Religiosity, or lack thereof, has absolutely no bearing on a propensity towards hedonism.
Research a little deeper into the annals of history, look at what were considered legitimate religious practices back in the day. For every communist, there was an inquisition. For every troon, there was a priest sacrificing children to appease their god. For every feminist, there was a cult taking women for "comfort". For every mind-rotted luhgehbetehqueh-er, there was a mind-rotted fundamentalist.
Religion is not morality. Religion is religion, and it insists on being morality through threats of violence and torture for disobedience.
Humans do not "intellectually need" to worship. You never see infants randomly fall over and begin to pray at shit.
This is learned appeasement techniques, centered on religious nonsense that imagines all-powerful invisible, intangible, all-knowing beings that will cast you to eternal torment if you disobey their stone-age dictates.
If all trace of religion magically vanished from this earth, no one would spontaneously re-discover and begin to worship christ/allah/yahweh/buddha/vishnu/etc in a century.
Thousands of years of garbage is not made good and useful simply by dint of being old.
I don't understand why this needs to be explained to people. The fucking mountains are tens of millions of years older then your oldest church dogmas, and for some reason none of you window lickers need to be told not to worship THOSE.
What foul hubris is it that drives your ilk to declare something to be inherently valuable just because some people with the most distant and tenuous connection to you came up with it a few thousand years ago? Do you know how long doctors spent alternating between working on corpses and delivering newborns, often without washing their hands? Centuries. Goddamned centuries. And we threw that out and made them wear gloves, because it turned out it was thousand-year-old garbage just the same.
Age is not an indicator of value. Age is an indicator of age.
The a-religious center.
"Atheism" is as much a cult as any of the big name organized cults that insist on being called "religions", since they think that sounds more respectable, and they all have twisted morals as dictated by their priest class.
I'm old enough to see what shenanigans were had when the religious right had cultural power, decades ago. You think this shit is unique to the retard left? This is the same goddamned nonsense, just with a different skin. We have drag queen pedophiles instead of cardinal pedophiles, things being censored for not being "inclusive" instead of for being "blasphemous", "racism" is the big problem and root cause of evil instead of "satan", etc etc.
I refuse to believe we cannot beat the demon of religiosity that burrows deep in the heart of the species. People are "worshippers" because the culture is steeped in worship. Worship of goods, worships of gods, worship of institutions, worship of babies, worship of the self, etc. If we can excise the worship from our cultures bit by bit, we'll excise the religiosity from mankind the same way.
We don't need to be the slack-jawed morons staring at a thunderstorm and going "THIS IS THE WILL OF THE GODS".
And yet everyone is super obsessed with finding the right five-thousand-year-old text written by near-illiterates that dictates exactly how and whom an invisible, almighty sky king would like its followers to rape, murder, rob, and enslave.
Weird, that. Almost like its a human institution that tries to justify its existence by appealing to an invisible, omnipresent, omnipotent authority that just so happens to agree with what the priest and holy book say everyone has to do, and for which the evidence is "just trust me bro, there was a talking bush two thousand years ago and nothing since cameras were invented lol".
That's just replacing the tyranny of the retard majority with the age-old tyranny of the priests who know whats best for the people, and damn anyone who disagrees.
At least when the retards try to run things on their own authority, it's inherently fallible and open to challenge. Add in a divine mandate, and you pave a path of very low resistance to a stagnant culture that exists entirely to perpetuate itself "as god wills it".
Unless you somehow got people to worship an abstract concept like "knowledge" or "discovery" and actively prohibit a priest class, this solution is worse then the problem.
People always get so defensive when their magic invisible sky kings are questioned.
Fuck all organized religions, every one. Fuck christianity, fuck islam, fuck judiasm, fuck buddhism, fuck hinduism, fuck taoism, fuck african tribal ancestor and totem worship, fuck satanism, and fuck every other one I can't think of off the top of my head.
Humanity doesn't need religion to be kind, just, moral, and strong. The sooner we abandon the moralities and neuroses of people ten thousand plus years dead, the sooner we start getting over our modern day bullshit.
This fucking cunt again?
