I wrote a 725+ word essay about some ideas that actually came to me while sober. I made a video of myself reading it for lazy fucks.
[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feEG7TCeivA[/MEDIA]
When you think about it some religions can have many good sides. Religions can make people strive to make a better person of themselves. It gives people something to believe in after death. It give them the motivation to get to heaven or earn the goals that come with religion. Religions may have many bad sides, but this is a good point.
[QUOTE=gooldude;37435887]When you think about it some religions can have many good sides. Religions can make people strive to make a better person of themselves. It gives people something to believe in after death. It give them the motivation to get to heaven or earn the goals that come with religion. Religions may have many bad sides, but this is a good point.[/QUOTE]
Under an anthropologic viewstand, there is indeed a very noble side to the thought that men in search of an objective point of view, or explanations for unknown phenomenon, refered to the idea of a transcendental, greater being.
This is a powerful way of unifying and "guiding" the manner in which we live and think... for better or worse.
Faith is all about piety and obedience, which can be used as a positive coercion system towards cooperation.
Baruch Spinoza points out (without discarding religion altogether) in his [i]Theological-Political Treatise[/i] (around 1656) how impossible it is that the loss of one's will and reason under absolute authority lead to finding truth. He was then excommunicated of the Jewish Dutch community by [i]Cherem[/i], at age 23.
I really dig your posts, but:
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This is the root of all secret society thinking, and the root of a lot of problems. [/tinfoil]
A bitch is a bitch, and a ho is a ho
it's funny how i can't even count the number of times i've been flattered by a casual homosexually based compliment.
maybe i'm playing for the wrong team
[QUOTE=FoodStuffs;37499601]it's funny how i can't even count the number of times i've been flattered by a casual homosexually based compliment.
maybe i'm playing for the wrong team[/QUOTE]
a homosexual [sp]a friends friend[/sp] came up to me on the train and complimented me and told me that he thought i looked like an ulrik and not an asbjørn.
i didn't even know how to react. felt stupid for not just saying thanks.
[QUOTE=/B/rother;37499944]a homosexual [sp]a friends friend[/sp] came up to me on the train and complimented me and told me that he thought i looked like an ulrik and not an asbjørn.
i didn't even know how to react. felt stupid for not just saying thanks.[/QUOTE]
being the dumb american I am, I thought "asbjorn is a type of skin color right?"
Asbjørn is a scandinavian name, I think.
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Beauty is a potential in everything, that we have to find and reflect upon, to make it exist.
I think, that, in it self, is pretty beautiful.
To me, it does not matter what is in the picture.
But god damn guys, the presence of it.
its all about the fucking frame guys
and stop talking about your boyfriend
Our whole lives are easily accessible
The universe is a sphere. It was once spinning so fast that all mass collected in the center, in a single point, and it has slowed down since (possibly from a collision or just friction/gravity), causing it to seem like we're expanding when all we're doing is drifting dispersing the mass. Like a pool when everyone walks in the same direction around and around it. If you go one direction long enough, you'll end up back where you started.
I remember reading an article way back that blew my mind. The idea may be foggy pardon me.
Astronomers believe that something out in the universe has a mass SO great that everything in the universe revolves around it.
Imagine if this is true. I, I wish this is true.
[QUOTE=gooldude;37544725]I remember reading an article way back that blew my mind. The idea may be foggy pardon me.
Astronomers believe that something out in the universe has a mass SO great that everything in the universe revolves around it.
Imagine if this is true. I, I wish this is true.[/QUOTE]
OBVIOUSLY EARTH DUDE
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[QUOTE=gooldude;37544725]I remember reading an article way back that blew my mind. The idea may be foggy pardon me.
Astronomers believe that something out in the universe has a mass SO great that everything in the universe revolves around it.
Imagine if this is true. I, I wish this is true.[/QUOTE]
I think what makes the universe even more mind boggling is the forces we don't see as well.
they've found galaxies moving twice as fast as they should implying that some mass is holding them together or they would rip apart . Now since we know shits accelerating something has to be driving that antigravty force. All this dark matter we cant see, just like matter that we can-whole worlds are constructed by it..now I always imagined what makes dark matter any different.
