TERRIFYING QUESTIONS

Eric Kaplan and Tao Ruspoli ask about how entertainment may or may not be "true". Tao substitutes for Taylor for the next several episodes. We've also just introduced video to the podcast! Let us know what you think. open.spotify.com/episode/1HVGiE…

@PhilosopherJoeC no prob

@TerrifyingQuest Sorry ,I misread the post. Dealing with an avalanche because I was away from X yesterday.

Do you realize how often Christians who are opposed to gay sex think and talk about gay sex? What is up with that? I'm starting to think that all hatred is a projection of sorts. What is the projection in this case, besides the obvious "Freudian" response? Serious question.

@PhilosopherJoeC 1)Hang on -- why would I try to end gay and lesbian sex? I think they're great. 2)I think everybody, straight and gay, has a desire for intimacy. Men want to be intimate with men and with women. Not all intimacy is sexual.

@TerrifyingQuest Serious question. If the kind of activities you are using to end gay and lesbian sex work, don't you think God could do the same - eradicate same sex relations? Yet he doesn't. I see the Christian challenge as learning to live with difference. It is our moral challenge.

@freganmitts how about private legal euthanasia?

@TerrifyingQuest That’s quite bad. Does not justify legal state-sponsored euthanasia.

Is the implication is that being against legal euthanasia is a “conservative” position? Huge W for conservatives if true.

@freganmitts what if somebody has extreme pain and disability with no hope of a cure?

As someone who is generally pretty left, I simply don’t think we should cede “human life is intrinsically valuable” to the conservatives!!

@davidcinema as much as I love the film, it is not Godzilla Minus One. Great great film, but it is much more focused on images than on dialogue. I dont know Japanese, so maybe the dialogue was pulling more of the weight of the film than I knew. But I think "mainly based" is an exaggeration.

What is the best movie you've ever seen that is mainly based on dialogue?

@AuthorKOrtiz give him people on his team he is worried about and has to deal with

How do I make my antagonist a little more dynamic?? Less of a caricature of a bad guy?

@RebeccaEvita what does the boar fear?

@JanMiklas01 love it

They're making the extremely arrogant assumption that nobody owns more than 1 prop and also that they don't have their own holiday playlists going. What if I want to leave the animated ghost cloche running all the time without hearing the same 30 second loop? what then??

@vjoshuaadams does he think that when we write x squared plus y squared equals k, and when we draw a circle on the Cartesian plane that plots these co-ordinates, we are experiencing the same truth in two different ways? Or are they slightly different because one has an image?

“The fact that through a work of art a truth is experienced that we cannot attain in any other way constitutes the philosophic importance of art, which asserts itself against all attempts to rationalize it away.” — Gadamer

@robinhanson this is itself an *extremely* self-flattering view

A "cynic" is a skeptic re the usual self-flattering view of the prestigious & powerful that they are good people with good motives who do well by their lessors.

@WystanTBS maybe Z,D, and M are popular b/c they're true, but just repeating them is insufficient to challenge deluded conventional modes of thought and behavior?

Observation: Zen, Dzogchen, and Mahamudra rhetoric regarding discarding all dependence on fixed language, behavior, and doctrine is popular mostly because decontextualized statements of that sort don't directly challenge deluded conventional modes of thought and behavior.

@maggiewestrum ohh!

gnolls are a cross between gnomes and trolls

@Helenreflects ohh play that thing!

@maggiewestrum correct. the order is 1)count 2)wolf 3)gas/bat (tie)

what is it like to be a bat? i imagine not all that great 🤷‍♀️

January 18th, 1913, is the birthday of American science fiction novelist Alfred Bester (The Stars My Destination), who once wrote: “Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.”

@MasterTimBlais Catullus

who's the artist whose work you're closest to having 100%-ed i.e. you've consumed, to the best of your ability, everything they've ever done?

@TOEwithCurt it is also a problem if you want to be spontaneous and come up with a plan to do that. c'est la vie, brother.

It's uncomfortable to be a contrarian who finds out that most people think of themselves as contrarian and hold some view that they believe is radical but most people actually hold that view in some form and so to be a true contrarian you're actually a part of what's considered common but is actually not that common though it's thought of as such... Okay.

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A question for you: what are the identities you feel are yours, and how strongly do you identify with each of them? Here are mine: • New Yorker (100%) • Intellectual (100%) • Lifelong Learner (80%) • Mathematician (70%) • Entrepreneur (65%) • American (65%) • Effective Altruist (60%) • Data Scientist (60%) • Programmer (60%) • Rationalist (55%) • Public Intellectual (55%) • Writer (50%) • Podcaster (45%) • Scientist (30%) • Psychologist (30%) • Philosopher (20%) • Journalist (10%)