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Morality, law and political manifestos follow from reverence to whichever deities/ energies, I guess.
I can type out my list of "oughts" on this thread later, when I actually have an hour or so to spare :)
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I don't get this. You all believe in demons and stuff? I'm too dumb to understand.
Serious talk: I feel lonely. I grew up believing in God. Maybe I still do. However, I don't talk to Him anymore. So I feel lonely. Now I'm supposed to talk to real people. It's messy because they can't read my mind. I feel like I've lost something that used to be a deep part of me. God, irrespective of whether He exists or not, helped me a lot when I was kicked out of my home and I was starving to death. Believing that I had purpose and that my loneliness had a purpose was deeply helpful to me in getting over whatever it was that I was going through when I was younger.
If God doesn't exist, then what's the purpose of all this? There's nothing that irritates me as much as someone who doesn't know who arrogantly asserts what the answer is as if they did.
I don't get this. You all believe in demons and stuff? I'm too dumb to understand.
The 'And Stuff' is more apt, I mostly went with calling them demons to be facetious and potentially draw in some replies.
Now I'm supposed to talk to real people. It's messy because they can't read my mind.
Anything they can't read from your mind you could just aim to communicate with them. Do this enough times and they'll grow to expect what you've explained to them, learning the patterns to watch out for that confirm your stories.
If God doesn't exist, then what's the purpose of all this?
Why does there need to be a purpose? Do you see any other animals questioning the nature of purpose?
It could just be a human instinct sublimating over living in a world where most of our questions have already been answered for us.
There's nothing that irritates me as much as someone who doesn't know who arrogantly asserts what the answer is as if they did.
Arrogant displays with open ears has been my go to, it seems to inspire others to meet the challenge compared to a more passive voice.
The 'And Stuff' is more apt, I mostly went with calling them demons to be facetious and potentially draw in some replies.
Mmmhmm... There's something disingenuine about taking an action knowing how it will make people perceive you.
Now I'm supposed to talk to real people. It's messy because they can't read my mind.
Anything they can't read from your mind you could just aim to communicate with them. Do this enough times and they'll grow to expect what you've explained to them, learning the patterns to watch out for that confirm your stories.
Yeah? What's your impression of me? You've interacted with me for close to 10 years now.
If God doesn't exist, then what's the purpose of all this?
Why does there need to be a purpose? Do you see any other animals questioning the nature of purpose?
It could just be a human instinct sublimating over living in a world where most of our questions have already been answered for us.
I wrote that more to explain how losing faith in God makes me believe, rather than asking it seriously. The scientific answer, seemingly, is that there's no reason to think there is an externally-imposed, philosophical purpose. However, it makes me feel lonely. Suddenly, I don't need to care about people, and nobody needs to care about me. My moral purpose is built upon the notion of God and there being some sort of a purpose. In its absence, I find myself rather lost.
There's nothing that irritates me as much as someone who doesn't know who arrogantly asserts what the answer is as if they did.
Arrogant displays with open ears has been my go to, it seems to inspire others to meet the challenge compared to a more passive voice.
Arrogant displays and passive voice aren't the only two binary options, though. You can use active voice and not be arrogant. I agree that provocative behavior attracts replies. I agree it inspires others to 'meet the challenge.' However, personally, it's the added, long-term, cumulative cost that discourages me from doing it.
The 'And Stuff' is more apt, I mostly went with calling them demons to be facetious and potentially draw in some replies.
Mmmhmm... There's something disingenuine about taking an action knowing how it will make people perceive you.
Even when done as a joke? Xena got it immediately anyway, as was apparent with the tongue face. I also haven't bothered to hide that intention at all, rather than carrying on with it as if there were more to it.
Considering the recent Christian themes permeating the forum at the moment, and considering that all outside of themselves they say is Satanic, it felt fitting to be like "Demons yo".
If God doesn't exist, then what's the purpose of all this?
Why does there need to be a purpose? Do you see any other animals questioning the nature of purpose?
It could just be a human instinct sublimating over living in a world where most of our questions have already been answered for us.I wrote that more to explain how losing faith in God makes me believe, rather than asking it seriously. The scientific answer, seemingly, is that there's no reason to think there is an externally-imposed, philosophical purpose.
You bother to mention the 'externally-imposed' factor, what do you see as internally-imposed ones?
However, it makes me feel lonely. Suddenly, I don't need to care about people, and nobody needs to care about me. My moral purpose is built upon the notion of God and there being some sort of a purpose. In its absence, I find myself rather lost.
So it's entirely contingent on the idea that some sort of 1984 scenario was happening spiritually?
There's nothing that irritates me as much as someone who doesn't know who arrogantly asserts what the answer is as if they did.
Arrogant displays with open ears has been my go to, it seems to inspire others to meet the challenge compared to a more passive voice.
Arrogant displays and passive voice aren't the only two binary options, though.
I didn't say they were, I just offered the comparison.
You can use active voice and not be arrogant. I agree that provocative behavior attracts replies. I agree it inspires others to 'meet the challenge.' However, personally, it's the added, long-term, cumulative cost that discourages me from doing it.
There's others on this forum that can accomplish being other types of people, and from that we get to see a variety of responses. In that sense I just see myself as yet another factor to this balancing act, and that even if it has me not getting the best PR from people who respond a little too much to polite gestures that they can still become inspired from the events themselves, allowing it to snowball into something bigger than me entirely.
There's also my older rambles on the whole 'natural filter' model, where those who aren't repelled by such behavior end up sticking around as a matter of synergy.
Meh... You know what would be a nice format for a change in your answers?
"You know what Legga, I understand why you might think/feel <some evidence you've understood on an emotional/psychological level why someone might type what I just did>. However, in my opinion, (...)."
But it's very often, instead,
"Except if <..>."
"So what you're saying is <insert strawman>"
"Even when <...>?"
It comes across as though you can't find a single thing you agree with.
