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  1. Will Torbald
    Not all Sunnis are like that. Now what? It never ends. They don't want to advocate for the muslims that don't commit terrorism. They are telling you to shut up because you are making them feel uncomfortable, and afraid of being labeled an islamophobe or a racist.
  2. Will Torbald
    Globalization and globalism sound similar, but I think they refer to different ideologies. Japan is globalized in the sense that it has international trade, but it doesn't follow globalism/multiculturalism since it is very racially, culturally, and spiritually homogeneous. In fact, I've only seen Japan mentioned as an example of nationalism else where.
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    No, of course it is incompatible. You can't have a tolerant liberal society amongst intolerant fundamentalists. The problem is that progressives gave sold out the lgbt community for Islam in the west. Their goal was never gay rights, but the destruction of traditional western culture, family, and morality. They found out that importing Islam does so much more effectively.
  4. Will Torbald
    My argument was about your heavy implication that determinism leads causally to nihilism to depression, and that her depression is either exacerbated or caused by thinking in Schopenhauer's terms. Then you deny any implications, change the subject to cause and effect as part of the argument of determinism itself - but I never debated that. The cause and effect in question is between determinism and psyche status. In so far as your big worry for her and for everyone else I guess is that people will definitely suffer negative consequences deterministically (cause and effect) in their minds (determinism in consciousness) as opposed to a free will process where the origin of their distress comes from their free decisions to be sad.
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    Schopenhauer is not particularly deep if you understand his views as the rationalization of a depressed and selfish man, universalizing his emotional cripplings on others. The problem with philosophers who say "we are all one, and a manifestation of the will" is that they are from a pre-science era. It is, as I said before, mystical. It puts the will before the man, as if the will exists non physically like a spirit or a god and manifests the man out of it, when in fact it is the other way. "You can never feel happiness, only the absence of pain" yeah, well, sorry for you Schoppy. You would have loved some of the anti-depressants we have now.
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    Are we talking here about probabilistic consequences, or deterministic consequences? Can you plot the distribution of people who become depressed as a direct consequence of believing in determinism and those who are immune to it - or is it a deterministic result that will always lead a person to become nihilistic? Because attacking determinism with determinism kind of seems to defeat itself. And there is no way out of it, either. If it's a probability, is it directly correlated with IQ? In that case the probability of being a nihilist because of determinism is determined by IQ which is genetically and environmentally influenced and largely out of anyone's control. If it is a direct causation, you're also being deterministic. But then, what about the non nihilistic determinists? What makes them not depressed?
  7. Will Torbald
    Yeah, even Einstein was a physical determinist, and he turned out fine. It's the conflation of fatalism/pessimism/nihilism with some form of biological/physical-determinism that is the subject of discord.
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    I think it depends on the level of stupidity of the falsehood. Some people are very smart and would listen to arguments, but they have the wrong data. Some people are cretins who repeat wrong data and falsehoods and are unable to infer for themselves what is wrong with them. So it's a process of selecting the deserving and the undeserving. One of the ways I do it is to instead of giving out a counter argument, I just say that they're wrong, or that it is not true in some way, but not explain how or why. If they are honest people just trying to know the truth or have any degree of curiosity they will ask back where the mistake is. If they are not, they will ignore it or make an emotional response. Then I know if they are worth arguing with.
  9. Will Torbald
    If you give reason, and they reply with emotion - do they deserve reason again? I don't think so. They have shown they lack the ability to process information.
  10. Will Torbald
    There are so many people in the world, and so few people change it. The instinct for wanting to do something remarkable would have to be an extreme anomaly, a freak mutation, for it to represent reality. But my point about the iphone was not "sell iphone" but the creativity that it took to make one from scratch at all. That is a degree of freedom of mind. Wanting to have resources and a successful business can only be sustained by a free mind capable of imagining what hasn't been done before.
