Grail (capitalised) @ Grail @aussie.zone

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Reality is bad. Go to http://soulism.net/ to read the antirealist manifesto

https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/princesses-are-nsfw-f9e6c3d4532d

Luigi isn't a princess, he's a hero

I knew. I was at one of the protests.

However, the law doesn't talk about genotype. It talks about gametes. Embryos don't produce gametes. The law does not specify a difference.

Trump's new sex definitions are impossible for anyone to meet. Everyone is legally nonbinary now. https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/trump-says-americans-are-all-intersex-not-female-b31f97ffd80d

Reality has always been crafted by the oppressor. It's an inherently oppressive concept. http://soulism.net/

Here's the second: https://aussie.zone/post/16690613/14097514

When I was a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut. Then I realised I could spend My life meeting strange new otherkin right here on earth.

Are they still allowed to do that if you haven't spoken to them in years, or do you have to legally disown them to get them out of the equation?

I believe that we can know things. I just don't believe we can know things objectively. We need a better standard for knowledge than objectivity, because objectivity is worthless.

To claim something doesn’t exist, based on the inductive principle, is to wave away the entire universe with a flick of the wrist as your opening argument.

I would encourage you to read My antirealist manifesto, which argues that reality is a harmful social construct. I'd also like to pre-empt any accusation that antirealism is anti-science, by pointing out My articles advocating for an antirealist future to the application of the scientific method. I in fact believe that any kind of claim to the existence of absolute or objective knowledge is anti-science, and frankly comes uncomfortably close to the inappropriate application of mysticism. You are right when you say that focusing on the tiny chance that we are wrong isn't pragmatic. Which is why so much of My writing focuses on pragmatism as a better epistemological method than empiricism and rationalism applied for the sake of truth over utility. When I say death is a social construct, I am not saying it's a useless idea, simply because it's untrue. I value usefulness over truth, and death is certainly much more useful than it is true.

Don't worry, I'm still on team "Janeway is a racist and a transphobe"

Thank you for the praise. I actually had the idea for this article while watching Kamen Rider Ex-Aid. There's a plot in there about someone seeking to permanently end the condition of death for the human species. Late in the show, it's revealed that everyone who died already can be brought back through some science fiction nonsense the villains have been working on. For a japanese children's cartoon in the genre of power rangers, it's remarkably philosophical. It got Me thinking about the meaning of death, and thus, article. I decided to make it about Tuvix because that's a very well known and clear example of what I'm talking about. The episode with the planet that dumps all their corpses through wormholes would also qualify, but it's way less fun than arguing whether Janeway is a murderer.

What I have heard from indigenous people I've spoken to, and I have no idea if this is the reason for all Aboriginal cultures, is that it keeps dead people from getting into the afterlife and staying there. If people in the mortal world keep saying their name, they'll get distracted and have a harder time staying in the afterlife where they belong. They'll be stuck coming back to the mortal world to see who's calling their name.

It's like the western concept of ghosts having unfinished business. An emotional tie that prevents them from moving on.

Once they've been dead for a hundred years, it's fine. They moved onto the next phase of their existence in the universe a long time ago.

It's because we are social creatures who are not entirely in control of our schemas, or conceptualisations. We can't just decide to have logical opinions and have it work instantly. There's always a difficulty, and the difficulty scales with personal relevance and importance. When we aren't in control, society decides how we define things like "man" and "woman". And the internal sense demands that we be able to categorise ourselves as the preferred gender, to the standards of not just our ego but also our irrational id.

Well I wouldn't call the article itself a work of science, but it explains the science behind this meme, and I was sure nobody would understand the meme if I didn't include it.

*You

some philosophers would even argue that there's no reality but social reality and both are one and the same.

Some politicians would argue that social reality is oppressive and must be replaced with social unreality - http://soulism.net/

This article may have some direct relevance to you: https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/so-you-found-out-youre-agender-because-you-don-t-understand-trans-people-886fdee6f178

Another technology that uses the subjectivity of reality is film. If we always perceived the objective truth, we couldn't watch Star Wars and see a Jedi. Instead, we'd just see coloured lights on a screen. Our minds are able to construct a subjective reality using a very small amount of stimuli, and create the subjective experience of another whole universe. (Or galaxy far far away, at least).