Man is worth no more than your favourite fucking pet And when your pet passes away you are sad And life goes on So shall you pass In what may be sad to some And ultimately as inconsequential as the passing of your favourite pet * Did you love your pet? If …
Tag: Relations
Either You Get Your Way Or Not — No Nagging, No Whining…
Either you get your way or not — no nagging, no whining, no complaining There’s only what we want: -what you want -what the other party wants Then you negotiate Ideally you come to a PERFECT agreement -if not — you continue negotiating -worst case: you fail to achieve any kind of agreement …
The Way You’re Wrong Reveals Your Truth-Seeking Process
Falsification gets us closer to knowledge than corroborating evidence. We know more about others through their failures and flaws than through their virtues and accomplishments (all that is old) Likewise the way someone is WRONG is often more philosophically, epistemically interesting — than the way they are right You can be right, or rather, …
Real vs Fake vs Drunk and Repugnant
Being NOT real (fake) is disgusting because: -then you’re IMPOSSIBLE to be trusted. you’re unknown (real you is unknown) -and unknown comprises both good and bad. -and the bad is not worth risking, if you can have the good instead, from someone else +It also reeks of incompetence and worthlessness. Otherwise you wouldn’t try to …
Sincere Care vs Sincere Learned-Care vs Insincere Care
You look at a thing / person / idea / phenomenon, and you CARE, or DON’T care You can choose to CARE in which case you will provide that thing with more attention, more effort in your actions, more thoughtfulness and respect in how you consider that thing, and it can result in some …
United by Shared Vices
We’re not only joined by values and virtues, my friend VICES can also UNITE us Like attracts like, doesn’t it? That would be one mechanism But why would you be attracted to something ugly? Well, you wouldn’t be repelled if it wasn’t a net negative to you. We tend to be attracted by …
Opportunism vs Values: Relationships, Society
There’s the direct benefit we derive from a relationship — and indirect a bit like kinetic energy vs potential -direct benefit, kinetic energy, could be things you build together, boons you are able to provide for each other, etc. -indirect benefits, potential energy, are things you may build together, boons you may be able to …
Trick Yourself Into Respecting Others
You should trick yourself into respecting others, more than they deserve Indeed, most don’t deserve much respect, Almost innately — for by the virtue of individuality — most can’t possibly share your values You not liking them, not listening to them, not giving them the least of your attention, ultimately thus not giving them …
The Fallacy Of Intangible
There’s the well-defined, and there’s the intangible relationships fairness attitude intention effort will intuition confidence worth goodness authenticity attraction But what does INTANGIBLE mean? Does it mean those things don’t exist? Does it mean those things are effectively intractable, UNCONTROLLABLE? And therefore IRRELEVANT practically? See that’s the fallacy of intangible, if you …
Should You Reward Others Even If It Cost Them Nothing?
I often write that you should: -give and give more -make sure you give more in a relationship — so that you GUARANTEE that you keep it -…and thus continue, selfishly, benefiting from that relationship Here’s another puzzle: Should you reward others EVEN IF it cost them nothing? Answer is — obviously yes …