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 No.62[Reply]

When is a door not a door?

 No.155

When its unhinged


 No.156

>>155

But then it's an unhinged door.

I think once it's broken past the point of usefulness.


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When it’s ajar


 No.165

when op isn't a faggot

so never




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 No.116[Reply]

Is it rational to be close-minded about anything? Take agnosticism for example. Is it not the most rational choice, to say "I have no clue as to how my existence came to be"?

I just feel like I can never be in any kind of argument because I choose to waiver in the middle of two sides. It's like whenever there isn't an absolute answer, I simply cannot choose a side because it may be biased. Even on chans, I see users all the time cling to one belief and spout

>no this is how it is and anything else is wrong wrong wrong

But I think with everything there can be a different point of view and thus there cannot be an absolute to it. Hell, give me enough time and I could probably justify a brutal, non-provoked rape while at the same time condemn it.

Does anyone else have this feeling? Am I just afraid of "picking the wrong side", so to speak?

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 No.117

The only place where there are absolutes are in the gay community and maths. In my opinion, it depends on what you intrinscially believe. What you believe is a part of your character.

But remember, you cannot be both pink and purple, dead and alive or short and tall. In the words of the beloved Emperor Sheev (pbuh) you must choose


 No.140

>>116

When comes to claims that lack evidence I agree. I too am an agnostic atheist. Choosing a religious belief, a 'side', is just jumping to a conclusion.

However, there are absolutes in our objective reality. We just don't absolutely know what they are, because we view our reality subjectively. You just have understand knowledge doesn't work in absolutes, but in levels of certainty. We approach the truth of what reality is as we gain information. You can never reach 100% certainty, but can approach it. You can become 99.9999999999% certain.


 No.164

>>116

Stronk atheist reportin.

4/10 of the atheists I've come across (that declare themselves as such) are pretty much adamant in declaring that every other belief is wrong and how their STEM choice of career is the shit while everyone else's is shit. I hate them. They're ignorant bigots that don't know how social sciences work and never will.

People that have anonimity on the internet, that might as well be false flags, on sites like halfchan which is basically edgeland dumbed down for kids. -Less than half- which is significant.

The rest of us, even in those places, are quite reasonable people that welcome religious folks or agnostic fellas if they want to talk about philosophy in peace. We might robust them from time to time, but we don't have to and most of the time we won't unless they start to mess up with scientific knowledge and things like that.

Speaking about agnostic people (again, sites like these and googletube, that choose to declare themselves as such yadayada), however, 8/10 are either superdefensive niggas or snotty bastards, not realizing their own position and how it is defined in opposition to the rest. Choosing to argue with them will be often on the smallest of terminology and they can be stubborn like no christian can, and throw tantrums twice as large as they do (to be fair this is very very rare though). Sorry for being rude but I need to tell things the way I see them, either the agnostic community is a largely ok place where people don't speak loud enough, given the nature of their posture, or, well, you might guess the alternative.

And the fact is, even if the experience of one anon isn't in any way indicative of the health of a whole philosophical bundle of ideological postures, your post gives away your own defensive stance.

And when you find people like this, you can't help but feel both love and hate for them at the same time. Many of those arguments are things that they start and that aren't even needed in order to reach a Post too long. Click here to view the full text.




 No.162[Reply]

Dice rollRolled 25, 29, 15, 18, 5, 36, 18, 23, 8, 27, 17, 25, 10, 34, 10, 32, 15, 34, 8, 14, 17, 16, 24, 10, 31, 3, 29, 11, 36, 10, 19, 24, 3, 33, 6, 7 + 36 = 718 (36d36)

I have many thoughts

i need to write some books

 No.163

Books about what?




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 No.160[Reply]

Have you taken the brown pill yet, mateys?

it's a tough pill to swallow! The brown pill was founded in 1999 by Sir Reginald Brownpill, who presents and narrates the attached video.

Forget red and blue pills, brown pills are the way of the future.

Video related. Please leave your questions, comments, and concerns below about this radical new paradigm of thinking!

Swallow the brown pill today! Red pills are for fedora fucking wearing faggots, blue pills are for the ignorant masses. Ignore the other le epin /pol/ maymays, this one is the readl deal.54747458



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 No.49[Reply]

goodchristian was fine

your friendly allies #1 here

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 No.77[Reply]

if your friend jumped off a cliff would you do it?

well,

WOULD YOU

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 No.89

>>88

really high

twenty stories


 No.118

>>89

I would do it. And we would survive. Because of our friendship.


 No.119

>>89

I would do it. And we would survive. Because of our Friendship.


 No.120

>>118

FRIENDSHIP

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 No.154

>>77

I ride for my niggers

I die for my niggers




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 No.153[Reply]

So I wouldn't mind being fucked in the ass, I actually want to be fucked in the ass and/or suck someones biner.

I'm thinking practical here: I have a body of a 16 year old



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 No.50[Reply]

I am therefore I think.

God is therefore I am.

Since there must be something before I am there is that which is God.

God is therefore I think.

I think therefore I am.

