Yeah, I agree with that. I think it's the same sentiment as what I feel towards my parents. I didn't ask to exist, but they created me anyway and now I have to live with the consequences of their actions. Regardless of what my parent's intentions were, I have been subjected to human experience through no choice of my own.

BUT I'm not going to peace out right now because after digging myself out all the shame and self-loathing I've buried myself in I've actually come to enjoy being alive.

So on the one hand I curse my parents for my existence, but I also thank them. The ability to explore the gamut of human emotions is fun, even if those emotions fuckin' suck sometimes.

I'm constantly going back and forth on whether or not I believe in "God" because every time I try to imagine what that would even mean my understanding of reality shifts in a way. I certainly don't believe in a white bearded man living in the clouds, but I believe in me, and I believe in you, and I believe in the you that believes in me and one day I'll find out if this drill really can pierce the heavens.

My interpretation was that the original sin was "eating the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil" aka developing consciousness. Once you have a consciousness and see the world in terms of "right" and "wrong" it's very difficult to go back, so people blindly stumble forward never questioning what good and evil really are because it requires an amount of self reflection that could lead to psychic suicide.

Agreed! I apologize, I didn't mean "love" in the interpersonal relationship sense. I meant it more in The Beatles "All You Need is Love" sense.

I hate when people don't realize love is powerful enough to make people question everything, including themselves.

My bad, I meant the activity depicted in the picture (popping a wheelie to try to impress a girl) could easily be from a pre-internet time.

Right, I guess I mean I don't see how the sentiment of wanting to show off for ladies has really changed that much post internet. To me this picture speaks more towards how motorcycles impacted simping, and I'm pretty sure that's the whole reason motorcycles were invented.

In what way? Guys popping wheelies to impress girls was definitely a thing before the internet. I'm pretty sure that's why the wheelie was invented.

Sometimes it's just fun to write fanfic regardless of who you think is stronger. If the characters have strong motivations good stories are bound to unfold.

God's priorities are weird, but they make me feel seen. :)

Uh, yeah, I thought that was the point? There's nothing more maddening than looking at all the terrible things in the world and still deciding that living life is worth enduring.

You have to be divinely insane to accept all of the bad and all of the good that reality presents to us seemingly without any greater reason or purpose.

Mystery exists outside of the simple world of "good" and "bad".

During the AI goldrush you can make your fortune selling bookshelves.

Can't blame you. I put a Windows PC together again just so I could play Helldivers 2 a bit more consistently. There's nothing wrong with wanting to enjoy your leisure time.

Exactly the sort of behavior I would expect from him tbh. Leveraging his technical knowledge to take advantage of people who won't stoop to his shitty level of behavior.

I bet it tastes funny.

"There's no such thing as ethical consumption under capitalism so fuck everyone."

I think understand where you're coming from, but this type of poem is exactly what needs to be spread in order to make "Christians" feel some cognitive dissonance about their hypocrisy.

I may be misinterpreting you, but it sounds like you're trying to justify your hatred for a group of people because you believe in a "greater good"; some sort of better world that would exist if religion disappeared. That's exactly the sort of mindset that christians and many others have used to justify their cruelty.

I agree with that sentiment. If it’s any consolation I think his “spirit” lives on in the work he helped create and in the people he inspired.

I remember seeing Fred read the news on his stone tablet.

I hope that at this point humans are in the process of realizing that killing the nukes is way more beneficial than killing their enemies with nukes.