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Regarding your defense of your work as "helping people": you readily admit that all you're doing is temporarily making people feel better about themselves/their situation - i.e. soothing their wounded ego's - but this is not real help. Real help is what galvanises people to be stronger, but you're merely affirming and validating their weakness, telling them it's OK. To use an analogy: you give people a warm blanket, whereas I give them a sword. So keep kidding yourself that you're helping people - I suppose you have to find some way to justify spreading the pessimistic miasma that you spew out on a daily basis.
Then we come back to this old chestnut: "We came here without our consent bro". For the nth time this is an intellectually dishonest proclamation because it cannot be proven; it's no better than saying we came here because we chose to. The only intellectually honest stance is to say "we don't know whether we chose to come here or not". You say give me proof that we chose to come here - I say give me proof that we didn't choose it! So your line is equal amounts of BS.But of course you don't want to admit this because it's a central pillar of your philosophy, without which the whole edifice starts to crumble. Your philosophy is therefore built on dishonesty.In terms of intellectual honesty it’s:
Beanman > Benedictine
As for the part about your past self that perhaps chose to be here, not being you, because you've evolved and are now a "different person" - that's not how it works. Our experiences, memories, personalities are in constant flux, but they are not really our identity - they're just our baggage. I am still the same person i was when i was a baby, and will still be the same person when I'm an old man (if i live that long). The only thing that's changed is my mind and body, but i am not the mind or the body - i am the silent awareness inhabiting them. So to say that, "if you chose to come here before birth it's illegitimate, because that wasn't you" I call BS - it was you, just a version in a different state of consciousness.
Honestly though, your refusal to correct your position (regarding "no consent") after I've highlighted it's error numerous times, stands as a damning self-indictment - you're not a real philosopher but a fraudulent one.
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You identify and sympathize incessantly with the weak, preyed upon, and downtrodden - always viewing from their perspective and how terrible things are for them, but never from the perspective of the strong and fortunate. Hence you say things like "it's hell bro, don't you know that somebodies being graped right now, that there are people being murdered as we speak" to which I will counter: there are also, as we speak, people having the greatest time of their life; getting married, winning a championship, losing their virginity and so on. But as usual, your sight is all skewed to the one pole. You commiserate with the antelope that was murdered instead of rejoicing with the lion who got to feed it's family. The antelope experienced hell in that moment, but to those lions, it was heaven.
Your worldview is not “honest”; it’s simply locked to the vantage point of the prey. Because you're a prey animal yourself, isn't that right - like a human marmot who instinctively flinches at the world and narrates from fear rather than strength.
