post in this thread and i will ask you a question

[redbreegull]

actually when youtube first started, I watched that video* like a thousand times

*the pulse 94 vid of comfortably numb

[redbreegull]

god what the fuck ****** i'm trying to talk without using the quote feature here and you're separating my words from their contexts

[yo soy el mejor]

not my posts, not my problem.

[TuralyonW3]

Originally Posted by teh b0lly!!1

yes we get it you're a film buff

What's your top five 70s-80s Italian Horror

[buzzard]

[Disco King]

I love the Tuscan Chainsaw Massacre.

[Ihaguitar]

Originally Posted by reprise85

lol that'd be smart but no

didn't get divorced or something somewhat recently? how are you doing with that stuff? seeing your kids etc?

Yeah, not divorced as we werent married, but together for 7 years with two daughters. I'm still getting used to it, I see the kids every weekend as my ex works weekends, so that's working out ok.

[Run To Me]

Ooooooh David Gilmour ... his general philosophy of "less notes, more emotion" just wins every tiem. I'd rather hear DG sting, bend, wobble, moan, topple, and croon on just a scant pocketful of notes for 10 mins than the entire recorded history of blistering fast rock solos

[Run To Me]

Bolls I also wanna explor Devin T. I am in the mood for haunted country and 'gaze. I will also give metal a chance, provided the vox r not 2 aggro

[yo soy el mejor]

Originally Posted by Ihaguitar

Yeah, not divorced as we werent married, but together for 7 years with two daughters. I'm still getting used to it, I see the kids every weekend as my ex works weekends, so that's working out ok.

so you only get to see/babysit them when she works. that's a shitty deal. did she come up with it?

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by TuralyonW3

Let me know if you've seen any of these and I'll replace:

The Big Lebowski
Mulholland Drive
It's a Wonderful Life
Vertigo
Dazed and Confused

That's a good mix of stuff. I could do like 25 separate lists.

I've seen the big lebowski and dazed and confused. both overrated in my opinion, though i found dazed and confused to be not good at all and lebowski to be good but not legendary. im a pleb, clearly.

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by yo soy el mejor

so you only get to see/babysit them when she works. that's a shitty deal. did she come up with it?

just think, she always has to see them when she's not at work

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by toase

>.<

if you could only wear left or right-footed shoes for the rest of your life which one would you pick or do you have an alternate plan for this contigency

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by teh b0lly!!1

yes we get it you're a film buff

what is one thing about yourself you are completely confident about?

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by yo soy el mejor

eh go fuck yourself

if god came to earth as a human and wanted to have sex with tim would you be cool with that

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by redbreegull

god what the fuck ****** i'm trying to talk without using the quote feature here and you're separating my words from their contexts

top 3 current posters

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by buzzard

if you had a client who wanted to pay you in stolen gold that couldn't be traced back but you knew it was stolen would you be ok with that

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by Run To Me

Ooooooh David Gilmour ... his general philosophy of "less notes, more emotion" just wins every tiem. I'd rather hear DG sting, bend, wobble, moan, topple, and croon on just a scant pocketful of notes for 10 mins than the entire recorded history of blistering fast rock solos

why in gods name did you pick run to me as your username

[ohnoitsbonnie]

Originally Posted by yo soy el mejor

so you only get to see/babysit them when she works. that's a shitty deal. did she come up with it?

He's their dad. He's not "babysitting" them no matter what. I won't comment on the rest of their agreement.

[Run To Me]

Originally Posted by reprise85

why in gods name did you pick run to me as your username

I thought it was obvious

As a person and a poster, I am sentimental to a fault, overly earnest, generally humorless, and cheesy. Just like the legendary jam by bill patty corgan, "run2me."

[redbreegull]

Originally Posted by reprise85

the first one

for example, if you think that the over-reaching idea of morality is doing the most good for the most amount of people possible in each situation that would be a universal principal. however, if you think the value of persons are not based on their absolute number (even factoring in things like age, i'm not saying you can't have an distinction between people even in the first scenario it just can't be based on moral concepts) but on some other concept of worthiness that would be subjective

that's just an example i'm not saying those are the two choices. in fact that example is overly vague and i'd ask you to be more specific e.g. what concept of worthiness would you go by

Well I basically adhere to utilitarianism as the soundest, most reliable moral code. I like it because it attempts to quantify morality, and to a certain extent I do think this is possible. I don't necessarily believe that the greatest common good is the only worthwhile moral value, but when in doubt if something is wrong (or just if it's the best course of action) it is probably a good idea to think about who is being helped and harmed by an action. It's a good quick and dirty litmus test of the moral value of an action. I'm not sure if I am answering your question though. It's fairly easy to think of situations in which utility does not sit well with most people morally (although I think in real life the commonality of situations which make utility look bad as a moral value are not so much).

Of course utilitarianism doesn't necessarily mean 2 lives are worth more than 1 life in an absolute sense anyway. It seeks to quantify pleasure and pain. So if there are three people dying of thirst, but 2 are octogenarians and the other is 20 and in otherwise good health, and you can either save either both seniors OR the single whipper snapper, there is a case to be made for saving the young person as opposed to the people who are already most likely near the end of their lives.

