Comments by "Orwellian Horseman of the Apocalypse" (@DennisMoore664) on "Big Think" channel.

  1. "Reality is what you can get away with" ― Robert Anton Wilson
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  2.  @erikjohnson1746  For a scenario like that you'd probably want to deploy a SWAT team to make the arrest. Or perhaps those people might be smarter than some adrenaline junkie agro door kicker and recognize that the armed gang members they need to arrest aren't going anywhere; that they can wait outside the trap house until a better time than 2AM when the person or people they are going to arrest might be passed out from their drug use. Or wait until the person leaves so they can be isolated away from the rest of the gang and be arrested on the police officers terms. That was too easy. Try harder.
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  3. I've been saying this for a while now. Makes me smile when it when it turns out I've recognized something on my own, even using the same words, that Mr Watts has said.
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  4. Without a pretty impressive population reduction we're going to be in big trouble.
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  5. ​ @andre8272  Clearly you aren't familiar with the kind of people LE deals with either and even worse you obviously haven't made any effort to educate yourself. Police do fight crime, to be sure — but they are mainly called upon to be social workers, conflict mediators, traffic directors, mental health counselors, detailed report writers, neighborhood patrollers, and low-level law enforcers, sometimes all in the span of a single shift. In fact, the overwhelming majority of officers spend only a small fraction of their time responding to violent crime. I never suggested a SWAT team should be called out to deal with everything so don't try to strawman my words. But for the scenario Erik Johnson specified it would make more sense for specially trained and equipped police to make that kind of an arrest then your average patrol officer.
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  6. What do you expect from a channel that calls itself "Big Think" - sounds like something straight from the Ministry of Truth to me.
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  7. Too many of those having kids are far from the Fittest of us.
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  8. There are those people who are made stronger through adversity, but it largely depends on the severity and nature of the adversity. The human body is capable of surviving and physically healing from all kinds of damage, but often times there are physical scars or chronic disorders that we suffer for the rest of our lives and are obvious to world usually causing a response of sympathy or willingness to make allowances for the persons condition. The same is true of the injuries to our minds and spirit, but because those scars aren't as obvious it's much easier to minimize or dismiss outright damage and chronic injuries just as debilitating as someone missing a limb or confined to a wheelchair. Failure and hardship can be great teachers because you don't want to repeat doing or having bad things happen and there are often times people around who can help you survive the immediate injury or problem. But all too often we fail at helping each other with the long term damage after those bad things happen. Even worse is the whole "cowboy up and walk it off" attitude expressed by too many. If we can eliminate that mind set from our species I suspect we'd be better off. That being said, children also shouldn't be raised in a completely protected bubble. We need to go out and play and fall down and skin our knees and get in arguments and maybe even a fight or two when we are young so that we learn how to deal with success and failure and maybe make fewer mistakes when we become adults.
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  9.  @chickentowel7036  If Lazar was killed it would only make his story stronger. Better to let him live and marginalize him as just another UFO nut.
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  10. I think a lot of us can agree on the problems, it's unfortunate we can't agree on the fixes.
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  11. Maybe but probably not - I have to be agnostic about the subject as I don't have enough faith to declare certainty of something I can't know about. Anything else is hubris.
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  12. <bleep> that
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  13. Hells yeah! Bill was never going to last long in this place, but I'm grateful I got the share the world with him for a while and that there are all the recordings of his work still here. What a spirit!
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  14. You sound like fellow devout agnostic - sup!
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  15. Then thumbs up it is!
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  16. Being annything other than agnostic is hubris. I'm happy contemplating possibilities but the reality is we can't know.
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  17. Being an enforcer of the state or the crown always brought with it privileges and power that made it alluring to bullies, thieves, rapists and murderers. Sadly, power also corrupts. So there are those who start out in the profession with the best of intentions to protect and serve and all that and the job changes them. They are surrounded by the horrorshow of the worst of us and/or they fall in with the rest of the bad apples and all their goodness turns to badness. Perhaps the policing part of law enforcement also shouldn't be a 20-plus year career.
