Crow posted:
You dont have to be a trot conservative liberal like bf to be wary of weaknesses that parade themselves under banners of false freedom. If you mean hedonism as like some sort of mastery of yourself, beyond stupid, naive drives, as something greater than simple urges of immediate pleasure, as something that breaks free from mental and spiritual slavery, then by all means go ahead.

But if you mean getting your rocks off like a grade A moron, following the path of least resistance, flooding your receptors with stimuli at every turn, swimming in enjoyment until it is dissolved of all pleasure, then that is a weakness. As Stalin says Weakness, Idleness, and Stupidity are perhaps the only true vices. So, unless you elevate your hedonism as some sort of Kantian Absolute Good (or Diabolical Evil, for that matter), you deserve to get a beating. Hedonism, to me, is more like Kant's Radical Evil, not that which is necessarily a horrible deed, but that which gives up on the notion that something other than our inclinations and interests could determine our conduct. That's pathetic.

i mean i have weaknesses, i'm just a man. But i'm not living under the illusion that drudging around in chains is freedom. Check your privilege.

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Crow posted:
You dont have to be a trot conservative liberal like bf to be wary of weaknesses that parade themselves under banners of false freedom. If you mean hedonism as like some sort of mastery of yourself, beyond stupid, naive drives, as something greater than simple urges of immediate pleasure, as something that breaks free from mental and spiritual slavery, then by all means go ahead.

But if you mean getting your rocks off like a grade A moron, following the path of least resistance, flooding your receptors with stimuli at every turn, swimming in enjoyment until it is dissolved of all pleasure, then that is a weakness. As Stalin says Weakness, Idleness, and Stupidity are perhaps the only true vices. So, unless you elevate your hedonism as some sort of Kantian Absolute Good (or Diabolical Evil, for that matter), you deserve to get a beating. Hedonism, to me, is more like Kant's Radical Evil, not that which is necessarily a horrible deed, but that which gives up on the notion that something other than our inclinations and interests could determine our conduct. That's pathetic.

i mean i have weaknesses, i'm just a man. But i'm not living under the illusion that drudging around in chains is freedom. Check your privilege.

Nice crowpost.

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Impper posted:
Wow bf with the dagger-words, and the alpha takedown, at the same time. Big stuff, big stuff.

you've been really cynical lately

what are you talking about?

Nothing hinders the soul so much in attaining to the knowledge of God as time and place. Therefore, if the soul is to know God, it must know Him outside time and place, since God is neither in this or that, but One and above them. If the soul is to see God, it must look at nothing in time; for while the soul is occupied with time or place or any image of the kind, it cannot recognize God.

Our salvation depends upon our knowing and recognizing the Chief Good which is God Himself. I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself... Thus must the soul, which would know God, be rooted and grounded in Him so steadfastly, as to suffer no perturbation of fear or hope, or joy or sorrow, or love or hate, or anything which may disturb its peace... the soul should be remote from all earthly things alike so as not to be nearer to one than another. It should keep the same attitude of aloofness in love and hate, in possession and renouncement, that is, it should be simultaneously dead, resigned and lifted up.

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Impper posted:

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Impper posted:
Wow bf with the dagger-words, and the alpha takedown, at the same time. Big stuff, big stuff.

you've been really cynical lately

what are you talking about?

you used to be so fresh and full of life. now you just chew a mentos and scowl.

ummm ok

littlegreenpills posted:
shahada.can be reduced to the monotone convergence theorem. It's True I Proved It

whats that

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deadken posted:
when was impper ever full of life

after rape

deadken posted:
we're all p messed up at the rhizzone i think its just that our problems are more along the lines of the insufficiency of the Real rather than 'i havent talked to a human being in four days and i want to die'

speak for yourself

deadken posted:
we're all p messed up at the rhizzone i think its just that our problems are more along the lines of the insufficiency of the Real rather than 'i havent talked to a human being in four days and i want to die'

Agreed bit i prevent myself from wallowing in self-pity or excessive ennui by reminding myself i at least have a more comfortable and in many ways rich life than 90% of people who've ever lived on the planet.

And then people are all like “oooh but it’s still empty, in the past people had something to live and die for” as if arbitrarily dying scared and alone on a muddy battlefield in crimea or yucutan is somehow more noble or Real. I don't buy that

deadken posted:
imppers okcupid needs some serious revamping imo. i like the 'you should message me if you like to smash things' bit though. u should try to emphasise your more positive aspects i think, misery is profound but nobody wants a profoundly miserable fuck

i go through phases with it. sometimes it's pretty positive, sometimes it's one line or one word replies. i have no idea what i was doing on there today... but i just messaged a girl today with that profile and i might have a date coming up. i'm never sure what works and what doesn't, it seems random. so we'll see homie