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This Old Thing

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I think there's a way out of this deadlock. It is overwhelmingly likely that my interpretation of a llived situation is in someway mischaracterizing i...
June 03, 2021 at 03:06
I wouldn't lose sleep, no - like I said I don't think it says anything about someone to know or not know about blackrock.
May 30, 2021 at 22:05
@"James Riley" I responded to fishfry because I watched a Spencer Tracy movie recently, and he mentioned a movie with Spencer Tracy. It didn't respond...
May 30, 2021 at 21:51
May 30, 2021 at 21:37
Right - that's why I don't get the import of the story - you were hiking, and you don't manage your money only because people you don't respect will i...
May 30, 2021 at 21:30
What would you do if they collectively stopped choosing to do this thing you find so disdainful?
May 30, 2021 at 21:05
You're blessed to be in a position where you can rely on others to manage your money while you focus on stuff more important to you. Hopefully the peo...
May 30, 2021 at 20:35
@"counterpunch" I recently moved from Portland to the (cheaper) foothill wilds of the north, but, if it is portland, maine, I'd be down to answer any ...
May 30, 2021 at 20:04
Somehow I'd never (to the best of my memory) seen any movie with Spencer Tracy until I caught a snippet of Inherit the Wind on TCM the other day. Wasn...
May 30, 2021 at 01:04
Added to my reading list. :up: Fair pushback on Mason & Dixon - I'll admit I haven't finished it (a few attempts, always faltered in the first section...
May 26, 2021 at 05:25
I think the importance of 'vibe' is underestimated when it comes to literature (vibe is close to 'style', but its not quite style). Everything's been ...
May 26, 2021 at 04:29
I feel you, but how do you personally massage those knots I gestured toward in an earlier post, knots I imagine you're long familiar with? Namely: tha...
May 26, 2021 at 01:00
I very much agree. My feeling/stance (which is reductionary, as all relations to past movements inescapably are) is that New Sincerity, as a reaction ...
May 25, 2021 at 22:39
@"thewonder" right, yes, absolutely. Bracketing all the hip references (which, i feel you) - its just - idk a possibility of something real that can s...
May 25, 2021 at 05:53
Zen-like calm doesn't preclude fervent participation. (I'm laying myself bare to criticism - wouldn't be surprised if there's a revisionist account of...
May 25, 2021 at 05:19
It's cool/interesting to me you found the M*A*S*H* section of Infinite Jest particularly moving/sympathetic. I did too. It's not a section that almost...
May 25, 2021 at 02:59
I let my vindictive self loose on the forums again. :confused: I don't require white & christian stuff - while I like much in the christian framework,...
May 23, 2021 at 01:01
While I do have some eccentric sprititual/metaphysical beliefs, I'm going to do my best to bracket them here. They help me in my own life, but when ta...
May 22, 2021 at 23:21
@"unenlightened"@"Banno" I think we should all be cautious of taking up another people as reservoir for our moral ideals & fantasies. This stuff sucks...
May 20, 2021 at 05:05
I'm with you that academia is something different from science. At the same time most of scientific practice requires significant funding. This is an ...
May 18, 2021 at 18:56
In plainspeak - I've liked your posts for a long time. I sign on a lot when angry and confrontational, or provocational, unfortunately. That isn't tod...
May 17, 2021 at 05:38
My own thread referenced so disdainfully in an OP - what to do? I weighed whether to respond. I attempted some augury during my daily woods-wallk ( a ...
May 17, 2021 at 04:29
Ha, love it. Well the idea of the gonzo approach anyway (that experience sounds brutal, man) And I do take your point that all surveys have substantia...
May 16, 2021 at 03:03
I regret taking the tone that I did above. I was discomfited by the introduction of a moral absolutism lens, and concerned that we were beginning to g...
May 16, 2021 at 02:27
I think it's better not to go down this kind of path. If you're interested in what that verse may mean in the context of a lived faith - e.g. why its ...
May 15, 2021 at 21:02
:up: Solid link. I found going through the other comments on that thread is fascinating too. Like how one person objects to the author's point (as mad...
May 15, 2021 at 20:48
I think that's a narrow idea of what Christianity is (though maybe close to extreme puritans like Jonathan Edwards...but even he would be less strict)...
May 15, 2021 at 20:26
If character's the ability to resist manipulation (this is a reallyslippery slope though...) then character's on a spectrum. It may be true (i'm not s...
May 15, 2021 at 20:00
Exactly - and that's part of what of is so flagrant about this. The replication crisis is The Big Topic in psychological circles -& has been for a pre...
May 14, 2021 at 00:44
I very much like the emphasis on a general happiness that goes beyond one's own, the idea of the present as a stepping stone to the future. I can defi...
May 14, 2021 at 00:11
Yeah I feel you, I went through a lot of that in the response posts.
May 11, 2021 at 03:56
@"David Pearce" (apologies if I'm treading already trodden-ground, I'm coming to the thread late) There's a story by Henry James I've always liked cal...
May 11, 2021 at 03:47
Yeah, good evolutionary thought, from what little I know of it, seems much, much more nuanced than what I've been talking about so far on here. Ecolog...
May 11, 2021 at 02:30
Ha, yeah exactly. This thread, tbh, is 90% a philosophy forums version of a cranky Andy Rooney reaction to just the kind of thing you're talking about...
May 11, 2021 at 01:38
Yeah, I agree. And I think this is why casual, psychological uses of evolution are often so misplaced. There's often this unquestioned drive to distil...
May 11, 2021 at 01:14
Let me try to explain. I think that if you have strong aesthetic and moral values, you also need a good understanding of how stuff works to live in ac...
May 11, 2021 at 00:54
Yeah, Hoffman was one of the ones I was thinking of when I said 'We don't have to imagine it' - but I didn't want to cite him explicitly only because ...
May 10, 2021 at 23:55
I've found that astrology (& tarot etc) are really good ways to get a conversation going in groups that otherwise have trouble articulating their feel...
May 10, 2021 at 23:25
ha, :up: Yeah, I think you're right that there has to be a 'skeleton' - and definitely agree that that's what conspiracy theories are; its probably no...
May 08, 2021 at 21:48
Well shoot, I can't argue with that ---- (no hidden meaning here, I just straightforwardly get what you're saying and it makes sense.)
May 08, 2021 at 21:29
Same here. I'm trying to find a way to productively channel that grumpy energy. In the meantime, I've found that self-criticizing myself for being gru...
May 08, 2021 at 19:28
Right, this is the dialectical maneuver in a nutshell. So, to take that tactics lens: You're I know-you-are-ing the but-what-am-I. If we both nakedly ...
May 08, 2021 at 18:43
I'd add "and those who can do neither, post." I think I'm deeply flawed, hopefully not dangerous, but certainly confused and frustrated & deeply mistr...
May 06, 2021 at 07:16
Isn't there something violent in this whole schema of needs and tactics, and the rest? Who talks about people in terms of needs and tactics, like this...
May 06, 2021 at 05:57
Most of it. In my experience people are basically always motivated by emotion. They can act for good reasons, in a space of reasons - but that's only ...
May 06, 2021 at 04:07
Anyway, @"StreetlightX" if you do ever, one day, feel a moment of happiness, I hope you can enjoy it and not reflexively search for the right citation...
May 03, 2021 at 05:14
Long time, Marty So, to answer your OP, I think it's the good part of 'good reason' that is the sticky point. I know you know your german idealists, a...
May 03, 2021 at 03:21
:up: I'm pretty sure I feel you here. I may be be wrong ,but it feels like the subtext of what you're talking about is, at root, the joy of being part...
May 03, 2021 at 01:13