After reading through Baron d' Holbach’s work on morality, I am asking this question to seek further information on the subject of an objective, universal morality. I have long considered myself a materialist, naturalist, and social-constructivist in the strictest sense of the terms, but have also found myself pondering the question of morality and ethics as I’m sure everyone does. I really do believe a case can be made for an objective morality from a materialist standpoint, and I think Baron d' Holbach’s work on the subject has been very enlightening. I think by integrating his ideas with a Class Theory of Ethics, we can really begin to grasp how to forge ahead on a new moral basis and actually comprehend morality as it really and truly exists today and how can exist in the future, from a strictly materialist standpoint.
So where else can i go in my research? Where else can I learn about an objective morality absent of religion? Or at least spiritualism and metaphysics? I consider myself secular and firmly atheistic in my approach so I would not consider any god into the equation of morality, save for when god is understood in some social and material context which Marx, like others, correctly established two centuries ago. So, what would you recommend?
I’m not looking for a debate at this time, but I do want to branch off and discover whatever else there is to explore on the subject. So please recommend whatever you can. Preferably nothing too hedonistic or individualistic. Thank you in advance.
I literally forgot that I used to have this daydream, until today. Someone else’s post reminded me
And now I am sitting here like, “Wow, I didn’t realize how fucked up that proved my childhood was. Kids from safe families don’t dream and yearn for having this happen.”
I used to fantasize that I would be chosen by some sort of reality tv show company, and they would follow me around all day 24/7 with a video camera—
—so everyone could finally see how my mother and father acted so crazy behind the scenes. How they were pathological liars. How they mocked me all the time for hours every day and they called me stupid all the time, even though I was smart and I worked hard—and I was more intelligent than them.
How they were so so so abusive, and would push me until I eventually snapped and yelled at them, after being abused for hours every day for years.
And I used to fantasize that, “This tv show will show up in my life—and they will record everything happening, and they will save my life.”
Everyone would finally be on my side. And everyone at school and the teachers and my friends and the extended family and the police would be appalled. Everyone would be horrified at my parents’ awful behavior, and see them for the filthy monsters that they truly were.
And CPS would step in, and remove me from my house, and they would place me with an actually loving family. (Or heck, even let me live by myself as a teenager.)
And I would fantasize so deeply, I would compile the entire episode or movie in my head. I would create compilations of scenes in my head—showing their full “worst moments”—I would image seeing the reactions from the audience. I would imagine seeing reactions from the producers, “How do you put up with them?!? You are so strong. We are going to get you out of here.”
I would do “my behind the scene interview scenes” in my head—you know, like in reality tv shows where they cut to clips of the producers interviewing the main character for a their reaction, in a room off stage? “She does this [insert crazy scene] to me all the time. I’m a good kid, I just want a normal family.”
I’d finally get to show the world how crazy my mother and father were.
That’s how badly I wanted to record my mother’s provoking and gaslighting and abuse and emotional abuse
Guilty people don’t dream of recording everything to show the world what truly happened—only innocent people do.
Reactive abuse is so so so awful.
I hate when they frame
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After months of emailing the board, and going to board meetings, and pestering admin with my opinion that we have been too lax with masking my prophecies of doom have come to pass.
Our board, in their infinite wisdom, decided to go mask optional 3 days BEFORE Christmas break. Now, in our second week back, our superintendent has cancelled all school tomorrow. We haven't received specific details of the situation, but everyone of my classes had 5+ students out. Bear in mind, this is a rural school, and we have 300ish students.
I fuckin told them. Multiple times. And they continued to try to reassure me that it wasn't a big deal any more. And now I get a free day off for it. Fuckin idiots.
The block starts at 8pm til 11:17 pm
Gold Rush: The Lewis crew starts sluicing and clocks its first gold weigh. Freddy and Juan soup up a massive trommel.
White Water: Dakota Fred returns with a lead on virgin ground, and a surprise announcement divides Dustin's crew.
The Dirt: Christo visits Lewis claim.
Here's your thread. Enjoy the shows!
The nightmare fuel is no more for me!!!! I weaned myself off it over the last two-ish years (yes, two years) and I'm officially one week Lamictal free. After my RNS implantation, my doc at the time wouldn't even consider playing around with reducing my Lamictal. I had been on it for almost a decade, I didn't believe it was actually helping all that much, and I was put on a third medication (xcopri.) It pissed me off that he added a third med, wasn't giving the RNS a chance to work, and wouldn't listen to me on how I was feeling about Lamictal so...I "took the law into my own hands", as my new epileptologist put it. He was shocked at first but after I explained that I looked up the schedule for weaning off it and did it just the way they would have, he was actually pleasantly surprised. It's frustrating to know I took 700mg of that shit for almost a decade and it only minimally worked. I'm now dropping onfi to only 5mg a night for 30 days and then 86ing that out of my regimen too. IM GOING TO BE ON MONOTHERAPY, GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I haven't been on only one drug since my diagnosis at 14yo. I'm soooo soooooooo excited and it's a total victory for me!!! This is what I wanted ever since getting my RNS.
