I am going to paste in here a huge chunk of Nietzsche.
I'm sorry its not very well formatted, I found this on the web and this is the first one I found and here it is. Be sure to at least read the last few sentences. I will try to cut it up a bit to make it more digestible:
All passions have a phase when they are merely disastrous, when they drag down their victim with the weight of stupidity and a later, very much later phase when they wed the spirit, when they "spiritualize" themselves. Formerly, in view of the element of stupidity in passion, war was declared on passion itself, its destruction was plotted; all the old moral monsters are agreed on this: il faut tuer les passions. The most famous formula for this is to be found in the New Testament, in that Sermon on the Mount, where, incidentally, things are by no means looked at from a height. There it is said, for example, with particular reference to sexuality: "If thy eye offend thee, pluck it out." Fortunately, no Christian acts in accordance with this precept. Destroying the passions and cravings, merely as a preventive measure against their stupidity and the unpleasant consequences of this stupidity today this itself strikes us as merely another acute form of stupidity. We no longer admire dentists who "pluck out" teeth so that they will not hurt any more. To be fair, it should be admitted, however, that on the ground out of which Christianity grew, the concept of the "spiritualization of passion" could never have been formed. After all the first church, as is well known, fought against the "intelligent" in favor of the "poor in spirit." How could one expect from it an intelligent war against passion? The church fights passion with excision in every sense: its practice, its "cure," is castration. It never asks: "How can one spiritualize, beautify, deify a craving?" It has at all times laid the stress of discipline on extirpation (of sensuality, of pride, of the lust to rule, of avarice, of vengefulness). But an attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life: the practice of the church is hostile to life.
Buy your kid World of Warcraft, get them playing it and they will be virgins for the foreseeable future. And they will have plenty of company to act as a support group, millions of other virgins.
Just make absolutely bloody certain that its not an RP server and they stay the hell away from Goldshire...
What the study showed was that after TMS stimulation, subjects based their moral judgments more on whether harm was done than on whether the actor knew that her actions would be harmful.
I'm still not seeing a moral judgement except in the heads of the 'experimenter'. It just seems that its the experimenters who are interpreting a certain perception of reality as moral or immoral and effectively putting words in the subjects minds.
Based on what I've read of this it really isn't clear how this is a 'morality' thing at all.
When they caved into the IOC so that the online broadcast of the BBC world service hourly news was replaced with someone reading out "Due to rights restrictions we are unable to bring you this program", at that point it really became blindingly obvious what the 'BB' stood for.
I didn't stand for it and have never listened to the BBC world service again.
They should have flatly refused to carry news about the Olympics rather than cut the service for anyone not on a UK IP address.
The whole potential human genome is a search space.
By removing the gene for colorblindness we could remove access to potentially valuable volumes of the search space.
Suppose that the gene for colorblindness turned out to be connected with a gene for telepathy such that if we remove colorblindness from the human genome we effectively rule out any possibility of evolving telepathy? (ASSUMING one thinks of telepathy as a potential valuable thing for humans to acquire; lets not get sidetracked by that).
Just an arbitrary example of the way in which we could exclude possibilities from future generations.
However, Russia is inherently tied to the stability of the Chinese and the European markets
Russia, and much of the rest of the Slavic world, is very much 'east meets west'.
My impression has been that the Slavic people have far more in common with, say, the Chinese people than they do with, say, the German people or the French or British.
I think that this double-sided nature of Russia gives you an edge.
I don't think that Russia is as screwed as many seem to think.
They have a secret weapon; its called 'the Russian people'.
I think that 'westerners' look at Russians and they think 'oh they are white people, eurpopeans, they are like us.'
These 'westerners' will then assume that these (Russian) people are subject to the same kinds of cultural limitations and constraints as them. And thereby underestimate them massively.
The 'western world' is experiencing its golden age now, and it thinks itself strong and virile. But it isn't, its far from virile in fact its very weak and unstable. Times have been easy but things are changing. As civilisations go, I anticipate that 'the western world' will undergo something resembling presenile dementia.
