Notices by KFist (kfist@gs.smuglo.li), page 4
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KFist (kfist@gs.smuglo.li)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2017 03:16:44 UTC 
KFist
Fuck me, being in a conversation where I'm the only one that says "Maybe we shouldn't dehumanize people because the media tells us to, and instead look at primary-sourced eyewitness accounts and judge for ourselves" is fucking aggravating.
Apparently noticing the MUH WHITE SUPREMACIST NAZI CAR having huge dents in it and being attacked with baseball bats -on video- before it hit anyone, while also noticing the brake lights on during the ordeal, followed by the driver voluntarily turning himself in a few blocks away less than half an hour later means I'm a fucking nazi racist or something. -
KFist (kfist@gs.smuglo.li)'s status on Thursday, 10-Aug-2017 19:46:09 UTC
KFist
I'm reading Lord of the Rings again after a year or two of not having done so.
The first thing that struck me is that Frodo is essentially an enormous fucking elfaboo.
The second is that Saruman starts off as Saruman the White, a wise, important being, most powerful of all beings in Middle-Earth. Then he gets corrupted by evil with promises of power and wealth, imports a whole bunch of orcs, and calls himself Saruman of Many Colours, wearing a rainbow garnment.
Then Gandalf comes over and tells him that a rainbow is weaker than pure white light, as you break white light in order to get those many colours.
There's a lesson in there. -
KFist (kfist@gs.smuglo.li)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Aug-2017 01:07:02 UTC
KFist
Japan scares me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixO1sF3HBG0
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KFist (kfist@gs.smuglo.li)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2017 01:22:02 UTC
KFist
@hfaust https://gs.smuglo.li/attachment/684405 -
KFist (kfist@gs.smuglo.li)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jul-2017 13:58:47 UTC
KFist
Just look at the lack of diversity in this high school. All the kids dressed properly, arriving at school on time and in an orderly fashion, the school clean and bright and well-designed. Yet there's not a single poverty-stricken differently-abled woman of color in sight! How horrendous. This is truly a dystopian nightmare world. https://gs.smuglo.li/attachment/673930 -
KFist (kfist@gs.smuglo.li)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jul-2017 00:24:53 UTC
KFist
>the resistance families are scared, broken, and dysfunctional
>the nazi families are respectful, peaceful, and functional
>at the worst the nazi families have a few understandable problems
>at the worst the resistance families are waiting for the opportunity to kill each other
Tell me again why the nazis are bad, (((Hollywood))) https://gs.smuglo.li/attachment/672580 -
KFist (kfist@gs.smuglo.li)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2017 20:31:30 UTC
KFist
"The GOP successfully framed Trump as Hitler. Then their best candidate lost to Hitler. Then the Democrats successfully framed Trump not only as Hitler, but Rapist Hitler. Then their best candidate lost to Rapist Hitler. It's time for some self-reflection." -
KFist (kfist@gs.smuglo.li)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2017 01:20:02 UTC
KFist
I've been trawling deeper and deeper into this blog, which makes for hilarious reading. Poor bastard painted himself into a corner, becoming an English teacher in Korea for almost a decade.
He spends the entire time writing enormous, vitriolic, yet extremely readable and detailed screeds on why Korea is a shithole.
This post is my favourite so far:
https://klownisms.wordpress.com/2014/06/17/kommunity-kollectivism/ -
KFist (kfist@gs.smuglo.li)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2017 19:27:14 UTC
KFist
Who builds a sidewalk across a highway?
