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To what ethical philosophy do you subscribe?

Ethical Egoism
12
11%
Act Utilitarianism
7
6%
Rule Utilitarianism
7
6%
Kantian Ethics
6
5%
Virtue Ethics
19
17%
Nihilism/YOLO
18
16%
Radical Subjectivism
2
2%
Cultural Relativism
3
3%
Divine Command Theory
18
16%
Natural Law Theory
20
18%
 
Total votes : 112

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Postby Dumb Ideologies » Sun Mar 24, 2019 8:15 am

I'm shocked and outraged to hear that some of you scumbags are daring to have fun at university rather than following my virtuous example of sitting in the library alone until closing time, getting a first-class degree and then not having the social skills to ever put it to good use.
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Postby Salus Maior » Sun Mar 24, 2019 9:17 am

Novus America wrote:
Confederate States of German America wrote:For all you young ones not yet in College, I highly recommend you join a Frat when you do get into University. Outside of the partying and drinking, the root of Greek life is very consistent with values that will serve you well in life.

Also, for those wondering, it's Day 10.


Go to a school with a Corps of Cadets instead. You get the camerderie and all but with guns and swords instead of alcohol.


That's what I'm trying to do.
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Postby United Muscovite Nations » Sun Mar 24, 2019 9:25 am

Confederate States of German America wrote:For all you young ones not yet in College, I highly recommend you join a Frat when you do get into University. Outside of the partying and drinking, the root of Greek life is very consistent with values that will serve you well in life.

Also, for those wondering, it's Day 10.

Drinking and partying aren't for me, no thanks.
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Postby Painisia » Sun Mar 24, 2019 9:29 am

Does the Buddhists here support the Komeito? And do most buddhists belong to the right-wing camp, or the left-wing camp?
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Postby Genivaria » Sun Mar 24, 2019 9:29 am

What's a party and how many books/computer games does it involve?
Oh oh wait is it like a DnD game!? :D

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Postby The Supreme Magnificent High Swaglord » Sun Mar 24, 2019 9:34 am

Genivaria wrote:What's a party and how many books/computer games does it involve?
Oh oh wait is it like a DnD game!? :D


Alright RWDT gang, roll 3d6 in order (the right and proper method) to generate your stats. :p
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Postby United Muscovite Nations » Sun Mar 24, 2019 9:38 am

The Supreme Magnificent High Swaglord wrote:
Genivaria wrote:What's a party and how many books/computer games does it involve?
Oh oh wait is it like a DnD game!? :D


Alright RWDT gang, roll 3d6 in order (the right and proper method) to generate your stats. :p

STR: 11
DEX: 13
CON: 13
INT: 13
WIS: 9
CHA: 12
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Postby Genivaria » Sun Mar 24, 2019 9:39 am

The Supreme Magnificent High Swaglord wrote:
Genivaria wrote:What's a party and how many books/computer games does it involve?
Oh oh wait is it like a DnD game!? :D


Alright RWDT gang, roll 3d6 in order (the right and proper method) to generate your stats. :p

Hexblade Warlock here. :D
So many weapons.
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Postby Novus America » Sun Mar 24, 2019 9:54 am

Salus Maior wrote:
Novus America wrote:
Go to a school with a Corps of Cadets instead. You get the camerderie and all but with guns and swords instead of alcohol.


That's what I'm trying to do.


Virginia Tech and Texas A&M have excellent Cadet Corps. Of course you can go all out academy instead, but I would definitely look at Virginia Tech and Texas A&M.

Plus you get a sword as senior. Swords are cool. 8)
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Politically I am an independent. I support what is good for the country, which means I cannot support either party.

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Postby The Supreme Magnificent High Swaglord » Sun Mar 24, 2019 10:23 am

United Muscovite Nations wrote:
The Supreme Magnificent High Swaglord wrote:
Alright RWDT gang, roll 3d6 in order (the right and proper method) to generate your stats. :p

STR: 11
DEX: 13
CON: 13
INT: 13
WIS: 9
CHA: 12


Alright, now choose race/class:

Races include: Dwarf, Elf, Halfling, and Human
Classes include: Cleric, Fighter, Magic-User, and Thief

Genivaria wrote:
The Supreme Magnificent High Swaglord wrote:
Alright RWDT gang, roll 3d6 in order (the right and proper method) to generate your stats. :p

Hexblade Warlock here. :D
So many weapons.


