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To be clear, I don’t mean it all in engaging with others. I’ve never heard the word used in an insulting way, just in the way people ask Siri to send messages with. It is scary. I do deconstruct what people say and think of them as fools sometimes, but usually I just mean based or cringe as in “I like or don’t like that thing/aspect.”

I don’t think the meme thing is very helpful, considering there are better ways I can and do think, and whatever I come up with isn’t that funny.

I think there is a bit of a limit on short form text, but people seem to have been able to express emotion better in the past idk. Also, that video keeps showing up in my recommended.

I do, still doesn’t eliminate internet trained thoughts.

Looking at old letters sounds like a good idea. I do love synonyms and could always use more.

It’s projection. There actually is people spying on them (google, Instagram, etc), but instead of recognizing and fighting that their energy is directed into fighting a made up enemy. Same with all the reactionary fears. They’re real problems that the left has failed to openly address, so money can back a fantasy version that still makes them feel vindicated.

Great interview: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/joy-james-on-du-bois-liberation-struggles-revolutionary-love

Secret Maoist?_/j

there’s one rich area and as you get farther away the poorer it gets, the worst area is described as Ukraine

Moscow’s famously far from Ukraine 🤓

Anything can be “rationally proven” given certain premises/assumptions. Our premises are closer to reality than the idealists.

Edit: Didn’t Descartes “prove” god exists by asking how the idea could exist in so many people’s head’s without it being so? Also, where do souls come from then?

A sentient being “chooses” between given options, but that choice is not “free.” One chooses oats or toast because they are prefer it at that moment for a variety of factors. It could take less work, it could taste better due to how their taste buds work or whatever, it could be cheaper. I mentioned your marxist take in my post. I think it’s strange to start with the assumption that it does exist somehow.

I agree to a certain extent. It’s definitely not the most important question, but as materialists we at least have a basis for discussing it. I think in any society freedom doesn’t really exist. Freedom is meaningless because we are subject to conditions and roles and biology. Freedom suggests a Cartesian dualism. A spirit separate from the body.

Tl;dr - relations are not deterministic, especially not at the level of ecology or society.

I think you are substituting deterministic for simple or mechanical here.

Likewise, some of the earliest organisms on earth, which produced oxygen, created the conditions for the atmosphere as we know it.

Very true, this points to the absurd and unlikely nature of our existence. Everything had to go “right” up to this point. That does not contradict determinism.

Does something worth calling free will “emerge” out of this fact? I think so, at least.

I’ll look into it.

Edit: socialism limits “freedom” to accumulate, be antisocial, or be poor, but promotes a default of flourishing.

In a way determinism is comforting because things aren’t your fault. However, if that thought leads someone to inaction it can be harmful.

Thanks for the responses, I agree. Human consciousness is a beautiful and absurd process of development.

yeah, but what is it? how does it have free will? isn’t it just regular matter subject to conditions, not able to make decisions.

Btw, I made this post partially because a while ago I wanted to look into Deism. Deists claim they are convinced of god by rational argument. What “rational arguments” did I find? “There’s no way evolution is real” and “where else does our free will come from” was all I found. Stupid.

Exactly, in recognizing determinism one can resign themselves to the supposed inevitable - that would be stupid, or one could go on living as if they had free will even though it’s probably determined or at least random. Remember that even if it is determined your determined actions still matter. Being convinced whether or not you have free will may be out of your control, but the following actions will still affect the world.

I doubt it, but noone can know for certain.

Then where does sentience come from? I don’t expect you to be able to answer this obviously, but I don’t see why sentience isn’t just an incredibly complex material reaction that came into existence in extreme absurdity and improbability.

Is ice freely struggling with air with the possibility of cooling it or being melted? Where would you find a material source for free will. Maybe pure chance is possible, but that doesn’t imply choice.

I still don’t see an argument for free will here. Either way it means its random or predictable, not free. The only way free will could exist is if there was some sort of spirit beyond matter.