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    Forgiveness

    MMX2010 replied to Alin's topic in Self Knowledge

    It took me forever to figure this out, too. left-bracket media right-bracket URL left-bracket /media right-bracket ["media"] URL ["/media"] (no quotes between the brackets)
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    What goals do you have in talking to your parents about these experiences?
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    If you're looking for an evolutionary biological / scientific approach, these two books are my absolute favorites - (especially the second). http://www.amazon.com/Why-Lie-Evolutionary-Deception-Unconscious/dp/0312310404/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1405180473&sr=1-1&keywords=why+we+lie+the+evolutionary+roots+of+deception+and+the+unconscious+mind http://www.amazon.com/Why-Everyone-Else-Hypocrite-Evolution/dp/0691154392/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1405180325&sr=1-1&keywords=why+everyone+else+is+a+hypocrite+evolution+and+the+modular+mind
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    Schrodinger's Rapist is the best thing ever because it establishes that "one-in-sixty" is such a sufficiently high risk level that it causes females/feminists to lecture an entire gender. However, it is estimated that between "one-in-ten" and "one-in-twenty-five" families have children whose paternity is false. Therefore, I can confidently state, "If you don't support mandatory paternity testing for all new births in America, then I don't feel guilty rejecting your Schrodinger's Rapist arguments."
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    I'm moving to Las Vegas in August, have friends in Phoenix, and have large swatches of vacation time in my schedule. So whatever works for the group will probably work for me.
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    Within the past six months, Stefan ended a call-in show by telling the caller, "The way you were able to connect with and stay connected to your emotions makes you look like someone who just got liberated from a concentration camp lifting a car!" Does anyone remember the specific call-in show where this happened?
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    Have been listening to this on repeat the last two days. I absolutely adore the two lines in the chorus, "It's a new art form, showing how little we care!" - followed immediately by the manipulative bullshit line, "We're so happy, even when we're smiling out of fear!" Summarizes pretty much everyone who doesn't have good philosophy.
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    Strong disclaimer: I didn't even read your post. So if this is way off, please forgive me. When I read your title, I said to myself, "That's strange. We don't communicate our deepest feelings in order to gain/prevent losing respect; we communicate our deepest feelings to invite intimacy."
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    A friend of mine posted this article on facebook. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20032-transsexual-differences-caught-on-brain-scan.html#.U7s63PfD-po
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    You haven't demonstrated that this actually works. Worse, you said, "As I mentioned before, these narratives advising black men to avoid appearing 'thuggish' actually do exist. Some people criticize these narratives for being racist, which they often are / can be, depending on how sweeping the generalizations in any given presentation are." without offering your own moral opinion about them.
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    On the one hand, you're saying that everyone can help alleviate the problem of sexual aggression. But on the other hand, you're not acknowledging that many (if not most) people who complain about (so-called) sexual aggression lack self-awareness.
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    My thoughts are extremely limited on this question. The first thing I'll say is that ever since listening to FDR, I'm not longer swayed by appeals to "equality", because "equality" isn't a moral principle, but rather a desired outcome. So I always interpret appeals to equality as "because I like it" - which is a non-argument. The second thing I'll say is that I understand your confusion because I am identically-confused. Hopefully other people will shed more light on this question.
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    I thought this video was very informative, but ultimately infuriating. One of Laci Green's first statements manages to combine bad science and bad philosophy. She says (something like), "Your doctor looked at you and assigned you your gender based on your genitals." I think this statement philosophically translates to, "Your doctor looked at you and assigned you the subjective experience named your gender, based on your genitals." This statement is "bad science" because what really happened was, "Your doctor looked at you and assigned you your biological sex, based on whether you would produce sperm or egg cells as an adult." And the statement is "bad philosophy" because it removes "biological sex" - which is an objective term, and replaces it with "gender" - which is a subjective term. So, to me, being transgender is being delusional.
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    I have to go out and get food, so I can only blast a quick response. Later on I'll substantiate these points: (1) There is a rape culture. (2) It's against men, not women.