> Playing 5e
> Not playing OD&D, B/X, 1e, or 2e.

I'm disappointed in you.
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My NS stats are not indicative of my OOC views. NS stats are meant to be rather silly. My OOC political and ideological inspirations are as such:
The Republic, by Plato | Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes | The Confucian civil service system of imperial China | The "Golden Liberty" elective
monarchy system of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth | The corporatist/technocratic philosophy of Henri de Saint-Simon | The communitarian
ideological framework of the Singaporean People's Action Party | "New Deal"-style societal regimentation | Kantian/Mohist/Stoic philosophy

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Postby The Galactic Liberal Democracy » Sun Mar 24, 2019 10:25 am

NERDS!!!! /s
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Postby The Feylands » Sun Mar 24, 2019 10:57 am

I'm not easily ideologically definable since I'm not the kind of person who obsesses over terminology and principles. Just got some kind of brainwave though, how's "Pragmatic Essentialism" for an ideology? :o Special snowflake much lol? :lol:

The Supreme Magnificent High Swaglord wrote:
United Muscovite Nations wrote:STR: 11
DEX: 13
CON: 13
INT: 13
WIS: 9
CHA: 12


Alright, now choose race/class:

Races include: Dwarf, Elf, Halfling, and Human
Classes include: Cleric, Fighter, Magic-User, and Thief

Genivaria wrote:Hexblade Warlock here. :D
So many weapons.


> Playing 5e
> Not playing OD&D, B/X, 1e, or 2e.

I'm disappointed in you.


STR: 10
DEX: 9
CON: 12
INT: 11
WIS: 10
CHA: 14

Elfette Sorcerer with Red Draconic bloodline thanku... :clap:

(I do think Pathfinder is prolly superior to DnD though... if one can bother to get into it... :roll: )
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Postby Saiwania » Sun Mar 24, 2019 11:45 am

I haven't verified this as true yet, but an article says that one of the mosques targeted in the New Zealand attack stands on the site where a church once stood. I've accepted that the NZ Muslims have a right to be in that country if they've been there for more than a century, but I don't want to tolerate there being the expansion of mosques unless objectively speaking, that city has become more Muslim because of naturally occurring internal migration and not because of immigration from Muslim countries overseas.

To know that a church got torn down to make room for a mosque to replace it, well- this is the sort of "progress" I ardently oppose. It gets me feeling rather suspicious.
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Postby North German Realm » Sun Mar 24, 2019 11:50 am

United Muscovite Nations wrote:
The Supreme Magnificent High Swaglord wrote:
Alright RWDT gang, roll 3d6 in order (the right and proper method) to generate your stats. :p

STR: 11
DEX: 13
CON: 13
INT: 13
WIS: 9
CHA: 12

STR: 11
DEX: 14
CON: 13
INT: 15
WIS: 14
CHA: 11
Eradil the Profane, Elven Warlock.

Wow, that doesn't sound like me at all.
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Postby United Muscovite Nations » Sun Mar 24, 2019 12:03 pm

The Supreme Magnificent High Swaglord wrote:
United Muscovite Nations wrote:STR: 11
DEX: 13
CON: 13
INT: 13
WIS: 9
CHA: 12


Alright, now choose race/class:

Races include: Dwarf, Elf, Halfling, and Human
Classes include: Cleric, Fighter, Magic-User, and Thief

Human paladin.
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Postby Fahran » Sun Mar 24, 2019 12:47 pm

Hardholm wrote:Cute ploy, but Papism just happens to be a particularly popular, particularly old (though continually changing) heresy. Protestantism is more or less just devolutions of Papism, granted to an unrecognizable degree. Fortunately, it seems that some of them have revoked Protestanism and made a return to the original faith as founded by the Apostles and Christ.

If the Catholicism is a heresy, what does the genuine and true faith look like? Orthodox? Or, dare I say it, Jewish? :p

Confederate States of German America wrote:For all you young ones not yet in College, I highly recommend you join a Frat when you do get into University. Outside of the partying and drinking, the root of Greek life is very consistent with values that will serve you well in life.

Also, for those wondering, it's Day 10.

