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the good thing about being abroad is how every little tiny detail about the place is different and interesting
the other good thing about being abroad is how every little tiny detail about home is homely afterwards.
I don't agree.
it's a real shame. they had a lot of momentum (and produced some cool shit!) but it just seems to be grinding to a halt already
Actual Play: Mage: the Awakening - At the Edge of All Things
dogg i also made a post suggesting that any sort of meaningful judgment here is dependent on definitions
i am saying your phrasing was incendiary is all
They're relatively useful to lawless, state-of-nature brutality, but they might be relatively useless to something else.
I wish countries were generally more porous, and with less of a connection to ethnic identities, but as you say they sort of naturally go a certain way.
That is my entire thought on the stuff.
fuck
Ahh someone has been reading Hobbes.
So patriotism is kinda defined as 'nationalism, but good' and vice versa.
So if you start talking about whether you agree with patriotism/nationalism the conversation descends into clusterfuck very quickly, e.g. 'Nationalism like that is bad, but this patriotism here is good!'
I don't really know how to fix that.
This is interesting because I'm not sure how I relate to things. Or if I do normally? Do normal people relate to things?
I like California a lot but that has to do with climate and trans protection laws.
I am pretty whatever about America, for pretty much the same reasons.
I just feel really disconnected from stuff like this. I live in the state and we have a relationship because of that, but... I dunno.
But then I don't relate to humans as a whole I think? I only relate to individuals.
Well I could re-word it and say: I care more about the human species than I do about any individual country or state.
Interestingly enough I nowadays make an effort to avoid self-identifying as religious, even though I am and that hasn't really changed
I just grew incredibly weary of people's demonized, horrific associations with that word and what it meant to them and I got so very, very tired of fighting with people about it.
I came to understand that's no victory there. There's no winning. There's no point to trying to have the fight with someone about. I gain nothing, even if by the end they agree with me they're no less prejudiced on the subject as when they started, they've just learned a thing not to talk to me about.
So I just... stopped. In general I've adopted the practice of avoiding all but the least controversial, most easily agreed-upon labels with the most neutral definitions possible outside of people with biases against those labels even existing.
I'm tired of fighting about this kind of stuff with people. It's why when some folks decided to trot out how much they hate the word the patriotism and started injecting their own personal definitions of the word as if that was what I meant, I just backpedaled and was like "hey whatever it means to you maaaaan"
anger's a young man's game indeed
That's not a clusterfuck. That's a discussion. Fuck the definitions connotations are everything.
(I swap patriotism and nationalism around there.)
The world has actually never been in a better state. Violence is at an all-time low across the globe, of all categories.
Hobbes is my somber homeboy.
That's what I said in the first part of my sentence, Winky!
How did you feel about the boston bombing? Compared to say our bombing and shooting massacre?
Hobbes works well in his period of history.
Hobbes breaks down in modern day nation state system thanks to the development of the international system providing outlets for such anarchy.
Also a lot of work on realism has been done since then. If you want a realist bent go English School or go home.
pinker?
Fuck this gay earth.
Oh well then yes, I agree.
It seems fine except when bad people get involved. But you can substitute pretty much any -ism there.
Except communism, it's 100% bad.
We're going to see less and less national loyalty and pride in coming generations in the first world, and I think that's a good thing
It's fine to have pride in other people, but drawing the line at nationality seems silly to me. I am proud of Americans and Brits and Germans and other people who are largely culturally similar, when they embody the finer values and qualities of that culture. It's harder to find that commonality with more distant nations because there is so much difference, but when I see the man standing in front of the tanks, or a monk who will not retaliate despite any physical harm he suffers, or the courage of artists and writers in China in the face of oppressive government, I feel proud, I suppose. Or maybe just happy and glad.
National differences just cause so many problems, it seems foolish to glorify them and emphasis difference in so doing.
time to crank out five thousand words describing summary statistics
The true problem with New 52 is that they couldn't exercise a real firm definition of what it is retconned and what is not.
Like, Superman got a reboot and is brand new and everyone is like "Holy shit, have you heard of this Superman?" and Hal Jordan is meeting Batman for the first time and is mystified by the fact that he doesn't have superpowers.
But Jason Todd is the Red Hood, Brightest Day still happened, and most of Batman's history was untouched... except Barbara is Batgirl and was never Oracle.
I just
what?
like the entire thing smacked of some people wanted to get on board and some people didn't and it turned into a fucking mess because of it
what's the fucking point of doing a reboot when 50% of the writing staff folds their arms and says "Well I'm not rebooting my stories"
geoff johns i am scowling at you
(implying I am ever not scowling at geoff johns)
Oh well yeah, same here.
Except I'd actually just think "OMG this is fucking awesome" and "Is that scientist single?"
I am in love with knowledge and stuff though.
So. Too bad other countries, you're all right though. Most of you anyway.
that just makes me curious.
What kind of definition of "religious" do people use and what to they feel it implies
It's easy to reconcile almost anything with lack of belief in free will.
I do it all the time!
still
when your major stars are running into this problem:
you have to either adapt into becoming Marvel, or reboot.
to be frank, Loren, I don't know how you function day to day without having some kind of internally agreed upon stopping point to your higher ideals and acknowledging the functional realities of what is observable.
but then I'm equally mystified by other kinds of deterministic philosophies.
About the same. But I don't want to imply that I am super compassionate. Thinking about all of the bad stuff that happens all the time leaves me comparatively dead on the inside. I don't want any of that to happen but I don't grieve either.
"...but they might be relatively useless to something else", yes.
Given my lack of belief in a kind of "free will", the notion that this matters at all here is weird to me.
I mean, it is literally the best it has ever been. That's not just above average, the only reason I can't claim we are sitting at the pinnacle of humanity is because it keeps getting better (not to say that everything can't go to shit, it certainly can, but so far it is not).
It is like being depressed that your corvette cannot reach 1000 mph.