Two Cans & String

{ "thread_id": "11779", "posts": [ { "id": "1207472", "time": "1648833158", "html": "I'm J-Rob.", "user": "corporalcroissandwich" }, { "id": "1207473", "time": "1648833311", "html": "<div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/antagonist\">Antagonist</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\">What the fuck?</div></div>Would you say \u201cblood is red\u201d?", "user": "antimonypentafluoride" }, { "id": "1207474", "time": "1648833762", "html": "as sunset<br /><br />and warmer than wine", "user": "titanlord237" }, { "id": "1207475", "time": "1648833823", "html": "So you would be one to say \u201cblood is red\u201d?", "user": "antimonypentafluoride" }, { "id": "1207476", "time": "1648833935", "html": "the taste of salty summer brine", "user": "titanlord237" }, { "id": "1207477", "time": "1648834577", "html": "<div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/antimonypentafluoride\">antimony pentafluoride</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\">Would you say \u201cblood is red\u201d?</div></div><br />I would say it is sometimes red.", "user": "antagonist" }, { "id": "1207484", "time": "1648835279", "html": "So what is red?", "user": "antimonypentafluoride" }, { "id": "1207485", "time": "1648835582", "html": "A colour.", "user": "antagonist" }, { "id": "1207487", "time": "1648835637", "html": "<div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/antagonist\">Antagonist</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\"><div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/antimonypentafluoride\">antimony pentafluoride</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\">Would you say \u201cblood is red\u201d?</div></div><br />I would say it is sometimes red.</div></div><br />what would you say otherwise?", "user": "noiwillnot" }, { "id": "1207490", "time": "1648836172", "html": "<div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/noiwillnot\">noiwillnot</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\">what would you say otherwise?</div></div><br />What do you mean? Do you mean when it isn't red? Sometimes blood is black (congealed) or blue (in your vein). Perhaps some animals have blood that isn't red.", "user": "antagonist" }, { "id": "1207491", "time": "1648836198", "html": "<div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/antagonist\">Antagonist</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\">A colour.</div></div>But blood is not a color. We can describe it by color, but blood is blood.", "user": "antimonypentafluoride" }, { "id": "1207493", "time": "1648836272", "html": "Colour is a trait we ascribe to an experience of ours. What's your <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">point</span>?", "user": "antagonist" }, { "id": "1207495", "time": "1648836382", "html": "That to say \u201cwe are our thoughts\u201d or \u201cwe are [anything other than the word \u201cwe\u201d]\u201d doesn\u2019t make sense.", "user": "antimonypentafluoride" }, { "id": "1207496", "time": "1648836437", "html": "So it's pointless to attempt to define anything because everything just is what it is?", "user": "antagonist" }, { "id": "1207499", "time": "1648836821", "html": "Not *anything* and I wouldn\u2019t say it\u2019s pointless either, but I\u2019m bored of concretely understanding things. I tire of facts and evidence. I find that, when it\u2019s safe to do so, the experience of just about any given thing is so much more enjoyable without these insipid mental blocks.<br /><br />I would however say it\u2019s prudent to remember the distinction between a thing\u2019s descriptors and the thing itself.", "user": "antimonypentafluoride" }, { "id": "1207501", "time": "1648838690", "html": "Not if you don't like your thoughts.", "user": "antagonist" }, { "id": "1207504", "time": "1648839040", "html": "How so do you mean?", "user": "antimonypentafluoride" }, { "id": "1207507", "time": "1648839590", "html": "For example, you have racist thoughts but you don't want to because you know they're wrong. Is it more enjoyable to think that that's you thinking those thoughts because there's no point distinguishing facts or understanding anything in a concrete, non-nebulous way?", "user": "antagonist" }, { "id": "1207511", "time": "1648839971", "html": "? What concrete facts or evidence do you need to not have racist thoughts?<br /><br />Like expand more on the \u201cnot if you have thoughts you don\u2019t like\u201d part.<br /><br />Generally my approach to that kind of thing is to recognize \u201cThese are thoughts I have sometimes. I do not like having these thoughts but I have them anyway. I will forgive myself for having these thoughts.\u201d<br /><br />Also, watch Zardoz.<br /><br /><div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/antagonist\">Antagonist</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\">there's no point distinguishing facts or understanding anything in a concrete, non-nebulous way</div></div>Not on the topic of racist thoughts at this point: Again though, I wouldn\u2019t say \u201cthere\u2019s no point\u201d but it\u2019s tiring and irritating. I would much rather the capacity to be confused, bewildered, and stunned through mysticism than project my own opinions of beauty and awe onto something so easily explained through science. