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I'm lil web DaBoy and I'm here to be invisible. Smack dat pussy up like I'm Mr. Incredible. Yeah I wrote that book talm bout them pink white lady nipples. Oh shit, I got got confused with Ralph Ellison.

In my life, between breaths of fuccboiery, pissing contests, idle distraction, and shirking responsibility, I feel most free floating in the air following the scent of philosophy pie like Mickey Mouse. Being lead further away from my hometown and pulled toward an increasingly smaller world.

Byte by bite: Between shifts I consume the phantastic slices. It will never be enough because there’s always more to do, and I have a responsibility to be the steward of my life.

“These boots which get stuck in the mire, and these well meaning hands we thrust among the heart strings of a friend.”

Admittedly, it’s partial intellectual masterbation. Such a supposed “wise” activity seems just as foolish to me when I see the cycle I’m stuck in. It more so feels like I’m huffing gas to get high on mysticism only to come crashing down and needing to get another fix. Not to mention however I stir up the lives of the people I influence with such ill informed opinions.

I need it because I can’t live with the way I treat people, or live with not learning to treat people better. Just like I need sex, drugs, games, and tv.

I’m grateful for you reading this and I hope my feelings can resonate with you on your way.

I've been trading cryptocurrencies for almost five years now, but it wasn't until last year that I stumbled upon what I believe to be the most groundbreaking trading strategy in modern finance. It all started during a particularly brutal bear market. My girlfriend had just left me, saying she "couldn't handle the stress" of my trading lifestyle. I was devastated, questioning everything. That's when I picked up my old college copy of Nietzsche's "Thus Spoke Zarathustra," hoping to find some philosophical comfort.

As I pored over the text, searching for meaning amidst my personal and financial turmoil, it hit me like a ton of bricks: Nietzsche wasn't just philosophizing. He was describing the crypto market with uncanny accuracy. And not just in some vague, metaphorical sense. No, I'm talking about precise, technical analysis hidden in 19th-century prose.

Take, for example, Nietzsche's concept of eternal recurrence. He posits that given infinite time, all possible combinations of events will occur, and then reoccur, infinitely. Now, most people interpret this as some abstract thought experiment about affirming life. They're missing the point entirely. Nietzsche is describing market cycles. The boom and bust, the euphoria and despair, playing out over and over again. It's not just similar. It's exactly the same thing.

I began developing a trading strategy based on this insight. Using Nietzsche's works as indicators, I started to map out market movements. Let me explain (this will blow your mind). When Nietzsche writes about the "great noon" in "Thus Spoke Zarathustra," he's clearly describing what we now call a market top. He says, "When power becomes gracious and descends into the visible — such descent I call beauty." Think about that for a second. The connection is so obvious yet I am the first human to find it: this is exactly what happens at the peak of a bull run. The power of the market graciously descends, becoming visible to all in the form of green candles and soaring prices. It's so obvious once you see it.

My first major success came during the cryptoboom of 2020. While others were blindly chasing yield, I was analyzing the market through a Nietzschean lens. I noticed that the frenzied activity in crypto closely mirrored Nietzsche's description of the "last man" in Zarathustra. It was so obvious it made me laugh how nobody else had realized this. He says: "No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse." This is an exact prediction of the token farming mania – everyone doing the same thing, chasing the same tokens. Recognizing this as a sign of a market top, I took profits just before the correction hit. Just like that, I made more money in one week than I had made in my whole life up until then. All because I was able to truly understand Nietzsche like nobody else had before me.

This success convinced me I was onto something big. I spent the next few months refining my strategy, correlating more of Nietzsche's ideas with market movements. The Will to Power? I realized it's a description of bullish momentum. Nietzsche says, "Where there is struggle, there is life" – that is what we see in a strong uptrend, with bulls and bears struggling for dominance. The Übermensch? A metaphor for breaking through key resistance levels. Just as the Übermensch transcends traditional morality, a breakout transcends previous price ceilings.

