My interpretation was that the original sin was “eating the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil” aka developing consciousness. Once you have a consciousness and see the world in terms of “right” and “wrong” it’s very difficult to go back, so people blindly stumble forward never questioning what good and evil really are because it requires an amount of self reflection that could lead to psychic suicide.
Agreed! I apologize, I didn’t mean “love” in the interpersonal relationship sense. I meant it more in The Beatles “All You Need is Love” sense.
I hate when people don’t realize love is powerful enough to make people question everything, including themselves.
My bad, I meant the activity depicted in the picture (popping a wheelie to try to impress a girl) could easily be from a pre-internet time.
Right, I guess I mean I don’t see how the sentiment of wanting to show off for ladies has really changed that much post internet. To me this picture speaks more towards how motorcycles impacted simping, and I’m pretty sure that’s the whole reason motorcycles were invented.
In what way? Guys popping wheelies to impress girls was definitely a thing before the internet. I’m pretty sure that’s why the wheelie was invented.
Sometimes it’s just fun to write fanfic regardless of who you think is stronger. If the characters have strong motivations good stories are bound to unfold.
God’s priorities are weird, but they make me feel seen. :)
During the AI goldrush you can make your fortune selling bookshelves.
Can’t blame you. I put a Windows PC together again just so I could play Helldivers 2 a bit more consistently. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to enjoy your leisure time.
You’re all over the place, but I personally believe the biggest issue is people look at economic systems and ask things like “how can we maximize our production and consumption power?”
The “solution” is for everyone to come to an agreement on how much of something is “enough” and work forward from that baseline. This is incredibly difficult because people have different priorities, and getting people to agree on how much food, fuel, and infrastructure should be produced and consumed per capita would be a huge challenge. Capitalist economic systems allow people to more easily distance themselves from the moral problem of greed by saying things like “If I can make $5,000 that means I earned the right to consume $5,000 worth of goods.” But the real world “value” of making $5,000 from construction work on housing is vastly different than the value produced from selling a $5,000 NFT.
“There’s no such thing as ethical consumption under capitalism so fuck everyone.”
I think the questions you’re asking require the oversimplification of the real world to the point where even if someone gave you an “answer” it would be close to meaningless. Specifically, not everyones looks at changing geographic locations through a lens of pure economics.
There would still be class, but it would be based on things like social status and education instead of financial status.
More accurately there is no reality where “everyone is rich”. If everyone had equal wealth there would be no financial distinction that would allow you to classify “rich” or “poor”.
I agree with that sentiment. If it’s any consolation I think his “spirit” lives on in the work he helped create and in the people he inspired.
I remember seeing Fred read the news on his stone tablet.
I hope that at this point humans are in the process of realizing that killing the nukes is way more beneficial than killing their enemies with nukes.
Ah… Yeah. Idk. If I was god I’d make it so anyone who wanted to find me could find me through any path regardless of where they started at. Assuming “god” exists and is at least that benevolent then there’s nothing to worry about regardless of your religion.
Yeah, I agree with that. I think it’s the same sentiment as what I feel towards my parents. I didn’t ask to exist, but they created me anyway and now I have to live with the consequences of their actions. Regardless of what my parent’s intentions were, I have been subjected to human experience through no choice of my own.
BUT I’m not going to peace out right now because after digging myself out all the shame and self-loathing I’ve buried myself in I’ve actually come to enjoy being alive.
So on the one hand I curse my parents for my existence, but I also thank them. The ability to explore the gamut of human emotions is fun, even if those emotions fuckin’ suck sometimes.
I’m constantly going back and forth on whether or not I believe in “God” because every time I try to imagine what that would even mean my understanding of reality shifts in a way. I certainly don’t believe in a white bearded man living in the clouds, but I believe in me, and I believe in you, and I believe in the you that believes in me and one day I’ll find out if this drill really can pierce the heavens.