Welcome To My Decadent Lair of Debauchery, My Fellow Degenerate
About Me:
I'm a college student who loves backpacking in the Sierra Nevada's and Yosemite,
running ultramarathons (my dream's to run the Moab 240 before 2025),
and of course, watching anime, haha!
Wasn't outdoorsy or fit for most of my life, but it was anime that actually convinced
me to get into shape and explore the outdoors, as cliche as that sounds.
Here's a Free Superpower:
Treat being annoyed as a fun activity; laugh about the stuff that kinda bugs you.
You’ll live a happy life :)
Like, for the most part. You’ll reach a point where everything that annoys you is kinda funny.
There you go, just gave you a superpower!
(While this won't turn you into an anime protagonist, I highly recommend it)
My Anime Rating System:
10's: Classics— timeless in their greatness
9's: Near Classics— superior, but just not quite there; or anime that had a
major impact on the industry (ie. Sword Art Online for popularizing isekai)
8's: Superior— more than just good or enjoyable.
7's: Good
6's: Decent
5's: Guilty Pleasure— enjoyable and entertaining, but critically terrible
(ie. power fantasies, harems, etc). My 5's were more entertaining many 6's and 7's
4's: Subpar— felt boring or annoying at times to watch
3's: Terrible
Sub 3's: Haven't seen one yet, but shows like School Days and
Domestic Girlfriend would belong here
*Shounens get a boost in scoring to take into account their length
*Favorites: anime that occupy a special place in my heart
Some beautiful excerpts (remember, this was published in a serious philosophy journal):
"Under a paraconsistent logic, the presence of an inconsistency in the world – say, the fact that my possible girlfriend was kissed by me, even though she wasn’t – won’t imply the truth and falsity of everything – for example, that she has and does not have tentacles."
"Now I just have to pick the possible girl who has all the properties I’ve stipulated. To recap; in addition to being an immortal with eternally youthful beauty whom I would find extremely physically attractive and lovable (I will not enumerate her attractive and lovable properties here)"
"There are myriads of possible boys, girls, penguins, and talking donkeys whose affections have settled upon you. Choose among them as suits your preferences"
-Tldr: Basically, if you believe modal realism (explained later) is true, you can date your Waifu and/or have a harem of girls (or whatever you dig). The downside is that they exist in possible (and impossible) worlds that are not spatially or temporally connected to our world. However, you can still communicate with them by writing back and forth exchanges in a journal (since there has to be a possible world in the infinite worlds where said exchanges are done). To spice things up or surprise yourself, you can have a friend write the responses your otherworld girlfriend gives you.
A more technical explanation if you're interested: In philosophy and logic in general, there is a concern with what makes a counterfactual claim true or false. It's honestly a hard question (arguably one of the toughest questions in philosophy/logic). Here's two examples of a counterfactual claim: "If anime did not exist, I would not be a weeb" or "If dogs did not have ears, they would not be able to hear". These seem to be true claims, but why are they true? Claims usually describe real things; however, these counterfactuals describe things that aren't real.
Then comes along this philosopher, David Lewis, who suggests that actually, counterfactuals are describing things that are real. These things happened in "possible worlds" (modal realism theory), which can be seen as alternate universes where there exists one possible universe for every possibility. So possible worlds very similar to our, except anime did not exist or dogs do not have ears, exist and this is the true things the counterfactuals are describing. This is an explanation few philosophers actually believe; however, it a very impressive solution and arguably the best solution we have to counterfactuals, despite its absurd nature.
To further showcase the ensuing absurd possibilities that would be true if modal realism is true, Professor Neil Sinhababu presents the possible (and impossible) girls scenarios. Basically, if you accept the theory of modal realism, then you accept the entailing possible girlfriends and impossible girlfriends that Neil suggests, or you find this to be too absurd, which highlights that modal realism is pretty absurd (but not necessarily false). Despite the mentions of a hot, immortal girlfriend, tentacles, and talking donkeys, this got published! Bless Professor Neil! What a degenerate, making the dreams of weebs across the lands come true with his paper!
I say goodbye unto you, and with this parting, my most beautiful dream dies inside me...
But I tell you goodbye, for the rest of life, even if I spend all life thinking about you.
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