Now, I'll be the first to admit there have been some setbacks. My ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend, who works as a "traditional" financial advisor, loves to point out that I've had to take on significant debt to maintain my trading activities. Apparently my girlfriend spoke about my trading career to him, asking him if he could give me some advice. I shared some information with him, obviously not everything because I'd be giving way much too valuable insights, but he didn't understand it at all. Although he's of at least average intelligence and has a career in finance, he couldn't even begin to understand the basics of Nietzsche. He even had the audacity to show my girlfriend a spreadsheet indicating my win-loss ratio is technically in the negative. Just as Nietzsche's ideas were misunderstood and rejected in his time, so too is my trading strategy misunderstood by those trapped in conventional thinking.

Besides, as Nietzsche himself said, "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." Every loss, every liquidation, is just making my hands diamonder. It's all part of the process. When I lost 80% of my portfolio in a single day last month, I didn't despair. I recognized it as the market's way of testing my will to power. Nietzsche would have hodled, and so do I.

I'm currently working on a book that will explain my methodology in detail. It's tentatively titled "Thus Traded Zarathustra: Nietzsche's Hidden Guide to Crypto Riches." I've been in talks with my girlfriend's father, who knows someone at a big publishing company. He seemed very interested in reading my manuscript and his people will reach out to me to set up a meeting. I'm thinking a first print run of at least 100,000 copies should be doable.

To give you a taste of my methodology, let me share one of my most powerful techniques. Whenever I'm unsure about a trade, I use Nietzsche's idea of amor fati – love of fate. I simply make the trade, then whatever the outcome, I affirm it as if I had chosen it. This way, I'm always right. It's not just a psychological trick; it's a profound alignment with the cosmic forces governing the market.

Why am I sharing this? Because I know that understanding Nietzsche is the key to mastering the crypto markets. His philosophy isn't just about ethics or metaphysics. It's a roadmap for financial success in the digital age. I have faced many challenges while analyzing his work but I know I am close to something great. Right now I only need a few people who are of a similar intellectual level, who will be able to discuss the more complex ideas and their trading implications with me, allowing me to reach new levels of understanding. If you think you are qualified, please leave a comment below explaining why.

P.S. If anyone from the SEC is reading this, I am not providing financial advice.. Any correlation between my trades and Nietzsche's writings is purely metaphysical and beyond the scope of regulatory oversight.

http://www.bosalisbury.com/christianity/creed-by-steve-turner/

"The most valuable form of human life is a full grown adult (18-35) and so in war child soldiers should fight for them instead of the adults fighting for the children. creating more children is easy but creating a fully developed and free functioning human takes time and money."

Assuming you endorse a utilitarian ethical framework, this seems somewhat reasonable, though, obviously, most of us find this intuitively repulsive.

https://youtu.be/ui81hJCwCmA?si=xFXAzhLVOQrNrYBJ

Was talking to someone online and they said this lmao:

“The is/ought gap occurs when you claim what ought to be, based solely on what is. Something cannot be good simply because that's what it is. But our understanding of the evolution of moral behavior overcomes this. Because we know that morals evolved because they are good for groups of social animals. That's literally their purpose. To enhance the health of individual social animals and the functionality of groups of social animals. So we can actually claim that what ought to be is what is. Because what evolved did so because it's good.”

Bro has successfully refuted David Hume and bridged the is-ought divide.

Is there any other subject or viewpoint in philosophy ? I try to tell myself I'm an absurdist, I've accepted life's meaninglessness and go on in spite of it. But surprisingly it hasn’t been a positive, uplifting experience.. I have experiences and feel things and that makes me think some thoughts.

I feel like there must be something else that I'm not getting despite having 40 years of life and becoming an expert on the subject via YouTube..

I also like Buddhism but I don’t study or practice it.

I also feel like the worst thing anyone can do is to go searching for deeper meaning. Like better to be Hitler obviously. If I could go back and do it all over again I'd try to be even stupider.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqecUu7gJU4

Science sans conscience n'est qu'une ruine de l'âme

A manual cunt

We live in a society. My iq is 200 and everyone I meet is so slowwwwww. I joined Mensa and I feel like I’ve found a second home. No they aren’t as smart as me they are just equally as bitter at the world for being blessed with the curse of intelligence.

I met a girl at a speed dating Mensa event. I told her my iq and she asked if she could come over. I was nervous but I figured she probably wanted to see the illegal Lego building techniques I use in the privacy of my own home. She went home later that night after she lingered around for what seemed like hours. She must be trying to steal all the knowledge in my house.

