Not in a great spot. My material needs are met, so don’t worry about that. Just want to break out of the cycle I’m in of “oh hey, you have only a few hundred from this paycheck before you’re negative again.”

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This is your brain on ontology folks.

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Blegh

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The insult doesn’t bother me. I had to actually google that term because I didn’t know what it meant, and I’m actually quite impressed I gave the impression of a philosopher, as much as I find them as a general rule of thumb revolting people.

Your insult does beg the question, though: Are values unimportant to you? I focus a lot on values in the points I make. I value human life, for example, and that’s why I became anticapitalist. My value for them means I believe shelter should be a human right, and therefore I’m against capitalist private property, like landlordism, for example.

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Don’t worry, you didn’t give the impression of a philosopher.

And values are ethics, not ontology. Both metaphysics, but not the same. Ontology is the study of “being” and of the attributes that make a “thing” that particular thing.

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Ah, thanks for clarifying. Appreciated.

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