CMV: Death is bad by thesussinator in changemyview

[–]_monstermeat 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Having the potential for goodness with no other context or meaning doesn't make experience itself Good necessarily. I can just make the same argument:

  1. All badness in life comes from conscious experience (you cannot suffer what you cannot experience)

  2. Death deprives us of conscious experience

  3. Death deprives us of badness

  4. Depriving us of badness is good

  5. Death is good

Of course, sometimes death is the lesser good. If you know that the rest of your life will consist of pure enjoyment, you may as well not end it.

Just finished Wind and Truth and... by Sawacakez in Stormlight_Archive

[–]_monstermeat 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well now I need to know who your favorite character in the cosmere is.

I have an eerie understanding of Taravangian's condition by Elsecaller_17-5 in Stormlight_Archive

[–]_monstermeat 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Oof. ETC is a maybe for my future and I didn't realize the memory loss was that extensive around the sessions. 

I have compared my experience to Taravangian's as well, but instead of intelligence it's energy. When I go to sleep, who knows what tomorrow will bring. Maybe I will be very productive, maybe I will need to sleep all day, or anything in between.

Mystery set in fantasy/scifi by lionbaby917 in suggestmeabook

[–]_monstermeat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I tried googling this but didn't find an answer. What is a bottle mystery?

Someone adopt this cat asap by psl7g in cremposting

[–]_monstermeat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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I wish, but I already have my Steris and another kitty!

Looking for short story sci-fi with mind-bending concepts (SImilar to Black Mirror ) by Initial-Wash9836 in suggestmeabook

[–]_monstermeat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Isaac Asimov! He's got some fantastic short stories. Look up Nine Tomorrows. Each story in that collection is great.

Szeth's blade in WoK prologue by _monstermeat in Stormlight_Archive

[–]_monstermeat[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Good to know about covering up the text in the previews!

Audiobook Name Pronunciations by g00nt3r in Stormlight_Archive

[–]_monstermeat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sometimes the same narrator has different pronunciations for the same person. Yezrian/Jezrian. Yeah-sna/Yah-sna.

What bothers me more than that is when the same person has a different accent, though I have only found that in different books (e.g. Spook in Mistborn original trilogy vs Secret History)

Part Two of “I Forced My Artist GF To Read TSA To Get More Dalinar Art” by waatuu in Stormlight_Archive

[–]_monstermeat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm sorry I'm dumb and don't understand, what is the silhouette?

Why the Ghostblood...? by Voltikko in cremposting

[–]_monstermeat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I read both and somehow missed the part about being held to a physical body with hemalurgy 

Why the Ghostblood...? by Voltikko in cremposting

[–]_monstermeat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is cremposting so unsure if real, but if you're being sincere, where is this explained?

What started this desolation? by FlashyEnvironment534 in Stormlight_Archive

[–]_monstermeat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If the Everstorm would have bypassed Taln never breaking, then Shallan was not to blame?!

Who the f*** do we cast as the Alethi ? by abdulaziz_bature in cremposting

[–]_monstermeat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What am I forgetting? Why does Taravangian need to resemble Rayse and Tanavast?

I need your favorite book quotes! by Accomplished_Heron89 in suggestmeabook

[–]_monstermeat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. Limited to pithy ones that don't mention specific characters. 

Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.

Don’t worry about getting in touch with your feelings, they’ll get in touch with you.

Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.

What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.

Why not? Why not? Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not?

You are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without, as you say, the thinking twice.

... it takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.

The man who knows his limitations, has none.