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| Topic | Why the fuck would anyone consider becoming Jehovahs Witness? Serious question |
| Dragon239 09/13/17 5:48:38 PM #134 | OrangeWizard posted... I don't know how to answer this question. What is a metric of Truth? Ehh...fair enough. Let's see. How do you personally determine truthiness in a thing (religion) that inherently has almost no evidence to base on? Does it just feel like it most accurately describes the world? Is it the one that makes you feel the warmest inside? Is it the one that seems to have the least contradictions? Is it the newest religion that appears to take itself seriously? Is it simply the one that makes the light bulb in your head brightest, in understanding on the universe and meaning? Is it the one that mostly aligns with your code of ethics? What would make you think something else is more true, given that it clearly won't be true in the sense of how we classically understand "truth" with verifiable facts and experimentation (...ignoring the philosophical question of "how can we know if anything we experience is true")? Why did you discard other religions as being less true? --- |
| Topic | Why the fuck would anyone consider becoming Jehovahs Witness? Serious question |
| Dragon239 09/13/17 5:26:37 PM #128 | OrangeWizard posted... I remain one because I believe it's the truth. If I ever found something that I thought was more true, I'd leave. By what metric are you determining this sense of truth? --- |
| Topic | Longest you've played a game in one sitting? |
| Dragon239 09/07/17 5:52:11 PM #42 | |
| Topic | What do you do when someone tells you a gift you gave them sucks? |
| Dragon239 09/04/17 7:30:44 PM #4 | |
| Topic | My crazy psychiatrist notes from my teens, PICS inside |
| Dragon239 09/03/17 7:02:15 PM #19 | Anteaterking posted... I don't understand the "pattern" note after the SAT is mentioned. To me, reads as him noting the TC is self-sabotaging. I don't know how the SATs are related, though. That's just attempting to get into a university. --- |
| Topic | Warren Harding and Trump are tied for worst President |
| Dragon239 09/03/17 12:04:36 PM #66 | The Admiral posted... Harvey never made is above category 3 Harvey was a Cat4 at landfall. --- |
| Topic | its gotten so hot in australia we needed to add a new color to the heat map |
| Dragon239 09/03/17 6:58:11 AM #6 | |
| Topic | I am a shut-in. Ask me anything. |
| Dragon239 09/02/17 7:35:42 PM #255 | The other day I was thinking about my life and I thought of you and your situation, TC. Was wondering how you were. Cool knowing you're making some improvements, even if they're slight. I guess. Why don't you go to CE much anymore? Boring? The computer problems? Too much energy needed to check it? --- |
| Topic | Do you usually listen to the radio more or your own music? |
| Dragon239 09/02/17 4:42:59 PM #9 | My own music. I avoid radio, as ads make me irrationally ...angry and I'd rather listen to nothing than having to deal with them. --- |
| Topic | $1,000 per month cash handout would grow the U.S. economy by $2.5 trillion |
| Dragon239 09/02/17 11:20:16 AM #8 | These estimates are based on a universal basic income paid for by increasing the federal deficit. As part of the study, the researchers also calculated the effect to the economy of paying for the cash handouts by increasing taxes. In that case, there would be no net benefit to the economy, the report finds. Outstanding. --- |
| Topic | You are now a dumbass. |
| Dragon239 09/01/17 9:03:14 PM #3 | |
| Topic | In a certain sense, would nuclear war be exciting? |
| Dragon239 08/21/17 9:29:50 PM #16 | |
| Topic | do you believe there is an absolute good and evil? |
| Dragon239 08/21/17 11:20:27 AM #4 | Objective morality is a no, as that would imply there is something objective to use to base morality on. Subjective morality is thus what we're left with. However, I don't subscribe to cultural relativism and other ideas that go the way of "well beating women is considered okay there, so we can't judge it as outsiders." If your question is "Do you believe in objective morality, and that Nazis fall under the evil part of it" my answer is no, and then N/A. If your question is "Should we subscribe to moral relativism" then my answer is still no. Are Nazis "evil"? Subjectively, yes. Objectively, it doesn't seem to exist. --- |
