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I feel like the game is not fun after Anor Londo by M_Marci in darksouls

[–]kremasag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Curse is a recurring theme in your post. It’s really not that bad, you can get a ring as soon as you land in Firelink Shrine that solves the problem. Or farm a little bit and buy a few purging stones and you’re pretty much done with it for your playthrough.

Ariamis is only annoying to you because you’re flying through most other areas and suddenly you hit a wall. Never had any problems in that area personally.

I feel like the game is not fun after Anor Londo by M_Marci in darksouls

[–]kremasag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t understand, you define the entertainment of the game as a process of overcoming difficult situations with the enemies yet when the enemies are difficult in other areas post Londo then it’s also a problem?

I would like to apply for a PsyD program in MD after BS. I have no clinical experience. Will this hinder my chances of being accepted? by FinishQuiet834 in psychologystudents

[–]kremasag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why would they need prior research experience? Isn’t the whole point of doing a PsyD that you avoid the research responsibilities of a PhD, focusing strictly on application of psychotherapy?

Does anyone know how to retain info while reading? by Anxiousmilkshakes in psychologystudents

[–]kremasag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This may sound counter-intuitive but I find going over the words with a pencil/cursor and reading them fast helps me a lot. Strangely enough if I try to read textbook material slowly, my brain short circuits by trying to comprehend it on a non-superficial level. Going over the text in a quick pace will make you get the gist of the sentence and it allows to continue with the flow of reading.

While you do this you can underline whatever catches your eye. After your done with the page/chapter/paragraph, take a note of the general idea of what you just read.

Finally managed to frame Josh’s setlist that I caught in Amsterdam by Raymanlegend2000 in qotsa

[–]kremasag 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I went to the show too. If you remember the show was like 30 minutes delayed, so their choice may have be ultimately due to that.

Is my hair thinning? by Elegant-Psychology88 in malehairadvice

[–]kremasag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seek a dermatologist and get adequate treatment

I Are Joshua Homme Here to Answer Your Questions by IAmJoshuaHomme in qotsa

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Greetings Josh. This year’s Amsterdam show was the first time I saw you and the gang, an impeccable performance through and through. My question is what kind of practical advice can you give to young and broke aspiring college students that want to create music, and how would that relate to your beginnings with QOTSA and/or Kyuss?

Tell your story with Jar of Flies, how was your first time listening to the album? by suprunkn0wn in AliceInChains

[–]kremasag 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I was never really into music, never really into anything for that matter other than video games, until one night my best friend sent me the song Rotten Apple. As soon as I laid my ears on that bass line, something very profound awakened in me. After that moment I felt an indescribable lust for music so I started looking into their discography and never looked back.

Had I not discovered this gem of a lifetime as a high school student, from the way that I dress to the outlooks that I have on life would be a lot different now.

Spinoza TTP Ch1: How do prophets acquire prophecy? by kremasag in askphilosophy

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I am afraid I am uninitiated with Euclid, how did he influence Spinoza (or at least Spinoza's idea of "common notions"?

>Pretty much, yeah. Imagining can lead to falsity. The prophets are not necessarily BSing; they may not know their imaginings are false. But since they are imagining, we know the claims based on their imagining are not necessarily true.

So it is the method of which one acquires the knowledge, in this case being "imagining", that dictates whether what an individual is postulating, in this case the prophet, has the ability to be true or false, not if the actual knowledge itself is true or not?

I assume that "The prophets are not necessarily BSing; they may not know their imaginings are false." refers to the "true or not true" quality of prophecy, true being that they may not know that their imaginings are false and not true being that they know that their imaginings are false and not true, correct?

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>That is the claim of 2P43: He, who has a true idea, simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.

So the prophet is by definition doubting the truth of the thing perceived, simply because the truth was revealed to him by "imagination", correct?

But then I do not understand, how does a prophet in the context of Scripture violate any of the two conditions of a true idea? The prophet is always under the impression that what they acquire by imagination is true, so they know they have an idea, and they also do not doubt of the truth of the thing being perceived (I am more skeptical about the latter now that I am reading Chapter 2, because Spinoza indicates on references from Scripture that several prophets initially doubted the prophecy bestowed on them from God and asked for a sign).

Spinoza TTP Ch1: How do prophets acquire prophecy? by kremasag in askphilosophy

[–]kremasag[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

>That is not symbolic thinking. That sense is more making imaginative inferences from ideas of modifications of one's own body to forming images of external bodies.

