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I kind of like the idea that the Emperor was initially sincere with his super-atheist routine and only later found out what kind of universe he was actually living in and didn't react well to the knowledge. Which I'm pretty sure only makes sense if you disregard a lot of his supposed backstory but T...

The crux of it isn't the issue of utilitarianism vs deontological ethics or anything like that. The main thing I was trying to show with that reblog is my distaste for the heavy focus on guilt in morality. At its core you have so many examples of people whose professed morality is based, when broke...

IB you mind if I respond to something you posted on your tumblr? (tw: child abuse) Suppose an evil king decides to do a twisted moral experiment on you. He tells you to kick a small child really hard, right in the face. If you do, he will end the experiment with no further damage. If you refuse, he ...

Found this one yesterday, think it's pretty cool:


http://youtube.com/watch?v=gnorTj1CnVg

Anyway, I got the opportunity to plug an interesting book out of it. Bruce Lerro's Power In Eden had some interesting commentary that kind of ties into this. It was probably women who invented and controlled early horticulture, as it was an extension of their gathering activities. As such, in these ...

Ugh, somebody made a "why are women more religious than men" thread on SB (which is legit a pretty interesting question) and I'm half-way through and gross essentialism is already popping up in the answers. It's cause women are naturally more docile than men! It's because EVOPSYCH MEN HUNT...

Of course, with basically all these songs, only the melody and lyrics have been preserved. The compositions may be similar to what the original performances sounded like, but it's also likely they are heavily influenced by contemporary ideas of what they "should" have sounded like. Like t...

I stumbled on this yesterday, it's pretty cool. Some of my favorites: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da9FeNoFIm0 I found this one particularly interesting: reconstructed Byzantine music. I wonder what's up with the gruesome illustration... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UvesKl8_W8 Middle English (1...

http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/internet-sleuths-vs-anita-sarkeesian.268446/ I've been watching that thread, the side of common decency seems to have gotten a fairly firm upper hand in it fairly early and pretty much triumphed. It's mostly just poor THASF being his usual self and a bunch of ...

So I just logged in to my Yahoo groups for the first time in a long time.

AUGH what happened to the format.

It seems more ... complicated and sterile-looking now.

They changed it now it sucks.

RogueIce wrote:But in all seriousness, every time I've tried going to SB for about the past week, it won't load. Has there been a long-term outage or am I just really unlucky in picking my times to browse?

It seems to be OK in the mornings and nights but out during the afternoons and evenings.

On the African plains, we developed a division-of-labor scheme that has done well for 200,000 years. It’s called ‘Men’s Work’ and ‘Women’s Work’. So far, so good but it’s under attack because Men’s Work doesn’t get you killed as often as it used to so now there are more applicants. Man the notion t...

Infinity Biscuit wrote:Check my recent posts in that other forum

yeah I know it's complaints about there but I tried to keep it vague blame jung it's all his fault

Oh, SDN? I hardly bother looking at it anymore.

Infinity Biscuit wrote:Man so apparently one of my hot buttons is smug white guys comparing the travesty of disturbing facts being pointed out about men as a whole with racial profiling of people of colour

Link/more info?

Actually, I may have misread that last paragraph. On my second reading I'm seeing it as a criticism of current liberalism being a movement even more assimiliationist than many forms of conservatism, and I can get behind that. Yeah, that's basically what I was getting at: that a lot of the cultural ...

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/is-it-benedict-option-time/ http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/some-right-wingers-hate-american-society-so-much-theyre-talking-about-seceding-from-it.267824/ What the article in the OP talks about sounds like a good idea to me. I don't have a problem...

Basically, I was thinking back on Richard Dawkins and The Amazing Atheist ( http://manboobz.com/2012/02/08/theamazingatheists-misogynist-meltdown/ ), and, well it's more anecdotal than a real trend with only two samples ; but I'm troubled about how mysoginistic, and somewhat conservative they are w...

Infinity Biscuit wrote:Seriously though is there a reason for them to be in the back pockets instead of the side honest question here

I have an allergy or something that results in me needing to blow my nose a lot; my front pockets are generally full of kleenex.

Wait was it I thought Oxy's was about the current thing where his videos being taken down for hate speech has caused him to have a literal meltdown rather than just the tantrum I was talking about. I'll try to find the post but I make no promises Never mind, I just realized I misread evilsoup's post.

evilsoup wrote:link pls that sounds hilarious

It's in Oxymoron's post.

On a specific level, Internet atheism is often incredibly socially conservative in many senses, and has been for a while. I think that may actually be doing a disservice to social conservatives - my impression is it's more associated with the lolbertarian/MRA/PUA crowd that strikes me as a signific...

Well the lack of self-awareness it takes to be that kind of atheist and not realize how Christian its attitudes are would certainly help with maintaining reactionary attitudes while being a self-professed liberal. And given the tradition of associating masculinity with reason and femininity with emo...

Phantasee wrote:in other news my grandfather died yesterday morning

Random internet person condolences, for what they're worth.

7/ http://i.imgur.com/chP1SyU.jpg A sort-of sequel to the previous effort: It looks like it may rain. The clouds are rolling in over Nahan Maga, big, fleshy, dark and substantial in the sunset. It’s beautiful. In the sunset the Works become beautiful. The big exchanger towers look very dramatic, ri...

Oxymoron wrote:Pretty cool, I like it.

Thanks.