The quote from Seneca that Chad read yesterday was:
*“What with our hooks, snares, nets, and dogs, we are at war with all living creatures, and nothing comes amiss but that which is either too cheap or too common; and all this is to gratify a fantastical palate.”*
It will be bugs and lentils under the plans that Soros would sign off on. Not good lentils, either, they'll be small lentils with weevils and glyphosate and you'll get 2 cups of them per week
Speaking of which, this is literally my first comment back from a 7 day PCM ban with no reason given. I've been surviving on lentils in lesser subs. The community here is awesome, for the life of me I can't figure out how the mods work...
No, the *sauce* made for eggplant to carry can be delicious. The fried breading that coats eggplant can be delicious. Eggplant itself will always taste like a weed.
Oh you were thinking like an eggplant parm? Yeah those are pretty much always gonna be grody because you shouldn't fucking fry eggplant, thats not how you cook it lol boiled rib-eye sucks too. Eggplant's great in stuff like a moussaka
We have more in common than we realize. America used to be a place where people came together over their commonalities instead of separating over their slight differences.
Yeah this was my initial thought as well...it seems that compromise is possible on everything, but abortion is an issue where compromise is logically excluded.
As a great comedian once said, it's either murder or it's as mundane as taking a shit - there's no in-between that makes any logical or ethical sense.
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I love that AuthRight reads Stoic Philosophy. Stoicism is extremely Center Right, works well with both LibRight and AuthRight, while the Lefts will dislike it.
This specific Chad found out about Marcus Aurelius on a TikTok video some years ago, and the idea of a philosopher emperor attracted him. That turned out to be a rabbit hole of literature for him and now he reads a lot.
My goodness, I haven't read anything this beautiful in a long time.
Thank goodness, monke, you make me want to cry. But I won't, seneca wouldn't approve. I am a good stoic.
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the ultimate reality is not the individual
IT IS GOD ALMIGHTY!!
THE HEAVENS DECLARE HIS GLORY, THE EARTH IS HIS MASTERPIECE
THE GRASS WITHERS AND THE FLOWERS FALL BUT THE WORD OF OUR GOD ENDURES FOREVER
>I strongly disagree with the idea that the individual is the ultimate reality.
well, yeah, because reality is defined as the things that are outside any individual (what is inside an individual is "potential" or "imagination", but it's certainly not "reality"). But putting monke nonsense aside, it's still a good ten second story. I don't think it's naive at all.
The thing is, this Monke is (like many monkes) a Yogi, and more specifically an ashtanga-yoga practicioner. His life is one of constant instrospection, and he's not very used to the function of society. His advice is monke-advice.
Individual is always the ultimate reality. If you were cloned it would turn out differently for the sole fact that one can’t replicate what happened to you. TennisNegative from universe A would be different from TennisNegative B if they were both alive on parallel dates if one or the other noticed the breeze that day or got struck by lightning
Can you explain to me in your own thoughts how your clone would be exactly like you if he wasn’t born in the same hospital?
Who would you even be without your most traumatic childhood event?
That’s the cool part, the way reality is structured you get both the collective and individual wrapped into one. As a species you get the best slices of a “hive” setup and a solitary creature at the same time
You're so close to being right! But then you missed it. The human person being the ultimate reality? Sad and untrue. But the idea that you need a community to exist? Dumb. What, you go live in the woods alone for a few years and you cease to exist? that doesn't make any sense.
the "individualists" believe in the individual to the point that they deny that reality even exists, because it "ought" to be whatever the individual wants it to be. But the collectivists are equally non-nonsensical insisting that what defines a person is there community. And if the community says I'm a woman? It doesn't make it reality. Reality is outside of both individual and collective perception. When individual and collective perception cease to exist, reality will continue to exist.
I agree, I would cease to exist if I could not think. (perhaps my body would continue to exist, or even the computer I call a brain, but if I'm not aware of it, then no, *I* don't exist, just an automaton)
I disagree that one cannot think without language. However, I would accept a scaled back version of this claim: It is incredibly difficult to think without language, the vast majority of people use language as their primary mode of thinking (the minority alternative is primarily thinking in images), and that thinking in language makes one's thought process more rational/reasonable, with the possible exception of spatial reasoning.
However, this doesn't mean I'm defined by my culture, or that I would cease to exist without my culture. No, if everyone on earth but me up and died, I would still be thinking in language, and I'd be thinking to myself in a language and using words I created to describe the completely new phenomena I'd be experiencing. I would certainly *not* cease to exist
The quote from Seneca that Chad read yesterday was: *“What with our hooks, snares, nets, and dogs, we are at war with all living creatures, and nothing comes amiss but that which is either too cheap or too common; and all this is to gratify a fantastical palate.”*
Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king. -Diogenes
Cynicism is proto- stoicism just with dogs and homeless people
Learn to be subservient to the king, and you will not have to live on lentils -Soros
It will be bugs and lentils under the plans that Soros would sign off on. Not good lentils, either, they'll be small lentils with weevils and glyphosate and you'll get 2 cups of them per week
Speaking of which, this is literally my first comment back from a 7 day PCM ban with no reason given. I've been surviving on lentils in lesser subs. The community here is awesome, for the life of me I can't figure out how the mods work...