| Topic | How are you spending your Friday night CE? |
| Dragon239 08/18/17 8:32:27 PM #3 | Lying on my floor, listening to music. (Band: Les Friction) getting up to post on /ce/ while I drink a drink a cup of tea. --- |
| Topic | What is the best 2D Sonic Game? |
| Dragon239 08/18/17 7:25:07 PM #3 | TheDarkCircle posted... 3 & Knuckles are the only ones that have votes But Mania is basically 3 + & Knuckles, isn't it --- |
| Topic | Independent single women: How do you confront your physical weakness? |
| Dragon239 08/15/17 8:29:28 PM #5 | |
| Topic | Best artist or band to start with the letter: N |
| Dragon239 08/02/17 8:32:28 PM #48 | |
| Topic | /r/malefashionadvice's "best of 2017" outfits |
| Dragon239 08/02/17 6:35:43 AM #13 | |
| Topic | Only people who are mentally fit should be in the military. |
| Dragon239 07/30/17 7:55:16 AM #16 | Hexenherz posted... So I mean, evidence supports the idea that it really is pre-existing underlying mental conditions and alcohol abuse that contributes to the suicide rate, not necessarily the unique challenges taht come from being in the military. Does it? Just because they didn't fight in a combat zone doesn't mean the military doesn't have an effect. Training and the culture are still things they will experience. You'd have to see if people with a "predisposition" to suicide are drawn to military more-so than those that do not, first, as I'm decently sure even non-combat military veterans commit suicide at a higher rate than civilians. --- |
| Topic | Fuck it, I'll just start a healthcare automation company |
| Dragon239 07/29/17 9:36:30 PM #3 | I wasn't aware "far left or left leaning" meant "doesn't like automation" --- |
| Topic | Favorite and best... same thing or different? |
| Dragon239 07/27/17 4:49:31 PM #2 | |
| Topic | Ex-Navy dude KILLS T-gender WOMAN that he was dating. Stabbed HER 119 times.. |
| Dragon239 07/27/17 10:44:11 AM #177 | FrenchCrunch posted...
They all have a distinctly female's brains rather than a male's brain? That's interesting. I don't know anything about that, unfortunately. Hmm. I don't think legal is a very good justification... BUT it being a law does, I guess make it "realer" in a sort of way - however, laws aren't exactly "real" either, as they're just a thing we made up based on feelings. As noted in the thread before, that doesn't exactly make it not rape by deception (which is also a law), so it merely being a law might not be valid. Our feelings/emotions and beliefs are not defined by the laws of the land we live in either, so mandating that they follow the laws isn't exactly going to work well and I think maybe saying as much is dangerous. --- |
| Topic | Ex-Navy dude KILLS T-gender WOMAN that he was dating. Stabbed HER 119 times.. |
| Dragon239 07/27/17 10:36:22 AM #170 | I have an idle question, kind of poorly formed: If the gender dysphoria that transgenders feel (and such dysphoria is "merely" a feeling/emotion/psychological-stress) that make them want to transition is itself enough are considered legitimate enough that one might not question them and then also accept them, why are so many people resistant to the idea that the feelings this ex-sailor of being raped were legitimate? To her, she was a woman and felt the need to transition. To him, she was a man and he was raped. What makes one more "real"? Are they both not just, in the end, feelings? What's different here? For the sailor, he was directly affected by somebody else's actions. At least her feelings only affected her (until she made the actions she undertook [ie, transitioning]), up until, well, she involved other people. I don't think this is an uncommon sentiment or "problem", and it interacts in an extremely new and weird way of human biology and identity (and will only get weirder as technology improves until eventually it's probably almost entirely accepted as standard - but that isn't now), so it seems different from an example situation of "well if it was a born biological woman that happened to be sterile, would it be rape if she didn't tell him?" Note I'm not justifying the stabbing, just sort of defending the idea of the marine feeling raped, which some people seem to be entirely dismissing as legitimate, and in doing so are dismissing a lot of other peoples' feelings (those that would feel that it's rape to be deceived in such a way) where those feelings don't even affect other people until they are "deceived", so they seem fairly innocent beliefs to have - it's not like people are entitled to having sex with everybody, including those that feel like it would be rape, so they aren't being unfairly treated, are they? All seems very odd, to me. --- |
