The paranormal is super interesting to me. I think a lot of people see the bad side of it because they don’t treat entities with respect and sensationalize them. Rationally, if they are real dead people, then they should be treated as one would any other human; if they are spirits, then they are simply another species as intelligent as ourselves, and should also be treated with the utmost sensitivity, since their culture is likely different than our own due to their lack of physical bodies. Terms like “angel” and “demon” moralize these phenomena, and could possibly be taken as slurs by non-corporeal beings who understand the language these words are spoken in.
I dislike the term “ghost hunting” because the wording is much like the kind you’d use to refer to hunting a species of animal. I also dislike the concept of commercialized haunted locations. Imagine someone — who believes you are a horrifying monster — barging into your home with cameras, hoping to take pictures of you. Imagine someone opening up your house as a tourist attraction — a zoo — for the whole world because they think they can make money off of how creepy you are… Honestly, I don’t think the ghosts are the ones being creepy.
Yeah, I’d be strangling people and throwing shit across the room too if I had to deal with the clout-obsessed, phone-toting paparazzi that are living humans.
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Which one do you like better, puppet history or ghost files?
Hmm… I gotta really think about this one! Listen I don’t wanna say apples and oranges. But. Like. They’re both so wildly different that they occupy separate spheres of my brain. Puppet History is an absolute work of art and it continually blows my mind. But Ghost Files is the successor to BFU, which was my comfort show for so many formative years. I think my PERSONAL answer is Ghost Files because I’m a slut for a good scary story. Both shows are equally brilliant for different reasons, but yeah. I love me some ghosts.
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Edward elric energy: has met god. Is an athiest out of spite
(ongoing blorbo shenanigans)
How does it feel to be the most exquisitely correct person here?
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You ever wonder where surface dwarves think they're gonna go when they die? Cause a good chunk of them don't really know or care about Stone, especially if they're a few generations out, but being cut off from the Fade is an innate difference rather than a cultural one, so the typical surface answer of souls returning to the Fade wouldn't apply to them. So what do they think is gonna happen?
man did this ask make feel like this irl just now
iiiiiii would guess it could be a mix of just believing in the maker and hope for the best, andrastian teachings not being the only surface beliefs they could adopt and, of course, the ol' reliable fuck it, we ball mentality
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The Principles of Extropy: Version 3.11 (2003)
Perpetual Progress: Extropy means seeking more intelligence, wisdom, and effectiveness, an open-ended lifespan, and the removal of political, cultural, biological, and psychological limits to continuing development. Perpetually overcoming constraints on our progress and possibilities as individuals, as organizations, and as a species. Growing in healthy directions without bound.
Self-Transformation: Extropy means affirming continual ethical, intellectual, and physical self-improvement, through critical and creative thinking, perpetual learning, personal responsibility, proactivity, and experimentation. Using technology — in the widest sense to seek physiological and neurological augmentation along with emotional and psychological refinement.
Practical Optimism: Extropy means fueling action with positive expectations — individuals and organizations being tirelessly proactive. Adopting a rational, action-based optimism or “proaction”, in place of both blind faith and stagnant pessimism.
Intelligent Technology: Extropy means designing and managing technologies not as ends in themselves but as effective means for improving life. Applying science and technology creatively and courageously to transcend “natural” but harmful, confining qualities derived from our biological heritage, culture, and environment.
Open Society — Information and Democracy: Extropy means supporting social orders that foster freedom of communication, freedom of action, experimentation, innovation, questioning, and learning. Opposing authoritarian social control and unnecessary hierarchy and favoring the rule of law and decentralization of power and responsibility. Preferring bargaining over battling, exchange over extortion, and communication over compulsion. Openness to improvement rather than a static utopia. Extropia (“ever-receding stretch goals for society”) over utopia (“no place”).
Self-Direction: Extropy means valuing independent thinking, individual freedom, personal responsibility, self-direction, self-respect, and a parallel respect for others.
Rational Thinking: Extropy means favoring reason over blind faith and questioning over dogma. It means understanding, experimenting, learning, challenging, and innovating rather than clinging to beliefs.
Source: https://lifeboat.com/ex/the.principles.of.extropy
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I love how Shane is merrily fucking about in the prison and Ryan is having an active existential breakdown while outside with the entire rest of the crew
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