I'm not sure if China has thought this through. Have they considered the real possibility of a mass wave of immigration from economically unstable countries like the UK?
Machineguns at the borders to mow down the never-ending waves of chavs.
Theres a kind of postapocalyptic imagery there that I like.
So does that mean that the USA have finally caught up with the Buran?
The Russian Buran project may not have made it into production but at least the first test launch was not manned and the craft was able to take of and land with no crew on board.
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OMG, how come it's always the BROWN dwarves that scare people so much, and nobody ever seems to worry about the white ones?
Well since its a BROWN one you can expect that the US military will bomb it any time now!
Thats their job in the world; if its brown bomb the fuck out of it!
I am going to paste in here a huge chunk of Nietzsche.
I'm sorry its not very well formatted, I found this on the web and this is the first one I found and here it is. Be sure to at least read the last few sentences. I will try to cut it up a bit to make it more digestible:
All passions have a phase when they are merely disastrous, when they drag down their victim with the weight of stupidity and a later, very much later phase when they wed the spirit, when they "spiritualize" themselves.
Formerly, in view of the element of stupidity in passion, war was declared on passion itself, its destruction was plotted; all the old moral monsters are agreed on this: il faut tuer les passions.
The most famous formula for this is to be found in the New Testament, in that Sermon on the Mount, where, incidentally, things are by no means looked at from a height. There it is said, for example, with particular reference to sexuality: "If thy eye offend thee, pluck it out."
Fortunately, no Christian acts in accordance with this precept. Destroying the passions and cravings, merely as a preventive measure against their stupidity and the unpleasant consequences of this stupidity today this itself strikes us as merely another acute form of stupidity. We no longer admire dentists who "pluck out" teeth so that they will not hurt any more.
To be fair, it should be admitted, however, that on the ground out of which Christianity grew, the concept of the "spiritualization of passion" could never have been formed. After all the first church, as is well known, fought against the "intelligent" in favor of the "poor in spirit." How could one expect from it an intelligent war against passion?
The church fights passion with excision in every sense: its practice, its "cure," is castration. It never asks: "How can one spiritualize, beautify, deify a craving?" It has at all times laid the stress of discipline on extirpation (of sensuality, of pride, of the lust to rule, of avarice, of vengefulness).
But an attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life: the practice of the church is hostile to life.
Buy your kid World of Warcraft, get them playing it and they will be virgins for the foreseeable future. And they will have plenty of company to act as a support group, millions of other virgins.
Just make absolutely bloody certain that its not an RP server and they stay the hell away from Goldshire...
Oh.. wait...
Then he was a media darling for adopting some Iraqi boy.
A tender, pretty, young Iraqi boy? With oh such soft skin?
Yeaahhh I bet...
Ban all sex ed!
Because if you keep your kids completely ignorant of sex they will never do it!!!!
Great!!!
If someone said it on Twitter, it must be true.
Twitterlogic would have very simple truth tables?
Gary McKinnon was in the UK, arguably 'under USA jurisdiction'. The UK may *claim* to be an independent nation but thats debatable.
Dmitry Sklyarov was foolish enough to visit the USA, where he was 'under USA jurisdiction' and where he was arrested.
I'd rather perish in a Democracy than survive in a Dictatorship, no matter how benevolent.
How about your children?
Would you rather see your children dead than living under a dictatorship?
What the study showed was that after TMS stimulation, subjects based their moral judgments more on whether harm was done than on whether the actor knew that her actions would be harmful.
I'm still not seeing a moral judgement except in the heads of the 'experimenter'. It just seems that its the experimenters who are interpreting a certain perception of reality as moral or immoral and effectively putting words in the subjects minds.
Based on what I've read of this it really isn't clear how this is a 'morality' thing at all.
No action is morally wrong (or right) in and of itself.
That is just absurd.
Actions are not, cannot be, moral nor immoral without a subjective interpretation. There simply is no objective standard of morality.
