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u/mule_roany_mare · 35 pointsr/bestof

Yeah dude that is an especially tough position to be in. Human touch alone is super important to your health, having someone to hold can do so much good & caring/taking care of someone is almost like caring for yourself.

Having someone who cares for you can do wonders & put salve on all your wounds. The cruel joke of course is that you won’t be able to attract a girl until your feeling confident & secure again. The problem isn't that you are an inherently unattractive or worthless person, but that you aren’t doing the things which will lead to success for you.

I worked overnight for a few years & it really is isolating. It’s hard enough to meet people & maintain platonic/romantic relationships, but when you are on the opposite schedule it’s so much harder. What opportunities do you have to meet people? No matter what you have to offer people have to see you & know you to appreciate it. Do you have any interests you are willing to pursue on the weekend? A pottery class, cooking class, yoga, or BJJ? (Check coursehorse or meetup).

Nordstrom rack is a great way to step up your clothes game on the cheap, put in your sizes & sort by price. If you can get yourself out there a good haircut & nice clothes will make people more receptive & that feedback might encourage you to get out there even more.

Your relationship with family isn’t perfect, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t good in it for you to mine. The grass is greenest where you water it. My father died a few years ago & it left me gutted, but it was a lot easier because at 23 I realized the relationship I wanted with him, invested the time to make it happen & said all the things I wanted to say. Unfortunately when he died I inherited my mentally ill addict sister who almost broke me while I was trying to keep her alive before I realized how toxic and manipulative she is (faked her own death when I stopped giving her money & made me wonder if she really was dead for 3 months, she also intentionally “lost” all the paper work when my dad died & made me cold call the entire state of Florida for 3 days trying to find his body, refuses to settle the estate & has cost me 50k in the past 3 years). ^sorry ^for ^the ^tangent , ^but ^man ^can ^a ^sick ^and ^malicious ^person ^cause ^a ^ton ^of ^pain.

Anyway man, the way you are feeling is 100% predictable & 100% normal. You aren’t getting the things a person needs to feel happy and healthy, 9 out of 10 people in your situation would be depressed too & after a few years they would feel hopeless too. There are changes you can make though, and even small ones will add up until you reach the tipping point.

Don’t forget and don't doubt that you have value, just because you aren’t meeting people who can see it don’t think that you aren’t a worthwhile person with a lot to contribute to the world & a lady’s life. In the meantime ask yourself what types of things you do/ can you do to validate yourself/make you proud of yourself? Setting even minor goals & securing even minor accomplishments replenishes your willpower & makes it easier to do the things which are hard. You are worthy, you are valuable & you can do things to prove it to yourself & feel proud.

I think this book would be good for you, https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Connections-Uncovering-Depression-Unexpected/dp/163286830X it talks about what people need in their life to be healthy. Add the things you can by yourself & a girl will notice your value eventually. ^oh, ^and ^get ^a ^dog, ^they ^will ^love ^you ^& ^you ^can ^make ^friends ^at ^the ^park.

Sorry for the wall of text, I’d like to talk to you more & I threw a lot out there I case I don’t, of you do reply you should probably keep it shorter than I did lol. Don’t forget you have a lot to offer, there is a lot of you that you can share with the world to make it a better place. You can help yourself by volunteering your time to help others. Have a good day dude! I’m glad you shared! You are a good dude & you can build a good life.

u/h1ppophagist · 2 pointsr/bestof

That's very sweet of you; I'm glad you liked the music! Rossini is one of my favourite composers. If you've never seen all of Il Barbiere di Siviglia, it's so much fun. Donizetti's great too and in a similar style; here's an aria.

Italian will help you somewhat, and honestly, if you have a good English vocabulary, that will help you a lot too; no other languages necessary. Regardless of how you do it, it's going to require a pretty big time commitment. I majored in Latin, have been studying it for six years, and in fact I placed first in a Canada-wide competition for third- and fourth-year undergraduates in translating a previously unseen passage, and I still read Latin a fair bit slower than English. I can certainly testify to the utility of reading ancient texts in the original, though. I had a bit of an epiphany in fourth year when I was reading Plato's Phaedo (not written in Latin, I know, but it still applies). There was one point where I was interested in how different translators interpreted a particular passage, and when I compared four or five different translations, I couldn't help but notice how different each of them was from the others. It made me realize how much interpretive work goes into a translation, and it made me happy that my studies were enabling me to make those sorts of judgements myself.