| Topic | Universal Basic Income |
| Dragon239 07/25/17 9:43:17 AM #10 | Were_Wyrm posted... Why should my taxes pay for aliens to get free money? How about we start with planetary basic income first. martians are people too --- |
| Topic | SJW critic already complaining about lack of diversity in Dunkirk |
| Dragon239 07/22/17 11:32:59 PM #15 | gamepimp12 posted... What's even Dunkirk about before I say anything Dunkirk Evacuation. Bunch of british soldiers in 1940 are stranded and they're trying to get them not stranded. Plenty of civilians were present. --- |
| Topic | After Logan, MCU movies just don't hold up anymore |
| Dragon239 07/09/17 8:22:02 PM #36 | Logan spoilers. Raikuro posted... how is clone logan considered even a decent villain. felt super lazy. Do people say "clone logan" was himself a good villain? He struck me as more of just a literal weapon, the same as any other bad guy has a gun, they had "a clone logan." It served to highlight their inhumanity and callousness, that they did this weird cloning thing and then treated him as a mere attack dog used to hunt his "father" and the last of the mutants. --- |
| Topic | why do poor people act as if changing your oil and wipers is important to diy |
| Dragon239 07/08/17 7:40:47 PM #6 | |
| Topic | what the fuck. female bachelor contestant raped DURING filming of show |
| Dragon239 06/17/17 3:38:41 PM #30 | StealthRock posted... You're telling me that people all stood around and watched this supposedly heinous crime going on yet all they could do it stand frozen in shock?? The bystander effect is a well-known effect. Just go to the wiki page for it if you want to learn more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect Kitty Genovese took at least 38 people and, what, 30 minutes? --- |
| Topic | Fallout 4 is great so far and y'all made it sound trash |
| Dragon239 06/16/17 12:14:38 PM #65 | Nah, nobody said amazing... but you specifically did say its gameplay was great, and so did several other people. When really, its gameplay is basically just "serviceable" in every department, managing to be particularly good at about none of them. But I guess if one mashes enough 5/10s together it adds up to great through advanced gameplay calculus. --- |
| Topic | Fallout 4 is great so far and y'all made it sound trash |
| Dragon239 06/16/17 12:07:00 PM #63 | >Manages to barely catch up to modern shooters >Only took Bethesda several tries to make FPS mechanics not wonky as all hell (Oblivion, Skyrim, FO3, NV BUT: NV wasn't made by them, and Oblivion and Skyrim don't have guns, although their other ranged stuff is "odd") "It's amazing guys, the combat is actually serviceable as a basic FPS now! Great game!" I mean I'm not necessarily hyper-against FO4 --- |
| Topic | hey, do you want to know the secret to a happy life? |
| Dragon239 05/01/17 9:00:48 PM #20 | When I cook chicken I put the seasoning on first and then put the chicken on top of it. I recommend it. --- |
| Topic | For as much as the Comptia A+ is supposed to easy there... |
| Dragon239 04/20/17 12:25:47 PM #2 | |
| Topic | Asian Booty in the gym. |
| Dragon239 04/14/17 4:47:33 PM #12 | One time I tried to workout with actual headphones. It was a terrible, terrible idea and I stopped immediately. Maybe if you're sitting on a bike or something they'll work out but anything else seems ...difficult. --- |
| Topic | Anyone play Toukiden 2? |
