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I was thinking more about Das Man, or the notion that there's a one-size-fits-all sanity. I don't think you should continue shaming people with a re-e...

Could be OCD, or some degree of it.

The stuff I shared about roles and dramas was first vaguely suggested to me a few years back. I turned it into a way of understanding aspects of my pr...

That's all pretty poetic. Nietzsche would approve. The important thing is to get rid of this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My10FLH5DT0

I don't really fathom self-destructive behavior, not that I haven't put out my share, I just don't fully understand what it means. An alcoholic family...

"The most shortsighted and pernicious way of thinking wants to make the great sources of energy, those wild torrents of the soul that often stream for...

I saw that Australia hasn't had a real recession in 28 years. I'm not sure how that's possible. But their biggest trading partner is China, China is s...

Australia battles hoards of feral cats by tossing poisoned sausages on them from airplanes.

Is this a kind of leftism prevalent where you are? I'm asking. My perception is that racial tension has increased in my country since the election of ...

Chinese censorship: go big or go home. http://time.com/5589439/china-wikipedia-online-censorship/

Interlocking dramas. Neither sees the other. Each only sees a figure from the past or from dreams. People frequently interact with one another this wa...

But you're good at it! :) I don't think much is accomplished if you set yourself against yourself. Wisdom doesn't come from pretending to be a wise ma...

Try this the next time you get into your car: stop and say to yourself: "While I'm driving, somebody is going to pull out in front of me, or swerve an...

Those aren't cases of the same word.

Meaning in a living language is fluid. All sorts of connotations can swirl around the very same word.

Wow. So geologists are racist as hell as it turns out.

I thought some of the eurotrash on the forum might like the story. Or maybe a chink.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

Oh. I have to PM them because people are like sheep. If you don't round them up, they'll just stray all over the countryside forgetting that they said...

Just that you're never going to be on the scale of reddit. Scale is not your strength. What you have is a particular set of people. At least operate w...

OK. Meanwhile I need to pm 16 people on reddit to remind them to get ready for the reading of GoM I initiated there. Can you imagine that sort of thin...

Reddit is like an ocean where this place is like a pond. Both have advantages. The main advantage of this place is that you people know one another. Y...

They were called "niggerheads." I just googled that trying to find the geological name for those rocks and I found this: But that article doesn't ment...

I guess a geologist would know.

Yep.

I'm not white, Benkei. Your skimming skills have failed you.

What?

There's a kind of rock that's mostly found in Ohio. It's spherical and results from glaciers travelling back and forth over central North America. The...

I'm not arguing that, Benkei. Go back to work, or taking care of your kid, whichever you're doing.

The bizarre argument we're examining is this: 1. I'm white. 2. There are sanctions against my use of the n-word. 3. Black people say the n-word withou...

I usually let you slink away with your weirdness, but I'm not feeling it today. If we had to consult with a professional linguist to arrive at transla...

Fine. Apparently I need to say it again: in many cases, the black usage is the same as the historic white usage. It's very clearly the same word. It's...

How does any of that support your claim? I'm telling you: the way blacks use the word is in many cases exactly the same way whites once used it. If yo...

Look back at that article. It is itself merely opinion. If I missed where there is any academic weight at all to that article, could you point it out?...

Lol. Its the same word, Baden.

It's the same word.

You're not supposed to love the Devil, though. The Devil works best in fiction. We see the evil slave owner or klansman uttering the word, and it acts...

A white person saying "n" melds nicely into the image of the mythical slave owner. That's why it's offensive. The ghosts of slave owners and slaves ab...

That's correct.

It's only horrible if white people say it. In a couple of centuries the average American will be brownish and sort of Latino looking. The N-word won't...

@"ArguingWAristotleTiff" I wanted to ask you about how the 2020 presidential election will impact Roe-v-Wade. Multiple states (now including Alabama) ...

Maybe a sense of inferiority, but not depression.

A number of organic conditions cause aggression and paranoia such as multiple sclerosis and bipolar disorder.

Both, I think.

If you mean like this, sure. Cold war people may have gone beyond that, but the poor have demonstrated a strong willingness to vote against their own ...

We do sort of throw ourselves into the knifes of life, don't we? That's why we go to war, hungry for experience.

I thought csalisbury was being sarcastic.

Sorry, yes, I'm a little fucked in the head right now. I hope you can overlook it.

Goodness, sushi. Why the head explosion? Point is that if a person takes a platform, he or she has a responsibility to choose words carefully. If a pe...

I quoted a student who expressed the same concerns, so mine isn't the minority view. Yours is.