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  1. Will Torbald
    A kickstarter at first, and I heard about Intel being in on it. Is there more to the rabbit hole?
  2. Will Torbald
    And all of those things are made up. Complete fantasy. Humanity does have a compass called reason which brings forth philosophy and science. Humans mold the universe around them, they don't need to be told what to do by the univrse. Our endeavors last generations even when our bodies don't. We are immortal in our ideas.
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    Nothing in this is about morality, as it shows in your deflection when you have nothing to defend. Your concept of the sublime is an abstraction of real human endeavor and emotion. It is nothing metaphysical. Yes, the christians as a whole did good things, but also bad things. None of that makes it true. None of that makes it moral. None of that takes away the opium you are consuming through delusion.
  4. Will Torbald
    Fallacies are fun to spot, but the "fallacy fallacy" is important to remember too.
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    Then you sell what you have. You don't go "mine mine" in a free market. You add value to the community. The only reason a majority would gang up on a minority is if the minority is hogging something necessary (not liked or pretty, but truly necessary) and inaccesible from any other source, and you are keeping it from others. This is why I say your examples are imaginary and cartoony - because when applied to a real free market they fall apart like the strawmen they are. If a minority is so corrupt that is keeping necessities from others which they can't get from anywhere else, they deserve their conflict. I would join that mob because it would be really, incredibly stupid, monumentally insane to do that in a free market when you could just make commerce with it. However, I can't think of any resource that is so indispensable that a minority would be willing to hog it for themselves. Some resources are scarce, but not exclusive to one place. Some resources are, but they are so valuable that hogging them is a bad idea. You'd need to be an evil villain from Scooby Doo to have your scenario.
  6. Will Torbald
    When you want to know if X behavior is immoral, frame it as a good, and see if it's universalizable and doesn't self destruct. For example "lying is good" - if it's true, I am being bad by telling the truth that "lying is good" therefore it self destructs. So the proposition that lying is good is not valid, so the opposite must be true, that lying is bad.
  7. Will Torbald
    My tinfoil hat sense is tingling. I just do not subscribe to the idea that these 1st world feminists are influencing the UN to push these policies - it feels as if it is the opposite. That the whole outrage and victim industry comes from globalists in first place, use these multicolored hair figures as pawns, and instigate their plans to have more control over people's information and lives. Huge tinfoil hat by now, but the narrative of harrassment is completely paper thin.
  8. Will Torbald
    I'm getting tired of this "paraconsistent logic" pseudo argument. I read the wikipedia, and it makes no sense whatsoever. If you can't explain right here in this forum what 3rd pillar other than "true" or "false" there is, you are just throwing smoke at mirrors.
  9. Will Torbald
    We are open minded to voluntary solutions of real problems arising from a free society. When you put forward imaginary scenarios with no nuance, and frankly quite cartoonish and unrealistic problems, of course you are going to find we don't agree with you. Read "Practical Anarchy" on the free books section if you want an idea of where to start solving the problems of freedom. After that, you can keep reading more. After that you can ask yourself why want to appoint people in the first place to control you.
  10. Will Torbald
    I don't think you're far from the truth in your analysis of how genes for violent reproduction spread out in the early phases of human evolution. They were still probably in the minority as monogamy is still the strongest instinctual drive in the human species nowadays. However, having a low sex drive population isn't good for the survival of the species in the long run. Having a lot of sex drive, and even hedonistic sex, is just a consequence of the reality where we evolved. You die young, so reproduce a lot while you can. We built cities of concrete, but we were made for the wild where there's malaria and leopards. Good luck living past 30 without antibiotics. It will take many generations, millions of years of this civilized world before genes for low libido spread out - and they probably never will considering populations are decreasing in advanced countries since they didn't have at least 3 children per couple. I recommend you watch the r/K selection series for more on the differences of the hedonistic sex havers and the "just for reproduction" couples.
  11. Will Torbald
    I agree with this except for one single objection. Secularism is not the gold standard. It's a copper standard at best. The silver standard would be agnosticism. The gold standard is hard, rational, scientific, philosophical atheism for all. That is the true liberation of the human mind. The final freedom is not anarchy. It's the end of superstition.