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    If we discuss free will as an absolute ability of choice, I would disagree. I do realize people are bound by their instincts, their evolution, the stimuli, their hormones, biology, and so on. Babies don't choose to cry, they cannot do anything but cry when they are born. We develop more abilities as we grow and mature even if we're never divorced from instinct. There is however a point when we can say that a person chose to act in a certain way amongst other possibilites available. Then we say that was a free choice even if we can't say he wasn't influenced from within by his reptile brain or something like that. The only path there is to increase the degree of freedom we experience internally is to increase the fortitude of the higher brain, the neocortex and human abilities to subdue the lower instincts that feel like we're being controlled. But we're not born with that ability, it is developed through maturity and conscious training. Like an enlightened buddha, I'd say. What I wouldn't sign on to is to agree that there is no degree of unbound will at all - I think the capacity to day dream, imagine the impossible, to determine foresight and create new things, ideas, inventions - those things were not programed by evolution of stimuli. There is no instinct saying "build iphone" as far as I know.
  12. Will Torbald
    I said nothing wrong, and that quote out of context misses the intention of what I was saying. She's saying that there's no freedom because people are bound to their own desires, which is a different kind of freedom from libertarian ideas - and since we're in a libertarian forum, it is an objective statement of fact. I'm not claiming to know what each individual person thinks, but what the theme of the place is. I was avoiding a confusion between two different kinds of freedom.
  13. Will Torbald
    The freedom spoken in these places is political freedom, or liberty. It's a social and cultural freedom. But were not free from nature and biology, that I admit, but so does everyone else. I am not free to not eat and not die. A being free from nature would be a god. You can't equate wanting to eat with wanting to live. I am arguing that you are making a mistake. The result of eating may extend your life, but it does not follow from a desire to live. It is entirely possible yet cruel for a person to eat and not want to live at the same time which would be depression. It sounded mystical at least. But if you say that paintings exist people people had the desire to make paintings, I don't see how that is a profound revelation.
  14. Will Torbald
    What does it mean to be free, if you can do what you want, but you cannot choose what you want? It means to not be bound by the will of another even if you are bound to your own will. “Is there any action at all without that [the numenon of life]?” If you create a mystical concept, you can attach that concept to everything because it doesn't really exist. Detach your mind from concepts, see only what your senses show you. Only then can you escape the tyranny of concepts that cloud your mind. that the mere fact of your existence would intrinsically mean that you want to live and to reproduce Not necessarily. Life programs pains and reliefs, hunger and lust, but it doesn't program you for the result of the relief of those desires. Animals don't want to reproduce, they want to end a lust. They don't even know living means, but hunger keeps them alive. Only humans understand the result of those actions, and can determine themselves to achieve them directly instead of accidentally.
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    These are very difficult questions for anyone who isn't an expert to answer without more information. I have a few questions about the issue that are relevant. What is your ethnic background? Where were you raised? Have you had IQ tests? How was your mother's pregnancy? Did she consume substances, alcohol, or had traumatic events during it? Were you breastfed as recommended? Were you hit or shaken as a baby?
  16. Will Torbald
    He's also been flirting with Mike Cernovich on videos and twitter. "An honest conversation" series would be better for it with him or someone in that range. Though honestly Stef is pretty much a Alt Right in his sentiments. He just doesn't agree politically with those who want a monarchy reinstated, or a christian theocracy, or a pure ethnostate. Other than that, well, it's very similar.
  17. Will Torbald
    It's not an impossible scenario, but given the media's high interest in every trans-sport story, I don't know if I can assume there is a large group of trans athletes that no one is talking about.
  18. Will Torbald
    Solipsistic matrixes are unfalsifiable, and the worry of unfalsifiable constructs is the realm of mysticism and theology. Or neurosis. What if there is a spider you can't touch or see or detect inside of you? What if you have a secret stalker trying to kill you? You can't know if you have one because he is very good at hiding himself. What if we live in a simulation on the actual real world? The only answer to that is that it doesn't matter what we can't know, only what we can trust. You don't know if the floor is going to turn into lava when you step out of bed, but you must trust it won't. That is to be that even if the empirical knowledge of the world were imperfect, it is perfectly useful for the world.
