rriepe
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Comment · 5 years ago
Can you please ban me? I don't want to be part of this community any more. I appreciate you (you! specifically) holding this place together but it's become one of the most toxic places on the internet for anti-Christian, anti-American and anti-conservative sentiment.
Comment · 5 years ago
Governments save all the time in various ways but that's not what I'm talking about when I say "absorb": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor...
What they never do is "earn." You wouldn't use that verb for money I took under threat of force or imprisonment, right? So why would you use it here? Try "steal," "rob," or, if you're feeling particularly generous, "take."
As for where it's going: Into a hole in the ground? My argument is that governments are inherently inefficient, not that governments shouldn't exist.
Government is emergent. It has to exist. If you see someone having the "Should government exist?" debate they're probably an anarchist in high school. Or an HNer, I guess. It's not a serious intellectual discussion topic. Drop 10 people off on a deserted island and they'll have a government 30 minutes later. There's no "no government."
Comment · 5 years ago
You're a bigot.
Comment · 5 years ago
Chaos is just a government that absorbs more wealth.
Comment · 5 years ago
I'm right here. I'm a human. You can e-mail me. I'm a person!
Comment · 5 years ago
It's usually just tax forms when you turn 18
Comment · 5 years ago
Taxes are bad. Governments absorb wealth. They don't create wealth. No government has ever created wealth.
Comment · 5 years ago
There's a bunch of hidden social rules around commenting on immunity because the last big pandemic was HIV.
Comment · 5 years ago
Uncle Ben's subreddit is the best place for info
Comment · 5 years ago
Sure, it was iron overload [1]. I thought I could "eat like an adult" there and catch up on leafy greens which I always hated. But it turns out I hated them because my body can't process out iron. It kinda turned on its head my idea of "trying to be healthy" which is why I didn't mention the specific thing.
[1] https://nautil.us/issue/67/reboot/iron-is-the-new-cholestero...
Comment · 5 years ago
I "burned out" while working at a FAANG and it just turned out to be a health problem, accelerated by the food there.
All of my side projects from the time are extremely uninspired.
Comment · 5 years ago
This is too specific. Look for the Trinity and you'll see it plainly. What lives in everyone's heart, created the world we live in and gives society its structure, according to them? That's what they worship.
Comment · 5 years ago
I like the phrase "life stance" for this idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_stance
Comment · 5 years ago
I used to be like this. I regret it. I made a distinction that didn't exist-- that there were non-religious people and religious people.
Naturally, I was one of the non-religious people and therefore better. Instead of defining what I believed in, I could just attack the things I didn't believe in. It was easy. I never had to play defense. I might not win every time but I could never lose. I could rattle cages but had no cage of my own.
The way you're describing yourself is how everyone thinks. Faith and doubt are two sides of the same coin. I consider faith worthless without doubt.
Comment · 5 years ago
You can hear a European perspective on it in the song Prisencolinensinainciusol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8
And one on emotion: http://eristicstest.com
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