Hey YT,

Have you ever read or seen "The life of pi"?

Yes. Why?

I want to buy the top tear allied ww1 plane, and I can afford it, but apperently I need to subscribe. Darnit.

Is your real name "Richard Parker"?

I don't get the joke (probably because I saw the movie a while ago). Anways, I'm now subscribed for the month.

I have a lot of cool stuff lying around my house. Everything from a huge, wooden AAA gun, to a halo spartan outfit w/ helmet. I also have smaller props, like a replica Colt Python Magnum. I even have real gas masks. But I only really get to use all my random cool stuff in my youtube videos, or when I scare away those quadcopter camera drones.

[NLR]Jacob10000 wrote: Then the woodchuck made his transatlantic flight in record time.

Was the Woodchucks name " Lucky Chucky Lindberg?"

No, its name was Albert Named Namer. Anyways, getting back on topic, I recorded a video to post on this forum, in which I used some of my interesting odds and ends.

Yonder Tiger wrote: No, its name was Albert Named Namer. Anyways, getting back on topic, I recorded a video to post on this forum, in which I used some of my interesting odds and ends.

What do you have against even numbers!!! I'll have you know that zero is lonlier than one!

In my defence, badger dodging mustard green, and half eaten mech explosion!

Recently I have been pondering the possibility of a Utopia. And, frankly, I think its impossible (except for in heaven). See, if humans lived in a world with no problems, they would have nothing to do. Sure, they might have jobs, or games, or arts. But that alone cannot satisfy the human brain. As much as we all hate problems, it is in our very nature as beings to want to solve them. Its like an itch. An itch is annoying, but scratching it feels great. Take away the itch, and you have no satisfactory scratch. I believe that no matter how many problems we as humans solve, we will create more in doing so. Just look to the past to see it. And I think this process will repeat until the end of the human race. But I don't think thats a reason not to try and solve the problems in the world. If anything, it should serve as motivation.

On the topic of Utopia, I also think that a human Dystopia is also impossible. Think of all the times humanity seemed to be on the brink of dystopia, or even in it. Take, for example, the time when hitler was in power. Its impossible for humans to create a dystopia, because before it can happen, it will be stopped. Its irrelivent that it would be stopped. Something, done by humans, no matter what it is or who it is, will always stop dystopia.

On a different note, and topic, I like to make a grand entrance. So far I have moonwalked, PK rolled, and twirled into rooms. Anyone else got cool and funny ways to go through a door?

I've found myself to be pretty good at stuff I have not been taught to do. Cane spinning and dancing are two examples. I tend to mess up, but I ignore it and do things with an air of fancyness and pretend I know what I'm doing, and that makes the cane spinning and dance seem more fancy and profetional than they really are. So am I profetionally unprofetional?

WB|War hawk1-5 wrote:

[NLR]Jacob10000 wrote: Then the woodchuck made his transatlantic flight in record time.

Was the Woodchucks name " Lucky Chucky Lindberg?"

no

I have recorded a face reveal video. I am debating whether or not to post it now.

Who else hates the fact that the number 1 and the lowercase L are the so similar? 1 l. Someone in chat was saying "death to tfl" and I thought it stood for team fortress one, until I asked, and it was revealed that the one was an L. Or the L was a one. I dunno. Last night I dreampt about several words being combined into scenarios. One of them was gymnist, athlete, and tornado. It turned into two tornados, working out at the gym.

I once heard a military inspirational quote that went something like "A man is a great warrior because of his will to live". I find this quote to be quite amusing. I mean, think about it. Heres some dialogue for you: In the front lines of a fierce war, soldiers stand in a trench, waiting for the enemies to attack. When the attack happens, one of the soldiers takes of running, trying to escape. One soldier stops, and watches him run before turning to his friend and saying "That guy is a true warrior! I admire his strength and pride!" and the friend says "yeah, he must have a really strong will to live!"

I believe that many big conflicts are eternal. Like companies trying to buy natural land for industry, and people trying to stop them. There will always be nature being destroyed, but there will also always be land being restored or preserved. Neither side can win or lose or find peace. And to some extent its best this way. Other conflicts of this sort are: hackers vs anti hackers; war over beliefs (including stuff like racism); crime vs authorities; detectives vs murderers (though this is a different kind of continuum); ect.

