What are you watching on Youtube, right now? Part IV

[salty mud]

Moldavia in the Eurovision of 2005:


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That is why they are Europe's most irrelevant country.

 

[Old Hippy]

That is why they are Europe's most irrelevant country.

that would be Australia...


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[Kyriakos]

"I've been milking and plowing so long that even Hezekiel think's that my mind is gone"


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[classical_hero]

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[Borachio]

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[madviking]

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[SS-18 ICBM]

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[Monsterzuma]

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In Defense of Flogging

 

[Kyriakos]

Great final track of that OST


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[Cheezy the Wiz]

You're welcome for bringing you this.


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[Kyriakos]

Best recent scifi ending


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And Jaime doesn't lose his hand either.

 

[Monsterzuma]

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high octane nightmare fuel

 

[madviking]

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[Borachio]

^ Yeah. I agree.

But then I'm no philosopher, so my agreement is meaningless.


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[Quintillus]

What some people will do for a jar of mustard!


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+1 for Kyriakos's Amish Paradise link as well.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

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I agree that there is fundamentally an irrational / subjective / emotional core to meaning. And I even agree that the more passion one has about something, the less does rationality tend to play a role. So in a way irrationality is meaning, not rationality. However, I say tend to play a role, because I see no reason to assume that passion can not also manifest in a rational. I may have this and that urge / instinct, but when it comes to such passion to manifest itself in actual action and decision, rationality can help such manifestation. Through reflection. Rationality helps to interpret the world and without interpretation passion can not manifest itself into decisions.
And funnily enough, I think the philosopher whose opinion was presented is prove of that. You can not just jump from passion to action unless you are a mindless animal. But such an animal wouldn't be about to devout itself to a religion.
He has the passion to devout himself to his religion. This passion may fundamentally be irrational and hence "true" with regards to meaning, but that this passion actually manifests into a devotion to his religion required interpretation. In this helped by the rational that this was "true" and hence worth it because it was his passion.

So while on the hand it is a valid point that meaning is irrational, on the other hand in the extreme sense this is portrayed in the video it also creates a false dichotomy. Passion may be the start of it all. Rationality may weaken passion and hence meaning. But because passion without reflection is nothing but animal instinct - rationality has its place in finding meaning.

 

[Kyriakos]

^"Meaning" itself is (obviously) a mental phenomenon, so why would one be surprised that a mental phenomenon is approached with an over-mental (conscious) way?
What other way is there to approach it?

Of course one may take the other way alltogether, and actively seek to have no meaning at all, or thought. But it seems pretty evident that it will lead to an overall diminishment, and if sustained then it can cause far worse than that.

 

[Formaldehyde]

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Is that great fear mongering propaganda, or what?

Someone should do a parody of a 4-foot long rocket with a tiny warhead landing in a field miles away from the nearest human.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Gazans get zero seconds of warning from IDF bombs.

 

[Borachio]

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