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    God doesn’t exist (though there is a tiny, tiny chance there’s some higher power that doesn’t intervene, because the human intelligence gap is unreasonably huge, making humans undeniably special)

    Every organized religion is a cult

    Free will is an illusion

    Aliens most likely exist, given the insane size of the universe and we know life can exist here

    Humans will still always give in to their brutal tribal instincts and that’s why the world is how it is

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    [DATA EXPUNGED DUE TO A FIGHT IN THE REPLIES]

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    I’m nitpicky about the word “believe”. So let me rephrase: I do not believe. Either I know, or I don’t know. Everything else are more or less informed speculations, assumptions or hypotheses at best.

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      I do not believe. Either I know, or I don’t know.

      You know things but do not accept them to be true or real?

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        Cogito ergo sum.

        Accepting a common framework of provable, i.e., measurable, repeatable, falsifiable phenomena, as a concept of “reality,” seems to be a pragmatic approach, given my sensory inputs and the processing results of my brain. This is then “knowledge.”

        But ultimately, this is subordinated to the possibility of an illusion – be it like in The Matrix, or as a Boltzmann brain, or whatever. Unless there is evidence for that, it appears most practical to me to go with the above, as I don’t gain anything from racking my brain about such possible illusions of reality (even though it’s fun thinking about it).

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          Or you might just be wrong or uninformed. That will certainly contribute to your current beliefs. Whenever you make a decision it is based on a belief. The belief being that you’re making the best choice based on your other beliefs. Be it scientific measurements, theorems and equations, it always has a margin of error actual grandness of which we truly are unaware of, because all one can be are aware of are just models of reality embed in ones mind by sensory input one were able to recieve and ones mental capabilities. of course the beliefs which are practical are the most likely to survive the test of time, however it does not prove them to be absolutely true, they’re just true enough for their application and propagation.The world is just too complex and unpredictable for human beings to operate in without considerate use of belief.

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    These are some more lighthearted things, but here goes:

    • Sonic the Hedgehog ( Sonic '06 ) wouldn’t be as fun of a game if all the bugs and glitches were gone. I live for a good glitch or six sometimes. Same without the highly difficult and janky super speed sections.

    • Sonic Unleashed is an amazing game ( but the xbox/ps3 versions are the superior versions, as someone who has beat it on ps2 and xbox360 ).

    • Due to the janky turn left/right movements on Sonic Lost World and just general movement jank, I am absolutely glad they have the run button to occasionally slow me down and stop me from dying.

    • Also an extreme believer that the special stages ( on the 3DS version of Lost World ) are absolute cancer.

    • Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl was nowhere near as good as The Wrong Trousers. I absolutely hated how they made Wallace absolutely incompetent and idiotic when it comes to normal things ( like how to use a non-electric tea pot ) when he didn’t have any technology.

    • Xbox style controllers with BAXY ( right, down, left, up ) button layout are the way to go. The only exception to that belief right now is my 3rd party wired switch controller because it has a headphone jack.

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      I haven’t played any of the Sonic games since Sonic and Knuckles so I am going to have to take your word on all of that. haha

      I am partial to how the Joycon is set up myself, but I think it is just because of how much I play it compared to alternate styled consoles.

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        Sonic and Knuckles special stages are so much better, in my opinion. Maybe I’m just not good at the Lost World special stages on 3DS, but I somehow struggle because they use motion controls ( moving myself and the whole system to move in a 3D environment ). Moving along in a straight line to collect balls is so much easier, in my opinion.

        Also, joycons are an alright enough setup, but I personally don’t like how small they are. My hands were not made for extended unattached usage of those things.

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    • Humans are inherently lazy and mentally unflexible
    • Humans are inherently evil and the veil of civilisation is really really thin.
    • Humans are greedy in every aspect
    • There are some exceptions,but the above applies generally
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      If humans are inherently evil, why is evil not the dominant force in the world? One would assume that if everyone were indeed evil, greedy, and out for themselves our existence could only be anarchy.

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        Who says it is not the dominant force? End stage capitalism is pretty close to anarchy and we will see what happens next.

        After 25 years in healthcare and humanitarian work you get a grim perspective.

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          If you were correct society as a whole would already exist as true anarchy, therefore humans are not inherently evil, greedy, or out for themselves. We could not coexist in any meaningful way if that were true.

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            I really don’t know where you get your assumptions from but they are terrible

            The only reason society exists is because of a fucktonne of rules going back several thousand years about how you are supposed to behave in a society

            If you want to see what barebones humans without societal rules, read up on feral children

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              I really don’t know where you get your assumptions from but they are terrible

              I simply followed the logic from “The human population of over 8 billion is inherently evil, and greedy”, then determined that if that were true society couldn’t exist in the state it does now.

              The only reason society exists is because of a fucktonne of rules going back several thousand years about how you are supposed to behave in a society

              If everyone were as you claimed them to be (Inherently Evil, Greedy, etc) they would not abide by those rules and society would exist in anarchy. This is the logical conclusion of your assertion regarding general human behavior. This means that humans cannot be inherently evil because we currently do not exist in anarchy where everyone is doing and taking what they want.

              If you want to see what barebones humans without societal rules, read up on feral children

              If you want to see any animal at their worst, put them in a life or death survival situation.

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                The human population of over 8 billion is inherently evil, and greedy”, then determined that if that were true society couldn’t exist in the state it does now

                That is a baseless assumption, not a foundation for a logical argument. You have to change it into a question in order for it to be a hypothesis

                Otherwise you are just making stuff up and justifying it to sound good

                If you want to see any animal at their worst, put them in a life or death survival situation.

                Incorrect, and based of of feelings of what sounds good instead of truth.

                Humans at their worst is when they have power over other humans and consider them subhuman. This is not a baseless assumption like yours, but rather based off of history and psychology. A desperate person in a life or death situation may kill a few, but out of desperation not cruelty. A person with power over others he considers subhuman can kill MILLIONS

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        hy is evil not the dominant force in the world?

        It is tho, capitalistic cruelty literally runs on the blood and sweat of the lower classes, if that isn’t evil I don’t know what is

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    No one needs more than 500sqft of living space per capital until poverty is eradicated

    War is absurd and the consequence of greed and senile, old, fucked up and immoral men

    Democracy doesn’t work without a limit on speech - specifically hate speech, authoritarianism, and ethnic superiority ideology

    Fascism is the greatest concern of the western world right now

    Genocide deserves instant disavowal and should convince any sane person to immediately support removing any government official or politician from office who doesn’t oppose it

    Black Lives Matter, and American history has treated black Americans awfully (see prison industrial complex)

    Housing isn’t an investment vehicle. Tax speculative purchasing of housing. Support government building high density housing like the HBD system in Singapore or Austria’s housing system

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        That seems pretty reasonable, though I’m not sure it really scales linearly. My wife and I live in appx. 1000sqft, and that’s really plenty for us. An extra 500sqft seems about right when we have a kid, but another 500 for each additional kid would be excessive.

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          I gave it as an upper bound.

          E.g. 3500sqft for a 3-5 person family is way too large.

          Mansions are basically an immoral amount of waste/greed (in the realm of >1000sqft per person, or super rich person mansions in the realm of 10,000sqft per person)