Article is a dud on morality; its human perception or consciousness which is being altered.
A human may have a subjective notion that some act is immoral 'in itself' and this subjective notion is a false representation of reality.
What this magnetic field seems to do is to restore a more accurate appraisal of reality to the human being...
When they caved into the IOC so that the online broadcast of the BBC world service hourly news was replaced with someone reading out "Due to rights restrictions we are unable to bring you this program", at that point it really became blindingly obvious what the 'BB' stood for.
I didn't stand for it and have never listened to the BBC world service again.
They should have flatly refused to carry news about the Olympics rather than cut the service for anyone not on a UK IP address.
Ok how about this.
The whole potential human genome is a search space.
By removing the gene for colorblindness we could remove access to potentially valuable volumes of the search space.
Suppose that the gene for colorblindness turned out to be connected with a gene for telepathy
such that if we remove colorblindness from the human genome we effectively rule out any possibility of evolving telepathy? (ASSUMING one thinks of telepathy as a potential valuable thing for humans to acquire; lets not get sidetracked by that).
Just an arbitrary example of the way in which we could exclude possibilities from future generations.
I guess the game could have gay mafia gangs which you could antagonise by driving right through their rights protests!
How about it?
GTA Moscow?
I doubt that I made the original observation...
I think someone once wrote:
"The internet is like a microscope into the human psyche."
America will likely continue its transition into a 3rd world nation
The USA is already a third world nation.
It has some first world city-states.
Ok first off 'wall of text' critted me for 10k damage.
Secondly I agree; no antivirus running on the machine you wish to protect will do you any good against realistic threats.
The only realistic antivirus so far as I can see is to boot from a live CD every so often and to have that scan your system while it is offline.
The live CD would need to be prepared on a machine that you can reasonably expect not to be infested, say a Linux machine dedicated to this purpose.
But thats basically it; hypervisor rootkits mean that any antivirus running under the OS you wish to protect is completely hopeless.
Human beings are NOT 'rational animals'
Any theory that depends on humans being rational agents is inevitably flawed.
Right, so Britain is NOT part of Europe and the Chavs are dead right.
IMO, allowing Britain into the EEC was a huge mistake. De Gaulle was correct to veto it.
Allowing the UK into the EEC was as dumb as allowing Turkey into the EU today would be.
However, Russia is inherently tied to the stability of the Chinese and the European markets
Russia, and much of the rest of the Slavic world, is very much 'east meets west'.
My impression has been that the Slavic people have far more in common with, say, the Chinese people than they do with, say, the German people or the French or British.
I think that this double-sided nature of Russia gives you an edge.
From what I've heard residents of the UK generally deny they are part of "Europe", they like to keep a separate identity.
Is Japan part of Asia?
How do the Japanese people feel about Chinese and Koreans?
I guess theres physical geography and human.
Many Brits are so racist and xenophobic that they cannot be part of anything outside of their own island cluster.
I don't think that Russia is as screwed as many seem to think.
They have a secret weapon; its called 'the Russian people'.
I think that 'westerners' look at Russians and they think 'oh they are white people, eurpopeans, they are like us.'
These 'westerners' will then assume that these (Russian) people are subject to the same kinds of cultural limitations and constraints as them. And thereby underestimate them massively.
The 'western world' is experiencing its golden age now, and it thinks itself strong and virile. But it isn't, its far from virile in fact its very weak and unstable. Times have been easy but things are changing. As civilisations go, I anticipate that 'the western world' will undergo something resembling presenile dementia.
And then the wolves will close in.
I'm not sure if China has thought this through. Have they considered the real possibility of a mass wave of immigration from economically unstable countries like the UK?
Machineguns at the borders to mow down the never-ending waves of chavs.
Theres a kind of postapocalyptic imagery there that I like.
So does that mean that the USA have finally caught up with the Buran?
The Russian Buran project may not have made it into production but at least the first test launch was not manned and the craft was able to take of and land with no crew on board.