madmadman01

illusions of safety for the simple-minded.

Boxing, MMA: Mutated offspring of gladiatorial fights, obviously.

Team sports: Deranged simulation of a deranged life. You pretend that a random, objectively pointless goal matters; and you go after it.

Team sports might impede intelligence. Of athletes and spectators both.

Board games: Skeptical about them. Life isn't like them at all. Life only becomes a zero-sum game if you believe that; otherwise, it doesn't have to be zero-sum, and it's definitely no GAME. There are no set rules, and if you believe there are, you'll end up the loser, since in life, there are always options outside of the board. Plus, no one is exactly equal to anybody else. You have advantages and disadvantages, and you'd always be foolish to disregard them.

Most or all of the best world chess players cannot boast great accomplishments. None are billionaires or successful politicians. There are some successful politicians who dabble in chess, sure - but there are some successful politicians who dabble in fishing, too.

^Proof that chess strategy is confined to chess. Chess strategy is not real-life strategy.

Music: undecided on. It can be pleasant, but so can cocaine.

Family: an anachronism. A waste of time.

"Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever till the end of time!...But he loves you.

He loves you, and he needs MONEY!

He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, - somehow just can't handle money! Religion takes in billions of dollars, they pay no taxes, and they always need a little more."


"Where a Christian builds a church, an atheist builds a hospital."

an atheist builds a hospital.

"The mind rules."

ps albus vanitate imperat

Game of Thrones = decent.

Criticism, though: in GoT, secretive characters like Roose Bolton or Varys spout exposition, completely contrary to their nature, but obedient to the showrunners' misguided need to keep the audience in the loop regarding those characters' motivations and background...

Formulaicness and obviousness - ruiners of most entertainment. Come from laziness, probably. They could do the same much more subtly.