Better than “dipshit”.

Lots of things. Working on a project, reading a good book, a nice meal, vibing in nature, pleasant exercise. There’s a lot of suffering in the world, but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy everyday things.

I consider unwarranted dickishness to be a subset of harmful takes

Crack my skull and spine, pull out my spinal cord, brain, and eyes, pop 'em in a robot body.

Who dares. To love. Forever?

I upvote things I like. I don’t downvote things I don’t like, I only downvote lies, misinformation, or harmful takes.

Rewind by Hotel Eden

Windowsill by McBaise

Both albums have some great tracks that fit that vibe.

If you’re feeling extra spicy maybe sprinkle in some .Temp by Graham Kartna

Nobody cares

Edit: I don’t think y’all understand

If my early homebrewing days taught me anything, it’s that vinegar is so easy to make you can do it by accident.

I like /srs, but /gen is growing on me

This feels, prescriptively, like the correct answer

I maintain like a dozen playlists with specific vibes. I constantly try to discover new music, whether through algorithms or active searching. When I find a really good album I’ll just sit and listen, maybe doing something that doesn’t require concentration.

There are bands that I really like that I bring up all the time. When I find a new one, I’m telling everyone who might like them. There are some I’ll listen to over and over, and some I ration to try not to burn out.

I like great art, but I’m also down with meme music and other goofy shit.

Except that it literally was a commentary on me though. If you wanted to tell your own truth you could’ve made your own comment, but you responded to mine to tell me why your worldview was superior.

As I said, this brand of atheism comes from a place of misunderstanding. If you frame belief in deity as “inventing additional unseeable and unprovable forces and aspects”, then I’m afraid you’ve made some error along the way.

I’m not sure what benefit is provided by the projection of your hangups onto others. I’m not sure how you could construe your comment as inoffensive. I don’t see how implying my language was tortured, or my path too long, provides any form of guidance. Perhaps this is a subject where you should spend more time listening than guiding.

More or less, depends on how you wanna define UU.

No, actually. This was a step past atheism, which was how I identified for most of my teens and into my 20s. I too went onto message boards to convince religious people they were irrational.

It turns out my younger self, and I suspect you, came to that conclusion by a series of silly misunderstandings and an arbitrarily bounded rationality.

No, the language isn’t tortured, no the effect is not the same, no it isn’t fewer steps. It’s only one more small step from atheism to a coherent metaphysics.

I don’t believe in a religion. I am a syncretic pantheist.

“Syncretic” meaning that I don’t think any one religion or sect has a monopoly on divine truth, even if they are sincere and productive attempts. Refer to Rumi’s Elephant.

“Pantheist” meaning that I think God = Universe. The laws of nature are God’s attributes. We are all literally one with God, everything that exists is.

I believe these things because I exhausted basically every other reasonable metaphysical alternative.

I’m good at lots of things. Navigating the US healthcare industry is not one of them. My wife is in the industry, so I let her find one for me.

If you want a positively singular album, check out Oldfield’s Amarok. It’s a unique experience, start to finish, and the story behind it is great.

I grew up with them, and to this day I’ve never found anyone who quite matches that sound. Just pure musical creativity.