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John Kintaro

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  1. Best summary of modern philosophy to date.
  2. My interest in politics came from my interest in computers. I was always interested in computers, and eventually I became interested in the Open Source movement, moreso the philosophy of the free software foundation. I was awed and amazed by Richard Stallman's philosophy that all software must be open source to be moral. I don't agree with that now and can't even remember what made me think its right. However Stallman was certainly my first encounter with philosophy and absence of other views probably helped his grow inside my mind. Stallman's philosophy made me consider myself a socialist for quite some time. Last year I suffered a brain injury and had a spotted memory, and still do at times. I can't remember the cause of my old views now, and last year I started to get back into reading about philosophy, especially ethics, to come back to my old understanding. All I knew was that my views were not right, and I couldn't remember why I formed them in the first place because of the brain injury. There was an election in Australia last year and the biggest issue facing me was the nanny state (smoking bans to be exact). There is really only one party in Australia against the nanny state, The Libertarians, who called themselves the "Liberty and Democracy Party" at the election. I became a fan, and also was subscribed to various libertarian blogs. One of these blogs posted an article about Ayn Rand calling her a "Capitialist Hero," at the time I was still apprehensive towards the idea of capitalism being heroic at all (I was still of that silly "money is the root of all evil" mindset) however despite being apprehensive, I was also more than willing to keep an open mind considering my mind had been banged into a garbled mess by my car accident. So I decided to read Atlas Shrugged, and did. After reading I have become convinced Objectivism is the philosophy for me. It's interesting that Libertarians pointed me to Rand, because Rand has trashed any chance of me ever supporting libertarianism.
  3. Nope, Richard Stallman expresses that it MUST be shared for free and that it is immoral to do otherwise. His case for free software, unlike others, is based on morals and not simply practicality. Richard Stallman is pretty unpopular, the most common case made for open source is based on security mostly (Open Source is more likely to get fixed rather than exploited when a flaw is found, is essentially the argument there)
  4. I'd say thats why its better to learn on Linux: there are more mistakes to learn from. It depends on what you hope to gain from it, if making actual software is the primary purpose, Windows is clearly better. If understanding a computer system in its entirety is what you value then Linux is superior because you get more of a chance than ever to "look inside" the system.
  5. I never said I was particularly interested in this girl, just that she is interested in me and has plainly said it. I made a post about this and it was removed, by the looks, or maybe I didn't make it. I wanted to see what people think of this issue, and have. Simply though, it looks on the most part people protect kids from ... in this case. There are valid reasons to protect Children, educate them, do whatever. There are some pretty invalid ones that have become popular parenting, on the most part making sex come across as some kind of pain can be particularly damaging to a child later in life. This can stem indirectly or directly from religious teaching, and for some reason those who aren’t religious just hop on the bandwagon and do the same. I hope you can at least understand for someone like me who didn't have such an "innocent" childhood, it is incredibly hard to understand what value there is having one, having never had one. Innocent... of what? That very word just seems to imply that there is some guilt in sexuality, which is exactly what Rand seemed to be against. It is what reason should be against also. My arguments are not because I want to have sex with children. Simply I see a taboo taboo harming a lot more Children than it really helps. My argument essentially brands any "modern pedophile" worse, because by doing what they do, they make the initial act in making a child sexualized, in a world of Children that are not, and the effects are alienating for that child. If I was a pedophile, I’d have reason to stop from my own arguments and so they’re not really arguments to justify pedophilia whole-sale.
  6. I'm working on a novel where one of the characters speaks only in poetry, so it's full of massive monologues.
  7. This is a book by Oscar Wilde I read some time ago, I rather enjoyed it. It is probably one of the more interesting books I have read, I particularly enjoy the witty dialogue and the general style of the prose. I certainly couldn't classify any of the characters as heroic, however the plot is intriguing. I'd suggest it to the sorts of people who like things that are "weird for the sake of weird," or just something plainly funny. The plot however is a bit tragic, the ending makes it a bit better with the service of some justice to the protagonist, Dorian Grey, I won't go into details or I'll spoil it! The book has some classic jokes in it, said by Lord Henry. I'm sure it can make anyone laugh!
  8. I've been using Linux for eight years. Probably the best platform to learn programming on, easily the worst platform to use if you actually like third party proprietary software. Because of all the distributions, you have forks of gnome, forks of gcc, forks of the kernel in the form of patches, and third party application developers have a constantly moving target to distribute to, thus they won't and will never bother unless this division changes. I'm also sure I can prove a lot of it pretty immoral if I dug up all the subsidies given to various Linux projects, hell look at OpenBSD and their NSA grants. Free software my ass.
  9. http://downloads.sourceforge.net/codeblock...ntu1.deb.tar.gz That package should be what you want to install.
