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  1. William Howard 2

    How "love" is a illusion

    Yes I tried to cover that idea already. Guess people don't like bad poetry? I was being inconsistent though by committing the naturalistic fallacy - confusing an "is" and an "aught". Just curious, what generations did you think I failed at? I won't be a jerk. I'm gonna lay of the booze and...
  2. William Howard 2

    How "love" is a illusion

    But really... This has nothing to do with Dawkins. The institutions/behaviors that protect female preference goes back to Darwin – sexual selection. It’s also cross confirmed by decades of research by anthropologists, biologists, geneticists, social sciences, ect. Ect. Look at the bigger...
  3. William Howard 2

    How "love" is a illusion

    Oh and not to mention the anti academic garbage going on now... Yes. Those NASTY universities! What do THEY know? The geneticists and sociologists... They now NOTHING. But I do right? You accuse them of Absolutism but your making absolute statements... oh you. Well maybe next time you get...
  4. William Howard 2

    How "love" is a illusion

    oh you. I was wondering when those lovely triggered moralists would show up. HA your proving my point! That anger you get... That "righteous indignation"... its all so designed to enforce the games oh you archaic religious throwbacks to stoning men. But I can't be mad though at you. Your just...
  5. William Howard 2

    How "love" is a illusion

    Oh yes and my favorite story of lust - from the Old Testament! That of king David sending his own soldier to his death in "service to his country" so David can pork his super hot widow Bathsheba. How many wives did David have? 8? 10? Yes! Let's give all the women to our alpha males! Within...
  6. William Howard 2

    How "love" is a illusion

    it's all of history and past cultures. Hum how many Greeks died at Priam's gates to take back Helen? There is a interesting book I read back in the day. It was a collection of all the investigations of the Catholic Church of sexual misdeeds during the medieval period. Oh so much lust! The...
  7. William Howard 2

    How "love" is a illusion

    The Germans have a wonderful noun in their language, Weltschmerz – the mental depression or apathy caused by comparison of the actual state of the world with an ideal state. So I say let’s not teach each other fantastical mythologies about an ideal love. What I can see it’s a numbers game –...
  8. William Howard 2

    How "love" is a illusion

    Hope you don't mind my poems. It seems so fitting to attack Love using its own weapons
  9. William Howard 2

    How "love" is a illusion

    Oh good I'm glad to see those enchanted by Nature rush in to her defense. To describe or possess her? Yes that classic stock argument "all things mind". Nous, as Aristotle says "the FIRST mover" (and hence not anymore). But what does it matter if it's all mind or not? It's all lustful, hungry...
  10. William Howard 2

    How "love" is a illusion

    Richard Dawkins - “Life is matter and only matter. We are survival machines — robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules of DNA known as genes. The only purpose of life is DNA survival: a person is nothing more than DNA’s way of making more DNA like itself.” I just...
  11. William Howard 2

    How to pick good campsites?

    If your in a place that has honeysuckle trees. They grow all around like weeds and create a sort of canopy that totally blocks out the sun and creates a "wall" where it's hard to see through. Strangely for some reason I notice little if any ticks and mosquitos in these spots. The ground...
  12. William Howard 2

    Should I get a pack with an external frame?

    Internal frames are a lot more discreet too. Really starting to understand as I get older the benefits of keeping things low key. But that's just me :/
  13. William Howard 2

    Why we shouldn't do things because of duty ranty rant of rants

    I was raised under Zen Buddhism by my parents. They worked for a Japanese company and got us into it through them. That's partly what inspired my rant actually. There is a darker side to the more militant form of Buddhism that is Zen. Makes sense I guess as the most common profession of retired...
  14. William Howard 2

    Why we shouldn't do things because of duty ranty rant of rants

    case closed. Works for me. Just one last thought though.. We are only giving weapons to those who are bad in the hopes that they become good. No wonder duty has been so abused! The less virtuous will need duty the most and more of it, giving the unskilled in virtue the most potent form of...
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    Why we shouldn't do things because of duty ranty rant of rants

    Wait... We just admitted that 1. Duty is a tool. 2. Tools are used for good and evil 3. Good and evil use the same tools. So therefore we can conclude that both good and evil use the tool of duty. So yes. We should still be critical of duty. We even denied that some tools are exclusively used...
  16. William Howard 2

    Why we shouldn't do things because of duty ranty rant of rants

    So duty here is a sort of seed that we give people who are wrongfully content so they can step outside there comfort zone, and hopefully these seeds will bloom into full compassion or love. It seems like here we are really talking about hard core Virtue ethics and not Deontology, with all the...
  17. William Howard 2

