Because playing mafia seems to be making me act like more of a сunt than usual, I'm taking a short break from playing, however seeing as that's not taking away my urge to log onto the bаstard site, I feel like indulging myself with an opinions thread.
So you can pick my brains on any view I might have, be it cultural, moral or political; ask and I'll answer.
I promise not to bite!
I must confess I don't know a great deal about Heidegger but from what I can gather his philosophy wasn't especially tangled up with ideology. I think it's important to remember that to be a teacher in any context under rule you pretty much had to be a member of the party; his lectures were subject to inspections by the NSDAP and so forth.
That said, it doesn't quite explain his reticence to talk about his involvement, however brief in practical terms, with the party - from what I can gather he was keen to cover up for himself in interviews, Der Spiegel I think exposed him being somewhat ecnomical with the truth a few times. Whether this comes out of shame or just concern for public image I couldn't say for certain though.
I wouldn't use that to want to throw out all his contributions to philosophy though, I'd feel comfortable separating Heidegger the man from his work - for one I think it serves as an important bridge between European and East Asian philosophy when you look at his articulation of the inter-connectedness or 'one-ness' of the world, which hadn't really surfaced before in Western thinking.
If the view of his work is still tarnished by his affiliations, I think it's something that will ease with time, or perhaps be a little easier to stomach whilst there aren't still living survivors of the Holocaust.
Should we keep reading and using Heidegger's works despite his affiliation with Nazism? What are your thoughts for and against? Is the history of his work forever sallied by his refusal to apologise for joining the party?
Well knowing Woody, I wouldn't rule out him getting off to your perversions...
And no, no souls, so they won't be able to watch you fap in heaven after you die.
If you walk down the canal you'll see a couple of sheep farmers, though you'll end up seeing more cows I think. I suppose maybe a hundred or so within walking distance then?
ever since i watched toy story 3 ive made sure to take take out my toys from the closet, line them up, and make them watch whenever i fap
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JUST wanted to lighten the mood after such a tough question but i'm glad you knew what i was really looking forward to hearing the answer to, and happier still that you responded w/ relative promptness. for you, i'll leave it alone for a bit.
I suppose you thought that was very 'humorous' didn't you >:(
[your current username colour isn't far off though, bit of a dirty gold I would call that]
Hi Ally! Well first and foremost for the reason that I would consider even one innocent person killed by the state to morally outweigh any countable number of guilty criminals being executed, I would say I'm completely opposed. It helps I suppose that I'm pretty highly pro-rehabilitation anywhere possible when it comes to dealing with criminals, and that I don't think it's good practice to put criminals in a mindset as in 'If I know I'm caught I'm going to die, so why stop now if I have nothing to lose'.
I have a few more reasons why I'm against it but I would quickly run into three or four pages again, so I'll leave it here for now unless you're dead keen on another essay.
Got to be Clan Campbell surely, Inveraray Castle is pretty cool plus most of them fought on the correct side at Culloden so they get marked up for that.
I could mention one of my cheeky goalkeeper goals which I have a few of, or being part of the victorious UK squad that beat France in the RealSoccer final, but my real highlights would be getting to meet IRL some of the many friends I made whilst part of the community. Shoutouts to Jamal, Seb, Jake, Raheeb and Mani - love you all.
Also I'll use the opportunity to shout out some of the old SPHB vets; big ups to atl, lin, otis, cech, kid kiyoshi, tdos, scottballa, stapler, Blade and many more, had some fun times with those guys.
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harry thank you for prioritizing my question i love you
4. One of the really sad aspects that is hardly covered at all in the mainstream is that how this tragedy may only become more common, especially in this part of the world [Gulf of Mexico and Carribbean]. Human influenced climate-change (oh yes) is amongst other things contributing to the gradual rise of global sea temperatures, at a rate of approximately a tenth of a degree Celcius [0.18 °F] per decade. This might not appear a lot but it's reckoned that over the past 25 years this has already turned an event like Hurricane Sandy (which hit Texas last year) from what would have been a once-per-century event into one that could be expected, with current conditions, once every 16 years. Climate change might not be responsible for more frequent hurricane activity, but those that do form are likely to be much more intense than in decades gone by. And the level of damage they stand to cause is likely to only increase as the years roll on.
[damn I didn't expect to write a fuсking Bible but hey, it happens]
2. The U.S.' response to Maria also in my opinion highlights still-lingering colonial attitudes held in the U.S. themselves toward Puerto Rico; in that their citizens are considered less important than those of the mainland States. President Wankpuffin himself said as much when in one of his many enlightening tweets he criticised the government of Puerto Rico's sense of entitlement for daring to expect to receive handouts from the government of the country they are a dependency of. A lot of you already know about the apathetic response of the British Empire to the Irish Potato Famine, or the French Empire's handling of the Algeria crisis that led to a brutal war for independence and the deaths of thousands of their own civilians, but I think Maria serves as a timely reminder to America's own imperial attitude, and the anachronism that is Puerto Rico's territorial status, many decades after the old empires of Europe have relinquished all but a few remnants of their own colonies.
3. I should also mention that as well as as a general humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico, Maria's also responsible for a criminal crisis. Certain elements of the media love to bang on about how dangerous the streets of [insert Anglo-European million+ metropolis here] have gotten recently, however already in Puerto Rico the reported level of violent crime has doubled since the hurricane struck, with the already cash-strapped government at pains to mount any kind of response in terms of law enforcement. It does not seem as if anyone on the federal level is concerned.
I'll get to the rest of the Qs soonish, however I wanted to respond to this one first:
1. I think it's worth noting that despite the dearth of media coverage as compared to say, an Islamist, or even a domestic terror attack. Puerto Rico is for nearly all intents and purposes part of the United States, yet for almost anyone living in the mainland US significant portions of the islanders' population live in conditions that they would consider unthinkable. 11,000 are still living without power, almost all residents' running water is undrinkable (though this was the case before Maria hit), in the oder of hundreds of thousands have lost their homes (of which 3,500 living in temporary accomodation are having their FEMA aid cut off as we speak), and that's not even mentioning the suicide crisis the disaster has also precipitated. There seems to be some tacit understanding (although this event is far from the only one that has ever revealed suggestions of it) of Puerto Ricans being considered 'not as important' or worhty of having their tragedy brought to the forefront in mainstream media than other U.S. citizens - a view that seems to be shared by the U.S. Government. Despite being around twice as deadly as Katrina and the hurricane being responsible for a comparable amount of damage caused in dollars (~$125bn compared to ~$90bn, though factoring in the relative GDPs per capita of Louisiana and Puerto Rico makes the two levels of damage relative to income about equal), Maria relief efforts have amounted to less than a third of that which was gathered in aid of Katrina (whose relief efforts themselves were rightly criticised in terms of their relative paucity and lack of urgency). This brings me onto...
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it was favouritism to color tbh
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no correction to favorite? noted
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its colour....sigh
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two questions:
what do you think of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in puerto rico?
