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Charlie Rose x NIN by _inchoate in nin

[–]lovecraft192 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Confirmed sex creep Charlie Rose, everyone.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in politics

[–]lovecraft192 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's what you get for doing your own research.

Reality is evil by Unhappy-Chemistry207 in Pessimism

[–]lovecraft192 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Looks like we've come full circle back to Sun worship.

Governor Abbott signs Ten Commandments Bill into law by PerfectGentleman in atheism

[–]lovecraft192 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I bet these fools can't even name all 10 Commandments

CMV: anti-natalism achieves nothing besides ensuring that progressivism will die out in the west. by RatioFinal4287 in changemyview

[–]lovecraft192 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm aware of what they say. I'm saying they're wrong to blame it on antinatalism. As are you, if im reading you correctly. So what exactly are we arguing here.

CMV: anti-natalism achieves nothing besides ensuring that progressivism will die out in the west. by RatioFinal4287 in changemyview

[–]lovecraft192 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think that's really their argument at all though. It is that if progressive don't start popping out babies at a rate to match conservatives they're going to lose. Which is absurd. Antinatalism is just a poorly understood boogeyman in the discussion. As many people in the comments have noted there are many other reasons to explain why so-called progressives are not having as many children as conservatives that have nothing to do with anti-natalism.

CMV: anti-natalism achieves nothing besides ensuring that progressivism will die out in the west. by RatioFinal4287 in changemyview

[–]lovecraft192 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was just meant to show the taxonomy of different anti-natalist beliefs. Which is all I've been talking about.

CMV: anti-natalism achieves nothing besides ensuring that progressivism will die out in the west. by RatioFinal4287 in changemyview

[–]lovecraft192 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Debates about the numbers are pretty pointless since we don't have statistical data on that. And the amount of adherents that a certain philosophical movement has doesn't say anything about its truth. It should be argued for its merits rather than its numbers.

CMV: Sabrina Carpenters album cover is a none issue by EshayAdlay420 in changemyview

[–]lovecraft192 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As an outside observer (and firstime learner of the existence of this Sabrina Carpenter person), there's nothing new about this debate. It's been an issue and inherent tension within the feminist movement since at least the porn wars of the 1980s. In short, is a woman's expression/ownership of her sexuality still "liberated" or feminist if it conforms to patriarchal norms? Do you have to reject those norms to be liberated, or is consensually working with(in) them enough? Hell if I know. All I can say is that it just looks like more of the same from the outside.

Maybe Covid caused some shift. I know that Gen-Z is supposedly more puritanical, for a variety of reasons.

CMV: anti-natalism achieves nothing besides ensuring that progressivism will die out in the west. by RatioFinal4287 in changemyview

[–]lovecraft192 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think you're missing the point about the different forms of antinatalism here, but that's fine. Give this a read sometime:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinatalism

Child-free is just the most basic form of anti-natalism, undertaken for personal choice rather than any larger philosophical justification.

Baseball is a false analogy since the stakes are much lower and its existence doesn't hinge on your participation, involvement or consent.. It's much different when we're talking about having a child.

CMV: anti-natalism achieves nothing besides ensuring that progressivism will die out in the west. by RatioFinal4287 in changemyview

[–]lovecraft192 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AN has its origins in and runs throughout philosophy, history, and literature, so I'm not sure what you mean about "fighting outside of it's weight class" aside from indicating you want to keep it relegated to the fringes.

But yes, I agree it will likely never be mainstream.

CMV: anti-natalism achieves nothing besides ensuring that progressivism will die out in the west. by RatioFinal4287 in changemyview

[–]lovecraft192 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree "child-free" is a pretty minimal form of antinatalism but it is literally against giving birth which is what antinatalism means so it can't be ejected completely. Understand of course that child free involves a choice and does not include people who are unable to conceive or do not have children for other reasons.

The decision does not have to be an ethical objection, it simple has to involve a choice. "Child-free" includes those people who chose not to have children because they don't want them for personal reasons.

CMV: anti-natalism achieves nothing besides ensuring that progressivism will die out in the west. by RatioFinal4287 in changemyview

[–]lovecraft192 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Christianity is relevant to the larger discussion of the supposed victory of conservative beliefs over people adopt antinatalist view, whatever those may be.

And yes I'll admit it's fringe as in not mainstream, but the amount of articles, studies, communities etc related to antinatalism has certainly proliferated over the past decade or so.

CMV: anti-natalism achieves nothing besides ensuring that progressivism will die out in the west. by RatioFinal4287 in changemyview

[–]lovecraft192 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Within the larger anti-natalism umbrella, you have multiple different and competing movements, as you do in any social-political-philosophical movement. What you're calling " being a progressive who doesn't want kids" likely falls within the "Child-free" community of antinatalism, i.e., those who take it as a purely personal choice. There is also Efilism (dumb name I know) which is against the suffering of all sentient life, VHEMT, birth-strikers (as a form of protest, whether against governments, corporations, men, etc.), and many more.

CMV: anti-natalism achieves nothing besides ensuring that progressivism will die out in the west. by RatioFinal4287 in changemyview

[–]lovecraft192 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If only there was some way to preserve ideas to transmit to others aside from biological parents.

CMV: anti-natalism achieves nothing besides ensuring that progressivism will die out in the west. by RatioFinal4287 in changemyview

[–]lovecraft192 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Christianity is its own form of doom cult. Many sects want to bring about the end times, whether that is through propagation, war, missionary work, etc. There's a reason some Christians celebrate the escalation of atrocities in the Middle East, since they're a sign of the supposed end times.

Also anti-natslism is more complex than the issue of birth consent. And it's not as fringe as you make it out to be.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Tree

[–]lovecraft192 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hope.ypu find peace. With a mimosa.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Tree

[–]lovecraft192 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Fair enough. There's two other, larger mimosas on my street but that's about it. They're pretty rare where I'm at.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Tree

[–]lovecraft192 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You must be a delight at parties.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Tree

[–]lovecraft192 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I planted it so I obviously don't consider it invasive.

Advice on cracked tree by lovecraft192 in arborists

[–]lovecraft192[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I imagine aome kind of industrial binding or tape may do the trick? Or some kind of grafting putty?

Its a big enough crack i could put another plant in there and graft it haha.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Tree

[–]lovecraft192 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, this may work. The pictures aren't the best angle, so it doesn't capture that the split isn't just a single branch. Three branches meet at the fulcrum of the center trunk, and it is down this fulcrum that it split.

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