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Are you so numb to verbal abuse (and violence in general) that you condone it? I think sometimes it's difficult to determine who started what on the Internet. I take it DAM insulted you unprovoked? As far as I can tell, yes. I generally avoid insulting people - its simply not how I like to communic...

It is a good point you make but it is not so much individual words that make what is said aggressive, it's the meaning intended. I think that sweary words can be meant to indicate belonging to a social group that uses sweary words. Usually when people are meeting face to face they alter their langu...

I hate physical pain and the suffering that arises with that pain. Words, never hurt me, I can take verbal abuse, I've had plenty of it on this forum, it's like water off a ducks back, simply because I am able to separate myself from conceptual meaning. .. It's lush to lash out at other people, oth...

Just so you know, this one here hates physical abuse, I personally, would never kill or physically strike another living sentient thing intentionally.. except in self defence, but even that's not for me to know until I'm actually in that situation. I really do not know how I will react in the momen...

But there is no such time as the here and now. Agree. What you mean by the here and now is focus on immediate bodily sensations and information from the immediate environment. This is what mindfulness meditation is Yes, that is what I mean - but I would also include thought into this mix. Mindfulne...

Dontaskme wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 6:33 am the sentimental mush is almost in danger of melting my heart

Glad to hear you still got one

What's the course for what one knows are bad thoughts? If one has a doubt about expressing a thought with body or voice, then first giving the doubt some rational attention is in order. Pause. Actions or words must first pass through some tests that can pre-determine the effects. Yes, agree, it's a...

I’m enjoying my disgusting life, that’s the beauty of not pretending any more, that’s the only positive about all this, the intelligence…to see through all the BS and to stop believing in my own lies, and denial of the actual truth, rather than the truth that we hope is real. Its a truth that you m...

It matters not what lexicon you use.What matters is honesty and authenticity. It does matter that the ends do not justify the means. I think it matters what "lexicon you use". If using the lexicon leads to strife and violence, if using it hurts other people then it doesn't really matter i...

It is not important that someone uses sweary language. What matters is their honesty. I prefer to be honest without using sweary language, yet it seems you think this is being feeble… Do you also think it doesn’t matter if one is physically violent as long as the violence honest? That’s just a stup...

Belinda wrote: ↑Tue Jul 20, 2021 12:13 pm It is not important that someone uses sweary language. What matters is their honesty.

I prefer to be honest without using sweary language, yet it seems you think this is being feeble…
Do you also think it doesn’t matter if one is physically violent as long as the violence honest?

I’m enjoying my disgusting life, that’s the beauty of not pretending any more, that’s the only positive about all this, the intelligence…to see through all the BS and to stop believing in my own lies, and denial of the actual truth, rather than the truth that we hope is real. Its a truth that you m...

Alex, I don't approve of your (feeble) attempt to intimidate DAM. I had no intention of intimidating DAM. Why do you get the impression this is the case? DAM doesn’t seem intimidated to me… Many of DAM's sweary images I learned at a posh school in the 1940s! Just because you have learned something ...

Thanks for the sentimental mush. I'm astounded at your stupidity. Some people just do not seem to get it, do they. Seeing reality for what it really is, includes the idea there is an apparent ''someone'' aka a ''me'' having a negative opinion about it. Big fucking deal, duh, I have a negative opini...