  10. Used to be INTP now its INTJ, INTP came up yeaaars ago. I can't remember but the difference could be that back then I wasn't very outgoing.
  11. I wouldn't be sure what to highlight, but is it just my bad luck or is it absolutely common to run into people this stupid?
  12. She has had sex before, and is interested in having it with me, something she verbalized.
  13. From these pieces of forsaken thought we ignore – send a flying fucking retort. It hits the other poor sort whom, sends it flying back, and all the while an onslaught - a thriving battle of words and discord. Those words will echo unlike echoes, but grow louder as each note of discord is thrown forth, the volume of which is viral of sorts, we know - for the friends of ones foes, their volume grows until the chamber for symphony is a yard of moans. Sides form for both like magnets so opposed, yet they share the same value – woes, the terrible chamber is fights, explodes, when close. It would take quite a smelter to get the magnet opposed. Back to themselves like when iron turns red and glows. Yet some such a symphony is praised on the sides. Such sweet melodies which this violence could subside - it was no music, but a matter of the same stride of which all of this violence and madness would subside. No chamber of brass, strings, and piano – no! Just an admission from the one with the power, who began this awful dissonance from his ivory tower. That it was time to change it all, an hour at a time. Because he saw on the light of the world a dark shrine, and off he went to make that shrine become light and divine. So off went the unreason, without the smelter, nothing had to burn, and all was within shelter. For one man alone, put letter to word to help us. Now there is peace, agreement and God's earth returned. So there is spoils of unity, consent, unreason no longer a concern. This is one of my newer poems, which there are few of and only get written when I am in a psychiatric hospital
  14. I am good friends with a thirteen year old girl, usually parents wouldn't permit such friendships (because I'm 20) but since we play music together they make an allowance. This girl is most certainly interested in me, and I knock her back on basis of the law. She is consenting, knows what the consequences are, this still cannot be enough. Along with this, we both value each other clearly. What can I do? Either hurt this girl and myself, or risk jail hurting this girl and myself. Great choice the law has offered us both!
  15. (09:17:41 PM) farorefase: OBJECTIVISM? (09:17:49 PM) farorefase: RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE (09:18:23 PM) Kintaro: What is wrong with Objectivism? (09:20:33 PM) Kintaro: ... (09:20:34 PM) Kintaro: ? (09:22:39 PM) farorefase: Objectivism is for psuedo-intellectuals and Ayn Rand is a psuedo-philosopher (09:22:53 PM) farorefase: Objectivism is a half-baked rehash of nihlism invented by capitalists (09:23:11 PM) farorefase: To justify their business practices, but also denounce anybody assassinating their pig asses (09:23:55 PM) Kintaro: Nhilism? (09:23:59 PM) Kintaro: er (09:24:11 PM) Kintaro: its completely against all nihlism (09:25:24 PM) Kintaro: in fact it all starts with "existence exists" (09:25:54 PM) farorefase: lol They're virtually the same Nihlism - You can do whatever you want (09:26:03 PM) farorefase: Objectivism - Serve your own interest (and thus you can do whatever you want) (09:26:11 PM) farorefase: Nihlism is not about existence not being a fact (09:26:20 PM) farorefase: Nihlism is about the rejection of any form of morality (09:26:29 PM) Kintaro: bzzt wrong on objectivism (09:26:36 PM) Kintaro: its not "do whatever you want" (09:26:50 PM) Kintaro: its that you should only serve yourself, that you shouldn't be ruled (09:27:02 PM) Kintaro: and that you shouldn't rule others (09:27:18 PM) farorefase: which is doing whatever you want (09:27:25 PM) farorefase: If you're serving yourself You're doing what you want (09:27:26 PM) Kintaro: so, thus you can do whatever you want that doesnt effect others, which isnt doing whatever you want (09:27:32 PM) Kintaro: and so (09:27:41 PM) Kintaro: whats wrong with doing what you want if it doesnt effect others? (09:28:43 PM) farorefase: It's a bad and contradictory philosophy that doesn't even know what it is because it's presented through terribly written fiction (09:29:02 PM) farorefase: It was made for capitalist pigs because Ayn Rand was still raged at communism, even though she's never lived under a true communism (09:29:10 PM) Kintaro: hahaha (09:29:28 PM) farorefase: And Ayn Rand only liked capitalism because she got rich off of her shitty books And had a cult fanbase (09:29:58 PM) Kintaro: She liked it before then (09:30:01 PM) Kintaro: clearly (09:30:02 PM) Kintaro: anyway (09:30:02 PM) farorefase: In the end though she was nothing more than a minor footnote on history with an ego the size of the moon Who will be forgotten soon enough (09:30:15 PM) farorefase: And relegated to the same position that we relegate to obscure greek philosophers today (09:30:17 PM) Kintaro: these are all ad homiems (09:30:33 PM) Kintaro: im spelling everything wrong today (09:31:11 PM) farorefase: she was living in a totalitarian state which claimed to be communist Apparently she's too stupid to know the difference (09:31:26 PM) Kintaro: however, simple communism is based on a false moral principle no matter how it is implemented, no matter how "true" it gets, that man exists to provide others (09:31:36 PM) Kintaro: and there is little difference in practise (09:31:51 PM) Kintaro: she lived in a socialist state, and called it communist, would be how id put it (09:32:01 PM) Kintaro: it was a socialist state by any political science (09:32:39 PM) Kintaro: Communism is a mysticism that to escape power, we need to have a body with absolute power over us as if they have some special wisdom others don't. (09:33:06 PM) Kintaro: Any collective is slavery. (09:33:14 PM) farorefase: they're ad hominems because objectivism is all about Ayn Rand It's made entirely to support her ego (09:33:14 PM) farorefase: She demands entire subservience to her opinions (09:34:04 PM) farorefase: Socialist? you don't even know what that means if you think it was socialist (09:34:06 PM) farorefase: it was a totalitarian regime (09:34:32 PM) Kintaro: Which represented state ownership, socialism This is a waste of time arguing. My mental stability is disputed by professionals.
