Comments by "Pob" (@goodlookinouthomie1757) on "Lotuseaters Dot Com" channel.

  1. While I agree with this guy, opening your dialogue with ad hominems is a bit manchildish.
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  2. But the image of Gazza blubbing ruined that song for me.
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  3.  @rebeccaconlon9743  Agreed. Both sides are at fault. It was men who bestowed this power and freedom upon women when clearly they were not created to handle it responsibly. Therefore I lay blame on my fellow man. As I alluded to previously, it is men who by and large possess the agency.
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  4. I'm really struggling with the idea that I need to be an emotional tampon.
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  5.  @o00nemesis00o  You're thinking too narrowly. Those people died believing rightly or wrongly that they were protecting their families, their people, their nations (which until just yesterday meant their ethnic group). So in fact they were absolutely concerned with continuing their line of genes or those closely related to it. We look on their sacrifice as noble and commendable because we also are ancestrally aware that it is a necessary thing to do.
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  6. Yes me too. It was events like gamergate and then the beginning of the never ending news cycle of outrageous degenerate cultural blasphemies committed by the left.
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  7. You know in India they have a problem with dogs being snatched by, errr..... yeah....
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  8. I'm so glad to be an older guy whose mojo abandoned me years ago. I just don't give a shit about any of this. The bitter irony is that this is like a magic spell when it comes to women. I could have really done with this condition 20 years ago.
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  9. Awww man.. couldn't Carl have at least let you make it to #200...
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  10. It illustrates the transactional nature of any relationship. You can feel that you're friends with someone, and yet the possibility exists that you may let them down or betray them. At the end of the day your fidelity to a friendship is largely based in the cost you would accrue (social/familial/emotional) by acting in your own self interest. And the weight of these costs are dependent on the personality of the individual.
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  11. Has it though? Or is this merely the perception they want you to have?
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  12. It all hinges on whether you believe there is something metaphysical about our consciousness. If you think we are nothing more than meat machines, including our minds, then you necessarily advocate physical determinism. Nevertheless... we are left with the weird fact that we (or I at least) have an experience of it all and it absolutely feels like we are making our own decisions.
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  13. The regime trying hard to convince us that the aliens who don't exist are invading and that the aliens who do exist are not.
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  14. Perhaps I'm too radical for these parts, but I don't necessarily want the deportations to stop at just the illegals.
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  15. I imagine the ultimate result of this is the collapse of society as we know it. Which will return us closer to more natural laws... things like child mortality once we cannot rely on modern medicine to the same extent... And as such having more kids may be a necessity.
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  16. This seems to be a contradiction in so much as you're saying "I know my decisions were scripted from the beginning of time, but I still freely make my own choices". Which is fine, because I feel the same way. I can only conclude, for the sake of my own soul, that there is a transcendent aspect to my consciousness. The very thing that is facilitating the experience I'm having right now of reality and my ability to ask the question at all. I know that I have no free will, but I embrace the illusion that I do (as if I have any choice in that matter either). God this gets weird.
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  17. ​ @o00nemesis00o  The sum of your reply is that everything I said was correct, but you don't like it. We are violently in agreement in that sentiment. We can argue similar things about free will... on which the path of scientific enquiry always leads you to the same conclusion, a conclusion that I don't like any more than you do but which to deny is a folly in itself.
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  18. Like many people, you're conflating intelligence with consciousness. My washing machine is intelligent, but it is not conscious. An AI might become "super intelligent" and destroy all of humanity, but it will remain a dumb, soulless machine... not aware of itself and not conscious.
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  19.  @Tect7  I'm quite prepared to assert that my toaster is not self aware. It follows that neither is Skynet. I never bought that concept in the movie. Unless we are suggesting that there is an arbitrary level of complexity somewhere between my toaster and Skynet at which point consciousness is emergent? At what point is that? Besides that point, we cannot ever consider human consciousness to be equivalent to that which a machine can imitate. I can't think that anything good lies down that road.
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  20. The practice apology is complete BS. Porn is not representative of real sex. The reason that erectile dysfunction results is because you're training your arousal triggers on something entirely artificial. Then you're getting down with a real woman and all your established triggers are absent. It's like practicing piano by playing a guitar.
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  21. Reform won 20% of the votes an d ended up with 0.6% of the seats. Where is this "democracy" they keep saying they want protect?
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  22. She is Gandslf on the bridge holding back the far right Balrog.
