If you can't understand why a life without objective meaning or purpose is worth living, I have to surmise you don't actually value life at all.

Les Claypool, Weird Al, and Dave Mustaine walk into a bar...

Nose piercings are great. You can get the satisfaction of pulling a huge, nasty booger out of your nose without any of that huge, nasty booger mess.

Happy new year to all who observe it.

Log entry # 864:

I've almost succeeded in this long endeavour of perfecting the removing of pants, underwear, shoes, and socks all in one motion. The underwear trials went swimmingly, as I had hoped they would. The socks seem to be the problematic area, as attested to by the failure by ONE SOCK in this evenings attempt.

I shall soldier on and keep you posted. If you don't hear from me, I will have succeeded and likely ascended bodily into a higher plane of existence. Excelsior!

@amerika

Go fuck your hat. I can't be any clearer.
Also, get over yourself.

@amerika

"...Many suggested Catholicism. It never worked.

The old gods have done better..."

YOU initiated the binary, not me.

It's clear, though, that you have no interest whatsoever in coherence, rationality, or even engaging in just the most basic of intellectual honesty. And I have no interest in engaging with someone like that.

You are dismissed as beneath me.

@amerika

Your second sentence contradicts your first. This comes as no surprise to me. And my point still stands.

Invent all the reasons you like, the proposition fails on the face of it.

And again, your fondness or lack thereof has no bearing whatsoever upon what is true or not.

@amerika

Yes, that's how self-deception works. Frankly, though, I'm less concerned with how you deceive yourself than I am with your unwitting attempts to deceive others.

Yes, I understand that you are likely to claim you haven't done that but, once again, that's what "unwitting" means.

Truth doesn't depend upon what you think is a choice of a lesser evil.

@amerika

I'm getting a strong sadomasochist vibe from you right now but I'm also not one to kinkshame.

That said, I do dispute the implied contention that there is, ultimately, pleasure or benefit to self-deception and/or delusion. At the very least, I would contend that there are far less harmful and stupid ways to go about it.

@amerika

If you say so. Myself, I find no need for gods at all. Clearly, you have different needs. Such is your cross to bear, I guess.

@amerika

Fair but not the point. We are a prickly lot.

Why do people keep celebrating Catholic saints and assuming I would want to, as well?

Fuck Patrick. He wasn't even Irish.

@freemo

Oh, by no means was I offering excuses. Yes, you absolutely did do your due diligence for clarity. It doesn't matter for some, unfortunately.

@freemo

I think the rather bizarre assumption is that if you are asking questions, it's not to self-educate but to gather ammunition for an attack. Granted, there IS a lot of that on these here interwebs but that's no excuse, really.

People suck at even beginning to make the effort to glean context anymore. It's all knee-jerk reaction to some arbitrary set of triggers.

Smokey bacon potato chips count as breakfast food, right?

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