I have seen that the lemmy.ml mods will openly ban discussion about the CCP. I am wondering if the sh.itjust.works team allows criticism of government bodies, while still banning racism.
I have seen that the lemmy.ml mods will openly ban discussion about the CCP. I am wondering if the sh.itjust.works team allows criticism of government bodies, while still banning racism.
I don’t remember spring traps in douluo dalu, mmm. I remember fighting, poison, building weapons and smithing, some spiritual hammer, and tons of superpowers. Maybe I just forgot them.
Agreed 100% on the worldbuilding. My most enjoyable books have enormous very complex worlds. The books I’ve been trading most recently try to have characters who are distinguishable among themselves. Some of the things I enjoy the most are when the character travels and suddenly everything is new again lmao, but with some stability because, well, they and their plot are still there.
The most recent book I read was like the most complex puzzle like you mention, and the author just kept piling on things and I was like, how are you even gonna untangle this mess lmao, sometimes he just goes and inserts a mood like “well no one even knows what happened but that’s okay”.
Aahhh so LoTM was that one. I tried to read it but it was so strange at first that I didn’t get immersed quick enough for my ADHD to lock in. That’s most things tbh. By the time I remember I was doing X, I already forgot what I was doing and I’m doing Y with great passion and I’m like, whelp, this is my life now. But it gets recommended so much that I will probably give it another try later on in life.
I hadn’t watched a Korean show in like all my life. And suddenly this year I decided “why not watch one of these?” and I just watched the soapiest romance ever and I actually liked it, so I’ve now watched over 15 kdramas this year and more to come. It was a surprising development, to say the least. From almost hating it because of prejudice against romance, Korean stuff and things teenage women like, to obsessively binging them with zero period of transition.
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I tried reading Warlock of the Magus World. I love the way people describe his character. Somehow though reading it was much harder. There was something coarse stopping me all the while and ultimately it wasn’t giving me the good feel I usually get. I don’t know what it was, maybe the different kind of motivation the character has. Which reminds me of RI, similar characters probably.
You know, it is so stupidly strange. As a kid, I was a snob metalhead, doing anything not to be “girly”, I dressed black, carried a chain, wanted to be violent, read the “Bible of the Church of Satan” and I was like 10% is weird but the rest is awesome! And then I met the ideas of Stirner and was like “holy shit he’s me!”. My tastes in music are super aggressive and many claim it’s not even music even though it’s what I enjoy. And my tastes in literature are similarish to yours. These books have a lot of cool shit but they’re pretty much aggression with sugar on top lmao.
So in my teenage ideas of superiority and manlihood I’d insult lgbt people, people who liked romantic stuff, any genre of music that was anything less than rock, and even tho I don’t have that perspective anymore, my tastes in music and media have remained rather stable.
To switch from being all “waaaaar, weeaponnns, aggression is my music!” to watching soapy dramas of pink girls and boys in love. It’s hard for me to understand how that happened but here we are.
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Egoism isn’t like hedonism for me. Sometimes maybe. It’s more of a realization of priorities, when you realize that 99% of what people tell you is important is actually completely irrelevant. Serve God, your country, morality, your family, your property, etc. You end up sacrificing your well-being for others, to externalities and ideas, many of which couldn’t even be less important to you, and some of which are actually harmful. Egoism for me was discovering that it was not my parents’ first concern to protect me from bullying, because they had their own lives too, and that everyone’s important things are what’s directly around them, and what’s important to me is external to others.
Stoicism is not completely incompatible with egoism. I don’t think they can be compared too well because I think they belong in different categories. I myself have taken a lot from stoicism. Egoism is more about prioritizing whatever you truly “want”, “like” or “prefer” instead of what you “should” according to any one, thing or idea.
Ironically metal is what I use precisely for that purpose. If I’m too unfocused or anxious, I put on some black metal to calm down. It’s like meditation that takes me right back to the basics.
I don’t know which foundation you’re talking about then. Maybe I just read it differently because I don’t remember that. Then again it’s been 15ish years since I read it.
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A major part of egoism is actually a union of egoists. It’s not like we aren’t social beings, or that we are unaffected by others and are unaffected by our effect on others. Regardless of any person’s beliefs, humans in general are empathetic and gregarious.
Egoists might align with anarchism but I don’t think that most egoists even think much about how to improve “society” itself. To generalize egoists is, in general, a bad idea, though, because it’s a very generic concept that can fit into many many thought currents. Regarding society, every hierarchy “claims” you in a way. You belong to a ruler, to your family, to society, to civilization, to humanity, etc., Each of those categories impose certain duties on you.
It’s like muslims have women cover themselves. Does belonging to society mean that they should follow these rules? Then there’s the “outer society”, human civilization, which is idealized here in the west as having something to do with free will and such, but this is a minority thought, and most people don’t agree. So which of all the outer societes’ rules should they follow? I think most prescriptive philosophical currents claim to be the “one true best way of doing things”, and then you have to look at an index of 1397 major currents to find it, and you see the dislike count for the one you like and there’s 5.5 billion dislikes for being too *insert pejorative descriptor*.
In the end society as an observable organism is real, but as a collective deserving loyalty, I think that’s way more subjective.
Downloading this Foundation 7 book bundle.
Also, my favorite kdrama actress just starred in a new drama that was just released. “See You In My 19th Life”. Seems I will have to obsessively binge that too.
U got any recommended readings on stoicism that are from this century? I tried reading Marcus Aurelius. It doesn’t really explain the why of anything.