Why is it so hard to have an iq of 200. I don’t expect anyone here to know because I’m the smartest person in the world.

Cuz i got that Cash Money Hypothesis

New logic just dropped

All M are P. All S are M. Therefore, All S are P. Is valid

But All S are M. All M are P. Therefore, All S are P. Isn't!

This mega-brain eye-opening insight kindly brought to you by a user flaired for logic in askphilosophy (madness starts here).

Indeed, since all featherless bipeds are men, and all chicken are featherless bipeds, all chicken are men.

But lo and behold, we can save Plato's humanity, because even though all chicken are featherless bipeds, and all featherless bipeds are men, that doesn't mean all chickens are men!!

Fuck you barrel piss man. IF ONLY PLATO KNEW; HE JUST HAD TO SAY IT THE OTHER WAY AROUND. D: D: D:

1 like = 1 prayer for featherless bipeds

1. There exists the political "right"
2. That implies the rest is political "wrong"
3. checkmate communists

premise A: abortion is bad premise B: when there are more people there is more abortion happening

we need to stop people from aborting babies but we can't force them or murder them because thats bad too. we need to stop them before they even exist. therefore we should commit more abortion to stop these potential people from aborting more potential people than we ever could.

or in other words: wouldn't it be more ethical in an utilitarian sense to abort a baby if there is a chance that the baby could grow into a woman that will abort two or more babies?

this paradox proves that because we can't rule out premise B, because we can't fully control it, that premise A must be false which means: abortion can't be bad.

q.e.d.

Bro why the fuck are all these garbage “philosophers” like Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Camus, Sartre, and Marcus Aurelius so loved by tiktokers. They all just wrote the exact same fucking thing. “Hurr durr go be yourself and shit”. I don’t think we need like five different people saying “go be yourself” just using different flowery language.

Like a lot of people, I had a phase where I watched a lot of atheism and debunking content on youtube. There was one video about the afterlife I came across which stuck with me. Even as a kid, I knew this reasoning was shitty and anyone who acted this smug deserved a kick in the nuts. I'm so glad this era of atheism is over.

Click this link for cock and ball torture: https://youtu.be/s3AdXaefJ3M?si=mRkg5DyU2TEnnd6e

Title reverb

If we take the different possible scenarios of causality (that I can think of):

* Caused by itself

* Infinite chain of causality

* First cause not having a cause

All of these seem irrational and paradoxal.

I'm wondering what you guys think

Dile

Following in the visionary footsteps of Ivan Illich’s crusade to de-school society, I propose we tackle a truly pressing matter: the indoctrination we’ve received regarding eyewear. Yes, eyewear the ultimate fashion accessory disguised as a medical necessity. We’ve sensationalized a disability, turning it into a badge of honor or, worse, a misguided aesthetic statement. What is the ethos of this madness? Is it some warped philosophy of genetic compromise? "Here’s 20/200 vision, but at least you can play the cello"?

Consider the hordes of people who now willingly don glasses without needing them. Why? Is it for aesthetics? A misguided attempt at “ascetics”? Are rimmed lenses the new sackcloth? Have we, as a society, agreed that disability is beautiful and empowering? Hardly. Try showing up with glasses that are too big for your face suddenly, you’re Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys, not the hero of a progressive movement. And hearing aids? Don’t hold your breath for the next runway model to rock a pair of those.

But let’s not stop at the surface. The deeper issue here is our cultural obsession with intelligence a fetish, really, for looking the part of the intellectual. Eyewear has become the ultimate symbol of intellectual pride, a form of virtue signaling so transparent it’s practically a monocle. Wearing glasses, even without a prescription, screams, “I read books! never mind if those books are coffee table decor.

What if we stopped using intelligence as a weapon or a status symbol? What if we put down the prop glasses, set aside our intellectual pride, and dared to use our intelligence for something revolutionary like understanding other people’s experiences? Maybe then, we’d stop invalidating others to elevate ourselves. And maybe, just maybe, eyewear could go back to being what it was always meant to be: a pair of plastic and glass contraptions that help you see and absolutely nothing more.