  16. (09:17:41 PM) farorefase: OBJECTIVISM? (09:17:49 PM) farorefase: RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE (09:18:23 PM) Kintaro: What is wrong with Objectivism? I run into this shit all the time. It makes me quite angry.
  17. So I'll go back to my original argument and set out a challenge for you, there was a society in which people porked their kids, but they also had writing. Then why are there no accounts of this "psychological harm" where it was acceptable? Probably, because the psychological harm is an effect of all the "caring" done to kids who were apparently "sexually abused" like myself. The psychological harm is not a result of the sex, but of those who try to tell the child what they have experienced to be good, to be bad.
  18. I was talking of the teaching that having sex can result in Children, not on teaching people to be wonderful parents.
  19. Any child is capable of being aware of those things with education, and every person requires education in some form to understand this. Yet, it is typically forbidden to educate a child of these things on the ground that the education itself is "abuse."
  20. All I see is the denial of rights for absolutely no reason, every argument I encounter seems pretty secondhanded. Unless sex has some mystical content not revealed to me, that there is really no wrong being done. For someone who believes that unmarried sex will send people to hell though, its pretty easy to believe its a bad thing. I see it primarily as an issue of rights, the issue of trauma is always what I get told in response to it. I think it is right for a person (child or adult) to take their sexual curiosities where they lead them and if an adult wishes to show them, I don't see a problem. Children are capable of consent, for as long as they understand words like "yes," "no," "good," "bad," clearly and can actually experience sexual pleasure. This makes any child of about 8 years old and over capable of consent. I'd argue because sex bares none of the conseqences of any of those things. Except in a culture which ostracises pedophiles, where it could lead to the child becoming kidnapped in a desperate attempt by the pedophile to escape with his freedom and the child. I can see negative outcomes for the wrong food and too much time playing videogames. I can't see any such consequences in sex.
  21. I can think of my entire adolescence along these terms of "manipulation" and "informed consent" now as a series of rapes, many of my first girlfriends didn't exactly invite my hand into their pants, but they certainly felt good about it after. Is this statutory rape as well? Because it uses the same devices that were used on me as a child. It seems we are capable of sexual pleasure from a very young age, issues of maturity aside, I think its more exploitive of children to have this system which currently robs of them experiencing the pleasure they are capable of having. Also, that its forbidden on the same grounds not to tell Children anything about sex, opens up a doorway to this exploitation to anyone who will and can show a child sexual pleasure.
  22. Why can't a child consent? Blank-out it seems. That is my point, I believe a child can consent and on better terms than most: I was a child and consented. You would be suprised how easy it is for me to find others with my views providing they also were "molestered," at some point. Calling it rape is a mockery of rape, and of children who were actually raped.