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I still deeply enjoy the beauty in elaborate physical processes, but understanding things is dull. Once you understand something definitively, there\u2019s no more pursuit. If something remains nebulous and mystical, there\u2019s an endless playground of ideas to be had.", "user": "antimonypentafluoride" }, { "id": "1207519", "time": "1648842083", "html": "<div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/antagonist\">Antagonist</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\"><div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/noiwillnot\">noiwillnot</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\">what would you say otherwise?</div></div><br />What do you mean? Do you mean when it isn't red? Sometimes blood is black (congealed) or blue (in your vein). Perhaps some animals have blood that isn't red.</div></div><br />I know it's not relevant, and I try not to be the guy who goes "actually *pushes up glasses*" but blood isn't blue in our veins. It is always red. The cause of our veins looking blue has to do with way light interacts with our skin. Long story short, our skin absorbs red light more than it does blue.<br /><br />Just wanted to get that myth out of the way.", "user": "datboi9726" }, { "id": "1207521", "time": "1648842201", "html": "Do people still do streams of themselves in hot tubs on twitch?", "user": "titanlord237" }, { "id": "1207531", "time": "1648843496", "html": "<div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/antimonypentafluoride\">antimony pentafluoride</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\">? What concrete facts or evidence do you need to not have racist thoughts?</div></div>This is in reference to defining yourself in a concrete way, eg: this is part of me and this isn't.<br /><div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/datboi9726\">DatBoi9726</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\">I know it's not relevant, and I try not to be the guy who goes "actually *pushes up glasses*" but blood isn't blue in our veins. It is always red. The cause of our veins looking blue has to do with way light interacts with our skin. Long story short, our skin absorbs red light more than it does blue.<br /><br />Just wanted to get that myth out of the way.</div></div>Blood is blue when observed through skin. Blood is red when observed through oxygen. What colour is blood really?", "user": "antagonist" }, { "id": "1207532", "time": "1648843597", "html": "Is colour real?", "user": "ackyyackyattack" }, { "id": "1207533", "time": "1648843629", "html": "What is your definition of real? Is an interpretation of stimuli real? This is why I hate philosophy.", "user": "antagonist" }, { "id": "1207592", "time": "1648853238", "html": "<div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/antagonist\">Antagonist</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\"><div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/antimonypentafluoride\">antimony pentafluoride</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\">? What concrete facts or evidence do you need to not have racist thoughts?</div></div>This is in reference to defining yourself in a concrete way, eg: this is part of me and this isn't.<br /><div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/datboi9726\">DatBoi9726</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\">I know it's not relevant, and I try not to be the guy who goes "actually *pushes up glasses*" but blood isn't blue in our veins. It is always red. The cause of our veins looking blue has to do with way light interacts with our skin. Long story short, our skin absorbs red light more than it does blue.<br /><br />Just wanted to get that myth out of the way.</div></div>Blood is blue when observed through skin. Blood is red when observed through oxygen. What colour is blood really?</div></div>What difference does it make if it\u2019s \u201cyou\u201d or not?", "user": "antimonypentafluoride" } ], "users": { "corporalcroissandwich": { "name": "Corporal Croissandwich", "key": "corporalcroissandwich", "url": "/users/corporalcroissandwich", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/30324.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "677" }, "antimonypentafluoride": { "name": "antimony pentafluoride", "key": "antimonypentafluoride", "url": "/users/antimonypentafluoride", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/26519.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "4357" }, "titanlord237": { "name": "Titanlord237", "key": "titanlord237", "url": "/users/titanlord237", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/34284.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "9020" }, "antagonist": { "name": "Antagonist", "key": "antagonist", "url": "/users/antagonist", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/22611.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "6982" }, "noiwillnot": { "name": "noiwillnot", "key": "noiwillnot", "url": "/users/noiwillnot", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/34285.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "2601" }, "datboi9726": { "name": "DatBoi9726", "key": "datboi9726", "url": "/users/datboi9726", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/21584.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "3935" }, "ackyyackyattack": { "name": "ackyyackyattack", "key": "ackyyackyattack", "url": "/users/ackyyackyattack", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/34228.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "8733" } }, "page_num": 2, "locked": 0, "total_pages": 3 }

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