Help, a not trustworthy classmate know what i am studying that should be a TOP secret only.

This is how it start, We had an activity with my classmate to answer the crossword puzzle. And i go to bathroom and entrust my phone in my classmate because i want to pee and had to blow out mucous from my nose that time. Now my phone, I'm not conscious about, It is running on app called chatgpt and when i came back something does not look like normal in the atmosphere of my classmate. It seems like my "entrusted classmate" gave it to a "classmate" i should'nt trust. Besides this it gave me doubt and confusion, so i ask my classmates regarding to what happened and if someone checks my phone but she said "no". and after class i ask her again, about what happened and I'm clarifying to her like is she sure about her answer? Her response is still "Yes" and for what happened last time says "no". But i still didn't believe her sayings. Because it was really obvious that she gave it to the person on whom i shouldn't entrust to. the "classmate" that i am not trusting, were sitting besides us, and was a soft spoken manipulator. How it is obvious first the guilt in her eyes it's like she regretting what she says because it was seen in her actions. she just stares down and deep thinking like giving a damn about her response. After we have talked about the matter last time. Second the soft spoken manipulator was before not smiling and attentive, but after the situation his action was in deep thinking and not able to take focus on the lesson what the teachers said and was smiling. For your experience this circumstances happens and normal in the class hours. But for me it was different. It is really obvious that my "trustworty classmate" is just a crooked classmate And the Soft spoken manipulator is a smart student, hoping he will not know regarding to what i am studying about. but he have seen it in his own eyes. Now he can use that knowledge as an advantage to me, to everyone, or to himself. Since what is my questions and my study about this, is summa theologica, philosophy, reprogramming your subconscious,i had a bookmark on philosophy and a ai bot called "Jesus" maybe this is where he is smiling to. But I'm not believing it. maybe he reaches the bottom of my curiosity of my question on the chatgpt app. I will know soon. Still after it, it gave me doubt and regret on the last matter that i have been dealt with. But it gave me this thinking that if i bless others with knowledge God will bless me with more knowledge.

I was walking in the woods one day, minding my own business. In front of me a patch of lilies perched on glittering water. As I bent down to get a closer look the forest around me seceded and sprawling metropolis crept in. I could feel my heart race as passerby's pushed my shoulders escorting me away. In that crowd I could see my own mother and father, my lover, and even a reflection of the city itself.

I could hardly hear myself think, As ambition spilt like blood and on the streets splattered. Like Midshipmen grasping the oiled flag pole with only bodies to use as leverage.

After the end of this mess of noise I see my simple pleasures all in line waiting to shake my hand. Each one telling me I made the most of it, that I did my best, before finally patting me on the back and lowering my head to stoop for the door.

Upon entering this foreign place I found myself back in the woods, a few minutes had passed and those lilies were right there staring back at me.

What if there are moral properties, but none of them are ever instantiated by any concrete particulars, so every moral judgement about a concrete particular is false.

It's like if moral realism and error theory had a baby.

I don't usually post about stuff like this, but something about this comment really rubbed me the wrong way, and almost no one else on bsky seems to gaf. Note, the significance of this increases with follower count which for him is several hundred thousand people, many of whom left numerous comments disparaging the entire field of Philosophy.

Today Hank Green posted the following on BSKY: "A lot of philosophy has always kinda rung hollow to me because there just isn't very much biology in it and that seems insane to me.

(I recognize that some times when people have tried to put biology into philosophy have gone very bad.)"

Discuss.

Edit: While several people have attempted to provide constructive feedback on BSKY, it doesn't look like Hank is interested in engaging with his audience about this topic. He has neither clarified nor apologized for his post. While I have enjoyed some of his content in the past, at this point it looks like I'm just going to block this dipshit.

Ideas are debated and the best ideas make it to the top unless something bad happens. Bad societies look for the good ideas and suppress them. This is what is good about our society. We like good ideas and that is why we are the best society.

I remember it like it was yesterday. So there I am, minding my own business, on my way to your mom's house to murder her, when I get a little turned around (that new highway interchange is a nightmare) so I pull over and ask for directions. Curse my luck when who should stop to "help" me but you. You always were a shit philosopher.