If you do decide to tackle Latin, I can recommend two series to start you out that you could choose one of, depending on what kind of approach you like. In my university, we used a very grammar-based textbook called Wheelock's Latin. It covers almost all the important grammatical concepts necessary to read genuine Latin, and includes towards the end unedited passages of real Roman writing. The downside of the book is that it encourages a deciphering kind of approach, rather than learning to be comfortable with the language first.

The other, more welcoming approach is the one taken by the Cambridge Latin Course. I will note that I haven't used the textbooks myself, but I know it's extremely popular in high schools. Those books try to get students reading right away and gradually increase the difficulty and introduce grammatical concepts along the way. It's more like a modern language textbook. There are three or four books in the series. I suspect that these books would be better for an amateur learner than Wheelock.

If I were you, I'd see if I could take a look at both those textbook series before buying anything of them. Some copies might be in a nearby university library or a high school that offers Latin.

After textbooks, good first authors to read in actual Latin, depending on your interests, are Catullus's poems, Phaedrus's adaptations of Aesop's fables, Julius Caesar's accounts of his campaigns in the Gallic and Civil Wars, Cicero's letters and speeches, or bits of Ovid's Metamorphoses or Ars Amatoria.

If you get past the textbooks and are reading real texts, you'll need a dictionary. This and [this] (http://www.amazon.com/Cassells-Latin-Dictionary-Latin-English-English-Latin/dp/0025225804/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1347668490&sr=8-1&keywords=latin+dictionary) are good choices. Anything by James Morwood, like this, is not. Having some kind of grammatical reference is essential as well. Woodcock's Latin Syntax is my favourite for its excellent explanations and its great readability, in spite of its thoroughness.

Edit: Huh, this got quite long. Sorry about that. Anyway, don't feel pressured or intimidated by the length of this. I just listed a few things in case you decide to give Latin a shot.

u/supes1 · 6 pointsr/bestof

Paul David Wells - Sounds Good To Me

Link to album on Amazon.

Link to audio. People are still trying to locate the video, someone sent a message to the artist's daughter.

Full lyrics that someone transcribed:

[VERSE 1]
Got breakfast cooking on the old gas stove
Coffee's brewing and the radio is playing that country
That's how I start my day
Got a good woman she's got me
Thinking it's time for a family
I'll have to work a lot harder
To raise my pay

[CHORUS]
We're gonna add on to the human race
One more smile on a brand new face uh huh
Sounds good to me
Ain't nothing like the cry of a baby
When he's first born
Sounds good to me
Ain't nothing like the feeling you get
When you bring him home
Sounds good to me
Do your best and leave the rest to God above
Life goes on like a country song
In sweet harmony
Sounds good to me


[VERSE 2]
Oh they say I'm just like my Uncle Bill
I won't ever move away from these hills
It's something in the blood, son
You can't explain
It's the bend in the river
It's the lay of the land
It's the homegrown feeling in the palm of my hands
You'd have to be a mighty strong man
To pull me away

[CHORUS x 1]

Sounds good to me
Ain't nothing like the feeling you get
When you bring him home
Sounds good to me
Do your best and leave the rest to God above
Life goes on like a country song
In sweet harmony
Sounds good to me

u/VekeltheMan · 2 pointsr/bestof

http://www.amazon.com/The-Compass-Pleasure-Marijuana-Generosity/dp/0143120751

Here's a good read on how our behavior is influenced by our biology more than we might want to believe.

I like to write a "review" whenever I finish a book here's what I had to say after reading "The Compass of Pleasure":

Having finished The Compass of Pleasure there is one thing that strikes me more than anything else. It shows me a picture in which free will seems to play an extremely small part in our lives, if at all. By the time we factor in biological dispositions, parenting, socioeconomic status, race, country/ culture of origin, available opportunities, and the thousand other external pressures in conjunction with the way pleasure actively conditions our behavior; Free will seems to be an illusion and we are much more like jelly fish afloat on the currents of factors external of our individual consciousness. A haunting conclusion that if embraced on a societal scale would have tremendous implications.