    Why we shouldn't do things because of duty ranty rant of rants

    And people that rely on abstraction and vagueness with disjointed points are probably using obscurity to hide from criticism *ahem*
  18. William Howard 2

    Why we shouldn't do things because of duty ranty rant of rants

    To appease Creature I'll be short. Are we really saying 1. Unity is a tool. 2. Duty is a tool for unity. Then are we answering "what are they tools of?" 1. They are tools for good and evil Question - does good use the same tools that evil uses? Question - if duty is a tool, isn't it still...
  19. William Howard 2

    Why we shouldn't do things because of duty ranty rant of rants

    So your saying 1. Duty is used to get people to do something that would not do any other thing. (Duty defined as a organizer) 2. Duty is it's own type of production. (Duty produces) Well I think point one is easily refuted. We can ask "to what are we being organized to"? We can be organized to...
  20. William Howard 2

    Why we shouldn't do things because of duty ranty rant of rants

    1. Confusing duty and obligation with expectation. A. Duty and obligation come from self. Expectation from others. how does duty come from the self? Find that hard to believe. Where did those ideals cone from in the first place? Then what makes duty and obligation equal, but radically...
  21. William Howard 2

    Why we shouldn't do things because of duty ranty rant of rants

    Have you ever been told that you're a bad person for not doing something that you "should be"? We hear it all the time on why we should work. Why we should go to the military service. Why we should do whatever else we are supposed to do from those barking orders. I mean really? People don't do...
  22. William Howard 2

    People see what they wanna see rant

    It wish I could live in a world that we can afford to laugh off stupid ramblings. Maybe that's "why there's laughter while all the world is burning?"
  23. William Howard 2

    People see what they wanna see rant

    See this is exactly what I mean when people see what they want to see -_- You look at a speech that is mostly poison and a little good, and we think it's all good. You look at a speech that mostly good with some poison, and it's all poison. I give up. You win. You can't reason with people if...
  24. William Howard 2

    People see what they wanna see rant

    I think do owe creature and everyone else an apology. I think his speech fits with the sub theme about speaking. His speaking style relies entirely on shock value. It's designed to give the audience a jolt, but at its core it's just jolt without any further substance, just like a drug. All it...
  25. William Howard 2

    People see what they wanna see rant

    Creature don't you have anything better to do but follow me around and spew insults. If you don't like what we are saying don't read it. Or if your going to post something at least speak like an adult and not throw your tantrum.
  26. William Howard 2

    People see what they wanna see rant

    Maybe that is the best way to go through life, with a sort of detachment. But the people I see who do practice non attachment are those who have been hurt the most and that's only a reaction to the trauma they went through. It wasn't like there first choice. It's more of a way to handle a...
  27. William Howard 2

    People see what they wanna see rant

    Good grief! See I don't understand how anyone can come out of an event like what you went through and still be able to keep there sanity. I mean, I know that's what people think deep down and yeah it works on me. My life is just utterly worthless to them. But you know, I would still take a...
  28. William Howard 2

    People see what they wanna see rant

    Yeah went diving for food. I understand dealing with cops is just a part of the lifestyle but sometimes it just gets so old. Naturally it just makes me think about things as a whole.
  29. William Howard 2

    People see what they wanna see rant

    I'm sorry to offend anyone. I didn't mean to make this political. I just. Idk. I see how some people can excel in life by creating what really is a story, a narrative. It doesn't matter how good or bad a person really is, but what kind of Myth they can spin around to justify to others what they...
  30. William Howard 2

    People see what they wanna see rant

    Been detained for the 25743588th time. Who would think society would be so protective of there garbage? But I just realized that we see what we want to see in people. Police always assume the worst, but you know, they aren't alone. We can have a crazy psychotic narcissistic ego manic as our...
  31. William Howard 2

    Out of Action, Do protests work? Nathan Heller August 14, 2017 5:00 AM from The NewYorker

    Out of Action August 14 Skeptics suggest that “folk politics”—marches, protests, and the like—are a distraction from the challenges of real change. Illustration by Adam Maida That winter of 2003—you remember it, and so do I—the world assembled, arms linked, to protest the prospect of war in...
  32. William Howard 2

    A critical look at Dolly Freed's philosophy of "Possum Living"

    I think that's a good point. Frugality and efficiency do seem like pretty identical concepts. Idk. I don't think "economics" actually exists as it's own subject. What guides others in the way of making use of resources? I would say beliefs. I'd imagine then frugality exists as a philosophy...
  33. William Howard 2

    A critical look at Dolly Freed's philosophy of "Possum Living"

    Since Dolly Freed wrote her influential book titled "Possum Living, How To Live Well Without A Job And With (almost) No Money", she became somewhat of an icon for the practice of what's called "Simple Living" - generally defined as a sort of minimalist existence based on voluntary poverty...
  34. William Howard 2

