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The dumbest objections against statelessness #11: "Freedom means freedom to enslave!" This objection to statelessness is beyond dumb — it’s retarded. I shouldn’t even have to address it, but there are multitudes of retards out there feeding the AI singularity with their overwhelming retardation. So, here it goes, humiliating myself, stooping to the depths of idiocy to explain things with crayons to simpletons. So, the “argument” goes like this: “*We need some form of…
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What you owe your children: Healing the world, one innocent child at a time Your children owe you nothing. You owe your children everything. If this sounds preposterous to you, this article is for you; your children’s happiness depends on it. **One** The notion that children somehow owe their parents anything is bizarre and objectively erroneous, not to mention extremely self-centered and narcissistic. Seriously? You imagine that your children owe you anything by default?…
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Free From Shame: Reclaiming your will from manipulative shaming One of the most manipulable emotions is shame: the twisting and exploitation of your healthy modesty and your noble consideration of others’ feelings toward you. **Introduction** Modesty is healthy; it keeps you grounded and self-aware, considerate of how others may perceive you. However, manipulators use your own good nature — your modesty — against you. They deliberately withhold their approval, and even…
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Lessons from Regret: Launching New Substack Publication I have a selfish desire: To help people for my self-serving agenda, to make use of my lessons from mistakes, failures, and regrets, and somehow convince myself they had meaning. It makes them more bearable that way… almost justifies them. **Announcement** So, I’m launching a new publication separate from the philosophical entanglements ofBonds of Prometheus. https://sotiris.substack.com/ The name of this new publication…
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Excuses vs. Explanations: Accountability with extenuating circumstances People seek absolution for their mistakes all the time. They commit hurtful acts to themselves and to others, and then they expect exoneration based on deterministic factors that led them there. While we are all the consequence of determinism, this doesn’t free us from accountability. For example, child molesters tend to be victims of child molestation themselves. While they deserve compassion for what…
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The False Self Tribulation [Part 1]: Waking up from the coma of unbeing I’ve spent most of my life in a coma, bereft of self-ownership of mind… withdrawn, dissociated (like most people to a degree). My will was hijacked by the false self, the caricature of my abusers, the betrayer of my values. This false self was the persona that was supposed to insulate me from my hostile environment, to get me attention and approval; faux acceptance from all the wrong people… all at the…
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Stockholm Syndrome Explained When your love for your abusers can only surpassed by your abysmal self-loathing Stockholm syndrome is the psychopathy of loving your abuser for the occasional kindness he graces you with in between vicious abuses; the indignity of his condescending mercy may even be worse than the humiliation of the actual abuse. This is how abusers enable and perpetuate their abusive relationships: by hinting at better behavior, thus giving false hope that they…
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Narcissistic Parenting: Selfish parents and their excuses Most parents have children simply to have someone take care of their loneliness, someone condemned to accept them no matter how shitty they are; the ultimate permission to be an odious human being. Their motivation behind procreating is not to offer love but to *take* love from an innocent child, no less, who has no choice but to worship them by default: the ultimate validation for those who especially don’t deserve…
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The False Self Tribulation [Part 2]: Withdrawal, dissociation, and surrender to the monster Ever felt like your emotions, thoughts, actions, and even desires made no sense, as if you were possessed by a foreign entity? If you find this sensation relatable, keep reading… this series of essays might just save your life… literally. ***I don’t know why I instigate*** ***And say what I don’t mean*** ***—*** ***Linkin Park, Breaking the Habit*** https://youtu.be/v2H4l9RpkwM Have…
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Deducing the Absurdity of Reality: Falsely Assigned Meaning Any purpose and meaning our species may have is not for us to give to ourselves. **For a** **meaning** **to our existence to be truly meaningful, it must transcend our** **existence**. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/what-is-the-meaning-of-existence An ant in an ant farm might assume its meaning is its purpose: its role in the colony. But that role is not for the ant to assign to itself. A tool, a pet, an NPC — they…
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The Devouring Mother: Toxic motherhood and emotional incest The enmeshing or devouring mother may cause even more catastrophic trauma to her children than an overtly abusive father. When the father is abusive, at least children understand they are being abused, and thus stand a chance at somewhat resisting the ill effects of the trauma. With the devouring mother’s subtle enmeshing, the child cannot recognise her subtle abuse as actual abuse, and thus cannot seek support for…
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The Subjectivity of Moral Objectivism: The one moral principle that matters What is moral subjectivism? Is it the notion that no singular, universal, and objective morality applies to all, everywhere, all the time? Or is it the subjective application of a given moral principle, depending on convenience and utilitarian “greater goods”? **Subjectivity morality** Regardless, everyone is a moral subjectivist, as you’ll realise by the end of this article. I truly wish morality…
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How to be the most alpha: What vapid "masculinity gurus" won't tell you Every male has an idea of a one-sided male archetype by which he wants to be defined. They all want to see themselves as dominant and superior “alphas” in their chosen archetypal category, as well as in their circumstantial microcosm. Their social confidence is based on that archetypal USP (unique selling proposition), and they focus on it whenever they are faced with rival males or when they make…
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Your Unforgivable Sin: Betrayal of Virtue Few sins cannot be forgiven, even after honest remorse and a committed desire to make amends — there are no margins of opportunity left for you to try to fix the unfixable. One unforgivable sin is **betraying the few good people who accepted you**, especially when you were down, and even admired you for who you truly were, **for the values you held, not for your relative value to society**. I’m talking about actually good people, not…
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Excuses vs. Explanations [Part 2]: Toxic positivity, compulsive motivation, and insufferable gurus How I loathe those aggressive “motivators” with their fake bravado, condescendingly arrogant bragging, outdated militaristic coaching, and their pretentious holier-than-thou attitude of “*no excuses*”. Ask them why their naive followers keep failing, though, and they’ll shower you with every pitiful excuse in the book — all except admitting that perhaps their overhyped…
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Peak Philosophy: The ultimate mind fuck Philosophy — to philosophise — is not about finding the right answers; it’s about asking the right questions, often unanswerable, where each question alone carries enough wisdom and insight to make any possible answer to it redundant. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/the-philosophical-query You can argue objective mathematical logic and undeniable syllogisms all you want, but regardless of your self-assurance in your grasp of objective…