YappyMonotheist

That’s not a question but yes, he’s kind of silly… he does have a crayon (?) stuck in his brain though so, all in all, he’s doing alright, lol.

Just to feel the room’s temperature, but I always speak my mind regardless (it’s Lemmy, if you’re not honest here where are you honest?). Unless I’m missing something, the post stands by itself (or not) regardless of votes.

It’s like Marseille without the sun and friendly Southern vibes, that’s what it reminds me of, especially the Midi area. I recall walking nearby and there’s like a tunnel where the tram goes by, and people had set up tents and impromptu “restaurants” in it. What a mess. But my brother and his lady just went to Bruges and they said it was beautiful so it’s not like the whole of Belgium is as ugly. 🙏

They just have to say that and all the chuds will be like “see, it’s not the US! Israel is not a Western colonial project managed by the current hegemon!”.

IME, Brussels is truly awful. Grey, ugly, depressing and decaying.

Americans just care about their bottom line and material comfort, not morals. They’re short-sighted but every generation sacrifices the long-term benefits of building a society led by humane and just normal, mature, moral people, for promises of immediate financial relief/boons so this is nothing new.

Idea? It’s a fantasy social experiment that would benefit everyone but will never take place, Western civilization as it has been since the days of Rome requires everyone else’s exploitation.

Archetypal showerthought. 👌

Man, some things don’t change… Western Europeans anywhere outside of Europe have historically been a cause for strife, conflict and suffering. They should be contained in their continent, we can even all move out of Europe as long as you stay over there, being wolves to your fellow Europeans instead of everyone else. Maybe that would finally give them the push to become moral and prosocial. Meh.

“Free will doesn’t exist” is, quoting The Thick of It, a position of one “disconnected to the point of autism”. It’s what happens when you get lost in words trying to understand the universe. It’s also a position very convenient for anyone trying to avoid accountability. Unsurprisingly, it is very popular in the West. 🙃🤣

I can tell you what you need to hear and you’ll get mad initially but you’ll eventually follow if you’re wise. 😅

Words haven’t meant anything in earnest in the West since at least the days of Orwell but this is just ridiculous. The fuck.

Player’s “Baby Come Back” and John Lennon’s “Woman” come to mind. Also, Juan Gabriel’s “Amor Eterno” (Eternal Love), an ode to dead moms and the love we have for them despite their absence.

“Iranian traitors want to sell the country out to Western powers as usual but some are still refusing.”

There ya go.

Values are a subset of things one can believe in.

Like I said, if it goes against your understanding you’ll never truly believe it, not for long at least. It’s not choosing to believe with no “good reason”, it’s choosing to believe despite there being no relation at all between matters of fact (ascertained by the senses) and that. Check out Hume’s fork, it’s kinda like that. God is not in this world, God is necessarily outside of it and of a different nature (we’re data for God the programmer, we’re his free-willed Sims and the universe is a sandbox) so you can’t find Him here, through our senses, and added to that are the classical fork interdictions (e.g., moral statements cannot derive from matters of fact, one can simply not care).

And if you have some somewhat prosocial if not completely developed set of moral standards, well that’s great, I’m happy! Men are made good after all, hence the propaganda needed to turn one against each other.

Good stuff! They say the gut is like a second brain or something like that. Pity I treat it like shit, and I have IBS too. 😭

A struggle cuddle with my cat seems to calm me down. I noticed myself doing it when stressed (it doesn’t happen often) and read about it and it seems to check out. 👍

Oh and a long lukewarm/hot shower always makes me feel better, and it’s very good at dealing with bloating.

Potentially triggering, beware: belief is something reserved for everything outside of the material and observable, like the afterlife, God and values. Often people want material “evidence” as a prerequisite for belief but it just doesn’t work that way, there’s no necessary material connection between that and belief. Ofc, belief that cannot conform to one’s reason and understanding will never stand for long, but it has nothing to do with the world perceived by the senses, that’s what all scientific fields and tools are for!

When I say many people here/in the West don’t understand the nature of belief, that’s what I mean. They don’t stand for anything, they just accept the world through their senses and in the absence of values (again, belief), they can only default to consumerism and hedonism (because the senses say they feel good and that’s all one can “know” in the absence of belief).

You don’t have to virtue signal but you could have virtue… Idk if it’s better or worse that you’ve reached the point you simply don’t care and can be honest about it, at least with us online strangers. But I’ll stop now, have a good one.