MysterionMuffles

Maybe you're just thankful that he played a hand in making your childhood enjoyable with the games you mentioned.

Engaging trolls is a strange form of cruelty for the narcissistic troll themselves. Because by enabling their crappy behaviour and letting them believe that they're ACTUALLY having fun trolling you, you let them become worse and worse as a human being.

Hm...sounds like someone I know. Sorry, not one, but many. Online and offline. All of which I thankfully no longer engage with.

dude that is INTENSE!!!

what's the wall of death?

I still don't get how the poor are "success full"

that's gonna sound so catchy!

I'm pretty short too and I usually get destroyed in moshpits...but it's all a matter of simple physics. Whatever position you're thrown in, use those people as like a bungee or a rope like in a wrestling ring to plunge you forward XD

Actually it takes a ton of cardio to not get out of breath and pass out, so that's something I'd say. But thanks for your thoughts RC! Yeah those darker side of moshpits I don't understand. So I wonder if it goes by degree, or if all moshpits are bound by having a bad relationship with one's own physicality.

For those of you who haven't gone to a rock concert, moshpitting is when people in the crowd get so worked up from the intensity of the music that they begin to push each other around--FOR FUN!!! I went to a concert the other weekend and it was a blast. I haven't gone to many in my lifetime, maybe about 5 by now, and there's been a few where the moshpits were too intense for me to handle that I had to climb on top of the crowd and be crowd surfed out to safety. However, last weekend, I went to a band that I really really love right now, and their music isn't really aggressive, but does get heavy at times. Normally I would have found my way out, but I was up for standing my ground and keeping my front row spot in the crowd, so I pushed back and really had fun doing it. I wanted to know what people's thoughts were on this weird phenomonon of "hey, let's actually have fun pushing people around!" without really hurting them (as far as I've seen or experienced). Seems like controlled violence to me, and I wonder is it a sign of dysfunction or simple primal urges to aggress against others? Or if it's anything else entirely, what is it? I just find it odd that this could be fun.

lol good pun marginalist but I dont understand the 2nd one

lol why do I feel like we're implicitly thinking of a certain person collectively? Or is it just me? I have not, but I want to. And lol

what cameo?

Hmm would ad hominem attacks be valid against hypocrites, per se?

I think there should be a link to this site: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ in the community guidelines. It would be important to note how logical fallacies as listed in this site may be unproductive to forum and chatroom debates. This way it can cut down threads to keep them on topic instead of arguing over communication and argument barriers caused by logical fallacies,

Say hello to free market charity! Hmm I think they get refunded if it doesn't go through. Not sure how crowdfunding works in that regard.

welcome jgib. Sorry to hear about your loss, but also very glad that you have expanded your mind, and hopefully your heart, having gotten into philosophy. If you don't mind me asking, what was the accident?

Yeah because even when he's complimented by Nathan and given some comapssion, he STILL has to contest what he says. I don't get him, honestly. You sir, win 1000 internetz.

I think it heightens what's already there within you. If a song speaks to you, it's important to understand why in terms of lyrics. It can be a reflection of unmet needs, or needs that are being met. For the most part I'm open to most music, but I have been thinking about the screamy growly metal and I wonder to what degree that is just normalizing being screamed at as a child. It can also be a reflection of someone's own inner voice screaming for whatever the lyricist longs for. But then screaming doesn't always mean anger. A band I used to listen to called Alexisonfire featured screaming as the dominant vocals, but the lyrics were sometimes just random poetry and happiness. I guess during the time I listened to them a lot, I was all about the abstract intellectualizations and the incoherence that needs to be studied in order to be understood. This is a great topic and I feel like my thoughts are really jumbled right now, I'll be back later. It's a very good topic and I've made a few similar topics, so I look forward to what everyone else has to say about this. I think it may be good to bring it out if you're highly aware of what the song is bringing up for you. If you're listening to a song about heartbreak, for instance, it's important to look at the lyrics that touch you the most and see what they're trying to say to you. Again, I have more on this later, I'll even share with you some songs that really hit me and why. I don't know if lacking self knowledge music can be used to avoid stuff. It's hard to define really. I feel like, if the song has come from a sincere place, the lyrics are in itself a self exploration. Minus any rap where all they do is brag about their riches and bitches, I believe that any form of lyrics that come from a place of vulnerability and honesty is a way to show how one IS connected to themselves--hopefully helping you do the same. My path to self understanding changed my music preferences, I guess you can easily find in my opening post in my thread Identifying With the Music You Listen To as well as my move from growling and screaming to more clean vocals in my Growly Screamy Music thread. It's a lot of reading I know, you don't have to read the entire threads if you don't want to, it's more the opening posts I wanted to draw your attention to for more of my already stated thoughts.

ever since the conversation Stef had with Elliot Hulse recently, I'm convinced health and wellness play a big part in living a philosophical life. If philosophy is the love and search for truth and wisdom, it makes absolute sense to seek the truth and wisdom to proper physical self care.

http://hellogiggles.com/why-inside-out-will-start-an-important-conversation-about-mental-health/ Interesting article about how it can shine light on mental health.

Great song about the struggles of falling in lust: Seems like you already know I'd love to have your name and a moment alone. You whisper that you'd have no other way. So I take you by your waist and head for the door. But then you stop and look me up and down as if to say: "Boy you better prepare yourself, for your legs are gonna shake." And I was all but clay within your hands. You had me line and sinker, hopeless in romance. I felt your current pull me under, but you held your hand out. Now you're the only one who knows my future. Lift me up, or let me drown... Miss Erray, you won't get the best of me. You drop them a line, they take the bait, and I will not make that same mistake. Oh Miss Erray, you know just how to make me stay. When I finally get ahead, I fall right back in your bed. Is that really how you make it up to me? With a little more fire, a little more love between the sheets. (Hey! Hey!) Well, I will never be the sad and lonesome creep who gets off from the awkward pause that only break up sex can bring. Just one more to remember... And one more just for fun... Baby give me one more for forever, so I can fill this filthy void until the next one. Miss Erray, you won't get the best of me. You drop them a line, they take the bait, and I will not make that same mistake. Oh Miss Erray, you know just how to make me stay. When I finally get ahead, I fall right back in your bed. You play the game so well, but what's your game plan when time spoils those goods you sell? Miss Erray, you've gotten the best of me. But I am not afraid to take back all that you took from me. Oh Miss Erray, you can no longer make me stay. 'Cause I've found myself again, a new place to lay my head. So how you gonna make it up to me? (Hey! Hey!)

That's Self Knowledge 101; to know explore where you may or may not be at fault and try to understand how you can improve.

hm that's a good idea. One where can talk about diets and exercise regimens as well. "Conquer the body, the mind will follow," after all.