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The title is "catch the tiger with bare hands," which means reaping a reward without doing any work.
I have many names amongst my friends, but generally I go by Alsace. I live in the Yoo-knighted States, mainly because it's too expensive to go somewhere better and everyone I know is here.
To give the long and short of my views as pertinent to this forum: I don't believe in god(s), karma, morality, government or justice. I also don't believe in 'free will', I don't think it's even a concept but an anti-concept (as La Rand used to say, an anti-concept is a pseudo-definition deal that conflates unrelated and contradictory meanings into one package deal, like 'military efficiency'). I am also not very interested in arguing with people about these because it's more or less pointless.
So I guess I am mainly here to lurk and throw out my two cents now and then, but I spent enough time in highschool to know that debating with human beings is like trying to wrestle smoke...there's nothing to grab onto, because their opinions are just nebulous products of whatever they think they are 'supposed' to believe.
A bit of biography, I used to be a nominal Buddhist until I realized that the only way you can 'eliminate the ego' is to commit suicide, and that reincarnation is nonsense. I mean, even if it happened it would entail a total reset/rebuild of your brain. It wouldn't really be 'you', so who cares if your next life sucks? That's his problem!
After that I pretty much abandoned any pretense of morality or purpose in the world; I think the fight against nihilism is just sort of a pathetic twinge of human self-importance; as though we are anything more than a cosmic accident. Also, this doesn't bother me in the least, and I find it comical that it bothers some people. I find most things comical, most especially human suffering. Like the Hindus say, that's just god having a joke on you.
The title is "catch the tiger with bare hands," which means reaping a reward without doing any work.
I have many names amongst my friends, but generally I go by Alsace. I live in the Yoo-knighted States, mainly because it's too expensive to go somewhere better and everyone I know is here.
To give the long and short of my views as pertinent to this forum: I don't believe in god(s), karma, morality, government or justice. I also don't believe in 'free will', I don't think it's even a concept but an anti-concept (as La Rand used to say, an anti-concept is a pseudo-definition deal that conflates unrelated and contradictory meanings into one package deal, like 'military efficiency'). I am also not very interested in arguing with people about these because it's more or less pointless.
So I guess I am mainly here to lurk and throw out my two cents now and then, but I spent enough time in highschool to know that debating with human beings is like trying to wrestle smoke...there's nothing to grab onto, because their opinions are just nebulous products of whatever they think they are 'supposed' to believe.
A bit of biography, I used to be a nominal Buddhist until I realized that the only way you can 'eliminate the ego' is to commit suicide, and that reincarnation is nonsense. I mean, even if it happened it would entail a total reset/rebuild of your brain. It wouldn't really be 'you', so who cares if your next life sucks? That's his problem!
After that I pretty much abandoned any pretense of morality or purpose in the world; I think the fight against nihilism is just sort of a pathetic twinge of human self-importance; as though we are anything more than a cosmic accident. Also, this doesn't bother me in the least, and I find it comical that it bothers some people. I find most things comical, most especially human suffering. Like the Hindus say, that's just god having a joke on you.