EDIT
Few more things I pulled from that book:

1There is a neural unity of virtue and vice - Pleasure is our compass, no matter the path we take. What makes pleasure so compelling is that, through the interconnection of the pleasure circuit with other brain regions, we adorn it with memory, with associations and emotions and social meaning, with sights, sounds, and smells.

2To explain some of the irrational behavior involving gambling: Activation of win-related regions by near-miss outcomes is somehow pleasurable and is more pleasurable when the subject has personal control.
Near miss and total miss outcomes should evoke the same response in a rational world.

3We know from Schult’s Monkey experiments that rapid associative learning can transform a pleasure signal into a reward prediction error signal that can guide learning to maximize future pleasure. It is likely that this same process is what enables humans to feel pleasure from arbitrary rewards like monetary gain (or even near misses in monetary gain) or winning at a video game.

4“Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, Pain and Pleasure... They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.”
-Jeremy Bentham
He was half right, pleasure does indeed guide us. However, we now have reason to believe that they are not to opposite ends of the same spectrum. The opposite of pleasure isn’t pain; rather, just as the opposite of love is not hate but indifference, the opposite of pleasure is not pain but ennui- a lack of interest in sensation and experience. Both pleasure and pain indicate salience, that is, experience that is deserving of attention. Emotion is the currency of salience, and both positive emotions like euphoria and love and negative emotions like fear, anger, and disgust signal events that we must not ignore.

5Emotional pain isn’t just a metaphor: In terms of brain activation, it particularly overlaps with physical pain.

6We can say for certain that: We evaluate our own economic circumstances and and prospects not on some absolute scale, but rather in comparison to those of people around us. We seem to be hardwired to compare our own experiences and circumstances to those around us.

u/velatine · 1 pointr/bestof

> You have to wake up. Be aware of what you're doing and where you are. If you need to, make a schedule. And adhere to it very strictly. Set alarms if you want. But you just have to wake up and be present and plan your time. Know what you're going to do, and do it. If you don't know what to do, you'll fall back into your natural pattern and just say "I'll start tomorrow."

This is typical millennial advice.

I don't know if the author is a millennial, but the style is quite typical of the gen.

I'm super familiar with gentheory which is based on the book Generations by Strauss & Howe. If you are interested in reading it, it's great, but it's heavy reading. Also it's over 500 pages.

Generations Book on Amazon

Gentheory is basically social psychology that says that different social styles (generational trends) create a backlash trend. The backlash creates another backlash etc. This repeats in a cycle of 4.

This isn't like a superstition prediction-- it's a psychology prediction of human nature. That a certain trend produces a certain backlash.

So let me set this up for you....

Gen X which is my gen-- we are an "honest" generation-- vulgar, aggressive (not polite), selfish (hey, just being honest!), introverted politically (not that politically active compared to other gens) and kind of free-form.

What does that set-up for Millennials?

  • pragmatic (steeped in vulgarity honesty)
  • success orientated
  • logic orientated (head over heart)

    The above quoted advice is all that-- "make a schedule" and "adhere to it strictly"... that's all "head over heart" type stuff which as I said is typical for Millennials.

    This is actually good advice-- I'm not knocking its effectiveness.

    But I just would like you to realize that there is a backlash to this style of thinking that is predicted to arise in the following generations.

    Millennial is a logic, pragmatic, success generation.

    Gen Z.... tries to follow in your footsteps, right?

    They really try.... but they weren't raised in the same Gen X environment that you were raised in.

    Gen Z (born 2005-2025) were raised in the "success" world that you created. So their style will NOT be your style.

    Gen Z is actually predicted to be the most misunderstood generation because their style is seen as a "failed" Millennial style when in reality they have a very special and more heart-centered style different from your own.

    The reason I bring all this up is because the advice given here does work-- so Millennials get mad at future generations (it is predicted) because they don't want to follow the same "logic, success" advice.

    Just a heads up. ;)
u/Eurospective · 1 pointr/bestof

> Sorry, I tried watching the video, but I can't take people that credulous seriously. You shouldn't believe anything without some evidence or a logical explanation. Anything else is a demonstrably terrible way to try to gain knowledge.

