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are we cursed?
Rigel:
--- Quote from: TurnipBlog on April 20, 2022, 10:10:58 PM ---Strong men make good times, good times make soft men, soft men make hard times, and hard times make strong men. Rinse and repeat. History is a flat circle.
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I heard in eastern europe it goes like: Hard times create strong men, strong men create hard times, hard times create strong men.
Anyway, history has shown several times that everyone prospers when everyone works together and shares the spoils of their labor. If people wanted more for themselves, they'd help their fellow man. Being selfish isn't just counterproductive to a more effective collective, it's downright stupid most of the time. While there will always be envy and thieves, I feel like it's more a circumstance of western society and capitalism that breeds this "every man for himself" mentality that people tend to adopt these days. It's comically bad in China where it's impossible to trust another businessman.
Frequency:
every perceived concept of psychology is an essential truth contorted and misrepresented by the influence of demonic entities that subsist on causing pain because they know their time is limited so they appeal to their own desires that they have opted to cultivate and develop over millennia. the 'evolution' of humans is impossible while these demonic entities persist and their very presence and influence alludes to the truth in that their history is rooted in organic christianity or at least as it presents itself, though there are many demonically altered iterations of christianity presented to humanity for the sake of distraction, discord, etc. this is the truth. you will not accept or acknowledge it as the truth because they have already sunken their teeth in by proxy of "human" philosophies and belief systems that are rooted in appeals to fleshly desire.
Rigel:
are these "demonic entities" in the room with us right now?
Drydess:
--- Quote from: PhantOS on April 14, 2022, 09:55:45 AM ---it feels like humanity is evolutionarily traumatized by millions of years of natural selection. even though we as a species have managed to overcome many great obstacles in science, it still feels like humans (and all life on earth) is biologically hardwired to be selfish and destructive. will we ever evolve out of the selfish genes of our primate ancestors naturally or will we have to genetically modify ourselves to think more wholistically and altruistically? is selfishness even a bad thing in the first place, if it means the selfish individual gets to live longer and have offspring?
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nietzsche wrote on suffering in will to power that people are built psychologically to inflict suffering, and if you're unable (or unwilling) to do it to others you'll inflict suffering upon yourself. he also wrote that it's directly responsible for all superficial values people have. i dont buy into him but truthfully if you think about this often, reading will to power would probably be really satisfying and ultimately give you a very optimistic succinct outlook on your (and our) future
Black and White:
--- Quote from: TurnipBlog on April 20, 2022, 10:10:58 PM ---Strong men make good times, good times make soft men, soft men make hard times, and hard times make strong men. Rinse and repeat. History is a flat circle.
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I think it's more akin to a horizontal single helix.
funny, I don't think I'd have used words such as "akin" or spoken like this in the past but I don't remember really what my personality is exactly. :panda:
This actually makes me a bit said :/
--- Quote from: Frequency on May 05, 2022, 04:12:28 PM ---every perceived concept of psychology is an essential truth contorted and misrepresented by the influence of demonic entities that subsist on causing pain because they know their time is limited so they appeal to their own desires that they have opted to cultivate and develop over millennia. the 'evolution' of humans is impossible while these demonic entities persist and their very presence and influence alludes to the truth in that their history is rooted in organic christianity or at least as it presents itself, though there are many demonically altered iterations of christianity presented to humanity for the sake of distraction, discord, etc. this is the truth. you will not accept or acknowledge it as the truth because they have already sunken their teeth in by proxy of "human" philosophies and belief systems that are rooted in appeals to fleshly desire.
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I mean he's not wrong.