  19. Will Torbald
    I'll take the empirical evidence that every single time a transwoman enters a female sex sport they destroy the competition as enough for me to reject all rationalistic arguments that it is a myth. Sorry, but the experiment has been done. They win.
  20. Will Torbald
    About the gas: Indefinite expansion includes in itself the property of expanding when heated. Same thing. I won't dwell much on this, it's frankly a non issue. The mind is not another "world". Consciousness is not another "world". Concepts and abstractions are just happening in your brain. Stefan makes the same argument in UPB and podcasts about the futility of moral theories. The ultimate value of a moral theory is that it exists and it is a sword and shield against the morally corrupt who will try to persuade the morally inclined. If you know your theory correctly, you won't be conned. But that's what my argument is, I don't know about Stef. If you're really interested in atoms and the laws of physics, study physics. You won't get the answers with philosophy. But this is my argument as to why worrying about the future of the laws of physics doesn't matter: If they change, you'll be killed instantly. The world as it is now works in a razor edge balance between all the forces and particles. If one were to suddenly change or shift or become weaker or stronger, everything would deatomize. We depend on the values, strenghts, and properties of nature to be the way they are to even exist in this form. That is actually one of the ways some physicists have theoriezed the world could end - if the strength of the Higgs Field (the field that enables the Higgs Boson) where to suddenly change, the entire universe would be destroyed because the effect of the Higgs keeps particles together inside atoms and other forces as well. So why worry if they will change? They can't change without us dying anyway.
  21. Will Torbald
    In my experience, high IQ people just don't mix well with low IQ. Do you know in what range you are? My guess is above 120 easily. You also sound highly K-selective, feeling alienated around r-selected women and their libertine sexual strategies. Of the factors you mentioned I think being raised mostly by women is the one who would add to most to the environmental factors of your still romance scenario. I think that if you had spent more time around people as intelligent and K as you, you wouldn't have had the dry season you describe.
  22. Will Torbald
    It's true by definition, not by "substantiation". If I say dogs are mammals, and you say you found a dog that isn't a mammal, then what you found isn't a dog. It simply belongs in a different category apart from dog. Call it a deg if you want. A gas that doesn't expand when heated isn't in the category of gas, it would be something else. Call it a ges is if you want. There is no external world because there is no internal world. There is only the world. Your perceptions and imaginations are part of it, not separate. Your brain isn't in a different realm from the rest of the things. And even if it were true that you can't "absolute perfect 100% super duper extreeeeme" knowledge of the world - why care? It doesn't change anything. No one will stop working, the lights won't go off, fried chicken will still taste delicious, and nothing will move in any different direction. No one will stop trying to change the world or make it a better place if they think they can't have """""knowledge""""" that they are not in a jar controlled by a demon.
  23. Will Torbald
    If you are correcting him, you are asking he should conform to a universal standard of truth and change his mind. That his behavior must change in order to accept a universal truth. That should is also implied in UPB, as trying to say that UPB doesn't say you should act morally is already making use of a universal standard. So no, UPB does say you should act morally because when you say you don't have to, you contradict yourself.
  24. Will Torbald
    If you find a gas that doesn't expand when heated you either didn't heat it, or it isn't a gas - which would give a synthetic solution to the analytical problem. My take is, why is this concerning? Is anyone dying from it?
  25. Will Torbald
    It's not as simple as saying that they forfeit a right, since if you assume there is a right to life, then he has priviliges that he can claim are not being rightfully owed to him. His argument is that by people having private property his right to life is being infringed, and he demands the life that he is owed by that right from others. He considers it an injustice that someone isn't keeping him alive. That kind of entitlement is not rational.
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