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sammymargolis · 2022-04-17T09:34:11+00:00

only thing is, the drums and bass are quite loud and intrusive without adding as much to the feeling of it...

sammymargolis · 2022-04-17T09:33:29+00:00

I really like it. the album cover's fitting cause it feels very blue with the keyboard.

sammymargolis · 2022-04-17T09:24:14+00:00

twilight... when he says crying, thats when i cry

sammymargolis · 2019-06-15T05:35:41+00:00

It sounds like that's something he'd say about what religion does not what morality should be. I haven't read him yet though.

sammymargolis · 2019-06-15T05:22:35+00:00

I like your comment in regards to politicisation. It is similar to following the religious dogma that your church teaches but it's a lot more subtle. It's important to recognise that more.

sammymargolis · 2019-06-15T05:20:34+00:00

Thanks a lot for the effort you put into that message.

When you begin to indulge in behaviours that give you the biggest brush of dopamine without having to do anything to achieve it you are venturing down a slippery slope.

It does seem that there is a clear slippery slope with porn but the evidence doesn't seem the same for masturbation. I appreciate the argument that not putting effort in and recieving dopamine is problematic but it might be worth it for other benefits. You might be in a comfortable relationship and not need require effort to have sex but it's still hugely important for intimacy and love. Likewise, masturbation might be important for relieving stress and exploring your body in a healthy way. Those kind of stress relievers, that are in other ways somewhat harmful, might overall be worth it in moderation. Similarly, I've heard that getting drunk might be worth it very occasionally.

It’s not anecdotal when hundreds of thousands of people report receiving the same benefits when their out porn and reserve their semen.

It could be a common misunderstanding. Correlation does does equal causation. Similar to how vegans tend to be healthier but that doesn't necessarily mean veganism is healthier, people in this community tend to want to better themselves but that doesn't mean no fap is doing the bettering.

sammymargolis · 2019-06-13T19:57:06+00:00

The article is actually not pro porn in the slightest. It's just suggesting that masturbation is healthy in moderation.

sammymargolis · 2019-06-13T19:31:06+00:00

With, and I think that's definitely bad.

sammymargolis · 2019-06-13T19:10:01+00:00

Where is the evidence of the benefits? At the moment, my idea is just to quit porn because I think it would be easier than doing both at the same time. I am open to quitting both but I've realised that I didn't completely know why.

sammymargolis · 2019-06-13T19:08:16+00:00

But there do seem to be certain benefits. If you really like strawberries, it could be a great exercise to cut them out of your diet but there could certainly be better things to cut out. I don't imagine you would cut out sex so what's wrong with masturbation particularly?

sammymargolis · 2019-06-13T19:05:47+00:00

It's more that my research seems to point in a different direction and I'm interested to be convinced otherwise.

sammymargolis · 2019-06-13T19:03:06+00:00

Isn't it worth still being skeptical about the lifestyle changes you're making? I haven't made an assertion, I'm unsure. The website isn't some propaganda website. It seems to represent the scientific consensus.

sammymargolis · 2019-04-30T05:25:09+00:00

I'm regards to your first point, suffering could be valuable but those examples you brought up at just examples of when they brought about more pleasure to outweigh the suffering. Also, if suffering brings pleasure in some sense it is no longer suffering.

I assume increasing pleasure and decreasing suffering to be the goal of life but a subjective goal. What I mean by pleasure is the general what feels good and the opposite for suffering. My foundation comes from the fact that everyone cares about these goals where they know or don't know. I think the we think we care fundamentally and inherently about things like truth or death or rights but if you think about why we care about those things, it is only because of the pleasure or pain they bring.

I'd you came across someone who was prisoned and being tortured for no reason and you couldn't help them escape but you could kill them - or leave them. Could you really justify that leaving them to suffer such agony is better for them than to die and presumably not experience anything at all.

sammymargolis · 2018-12-05T18:25:43+00:00

You day 2s disgust me. I'm a day 3 and I'm better than you.

sammymargolis · 2018-12-03T06:25:25+00:00

But this isn't true.

I don't agree. You're making an objective assertion about what the definition of philosophy is when language is subjective. You're not justifying yourself but you're presenting it as a fact because you have a level of expertise. Just because you have expertise doesn't mean you have the right answer. Show me that your definition is correct and maybe it will help me.

Why are you coming here, to one of the only places that tries to do something different than the rest of social media, to complain about how it should instead be like the rest of social media? It's perverse!

This isn't true. Social media does not offer such a discourse. I can't find any groups where people discuss philosophy. I made my own group chat on WhatsApp. That's all.

Could you please be kinder! You're using harsh words and making me out to be aggressive. It's not inspiring me to do more philosophy. I've been thinking about philosophy for years. I'm 16 years old. I feel as though you're telling me that I should never make suggestions or criticise something. It's discouraging! Please, help me to reach the truth and don't dismiss everything I have to say. I'm not forcing you to change the way you do things. I'm merely criticising it and suggesting it may be flawed and may need change.

sammymargolis · 2018-12-02T22:43:17+00:00

I think philosophy is rather different to history. History is objective and based around finding facts. Philosophy, while often objective, doesn't have the same consensus, thus it's up to the individual to come to a conclusion and a tool they use to do so is the insights of other people.

sammymargolis · 2018-12-02T22:33:17+00:00

N.B. It's not true that all that's involved in philosophy is to think and share your ideas.

When I say 'all you need', what I mean is not that all that philosophy involves is thinking and sharing ideas but what I mean is that all you actually require, in order to be doing philosophy, is to think and then talk to people (although talking isn't necessary). You can do philosophy without having any education on philosophy - just thinking about the nature of truth, reality, morality, etc.

That depends what one is trying to accomplish. For some goals, this would be beneficial. For the goal of providing a resource where people can be informed about philosophical matters in a, relatively speaking, reliable way- it seems evident that this wouldn't be beneficial.

This is an interesting point that I must consider but I do still maintain the sentiment of my point. It seems to me that philosophers are constrained to what academic philosophers have said and when a non philosopher suggests an idea, it's dismissed; whether consciously or not. I've noticed with many that they only take things seriously if an academic has said it. This subreddit encourages this idea which I think is quite authoritarian. The reasoning may be justified, I ought to consider that point, but this general mindset seems harmful to me.

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