As I have mentioned before, I plan to implement philosophy (as well as psychology and moral) mandatory education to schools. But the question is, how do I get students to learn? Once a kid would learn a bit of wisdom, they would long for more. But until then, they might want nothing to do with it. I mean, before I became wise, I didn't want any education. But how did I become wise? I mean, I was a hookey playing, no-consequence-seeing, rude, ignorant kid before philosophy hit me in the gut like a truck without brakes. If I can just figure out how to interest kids in philosophy... I don't want some students to miss out on the education while others lag behind. I mean, education in school is an opportunity, though most younger students don't realize that. Not even I enjoy a ton of schoolwork, and homework, but I know that I will need it if I want to have a good future in the world of jobs and business. And of course, I have to do that in order to get where I plan to go.

As I have been exposed to philosophy at an much earlier age than someone would typically think deeply. So I will have even more of my life to ponder the deepest of deeps. But will I ever run out of ponderings to ponder? Or will even more wisdom open up to me as I grow? It's silly. Me, sitting here, writing about philosophy and wisdom and all that stuff, while I haven't even finished middle school. Its like I'm the star of a very strange movie about some strange combination of a gentlemanly philosopher's brain, and the brain of a stupid, silly, manic kiddo. Add that to the crazy school environment around here, and you got yourself a bad sitcom. Well, I have what I have, and I am what I am, and it will stay like that till the day I die. But I have a lot of public speaking to do before then. Ya know, on that topic, having a big, hard-to-achieve life goal can be good and bad. While it gives me a good purpose in life, it can also be pretty taxing sometimes. By that, I mean it can be like having a great weight on my shoulders. Or learning that I will have 100 sheets of homework to do soon. Well, I guess that when I finally lift those weights and achieve my goal, and finish all that metaphorical homework, it will be incredibly satisfying, like scratching an itch that couldn't be scratched for 20 years and just stuck around to drive you crazy.

I think I'm gonna stop at this third post for today. See, there is a saying that your past is not who you are. And to some extent, that is true. But when you think about it, the present, and even the future, will be the past. And time is, to some extent, like color- something invented by the human mind to help perceive the world. This talk about time and past reminds me of something. If a humans memory were to be altered with false information, how would said human know whether or not it really happened? They would just know it as the truth. But what exactly does know mean? Can somebody know something is true if it really isn't? Or is it possible to think you know, despite the fact that knowing is so similar to thinking? What if your memory has been altered? You wouldn't even know it. Kind of scary. But hey, no need to worry. You can look to the past to learn from your mistakes, but it is best to focus on what will someday be the past. Time is such a strange and vast thing, isn't it? Also, I have found a problem with the quantum universe theory. If there really is a universe for every choice that could be made, and everything is possible (at least in some universe), then wouldn't one universe succeed in destroying all universes? And wouldn't a different universe stop it? But how could both happen? It just wouldn't work.

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There is some philosophy I don't like to think about. Here it is: How much our our choices/decisions actually ours? I mean, what we choose depends upon what we think and feel, and what we think and feel depends on how the surrounding world has shaped us. To some extent, you could easily predict the choice somebody would make, if you know them well enough. And if that is so, wouldn't the people and things that have shaped you be the ones that made your decisions, if indirectly? Well, I like to think that if this is true, a little bit of our choices really is ours.

Yonder Tiger wrote: There is some philosophy I don't like to think about. Here it is: How much our our choices/decisions actually ours? I mean, what we choose depends upon what we think and feel, and what we think and feel depends on how the surrounding world has shaped us. To some extent, you could easily predict the choice somebody would make, if you know them well enough. And if that is so, wouldn't the people and things that have shaped you be the ones that made your decisions, if indirectly? Well, I like to think that if this is true, a little bit of our choices really is ours.

Good questions YT,

I believe that the decisions you make and the proclivities that influence them are more than just the product of your environment, people also "come hard wired" from birth with differences. This is the "nature vs. nurture" conversation. As a father of 3 sons I can personally attest to there being great differences in people even while in the womb. The study of artificial intelligence has helped to make objective studies of the issue.