What the fuck https://gs.smuglo.li/attachment/667381 -
KFist (kfist@gs.smuglo.li)'s status on Friday, 14-Jul-2017 23:28:11 UTC
KFist
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KFist (kfist@gs.smuglo.li)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2017 21:32:39 UTC
KFist
The best way to wean yourself off junkfood is to find healthy alternatives that you actually like. For example, chips can easily be replaced with thinly-sliced fresh chilled cucumber dashed with salt. The crunch remains, the salt remains, and it's not as greasy or filled with carbs and fat. -
KFist (kfist@gs.smuglo.li)'s status on Thursday, 22-Jun-2017 20:13:01 UTC
KFist
@nepfag @mangeurdenuage xkcd has always been about weird pseudo-intellectual science-worshipping bullshit, and Randall Munroe has always been a snivelling little creep with a milk fetish and stuffing his ex into the comic in really fucking bizarre ways. His entire nerd cred comes from the fact that he worked at an out-of-the-way subdivision of NASA for "robotics" then got fired after a few years. That, and his bizarre dedication to making idiotic and poorly-drawn visualizations and autistic ponderings on stupid questions doesn't suddenly make him qualified to become a new science messiah.
His ability to constantly shit out comics based on an hour's browsing Wikipedia, interspersed with virtue-signalling resistledrumpf imwithher sheforhe horseshit should tell anyone what they need to know about how this man's life turned out.
Hell, even I worked on a NASA project two years ago and personally helped design, assemble, and test a payload that went into the high atmosphere for two days of scientific observation. Ours was the only payload on that NASA project that actually lasted that long, since it was only supposed to be in the high atmosphere for eight hours. It survived that long because I was the one who had nothing better to do than to work overtime in order to do long-term cold-weather and vacuum testing on the payload until the power supply finally failed at 2 in the morning due to a preventable and fixable issue. I then went on to develop an error-and-anomaly checking algorithm for the CARISMA array, and later a new method for single-surface magnetospheric modelling using a bunch of statistical correlation methods.
Does that make me qualified to be some sort of authority that dumb impressionable nerds look up to? If Randy is the gold standard, then apparently it does. I certainly have more actual scientific cred than him, apart from being a "science communicator."
But I'm not an authority on science, I don't even have a master's degree or a doctorate. I'm just a fucking dumbass who had nothing better to do in the summers as he churned out a degree that's nothing more that says I can sit still for long enough to read some books and look at some blurry pixels from a telescope. https://gs.smuglo.li/attachment/362737 -
KFist (kfist@gs.smuglo.li)'s status on Saturday, 17-Jun-2017 01:31:42 UTC
KFist
The left-right political spectrum has a direct correlation between the online avatar spectrum, with traced lineart of selfies on the far left, and smug anime avatars on the far right. -
KFist (kfist@gs.smuglo.li)'s status on Saturday, 27-May-2017 03:39:56 UTC
KFist
How much nep could a nepnep nep if a nepnep could nep nep? -
KFist (kfist@gs.smuglo.li)'s status on Saturday, 27-May-2017 01:47:51 UTC
KFist
@augustus That's because the mainstream leftist idea of a family is either a completely broken household with a bitch mother who gets to keep the children even as she neglects them and whores around while the father is so emotionally distraught that he completely implodes, or it's some sort of homosexual marriage with two fucking faggots who sexually abuse their adopted child who grows up to become a suicidal tranny.
Their idea of a family is no family at all, or one so dysfunctional that it ethically should be destroyed, while ignoring the logical extension of these ideas. -
KFist (kfist@gs.smuglo.li)'s status on Saturday, 27-May-2017 01:40:24 UTC
KFist
Women's suffrage was a mistake.
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KFist (kfist@gs.smuglo.li)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2017 19:33:25 UTC
KFist
@detectivehyde @dolus @coolboymew @sim I'm not too sure, actually. It seems to be a very personal journey for most people, and it requires the capacity for introspection, for independent learning, and for genuine honesty with oneself. Introspection is quashed by modern social norms. Independent learning is quashed by modern educational systems all the way to the late undergrad level for STEM degrees or the Ph.D level in the liberal arts, and the social conditioning has usually taken hold by then. Finally, being genuinely honest with yourself is scary, it's probably the scariest thing you can do short of fighting in trenches.
