22 Jun 20:31
--Yeah, sure the purely mechanistic view of the universe is good to understand see at work for sure and it definitely helps bolster our understanding of things. Depends what your starting questions are I suppose.
Shout Box archive
22 Jun 20:26
--It gives concrete ways to pin down human behaviour, and to see it happening in yourself and counteract the illogical shit.
22 Jun 20:25
--I find learning about all the mental biases and how the brain functions to be way more practical and explanatory than most other things though.
22 Jun 20:24
--@Amit: That's a nice code to live by. Very... hmm.. Satanic. In a LaVeyan sort of way haha!
22 Jun 20:22
--I find Dan Dennett, and Sam Harris to be way more rational and connected to reality.
22 Jun 20:21
--Alan watts is a nice introduction to philosophy, not really deep and i think he gets more full of it the more you look into him.
22 Jun 20:19
--Oh I'm not advocating for systemic change. Before I might have but I think it's probably pointless. I just try and live my own life in a state of more awareness of it every moment, and do no harm, and maybe do some good if I can. The blubbering noise of civilisation can do what it will.
22 Jun 20:17
--Farms need farming, janits need janitoring. It's a society in need of robots that's why people are so replaceable.. It's a shitty system to begin with. But it is *the* system.
22 Jun 20:12
--Not a very efficient way of creating aware individuals...a good way of creating little meat robots though
22 Jun 20:12
--In a way I suppose so. I guess what I meant was a lot of the societal programming that happens to us as part of our "education", isn't really that useful or beneficial...but it gets done to us anyway and if you become aware of it, you spend a lot of time trying to deprogram that shit out of you.
22 Jun 20:09
--Didn't take it as one. Mom's a buddhist. Schools here force kids into Catholicism. Dad's side are hardcore, shove-down-your-throat protestants!
22 Jun 20:04
--@John, I'm actually not interested in assigning religious merit whatever that even is. Just curious though, I take it you were raised religious.? Not a loaded question just curious
22 Jun 19:56
--Yeah, well all people who haven't suffered from mental anguish as a result of Art put their hands up