Or at least use classical conditioning to associate the I’m wrong feeling with the impending new cool facts feeling.

I think comparing Bethesda and Witcher is wrong yeah, they are both ‘rpgs’ but that is an almost meaningless term these days.

Bethesda has been down hill since Morrowind, (it’s a big hill, doesn’t matter if you liked Oblivion or Skyrim) and that is such a different kind of game to Witcher.

Compare Witcher 3 to Red Dead 2 though. I think that would be interesting. I think they might even be more alike than they are different.

I’m talking about natures rather than labels though. Or does God only have the definitions humans ascribe to him?

So does that mean Jesus wasn’t human?

But is God the Incarnate wholly God-nature, or is he partly God-nature and partly man-nature?

Do you think you can believe something without knowing it is true? As an example, you might believe that I am a guy you are actually communicating with, you could also believe that I am Canadian, but do you actually feel like you know either of those things?

And any Christian who became a Christian through reading the bible or being taught it by another who isn’t a liar and a hypocrite. I suspect most people who identify as a Christian would also claim agnosticism if they ever took the time to think about it. Though most I think tend to get on with their lives and leave that thinking to their priests.

Well sure, if you use those definitions. They aren’t very good ones. Agnosticism in general makes no claims about if knowing is possible. It is simply the statement that your position isn’t based on you knowing the truth. Neither agnostic or gnostic actually make a statement on what you believe, just how you justify it.

You can also be a Christian without knowing if Jesus is real or not, but simply because you think there is value in taking the Bible’s word for it. To be a (small g) gnostic Christian would require not only personal experience of the divine, but some kind of certainty that it is what it appeared to be, Paul for instance would (claim to) be such a person.

agnostic Christian but that’s contradictory.

Not really. It is a pretty reasonable position to take. What makes you think there is contradiction in such a statement?

It was a pleasure. It is always good to have a conversation about these things, and I am pleased you were open to one.

By all means pay attention to rocks, you don’t want one to fall on you, or to trip over one. Just remember if you kick it, or try to persuade it, you will suffer and it won’t.

I’m more than happy to be moved off the position if something presents itself, so far nothing has. Nor do I reject a general spiritual position, I would even say I have had experiences best described as mystical but I don’t see that as anything separate from the mind.

That we inhabit a small corner of something so vast that we can in a very real sense never interact with most of it. That even if we could, makes no special allowances to us and would end our lives simply by its nature. Is what leads me to conclude that there is no intrinsic meaning. What would be the meaning of a star? What even would be the shape of it’s meaning?

We have no reason to think that the moon would be much different if we never were as a species never were, aside from some tyre tracks and some litter. Of course, the man in the moon, or the rabbit wouldn’t be there without humans to see them, but those are things we project onto it.

Yeah, people like that are a where a big chunk of my misanthropy comes from. To pin any kind of philosophical label on them though I think is wrong. I think it is more accurate to say that they don’t engage with any. You can equally complain about their fatalism, except fatalism doesn’t preclude taking action. Even their brand of doomerism is boring.

If they really believed and understood the position they appear to take, they would likely have killed themselves already.

I would pay them the same mind you would a rock.

The error is conflating nihilism to doomerism. The lack of intrinsic value or meaning doesn’t really have anything to do with the idea that our (personal or collective) destruction is inevitable.

To use myself as an example, I have a strong doomer tendancy, which is rooted in my misanthropy. I believe that the weaknesses of humanity undermine any strengths we have and will lead to our destruction. My nihilism tells me that the destruction of humanity by our own hubris is, in a cosmic sense, neither good or bad. The universe will keep ticking paying our disappearance as little heed as it paid our presence.

Thing is, lack of intrinsic value doesn’t mean there is no point in trying to save us. That we live in an uncaring universe means that we are our only real chance of getting out of this jam we are in. There isn’t a god to save us, there isn’t some second chance at life coming after death. Even if there is no hope in the struggle to survive, you can still struggle.

Ultimately nihilism is a question, not an answer. It is a statement of what is, and has no bearing on what one should do.

Maybe you should learn about a philosophical position before you offer your critique. Especially if you want to take a position that people should be ‘informed’.

I stand corrected.

I suspect they will graciously provide the necessities in return for your labour and any remaining rights you have.

Take a look at how company stores and scrip worked. As the song goes: Saint Peter don’t you call me 'cause I can’t go/Sold my soul to the company store.

I quite like shop in the sense of workshop, and I also rather like y’all.

I also often refer to whisky as scotch, though I feel like that is as much about making myself understood.

There is a bit of truth here. Toxic culture and out of touch management will make people walk as well.

Thing is, there might just be a wad of cash big enough to make me put up with that against my health interests.

Fuck ping pong tables though. No one left a company because they didn’t have enough fucking table sports. If you think they are then you are the problem. Exit interview your own fucking arse.