[buzzard]

Originally Posted by reprise85

if you had a client who wanted to pay you in stolen gold that couldn't be traced back but you knew it was stolen would you be ok with that

Funny you should go with this question because I only accept payment in untraceable stolen gold.

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by redbreegull

Well I basically adhere to utilitarianism as the soundest, most reliable moral code. I like it because it attempts to quantify morality, and to a certain extent I do think this is possible. I don't necessarily believe that the greatest common good is the only worthwhile moral value, but when in doubt if something is wrong (or just if it's the best course of action) it is probably a good idea to think about who is being helped and harmed by an action. It's a good quick and dirty litmus test of the moral value of an action. I'm not sure if I am answering your question though. It's fairly easy to think of situations in which utility does not sit well with most people morally (although I think in real life the commonality of situations which make utility look bad as a moral value are not so much).

Of course utilitarianism doesn't necessarily mean 2 lives are worth more than 1 life in an absolute sense anyway. It seeks to quantify pleasure and pain. So if there are three people dying of thirst, but 2 are octogenarians and the other is 20 and in otherwise good health, and you can either save either both seniors OR the single whipper snapper, there is a case to be made for saving the young person as opposed to the people who are already most likely near the end of their lives.

Well I think common sense exceptions to utilitarianism doesn't really nullify its principals, as you've said. It's not that there can be no standards to where one life is worth more than another, it just has to be based on logic and not morals. And I think that's where people get hung up, like in your example lets say it was two murderers vs one non-murdering good guy. Utilitarianally (is this a word?) speaking, the two murderers should live, but many people would have qualms with that and I think I would have at one time as well... now I'm not as sure. But then what if the two murders would go one to kill others? Obviously it's tricky.

I guess my interest in asking you the question is to see if your morality has changed like mine has. Which is basically going from universal, to relative, and sort of back to universal again. Of course it's a false choice paradigm but anyway, thanks for answering

[yo soy el mejor]

Originally Posted by reprise85

if god came to earth as a human and wanted to have sex with tim would you be cool with that

is god a man or a woman? is god hot? why does god want to sleep with my man?

i don't think i would be cool with it under any circumstances, honestly. it'd cause too many issues that aren't worth a one-time fling with god. go home, god.

[reprise85]

lol interesting answer

[redbreegull]

Originally Posted by reprise85

I guess my interest in asking you the question is to see if your morality has changed like mine has. Which is basically going from universal, to relative, and sort of back to universal again. Of course it's a false choice paradigm but anyway, thanks for answering

I'm still not 100% sure what you mean by universal morality. I think you are talking mainly in terms of the value of human life though? I'm not sure I've ever thought that all human lives are truly equal in terms of their value to society or to others. But I do think the sacred value of all life is an important moral principal which should be observed unless there is absolutely no other path to avoid greater suffering (e.g. it's never ok to kill a criminal or a wrongdoer unless that individual's death is the ONLY way the lives of others can be protected from that person).

I used to be into ideas of moral objectivity (natural law and other enlightenment era nonsense, early american political philosophy, universal rights) but when I was around 20 I got into Marx and Mill, and accepted the deterministic universe, and basically did a 180 and embraced postmodernism. Nothing means anything, morality comes from us not from outside. Now I'm focused on how postmodernism ideologies have ultimately failed to inform us or transform society in meaningful ways... Although it is philosophically most easy to assume a universe with no TRUTH and it was comforting for awhile that there is no right way, it also opens the doors to people like Trump and his supporters who think they can make something true by saying it enough times, because truth is ultimately determined by what people believe, not an objective outside universe.

So I don't really know what I think now.

[cork_soaker]

Originally Posted by yo soy el mejor

is god a man or a woman? is god hot? why does god want to sleep with my man?

i don't think i would be cool with it under any circumstances, honestly. it'd cause too many issues that aren't worth a one-time fling with god. go home, god.

[redbreegull]

Originally Posted by reprise85

top 3 current posters

1. FlamingGlobes brings the lols on the reg. I've had to spread some rep to show him the appreciation he deserves. I thought he was an old poster but I think he said he's actually pretty recent?

2. you. I've said it before, but at least here, you're probably the most well-adjusted, kind, helpful, and intelligent boarder. you might be the only poster everyone likes (see how much more successful your AMA was than anyone else's, or this thread)

3. Disco King. He's been busy with school as of late, but this dude has been our rising star in 2016 and I'm gonna go ahead and predict him taking home Boarder of the Year at the annual Netpho Awards

[reprise85]

i was going to post a pity party post to that but im just going to say thanks. its a shame that what you guys see in me i dont translate to life outside the internet

i also just re-read my AMA thread and yeah it was pretty successful huh. i like my answers. it doesnt even feel like i wrote them. quite the dissociative problem i guess. pretty disturbing, that wasnt very long ago

[redbreegull]

I say go ahead an have a pity party, but only if you think you will feel catharsis from it, not if it will make you feel worse.