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The point is that he wants to offload his conscience to some other - God - instead of keeping his eyes on the price; more power. So which is it now? God is dead, or no? You cant have it both ways.

Beauty is a higher goal. An artist actualizes "their vision" - do you call that selfish and degenerate? Or could it be that this is actually a noble pursuit? We can discuss how much should be sacrificed in the name of beauty, but if we can not agree that art is not limited to a canvas, this conversation will go nowhere. You think Im joking, but Im not. Everyone is quick to surrender beauty in the name of ethics, but consider the opposite and everyone loses their shit. Of course the ideal is to find a synthesis between both beauty and goodness and Im open to that possibility, but you will always face crossroads in life where you have to make triage decisions - but you dont want to contemplate that of course.

He might not have been conscious of his Nietzschean metaphysics, but with his conversion he certainly surrendered them. Im sure he did this to appeal to the Muslims and position himself as their posterboy, but this was ultimately a self-destructive move; hes now in a moral schism and doesnt really know whats up and down anymore. He could have died happy without ever bowing to anyone, but this ship has now sailed. I dont think hes faking it btw - he might have had a vested interest in his conversion, but his faith seems to be genuine.

Much like TOOL, Radiohead is really in a league of their own and operates outside the confines of any predefined genre. This song is the epitome of beauty in simplicity; almost Bachian in it's ever evolving iterations on one theme.

Saying that Andrew Tate doesn't care about his followers is like saying Elon Musk doesn't care about the minions that build his rockets - it's obvious they are not philanthropists and just need manpower to actualize their vision; whether that vision is compelling to you or not is a different matter. As far as exploitation goes, I wouldn't be so quick to throw this word around. The only people that got exploited in Tate's scheme were the guys that got seduced by the camgirls - a rather negligible sacrifice, if you ask me.

The guy never showed up again

Not all ancient structures like the Pyramids of Giza, the Parthenon, and cathedrals were built by slaves. Some were built by skilled workers and craftsmen who were paid for their labor. However, it's true that in some cases, forced labor was used, particularly during times of war or as a form of punishment. For example, it's believed that some of the workers who built the Pyramids of Giza were conscripted laborers. However, the exact nature of their labor and status is still the subject of much debate among historians. From ChatGPT. Regardless of which structure was built by whom, you get my point, no? - in any case it were the peasants that built this as monuments to the king/emperor/ruler's power.

Are the Pyramids of Gizeh not stunning? Or the Cologne Cathedral? What about the Parthenon? All built by slaves and peasants with hundreds and thousands of poor people dying - yet we can look at these historical sites in awe and reverie; while still acknowledging that we wouldn't want to trade positions with the poor bastards that had to be sacrificed.

I don't understand his conversion either. That's when he broke character and surrendered his will to power - which is a shame. Maybe his jail sentence is God's punishment for him chickening out?

He's an exceptional man, but he doesn't give a fuck about you - hate to break it to you. Also, when exactly did the "devil get hold of him?" If you want to call him the devil, then you have to acknowledge that this was always in him. He's more akin to the Nietzschean Übermensch than the devil, but there is also a lot about him that's petty.

That's because there is one and the same story underneath every story (The Monomyth/Hero's Journey). You interpret your life through story (whether you know it or not) - forgetting this story is the definition of insanity lol.

You are developing a skill, not a result. You can get progressively better (some lines of development resemble a step-function more than a linear one; meaning, you have breakthroughs and plateaus -- but it's both simultaneously, as is the case in evolution itself) at selling, but you can't progressively sell more. A musician might not compose a song in months, but he can still be involved in a creative process that will level up his skills - until he has a new breakthrough and creates his best work yet (and wouldn't it be silly, if the musician was beating himself up the following day for not dishing out an even greater work of art?) He can also practice a song on the piano and get better everyday. What he can't do is compose 2 songs today, 3 tomorrow and 5 the day after that.

Now is the slave a free man, now all the stiff, hostile barriers break apart, those things which necessity and arbitrary power or “saucy fashion” have established between men. Now, with the gospel of world harmony, every man feels himself not only united with his neighbour, reconciled and fused together, but also as if the veil of Maja has been ripped apart, with only scraps fluttering around before the mysterious original unity. Singing and dancing, man expresses himself as a member of a higher unity. He has forgotten how to walk and talk and is on the verge of flying up into the air as he dances. The enchantment speaks out in his gestures. Just as the animals speak and the earth gives milk and honey, so now something supernatural echoes out of him. He feels himself a god. He now moves in a lofty ecstasy, as he saw the gods move in his dream. The man is no longer an artist. He has become a work of art. The artistic power of all of nature, the rhapsodic satisfaction of the primordial unity, reveals itself here in the intoxicated performance. The finest clay, the most expensive marble—man—is here worked and chiseled, and the cry of the Eleusianian mysteries rings out to the chisel blows of the Dionysian world artist: "Do you fall down, you millions? World, do you have a sense of your creator?”

Why do you read? It should be because you have some kind of problem or question and youre looking for answers. You will not forget something that youre directly seeking out. When reading becomes just another habit and youre working through a big list of books, is when it becomes a liability.

As far as Pop songs go, this one has it all: Super catchy Sexy Progressive as fuck Cutting-edge production Caroline Polachek is such a treat.

A good start would be to stop fighting against your own biology in the name of "mental clarity."

I don't know what you're running away from. Being a man, maybe?

Oh please. Your shit posts here are the definition of cheap dopamine.

And what do you do when you have a girl? Stop creating? This is a shitty strategy and I doubt that it is much more than placebo anyways. Everyone reading this sorry ass bullshit can clearly see that you're just coping - maybe take the hint?

You think I'm making this up? It should be obvious that repressing your sexuality can not lead to anything positive. Something is off in your epistemology, if you actually believe being so full of cum that you're about to burst is giving you "mental clarity."

You're quite the character yourself. Goggins said that he found peace years ago; but this is his life's work, so what do you expect him to do?

I did it for 3 months a few years ago - got me all jacked up from being too horny, and I made some dumb decisions because of it. Also, you're completely messing up your relationship to sex. A friend of mine once did this for 6 months. His balls were so swollen and knotted, by the time he got to the doctor and had his balls untangled, they told him a few more days and they would have had to amputate them. Just be a man and accept that you have a dick, for fuck's sake.

??? As far as I can tell, freemasonry is the western equivalent of Tantra Yoga - left-hand spirituality with all sorts of wacky occultist rituals.

Come on man. Goggins is a beautiful human being with a good heart - he's dedicated his life to help others find greatness in themselves. What is there to judge?