    Winter Camping- way Off Grid

    Depends where you plan on doing this, and how rugged you'd want to go, but starting from scratch in the winter sounds like a bad idea to me :/ Usually it's better to build something in the warmer months and then stalk up on supplies to help ease into the winter months when food is practically...
  35. William Howard 2

    The Future as Dystopian

    "One of the most important visionaries of what the new science might entail was the English philosopher Sir Francis Bacon.(1561-1626) Francis Bacon spent his later years pursuing a literary career and developing a philosophy of science which was to prove an inspiration for many who would follow...
  36. William Howard 2

    Anarchy is actually far right

    Though both sides are guilty, I would think suppression of speech comes more from the already established conservative majority. I would imagine the push back we are seeing from the left is a counter movement. There was a random quote from Dune, "that every movement sows the seeds to its own...
  37. William Howard 2

    What could Radical Anarchism learn from Mythology?

    If I run across the exact article again I'll post it. They write like. Massive essays. But it is interesting that multiple commentators do address it.
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    What could Radical Anarchism learn from Mythology?

    This is one instance I found of it mentioned, from a article called "No interest but the interest of breathing", on the same site - One per cent away from "all in this together" Without a sense of the contradictory, indistinct, unstable interests of self-contradictory, indistinct, unstable...
  39. William Howard 2

    What could Radical Anarchism learn from Mythology?

    A recent discussion caught my interest on Libcom.org, a Marxist and Anarchist resource, about communication. These guys are amazing. They are the only ones I can tell that is doing a serious examination of there style of writing and outreach, and how effective (or not) it is. They are trying to...
  40. William Howard 2

    On Hospitality in the past and present - what happened?

    Its really interesting that the ancient Sumerian word "amargi", the first word for "freedom", literally meant "return to mother". The idea is that things were so bad in Sumeria that they literally had a large population of "hobos", and that in order to bring them home ("returning to mother")...
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    On Hospitality in the past and present - what happened?

    Very interesting. Just finished a lecture called "Debt: The First 5000 Years". In this Greaber makes the argument that the idea of debt, and all the economic baggage that comes with it, is not a modern convention (as I was told in school), but older than recorded history. The ideas of loans and...
  42. William Howard 2

    How the ethic of work directs food stamp policy

    On my first read through it seems very similar to some parts of Confucianism and Platonism. The focus of small units, or "circles" that get larger and larger by a shared link - mirrors exactly in the writings of early Catholicism. St. Augustine's writings revolved quite a bit on that. Nothing...
  43. William Howard 2

    On Hospitality in the past and present - what happened?

    Damn good point. That does present a problem. I wonder if both ideas can be squared together in any way? We have two distinct ideas - 1) the self used to measure others by its own qualities - we assume others are like us (Egalitarian?) 2) the self used to elevate itself over others - we assume...
  44. William Howard 2

    How the ethic of work directs food stamp policy

    No I haven't heard of it. There has been so many "ocracy"s invented almost daily that I just can't keep up. They all are just slight variations on some other ancient formula. It's like we keep reinventing the wheel by giving old ideas new names. Id rather hear what it is from you then Google...
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    How the ethic of work directs food stamp policy

    Ok glad I asked. I was way off. Anyway I ran across a interview with Peter Joseph where he argued that hierarchy is natural and not necessarily bad, but hierarchy based on wealth is. He said that we all have a set of skills and interests, and some form of structure will always exist...
  46. William Howard 2

    How the ethic of work directs food stamp policy

    Yes work gets defined very narrowly through the lens of "paid labour". It reminds me a lot of the criticisms that feminists had about capitalism. Just because they don't get paid to raise kids, clean the house, cook the food, doesn't mean that they aren't working, and don't deserve a voice in...
  47. William Howard 2

    How the ethic of work directs food stamp policy

    I'm having trouble understanding. Are you saying that we need a hierarchy so we can escape it? How are the two ideas of progress as climbing a hierarchy and the idea of not climbing one squared with each other? It's like progress is being defined as getting up it and then its later defined as...
  48. William Howard 2

    How the ethic of work directs food stamp policy

    Newsweek published a article about the drop in SNAP "participation". What caught my eye was a quote from one of the prominent critics of SNAP, Garrett Graves - “There are talented people across our country who aren’t pursuing the full potential of their capabilities, largely because...
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    On Hospitality in the past and present - what happened?

    I like that. It's kinda like we subconsciously assume that another person has had the same circumstances as we have. It's like we think everyone else is just like us. That definitely could explain why people and cultures with means don't share it, but it leaves a question about how that ball...