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  23. Also on that feminist fantasy harassment PDA, notice it's all the women standing up at the end. You don't even see another bloke apart from the harrasser.
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  24. Sounds like how society at large treats men.
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  25. There are mums and Dads out there but they aren't asking "Where is the science on this". They are saying "This gives me an instinctive sick feeling in my gut because it's depraved". There is no need to confuse the issue with scientific arguments because that's playing the left's game.
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  26. A dog and a chimp are conscious. Perhaps "self conscience" is a better term to distinguish them from humans. Dogs and chimps do not appear to be conscious of their own consciousness as humans are. They have all the emotions, instincts and many of the problem solving abilities humans have, but they do not reflect on that fact.
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  27.  @halfzack1317  Really? I'm not that old and I remember a time when this was intuitive to pretty much everyone.
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  28. Well we can't blame women too much, limited agency that they have, as they are so easily manipulated by the regime.
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  29. The AI will likely be ambivalent to our existence, to the extent that we do not hamper it's goals, whatever they may be.
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  30. That your fit missus in the thumbnail Dan?
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  31. Trust me, it might not seem that way but if you kick the porn your life will improve.
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  32. Yeah I'd forgotten about that. This was right at the end of my era of being in the skeptics and atheist+ scene. I religiously listened to podcasts like the Non-Prophets and The Skeptics Guide to the Universe. Not long before that had been elevator-gate as well - and I started to notice that feminists had infested the movement.
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  33. Thanks for clarifying Fiat currency. I had always imagined a couple of bankers meeting in a shady car park with bags of notes in the back of a Punto.
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  34. ​ @thetruth45678  Mutual benefit is exactly what it means. Fairness is a subjective term.
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  35.  @thetruth45678  There was a part of the discussion in which Carl described helping a friend when it is of no benefit to yourself. This is specifically what I was referring to. Altruism does benefit not only the other, but yourself as well. If you are of the disposition to show such behaviour then you will likely thrive in your social group, even if this is not your conscious intention. A minority of individuals will take advantage, but the group as a whole will recognise your value. I agree at the extreme of sacrificing your life then yes, it is of no value to you the individual, but in evolutionary terms it may still be beneficial to the continuation of your genes, which after all is the basis for all our behaviour. As for your last point - there is certainly scope to view humanity in those terms. My species as a whole has little regard for my individual interest. Bit depressing though so it's not something I prefer to dwell on :)
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  36. @@troyhailey Genes don't express beliefs so much, but they certainly express behaviours.
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  37. @@troyhailey How does a swallow know which way to migrate? Is it because God came to it in a dream with a map? The behavioural drive to reproduce, to migrate, or to flee from a predator is as much a part of genetics and evolution as having a long neck or two testicles.
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  38. Dan Quayle.... was he in that movie where he got shrunk in a spaceship and injected into Martin Short's ass?
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  39. If you believe that there is a metaphysical aspect to consciousness then yes.
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  40. Her official title: Secretary for safeguarding and violence against women and girls. God help women and girls
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  41.  @finallimoride4621  I think most cosmologists will freely admit they don't know what dark matter is, they just think that there is "something" affecting gravity according to their model. Their model might be completely wrong, but neither will any cosmologist claim certain knowledge of anything. The fundamental essence of science is we go with the theory that makes most sense until evidence appears that changes it. Science is a process, not an outcome.
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  42. Does the Demon freely choose to perfectly observe the state of the universe?
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  43. That must have been one hell of a body.
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  44. Find a good man, give him a kid, make a home. And you won't have to do any of this.
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  45. This became topical again in the last few weeks.
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  46. @TheMuncyWolverine I wouldn't say we never use cash, but for day to day stuff like the supermarket and filling your car it's pretty normal to use a card. We have contactless payment (just tap your card on the reader) which was increased to £100 during covid. Last time I used cash was maybe 3 weeks ago buying my son and myself an ice cream at a local football match. It's still needed for things like this because vendors at these events or at fairs etc don't usually have electronic payment systems. I suppose we'll do that kind of thing direct phone-to-phone eventually.
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  47. YES. This exactly. This was just one of MANY lies told about Trump. The "fine people" hoax. The calling soldiers losers hoax. The drinking bleach hoax. All rolled together with Russiagate hoax, the Jussie Smollette hoax, The Covington hoax, the George Floyd hoax etc... I came to loathe the mainstream media over the course of Trump's first term.
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