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While an AI "brain" obviously works much differently than a human's grey matter, it's interesting to see what actually happens in the AI "thought process". You can then marvel at the human brain and imagine all of the process that needs to happen for an everyday task. For example: Once you have determined that you are hungry, how many decisions have you made before you are finished with your meal? A "hungry" AI may choose the same "meal" and take it the same way each time. Other than varied nutrition, why do humans make so many choices?

Here are two poems I wrote. They are copyrighted.

In the night, the speakers blare,
Music that seems cold and bare,
As Harry ate a fresh eclare,
And every pidgeon stopped to stare,
As someone lit a red road flare,
To ensure that he didn’t scare,
The wild mare,
And outdoor hare,
That sat around a folding chair,
Because he had no change to spare.




A flame is lit upon the wall,
Dancing, prancing, standing tall,
Waiting for the perfect time,
To flee the home and steal the car,
It plans to go so very far,
In that good old yellow car,
Even if it has to spar,
Or jump into a pit of tar,
maybe it will gain a scar,
or end up playing the guitar.




What do you think? Which one is your favorite?

I'm back. A snowstorm (the last one since a good few years ago) brought down a tree, wiping out my neighborhoods power. Thankfully, it has been fixed, and I am back. Oregon weather is so unpredictable. And ya know what? While yesterday had no power (and also no heating system in my home) it was one the the best, funnest days I have had in so, so long. I hung out with my friend Andrew, first at his house, doing video games and such (his side of the street had power), then we went outside in the storm. When we got back, his mom made delicious hot chocolate. It was one of those snowy days that makes you feel like you are in one of those cozy paintings of a warm house in winter weather. I guess it just goes to show, that sometimes, it is good to just go without all your devices, go outside, and adventure outside of videos and videogames. That's why I love power outages.

So, recently went to the movie theatre to see (other than a mob of tiny snowmen with plastic forks for hands outside) the movie "Arrival". Warning, Spoilers:

The alien's language, if learned, makes it so you don't see time from a linear perspective. And, if I could choose between teaching everyone the language, and not doing so, I would choose not to. And you might be thinking "What the heck, Tiger? Why would you do that?!". Well, while it would open our minds to a whole new concept of time, it takes away a large chunk of our purpose in life. If we could see our futures, than we would be no more than mere puppets. Actors, forced to follow a script. There would be no surprises. No control (or illusion of control). While there would be some moments of happiness, would that make up for living an existence that was chosen for you, cannot be avoided, and is already spoiled for you? If a kid knows what the rest of their life will be like, why bother living through it all? It's like knowledge- if you know everything there is to know, then you would have no more knowledge to find, and your life would lose all meaning and purpose. And in teaching the world the alien's non-linear language, I would be doing something that, on a scale of ethics, is right down there with condemning everyone to eternal torture. Sure, the alien's mindset may be made for such "wisdom", human's are not aliens. Most babies would be with a vision of suicide as one of their first non-linear memory. Everything we as humans have made would fall into disarray- education, economy, gambling.

So, what do you think? What would you choose? To make humanity much more advanced, but purposeless, and meaningless; or keep humanity linear. I mean, teaching them non-linear perspective would not begranting them knowledge- it would be warping their vision and memory.

Speaking of memory ("ooOOOoOoH! A third post already? Tiger must have , like, no life!" -Sir Trollington The Troll The Third), just how reliable is it? I mean, just how many of your memories can you prove actually happened? And if a memory can not be proved, how do you know, for 100% sure, that it really happened? Our memory could be altered- memory lost, memory implanted- and we would never know, never suspect a thing. Sort of like teleportation. Teleporting would atomically disassemble you and make a clone of you, with all your memories, at a new location (of course, knowing this, cloned me would know that he is a clone). There is no telling what would happen to your soul. But I myself don't really worry about memory reliability. All I need in life is to be able to do good, make a difference, and ensure that Civethics becomes a reality- even if it is my dying words to someone I trust, telling them to continue where I left off. Nomatter where I end up in life, or what happens to me, as long as I can do those three things, I will be happy.