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Of course you do it all the time, you have no choice.
It is like being depressed your corvette cannot reach 1000mph, and in your car is someone who will die in an hour but the nearest hospital is a thousand miles away.
I knew you'd say that
DETERMINISM
To be perfectly honest I don't really associate with my country as an individual. It just happens to be the place where I live.
"Eh... fuck it."
The alternatives don't make any sense to me.
i am some kind of literal larry and i take as a statement of "follows a religion... religiously"
no more, no less
if a person self-identifies as religious, i make the assumption that they follow a religion of some kind, and do so with some level of adherence that is important enough to them to self-identify as religious
on the rare occasions i self-identify as such nowadays, that is what i mean.
but my observation has been many people take "religious" to mean "follows a religion they are personally familiar with, in a way they know"
so people who only grew up surrounded by Christianity and the version of Christianity they most observed people being adherent to was, for example, Catholic
will have a tendency to leap to the conclusion that person who says they are religious are self-identifying as if not a Catholic, at the very least a Christian and at the very least, a theist
and that is tiresome
incredibly tiresome
Really to me I see a resurgence in national identity in recent history not a reduction. And I really would tie this more to the economic woes of the World since 2008 than anything else. People tend to hang onto identity more when there such events.
That's stupid.
it's
not
determinism
I don't think it is.
The fact that our planet is at the best it's ever been isn't of any comfort to the people whose lives are still shitty.
No.
People are cool and I like them.
They're not perfect but I'm okay with it.
oh, like that.
EDIT: I operate with a very simple definition of what it means that a person is "religious"
I don't know that I can fix that!
you're a pretty well-read dude and i respect you, intellectually
so I generally take on faith that you've familiarized yourself at the very least with the major philosophical thrusts of non-deterministic worldviews
at the very least from a Western philosophical framework
given thus
i'unno that i can make a compelling argument on the subject for you
The bignams comic companies need more of a general universe editor to keep everything straight and non-stupid.
Or, they need to behead/fire/whatever the existing shitty universe editors.
That they apparently had no such thing for a really long time has made their worlds super crazy in a bad-for-storytelling way.
the cyclical formation of ethnic identities in the balkans is p amusing
can you imagine this getting off the ground today:
short of Russia invading or something.
People are people.
They are cool and terrible and you don't know what one is until it's too late.
This is interesting.
My anecdotal experience is obviously meaningless here because a) that's a global issue and b) I live in Canada, where people are vaguely ashamed of their country and are proud of being "nice" and are constantly obsessing over the establishment of a national identity
Most of the shit going down in the world are good things.
naw I think that would halt the stream of unexpected successes. see: hawkeye, which actually fits badly into the MU
but the strategy of throwing crap at the wall to see what sticks works only if someone gets to select what sticks in a sensible manner
You never know we could get another Tito.
No, you stop first.
Can you quantify this in some way.
ronya what do you mean this getting off the ground today
the herring salad in the swedish and norwegian flags are gone and we're not going to have another personal union anytime soon
but like, other than that, that's how it is
pretty much encapsulates the sort of viewpoint that led to me stopping from self-identifying as religious in most company
the problem wasn't people who merely weren't religious. or people who were religious but for a different religion than mine
those folks were never the problem for me
the problem was the people whose animosity towards religion became it's own...
...fetish
You'll all be spoolians and you'll like it.
Yes, let me get a measurement from my "world happiness meter".
Good god Sarksus, these utilitons are off the chart!
that, and also that philosophy has had a wide ranging quantifiably positive effect on the world, while wanking is the time devouring shoulder demon who wants us to be late for work and spend more money on socks
Tito needed to get Yugoslavia wealthy, growing rapidly, and underpinned with a multi-ethnic cronyist elite before he died
which he didn't. meh.
If I ran off my experience of the two countries I have lived in extended periods of time I would come to opposite conclusion and that national identity wasn't just rising but is one of the main forces in politics, even if it is done so quietly.
But the more you read from a lot of countries the more you see national identities really superseding all other identities. And as @Ronya pointed out we have a lot of those tied to ethnic identities.
Which I think is one of the few things the post-Colonialist get right is that colonialism had the after effect of developing a stronger form of ethnocentrism in many places than what was there previously.
But it's also important to be glad that your dissatisfaction is working.
the flag is from a pro-scandinavian-federation movement during the era of german and italian unification
Well it doesn't make me sad. It just makes me apathetic.
So it's bad for my career as it makes me not want to pursue anything that has to do with society, but I am content.
When I'm on meds this will probably clear up.
It si a good game I was playing with the kids but now they're all in bed.
As an aside, Steam via Big Picture is cool and you can play 2p Magicka on the same giant monitor by plugging in two xbox controllers.
Other countries have better health care though
And less violence
And better education systems
And a better social safety net
And less starvation
And less executions and less solitary confinement and less people in prison and shorter prison terms and a larger focus on rehabilitation of prisoners and less draconian drug laws
And a more knowledgeable populace
And less littering
And better LGBT protections
And