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Armani posted:This legit terrifies me then something kicks into my brain to distract me to wash dishes My SO overcame any such existential fears after dropping acid in a bamboo grove. Maybe try that?
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Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.
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May 16, 2015 20:23
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Armani posted:This legit terrifies me then something kicks into my brain to distract me to wash dishes Don't worry about it. You won't be there when it happens.
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May 16, 2015 20:31
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There is no self. What we are is just an amalgam of moment-to-moment perceptions and subjective experiences. Without your thoughts, emotions, memories, sensations, etc, what are you? Once all of those things melt away, what's left? So really death is just the disappearance of all subjective experience, which you can't experience anyway.
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May 16, 2015 22:05
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That's overly reductive. The self may be radically different than what we think it is, and a lot of research and reflection would suggest that the self is at least partially an emergent byproduct of language and socialization, but it doesn't necessarily follow that the self therefore does not exist. At most we may feel compelled to relax or abandon some of our humanist assumptions about personhood.
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May 16, 2015 22:54
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Helsing posted:That's overly reductive. The self may be radically different than what we think it is, and a lot of research and reflection would suggest that the self is at least partially an emergent byproduct of language and socialization, but it doesn't necessarily follow that the self therefore does not exist. At most we may feel compelled to relax or abandon some of our humanist assumptions about personhood. True. "There is no self" is too simplistic but it gets the point across that what we think of our "self" is really something that is subject to constant change and which has no essential nature.
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May 16, 2015 23:37
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I heard talk on the radio today about how geo-engineering from various companies could save us from climate change. Letting private Companies mess around with the global thermostat at the behest of the free market sounds kind of dangerous if you ask me. It`s a perverse way to deal with global warming and it will solve nothing. Yet again a sympthom of how modern day nihilism is preventing us from using our brains in a productive manner to save ourselves. There is no major visible threat to civlization that`s beyond our thechnical or economical capacity to solve. We will just never choose to do it. That`s what will kill us in the end. In some ways i am not that bothered about humanity ending. Most species that have ever existed have long since ceased to be. Why should we be any different? It`s the way of all flesh.
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May 16, 2015 23:55
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Baudolino posted:I heard talk on the radio today about how geo-engineering from various companies could save us from climate change. Letting private Companies mess around with the global thermostat at the behest of the free market sounds kind of dangerous if you ask me. It`s a perverse way to deal with global warming and it will solve nothing. Yet again a sympthom of how modern day nihilism is preventing us from using our brains in a productive manner to save ourselves. There is no major visible threat to civlization that`s beyond our thechnical or economical capacity to solve. We will just never choose to do it. That`s what will kill us in the end. In some ways i am not that bothered about humanity ending. Most species that have ever existed have long since ceased to be. Why should we be any different? It`s the way of all flesh. Fortunately the Earth is not actually as fragile as Science Fiction movies make you believe.
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May 17, 2015 00:16
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the way geoengineering would work is that in achieving its goal, it would alter weather patterns in a way that would probably intensify major droughts in some sections of africa asia and south america, killing tens or hundreds of millions for the benefit of those countries which cause the most greenhouse emissions through their consumption habits. I wouldn't blame one of those countries hurt by the effects of geongineering from starting a conflict over it (or really, you could look at geoengineering as the initial attack on those nations), so it probably isn't politically viable without universal political agreement.
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May 17, 2015 03:50
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Rodatose posted:the way geoengineering would work is that in achieving its goal, it would alter weather patterns in a way that would probably intensify major droughts in some sections of africa asia and south america, killing tens or hundreds of millions for the benefit of those countries which cause the most greenhouse emissions through their consumption habits. Nuking them might kick up enough dust to cool everyone else off a bit. The rad-crawlers can pick at the bones of civilization bathed in the perpetual twilight of nuclear deliverance.
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May 17, 2015 05:32
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I think we've adequately answered the OP's question: yes.
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May 17, 2015 08:13
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computer parts posted:Fortunately the Earth is not actually as fragile as Science Fiction movies make you believe. Nah, we're just wiping out whole species and loving up things that we depend on to survive 
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May 17, 2015 21:16
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There is a difference between the end of humanity and the end of the Earth. The Earth will live on even if humanity does not. Semantics motherfucker.
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May 18, 2015 01:31
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It's the end of the world as we know it. And I feel fine.
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May 18, 2015 12:26
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It's kind of an academic question because whatever happens we're all going to die. Which is the important thing, to my mind. My world is very definitely going to end within the next century.
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May 18, 2015 15:15
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Guys, the girl I liked turned out to have a boyfriend. I'm pretty sure the world is ending.
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May 18, 2015 15:25
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Elukka posted:Guys, the girl I liked turned out to have a boyfriend. I'm pretty sure the world is ending. Told you not to lug that printer across town but did you listen?
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May 18, 2015 17:37
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Elukka posted:Guys, the girl I liked turned out to have a boyfriend. I'm pretty sure the world is ending. 
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May 18, 2015 17:56
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PerpetualSelf posted:We now don't have a single stable country on earth governed by any left wing party. Russia is on the rise. Hate and fear are at record levels. Global warming is growing stronger and faster. The world media is being taken over and controlled by singular entities geared towards fulfilling one single purpose. Mankind is losing all autonomy to the fascist government police state and machines. Russia is more like in free-fall mode. Also you don't seem to know many countries, or your view of what a "left wing party" is, is seriously screwed up. But don't worry, you're still 66% right, the world will still end. Only 4,5 billion years left until the sun goes nova.
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May 18, 2015 17:59
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Libluini posted:Russia is more like in free-fall mode. Also you don't seem to know many countries, or your view of what a "left wing party" is, is seriously screwed up. It's expansion will obliterate the earth long before it dies.
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May 18, 2015 18:43
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tncnWp67wQI&t=143s
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May 18, 2015 18:48
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will there be creepy white haired girls and gay angels??? i wanna turn into tang https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ynx26LJ1YC4
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Who What Now posted:It's expansion will obliterate the earth long before it dies. True, true. Hear that, OP? You're even more right then I thought.
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