Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

There’s 9??!! Maze runner books? Only series I almost rage quit. Book 3 was so so bad!

1,2,3, prequel, midquel, novela (events during the 3rd book of what happened to newt), 70 years later, 70 years later sequel, 70 years later triology

(On and on and on and on)~
(On and on and on and on)~

I see them for who they are
Baring their shields and scars
Shoulders behind the wards
Common-age criminals, serial
Trading memories for miracles
Covering up the storm before our eyes
With a stance no one's yet surmised

When all the lines blur between all that's wrong and right
Just take my hand when the monsters turn out the lights, oh
And you'll find I'm not how you remember me
I'm the vision that you choose to see
The one you can hate or love as you need
In timе's absence, more than mеmory
So now, at your darkest, I come as promised
"The Father of Make Believe"

(On and on and on and on and on and on and on and on)~
The Father of Make Believe
(On and on and on and on and on and on and on and on)~
The Father of Make Believe

Pride and grace are feeling outnumbered
In moments where nothing is as it seems or as it feels
Pushed out of place where our memories
Now enemies fill voids to take up space

When all the lines blur between all that's wrong and right
Just take my hand when the monsters turn out the lights, oh
And you'll find I'm not how you remember me
I'm the vision that you choose to see
The one you can hate or love as you need
In time's absence, more than memory
So now, let me share with you something I missed
"The Father of Make Believe"

Where have all of the angels gone

To burn their wings

When all the lines blur between all that's wrong and right
Just take my hand when the monsters turn out the lights, oh
And you'll find I'm not how you remember me
I'm the vision that you choose to see
The one you can hate or love as you need
In time's absence, more than memory
So now, at your darkest, I come as promised
I'm The Father of Make Believe



New Coheed and Cambria album is SICK

Vyre kun brand new song?

Sad how in the west we turn everything into an industry, and that industry then ends up ruining the things they were created to address.

For health, you get things like cancer research "charities" and research and this industry then creates high paying jobs for vast numbers of people. These people literally have no incentive to ever cure it now and all actual cures and breakthroughs will come from other nations.

Similarly, for things like activism. People create these things with good intentions that end up becoming industries, get high paying jobs for themselves and family (or funnel a % of the money into their banks on the sly) and then the worst day in their lives, is if the thing they were fighting for is actually addressed. Now they have to widen the scope of what they "were fighting for" to keep these jobs and the industry going. Often to the point of utter ridiculousness.

These things are like paying a builder per hour to build you a wall, his grandchildren will die of old age before he finishes the wall. Reward systems are completely busted in most anything we do in the west.

All hail the one mighty ruler, the dollar

Which world did you live in, seriously?


Well yes, of course, who doesn't love money. But the idea of only "west" works this way is lolz.

In the past we had things like religion, nationalism and even the good of mankind to drive people. Now in modern times it's almost exclusively just money.

Money is all anyone cares about now.

The man that discovered antibiotics died poor, he did what he did for the good of mankind and his religious beliefs. He saves billions of peoples lives. Now the medical companies that made trillions off his work refuse to research new antibiotics or even research ones with less harmful side effects, because it's just not worth the expense.


Our "enlightened" western societies didn't move past religion, we just made a new idol to worship. Money.

Those are related to money too, lol.

Do you know how much money those churches made during medieval times in the west? Do you know that nationalism lead to expansion of strong nations(like Germany, Japan hundred years ago) which leads to more wealth and resources for those strong nations?

Chasing for more wealth and privileges is part of human history in every society. It's not new and it's not going away, and it is definitely not "west" only.

TIL Vyre is one among the fence
/salute

The corruption of the thing at the highest levels is irrelevant, the positive drive it creates in others is the point. Money should not be the be all and end all of everything, as it now is.

Also pointing out extreme cases where something was bad, does not invalidate the entire thing. That's like saying having sex is bad cause some people /.

Also the JFK files were fully released, not much new yet it seems.

Also...I am not an expert in healthcare industry, but I can kinda still see this....have you heard of a concept call "diminishing returns"?

If a research in anti-biotics with less side effects cost X amount of money that extends average human life by 0.1 year, and a cancer research that also cost the same that extends average human life by 0.8 years. Then cancer research will yield greater return in terms of benefits.

And since richer human will pay more money to chase for higher lifespan, that means cancer research in this case will generate more human benefit and money. And that also means cancer research in this case will siphon all the investment money because of diminishing returns in anti-biotics side effects investment.

