The meaning of digital destruction

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harminov
imagine telling incessantly repeating to people in a chat room that you've "destroyed" them
13:14 typhon
Basically playing the "you are the weakest link" lady nonstop.
typhon
bigDplaya you have a specific bum in mind there my guy?
harminov
i mean, it could be cool
fr33d0g
look, its batman and robin
13:14 fr33d0g
:)
harminov
if it had some layer of irony
harminov
or self awareness to it
harminov
instead of just some dope declaring victory and no one agreeing
fr33d0g
victory!
harminov
a big male ass usually means a lot of muscle
typhon
In Infinity War, Captain America beats up Captain America and comments on how his own ass is nice.
harminov
the ass muscle is the biggest muscle in the body i think
harminov
most physical feats are underpinned by the ass muscles
typhon
You guys familiar with that Japanese cannibal?
typhon
Issei Sagawa.
harminov
fr33d0g - did you get licks in school ?
typhon
He goes on at some length about biting into, cutting, and eating his victim's butt.
fr33d0g
harminov, are you discussing males asses?
harminov
yeah kind of
harminov
getting paddled
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harminov: The speech in a community is both a reflection of the speaker, and the community.
harminov
on the male ass
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Do you agree?
fr33d0g
did you like it?
typhon
He killed this lady in France, ate her, then due to some mix of international standards and Japanese domestic law, he got to go free.
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harminov: You have misinterpreted my speech act.
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Your misinterpretation is reasonable, though.
harminov
stop asking me dumb shit questions, sir
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Okay.
harminov
rely on your own rhetoric or shut the fuck up
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harminov: I destroyed you for 24 hours.
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fr33d0g
anyways, yes harminov, i get in an hour a day at least.
fr33d0g
bigDplaya is a playa
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I am literally clowning on this room every time I saw "destroy".
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And you missed that.
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Thinking it was a piece of non-ironic communication.
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That is ironic.
fr33d0g
tap tap.........   tap tap tap
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I am the smartest person in this channel by a reasonable amount.
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You can count on all of my non-silly chat as being impeccably accurate and profound.
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If you miss its meaning, look deeper.
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I can, of course, precisely articulate all the nuances of my "destroy" speech.
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1. It's common to use escalation programs when dealing with undesirable behavior, as they seem to reasonably balance due process with accountability.
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2. I am using an escalation program when dealing with people's chat in #philosophy
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3. I like Star Trek: The Next Generation. I enjoy when that piece of art uses Yellow Alert, Red Alert, etc.
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4. That art is a reflection of escalation programs that are useful in real life
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5. I am applying a modified form of this artistic construct to chat in #philosophy
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6. The primary definition of "to destroy" is in relation to shared reality, e.g. taking an object and decomposing it into parts such that its original, essential function is lost
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7. There are alternate bases upon which we can found meaning
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8. For example, historical, grand, meta-narrative meaning is found in works like The Iliad where the hero does obvious works against challenging, forces that would frighten typical men
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9. New paradigms of art have been explored, for example Ulysses by Joyce which turns the Iliad structure on its head by watching an ordinary man go through ordinary challenges of life while giving it the same significance as with gorgons and legions of brave soldiers facing our Odysseus
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10. With (9) in mind, I am using "to destroy" from a person meaning, especially when coupled with the nature of digital socialization, as opposed to historical, face-to-face encounters -- the world in which "to destroy" was defined
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11. In this digital world, I have the ability to wipe a person out of existence in my internet life by ignoring their chat or blocking their videos, or muting their tweets
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12. This channel features a large amount of emotional insecure people who cannot manage their internal state, instead blaming others for the impulses they feel
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13. One manifestation of this insecurity is the frequency and intensity of how some words trigger the troop (an allusion to baboons)
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14. I am currently engaging in a form of indirect humiliation of that practice by obviously altering my words to indicate the disdain I have for that cognitive-social pattern
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15. All of this has been present in my awareness since the first time I said "I've destroyed X."
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harminov: I am the smartest person in this channel by a large amount.
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Trust in that.
jiggawatz
i got a kitchen sink faucet replaced, it was leaking, i just got the bill, $576.  AFTER he installed it, Delta faucet, he said btw this model has a particular quirk, if you dont shut it off dead center it leaks all day long
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdqkW0tkvDc

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16. It's funny to me to equate the act of "destroying" in this channel to the right-wing propaganda rhetoric you see across social media in which they "destroy" -- non-ironically -- people with opposing views. From the history of philosophy, these people are operating in the role of the sophists of Socrates' day, and their behavior is very much 'nothing new under the sun', but for so many humans who do really val
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ue sociology or philosophy, they think they're getting a good education about How Things Are from these Youtube videos.
fr33d0g
long winded fellow.
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17. From a Buddhist conception of mind, especially if you consider solipsistic versions, the mental activity in my mind is not different than "what's going on out there", and so mindful acts "to destroy", in the traditional sense are not distinct from 'I will no longer give you my attention.'
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who don't really value*
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism#Buddhism
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Hi.
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Hello, Sabeena.
13:39 infspire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_Vg5NN7LBo

fr33d0g
ccp
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18. To equate certain social moves with destruction -- a reference to the more fundamental physical layer -- is an interesting commentary on the central role of social interactions in the lives of humans, both for psychological stability, and literal ability to survive, either by sharing food, or acquiring currency in modernity