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I suppose it's only fair and fun if the devil gets to play too.

I just read Leo's last two blog posts. It begs the question then; how do you beat the devil? Is it possible to be dedicated to truth and succeed in business? I look around the industry I work in and see deception and systems exploitation everywhere. In filmmaking, in order to get anything made (and therefore to be employed) you need to exploit government grants, tax incentives, cheap overseas labor, race to the bottom contracts, and so on. It's kill or be killed, it seems that if you don't participate in this system and out exploit other filmmakers, you have no chance of creating something great. Is there any examples of businesses or projects that have been successful while sticking to truthful and honest core values? What did they do differently? My thought experiment led me to the conclusion; create a new market. You have to refuse to play in the same game as the devil. You have to refuse to engage in the same market, refuse to use the same exploiting tools, refuse to compete with the devil's product. Is that correct? Or am I being overly nihilistic here?

Because they give him what he wants. It's really that simple. Elon's character is not that deep.

We are one step closer to the first McDonald's franchise on Mars. Fuck yeah.

Spoilers man!

Yeah, you have to fuck a dude. No way around it.

Enlightenment is a construction.

It's way easier to wreck the economy than to improve it. And correlation ≠ causation. Whatever the economy does under Trump might not be strictly because of him. Unless it obviously was his fault with the over aggressive tariffs. Don't change what you do just because Trump is in, unless the tariffs directly affect you.

People can share similar opinions. Shocking, I know. I often use his language because I know you know what it means.

Most who voted for Trump don't have the capacity to admit when they are wrong. They can't handle cognitive dissonance. Staying quiet only enables such people to bury themselves deeper into ignorance. Calling out Trump doesn't save those people; it's saves the vulnerable people from falling under the spell.

Trump and his Imps don't share your hippy sentiments. They will fuck you. If you stop calling the devil out on his bullshit he will fuck you and the world harder. If you were in the jungle, you would let a jaguar slaughter you with this attitude. We're all one man, let the jaguar have some lunch!

It can be a biochemical issue. When I occasionally struggle with depression / no motivation I have vitamin deficiencies. Get a blood test if you haven't recently.

Well, if you ever discover such a universe please let me know. But you will never find it because what you are cannot exist in it. There can be no humans in a universe without death.

You're welcome to grow wings and fly whenever you like.

How would you create a universe without death? Seriously think about it, what would you have to change in the universe? How could you do it without affecting other aspects of reality in a massive way? It's a mistake to personify God, like it picks and chooses what it wants to create. God is not a being, God is a system. And God doesn't use workarounds or avoid certain results within it's system.

You wouldn't be able to have everything else you enjoy without survival and death. Reality is like a house of cards. You can't just take away one aspect you don't like and expect everything else to stay the same. For example, without survival and death humans would never have evolved the ability to taste their food. So, if you enjoy the experience of eating, you have survival and death to thank. Death is a necessary component in order for the universe to exist at all. You don't question why Mars exists, or why birds have wings. We fear death because we are biologically programmed to.

That would create thousands of jobs too. Genius!

There is the most unhinged Call of Duty ad 7 minutes in. I nearly fell out of my chair I laughed so hard. I can't believe Joe is completely clueless as to how dangerous having these fascists and conspiracy theorists on his show is.

True in theory. Not in practice. Lots of groups get special treatment. That's why class, race and gender are political issues. Communities compete for special treatment. LGBT people deserve special treatment insofar that they need it to meet their basic human needs. LGBT people using classic gendered bathrooms can be dangerous and unsafe for them. Therefore it is reasonable for LGBT people to use separate bathrooms within reason.

Most trans people I know are not comfortable using either gender bathroom. They prefer using a disabled or other gender neutral bathroom that's non communal (one person at a time inside). As long as that is reasonably available they're happy.

Yes! Put it literally. Humans have never invented anything. We can only discover what God has already made possible within the rules of the game.

I am both the pieces and the construction. My nature is both relative and absolute. I am dual because I am made of many things. Even if I couldn't consciously grasp numbers, their existence potential is absolute. You live within God's mind. What is real is not at all based on what our little human minds can or cannot distinguish. So, I guess we agree to disagree here.

Sure. I thought you meant relative like a perspective. Everything is constructed, from smaller and smaller pieces that would go on forever if you looked. 1 = 1.000000000000000000... Distinction does not have substance. It's beyond that - it's like a mathematical law. Distinction is what makes numbers different. Distinction is the relationship between pieces. All pieces are different, so all pieces are distinct. The sense of time is constructed from many pieces. This is the only metaphysical thing I know for sure.

Women like guys who meet their needs. Guys like women who meet their needs. Not just material needs, in relationships it's mostly emotional.

Christians and Jesus, whats the deal?