truthhurtsbutsetsyoufree:

Hedonism is an ethical system.
It holds pleasure as the standard of value.
There are many variants of hedonism, with different interpretations of what “pleasure” consists of.
The two basic categories of pleasure are physical pleasure, and psychological pleasure.

The physical pleasure variant of hedonism commits a grave error.
It denies the importance of man’s means of survival, his mind.
It requires the use of one’s mind in the pursuit of physical pleasure, but it subverts it by enslaving it.
Very few people have tried to support a purely physical hedonism.
It rejects the need for happiness.

The psychological pleasure variant of hedonism is flawed as well.
It leaves unspoken the source of psychological pleasure.
By treating it as a self-evident primary, it abdicates its status as an explicit ethical code.
Since the sources of psychological pleasure end up as the actual guide to action, hedonism amounts to a rationale
for doing what you feel like.
It is not a moral code because it doesn’t identify which values to pursue.
It accepts whatever value-judgments you’ve already made, and treats them as axiomatic.

Psychological pleasure stems from the achievement of the emotional component of
values.
When you feel that something is valuable, and you achieve it, it gives you pleasure.
A rational moral code aims at making sure the emotions you feel are valid.
That you value that which is really in your interest.
Hedonism does not allow an evaluation of your values, no matter how destructive or life-threatening they may be.

reformedwoman:

“The illusive idea of a “War on Women” has been obnoxiously jammed down our throats by the media, politicians, and activists, trying their best to turn the entire female gender into a group of victims. But they’ve got it backwards. There is a War on Women, but it’s being perpetrated by the very people pointing the fingers, by those who are actively setting out to squash femininity and prevent us from being the best women, not men, we can be.”

— Danelle Malchus and Kylie Malchus, “End Feminism; Save the World,” 77.

wickedmetalviking:

So I’m working on a cover of Bathory’s “Wheel of Sun” song, and i find myself in need of a vocalist. You see, the song is heavily layered and has lots of choral parts. I can, of course, do the bass line, but the choral parts require an “upper” voice, either a tenor or soprano. I’ve tried to sing the upper voice myself, but my voice breaks around the highest note: and, as par with the musicianship aspects of choral music, the upper voice is NEEDED.

So i’m looking for a guest vocalist for the upper choral part in “Wheel of Sun”. Could be either soprano or tenor. I can send the melody, which i will then incorporate into the song.

So it turns out that Conan’s father was right: you cannot trust men or women. Every attempt at recruiting a guest vocalist or backing singer proved futile.

Instead, I used the synth choir setting on my keyboard and made due: it worked out surprisingly well. In fact, I might as well put this into song, the truth that one cannot trust anyone and this is the age when oaths are dishonored and bonds are broken.

prolifeproliberty:

I believe God created the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th.