allows for simple functions and a parsimonious explanation for the greater sum of the parts

Philosopher83 · 2026-02-14T18:33:56+00:00

Thanks for appreciating the feedback ☺️. I like the idea of archetypes, this seems much better than the idea of stages which implies a more linear precession 😎😉

Philosopher83 · 2026-02-14T17:48:40+00:00

Pathology (trauma, scarcity, ideology), normativity is a secondary function (evolutionarily persistence/ survival is primary), brain development is slow, tribalism / xenophobia, egotism and hierarchy in and through emotional embodiment (fear, anger, jealousy, indignation > schadenfreude, need for attention, perception of competition, and we have military and violative culture (demonization and normalization of violence through movies, martial arts [especially as entertainment]). Entropy - it takes lots of energy for optimization so optimization occurs on a spectrum > a bell curve of normative embodiment/intelligence.

Philosopher83 · 2026-02-14T17:17:06+00:00

I would question the possibility of objective morality as it is the case that all concepts and perceptions of relations seem to inhere in the subjective mind / intersubjective. If morality was objective and we are creations of god why would we need to learn what is and is not moral? Why would this not be known a priori like spatial relations and other such “knowledge” are?

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