@"Frank Apisa"Well *I* can't pick out any word and deem it unacceptable and expect a bunch of others to immediately develop similar intuitions about i...
I agree about those benefits, ideally. But the reality is that those benefits are missing. One could also say that she shouldn't have been raped. I wo...
Alright. And now imagine you're talking to friends about the past, about sexual escapades, whatever. And one friend seems to only use 'clean' words, a...
But I'm asking, how you'd react to the principal saying that. I know that you see the demarcation between vulgar and acceptable as arbitrary. I'm wond...
Maybe, but that's a pretty stringent insistence on topic hygiene I don't usually see crop up. It's not exclusively philosophical, but philosophy has a...
If she was in pain enough to still want to die three years later, and to actually go through with it, all the way to the point where its not something...
Maybe one way at this is to determine where 'arbitrary' ends and 'non-arbitrary' begin. Cutlery is one thing. What if you went to a daughter or nieces...
@"Frank Apisa" If 'profane' language wasn't treated as profane, but normal, would you take such obvious delight in the use of profane language by your...
I'm not psychoanalyzing you, I'm trying to understand the purpose of the thread, because it's confusing. If i were trying to psychoanalyze you, I'd of...
ha! Any damaged person worth their salt oughta take a few moments and learn how to open a bottle with a lighter imo. A bottle, unopenable is its own t...
@"frank" I may be reading too much into your thread, but I'm picking up an ambivalence between (1)a baiting reductio as a means of pushing 'mechanists...
pot-anxiety is real. I think we may have experienced it in different ways. Smoking with friends, for me, was the best way to kill time. If I could sti...
That's a good interview. I heard about the polyvagal theory somewhere else, recently, but only saw the headline and a precis. Reading the article, the...
That Hegel quote is very good and I'm inclined to agree with him halfway. Have I spent sordid hours googling 'was hero an asshole?' Yes. Buuuut Did I ...
A transcendence of fashion would be nice, but its mostly exhaustion. I am familiar with the dialectics of fashion, which is just the dialectics of any...
I think it is fair to say I'm in a moralizing role here. This, too, is words, and my ragged irl self doesn't live up to it. But it's all a play and th...
I have seen Unforgiven but it was a really long time ago. But, speaking in declaratives, the 'true self' is made of actions, not words. What you are i...
It's funny you mention faith. Coincidentally, that's something I'm interested in. It is complicated. Kierkegaard, as I'm sure you know, found he could...
Fascinating. But...that way of looking at people, ideas, experiences (common/rare impotent/potent) leaves you liable to being dashed against the rocks...
I agree with that. My thought is that there's less of a need to people-please if you've made peace with your own (potential for) negativity. I find th...
I mean, if someone at work was participating in a conversation and then suddenly said 'stay the fuck away' but remained in the conversation, I'm not r...
It's a short term strategy. Not because you oughta be negative. But because 'keep away' means not-handling, and not handling means more and more false...
If that proves unworkable, then something like : a regime where it's three guys in a field. They're always saying things to each other like 'this is c...
There are fourteen rulers and they're all very empathetic. They're called the Empathetic Fourteen. Geographically, the state moves from near-pole to n...
I believe I have some kind of harm OCD (psychological harm, specifically, likely comorbid with something else) and I related a lot to your post. Espec...
I kind of picture an hourglass shape. At the top is all the plays, the lived-out dramas and so forth. At the center is a void . On the bottom is still...
Maybe, but maybe also trying to get rid of him makes him stronger. I had that ironic trainspotting 'choose life' poster on my dorm-room wall & I read ...
The alcoholism thing was just a bad play on 'dry' + a paradigmatic example of rationalized self-destruction. I think self-destruction is probably tryi...
I guess I'm talking about self-delusion. I agree, abstractly, about acting with energy rather than against it, but I don't know how you do that. And s...
Maybe. But that sounds a lot like the drinker who's gone white knuckle a few months and is slowly convincing himself that a better approach than dryin...
I want to emphasize again that any kind of sexual attraction that is harmful for the person to whom you're attracted - that attraction has to be reine...
No idea about evidence or formal classification, grain of salt all of what I said. I don't know enough about paraphilia and what I said only goes so f...
All gut feelings and opinions but: My hunch is you can't do much to change who you're sexually attracted to. But I also think sexual attraction can de...
I've checked out a couple & I think I know the dynamic you're talking about. Let me know if this is your experience as well ( since I'm generalizing f...
By 'great success', what exactly do you mean? (& in terms of the venue - are you talking about posing as an alt-righter on a discord or something simi...
But Shapiro & Spencer don't argue in good faith. Shapiro's thing - much like Peterson (on politics) - is just the aesthetic of reason. I'm not saying ...
Very beautiful, preening myself, not willing to fight in the very real, very serious trenches of saying 'i want a world where no one listens to shapir...
Yes, but I always argue with people who are closest to my view. It's negative, and the negativity sustains itself on the 'positivity' it grapples with...
I don't know what you mean by dreck. I don't even know what 'dreck' means. It sounds like an insult from a 19th century novel. I feel like you're goin...
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