Can I just say, irrespective of anything else, that there is something deeply disturbing about an old woman dying her hair and making fucking angled duckface selfies?
broadly people will consider her to be hot
That's a "citation needed" the size of the red eye of Jupiter...
For example, the game firmly establishes that Freya's life is shit: she's on the verge of going to jail, loses all her money and her apartment, has no friends or family, etc. Needs a new start in life.
That doesn't sound like her life is shit; that sounds like she, herself, is shit, and everything else is a direct consequence of her being a shit human being.
And on today's episode of fanfiction wars, we see the long-standing "my god, who I made up, is way better then your god, which you made up" rivalry between two different editions of "old jewish god, which they made up" enjoyers flare up again.
I wonder what it'll take to get people to understand you can have morals and good/bad behavior dichotomies without having to cite imaginary sky kings whose sole basis for dictating right/wrong is "I have a way, way, way bigger stick then you, and I'm perfectly willing to beat you all to death with it until you obey me".
You say that like not attending it is some great loss.
Like most disgusting vices, if you don't pick this garbage up until later in life, you tend not to pick it up at all.
I'm very libertarian on most things, but goddamnit will I put on my brown shirt and baby stomping boots to enforce the utter destruction of drugs and alcohol consumption in the world. Stop getting drunk and high, you fuckwads.
Alcohol for chemistry and medicine only. Tobacco plant extracts for medicine only. Cannabinoid extracts for medicine only. So on and so forth.
Bottom right, second from the left. Is that motherfucking Busou Renkin?
Man, I don't know if that could be gatekeeper's realm; it was pretty standard shounen stuff. I'd put that more into fading memory.
Ah, fuck, I looked at the "similar anime", and now I fucking feel old. I'm gonna go drag out my rocking chair and shotgun, go shout at some kids to get off my lawn or something.
When the police abandon their duty, it is every citizen's duty to arm themselves, and drive these degenerate scum away, or else put them down.
There is a reason there is a providision in the Bill of Rights for civilian gun ownership. An armed and trained populace, being vital to a well-regulated militia, shall not have their rights to firearms infringed, and if ever there was a cause for a well-regulated militia of the populace, it is when the elites abandon the common man, and take their enforcers with them.
Fuck, Starship Troopers was supposed to be fiction, not a godsbedamned prediction.
There're also four games before that (Hollow Fragment, Lost Song, Hollow Realization, and Fatal Bullet), plus a crossover game with Accel World.
Full disclosure, the games as a whole are generally the classic 3/5 "it's okay, only get it if you're a fan", but I've been an SAO fan since the original light novels (and, in my defense, I was younger and stupider at the time, but now I get to enjoy my trashy anime products with some well-worn, well-fitted nostalgia goggles), so I recommend checking them out if you just want more SAO-style anime silliness. Don't go into them expecting a great story, or super enticing content, or anything like that. It's pure fanservice (and with the amount of ahem DLC, it's fanservice in more or less every flavor) poured roughly into an RPG mold and allowed to cool in the blast chiller.
I wait with bated fucking breath for this meme to die and tumble deep into cringehell where it belongs.
The CDC is run by some amazingly dedicated retards propping up some incredibly corrupt motherfuckers.
Not fedposting, but I have gotten closer to the "buy an abandoned iron mine and turn it into an underground bunker" line over the last three years then ever before in my life.
Christ, I can't tell if you're an absolute master at retarded takes, or if this is some weird gaslighting.
This isn't about vigilantism, you absolute retard. Vigilantism is concerned with seeking out criminals (or perceived criminals) to deliver some sort of extrajudicial punishment on them. I'm talking about, and have only spoken of, the correct response an appropriately armed and trained person should have to an active aggressor.
Since you're either too retarded to understand or are being willfully dense, let me spell that out in small words:
If you are minding your own business somewhere (say, eating at a restaurant), and suddenly some bandit appears and threatens to injure or kill you with a weapon unless you give him your valuables (money, jewelry, car keys, your wife/daughter, etc.) [say, like the jogger boy in this case], the correct and moral response is to shoot him until dead, even if this means complying (or pretending to comply) until the aggressor's guard is down or his back is turned.