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    Playing Devil's Advocate: I think most parents strongly believe that they do parent better than their own parents, but they measure in terms of providing material goods / educational opportunities, rather than providing peace, stability, and emotional (non-violent) connection. So peaceful parenting (in my opinion) has to downplay the importance of material wealth and education in order to be successful.
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    Mathematically speaking, which is far more rare: a pretty-but-dumb woman or an intelligent-but-ugly woman? By far, it's the first group. Therefore, the majority of mothers will be pretty-but-dumb. How do these women attract men? With their prettiness. How are they going to explain this? (1) Honestly? "Well, I know I don't have much brains, and consequently that makes me a less valuable person, but I rely on my prettiness to get what I arguably haven't earned." (2) Dishonestly? "Yes, I'm pretty but you're not supposed to judge me; no one should judge anyone." Or, "I'm not dumb; honest!" Or, "Yes, I'm pretty, but there's a conspiracy by men to oppress me because I'm pretty." So if women want to complain that pretty people are oppressed, they should blame pretty-but-dumb mothers who raise their children to value prettiness over intelligence. But that requires honesty.
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    Thanks very much for all of your replies. They were very helpful. This article praises all individuals who overcome negative and burdensome social stereotypes. But the most glaring example of these is, "White men are the causes of racial and gender oppression." Therefore, any White man who succeeds is overcoming the most burdensome negative stereotype imaginable. But they are neither mentioned nor celebrated.
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    "It's nobody else's job to ensure that you won't end up alone: you've got to earn that yourself."
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    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/24/verizon-ad-tells-parents-to-encourage-girls_n_5526236.html?fb_action_ids=10201535002171520&fb_action_types=og.likes Can anyone help me untangle why this article makes me so mad? My first instinct is to say, "If girls seriously give up their passionate dreams to become scientists and engineers just because someone tells them they're pretty, then there's no way in heck they had the intestinal fortitude to solve differential equations in the first place." But I don't know whether that instinct is correct. And I'm sure there's more to my annoyance. Thanks in advance.
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    If you have HBO GO, their documentary series VICE had an excellent episode on the BP oil spill. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efo-7W5wtxQ
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    First of all, I'm very sorry for what you had to go through. Secondly, I'm glad you've chosen to open up to everyone here about this, rather than trying to figure it out alone. In one of the Gold-level podcasts, a caller suddenly realizes that there's a difference between: (1) accepting moral responsibility for your mistakes, and (2) attacking yourself with punishment / verbal abuse while accepting moral responsibility for your mistakes. So you don't need to get mad at / verbally abusive towards yourself while realizing that your abuse of your sister was wrong, caused her much pain, and robbed yourself (for now) of a close relationship with her. If you've read RTR, I think you have the ability to properly express your regret and heartache to your sister. Whether you should do this is up to you.
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    That one is mind-blowingly awesome. Thanks so much for posting it.
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    I find that question ironic because the parents sure-as-heck think so. (That's why they switch from spanking to verbal aggression as soon as the child becomes old enough, and strong enough, to hit them back.) But, overall, you're right. It's not self-defense if it occurs afterwards.
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    I'm sorry that you're going through what you're going through. I'm pretty new to this forum, so please forgive me if my questions seem non-empathetic. How old are you? Why couldn't you refuse to do the work? And why couldn't you say either, "You guys suck at doing the work, so I'll do it all, without your help." or "I'll only help if you don't make any comments about me, nor give me any advice."? Lastly, (and most importantly), why have you concluded, "My anger threatens my life and my future..." rather than "My anger threatens my life and my future with two assholes whom no reasonably empathetic person would ever like..."?
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    ....(adding to your sentence) "...to a community whose members suffered negative (or extremely negative consequences) as a result of being spanked (and/or worse!) during their childhoods, all while being shocked/shocked-I-say! that such opinions would be met with downvotes..." This is like attending, for your first time (and as a non-member), a meeting of the American Association For The Survivors Of Parent-Child Incest and saying, "If I had a four year old daughter, I'd have sexual contact with her, because such sexual contact 'works' by creating a 'bond' that can never be broken. This is obvious, so you don't get to disagree. And if you do disagree, then you have a horrible agenda, are a cult, and are experiencing a downward spiral."
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