| Dragon239 04/13/17 8:34:33 PM #8 | Cookie Bag posted... Also seems like you don't exactly forage for potions and such, but instead got magic? Yeah. You use "Mitama" (spirits of dead heroes) which grant 4 special abilities, one of which is always a 10-use "Recovery" ability that heals some health. Other abilities do things like increase damage, grant life steal, create little black holes, make it so body parts are instantly purified (thus collecting them), seeking magic arrows, summoning little spirits in the air, lotsa stuff. Some Mitama have "boosts" (basically passive buffs) that can modify Recovery (or tons of other stuff), but it's probably going to be 10 uses with the same amount of health recovered every time. You recover mitama ability uses between fights, or by praying at little shrines that dot the game world (or maybe a boost makes you sometimes recover an ability use, or whatever) I dunno about longevity or anything. I only played MH on the PSP way back, and didn't play it much. Depends on if you like the genre. Oh and the game doesn't support a mouse at all. --- |
| Topic | Mississippi is rejecting 98% of welfare applicants, won't explain why |
| Dragon239 04/13/17 10:34:03 AM #14 | Onetrueking posted... Sign up for the army or quit being useless. Heh, listed as one or the other. I like it. --- |
| Topic | How many hours do you sleep per night, CE? |
| Dragon239 04/12/17 8:46:41 AM #12 | ~7.5 if I set my alarm. Like 10.5 hours if I don't. Maybe a bit more, depending. --- |
| Topic | Can someone pro-universal healthcare for America address something for me? |
| Dragon239 04/11/17 10:35:27 PM #39 | EggplantParm posted... Of course the most serious cases are seen first...now you have a massive influx of serious cases. Yes, and because of this massive influx of insured people, you will have longer waits for everything--including emergency rooms---that will result in more deaths. Ok, so we get UHC which means people can now reasonably go to the hospital, because they can afford it. And because everybody is doing this, now we have extended wait times (say for even serious, life-threatening conditions), so some people can't get in quick enough (because suddenly our systems are entirely overwhelmed, apparently and unfortunately), and then so they die. Yeah, that really sucks. Systems don't work 100% perfectly, and stuff goes wrong. As opposed to the apparent alternative - we lack any real form of UHC so nobody is going to the hospital because they figured their infection or "weird pain" or whatever would just heal on its own and they can't afford the thousands of dollars in medical bills, and then it doesn't go away and they die? Also you seem to be arguing "we're unhealthy so we shouldn't get UHC because then we'd be strained to handle all that unhealthiness; better to just not do anything about it"? What's up with that? --- |
| Topic | I'm depressed, and I've been drinking |
| Dragon239 04/10/17 10:17:15 PM #7 | Water is the important port, so that's good. Got any food to try when you wake up in the morning? Just like some cereal nearby or even bread. Or whatever fancy anti-hangover stuff you know of. --- |
| Topic | I'm depressed, and I've been drinking |
| Dragon239 04/10/17 10:09:28 PM #4 | |
| Topic | Is Elder Scrolls Online any good? |
| Dragon239 04/10/17 8:56:49 PM #16 | How many of y'all are talking from experience post Tamriel Unlimited? It was supposed to change a bunch of the game, but I've no idea. --- |
| Topic | Google underpays women even below the 'wage gap' |
| Dragon239 04/10/17 12:02:54 PM #10 | Asherlee10 posted... I would want to see more context between the pay of employees. Are they comparing Jane to Tom when Tom has more experience and delivers more? Yeah I'd like to see this too, as it seems this is always the case when I see these wage gaps. Just flat "He makes 80k a year, she makes 60k -> wage gap -> problem" And then inevitably it's revealed the males work more hours, are more experienced, actually negotiated for better pay, etc. Extremely irritating to see all of these variables discarded all the time; it masks any actual sexism happening. The article says it's the DoL doing these investigations so maybe they're accounting for all this stuff? Who knows. I don't even remember which study/report/whatever was that originally created the 77% number or whatever percent. Coulda been the DoL for all I know. --- |
| Topic | Mark my words. There will be a violent far right movement in western Europe |
| Dragon239 04/08/17 10:55:29 AM #38 | -Gavirulax- posted... sister was told to cover up or she'd get raped Like as a threat or as a warning? --- |
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