Shawn

Do you guys and gals know what really weighs heavily on my mind? That a girl with Asperger's and an IQ to match her candor and concern over the enviro...

For some reason this comes to mind: https://i.imgur.com/eFScj30.jpg

I'll lend you my support in geoengineering given a classical economic cost-benefit analysis. But, you have to reach a consensus on who stands to benef...

The taxes in this market are too high. And my conscience won't allow it. But, hey I gave you a hint. :cool:

Oh, shit. I was on a different wavelength totally. LOL. And you paid too much. Look into 1P-LSD. Same shit, cheaper, and more tested so that you don't...

I think hookups is like shooting yourself in the foot or an attempt to replicate something that's sincere and genuine. Hence I stay away from such thi...

Love him or hate him he managed to accomplish whatever in his addled mind he set out to do. But, I'm really liking the eternal mobilization theme that...

(Not necessarily bad things in isolation)

Wow, this takes me back a bit. Continued struggle, strife, and eternal mobilization really come to mind.

Ok, so I rest my case. You contend that it's common knowledge between us that Trump is a crook. Yeah, no shit! But, my point seems to have been swept ...

Affect can become a volition if it is adverse to the individual or organism. Like pain... outrage... or sensibility? Then change is demanded, like not...

Really? I think you're conflating managed affect for affect that becomes a volition towards some effective change. Perhaps this is where we differ on ...

Well, do you at the very least agree that we have become desensitized towards the comments of my current prez?

So, with the above snippet being said, maybe you can see the merit of appealing to emotions, StreetlightX?

To an extent. What I meant was that we should not ignore and passively let the standards of the US presidency be lowered into oblivion by becoming des...

I should have been more explicit. An appeal to emotions is the only appropriate response to the dehumanization of people of color along with the appar...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons#Internalizing_externalities

How about internalizing the externalities? We already do this in California, with our highest gas prices in the nation...?

I hear you. It wasn't necessarily directed at you. Just the whole thread, Jesus, and my neuroticisms showing in full force. I think, my real point was...

Talk about distorted thinking!

Yeah, and because of this, I don't foresee StreetlightX's appeal to (essentially an appeal to humanism) emotions, as ever bringing about foreseeable c...

I'm sort of conflicted here. Desensitized electorates dont bode well for the future of a nation's democracy, despite it being the only defence mechani...

The real tragedy is that people have become desensitized to this sort of lunatic thinking of building moats around the border and filling them with al...

This fucking imbecile*. https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/01/politics/new-york-times-trump-shoot-migrants-legs/index.html *Dangerous imbecile*

Some observations. -A double standard being applied to the law of Trump staying in office and near-certainty being unelectable rather than impeaching ...

Yes, despite the allure of Stoicism in seemingly empowering an individual to think and assess what is the best or more-so the right course of action, ...

Quite so, and this falls squarely into the sentiment I expressed in point #1. For any intellectual who has read such things as Manufactured Consent, b...

This is a topic worthy of another thread; but, thanks for pointing out how Buddhists and those from the Eastern tradition ought to be read.

Im wondering as to why HK is even considered a threat in PRC eyes? Perhaps ssu can chime in here and expose more of the blind obedience demanded from ...

Holy cow. Glad you made it safe and sound. I never visited Russia; but, they are struggling to modernize. I don't entirely understand Russia for the m...

Oh and thanks for the link, @"Wayfarer".

I get your point. I find the Anglosaxon way of consumerist life fundamentally at odds with the calm serenity of seeking advice from elders, immersing ...

Are you on drugs? Gimme some. :razz:

See my thread on Jesus being labeled as a schizophrenic. Lots of juicy meat to eat.

So, I do know that Buddhist thought contests the notion of having any type of 'self'. But, isn't it the observer that is being observed that is the lo...

Haha, aren't we all broken 'goods'? Vaguely, but I follow...

Thanks!

Wow, one of those topics that hits you in the feels months later, when things are going somewhat OK. I'll get back to you @"robbiefrost" soon, I need ...

@"Bartricks" Chill dude.

Fishy, given his abandonment of his followers and others as World Teacher.

Fake fake fake. It's all fake! Cuz' we all inhabit a world of... Fake news, fake boobs, fake tanning spray, fake fake fake.

Among the many theories that Stoicism propounds, I have seen it professed that a free will is necessary for it to make sense. What's strange, is that ...

I do admit, I loved Epictetus' "Manual"="Enchiridion" in my youth. But, puh-leeze don't really treat it as a manual to live by in the slightest. Not i...

Now, this needs more explication. Shoutout to our forum bodybuilders, ehem, I meant intellectuals.

Fuck man. I can't do it because of my mom. It's fucking broken logic to see yourself happy at your passing of your mother so you can kill yourself .

What about it being a higher order volition instead of a feeling?

I can't connect the dots hereabouts, help me out here.

Just as an elaboration. These sort of 'moods' manifest (in my case) into eventually suicidal ideations. I am really tired of this sort of chastizing o...

Indeed. I find it puzzling that one be negative at all. So, says the depressed person who is suffering at the moment. I find no gratitude over it. It ...

There is a limit though. Where North do you go when you're already at the North Pole? I don't really know. I suppose it's the kind of difference that ...