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  18. You should absoluteky feel free to say whatever you want, but you also shouldn't be suprised if someone verbally or physically punches back if you what are saying is obviously hateful, offensive or causes harm.
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  19.  @ZeroOskul  If you got caught you didn't get away with it and reality now shifts to what your captor can get away with until you can regain your freedom and try to get away with something else. Circles within circles, baby pop!
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  20. "Leave the site cleaner than you found it" is an old mantra I've heard as a member of several groups I've been a part of over my life. Seems like solid advice for most occasions.
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  21. by adding lol are you trying to be ironic or do you actually believe this? Just wondering.
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  22. Agreed. I believe mathematics is part of the the base OS of the physical universe around us and good for a great many things relating to that physical existence, but not so much that it will ever help us explain away all the intangibles of a life.
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  23. "Never tell me the odds!"
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  24. It's definitely possible, I'm wondering why we are in one and will I emerge into a "real" world when this simulation ends or will it continue after this simulated existence ceases - and to what end? The biggest problem/pleasure is being so completely unsure of it all while I'm on the ride - frelling awesome!
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  25.  @PaulHoward108  It's your ride, bro - enjoy!
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  26. Or survival of the worst of us. If it's just about having kids there's a lot of terrible people who breed like rabbits. The begining of movie Idiocracy about how the SHTF isn't far from the truth of things all too often.
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  27.  @jonrolfson1686  Deep thoughts, my dude. Deep thoughts - keep 'em coming! High thumb, Jon.
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  28. Always nice to see someone else already posting my thought and seeing so much support for it. It would be refreshing to have a candidate I want to vote for and not just the less worst choice. I'd get out there and campaign for the guy.
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  29. Organ replacement.
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  30. Damn, that got serious in a hurry.
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  31. LMAO!
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  32. It's not any one -ism. If we don't destroy the habitability if our planet first, the answer is a hybrid of social systems under a single world government with small territorial carve-outs for groups that want to live in an exceptional way (like the Amish or the Kardashians). I suspect that Communism only works well in a small group environment of like-minded individuals, much as Capitalism most benefits only a small group of like-minded individuals. As such, neither is going to be a successful singular option for the long-term health of the full, global society. The most successful answer is going to be the one where no one is going to get everything they want. The members of the greater society will be more socially free to be who they are and will have access to very basic and safe shelter, food, clothing, healthcare and entertainment allowing them to focus less on working to earn a living and more on living a life doing meaningful work. There will be common sense rules for everyone about not being greedy or an asshole but also having a bit of tolerance for your neighbors when they fall short. If we want to do some extra tasks in order to have a luxury item than there will be ways to do that. Taking part in a performance or contributing above and beyond to the general good of your community could provide one with credit towards a variety of luxuries. But the freedom to have twenty kids or amass an estate of land and property (save for in the territorial carve-outs) will have to go away. More than anything we have to start working to naturally reduce our global population over several generations. Do we really need more than a couple billion people on the planet? I bet we’d be fine with even less and it would free up a lot of room for everyone. Or not - a lot of us, like the piece-of-shit people who trashed Joshua Tree and other national parks and monuments during Trump's Shutdown, or the ISIS fucks taking the Yazidi women as sex slaves and destroying cultural antiquities, all remind me of how natural it is for some people to do the worst things. Since we are unable to eliminate the worst examples of ourselves from our tribes, maybe we should all suffer for the sins of those stupidest members and accept our civilizations seemingly inevitable end whether it be with a bang or a whimper.
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  33. I'm agnostic about the subject, but if there is anything more it is that the person finds eternal peace free from want or need since those are things we only crave during this imperfect existence and will no longer apply in a state of perfection. It's perpetual harmony with everything that ever was, is or will be. And as the person is no longer finite and experiencing a temporal, linear existence, the concept of eternity or infinity looses it's meaning. I'd add that if such a state of being does exist it won't be something that only the believers of one particular faith will get to experience. Then again, we all migh be the same entity or being (for lack of a better word) experiencing and interacting with itself throughout what we call eternity. In which case, do unto to others as you would have done unto you - not because Jesus said so but because you are. Or more likely, the lights go out and we simply go back to what we were before the lights came on.