For me, my personal journey involved being religious up until I was 15ish or so, but high school was interesting. I started reading history books and religious texts for fun, took a high school philosophy class that challenged a lot of my ideas, and by the end of high school I met someone who was quite religious. I had some very interesting theological discussions with her since she had a very deep understanding of the bible, although somewhat molded by the religion she was raised in. That's where the theological education agendas come in. By the time I was 19-20 I was full fedora, a little insufferable, a little scientism-y. But I kept reading and I kept gaining life experience.
Then I did a STEM degree and dealt with these kids who were really intelligent but amazingly ignorant of history and theology. I'm the sort of person that plays devil's advocate in a lot of discussions not only for my own edification, but also to ensure that all the relevant issues have been brought up. I learned a lot about how stupid a lot of the usual atheist positions sounded, especially when it was coming out of someone else's mouth, especially when they were positions I held too. I got absolutely fucking sick of scientism and modern atheism. It felt fundamentally unsatisfying.
So I read more, and learned more, and did introspection. Nearing the start of my fourth year of my degree, I was more agnostic leaning towards spiritual than anything else. Not wishy-washy hippie spirituality, though. I was open to new ideas. It was also at this time that the religious person I talked about previously underwent a major change, because family members died, friends died, and she got back into her religion. Sadly that religion is more of a cult and very biblically literal, so I was cut out of her life. It made me read a lot more, and it made me a lot more introspective.
Then I went to Japan, alone. Since I was alone, in a place where I could barely communicate with the people, I had to deal with nothing but my own thoughts for two weeks. I made it a point to visit as many shrines and temples as possible, at least one every day. I visited over 90 shrines and temples in my journey all across the country, and donated 6125 yen to 49 individual shrines. I went through the entire little ritual whenever I could too. And in return, I kept catching really lucky breaks. I'd take random buses and they'd get to the destinations I wanted to just in time, I visited every place I wanted to visit safely, there'd be cases where typhoons missed the place I was staying at by a day or two, for two weeks. I felt very fulfilled on a spiritual and emotional level. I started to personally understand the truths that underlaid these religions, and I found the spiritual satisfaction I had been searching for nearly a decade.
Even now I'm still having to process everything I went through that summer, but it was a personal journey, fundamentally. It required a lot of introspection, and throwing away worldviews, and coming to terms with the person I am. I'm most definitely not an atheist, but I wouldn't label myself as a deist or agnostic or religious. Maybe spiritual? But that has too many connotations with the fucking hippie new-agers that just ruined the concept of searching for fundamental truths within religion.
But to get back to your question, I think it fundamentally comes down to people being honest with themselves and trying to search for truth. It requires a lot of knowledge, and wisdom, and I don't think either come naturally with age. And the one thing normalfags hate the most is challenging their worldview. So they don't do it.
My best example of this is a guy I knew from uni. For whatever reason, he showed up in all of the circles of friends I made there, he was a close acquaintance by virtue of being fucking everywhere. He's the most bluepilled normalfag you can get. Raised in a rural town outside the city to very religious parents, moved to the city for uni, and now a hearty believer in scientism and the Church of Bill Nye and Black Science Man. Always going on about how religions are the source of all ignorance, looks down on anyone without a STEM degree, always railing against anything he considers pseudoscience or spiritual concepts, believes in nothing but himself and the undoubted veracity of scientific knowledge.
And every time I got aggravated with the guy, I would remind myself that never in his life had he left either his small hometown or this city. He had never spent more than a day or two alone. He was always out doing shit and always trying to keep up appearances. He had never been honest with himself. Most people are like him. It's very rare for anyone to be alone with their thoughts in a socially lonely place that means something to them. Dealing with loneliness is important, but people are so scared of it that they are glued to social networks all day.
All this to say, I don't think there's hope for normalfags to go through this process without being forced to have their worldviews come crashing down around them. That might happen soon.
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KFist (kfist@gs.smuglo.li)'s status on Saturday, 06-May-2017 05:28:04 UTC
KFist
@nepfag
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KFist (kfist@gs.smuglo.li)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2017 23:00:31 UTC
KFist
@nepfag @nee What does this even mean https://gs.smuglo.li/attachment/415589
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