What's your obsession with framing materialism as something positive?
Imagine entering a large hangar filled with columns of big boxes.

It's dark and you only have a lamp to move. There are monsters hidding in the shadows.

A bit like that:



In such an environment, it's hard to see and understand your surroundings. There may be monster in shadows, it's hard to understand the path or the structure of the entire thing and what you need to do to arrive to destination.

Well..

When you use Materialism, it's like someone turned on the lights and made space for you.



The system becomes much more easier to understand in its globality. You will still need to fight the monsters hidding in the system, but you will see them, know who they are and know where they come from.

Materialism allows us to understand the world. From the Quanta to possible multiverses and from your relationship with your family, to the entire structures of societies on earth.

I'm not joking when I say that being a materialist is form of enlightenment. Everything becomes clearer, the monsters become humans, the path become simpler, the structures of society become more interesting and the world becomes a surprising wonder instead of a chaotic dark hangar.

And most of all, materialism shows us that there is something to fight for. A form of society that most people can't even dream of. Materialism allows us to materialize utopia. To make it real, tangible and atteignable.

It's the philosophy that shows us that the dream of Piece is not impossible to realize.

It's light in darkness.
 
My opinion of them is already bad. I just think that the wave of optimism might be a valuable vision of the country compared to Assad.

Also the massacres are wrong but even if they involve children too and are always evil—- they aren’t really arbitrary
What fucking optimism? Again, this is literally ISIS.
Yeah not arbitrary, it is their religious sect that makes them do it to infidels.
 
What fucking optimism? Again, this is literally ISIS.
Yeah not arbitrary, it is their religious sect that makes them do it to infidels.
I have only seen a handful of media who didn’t say that a wave of optimism is blowing on Syria. I’m not expecting much or just barely expecting that the power in Syria won’t be an ally of Tehran for instance. Al Sharaa is playing a fools game pretending to be moderate, but maybe he isn’t « literally Khomeini ». Anyway, I’m preoccupied and my pessimism still persists
 

Uncle Van

Monké Don't Do Taxes
dude you ok??

why are you even bothering??

someone who can't even understand there's a place for everything just ain't worth talking to
Dude I was working a double shift and was desperately trying to make time go by faster. Whenever I get a long shift or a shit/boring posts, I tend to engage in long drawn out comment chains to make time go by. Can't watch videos cause those are too distracting lol
 
Imagine entering a large hangar filled with columns of big boxes.

It's dark and you only have a lamp to move. There are monsters hidding in the shadows.

A bit like that:



In such an environment, it's hard to see and understand your surroundings. There may be monster in shadows, it's hard to understand the path or the structure of the entire thing and what you need to do to arrive to destination.

Well..

When you use Materialism, it's like someone turned on the lights and made space for you.



The system becomes much more easier to understand in its globality. You will still need to fight the monsters hidding in the system, but you will see them, know who they are and know where they come from.

Materialism allows us to understand the world. From the Quanta to possible multiverses and from your relationship with your family, to the entire structures of societies on earth.

I'm not joking when I say that being a materialist is form of enlightenment. Everything becomes clearer, the monsters become humans, the path become simpler, the structures of society become more interesting and the world becomes a surprising wonder instead of a chaotic dark hangar.

And most of all, materialism shows us that there is something to fight for. A form of society that most people can't even dream of. Materialism allows us to materialize utopia. To make it real, tangible and atteignable.

It's the philosophy that shows us that the dream of Piece is not impossible to realize.

It's light in darkness.
Sorry but that explanation is all over the place

the path become simpler
That's what it is all about really. You want an oversimplification.
 
I have only seen a handful of media who didn’t say that a wave of optimism is blowing on Syria. I’m not expecting much or just barely expecting that the power in Syria won’t be an ally of Tehran for instance. Al Sharaa is playing a fools game pretending to be moderate, but maybe he isn’t « literally Khomeini ». Anyway, I’m preoccupied and my pessimism still persists
EU media is Democrat-leaning so ofc they will be happy about a non-aligned ruler being removed, even if the alternative is literal ISIS. And of course, Christians being massacred is a very nice plus for them. Ursula just said she wants to give Al Sharaa 2 billions, it should be regarded as mass contract-killing.
 
Sorry but that explanation is all over the place
Not from my point of view.

That's what it is all about really. You want an oversimplification.
It's not about simplification, it's about clatification.

A lot of social and physical systems are very complex in the universe. Materialism does not intend to make them simpler but more understandable.

I will try another metaphor:

Idealism and Materialism is difference between advancing in a dark labyrinth (idealism) against seeing the entirerity of a labyrinth from above. (materialism)


IDEALISM :




MATERIALISM:

 
Not from my point of view.


It's not about simplification, it's about clatification.

A lot of social and physical systems are very complex in the universe. Materialism does not intend to make them simpler but more understandable.

I will try another metaphor:

Idealism and Materialism is difference between advancing in a dark labyrinth (idealism) against seeing the entirerity of a labyrinth from above. (materialism)


IDEALISM :




MATERIALISM:

Reducing the entire world and society to its material properties is not only a gross oversimplification but also misses like half of the relevant factors
 
a person can be smart enough even without going out
Being smart doesn't depend on your philosophy. If you present yourself as some sort of enlightened intellectual who tries to show the truth to a bunch of blind idiots, people will take a look at you and your lifestyle. Basically, don't fly high if you don't want to get hurt when you fall.
 

AL sama

Red Haired
Being smart doesn't depend on your philosophy. If you present yourself as some sort of enlightened intellectual who tries to show the truth to a bunch of blind idiots, people will take a look at you and your lifestyle. Basically, don't fly high if you don't want to get hurt when you fall.
would you say the same for me??

I don't or rather can't go out much either
 
EU media is Democrat-leaning so ofc they will be happy about a non-aligned ruler being removed, even if the alternative is literal ISIS. And of course, Christians being massacred is a very nice plus for them. Ursula just said she wants to give Al Sharaa 2 billions, it should be regarded as mass contract-killing.
Your statement make no sense. ISIS literally attacked Europe while Assad didn’t. Alawites being killed is vendetta and Druzes isn’t making anyone happy either. Europe isn’t some Stalinist utopia. And anyway « mass contract killing »
 
Your statement make no sense. ISIS literally attacked Europe while Assad didn’t. Alawites being killed is vendetta and Druzes isn’t making anyone happy either. Europe isn’t some Stalinist utopia. And anyway « mass contract killing »
Then why is she giving 2 billions to jihadists who are currently operating massacres of civilians? Am I really the one not making sense?
 
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