Mason Riggle

"Man often meets his fate along the path he took to avoid it."

I try to answer people's questions about my personal beliefs as honestly as possible, and leave it at that. They can take from it what they wish. Not my concern.

I did not write this, but I found it very interesting- "“Hypocrisy” has two, similar, main meanings. The first is claiming (directly or indirectly) to adhere to some moral standard that one does not in fact adhere to. The second is the practice of criticising in others what one does oneself. I propose that according to the first definition (though not according to the second) it is impossible to admit to hypocrisy, as the very act of admitting to hypocrisy absolves one from that hypocrisy. I often see it proposed that we have an obligation to ‘call out’ abuse whenever we see it. Usually, this means abuse only towards people that the person (the one telling us to ‘call out’ abuse) doesn’t like, and especially not abuse by people they do like. This is hypocrisy, as they are claiming a moral standard that they do not really believe in. I claim that we must always be reasonable, consider the evidence, and remain civil at all times. Do I always manage to adhere to this myself? No. I am a hypocrite. However, by admitting that I am a hypocrite, I am no longer a hypocrite, as hypocrisy requires that I claim or imply that I hold to a particular moral standard myself. My admission means that I am denying that I hold to such a moral standard, and therefore I cannot be accused of hypocrisy after such an admission. In fact, the admission retroactively becomes false, and it might be claimed that making a false admission is the act of a hypocrite." Thoughts?

1) https://skepticink.com/notung/2014/11/13/the-hypocrisy-paradox/ 2) no, because of the first definition of hypocrisy, by admitting to being a hypocrite, you are not a hypocrite. A similar paradox is 'this statement is false'.. if it's true, then it's false.

I don't remember which video (I think in his Spiral Dynamics series) he does indeed talk about this 'trap'. He warns not to think of 'lower' and 'higher' along the 'spiral' as 'better' or 'worse'. The SD Model is just a model, and not perfect representation, and so any 'visualization' or 'representation' is going to be relative. For example.. which way does time flow? We say it's one directional.. but which direction? What does 'into the future' mean without being relative to 'away from the past'? Does that mean that 'the future' is 'better' than 'the past'? No, that would be a silly way to think about this duality.

The color on the bottle said 'Deep Bronze'.

@datamonster it becomes problematic when Governments enact laws that prohibit free expression. When Twitter, or Google, or Apple, or Facebook create policies, and censor content with the aim of safeguarding against violence, exploitation of minors, racism, etc. this is not in any way an infringement on anyone's freedom of expression. The conflation of these two things is the real problem.

@LordFall if I started relentlessly spamming this forum with the raunchiest porn I could dig up, what would be the best course of action for Leo to take?

It's effortless. How hard are you trying to grow your hair right now? Not at all... you do it effortlessly. How hard are you trying to think your thoughts right now? Not at all.. you do it effortlessly.. Trying to 'be like yourself' and trying to 'not be like yourself' are the same thing.. they are both 'what you are doing', which is 'being yourself', and 'being yourself' is something you are always doing... effortlessly.

is this a direct quote, or, in this one instance, are you able to understand that you can impart meaning without being explicit?

As forestluv pointed out, suggesting Trump is either 100% responsible or 0% responsible lacks nuance. I don't know how many BLM leaders (I don't even know who the leaders of BLM are) have called to 'keep fighting' on twitter.. enlighten me with some examples?

@Animal2692 so, his actions AFTER the Capitol got stormed show his intent prior to the Capitol being stormed? That's like me planning a beautiful funeral for my dead wife as proof I didn't mean to kill her.

The Charles Manson defense. - "I never killed anyone."

@Carl-Richard Poe's law Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture stating that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, it is impossible to create a parody of extreme views so obviously exaggerated that it cannot be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of the views being parodied.

He wants to eat owls..

Remember that if 'you want to improve', that's part of your personality as well.

Remember this phrase- "The map is not the territory" The map (the concepts we use to describe reality) can never be 100% accurate, without actually being what it's mapping (the territory). No 'description of reality' is ever the same as 'reality'.

Everything will be okay in the end.. so if everything's not okay, don't worry, it's not the end.

Being yourself is all that you ever do, and you never have to try to do it. Trying not to be yourself, or trying to be yourself, are both 'what you are doing' when you are doing it, and 'what you are doing' is always 'being yourself'. The illusion that you 'do things' other than 'be yourself' arises because of the language we use. When we say, for example, "I am being myself", this creates an imaginary separation between 'I' and 'what I am doing' where there is none. When we speak like this, we tend to imagine a separate 'locus of attention' that resides inside our organism somewhere that 'does things', but this is an illusion. We can notice that when we say, "I am growing my hair" or "I am digesting my food" we are never tempted to think 'we are doing it' in this same way. The reality is.. your organism is growing hair. Your organism is digesting food. Your organism is thinking thoughts. Recognize that your organism does these things without a 'you' who makes your organism do them. There is nothing 'you' do, other than 'be your organism', because there is no 'other you' that does things. That 'you' is just something else your organism is doing.

People say I'm crazy Doing what I'm doing Well, they give me all kinds of warnings To save me from ruin When I say that I'm okay, well they look at me kinda strange "Surely, you're not happy now, you no longer play the game" People say I'm lazy Dreaming my life away Well they give me all kinds of advice Designed to enlighten me When I tell them that I'm doing fine watching shadows on the wall "Don't you miss the big time boy, you're no longer on the ball?" I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round I really love to watch them roll No longer riding on the merry-go-round I just had to let it go Ah, people ask me questions Lost in confusion Well, I tell them there's no problem Only solutions Well, they shake their heads and they look at me, as if I've lost my mind I tell them there's no hurry, I'm just sitting here doing time I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round I really love to watch them roll No longer riding on the merry-go-round I just had to let it go I just had to let it go I just had to let it go - John Lennon

@iceprincess Double down.. ask them if they're aware of the FOURTH tower..

Targets arise.

A man walks into the bedroom with a sheep under his arm, looks at his wife and says, "I just wanted to show you the fat pig I f*@# when you're not around.". His wife says to him, I'm sorry to tell you, hun, but that's a sheep.". The man replies, "I wasn't talking to you."

"The Lottery" - short story by Shirley Jackson