  23. It is a common view held in our modern culture that a child is incapable of making their own sexual choices. In the situation where Children are making sexual choices these are seen to have a negative effect. It is said that Children and sexuality don't mix and produce trauma. In the name of this it is held that expressing sexuality with a child is illegal. It isn't just forbidden that children hear of sex, but it seems commonplace for people to specifically lie to Children that sexual pleasure is pain, and lie to everyone else and themselves in the process. Informed consent? I am not sure anymore of what it is one is to be informed about. The process of sexuality is simple. The way I see it, as someone who most would title “sexually abused,” (except myself, I can justify “reality abuse,” as a far more correct term) the only thing traumatic had little to do with the sexuality and simply the lies preached in attempt of blanking-out a reality I experienced (sexuality is good). Through most of my childhood psychologists would simply attempt everything to preach that “sexuality is bad.” It is obvious to me now that this wholesale robbery of my sexuality was in the name of protecting the other children from me, because being informed of sexuality in a very physical way I knew how to inform them that Sex is Good. Of course, myself being one small child at the time stood little chance against this insidious belief that sex is something it isn't, so it led to many classical confusions of sexuality which would be the general resulting trauma. I am saying the trauma isn't the sexuality itself but the process of bullshitting sexually abused children on a very large scale. For this I can only really say “Find one account of trauma in ancient Athens where sexuality between adults and children was pretty commonplace.” Any thoughts?
  24. Spinning Into Love. A thread of life keeps spinning up from the field Love recirculates around this spiralling wheel. I felt the stare and adapted to the busy glare, Empathy was there, if she didn't dream to care. Her needles wound its way right through my head, Sewn into the idea that I'm meant to be met. While I can keep picking up on character lint, Id rather hear the voice of how your needle spins. As every string of the vine continues to entwine Your spiralling stitch into the fabric of my mind, Crossing into these patterns I realise in time, That my boll can pollinate your soul into mine. It seems to be that she is weaved into me, A yarn of thread on the weft of a busy dream. And ginning my fibre is her denim smile, Resurrecting my eyes to open for a while. Written in 2005 White Termite You're my little white termite, eating the old wood of my oars. I love to groom you until we arrive at the daylight shores. Walking with no seismicity, breaths of magma sealed me. In the great depths of your, lullaby dreamy-land arms. When we become one for a while. The shadow joins in the door, when the split reconnects oh, we can hold hands with a strip. Lumina brights the room abound, into the opposite second street. Speaking a language of hot fire, I smell contrast on the horizon. Your my blue eyed love song, among the tritons of my sight. We can stay put until the day, comes running away from my ear. Written in 2005, adapted from a song to a poem in 2007 Ripple in Time Once upon a deadline, how I wish I could fly Wishing life wasn't so sublime, the time it takes me to get into line; dreaming of her eyes. Yet still everything catches on this memory of you, stuck in my latches waves flying back in flashes. Wishing I wasn't buried into this fading truth, I just cant fasten the noose, to hide the bad news, of loosing you. This fourth dimension moves to the side, I never realized that every nanosecond flies: taking me apart, taking me into pieces, slowly but surely taking me away from you. I'm supposed to be crunching little numbers, with pieces of silicon and plastic buttons, but I'm stuck here in my personal barrier, from the rest of the world, from the carrier. Their pretty faces tell me that your not worth, the gift of my thought, with everything I brought to tell you how much I love you. But if I know its true, I've shattered the line, Between me and you, I cant accept it still so I will stay silent and keep to the deal that every word spoken tells me I'll find something less broken, yet still I cant grind anything against the difference of you. I could never find the words to use but, Its to late now. I guess I've burned the fuse. This forth dimension moves to the side, I never realized every nanosecond flies: taking me apart, taking me into pieces, taking my heart, slowly burning my youth. And in a symbol of my dreams, every time the sun fades beneath its blankets; thieves the light from my eyes, I fall into believing I'm still there making love with you, but its no use, I'm just going to bruise my, lifeline above, it poisons truth too. I motivate and relocate to preoccupy, to replace, my taste; that belongs to you. Written in 2006 Broken Morality not a good name but its the best I could come up with In my life I have had many a struggle. Like leaves through seasons I've traveled: from having no reason to having only speed a green painted forest to a dead yellow leaf. Me, a quiet and curious puerile green-eyed baby was purposely poured into a vague obsession, No pain or fear, just lust oh very uncomely. Ideas of pleasure yet no sense of discretion. If ever the captivation of pleasure shed was with the application of a salient snap. A fire painting the silent green forest red. Only age could paint the great fire black. While that great fire was still a roar. I committed a sin before I could see the part of the gospel they don't implore. Trying to save the others young, from me. A hypocrisy, heads full of holes of fear thinking they protect God and the young. An army of doctors converting pleasure queer, good memories of mine, gone now none. Like a bullet in the back while smelling a rose. Where there was pleasure this guilt would arise. For my desires were all nonsense, I chose. Pain from pleasure they dressed in disguise. Vibrance and energy were detested by my peers. A blast of glee followed with the unacceptable. And when I seemed peaceful nobody would fear. Except behind the peace lied misery inevitable. I renunciated from all sense, and I would detest: God in his pleasure kingdom, his angels singing their songs of hedonism while asceticism they request. In heaven only joy while on earth pleasure is sinning. Written in 2007
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