I have heard many people here saying that humans are going to go extinct in the next few centuries. I see no reason why to think that this will occur and I think that such fatalism is unproductive and may very well create a self fulfilling prophecy if a large portion of the population starts to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Chronology_(Fomenko)
The Fomenko Chronology is a "theory" of history where most history was made up by the church for some reason. In this theory all the historical losses of Russia are conveniently fabricated by the Roman Catholic church. I do not think they...
What do you think about internet challenges? I personally think that they are sometimes funny but mostly because they are such idiotic things to do with the fire challenge being the most egregious one but the salt and ice challenge being the one that causes the most cool injuries. The don't...
This is an overly complicated new age personality test thing that is entirely based on sounding good as opposed to empirical evidence but I think it is more aesthetically pleasing than the MTBI. It requires a lot of reading though to fully understand the BS...
Shakaama is a schizophrenic MGTOW who makes videos on a variety of cringey topics notably defending the streamer who raped his girlfriend in which @DirkBloodStormKing made this post which inspired the OP
I would look through all of his videos but he has almost 2000 of them so I am just going...
Virtue Ethics is the ethical system in which it is considered good for things to fulfill their purposes. Everything has a purpose or Telos, and virtue is what allows it to fulfill its Telos. Virtue does not refer to goodness but rather to excellence. A sharp knife is a virtuous knife despite a...
I don't really understand why people are rating this post like this.
@*Asterisk* @APerson @Captain_Asshole @Pikimon @MiloWuCollusion @DynamiteNinja please explain what you dislike about this post
@AN/ALR-56 @Jon-Kacho @Kazami Yuuka please explain why you liked this post despite it criticizing...
Recently the Nacirema people have had a new custom develop. Now it is common for families to designate one of their children as a sacrifice. The sacrifice will often be a boy from the age of 3 to 12 who will often be reported to have felt a divine calling from an early age. The boy will be taken...
What do other kiwis think about the Welfare State. Some argue for it because they say it is altruistic. Some argue against it because they think that it removes incentive to work. Some argue for it as some sort of efficiency wage subsidy. Some argue against it for moral reasons
Personally I am...
Capital punishment also known as the death penalty is an issue which has been very significant in the USA for the past few decades. Most countries in the world have abolished it or do not have executions despite it being officially still present.
The arguments about capital punishment are...
I have been wondering what Phil's sleeping habits are. Whereas for other lolcows they tend to stay up extremely late arguing with people on the internet I think it is far more likely that since Phil sleeps outside he gets up with the sun and goes to sleep when it goes down. Since he is outside...
At the moment I suspect that I have temporomandibular joint dysfunction aka TMJ TMD TMJD. It is a disease whereupon the jaw joint has a dysfunction which causes several strange symptoms. I have family members who have this disease. Do any other kiwis have experience with it?
You are not allowed to choose something that is uncreatively overpowered such as omnipotence. I am talking about one that you make overpowered by finding creative usages for it
I would like to have the ability to heal any disease or wound within an hour. This would mean I would be able to...
I realized that there was no thread for discussing Nietzsche and his ideas so I made one.
Personally I think that Nietzsche was very good at criticizing ideas but the big problem with his works is that they fundamentally do not advocate much in themselves and as such he is incredibly vague...
@MrCKMongler was a user who joined in 2013 and spent the next 2 years almost entirely lurking and only had a total of around 50 messages. However recently he became more active with posts such as this one where he advocates his own abortion
until eventually he became one of the worst weens in...
A common question raised on the internet is when doxxing is acceptable. Some say that it is always unacceptable because it is putting the person at risk, others say that it is acceptable because it is using publicly available information. I think that it is wrong to dox someone through malicious...