Note: I know this wasn't exactly wise and I'm NOT counseling anyone to follow suit. My new doc and I talked about the importance of them knowing my exact dosing and me following their instructions. I had just reached my witts end with the whole thing and felt like I wasn't being listened to. NEVER STOP AN AED COLD TURKEY! I was aware of withdrawal seizures previous to this and that's why I carefully weaned myself off. ✌
I feel like we've been saying for years that Garfield was a way overlooked Spider-Man and Peter Parker. Now after NWH, everyone is saying what we've known all along, Andrew Garfield is the superior Spider-Man.
Schadenfreude is a dark, negative and simple emotion. The feelings engendered perusing HCA are the opposite: hopeful, positive and complex. They are a mix of vindication (awardees having tried to force their denials of reality on us); relief (that we are not alone among antivax lunacy); and hope (for a future with thousands fewer regressive, reality-denying bigots who spew toxic political filth in their wake.
Dear reporters, when you use the word Schadenfreude in re: HCA, not only do you demonstrate a lack of understanding of human nature, but you also misuse a philosophical concept with a specific and incommensurate meaning.
Kind regards, r/HCA
shipping from 70503 to CONUS included
Terraforming Mars: 4: $370: Big bx, all expansions, double layer boards
Hexplore it: 4: $450: Volumes 1, 2, and 3 each with their respective content expansions stored in the origiinal volume's box
Feast for Odin: 4: $90: Includes Norwegians in base box
Black Rose Wars: 4: $420: Base, Chrono, Inferno, Sator. Sator content patched and integrated into original game. Replaced components discarded.
Vindication: 4: $110: Includes Leaders and Alliances
Nations: 4: $110: Includes Dynasties Expansion
Monster Lands: 4: $110: KS Monster edition with wooden bits and expansions
Evil High Priest: 4: $100: KS with both expansion in base box
Archmage: 4: $100: Includes expansion in base game box
Argent the Consortium: 4: $130: New edition, all expansions organized in base game box.
Millennium Blades: 4: $220: Base and All non promo expansions stored in one of the collusion big boxes. Will not ship the second empty collusion big box.
Gruff: 4: $110: All non promo expansions stored in big box from last KS
Sol: 4: $110
Endogenesis 2nd ed.: 4: $80: Includes new voltaic expansion in base box
Dice City: 4: $80: Includes both expansions in base box
Eminent Domain: 4: $80: All non promo content and expansions
Cry Havoc: 4: $110: Includes Aftermath and New Orders in base box
Battlecon: 4: $420: All non promo fighters and content updated to latest release. Stored in two Unleashed Big Boxes.
Oh.
Well then.
Would you look at that.
I WAS [DELETED] RIGHT: https://thedirect.com/article/boba-fett-ship-name-change Disney IS changing the name of Slave I.
And to think of the number of people commenting on https://youtu.be/o1JZMWc1ufQ telling me that it was all blown out of proportion and yellow journalism and this that and the blessed other.
Humie, no. It was exactly the kind of bullshit thing some idiot corporation would do in order to continue their sucking-up to a totalitarian nation still using slavery and concentration camps /to this day/.
When 1.1 dropped I was done with the game, the developer's mentality is clearly ass backwards and that doesn't bode well for something you're supposed to stick with on an almost daily basis for years.
Seeing them trip over their own feet every time I open this Sub is just a source of vindication around that decision, and that's gloating over it for sure - but I genuinely do feel sad that they fucked it up so bad.
New World could have been the next great MMO in my opinion, it just had the wrong handlers.
I do hope people who are unhappy with the state of the game actually take note of the Project Lead names and start to hold them accountable when they jump ship to another developer a year or two from now.
These types of people are doing permanent damage to an industry that is slowly shifting from being about art to being a casino where your time and wallet are their currency dealt in.
You called me a mirror, a pretty bird from the Sea.
What odd Triangulation you weaving for me?
It's months since I saw you, been ghosting,
dead silence, I silenced the rain.
Are you back to sing more colorful prose and treat me like some fly supply.
I hate to break you, No Monkey mix, here. I've tasted your salad, it wreaks from your pain.
I see what you're doing, passively hoovering, hoovering more
Inspiring others with the Devils inside.
Love Bombing, Love Bombing, Love Bomb me some more.
Trying to find your identity in the artistry of other people's souls.
Stolen prose won't win me back again.
I found the Love others sought in me.
I finally found, clarity, truth and peace.
The world of demons and masks that others have found. I shut them away, tossed the Epitaphs to the ground.
You Covet the Power, but covert - a coward.
Knock, Knock, Narcissus, I see you again.
It's Nemesis, your mirror, the medicine - you seeked.
Gas Lighting, Gas Lighting, to cover your reign.
But J, it's over, who’s the real Ghost now.
It's over; it's over; these are truths and vindication sounds.