While I encourage people to become involved in Greek Life, I'm not certain unhindered alcoholism is the best pitch to attract worthwhile brothers and sisters. I actually like to recruit girls I see volunteering, playing sports, or working in honors classes. They bring substantive additions to my sorority and help boost our profile on campus. Of course, I'll offer them wine or vodka from time to time too.
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Postby Dresderstan » Sun Mar 24, 2019 12:59 pm

Fahran wrote:
Hardholm wrote:Cute ploy, but Papism just happens to be a particularly popular, particularly old (though continually changing) heresy. Protestantism is more or less just devolutions of Papism, granted to an unrecognizable degree. Fortunately, it seems that some of them have revoked Protestanism and made a return to the original faith as founded by the Apostles and Christ.

If the Catholicism is a heresy, what does the genuine and true faith look like? Orthodox? Or, dare I say it, Jewish? :p

Confederate States of German America wrote:For all you young ones not yet in College, I highly recommend you join a Frat when you do get into University. Outside of the partying and drinking, the root of Greek life is very consistent with values that will serve you well in life.

Also, for those wondering, it's Day 10.

While I encourage people to become involved in Greek Life, I'm not certain unhindered alcoholism is the best pitch to attract worthwhile brothers and sisters. I actually like to recruit girls I see volunteering, playing sports, or working in honors classes. They bring substantive additions to my sorority and help boost our profile on campus. Of course, I'll offer them wine or vodka from time to time too.

Nah lass.

Good for you, that's what sororities and fraternities should do. Also I'm not sure on the whole Greek life, whenever I think of ancient Greek life in the modern world I think of unwanted homoeroticism and, dare I say it, toxic masculinity.

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Postby Confederate States of German America » Sun Mar 24, 2019 1:08 pm

Fahran wrote:While I encourage people to become involved in Greek Life, I'm not certain unhindered alcoholism is the best pitch to attract worthwhile brothers and sisters. I actually like to recruit girls I see volunteering, playing sports, or working in honors classes. They bring substantive additions to my sorority and help boost our profile on campus. Of course, I'll offer them wine or vodka from time to time too.


Of course you would.
I'm literally OEP. Still a National Syndicalist.

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Postby Confederate States of German America » Sun Mar 24, 2019 1:10 pm

Kowani wrote:
Confederate States of German America wrote:For all you young ones not yet in College, I highly recommend you join a Frat when you do get into University. Outside of the partying and drinking, the root of Greek life is very consistent with values that will serve you well in life.

Also, for those wondering, it's Day 10.

Nah, all that alcohol is not to my taste. Also, all the values seem to be repeated cases of rape after rape, so I’m good.


More rumor than anything true; one of the frats here chased a dude down that tried to rape a girl and literally curbstomped his ass. Me and dudes from like three other frats went looking for another dude on a separate occasion that tried to grab a friend of mine. In both cases the perp wasn't frat, but us frat dudes handled business.
I'm literally OEP. Still a National Syndicalist.

All these horses in my car got me going fast
I just wanna do the dash, put my pedal to the gas
Going so fast, hope I don't crash
One false move, that could be my last

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Postby Washington Resistance Army » Sun Mar 24, 2019 1:11 pm

Frats should be banned and replaced with paramilitary training units.
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Postby Fahran » Sun Mar 24, 2019 1:11 pm

Dresderstan wrote:Nah lass.

What's this?

Dresderstan wrote:Good for you, that's what sororities and fraternities should do.

We certainly agree on that much. We're supposed to develop ourselves and leave the world in a better place than we found it.

Dresderstan wrote:Also I'm not sure on the whole Greek life, whenever I think of ancient Greek life in the modern world I think of unwanted homoeroticism and, dare I say it, toxic masculinity.

There's always a little good and a little bad in a culture. I wouldn't really tie modern Greek Life to Classical Greek culture, though it does draw abundant influences from the mysteries, the philosophy, and the linguistic symbolism. We often inherit just as much from medieval institutions though, and we strive in the modern context to transcend our failings and become better people through a multitude of different paths. I think a bit of toxic masculinity/femininity and some homoeroticism are going to be present in most sex-exclusive social circles. We can try to downplay the worst of it, of course, but it's presence doesn't automatically invalidate the good in our sisterhoods and brotherhoods either.

Confederate States of German America wrote:Of course you would.