  12. Will Torbald
    You didn't read my post before that one where I said why: Here's a short list of all the cruelties of the god of the bible: http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/cruelty/long.htmlHere's another one where god has no morals and contradicts his own commandments like "don't kill" and then he goes on to kill: http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/inj/long.html I said that you should educate yourself with the countless presentations on youtube made about it. I don't have the time to go one by one, just point you in the direction you should take to have more awareness of your chosen superstition. Since you want one given to you here, watch this one on the ten commandments: Here's another on the irrationality of god And before you say "but that's not Jesus" remember that Jesus very well said that everything in the past is ok by him, and that the god of the Jews is his god, and that he is super ok with human sacrifice to retroactively save people of imaginary sins from the mythical original man and woman. Therefore an amoral and immoral human sacrifice death cult.
  13. Will Torbald
    If there is no logic, you can't have right or wrong. If you can't have that, why are you even saying UPB is wrong? It wouldn't matter. It would just be an opinion. Therefore, you're just trying to enforce an opinion, which is very bullish. Quit wasting time trying to convince people that they are wrong in a world without truth, if you so believe it is true there is nothing true.
  14. Will Torbald
    That is very disrespectful and unnecessary.
  15. Will Torbald
    That's the problem, you are worried about invisible menaces that you imagine will happen. You should be worried about what's real now, and is actually a product of the state. You're trying to tell the leviathan what to do properly instead of resolving to live without it. Because we don't need it.
  16. Will Torbald
    I can sing and play guitar. I don't know how far ahead the idea of an FDR album goes, but maybe a single or an EP.
  17. Will Torbald
    You can quit a business, you can't quit a government (without getting shot). What I would like to let you know is that all the pragmatical arguments for your system will bounce off me, and mostly all of us who are discussing it with you. You will never get over the immorality of the state, and the real stability, sustainable growth, happiness and real equality of a voluntary society. And even if the voluntary society wasn't a utopia (it won't) had tons of issues with crime and corruption (we have that now too) and didn't guarantee anyone's safety (it isn't now either) I would still choose it over anything else. I would choose it even if it were worse and had more crime, more poverty, and more uncertainty (because I could make a buck trying to solve those problems).
  18. Will Torbald
    String theory has been around for longer, has a lot of respect and backing, and has yielded zero practical applications and zero testable results. Science is weird like that.
  19. Will Torbald
    It's not a bad idea. However, your show seems to require quite a bit of funding, don't you think? Are you willing to quit your job to dedicate the time required to have it done full time, well researched, and with pretty happy faces singing about the end of civilization as we know it? If the answer is yes, hooray! Let's get Freedomain Radio trendy. If we can get One Direction and Kanye West singing about the free market and peaceful parenting the world could change in two weeks. Let's get Hollywood to make anarchist movies with peaceful societies, no violence, and win win trade. Imagine Silvester Stalone with a business suit instead of a machine gun, and 10 of his muscle manly friends. Call it "The Entrepeneurs". Hot, sweaty, negotiations! But seriously, there's definitely space for new shows to fill the niche of a younger reaching audience.
  20. Will Torbald
    I already gave my summary as to why. I'm not going to go point by point, just the general idea. If you wish to educate yourself on the immorality of christianity you can go to www.youtube.com and search "christianity is immoral" and you'll get many videos explaining it to you. Lots of debates. Really good stuff.
  21. Will Torbald
    I'm not in any way an experct, but if any of these fringe theories had any validity, every real scientist would be all over it. It would appear in the media, you'd hear Bill Nye talking about it, all the usual suspects. Just with my knowledge of vaccuum energy I'd tell you that it's a crack dream. Empty space does have force, but you need extremely sensitive instruments to detect it, and it's still minuscule. You can't make anything practical out of it.
  22. Will Torbald
    "Obey my commandments or else hell" is not a moral theory, therfore amoral. Ignoring all other immoral acts being commited during the time of the bible and not mentioning that they were bad is passive acceptance, and considering you are supposedly taking the commandments of a know all being, for that deity not to mention those acts of immorality means he is cool with those. And all the other immoral acts that were actually encouraged, not just passively agreed with. Not to mention the fact that is is just not true, not even historically, and children are indoctrinated and propagandized in a human sacrifice death cult.
  23. Will Torbald
    What do you need a leader for? Do you need a leader to decide what to have for breakfast? To tell you where to go to work? Nothing in your life is ruled by leaders. Have you appointed by democratic voting a leader for your own personal life who will run by you how to live? If you're not willing to do that for yourself, why impose it on us?
  24. Will Torbald
    At least you're admitting it's just an aesthetic choice for you. You just like it. You just want to believe in it because it's pretty for you. I do however take notice of the comment on morality, and I thoroughly oppose it. Christianity is deeply amoral and immoral.
  25. Will Torbald
    The real feminist discourse is enough comedy for me.
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