Heh, he's one of the most critically thinking people I know. He's exactly on the other side of the spectrum of credulity. He's famous for being a contrarian and free thinker. Now I have to confess that I let my guard down a little because of who he is but I don't spot obvious flaws to formal logic. If anything the fact that he consumed it with such enthusiam made me realize that it isn't necessarily an endeavour for idiots.

>Perhaps you would like to provide example of an occult belief you think I should take seriously?

Well, what is something you take seriously? Often the occult really just provide thinking tools.

One such thing would be this: "Uncle Ramsey's Little Book of Demons: The Positive Advantages of the Personification of Life's Problems."


The argument is akin to if for instance astrology enables you to unravel subconcious issues that are bubbling under the surface of conciousness, then the exercise has positive applications. You just shouldn't believe in the message but what the message tells you about your mind as how it was derived and what you connect. I think many occultists are rationalists with a hood on cause it's fun, some like Aleister Crowley are nutters but really interesting people. EDIT: Here the author explains it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EPhMu69JSg



Keep in mind that the point of the video isn't really occultism but more mysticsm and reality modes. Also observe your own reaction of the matter to dismiss it outright. I'm not at all that interested in the occult by the way, I've recently just been dabbeling and cherry picking what I like about it for my own personal interest. I also find the people who get absorbed in it to be unpleasant to be around. Now mysticsm a la Alan Watts and Terrance McKenna to an extend I enjoyed immensely. The bridge to them was Sam Harris "Waking up".

>I would stick to researching the scientific experiments in quantum mechanics and take many of the interpretations of those experiments with a grain of salt. Especially when they start trying to apply quantum concepts to anything larger than subatomic particles.

I'll try to read around more. It's a little bit frustrating. I felt like I did my due diligance by reading the book I linked you (or rather skimmed it to be fair) and I've also tried to read into it because I was interested in quantum computing. I've recently found myself in that situation all too often.


Edit2: I just remembered a fun idea which Robert Anton Wilson called the "Cosmic Schmuck principle" and is very much the same as "knowingness".

http://overweeninggeneralist.blogspot.de/2012/07/the-cosmic-schmuck-principle-and-some.html

I had a hearty chuckle and had to confess that this was very much me at many points in this conversation.

u/w_v · 56 pointsr/bestof

> can anyone ELI5 why americans are against an ID?

Concerns over Big Government “controlling” something sacred to (most) Americans: Their personal identity.

But where do these concerns come from?

Two points:

  • America's frontier history.

    Many Americans, for better or worse, inherited a fierce and independent spirit from forefathers who survived by bloodily usurping native lands and then scratching away at them (or having their slaves scratch away at them) in the name of Manifest Destiny.

    These folk tended to regard all authority with great suspicion—even if said authorities were family and lived next door. We're talking about the Virginian Cavaliers and Appalachian Borderers, populations who valued personal liberty, independence, and pride above all else.

  • America's Northeastern Puritan and Quaker origins.

    These folks weren't exactly fans of authority either, having fled from persecution themselves. They believed everyone was equal before God and no distinctions between lords or commoners should exist. They established tight-knit, well-ordered communities that rejected foreign kings and operated according to strict religious rules.

    In fact, many of our cherished ideals come from the Quakers' suspicion of earthly authority: separation of church and state, freedom of speech, trial by jury, and checks and balances.

    With growth, compromise was inevitable. After all, these lifestyles do a piss-poor job of scaling up. An overarching government is always necessary and the past 150 years have been a record of the begrudging dance between this newly-minted federal authority and the indomitable culture that both rejected and required it.

    ---

    If you're interested in learning more about these migrations and their impact on American culture I suggest reading Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America by David Hackett Fischer.
u/metarinka · 16 pointsr/bestof

I'll give some historical context.

After WWII all our factories were still at full capacity and switched back to making personal cars, and all these returning vets on the GI bill want to college or back to good factory jobs and started buying homes and settling down.


Now the popular notion at the time was that city life was dying. Why get at best a row house or apartment in New york or philadelphia when you can build or buy a crafstmen house for the same price out in the suburbs. Also as civil rights was coming about it was convenient to cede the inner city to African Americans and poor and use things like loan restrictions to zone and price them out of the nice crime free suburbs.