All the other horseshit you've spouted are the ravings of a weak, soy-flavored resident of the safe western world, nu-male or woman makes no difference. You make excuses for violent criminals, castigate those brave enough to defend themselves (and, by extension, those around them, which some dark day might include you yourself), cast aspersions on those willing to frankly discuss the matter, and lobby accusations of criminality and violent psychopathy on those who call you out.
This is why we're bound for hard and interesting times.
How smoothbrained of a motherfucker do you have to be to consider eight sentences to be "novels"?
Go back to eating crayons. Taking the time to double tap an armed agressor is the only correct option. Leave him on the ground, and you have to take the risk that he's wounded but not incapacitated, and will try to escape or attack. Neither are acceptable outcomes.
Why are you so fixated on protecting literal armed bandits?
What's your opinion of killing military aged males in sandy countries bevause they may have used weapons in the past?
Way to not so much move the fucking goalposts as to attach them to a rocket and launch them at Mars.
I dunno, what's the bloody context? Are the sand joggers robbing a store I'm in? Did I just pass them on the street? Are we currently in sand jogger country and they're potential hostiles eyeing up my guard post suspiciously?
Because if this question is, essentially, "would you also say to double tap if it was an allahu ackbar instead of a dindu robbing the store with what turned out to be a toy gun?", I'd say "absolutely, ammunition does not discriminate, it only penetrates".
If a person is an aggressor with a deadly weapon, making sure the target is permanently stopped is the goal. You can own a firearm and not brandish it in a robbery. You can go for a walk about town with your firearm without automagically becoming a bandit, forced to assault and rob nearby people.
But when you make the choice to walk into a place, brandish a deadly weapon (which even in the most soyboi cuck legal frameworks is still understood to be an implicit threat of grievous injury and/or death), and rob people, you've made the choice to gamble your life. And you have zero recourse to complain if your gamble fails and someone takes your life.
Because the bandit is not a victim. The bandit is a violent criminal, who was quite likely to offend again, and potentially hurt or kill someone during the next robbery.
Yes, I agree. That time is generally defined as the point in which the aggressor can be declared clinically dead.
I will honestly never understand the apologia for violent criminals brandishing deadly weapons who try be be what's going around and instead get what's coming around. It's not like we're discussing clubbing baby seals, kicking puppies, or gunning down unarmed civilians. We discussing someone correctly ending what, at the time, your best evidence indicated was a real and present threat.
You can argue "oh, the jogger boy got his reparations, he was on his way out to go to church and get out of the hood. He wuz a gud boi, he dindu nuffin" all day, but the civilians who are, to the best of their knowledge, being robbed at gunpoint, have no reason to assume the man crazy and/or desperate enough to become a bandit won't suddenly decide a rape or murder is on the table as well.
Jogger boy over there could very well turn around and fire a few shots; you have no indicators the aggressor, and I hate to belabor this but it bears repeating, who is a literal armed bandit is a man of sound mind and upstanding moral character, and many indicators that this is a violent, aggressive man acting unpredictably.
Putting two rounds center mass and another two in the head to make sure he stays down is perfectly moral. I would even argue it's an ethical requirement, if you follow the ideology that those with power have a responsibility to use it to protect those without power.
I'm going to be honest I can't think of a sport any man CAN'T do better than a woman for this analogy to work
Gestating the next generation.
Sure, women generally take eight to nine months to complete one rep, but on the other hand men can't do it at all.
You know, just this once, I got a good goyim chuckle on that one.
It's retarded, but I kind of miss that old /b/ retardation. Reminds me of my youth. Get off my lawn, you darned kids. Where's my apple sauce?
Your fucking type is real quick on the projection trigger, huh? Like I said, defensive.
Religion is not a codification of laws. Religion is a proscription on behaviors and ideas. A codex of laws if a codification of laws, and culture is the codification of traditions. Religion is, and always has been, a tool for the powerful to control through threats of violence and damnation, as well as promises of salvation and rewards after you die "trust me bro".
You have put religion on a pedestal the size of Mt. Olympus on Mars if you think that religion represents morals and ideals.
Pardon my french, but fuck off, faggot. Adult human male, Adult human female. Biology, and the study thereof, is a scientific field, not some garbage written by a stone-age shaman two thousand years ago trying to explain why one rock is hard and another rock is purple.