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Not at all. It’s just impossible to speak of it.

That’s true. As someone on disability, I can attest to a general deficit of respect thrown my way. I’m sure @"Wallows" knows about this. Then again, I...

I could be wrong about @"T Clark". Maybe he fears that’s how the elderly are perceived. Or maybe that’s how he perceived the elderly before he became ...

Artists can be assholes in a non-authoritarian sense. They can be rude. But I suppose you might say Hitler was an artist. Touché. That doesn’t negate ...

You’re right. My bad. But, I stand by EVERYTHING else I said.

I wasn’t suggesting a dichotomy. Hence, my use of the term “lean”. There is a spectrum. @"T Clark" seems to lean authoritarian/Spartan/Randian/Nazi as...

No. Philosophies have a “feeling” to them. Some lean Athenian. Some lean Spartan. Kind of like your choice of masculine vs. feminine.

For sure. Athenian vs. Spartan. Nazi vs. Liberal democracy. Asshole vs. Artist?

I don’t know enough about it, but that seems to me to be the philosophy behind it.

I picked up on that, too. Makes me suspect he’s a Fox News watcher.

Those ARE really bad and ugly reasons for despising the elderly. Makes me wonder if the fascists that General Smedley Butler warned about really didn’...

My point was that if people really feel this way about the elderly, then there must be a lot of Nazi-esque themes in our society.

Or when someone argues that there are no extra-mental moral truths. As if you can even speak of something extra-mental. Poke—>@"Terrapin Station"

That’s very interesting. It’s as if emotional breakdowns may have some evolutionary significance. Do you think that CBT is wrong-headed?

This is a very Nazi-ish or at least Randian way of looking at society. What does that say about the educational system and mass media?

I feel like unequal distribution of property is just the natural order of civilization. However, it can be debated as to what degree the inequality sh...

That’s Brett. Making us all uncomfortably aware of our own internal biases. :lol: :up:

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Actually, I just realized that I don’t know whether you’re a he or a she.

Mom! He yelled at me! LOL

I found that article interesting until it got to the complex numbers. Then I lost interest because I was too lazy to put in the mental work.

ha! One does have to prefer certain arguments over others all things being equal, though, I suppose.

But like I said, the limbic system is crucial to making decisions. One could think about options all day long, but without an emotional value placed, ...

What do I think about it? Is it a technical term? Sometimes I get overly emotional. My limbic system overpowers my frontal lobe, and I make self-destr...

I tend to think it is more than just approval. If the bones of the house are “good”, then they are also in a state that tends toward structural integr...

Happy to be given some truth from time to time.

As far as I understand the limbic system and the prefrontal cortex are supposed to work in tandem. Without emotions one wouldn’t be able to make decis...

Is that how you would describe a gravitational field or a magnetic field, as matter in action? I think this requires explanation. (I’m not picking on ...

Say, someone says the brakes on that car are good or the bones of that house are good. Does that simply mean that that person approves of them?

How do you define “good”? Is something good merely in the capacity of someone approving of it?

Obviously, then, there is something going wrong in MY brain because I am repeatedly saying inappropriate things and fumbling over words. Fuck it, Dude...

The categorical imperative ensures the working of society.

Because one has a duty to do babies no harm.

The categorical imperative

I borrow from a variety of religions/traditions, but I do what the Hindus suggest in that I adhere mostly to the religion of my upbringing, viz. Chris...

You seem to be very sensitive and knowledgeable about animals. What is your background with them?

It’s true or false that cauliflower is good for nutrition, just as it’s true or false that boiling babies is good for society. A psychopath might enjo...

I agree. I hold that morality is an emergent property of living in a society. There are at least some knowable moral truths. For example, you don’t bo...

Institutions are extremely difficult to change. I don’t think you can blame society’s problems on any given generation when the institutions cross gen...

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Any moderator who lets me spew my paranoid rants in the Lounge is cool with me. I think they do a great job here. :100:

So the term “disturbed” wasn’t directed at me? Do you know the history of stigma the mentally ill have gone through? Yes, you’re a bully, too.

You’re a bully, too. That’s the thing. Even bullies have bullies. No one is innocent in this world, and nobody asked you to stick your nose in.

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I predict Ariana Grande will be president in 40 years.

I think we will get along then. Poets are cool.

Smartass

I have more than one, but at least mine aren’t up my ass! :lol:

I was being charitable. (My left brain is yelling at my right brain right now.) You’re still a dick. :kiss: