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With his fondness for the Tridentine version, perhaps it is AJ who is the "mass" man. Boom-tish.

I note your voluminous protestations, nevertheless, with respect to this... Weirdly, in your post previous to this, you left politely by the front door. Here, you come round to the back door ...rest assured that I was simply allowing myself a final pointed retort, and that I have no intention to reo...

Just more talking about each other ... complaining, psychoanalyzing, insulting. ...he wrote, talking and complaining about, and insulting, others, and having once psychoanalysed another member (me) to the point of falsely diagnosing him as being in the middle of a psychotic episode, the hypocrite. ...

Visual aids are a great way of engaging the audience with the ideas in a presentation, don't you think? They are moronic, in the true sense of the word. Just out of interest, where would they rate on the truly moronic scale compared to, say, proposing to restore - in some unspecified manner and to ...

Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:27 pm Be that as it may I’m going with this:

Fine fine. If you have no use for my diagnosis, then: as you were. Further engagement is futile.

Harry Baird wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 4:40 pm Denial, defensiveness, projection, and character assassination. Reactive assertion of dominance.

I forgot to add: confusion and (explicit, unabashed) contradiction.

The full package!

Denial, defensiveness, projection, and character assassination. Reactive assertion of dominance. Not a productive response but not a surprising one either. I really really loved those diagrams though. Neat, huh? Visual aids are a great way of engaging the audience with the ideas in a presentation, d...

Imagine that you are caught in this quandary: quandary.png Imagine that, seeking to break out of this vicious cycle, you inform yourself as well as you can on the issues, scouring secondhand bookshops for everything you can find on Catholicism, Christianity, and Western civilisation, and reading wid...

You're still offering no positive alternative. 'cuz there isn't one. In that case, given the absence of a causal explanation, the behaviour of non-human living beings is like the decay of subatomic particles: indeterministic. It's also, though, according to you, canned and programmatic: determinist...

Lacewing wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 5:00 pm

Just a quick note to say: yep, that's all agreeable to me.

non-human living beings behave in ways that only make sense if they are emotionally motivated There's another, more sensible, explanation (one presented multiple times): anthropomorphization . Presented multiple times, and wrong every time, firstly because... "Q: What causes certain behaviour ...

I can see that now. It takes a lot to move me. I'm lazy and listless and not very interested in things I used to be interested in. I can say that I want to do something for a noble cause but in the end, my own selfish interests take over in the final decision I make. I'd like to change that tendenc...

[T]he concept of programming [...] is used in various other fields [than computers] in regard to people. I already provided links. You're right, and in the quibbling over the validity of this sense of the word, your original point has been lost, and it's an important one to make in the context of t...

As I say, life thrives at the expense of life. What is the alternative for us--stand out in the sun and wait until one of our bodies figures out how to photosynthesize for nutrition? And as I pointed out in response , in and through statements like these (including the rhetorical question) you are ...

[Quoted material reinserted] [A shark is] a friggin' machine. It's, as I say, no different, in function, than a Rhoomba. It does what it does as a matter of programming . Follow your own injunction with respect to that: Now you need to back that assertion. Okay. The shark is a meat machine . That's ...