Some Compassion https://youtu.be/qLjflQkw9V4 That woman you call a loser for not making much of her life? She was brought up by enmeshing control-freak parents. They taught her from a young age to dislike and distrust herself. This gave her a crippling handicap and a late start in life. She didn't get the same shots you did. But despite her wasted youth, regrets, and mourning of an unlived life, she's still trying to make the most of what she can get, still fighting uphill…
The dumbest objections against statelessness #12: "But what if we're attacked!" The idea that “we need government” to protect us from attackers is ludicrous, when it’s government itself that provokes, invites, and incentivises war by making it profitable. The state has all the incentive in the world to make war. It solidifies its hold on its people by keeping them terrorised and thus always looking to a nanny state to protect them. This is textbook racketeering, as the state…
Why God Made You: Philosophy, observation, and deduction The idea that “God” or The Creator made you out of love makes as much sense as an incel training an AI API to pretend to be his girlfriend, and then calling that a romantic relationship. It’s not meaningful. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/no-religion-represents-god https://sotiris.substack.com/p/what-is-god https://sotiris.substack.com/p/deducing-the-absurdity-of-reality We are nothing compared to the demiurge. Against…
On the Morality of the Demiurge: Are gods exempt from morality? Once, I heard this line: “If you want to make a baby cry, give him a piece of candy, then take it away.” This is not about candy. I’m sick to my core of hearing that “we get morality from god” when observable reality shows that such a hypothesised “god” is demonstrably unbound by the morality we hold ourselves to. Unless we admit that the demiurge is beyond morality, in which case, not practicing what you preach…
Proof of God? Philosophy of Theology Countless debates between theists and atheists revolve around one unanswerable question: proof of God. Many have claimed to possess evidence for God, but their interpretations are, at best, mere probable indications of a demiurge, which can’t pass the scrutiny of deduction. I have made many hypotheses about a demiurge based only on my observations and my biased interpretations. So who knows? What would proof of Good look like? If you…
Why You Write You carry a notebook full of unstructured scribbles, safety-pinned to your heart. You daydream of moments alone with your thoughts, putting bloody words to black and white. You can’t outrun your reflections, your Erinyes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erinyes Random, disjointed sentences and disquieting propositions emerge from the horizon of your subconscious… out of nothing, invading your stillness. You zone out and dissociate, surrounded by people babbling.…
How to Be Liked: Easiest likability hack If you are an analytical or withdrawn person, you’ve probably encountered hurdles connecting with people, especially new people you’ve just met. You wonder how others consistently make a good impression when meeting new people, how they click from the first ‘hello’, and how they seem to be liked for no obvious reason. Why are they likable? It’s not like they offer any extra value? Why don’t people seem to want to connect with you?…
Sarcasm Isn’t Cool: The sign of crippling insecurity I see this post making the rounds: “*Sarcasm is insulting stupid people without them realising it*”. So what? You know how evil and psychotic that makes you sound? Why would you feel the desperate need to do such a petty, spiteful thing? There’s a disturbing trend of admiring sarcastic people like Dr House or Donald Trump, or one of those tedious, snarky influencers acting tough behind the safety of the keyboard, as if…
The Irresistible Charm of Middle-Aged Women: The priceless lessons of aging Hard-earned wisdom, usually arrived too late, tends to lead to the conclusion that **the greatest turnoff in a woman is vanity**. There is nothing more antithetical to femininity than self-centered narcissism and arrogant pridefulness. I assume vanity is a turnoff for men, too, but at least vanity in men can open doors for them, since male narcissism is often confused with its opposite: self-esteem…
Freedom Is Inseparable From Philosophy Philosophy is about questioning — formulating questions even when we know they’re unanswerable. Since all forms of threat-based government require an unquestionable obedience to arbitrary state “authority”, a philosopher finds himself at odds with the ‘unquestionable’ part of this ghastly affair. The state cannot exist if enough people ponder the philosophical questions: “Says who?” or “Why do I have to?”…
Selfish Altruism: Philosophy of identity We are only kind to people when it is convenient for us to do so, as it validates our identity through consistent adherence to our principles, virtues, values, and ideals. We need those to define our individual self, to nurture our sense of self-determination, to grant purpose, and thus, meaning to what is otherwise a meaningless existence. And when we sacrifice to be good to others? What is this other than mitigating our guilt for…
Dealing With Child Abuse In The Absence of Government A well-intentioned critique of statelessness, answered Who deals with child abusers and child molesters without a centralised government? An even more valid and relevant argument is who would stop us from going after child abusers without a government to protect them. Since we have known one and only system of social organising — albeit this unjust, inefficient, and violent power structure of the state — we cannot imagine…
The military is gay [Part 3]: Laughably misplaced valour Self-respecting men with dignity and integrity cannot allow themselves to tolerate the indignities and humiliation rituals of the military. Truly masculine men do not blindly and passively obey orders to kill hopelessly outgunned mullahs from a safe distance while fooling themselves they’re doing it “for freedom” or “for democracy” or “for God”… or for whatever nonsense every useful idiot in uniform mutters to himself…
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