The military can physically push everybody around but that doesn’t mean that you have to buy into this “age of majority in late teens” thing, surely.

I can respect that. I can’t say that I have any strong beliefs either.

But then there’s “keep the bills paid or things will get bad”. But that’s strongly empirically based.

And there are beliefs like “reality is composed of a multitude of things flapping around in time and space” which is popular but stands on the rock of mere convention (ok, maybe it’s deeper than that). And might bear questioning. How strong is my belief there? I dunno.

I assume that our culture delivers a fair sack of authority-based beliefs. It would be nice to get a list.

But then it’s like asking a fish what water tastes like.

I meditate. Shikantaza every day. I used to do concentration for a few years. Then both for a few years. Now just Shikantaza.

(I am of the opinion that there are only 2 meditation techniques, the rest being relatively trivial twists).

You?

It’s a great idea. But people are touchy about that. This is where democracy fails.

Vague and ominous.

Create a reliable method via which fertility can be turned off and on. Turn it off by default.

The intellect is just a little toy.

A truly discerning woman would blumpy me while having my dog.

False equivalence. And point-dodging. Bzzzt

Speaking of cthulu. You ever read a colder war by Charles Strauss? It’s got Cthulhu in it and he talks about how awful he is. Like what he does is he murders you from like 100 miles away and psychically copies your soul into his personal universe where he tortures you forever in every possible way

You live in a society where we are told from birth that reading is awsome. In school we are told to read every day. Million dollar propaganda campaigns are waged to get us to read more. Popular celebrities are portrayed enjoying a good book.

And you think that reading is good too.

Coincidence?

That’s just your level of smartness talking.

Ignorance is being trapped in a maze. Intelligence is flying above the walls of the maze

Bullshit

Oh bullshit

Reading is overrated.

I know what you mean. It’s good but not TOO good. Proper proportions of honey and shit.

There is no authority like the authority of great victimhood. It’s basically the modern equivalent of the scientific method.

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It always annoyed me that the LGBTQ people coopted the rainbow. Now, whenever I put a rainbow on something (sticker, poster, etc) everybody says, “gay”.

But I don’t care about gay. I just like rainbows.