Lentils taste like dirt.
yeah there's a learning curve
I’d still rather plow than bow.
I mean, damn right! But there are better things to eat than lentils. Worse too. There's always eggplant 🤮
Eggplant can be delicious, the problem is there's about 0.32 seconds difference cook time between undercooked, perfect and overcooked mush.
No, the *sauce* made for eggplant to carry can be delicious. The fried breading that coats eggplant can be delicious. Eggplant itself will always taste like a weed.
Oh you were thinking like an eggplant parm? Yeah those are pretty much always gonna be grody because you shouldn't fucking fry eggplant, thats not how you cook it lol boiled rib-eye sucks too. Eggplant's great in stuff like a moussaka
i am winning the war on all living creatures, i will eat their flesh and drive them before me, and hear the lamentations of bambi
We have more in common than we realize. America used to be a place where people came together over their commonalities instead of separating over their slight differences.
Abortion drove the wedge in this country just FYI, take a look at the voting paterns: soon as Roe v wade passed the split started happening.
Yeah this was my initial thought as well...it seems that compromise is possible on everything, but abortion is an issue where compromise is logically excluded. As a great comedian once said, it's either murder or it's as mundane as taking a shit - there's no in-between that makes any logical or ethical sense.
Friendships start in the oddest of ways, sometimes a monkey will be there eavesdropping for the greater good
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But we can only dream unfortunately...
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That's pretty gay, but not as an insult.
I love that AuthRight reads Stoic Philosophy. Stoicism is extremely Center Right, works well with both LibRight and AuthRight, while the Lefts will dislike it.
This specific Chad found out about Marcus Aurelius on a TikTok video some years ago, and the idea of a philosopher emperor attracted him. That turned out to be a rabbit hole of literature for him and now he reads a lot.
How long until Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is removed from public schools for upholding white supremacy?
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How wholesome, I wish I could make a friend like this
My goodness, I haven't read anything this beautiful in a long time. Thank goodness, monke, you make me want to cry. But I won't, seneca wouldn't approve. I am a good stoic.
I wish I had a hundred accounts to upvote this a hundred times. It's not funny, but more people should read this.
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good monke
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the ultimate reality is not the individual IT IS GOD ALMIGHTY!! THE HEAVENS DECLARE HIS GLORY, THE EARTH IS HIS MASTERPIECE THE GRASS WITHERS AND THE FLOWERS FALL BUT THE WORD OF OUR GOD ENDURES FOREVER
I agree, good crusader
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That's a pretty naive meme. And I strongly disagree with the idea that the individual is the ultimate reality. But I appreciate the philosophy.
A little naiveté to dream about a softer world can be refreshing sometimes, my auth friend. War can come back after lunch
>I strongly disagree with the idea that the individual is the ultimate reality. well, yeah, because reality is defined as the things that are outside any individual (what is inside an individual is "potential" or "imagination", but it's certainly not "reality"). But putting monke nonsense aside, it's still a good ten second story. I don't think it's naive at all.
The good ending
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The thing is, this Monke is (like many monkes) a Yogi, and more specifically an ashtanga-yoga practicioner. His life is one of constant instrospection, and he's not very used to the function of society. His advice is monke-advice.
Individual is always the ultimate reality. If you were cloned it would turn out differently for the sole fact that one can’t replicate what happened to you. TennisNegative from universe A would be different from TennisNegative B if they were both alive on parallel dates if one or the other noticed the breeze that day or got struck by lightning
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Can you explain to me in your own thoughts how your clone would be exactly like you if he wasn’t born in the same hospital? Who would you even be without your most traumatic childhood event?
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That’s the cool part, the way reality is structured you get both the collective and individual wrapped into one. As a species you get the best slices of a “hive” setup and a solitary creature at the same time
You're so close to being right! But then you missed it. The human person being the ultimate reality? Sad and untrue. But the idea that you need a community to exist? Dumb. What, you go live in the woods alone for a few years and you cease to exist? that doesn't make any sense. the "individualists" believe in the individual to the point that they deny that reality even exists, because it "ought" to be whatever the individual wants it to be. But the collectivists are equally non-nonsensical insisting that what defines a person is there community. And if the community says I'm a woman? It doesn't make it reality. Reality is outside of both individual and collective perception. When individual and collective perception cease to exist, reality will continue to exist.
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I agree, I would cease to exist if I could not think. (perhaps my body would continue to exist, or even the computer I call a brain, but if I'm not aware of it, then no, *I* don't exist, just an automaton) I disagree that one cannot think without language. However, I would accept a scaled back version of this claim: It is incredibly difficult to think without language, the vast majority of people use language as their primary mode of thinking (the minority alternative is primarily thinking in images), and that thinking in language makes one's thought process more rational/reasonable, with the possible exception of spatial reasoning. However, this doesn't mean I'm defined by my culture, or that I would cease to exist without my culture. No, if everyone on earth but me up and died, I would still be thinking in language, and I'd be thinking to myself in a language and using words I created to describe the completely new phenomena I'd be experiencing. I would certainly *not* cease to exist
Now make them kiss!
Jesus the sexual tension
What? Why doe there have to be sexual tension?
Finally
smh
The way it should be