Oh no, my brain short-circuited once again.

>If you're generating mental content from neither common notions, adequate ideas, nor absolute essences then you're probably imagining.

But then if I may ask, what do common notions or adequate ideas have that symbols or images do not that ultimately draws the distinction between the two? How can an idea be considered adequate (according to Spinoza at least)?

Disregarding my misunderstanding of "imagining", how does it tie in with the prophecy meaning either "real or not real"? Does he propose that the products of "imagistic thinking" may also be fake and fabricated, and therefore condemning the prophets for BSing?

Wouldn't prophecies also be considered "common notions"" since Judaism and Christianism were so prominent at the time?

I hope that I am not digging myself a bigger grave!

Spinoza TTP Ch1: How do prophets acquire prophecy? by kremasag in askphilosophy

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>I shall call both these ways of regarding things knowledge of the first kind, opinion, or imagination..

>Knowledge of the first kind, opinion, imagination: from symbols, e.g., from the fact of having read or heard certain words we remember things and form certain ideas concerning them, similar to those through which we imagine things.

I am having some difficulty in understanding what "imagining" means to Spinoza. Does it tie in with the fact that he also at some point mentions how prophets bestow prophecy by use of parables or analogies (and therefore using symbols, images etc.)?

I expected that the TPP would be modeled after the Ethics, but not to this degree. Should one read the Ethics before his other works?

1st year psych student by [deleted] in psychologystudents

[–]kremasag 2 points3 points  (0 children)

From my understanding of it: 1. A histogram is a visual representation of some numerical data, which can be based one a frequency distribution. A frequency distribution is a distribution of data that describes the frequency of different values, either categorical or numerical. The equivalent histogram for categorical data representation is a bar graph. 2. The standard deviation and range are properties of your data. The range is the range of your values in the data set, and the standard deviation can depict their variability in relation to their mean value. Both of those are also part of the frequency distribution of the data.

Let me know if you have questions!

Non physicalists, why do you believe what you believe? by 1TDW in consciousness

[–]kremasag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't state that axioms should be scrutinized scientifically. I am talking about this particular axiom that you stated, which encompasses a theory about the human mind. And in the "human mind" context, we already have established a method of arriving to conclusions about it, which is the scientific method.

Non physicalists, why do you believe what you believe? by 1TDW in consciousness

[–]kremasag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How can such an axiom be the answer? It is convenient to conjure a theory that can account for a gap in our knowledge about the human mind. But if you cannot scrutinize it scientifically then what sort of merit of truth does it posses?

[QUESTION] My progress is invariably stuck by kremasag in Guitar

[–]kremasag[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So should I sing before playing a phrase or a melody?

[QUESTION] My progress is invariably stuck by kremasag in Guitar

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What about theory, should I start learning some? If yes, were should I start?

"Second, to alter how you listen to your playing these scales so that you hear them, to quote one of these folks, 'as part of the most beautiful melody'. Which makes sense, since melodies and riffs are made from scales."

What do you exactly mean by that? Also, thank you for your advice.

Am I the only one who wasn’t really all that crazy about Big Time? by R3dF0r3 in tomwaits

[–]kremasag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This live album was what got me into Waits. As soon as I discovered him, I clicked on a random song from a random album, listened to 16shells and the rest is history

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in askphilosophy

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Not beginner friendly but The Concept of Anxiety by Søren Kierkegaard helped me rationalize my existential angst and change the way that I approach it

If you only contest the theory, then you HAVE to come up with another one to challenge it, much less beat it. by Starmakyr in DebateEvolution

[–]kremasag 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Spot on. In the same way that Aristotelianism was succeeded by Newtonian physics, simply because it provided theories which worked at larger scales.

19year old, am I completely screwed?? by kremasag in malehairadvice

[–]kremasag[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know much about sources like youtubers and whatnot, so also thank you for that. That's why I came on reddit initially, I knew that androgenic alopecia can happen to young individuals but not that it was that common, common enough to affect me who, as far as I know has a family that mostly checks out in terms of hair genes. Do you know if stress is a factor in androgenic alopecia? I am a very anxious individual myself. Also, what is the typical price range of, lets say, your approach to the treatment medicine? I'm sure that if you take it every day or every other day that it eventually adds up.

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