What have you lost interest in lately?

@ElRengo like?

@popmol
At SW mainly with someones that push anti Science agendas frequently driven by political / theological worldviews.
I respect there rights to think and post but the debate is fruitless as we don´t even share some basic assumptions in common.

More widely (that is at SW but also everywhere) with some à la mode philosophical / psychological schools of thought permeated by postmodernism, "positive attitude" and more of the kind.

@ElRengo ew thats disgusting!

second part i don't get!

@popmol
About the 2nd part I see I was not clear enough, sorry my fault.
Let´s point to the jargon associated to the "philosophies" of the 2nd. kind I´m refraining to debate.
Some examples.

"Live the present"
"Love thyself"
"Let it go, detach"
"Be positive"...............

Once more I have a strong respect to almost everyone views.
But the ones behind those typical expressions are not my coup of coffee.
What shouldn´t be a problem except that the ones inmerse in said views seem to feel uncomfortable when commented from outside their assumptions.

@ElRengo well i just don't understand the fancy words!

do you mean those who jsut say that but don't even think about it or those monks ages old with experience saying it?

@popmol
Those monks and philosophers are, yes, one source of said view.
Threre are also some more academic contemporary theoretical branches of psychology that coopted (at least) parts of same views.
There are some people that agree with all them, some for deep reasons while others following the cultural "wave".
In either case I have no objection to their right to think, believe and say about.
What I sometimes find personally exhausting is the lack of a common "frame" needed to build a meaningfull dialog so if we agree as if not.

@ElRengo true! i try to stay away from those things because i'm a nihilist but also because i'm a nihilist i try to stay away from topic of nihilism because its similar but the opposite!

@popmol
I understand.

@ElRengo like nothing matters so just be happy, just be sad, just live, just die! there no point unless you make one yourself so go on!
so make a point and stick with it!

@popmol If is something that does well for you, good that you stick to it.

@ElRengo indeed! well nihilism is there no meaning but from birth my point shifted to the depressed nihilims so thats a bummer

@popmol
Each (or most of) set of believes / propensities haves it´s better and worst sides.
ONE problem of them all (includding mine of course) is that trend to become self accomplished prophesies. Or in other words to produce what will confirm them.
For better or worst and also since I remember (a lotttttttt of time, you can bet) I trend to look for the "other side" of almost all, includding what I believe and what may seem evident.

@ElRengo haha, my believe was all humans are good and well we must all support each other, over time i've come to hate all humans because i don't want to live with them, but from the outside looking in i'm fascinated and proud of the humans, their cunning, treacherous, cruel and more!

theres fantasy creature like that in books and other media and to be honest they are so much better than humans, because humans deny it while those creatures don't!

@popmol
Not today cos I´m not in animus for but some day if you are interested, we may comment on the nature of those other......beings.

@ElRengo animus what is that?

i adore Skaven! lovely ratmen!

@popmol
Animus is a latin word meaning something like emotional state of mind.

@ElRengo aah! so another time when in right state of mind you want to talk about fantasy creatures or humans?

@ElRengo Are you talking about flat earthers or actual scientific debates?

@popmol
Fantasy creatures are nothing new for humans.
In a way or another they have been always there.
Heroes and demi gods, lustful and vengative deidities, monsters and messengers, warriors and sorcerers, others.

There are a lot of ways to approach it.
Just one of them is that somehow are parts of us, not only individually but human.
The oversized images of desires and fears.
They can be magnified also because taking those parts as a whole, isolated from the limitations but mainly the contradicctions of humans. Archetypes.
As all caricatures they are like road signals, better for recognizing than as descriptions.

So in a way talking about them is IMO also talking of an aspect of us, humans.

Interesting but........my always restricted intellectual resources are today in worst conditions.

@ElRengo You might like this one, if you haven't seen it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kDso5ElFRg


I grew up with spiritual, 'positive' people. I know the type really well. I have no issue with people being positive, living in the moment etc (Chicken noodle soup/Oprah types) but I also know a lot of them haven't done the necessary internal work to know their shadow self. Denial is not positive at all, it's bad for all.

@Angelwarfare
I´m always interested in Science.
And cos the very nature of it I have no problem with divergent oppinions.
As long there is at least the intent of being serious.

There are also yes, some notorious fabulists.
Flat earthers and others of the kind are of scarce interest.

But.......there are also some people whose philosophic assumptions and besides their right to have them make them not easy for debating.
They are so inmersed that even their choose of words lead to that kind of circular reassoning that looks like a confirmation bias.

Sooooooooo........
Only because of my own limitationsssssssssssss.........(time and emotional resources)
I´m doing my best to avoid SOME debates.

Hope I´ve answered well.

@Angelwarfare
Thank you. I´ll watch it tonight.
We may go on talking about this, be it related to the Youtube you posted or with also other sources and personal experiences.

@ElRengo aahyeah, skaven are out trashy spy/ rogue behavior, beastmen were our pride and more!