So given the popular notion that the city and urban life was dying. Most city planning resources when into road construction so everyone could live out in the surburbs and take the new highways to their jobs. Entire cities were built up around this concept. In order to pay for this essentially halted Urban public works like subways and light rail. Why would you want to go on a stuffy subway with negroes when you can commute in your cadillac with radio and select-a-matic transmission?


So the results are profound and easy to verify. Any city that become major and modern after world war II has terrible public transportation: Examples include LA, Houston, Denver, Portland. Any city that was major before WWII tends to have still strong public transportation like Chicago, New york, Boston, D.C.


We basically decided as a nation that surburban life was awesome and gave up on public transportation. We even went steps further in places like LA where they actively bought out trolley lines just to close them down and pave over the tracks. Also the very way we designed our suburbs actively discourage pedestrainism and many live in places that "have no where to walk to". I'm ashamed to say that even my hometown Ann Arbor fell into that spiral and built many planned developments that have no feasible options of walking or biking to get to any retail area.


TLDR: city planners after WWII decided everyone (who was white) should live in suburbs and stopped funding public transportation.

Edit: for those who don't believe me this was covered by sociologists in the way things never were http://www.amazon.com/The-Way-Things-Never-Were/dp/0595348084

and lies my teacher told me http://www.amazon.com/Lies-My-Teacher-Told-Everything/dp/0743296281/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1457056096&sr=1-1&keywords=lies+my+teacher+told+me both fascinating reads

u/MrShapinHead · -7 pointsr/bestof

I understand what you're saying, I just want you to understand that it's offensive.

Trust me, this has nothing to do with politics, because I'm not a Trump supporter in the least. It's just not OK to have the top comment in a thread about the Nazi aftermath be about Trump... who has nothing to do with the topic other than he's a leader of a political party with a fervent following. He and his followers haven't gathered up a people or have had a state-run destruction of a people or race... like Kristallnacht (80 years ago this week). I highly recommend that you read Erik Larson's In the Garden of Beasts. I think you'll gain a better sense of what the Nazi party was like building up to the war.

Feel free to believe what you want to believe, just don't throw around Nazi comparisons so easily. It can turn off more people than you would want.

u/merinosweater · 197 pointsr/bestof

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u/[deleted] · 1 pointr/bestof

>The idea that human beings create morality and honor morality as a method of peaceful existence, when taken to it's logical end, does not reflect the commonly held conception of morality.

That's why I prefer to use the word ethics. I think morality by definition has an association with divinity. People use them interchangeably though. So let's assume we're using morality in a secular sense, like ethics.

Have you read Sam Harris' book The Moral Landscape It presents solutions to your questions.

Basically the premise is that you don't need a divine being to have objective morality. That objectively, the most moral position will always be that which minimizes the suffering of sentient beings. It may not always be apparent what that position is, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.

>those ideas were built upon an intrinsic belief in God

This is not the case. The morality of religion comes from the morality of the human beings who wrote it down at the time. They attributed their ideas about morality to a God, and called it a religion, but they were very human.

>Natural order does not have any worth without the intention of a universal authority standard.

FTFY. IT doesn't have to come from an authority. It can be determined through consensus.

u/crazyprsn · 2 pointsr/bestof

I offer Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus for anyone who likes a good sci-fi book. Orson Scott Card does an amazing job of taking history and showing what could have been.

He had a lot of people help him with the historic accuracy, and it shows.

u/penwraith · 3 pointsr/bestof

actually, gen theory is super interesting regarding trends.

pragmatic vs idealistic

introverted vs extroverted

like gen x is introverted pragmatic and millennial predicted to be extroverted pragmatic. they don't rebel against the pragmatism vs idealism axis... they rebel against gen x introversion and lack of political involvement... which itself was a rebellion against boomer extroverted idealism.

generations book (origin of gen theory) doesn't use those terms, but the template is there... I just used more abstract terminology. I would really recommend the book before being so dismissive about the irrelevance of generations. it's a difficult and long read, but fascinating.

generations by strauss & howe (amazon link)

edit: they coined the term millennials

u/schmak01 · 8 pointsr/bestof

Read the post above the one I was replying to. What you did was skip to the 4th part of that, which would cause the person you are trying to converse with to immediately withdraw, even though your points are valid. It's a common problem with how people debate things and is part of the reason why we are in a giant mess politically. Folks find it is easier to attack than it is to understand the positives of the other point, validate the negatives of their point, before going into discussing their positions before finally discussing the negatives of the other view point. I don't disagree with your points, I was trying to provide an example of what would be said when trying to balance a polarizing discussion.

