brandonfish

You keep talking like what you experience would be real. I would like to remind you that in your worldview everything you experience is brain chemistry, also the notion of self. You are not more real than the dream that you had last night.

>However, if you round a corner on your bike and slam into an oncoming car, THAT is real.

The pain isn't real. The notion that you are on a bike is not real. The only thing that is real is that matter slams into matter. Everything else is a product of consciousness which in materialism is nothing but a fluke of nature, but certainly has nothing to do with reality.

> Stop robbing everyone of their experiences with beauty just because you believe in a hypothetical, invisible, vengeful, biased, super being. Leave us mortals who have to deal with reality every day to enjoy our postings in peace.

Oh, I didn't know that the only thing you want is people patting you on the back so that you can enjoy your happy life. Sorry for waking you up and question your existence. Dream on then.

Thank you.

>Don't take it away from us.

I wasn't taking anything away from you

>Your comment is completely irrelevant to me.

FTFY

Ah right, I should have known that saying something about the effort was going to be taken like that. What I meant is the effort is completely different. The story about biking makes it very obvious that it's just a very temporary happiness that can be achieved by something like that. It's not reliable in any way. You fight for one moment of happiness and you don't even know if it will even come. Wonderful.

As if your way to brighten up your life was not a delusion. If you insist on the material worldview everything is a delusion, that means me and you (the ego) included. None of that is real.

It's sad how much you hate God around here. I hope for you that he's not real.

It's amazing how difficult it seems to be to get happy with these things and it always just lasts for a few moments. Whereas God can make one happy in a much deeper sense without all the effort. Also it can last much longer (until you neglect the relationship with him)

good luck changing your email address ;)

Wikipedia says that one of their remote features is: "Defrag the hard drives"

Someone pushed the wrong button there? ;)

Seriously, that just reminded me of running Windows back in the old days. You had to make sure to have the latest AV, do system upgrades all the time and of course defrag the drives... yay

"apt-cache search" does AND search over everything by default which is neat to find software for something. with aptitude you have to use some cryptic flags for that.

to look for packages that you have installed use "dpkg -l"

aptitude is otherwise great and I prefer it over apt-get

yes, your electricity company cannot earn money using ads. google's business is mostly built on ads. see the difference?