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  34.  @Yameen200  There might not be a sense of identity in an afterlife as what made you you might be primarily a construct of our nueral pathways. Perhaps the lose of self will be what makes an eternal existence with a universal whole possible. For example, take the person who suffers from amnesia or dementia. Amnesia usually has no long-term affects on the body, but it may wreak havoc on the personal and social life of someone who is suffering from it. The irritability, frustration, and confusion that accompany memory loss can affect the individual in profound ways. Likewise, one of my grandmothers who developed dementia in the last year or her life became a very different person than she had been before. She went from being very religious, proper and outgoing lady to cursing like a sailor and terrified of everyone and everything around her. Identity and our sense of self can be very fragile things.
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  35.  @Yameen200  Agree to disagree about something neither of us can confirm or deny except for ourselves?
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  36.  @michaeljames3944  Then why say anything?
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  37.  @michaeljames3944  Sorry dude, but since I don't remeber you or any exchange we might have had in the past, certainly not one we've had 100 or a countless number of times, probably not.
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  38. There a host of reasons why we will probably always end up dividing ourselves into smaller groups. The problem comes when we have to compete for resources either because there are too many of us or some one or few want to posses the resources and not allow others access to them. We'd be much better off if we couldn't or didn't breed as prolifically as we do. There are a few billion too many of us at the moment and it isn't slowing down, but that will change in spite of us in the coming decades since we aren't going to alter our course voluntarily.
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  39. Even without watching this I can go with a solid yes. Unless it was a russian bot, there was some guy who made this awful video to the Johnny Cash song When The Man Comes Around and it was using footage of old Bankrupt Donny for the direct Christ references with the occasional cameo of leaders from Western European neo-nationalist groups mixed in and all the enemies on the Left as the forces of evil. I suspect Mr Cash would have been pissed were he still with us. Okay, so what's Reza have to say?
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  40. Joe "victor arregnelle" Rogan
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  41.  @victorarregnelle8976  Not yet, but I think I will be now - much obliged!
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  42. It's all about control and profits.
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  43. You could be a bum.
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  44.  @ZeroOskul  The OP said "...can't survive without it [money] in the modern world/hell we created." Most any homeless person who has fallen between the cracks of our society may still chase after money, but they survive without it when they don't have any. They make do from what others throw away and leave behind.
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  45. “All we need is a voluntary, free-spirited, open-ended program of procreative racial deconstruction. Everybody just gotta keep fuckin' everybody 'til they're all the same color.” - Jay Bulworth It's the only way, but I'm willing to do my part.
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  46. Isn't the answer to the question of whether Humans are good or evil yes?
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  47.  @wh0586  Arthur C. Clarke's The Songs of Distant Earth addressed one solution to this problem, the multi-generation starship had a giant ice shield built in front of it that degraded as the ship travelled through space. They had to stop along the way at a planet with water to build new ice sheets to replace the eroded sections. Though it's been pointed out that other forms of energy would still be able to pass through the ice that could cause problems for a ship and crew. You probably need to also include some kind of barrier between the ice shield and the ship to help deflect those, but it's absolutely achievable.
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  48.  @PaulHoward108  By getting off the ride. Enjoy it while it lasts, brother. It will be over all too soon and none of us know what, if anything, awaits. Oblivion or eternity - we all find out sooner or later. Ooo boogity boogity!
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  49. I'm guessing the likelihood of us going extinct as well is around 99.99%. However, it's 0.01% possible we'll figure out how to transfer our consciousness into either a mechanical and/or new biological host. We would be able to effectively extend our lives for as long as we want or until we figure out a way for our consciousness to transcend the material plane and evolve into some form of energy being that will allow us to gain access to other dimensions or realms of existence.
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  50. Def master of none
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