- cross-posted to:
- main
- cross-posted to:
- main
In other new: Ben Shapiro's doctor wife thinks it's broken when it gets wet, according to two of the top posts on Trusted News Site chapo.chat.
It’s your 11 August 2020 Megathread and Joe Biden is still a rapist. Post your favourite mutual aid resources below, or just shit on libleft electoralists some more, idk
Important Threads
Mutual aid resources, for those who need.
Guns are good, you libs. Get educated, get strapped.
THEORY; it's good for what ails you:
A giant MEGA Archive of theory
- Curated by our very own @redblackgold; all kinds of tendencies inside!
Do you remember what it felt like before you were born? Did you object to it? My personal philosophy is that death is the natural state of things. We're here for a short while, so have fun and be good to each other.
Without death, life has no meaning. Life is only beautiful because of death.
Nah, life is pretty beautiful on its own, and would be even more beautiful with a few thousand years to really enjoy things.
Sure, you might get tired eventually, but there's an awful lot of things to see and do in the universe. And there's stuff coming out of the labs that will begin to give, maybe not us, but our grandchildren that chance once we've solved the climate crises and established global communism (such an easy job, I know).
FALGSC means everyone lives as long as they want to. And being scared of death is a direct result of the scarcity caused by capitalism. We could have solved it already if we weren't giving Jeff Bezos a solid platinum learjet every day.
Counter point, imagine people from 1000 years ago still being alive. Imagine sharing the planet with actual slavers, colonists and war criminals. Hell I don't even think slavery would've been abolished if people were able to live a thousand years.
we do
People are malleable, make the material conditions such that none of that matters anymore and they'll change. Some might take a century or two, but it'll happen. As for ossification, I think you'll find a lot of older people would be more progressive if they were active 20 year olds again who got outside and saw people and were not in constant low level pain.
I'm happy to share a planet with former slavers, colonists and war criminals. I don't want them to be cadre, but I want them to have good, compassionate future lives. Obviously, in the early stages Reconciliation measures are needed, but in the long run I think things will be just fine.
Give Columbus or Da Gama a spaceship and point them somewhere there aren't any lifelike radio signals. Give Hitler a paintbrush and a seat on the banks of the Danube. Give the founding fathers....I dunno, a debate club and tax-free status? They were weird dudes.
This is a really beautiful and weird and compelling look at that https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football
Thanks @Samsara ;)
npnp. Side note, Hindu/Buddhist/Jain philosophy is pretty good at alleviating existential dread.
I know little-to-nothing about Hinduism, I know, basically, only about the Top Tier 'veganism' in Jainism, but I know some about Buddhism... and almost all of it, I love. But, like, in a non-judgemental, detached way hahaha ;)
They've all got similar concepts when it comes to death. The cycle of life and death (Samsara) is a chain holding you to this world, and a release from this cycle (Moksham/Nirvana), is what we're here to do. There are different schools of thought on how you achieve this release.
I prefer it a whole lot more to the Abrahamic concept of yay you're dead welcome to heaven for following what the holy book said :):)
Cycles make a whole lot more sense to me than 'there are infinite baby souls over here, then they move through the gauntlet of Earth to end up as either infinite eternally suffering souls, or infinite eternally blissful souls' 🤷♂️