Comments by "Frenchie’s Philosophy" (@tsuich00i) on "VICE" channel.

  1. I like documentaries like these. Nothing sad, tragic, dramatic or grotesque, but rather an in-depth look at a niche we'd never think twice about having known nothing about it before. Culture, community and the ideas we identify with are every bit as important as the news and events which pervade and preoccupy our time and attention. After all, there wouldn't be anything noteworthy to report on if not for the little things we care about adding up to something big. Compared to some of the coverage Vice has of violent episodes between mindless brutes, at least here we have people who do something they love, instead of fighting someone else's war, or making money for money's sake. I'm glad to see some small part of those interests highlighted here. It's refreshing.
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  2. MrPecan222 A lack of pride can prove just as easily detrimental.
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  3. Alan Shteynberg My how you have a oversimplified view of the world. The only reason he had that opportunity is because Martha touched on something genuine- authentic empathy and our human response to children. Xaxier didn't know how to do that, but he sure tried to copy it, and stupid people fell for it. Oh and if your going to quote Nietzsche you should at least read the guy, because he hated people who tried to recreate experience, through superficial stand-ins which never reach the real thing. Martha loved children, and that love came out in her work which is why it was so popular to begin with. She was a true ubermensch, unlike the slime you defend out of lazy reading of a philosophy you do not understand.
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  4. Max Hyams ...and so the logical conclusion is then to have a social progressive, fiscal conservative? A gross oversimplification. 
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  5. It's a shame that we can't find a more fitting cultural role for these animals that offers them the dignity they deserve. They should be revered for the food and company they give us, not tortured and torn to pieces for sport amusement. 
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  6. Alan Shteynberg What, pray tell, is the intrinsic value of business? You have evaded any substantiated statement by reveling in the brevity of your words.  The article you point to offers no solution, only a definition, open to many possible conclusions. It does not speak to why you think what you think.  If you have to rely on a reference to a secondary source, and are unable to articulate your own answer to make your case clear, then you've done more to demonstrate your inability to prove you understand subject matter, then convince anyone your right. Do you even college? 
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  7. kademan13 How you could find something at fault from so simple a comment is beyond me.  It has nothing to do with being "scared', it is simply nice to be indulge in a distraction now and again, and escape from a troubling world like these good people are doing here.  Btw, if you want a confrontation, a real debate, rather than your silly, half-assed knit-picking, find me on my Youtube page and pick an "important" issue, and i'll happily oblige. 
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  8. Alan Shteynberg Lol...  The solution to the problem of what is valued.  Capitalism is not a force. Natural selection is a force. The two are not the same thing. Capitalism is a artificial construct, which is itself, a byproduct of our economic system, which is also man-made. Learn to use better terminology.  For example, foraging hunter/gather peoples have no need for economics because they extract from the environment only that which is required, and which regenerates without any intervention on their part. By your logic this not that (the above) is of intrinsic value, because 1.) it is natural and 2.) it requires no explanation, because this is the way people are in a state of nature, as they are disposed in virtue of their faculties.   Secondly, her belief doesn't require an explanation. Humans do become attached to one another as a consequence of the value they vest in one another. A doll is a perfectly logical substitute for people wanting to feel that sort of affection. It is not subjective. On the other hand, our wants and desires are subject to culture. 
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  9. Alan Shteynberg "Walter Kaufmann (the most eminent translator of Nietzsche's work, and a world-class philosopher in his own right) disagrees that Nietzsche actually preferred master morality to slave morality. He certainly gives slave morality a much harder time, but this is partly because he believes that slave morality is modern society's more imminent danger." “(the great man) strives instinctively for a citadel and a secrecy where he is saved from the crowd, the many, the great majority…” While Xavier runs for the crowd, the consumer, the common.  Additionally, he says: the men of great creativity” are “the really great men according to my understanding."  Xavier, a piddling copycat with half the mind to do anything of his own, is not this man.  Again, you have no idea what your talking about. 
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  10. kademan13 lololol this from the guy who's latest commented vids include in their titles "shave head", "spring break" and "my little pony"  Oh and I have plenty of interest, you simply lack the ability to decipher pleasure from purpose.  But sure, lecture the rest of us on what's "meaningful". I'm not even sure what would qualify if this doesn't, and judging by your standards, I don't want to.  And if you care so much, get off of Youtube then and do something meaningful with your life. Though something tells me you couldn't even if you tried. 
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  11. Alan Shteynberg I love when people say they don't want to argue semantics, because if they actually bothered to find out what the word "semantic" means, they'd know no conversation is possible without it. But by all means, if you wish to save face and but out now, i'm more than happy to accept your concession.  By the way, everything will also infinitely reoccur, making the matter an eternal struggle for release.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_return
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  12. Copper Fronts Some people never learned how to channel their energies into something constructive, so rather than do anything "good" or sensible with their lives, they pick a fight with everyone.  this creature is just such a case. 
