/philosophy/ - Philosophy

It is subjective. All of your past experiences condition your 'self' and all future actions you will take will further condition this 'self'

So you can make deliberate choices in your thought patterns to mould your self

Within philosophies of religions and spirituality, there is this idea of the "ideal self" or higher self that somehow exists outside of space and/or time.

In Freudian psychology there is the super ego, your conscious is your moral voice that tells you from right and wrong. There is even biological correlations of higher functioning mammalian brain

What exactly are you referring to when you say "yourself"

Agreeing on definitions are very important, especially so when discussing subjective phenomena

Just be yourself and dress however you want to! Nobody can tell you it's unprofessional, this is what made America great in the Civil Rights Movements of the 1960's and the 2010's. It's our freedom to just be ourselves, and that means whatever adult-on-adult consensual sexual fantasies you have... just go right ahead and do them!!! Personally I've been being myself for 3 months now, and that may not seem like a long time but I promise you this is no phase. I'm so glad my parents are accepting of the real me and I have the economic privilege to just do me, but even though I do then don't forget: life can still be hard when you're being yourself!!! So go now, OP, and be free! Be yourself and go have sex with men like you always wanted!!

>>5177

could you not be a faggot

>>5179

>Not instantly realizing I wasn't serious.

Haha, looks like you fell for my epic troll!!! Sorry matey, but it looks like you've been

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>>5185

That image was made by a reverse troll who is just trying to troll the trolls, but I won't let myself be trolled by it because I am an experienced troll.

>>5189

You are worthless to humanity

>>5191

Are you one of those armchair philosophers who repeats other people's ideas on the internet and thinks he is contributing to the likes of Plato and Nietzsche just because he's taking about it? Overall, what is your net contribution besides the basic positive effect that earning and spending money has on a capitalist economy? Do you have kids? Have you written any books? Have you patented any devices or discovered any species? Has anything you have written or created been used in any meaningful sense?

Sorry for all the questions, I'm just curious to know what distinguishes a man making empty complaints on the internet from the one who got on his nerves in the first place.

>>5193

>Have you patented any devices

I think you meant to say unpatented any devices there friend.

>Create something

>Receive arbitrary funding over it and if anyone else tries to research the same thing they're punished

>>5194

>muh open source televisions

That may work for some things like programs, but when it comes to ideas that cost great sums of money to design, prototype, and mass produce, there is absolutely no incentive for people to create such things unless they can still profit sufficiently from doing so. The community might prosper more in your fantasy wonderland, but human individuals are far more motivated by their own individual gain 99 times out of 100.

>>5193

Are you retarded? I come to a philosophy board to discuss philosophy. Someone else comes to a philosophy board and contributes nothing but shitposting.

Who is more worthless to humanity?

Anyways, I'm not repeating anyone's ideas but my own. I figured out philosophy mostly on my own and only after that found some correlations in human history

Also, you can fucking mind your own business, I'm not going to tell you anything about my personal like you stalking fuckface. If you want to talk about philosophy that's fine, otherwise you can stop crying like a little bitch projecting your insecurities

>>5198

Bitcoin

>>5198

What we need is decentralized technologies and protocols. The world really does need more open source

50 years ago Aldous Huxley was a proponent of decentralization, and finally someone makes bitcoin and the potential for it is astounding. Imagine decentralized applications for politics (policy voting), information storage, etc

>>5193

Wait this is samefag? LOL wow you are absolutely disgraceful in your lack of shame

>>5200

Bitcoin is a good idea but hasn't its value been steadily falling for years? Thanks by the way for having a real discussion about these important matters instead of whining and crying.

>>5203

>Bitcoin is a good idea but hasn't its value been steadily falling for years?

Check the news it exploded again a couple weeks ago

Fuck I used to say holding season is over, I was dead wrong. It looks like the value really will keep going up, but the short term volatility never stops

Even so, even if the value kept going down steadily...

>implying relative value is relevant to intrinsic value

Bitcoin doesn't have value as a commodity to (buy hold and then) sell. It's potential is as a decentralized technology (that can't be hacked to make more bitcoins than their are unless quantum computers come out) that banks/governments/cooperations can't control. More importantly that means it isn't susceptible to quantitative easing (but if banks were built on top of it fractional reserve banking would still be an issue).

Even if bitcoin fails due to quantum hacking or some shit (very doubtful) the blockchain technology is what's really important, laying the groundwork for different foundations to allow decentralized applications of every other facet of society

>Thanks by the way for having a real discussion about these important matters instead of whining and crying.

If I was trying to show humility I would ignore that but godammit I am always trying to have a real discussion. Calling out bullshit as I see it is just as a real discussion to me (oh there's that subjective nature of definitions (or rather, substantive meaning), being relative to their context)

Being yourself is not pretending to be someone else, and not acting as if you feel differently than you actually feel.

The problem is this gets seriously meta. Everyone has some bound of civility, meaning they want to not insult folk for no reason, among similar dynamics. On one hand, this means pretending to not want to say anything when in fact you do. On the other, being uncivil means pretending you don't care about civility.

E.g. if I think your drawing is crap, I won't necessarily say so, and I'll try to avoid situations where you might ask about it.

Sometimes you'll be called cowardly if you bow to peer pressure. But if you're genuinely afraid, isn't going with that fear also a form of being yourself?

All that said, I've tried a bunch of these both ways, and there's a definite and clear dissonant answer, contrasting to a harmonious answer. In my case it's honesty to a fault, unless I feel I'm being attacked, in which case anything goes. To first order approximation, anyway.

>>5203

I dont even see a reason to use one form of bitcoin over another ie altcoin. At oeast the dollar is backed up by a millitary if not gold. Bitcoin has nuuuthing.

>>5273

Yeah, all those bites of complex math is not worth shit, everyone shut up.

>>5273

Absurd. Dollars are no more backed than bitcoin is. Plus gold has no intrinsic value either.

>>5278

It's not.

Read this.

http://www.safehaven.com/article/5205/why-the-global-financial-system-is-about-to-collapse

Money is the bubble that doesn't pop. While it doesn't make rational sense for both bitcoin and the dollar to have value at the same time, something must have demand purely because it is in demand.

Notes of interest:

Money traditionally acquires value because all citizens require it to pay the government. Something is never in demand for the sake of having it in demand, I have never heard of such a thing.

When I posted >>5278 , I meant Bitcoin. Bitcoins are made up of numbers, for those that missed it.

>>5280

Pretty sure it's basic economics that a currency has to be backed up in some way. I don't remember how it works, but I think anon's point has validity.

>>5401

>Money traditionally acquires value because all citizens require it to pay the government.

Anarchist believes government propaganda. Wew lad.

http://nakamotoinstitute.org/shelling-out/

>>5401

>I meant Bitcoin

AND you're on about the labour theory of value. Please tell me you're a troll/shill and not genuinely that dumb.

>>5402

>I don't remember how it works

That's okay, it was just some clay-footed authority speaking ex cathedra.

Read the links.

>>5406

>AND you're on about the labour theory of value

What the fuck do you mean? Did you misunderstand what I mean by "Bitcoins are numbers" or something?

>>5407

It's called proof of work not proof of value, which is good, as value is not provable. If it was we wouldn't have to use money to measure it. Bitcoin? Pff, Sisyphus dollar. As if all the worthless altcoins weren't also 'backed' by complex math.

>>5165

Mandom

It may not be subjective.

You also may not ever truly be yourself.

Understanding the biological body you reside in is not you is a start.