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Lorikeet wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:18 am Yes...genes to memes.
Mind/Body dissonance is caused when the latter contradicts the former.

Really?

The cause seems to be, attempting to match form to a subjective, conceptual abstraction of what that form should be. Much like AI, the former contradicting the latter.

Yes cultural decadence happens when the breakes are placed on social change and social progress. When conservatives want to turn abck the clock to the "good old days", the result is stagnation and ossification of ideas. When people think they can "make american great again", wha...

Ghandi was also very much a pacifist. Gandhi is also considered to be one the greatest politicians in history. As such, he must have figured that passive resistance used for the purpose of civil disobedience, which he studied from the writings of the American, Thoreau, would have the greatest effec...

Lorikeet wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 10:27 am

Natural Selection:
Form follows function = nature’s efficiency.

Human selection:
Function follows form = human customizing.

godelian wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 9:37 am

Women get romantic notions.

Annie languidly explains.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z2dXfSHw-c

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions. Quote - Aristotle (1).jpg Shouldn't Aristotle have an understanding of the middle ground? The statue of the fasting Buddha displays total acceptance (tolerance) of Now, without attempting to interfere with stillness of body and mind, not even ...

Used to be stories were of Ben.
Sci Fi opened the door to stories of Willbe.

Lorikeet wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 1:18 am

Chesterton wrote:Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

Quote - Aristotle (1).jpg

As with impotence, impotent understanding is what kills societies.

“Bueller, Bueller.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQX78Pqgdak - Ferris lies to the waiter, solely to benefit himself by displaying to his friends his ability to get what he wants. - Ferris is a sly Hector rather than a nagging, blunt Karen. - In his final comment to the waiter, Ferris fails to me...

Gender is the cultural application of sexual roles. Sexual roles are specialized reproductive types. Mind/Body dysphoria is caused when sexual roles are contradicted by cultural applications. Genes/Memes Mind/Body dysphoria is caused when gender contradicts form. Folks sometimes change either form ...

The idea that sex and gender are different "things" is part of the same "logic" which claims that the body and mind are two different things - one is mortal and corporeal, the other immortal and incorporeal. The differences are inversions of the other - this is a sign of nihilis...

Conservatism means to conserve good, and to not conserve evil.
Radicalism means to destroy evil, and to not destroy good.

No matter the age
No matter the time
Does that chiaroscuro
Blur the line?

They don't make 'em like this anymore. That's because movies used to have a literary base. Now, corporate uses a comic book base, which makes most dialogue just wisecracks. * Dusty Rayles Elmer Gantry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge-P19KGhME Tough questions from an agnostic, but Gantry reveals th...

Sculptor wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 5:40 pm
Are you being ironically cynical, or do you mean what you say?

No, not being cynical. Quite a good thing you did, and not easy.

Harbal wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 4:14 pm

He explored the gamut of self-discovery.