So I would even say "make money" and "extend life expectancy" are the same thing in many cases. It is the richest people in the world that will pay a lot of money to extend their life. Which means the research category that made the most money are the one that's most effective at extending human life.

"Positive drive" and "money" aren't mutually exclusive though. People can have positive drive and want to make money on the same time.

You don't always need religion nor nationalism to create positive drive either.

Excuse me? I've never say wanting to make money is bad. You are the only one that constantly complaining about it, not me lol.

Personally I see wanting more resources as default state of human society or even animals. From biological standpoint, in ancient time stronger tribes with more desire to get more resources will survive, and weaker ones with less resources gets eliminated. So it makes perfect sense the surviving human from natural selections are the ones that want more resources. It became a trait in human society.

I fail to see a problem with it. It's a system that has worked since forever, there is no point to be unhappy about it.

Press a button to kill 100 strangers for $100,000?

Nobody would ever find out you did it, and it would be people you have never met.

What % of people do you think would do this in 2025?

The Vatican has roughly 15 billion dollars of wealth accumulated over the last ~2500 years and since they are far removed from the greed of the west, most of that money in 2025 goes into ending homelessness and hunger around the world and are regularly creating new cures for diseases without being affected by capitalism

Right?

It does not really matter if people running it are corrupt, it's not about the thing itself or what IT does. What matters is the influence is has on people to do good things in the world that believe in it.

We are monkey, we do things if there is a reason to do them and our brains still work on primal drives. If you remove most of the reasons, then you're only left with 1 remaining.

Government is a good example of this, corruption is rampant and in both parties because money is all that matters to anyone. Why not take the bribe to push the agenda? why not lie to your voters and push the corpo product, why not do insider trading?

Why do you keep having the idea that "do good things" and "make money" can not co-exist?

They absolutely can, I would even argue that a society that everyone helps each others are inherently stronger than those who don't. Have you heard of the concept of mutual benefit?

Why would big companies donate money during disasters? It's an action that lose money! But in fact, they gained social influence every time they make a donation and help people. In the long run those social influence turn into money in the future.

The greatest wealth one can have isn't cash, but influence. Because influence gains money in the long run and do good things give you influence. This is the basic concept of mutual benefit.

I would say even without religion, people could still do good things because of this.

It feels like some buttocks are begging for some education.

Some physical education....

If this ability even exist, IMO the best way to use it isn't killing 100 lives for $100,000 lol. That's a low return for 100 lives.

The best way to use this ability is gain great influence on the mass to accomplish goals that can't be accomplished with $100,000 IMO.

Nothing being discussed here are about politics. So take your physical education somewhere else.

I didnt mention names, but I see your subconscious is already feeling guilty.

Dont worry.

I will be (moderarely) gently with the education

I didn't feel guilty, it's an emotion useless for a villian. A true villian would feel dopamine rush for breaking laws, not guilt.

However, I see you want some attention by interrupting in the middle of a conversation, which is expected for a dog.

a true villain would push the button for free

Only Joker type of villian would, this type of villian has no other ambitions, lol. It's basically no different from dark side path in KOTOR 1 picking brainless "I'll kill you" in every dialogue, and not getting anywhere close to Darth Vader's level. Weak! ;)

(And yes, we villians discriminate against each other)

Think of the amazing climate change benefits too, humans are each the worst thing possible for CO2 production per year. That's a whole lifetime of many savings!

For some of us it isn't. And we are in the majority. Unfortunately money talks and everything else holds its breath and Musk's billions count WAY MORE than our votes.

But to conspiracy theorists there will always be unreleased files.

Bull pucky. It has nothing to do with extending human life. It has everything to do with RoI, return on investment. See my post from "Cabriolet" above.

[nitpick] 1700. [/nitpick]

That's socialism.

Did you read all part of my post or just hand pick one sentence to reply? RoI IS extending human life in a lot of cases. Because it is rich people that will pay for human life extension. So research with the highest ROI is often what will extend human life.

One of the most obvious example is cancer treatment. Many treatments are expensive with only small chance to improve survivability. However because Rich people are paying got expensive cancer treatments, cancer treatment also siphoned tons of investment money and in return, increases human survivability if they have cancer.

Saying ROI has absolutely nothing to do with human life extension is just false.



That's not the definition of socialism, socialism is state owning property, it is not mutual benefit based.

Anything that isn't capitalism is socialism

(even some capitalism is socialism, if it doesn't work the way I want it to!)

You sell that ***. And you make money on it. Or you're a commie.