• nebulaone@lemmy.world
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    God doesn’t exist (though there is a tiny, tiny chance there’s some higher power that doesn’t intervene, because the human intelligence gap is unreasonably huge, making humans undeniably special)

    Every organized religion is a cult

    Free will is an illusion

    Aliens most likely exist, given the insane size of the universe and we know life can exist here

    Humans will still always give in to their brutal tribal instincts and that’s why the world is how it is

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    I believe it’s the duty of the strong to protect the weak.

    If you can’t protect the weak, then you’re not really strong.

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    • Humans are inherently lazy and mentally unflexible
    • Humans are inherently evil and the veil of civilisation is really really thin.
    • Humans are greedy in every aspect
    • There are some exceptions,but the above applies generally
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      16 hours ago

      If humans are inherently evil, why is evil not the dominant force in the world? One would assume that if everyone were indeed evil, greedy, and out for themselves our existence could only be anarchy.

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        Who says it is not the dominant force? End stage capitalism is pretty close to anarchy and we will see what happens next.

        After 25 years in healthcare and humanitarian work you get a grim perspective.

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          If you were correct society as a whole would already exist as true anarchy, therefore humans are not inherently evil, greedy, or out for themselves. We could not coexist in any meaningful way if that were true.

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            I really don’t know where you get your assumptions from but they are terrible

            The only reason society exists is because of a fucktonne of rules going back several thousand years about how you are supposed to behave in a society

            If you want to see what barebones humans without societal rules, read up on feral children

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        11 hours ago

        hy is evil not the dominant force in the world?

        It is tho, capitalistic cruelty literally runs on the blood and sweat of the lower classes, if that isn’t evil I don’t know what is

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    The world is made of magic, it just differentiated into so many forms, that one of them is science and that’s what many people believe is all there is.

    I feel in the mood to explain more about this:

    Similar to european school’s history classes tend to be focused on european history (we call that “eurocentrism”), our worldview is focused on humans, i think that’s called “anthropocentrism”. While humans are important, it’s not everything there is. There’s also plants and other living beings, and in fact there’s many more of them than of us. I try to consider that.

    I’m calling the unity of all life “magic”, i came up with that and it’s supposed to be a play-on-words on the german word “Magen” (stomach) (representing that plants and animals are connected through an important relationship that is food). Also the stomach is the organ most physiologically/spatially central in the human body, in my opinion. So i imagine that everything’s in the human is built around that “central” organ that is the stomach. That makes sense as the intake of food is the root of all animal existence, that enables animal’s existence in the first place. Thus “everything is created from the stomach outwards”, as supportive organs to help the stomach collect and digest food.

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      This is an interesting take.

      I like to think of Science as magic, because it really is.

      Ancient peoples played with “Alchemy,” and modern chemistry is simply that. They would lose it if they knew we could “grow” diamonds, or that we have created an entirely new element.

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    I’m nitpicky about the word “believe”. So let me rephrase: I do not believe. Either I know, or I don’t know. Everything else are more or less informed speculations, assumptions or hypotheses at best.

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      I do not believe. Either I know, or I don’t know.

      You know things but do not accept them to be true or real?

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        Cogito ergo sum.

        Accepting a common framework of provable, i.e., measurable, repeatable, falsifiable phenomena, as a concept of “reality,” seems to be a pragmatic approach, given my sensory inputs and the processing results of my brain. This is then “knowledge.”

        But ultimately, this is subordinated to the possibility of an illusion – be it like in The Matrix, or as a Boltzmann brain, or whatever. Unless there is evidence for that, it appears most practical to me to go with the above, as I don’t gain anything from racking my brain about such possible illusions of reality (even though it’s fun thinking about it).

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    These are some more lighthearted things, but here goes:

    • Sonic the Hedgehog ( Sonic '06 ) wouldn’t be as fun of a game if all the bugs and glitches were gone. I live for a good glitch or six sometimes. Same without the highly difficult and janky super speed sections.

    • Sonic Unleashed is an amazing game ( but the xbox/ps3 versions are the superior versions, as someone who has beat it on ps2 and xbox360 ).

    • Due to the janky turn left/right movements on Sonic Lost World and just general movement jank, I am absolutely glad they have the run button to occasionally slow me down and stop me from dying.

    • Also an extreme believer that the special stages ( on the 3DS version of Lost World ) are absolute cancer.

    • Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl was nowhere near as good as The Wrong Trousers. I absolutely hated how they made Wallace absolutely incompetent and idiotic when it comes to normal things ( like how to use a non-electric tea pot ) when he didn’t have any technology.

    • Xbox style controllers with BAXY ( right, down, left, up ) button layout are the way to go. The only exception to that belief right now is my 3rd party wired switch controller because it has a headphone jack.

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      I haven’t played any of the Sonic games since Sonic and Knuckles so I am going to have to take your word on all of that. haha

      I am partial to how the Joycon is set up myself, but I think it is just because of how much I play it compared to alternate styled consoles.

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        Sonic and Knuckles special stages are so much better, in my opinion. Maybe I’m just not good at the Lost World special stages on 3DS, but I somehow struggle because they use motion controls ( moving myself and the whole system to move in a 3D environment ). Moving along in a straight line to collect balls is so much easier, in my opinion.

        Also, joycons are an alright enough setup, but I personally don’t like how small they are. My hands were not made for extended unattached usage of those things.

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    I believe in social democracy, I believe that it is the best political ideology.

    It combines a free society with a government provided safety net.

    I see communism as being too restrictive, and unregulated capitalism as being way too out of control.

    A progressive social democratic country with a strong government seems to me as combining new ideas with a stable foundation.

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        I am not well versed in the theory if economics.

        In general terms and speaking purely in an ideal world, I would expect that a regulated market economy would allow the society to exploit the free market and the greed of humans, while providing a solid foundation of government services for it’s citizens to rely on.