I'd highly suggest reading up on polarity management as it helps even with items not so politically charged:

http://www.uuce.org/assets/McKandersHandout.pdf

http://www.jpr.org.uk/documents/14-06-19.Barry_Johnson.Polarity_Management.pdf

https://www.amazon.com/Polarity-Management-Identifying-Managing-Unsolvable/dp/0874251761

It's the best tool I have found in by professional and personal life to finding balance in any and all highly charged disagreements. It's easy as heck to do too since it is kind of a fancy pro's and con's list, but the key is keeping an open mind and not allowing your polarity to take over the other person's. It makes it much easier to get your point across and be open to the merits of their point.

u/EmberHands · 2 pointsr/bestof

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u/ronluvstwizzlers · 20 pointsr/bestof

That's not what that expression means. I get that you're trying to say is that the company completely "turned it's back on it's fan base", not that it made itself dizzy. What does being dizzy have to do with anything, anyway? The term you were looking for is doing a "180". A circle is divided into 360 degrees. If you turn 180 degrees (180=360/2) you are now facing in the exact opposite direction that you were. If you turn 360 degrees, you are in the exact same position that you started in.

​

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u/mage12 · 13 pointsr/bestof

Discussion of Columbus always reminds me of Orson Scott Card's Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus. It's a fascinating combination of timey-wimeyness, discussions on morality, and literal historical revisionism. Certainly worth a read!

u/whyenn · 14 pointsr/bestof

Fuff and fuffery.

The fact that Epstein's procurer, Ghislaine Maxwell, was the daughter of a man called, Israel's SuperSpy in the title of a book published 2 decades ago, or
that the source of most of Epstein's billions was a co-founder of a 30 year old group dedicated to advancing the cause of Israel remains.

Quibbling, however validly, about one non-crucial connection out of many relevant connection is pure pettifoggery. The bulk still proves nothing in isolation, but provide a plausible explanation as to why Epstein

  1. had sole access to another man's billions
  2. a reason as to why they would have been engaged in a vast enterprise of blackmail with that man's money
  3. chose the accomplices he consorted with.
u/WJHuett · 0 pointsr/bestof

If you guys dig that kind of stuff, you must read Sam Harris. His books changed my entire worldview -- especially The Moral Landscape. Awesome book.

u/DeathLeopard · 14 pointsr/bestof

I'd recommend reading Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong if you're curious about the accuracy of American high school history textbooks.

u/robotparker · 13 pointsr/bestof

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u/throwhooawayyfoe · 2 pointsr/bestof

I wouldn't be writing this sentence if it weren't for the intervention of modern healthcare at several specific moments in my life. Yammer on all you like about the virtues of the noble savage over the horrors of science and civilization... I prefer to have a heartbeat ;)

Only a stunning level of insulated privilege can produce the idea that a life defined by preventable disease, parasites, infant and child mortality, famine, drought, and the ever-present threat of disability, disfigurement, and death is preferable to the luxury of having our basic needs so adequately met that we can afford an afternoon of philosophical discussion on the internet. Or... from a quick glance at your profile, every afternoon.

I fully support the idea of questioning where we should try and evolve our civilization from here, and how to best get there, but not if the only purpose is to shit on the idea of progress altogether and resort instead to vague claims that there is no way to rationalize that some states of existence could be preferable to others. If you really believe that's the case, I'd be very curious to hear your thoughts about the line of argumentation outlined here. Otherwise your contribution here is just run-of-the-mill /r/im14andthisisdeep

u/TheNoize · 1 pointr/bestof

Actually, I just ordered, this is the right link. It must be shipped from the UK :/ Thanks capitalism...