How do you pull yourself out of a funk?

WeAreInFlames said:
What the fuck is wrong with Crowley? Not saying he's a swell dude, but...truly evil?
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He spent his entire life attempting to be as close to "Lucifer" as possible (by his own admission). Whether or not you believe in "evil spirits", Crowley did and devoted his whole life/writings to teaching others how to be close to Lucifer as well. Why would I want to know the details?

I know a statement like that might seem out of place amongst "methulheads", but I really don't care.
 
I find it funny that you accuse anime of existing in childish dream worlds when your own sense of morality is incredibly more childish in scope.
 
I summarize Dakryn's view of morality as follows:

1. White
2. Heterosexual
3. Local
4. 'Good Guy' narratives only
 
Believing that there is such thing as objectively evil behavior is something I find has no room in a 'mature' perspective of life.
 
Never, but just because I find an action wrong does not make it so. There are situations in which such actions are justifiable.
 
I use the term 'evil' but I don't mean anything spooky by it. I just take it to mean that something is really, really awful (morally).
 
Mort Divine said:
Never, but just because I find an action wrong does not make it so. There are situations in which such actions are justifiable.
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So if I just randomly walked into your house and blew away your family because I felt like it would be fun, and I didn't see it as wrong, that makes it ok, because it was right in my personal reality/understanding?

What situations do you feel murder is justifiable? I am talking about murder, as opposed to merely killing. If you cannot differentiate between the two I am wasting my time even talking about this with you.
 
I usually play tons of video games. Which isn't really good because generally when things are going bad, I have horrible luck. Which means I end up getting raped and feel worse than before.
 
Dakryn said:
So if I just randomly walked into your house and blew away your family because I felt like it would be fun, and I didn't see it as wrong, that makes it ok, because it was right in my personal reality/understanding?

What situations do you feel murder is justifiable? I am talking about murder, as opposed to merely killing. If you cannot differentiate between the two I am wasting my time even talking about this with you.
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Obviously I would view something such as that to be wrong, and I think it would nigh universally be viewed as such BUT that does not make it objectively wrong and/or evil.

Killing another person in any situation that requires self-defense, and yet it is not provable whether or not it was in self-defense is justifiable murder in my eyes. Murder simply refers to the unlawful killing of another person.
 
Mort Divine said:
Obviously I would view something such as that to be wrong, and I think it would nigh universally be viewed as such BUT that does not make it objectively wrong and/or evil.
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If it is not objectivily wrong then it isn't wrong. Actions by one person against/with another have to be objectivily wrong/right or they can't be wrong/right at all. There can't be "subjective wrong/evil". If it's subjective, it's merely something you don't like/not your preference.

Mort Divine said:
Killing another person in any situation that requires self-defense, and yet it is not provable whether or not it was in self-defense is justifiable murder in my eyes. Murder simply refers to the unlawful killing of another person.
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So by that logic, if we had no laws there could be no murder. Taking that logic further, we should just not have any sort of laws, and then there would be no wrongs committed. Because things are only wrong if enough people agree it is/ write it down on paper, and have a law enforcement/court/penal system to enforce it.
 
Dakryn said:
Why would I want to know the details?
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Such as what Lucifer represented to him? I dunno, maybe because it's kind of fucking crucial. It's a question of whether he desired the destruction of mankind or just absolute freedom to do as he wished. Based on what I know of his writings, it's the second. I still disagree with that, since he (based on what I know) rejected pretty much all moral conventions and probably would have been okay with a lot of stuff I wouldn't, but he's hardly pure evil.
 
WeAreInFlames said:
Such as what Lucifer represented to him? I dunno, maybe because it's kind of fucking crucial. It's a question of whether he desired the destruction of mankind or just absolute freedom to do as he wished. Based on what I know of his writings, it's the second. I still disagree with that, since he (based on what I know) rejected pretty much all moral conventions and probably would have been okay with a lot of stuff I wouldn't, but he's hardly pure evil.
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Absolute freedom to do whatever you want is destructive to mankind, how destructive depends on how far an individual takes it/how far such a conviction spreads. Destructive to mankind = evil, in a really simple sense.

@Krampus: Haven't heard of it.
 
It's anime, and it's also a Daft Punk music video. Takes place in a fictional world of neon that is 50% "Avatar" and 50% "Rainbow Road" from MarioKart.

edit: I hate anime and I've never seen Miyazaki movies in full. I can however mail anyone as much Totoro/Ponyo shit as they could possibly ever want, since there is a fucking Totoro/Ponyo store at the mall
 
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