 No.51

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whoa

There once was a man named Sid

He never quite why he did the things that he did

Only that his mother's id was satisfied

By the things he would he say when he lied


 No.52

>>51

quite knew*


 No.145

>>50

So do you consider everything that influences you God? Do you consider that which influences others God? Do you consider the future (that which has yet to influence) God?


 No.149

>>145

this is true




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 No.148[Reply]

Is Plato watching me masturbate?



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 No.29[Reply]

If you're an atheist, why aren't you an agnostic-atheist? Most people who tell me they're an atheist because it's only logical don't understand what they're saying.

Strictly speaking, the concept of a god, an all-knowing being who could do literally anythng, leads me to believe that Christians could technically be right. Any religion with a god could be right.

If God wanted, he could have created the Earth and then placed dinosaur bones to "test our faith". He could have done it, because "Fuck you, I'm God".

So my question becomes this: If you're an atheist, why?

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 No.33

>>31
The existence of a God is very possible. God may not exist in the form religion describes to be, after all. God may not even be sentient, may not even be in a physical form, but you cannot disprove such an idea. Every religion could be wrong about God and yet such a concept may still exist at the same time.

 No.34

Because this verbal wrangling leads nowhere. There's no reason to consider the possibility of existence of the supernatural or divine, simple as that. Most people who aren't religious simply leave it at that. Being analpained about what they call it, should they be forced to label it so, is pointless.
>If you're an atheist, why aren't you an agnostic-atheist
Because if he's the first he can't simultaneously be the second. He disbelieves, he's not open to the idea. That's like asking why a theist isn't an agnostic-theist. Man, this topic is fucking dumb, to say nothing of the board itself. Coupling reason and religion, smart move. Why not science & religion?

 No.38

unless id the goddess Discordia Aka Enris then its unlikely..

there is no part of the bible the expresses a ability to make paradoxes and contradictions work.. that Discordias modus operandi…

I mean can god make a rock to heavy for god to lift… but at the same time lift it…

further more if the bible and the circular argument for god is valid then reality must be really fucked up to conform with it and still appear to follow the rules of science…

I am not saying its 100% proof against… but say 99.9999999999%

Frankly thor makes more sense…

He only garanteed 100% ice giant removal service…

Jesus kinda promised bodily resurrection after death…
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 No.39

Just to make it clearer what i am getting at here…

we don't fully understand gravity yet…

So what if it fails one day..

Do you live your life in constant fear that gravity might fail and that you might get sucked into space along with the atmosphere?

Or do you just reject the notion as supremely unlikely and totally unimportant to take into consideration…

 No.147

>>39

>Or do you just reject the notion as supremely unlikely and totally unimportant to take into consideration…

What are you doing on this board? If you want to cast aside trains of thought because they're "unimportant" you're in the wrong place.

Anyway, being agnostic seems to be the only logical thing to do right now. Instead of blindly following something (that includes you, atheists), I'll take solace in the fact that we don't know shit.




 No.47[Reply]

What are you thinking of right now thought?

 No.48

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The concept of thought itself


 No.146

>>48

Elaborate?




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 No.139[Reply]

Well I'll give this board a try since I have nothing better to do and my feels are coming along.

What is your opinion on human immortality? Human life extension? Some believe the short life span of human beings makes them strive to innovate as much as possible with what little time they have left. We see this in people like Mathmatician John Nash, Computer Enrepeneur Steve Jobs (I refuse to consider him more than a businessman), Bill Gates (I mention him because he cared about what the masses thought of him and his business, so he got heavy into "philanthropy"), even Andrew Carnegie (did the Gates thing) Steel Titan. Lots of famous people.

The question is, would they have gone the same route if they had more "time"? Part of Jobs' rapid advancement in his re-introduction to Apple was knowing he had pancreatic cancer, so he wanted to do as much as possible (hence the joke, PC killed Steve Jobs quite literally). But what if he didn't have PC? What if he had more time and knew it?

Being a depressed bipolar aspie, I'm rarely motivated by anything anymore. At the age of 18 I find myself unable to find the motivation to do anything except be great, or get lots of attention, sex, and drugs. Thats literally all I want. Hedonistic pursuit.

I argue that hedonism will keep us innovating despite longer life spans, because we will want to keep these life styles going, and to keep our stimulation going. We will find ways to overcome being "numb" to things. I hope one day to become a bionics researcher, or perhaps a SENS researcher, to give myself more time to shitpost and fuck robo-waifu.

this is an "opinion" thread with some logic thrown in there, no need for hard evidence if you don't want to provide it, but at the same time don't be a fucking retard. I'm just looking for opinions with a little bit of logic. Shitpost pls go.

 No.144

You know, besides all the conjecture about what could happen, I don't think humans are ready to be immortal. We barely understand how we fit into the universe as it is. That's just too much of an exponential leap.

And maybe being immortal would reduce our "drive" to "better" ourselves and the world, because we'd be too busy figuring ourselves out. But is that a bad thing? I don't think so, but who knows? And at the very least we'd probably be more conscious of how we're advancing instead of throwing shit at the wall.




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 No.122[Reply]

Anyone interested in Buddhism?

 No.143

I'm interested in how common out of body experiences are in traditional Buddhist meditation.




 No.142[Reply]

Maxvidya is in this board



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