What if there are negative realms , places made of dark matter intangible to us? Where is DARK EARTH????
Approximately 200 Million sperm released in one ejaculation to fertilize 1 egg.
1 sperm will make the difference, the rest is the excess.
All it takes is 1 person to change the world. The rest are the excess.
So what are you?
excess and I don't even care
being important is overrated
[QUOTE=Otsegolation;37598499]Approximately 200 Million sperm released in one ejaculation to fertilize 1 egg.
1 sperm will make the difference, the rest is the excess.
All it takes is 1 person to change the world. The rest are the excess.
So what are you?[/QUOTE]
It really doesn't just take one person to change the world though, in fact I would say its impossible for just one person to change the world.
[QUOTE=Stormcharger;37600593]It really doesn't just take one person to change the world though, in fact I would say its impossible for just one person to change the world.[/QUOTE]
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holy mother of shit, you made me drop my jaw...
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It wasnt just him though, he had heaps of supporters and people willing to do what he said and people with the same ideals, so no it was not just him.
[QUOTE=Stormcharger;37611499]It wasnt just him though, he had heaps of supporters and people willing to do what he said and people with the same ideals, so no it was not just him.[/QUOTE]
I agree, but I think there's a bit more to it than you're giving him credit for; the world doesn't consist of individual humans. It consists of social people who work together; people who start things, and people who end things. Without Hitler, however, things certainly would've have gone the direction they did, he was central to organizing his operation to make it what it became. Do you still want to say he didn't change the world?
his ideals changed the world, but he alone would have accomplished nothing
[QUOTE=Inzalonus;37612600]his ideals changed the world, but he alone would have accomplished nothing[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I guess that's what I was getting at. Thanks. My opinion remains to be that he, as a person and a leader, changed the world, and I have a feeling most people would agree.
yeah the problem there is that both statements hold true
(x)person changed the world
but no single person can change the world
it seems like a paradox but really it's just a polarity, yin and yang like everything else. You can't have one without the other, in order to change the world a person must literally influence the world, so they themselves cannot change it without the ability to influence others around them. Hitler was particularly good at this, and used his social status to enforce his own ideals. He did change the world, but on his own he couldn't have accomplished anything
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another example is, obama being the first black president in the united states
he changed the world, in a sense
but is obama change, or the result of change? well if obama = change, then you can also look at it the other way, change = obama
it's just one of those loops, you can't really argue one or the other without accepting that both are, in theory correct
[QUOTE=Inzalonus;37612644]yeah the problem there is that both statements hold true
(x)person changed the world
but no single person can change the world
it seems like a paradox but really it's just a polarity, yin and yang like everything else. You can't have one without the other, in order to change the world a person must literally influence the world, so they themselves cannot change it without the ability to influence others around them. Hitler was particularly good at this, and used his social status to enforce his own ideals. He did change the world, but on his own he couldn't have accomplished anything
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another example is, obama being the first black president in the united states
he changed the world, in a sense
but is obama change, or the result of change? well if obama = change, then you can also look at it the other way, change = obama
it's just one of those loops, you can't really argue one or the other without accepting that both are, in theory correct[/QUOTE]
I would phrase that as "no mere single human being" can change the world meaningfully, but the thing is that that's an unrealistic abstraction of sorts, although re-reading Otsegolation's original point that "All it takes is 1 person to change the world", I can see how what he said is right on the line between both viewpoints of a single social person accounting for their leadership accomplishments and the abstraction of a single individual human who is of course relatively powerless. I suppose I simply disregarded the less practical view and went straight for the more general idea. Have a friendly.
Every person changes the world.
[QUOTE=Stormcharger;37611499]It wasnt just him though, he had heaps of supporters and people willing to do what he said and people with the same ideals, so no it was not just him.[/QUOTE]
If he never existed, would it have all happened the same way? Yes, one person can change the world.
but then you could also say, if he existed but x person didn't, would hitler still have made it to power
i'm no history buff so I don't know which person I can throw into this situation, the point is that no single person, on their own can change the world, it requires direct input from others
but it's pointless to even concern ourselves with, fact is it happened, he did in a sense change the world and arguing the semantics about this is just starting to get a bit ridiculous
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