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  13. Gangs Why thank you.
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  14. Max Hyams Hardly an answer either. 
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  15. Zephyra I'm with you on that. Very disappointing, especially in light of their environmental concern in several other videos.
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  16. inspite of that, both the Bible and Koran set a president of violence, vengeance, and hatred throughout their texts supposedly by righteous men. As to your final point, as men made religion to serve their own manipulative ends, one is inclined to blame both...
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  17. the extension was really towards mormonism, Scientology, not really. The insult in the latter portion of your address is beneath me to respond to. Have fun being an Ass.
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  18. That is a very broad definition, what it is called, isnt truly all that relivent to the point.
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  19. lol "actually nice people" Why they fight against any form of psycho-therapy or homosexuality, yeah, their real sweet hearts...
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  20. Where the hell did you get that question from what i just said?
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  21. And then we'll just move on tell that next best thing until consumerism and capitalism ruin that to. Its the Cycle of Americanization, and so wouldnt have it any other way.
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  22. Normally, i'd say stranger things have been known to happen, but then i again, when i think about it, i'm not so sure in this case...
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  23. I'm not sure even luck would come as much help... A scientologist wouldnt know what to do with luck...
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  24. lol stupidest thing i've heard tonight, which is when i know i'm done. I hope the ignorance works out for, the statistics are against you... Good thing you have jesus... or do you?... lol.
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  25. One of the best, most breath taking, and empathetic pieces Vice has come out with so far.
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  26. Buddhism has before yes, this is true. Though these are isolated accurences, not true of most, (sects, are very singular organizations) Confucianism, your completely and utterly mistaken, North Korea takes nothing from it, it has no links to Totalitarianism. Confucianism preaches for the rule of law, and for the difussion of power, and what you say of Taoism is nothing more than a western bias, which i see no evidence for...
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  27. I guess, normal, boring people, sitting in their houses, talking about the weather and... maybe sports. Seams like the second most normal activity one could be engaged in... Oy the boredom.
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  28. I would not generalize the judgement of religion to include Hindu's, Buddhists, Confucists, Sikhs, Jains, and Taoist with equal regard to Abrahamic religions (christianity/Islam/Judaism) and by extention, Mormonism and Scientology, which are, through their deeds and teachings destructive far beyond the measure of many eastern religions.
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  29. Dont delete your friends from Facebook. Especially if their into Bandanas...
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  30. It felt that a cheesy comic book the whole time, with some of the most steroetypical characters i've ever seen.
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  31. "Drink your Milk." lol, love it.
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  32. Definitely not in keeping with the quality i've come to expect from Vice--Shabby, unoriginal, and devoid of any true humor, I'd really like to see Vice return to its roots with its inspired and unique documentaries that i've come to love it for, and do away with this sort of frivolous nonsense.
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  33. Sorry to say, that was kinda the point...
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  34. I have to agree- I have come to appreciate Vice for boundaries (no pun intended) it crosses in journalism as well as other fields of information AND entertainment. I do not think it just or deserved that they should be chastised simply for posting something that is beyond the realm of their usual content. If you do not like it, do not watch it. This isnt CNN or FOX, simply because a vid may seem politically incorrect doesnt give anyone the right to deprive/censor it from its intended audience.
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  35. I also don't think its intentional, I mean they live there, do business there, I'd have an accent to. Accept on the occasion I'm being filmed by familiar sounding Americans.
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  36. I agree it is not of the standards we have become accustomed to on Vice, yet we are still here, arent we? I must confess, i find this biographical series particularly fascinating... Perhaps i have simply succumb to the poor taste of mass appeal...
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  37. Believing he exists? no, that isnt an an analogue... Religion, definition: "Details of belief as taught or discussed." If the definition of Christianity (the key word being "Christ) is adherence to the teachings and ideas of Jesus as presented in the bible, then yes, that constitutes religion...
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  38. Satan had nothing to do with it.
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  39. Theres only so much ignorance a man can endure before he has to set the record straight. I dont sympathize with belief in the supernatural, but there are many "religous" ideologies (or ideologies that are simply labeled as such) which get grouped in as the "bad guys" when really they did nothing wrong, and that sort of victimization is wrong. That is all i was trying to say, sheesh...
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  40. an Idea is a creation, so by that logic, it is a religion... Not to mention all accepted definitions of religion in society. I'm sorry friend, but its not up to you what is and what isnt religious, just as much as you can not decide what is true, and untrue.
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  41. I'm glad someone said it.
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  42. Why not?
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  43. Harry kim... i was wondering where i recognized that name... Star Trek Voyager!
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