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You've lost me again. Re-read, if you will, what I first wrote above. Of course forms of appropriate intervention are an ethical obligation, but shoul...

I don't know where this "advocated" thing is coming from. It seems to kind of sit there, in the middle of the discussion, without a clear reason for i...

Can you clarify what you mean by a system growing, you seem to be saying, sui generis? That's not sounding very Marxian to me. Constituting 13% of the...

I said, I am not advocating.

Certainly no would would advocate for someone's suicide (without being seriously sadistic and sick), but I think that someone with profound emotional ...

I posted this in a new topic on Doug Ruskoff's essay, "Cannabis: Stealth Goddess," and mostly got negative, nasty, and dismissive responses. WTF is wr...

What I find sad is how fast some of you are to denigrate what you don't agree with. It's pathetic how fast it happens around here.

Glad you like it! Now go read the article.

You are absolutely right. I will try to mend my ways.

I like to think of the temporary loss of short term memory as a funny kind of blip, because I almost always am able to pick up the thread where it was...

Hey Grre, I'm glad to know that there are others interested in this topic. I've been growing my own for a little over 3 years now, and that did indeed...

You are unable to convince me of anything. I can't take you seriously.

At the very least, we need someone in office who sees the threat posed by global warming and will stop doing everything in his power to accelerate it.

Perhaps this is your problem, which is why I suggested you look at that book. If you're only interested in justifying and rationalizing hatred and ant...

What???? The book has nothing to do with religion!!!!

Everyone has the same aptitude? What does that mean? Everyone has an aptitude for incest? To be a psychopath like Dahmer? To be a genius like Einstein...

I'm not going anywhere. Taunt if you must.

Yes, and especially in cyber-space it is very challenging to exchange ideas with others when it takes so long to find the common ground--or at the ver...

What did I call "evil"? Nothing. I wrote that the concept of God contains everything in it, although we have no way of grasping what infinity is. As f...

It said something to me; maybe you weren't listening. One line ripostes get boring fast.

Your taunts are taking a toll on my toil on trolling.

@Baden Is this Spam?

That's meaningless...

exactly. Because it is a delightfully abstract concept that contains everything within it, and we really don't have a clue as to what everything is......

Trolling research lists contagion as one of the problematic results of online nastiness. Everyone acting out their PTSD, thereby triggering someone el...

From your link: "Those most lacking in knowledge and skills are least able to appreciate that lack....The Dunning-Kruger effect requires a minimal deg...

Acting out: https://dictionary.apa.org/acting-out Trump is pretty much acting out all the time. He's a deeply traumatized child. Morality concerns the...

I think this is meant for another member...

This has nothing to do with vegetarianism; you'd like to trivialize my description of what the two have in common, but your comment is irrelevant to m...

Eeeeewwwww. You're welcome to it. You have a stronger stomach than I do.

Darn!!! I did forget that!! I was trying not to use the word fascist so as not to rile the fascist-leaning members of this forum. :-}

It's fundamentally the same psychology. I know lots of folks are quite happy having a sociopath with no self-control in the white house.

1. Totalitarian personality, tremendous anger manangement problem. 2. He believes everything that comes out of his own mouth: malignant narcissism and...

How do you see this as an easy way out? From what??? I think the whole point is that there are people who think it's ok to be mean in whatever situati...

So I conclude that the "shoot em in the legs" comment didn't bother you, nor what happened to all the detained children left in their own soiled cloth...

How do you know that you were born with these and didn't acquire them as the result of trauma and abuse?

I've found it terrifying how much trump reminds me of Hitler. And he's whipping his supporters up into an irrational frenzy of hatred and anger. And y...

I think that meanness is indicative of a character flaw and unresolved negative emotions. How can character not be influenced and revealed by the ways...

So how do you know that it's not ideological, whatever it is you mean by that term?

The two figures you refer to are in no way the same thing.

Thanks so much for posting that. It's clear that psychopathic disregard for the planet and all its inhabitants is the corporate norm. I don't think th...

You provide us with a really generous deconstruction of various categories, and I so appreciate the alternate terminology you have provided. I've alwa...

That seems generous to say the least. The American "Democracy" version looks more like this (from where I sit, within it): You can have as many cows a...

Hear, hear! And those who are fortunate enough to have good parenting seem to be more able to rise above less-than-ideal circumstances because they we...

I never was that into Plato (beyond the required freshman course on Western Civ that I took in the 70s), so it's all Greek to me...

I believe that this is inevitable unless one has a photographic mind (which I certainly don't). I like the way you put it, and you make me realize tha...

I like that. I imagine God feeling severely depressed about how wrong the creation of humankind went, realizing the incalculable amount of unnecessary...

quote="Jacques Maritain"]if the deepest hopes of mankind are not destined to turn to mockery, it is because a God-given energy better than nature is a...

Synthesis of ideas is never static; it's always in movement. This is how one might avoid a tendency to "materialize" one's beliefs and render them tot...

Now you are lying. You never took my words seriously; your entire premise--that I can explain what I teach in one statement--is just silly. I never ev...