Am I that predictable? I feel like you're calling me out. :lol:

Confederate States of German America wrote:More rumor than anything true; one of the frats here chased a dude down that tried to rape a girl and literally curbstomped his ass. Me and dudes from like three other frats went looking for another dude on a separate occasion that tried to grab a friend of mine. In both cases the perp wasn't frat, but us frat dudes handled business.

I can attest to this to an extent. I feel a lot safer around the fraternity where I'm a sweetheart or my boyfriend's fraternity than around unregulated independent parties. Of course, I don't really let me guard down completely in either of those places, especially when alcohol is involved, but I do invest some trust in guys who have been my friends for years and who I have to believe would protect me if things went south and I couldn't protect myself.

Washington Resistance Army wrote:Frats should be banned and replaced with paramilitary training units.

Why not have paramilitary fraternities?
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Postby Confederate States of German America » Sun Mar 24, 2019 1:16 pm

Fahran wrote:Am I that predictable? I feel like you're calling me out. :lol:


I know sorority girls get wine wasted and have to get their stomach pumped the moment you get out anything harder than Triple Sec.

Washington Resistance Army wrote:Frats should be banned and replaced with paramilitary training units.


t. ROTC member
I'm literally OEP. Still a National Syndicalist.

All these horses in my car got me going fast
I just wanna do the dash, put my pedal to the gas
Going so fast, hope I don't crash
One false move, that could be my last

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Postby Fahran » Sun Mar 24, 2019 1:17 pm

Confederate States of German America wrote:I know sorority girls get wine wasted and have to get their stomach pumped the moment you get out anything harder than Triple Sec.

It usually ends with Jessica or Rachel crying while puking into my toilet as I hold back their hair and tell them that "Yes, Justin is a jerk" and "it's going to be okay" repeatedly.

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Postby Washington Resistance Army » Sun Mar 24, 2019 1:19 pm

Confederate States of German America wrote:
Washington Resistance Army wrote:Frats should be banned and replaced with paramilitary training units.


t. ROTC member


Heavens no. I'm all about that spooky militia shit.
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Novus America
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Postby Novus America » Sun Mar 24, 2019 1:19 pm

Fahran wrote:
Dresderstan wrote:Nah lass.

What's this?

Dresderstan wrote:Good for you, that's what sororities and fraternities should do.

We certainly agree on that much. We're supposed to develop ourselves and leave the world in a better place than we found it.

Dresderstan wrote:Also I'm not sure on the whole Greek life, whenever I think of ancient Greek life in the modern world I think of unwanted homoeroticism and, dare I say it, toxic masculinity.

There's always a little good and a little bad in a culture. I wouldn't really tie modern Greek Life to Classical Greek culture, though it does draw abundant influences from the mysteries, the philosophy, and the linguistic symbolism. We often inherit just as much from medieval institutions though, and we strive in the modern context to transcend our failings and become better people through a multitude of different paths. I think a bit of toxic masculinity/femininity and some homoeroticism are going to be present in most sex-exclusive social circles. We can try to downplay the worst of it, of course, but it's presence doesn't automatically invalidate the good in our sisterhoods and brotherhoods either.

Confederate States of German America wrote:Of course you would.

Am I that predictable? I feel like you're calling me out. :lol:

Confederate States of German America wrote:More rumor than anything true; one of the frats here chased a dude down that tried to rape a girl and literally curbstomped his ass. Me and dudes from like three other frats went looking for another dude on a separate occasion that tried to grab a friend of mine. In both cases the perp wasn't frat, but us frat dudes handled business.

I can attest to this to an extent. I feel a lot safer around the fraternity where I'm a sweetheart or my boyfriend's fraternity than around unregulated independent parties. Of course, I don't really let me guard down completely in either of those places, especially when alcohol is involved, but I do invest some trust in guys who have been my friends for years and who I have to believe would protect me if things went south and I couldn't protect myself.

Washington Resistance Army wrote:Frats should be banned and replaced with paramilitary training units.

Why not have paramilitary fraternities?


Virginia Tech and Texas A&M already basically do have paramilitary fraternities. But more schools should.
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Novus America represents my vision of an awesome Atompunk near future United States of America expanded to the entire North American continent, Guyana and the Philippines. The population would be around 700 million.
Think something like prewar Fallout, minus the bad stuff.

Politically I am an independent. I support what is good for the country, which means I cannot support either party.

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