Bedouin

Along an incremental path toward tyranny, one has to watch one's every step. Now this is one big step into foul-smelling dog mess if ever there was one. ... If the people of the US accept such a step then they fully deserve everything that follows.

@OP's second post. What good is this observation if it's only correlative when there's a much more causal one staring everyone in the face: child abuse as the origin of immorality? Not being able or willing to do complex calculations and gain an understanding of physics (high IQ doesn't necessitate being interested in physics either) in order to quantify the events of 9/11 and hence claim that it was an inside job does not really demonstrate the truth value of his argument that less intelligence = more evil. Perhaps another element to consider might be that evil is mostly either the product of malice or incompetence (not all bad parents are knowingly sadistic; many are just idiotic and blinkered.) If this is true then lower intelligence could account for many cases of evil where 'incompetence' or semi-conscious willed ignorance are to blame (as opposed to outright cruelty.) Is it possible to follow these points or have I put my ideas across badly?

Sorry just digging about in necrotic posts, but I just had this image of such a section becoming like a sort of naval vessel at sea, or a prison. There would be so few girls, so much competition and so many guys that we'd end up just saying "fuck it, we're both guys but wanna hook up anyway?" Ratios not good enough, bottom line at the moment.

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Applied for a place on the FB page. Looking forward to joining in!

Well done on the IFS stuff mate. It sounds very rewarding. I might be starting therapy quite soon but can't really partner up at this point as just haven't started seeing any therapist. Stopped seeing an ineffective therapist a while back and resultantly sceptical and hesitant about getting back into therapy. I'm currently reading IFS: Self Therapy by Jay Earley though, have you had a read of that or any of Schwarz's literature on IFS? If so, has it helped you in your therapy?

That was a stellar talk; just incredible. I am in such admiration of her, and I hope to be able to do similar things one day. It is my dream to open the sort of clinic she's talking about and spread the word in just the way she is. It's taken so long for anybody to notice Felitti's ACE study but as the information age makes this transfer more simple and instantaneous, and as we progress along the march toward psychogenesis, perhaps we will see more of these kinds of talks. It would be great to see Stefan have Nadine Burke Harris on the show for an interview. I would love to hear more about this practice she ran.

Well crap, navigated away from the page and lost my post... Since I don't have time to do the calculations myself I will leave it to you as you are interested in the topic. See here, that any layman with a calculator and some photographic evidence can square up the destructive effects of nukes; http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1367/4601340200_472a264c65_b.jpg http://tinypic.com/ka0935.jpg (not sure if these are the same crater) Calculating destruction: And the density of common stone types, being an important factor in making calculations based off of craters: http://geology.about.com/cs/rock_types/a/aarockspecgrav.htm Just figure out the volume of rock displaced, find density and multiply them, and see how far and high the material is thrown and you should have a rudimentary figure of how powerful nuclear detonations are. The radiation is another matter but there are countless examples of how intense and severe it can be. Here is a useful article with lots of good info: http://www.notpurfect.com/travel/nuke/nevada.html I'm surprised this is a discussion really, it seems too blindingly obvious that nukes are real. Reminds me of conspiracies around 'chemtrails', only nukes are so clearly devastating in their immediate effect and fallout.

Hahaha so this is one of the amazing illusions Stefan mentioned he gets people sending him. Awesome thing! It's been hung pretty well too, can't even see any wires or cables.

As a dyslexic I cannot say that I feel quite so ambivalent about this tech! But I understand where you're coming from. Even as a slow writer I'm not sure I'd use this. Just feels like it would be deceptive. If the person asked, I would have to tell them that I had used a machine and they wouldn't look at it the same way from there on.

That's a neat idea actually. If it's 4.5k for maybe 3 years then that's 13,500 dollars and given he's in the US it'd be 0.0042 cents per person (or ~0.007 given not all people in US pay taxes) and much of that may have been funded by money which didn't at that point exist and hence only a fraction of that actually belonged to the refundee. If you wanted to be nice you could just buy them a lunch and be done with it. I'd say that's pretty plain sailing. Nice, and morally acceptable too!

Hey I don't have too much to add just well done, and I hope you have a good one - I imagine it will be! Sorry you had to go through that !

Dw you're remembering it better than me, quite an old film after all. I ought to give it another watch. Yes, it's the same with the invention of lying... In the first scene his wife asks how she looks and he honestly answers terrible or something along those lines, of course it's all just skewed and it's dealing with how our truth-averse world would suddenly look if lying were to become impossible. It goes to show the writers' ignorance (or denial) of the importance of truth in the first place and how it would entirely change the context and setting of the film or skit in the first place.

Just wondering, if they pull the race card, why does that matter beyond the social disapproval, if at all? Not saying I would act any differently but what're your thoughts?

Funny, was thinking of posting this myself. If Stefan has lots to say about Frozen, something tells me he'll have even more to say about this. I thought it was pretty fascinating how there is a board of 'alters' with a host/commanding part in the centre. The altars all seem unique to the point where they have a strong character despite not having words. The father's altars looked very interesting. The two on the far left and right actually looked and acted a lot like children, perhaps borrowing from the concept of the inner child. I like that none of them really seemed to like the idea of 'bringing the foot down', but inevitably it occurred, and the trailer also displayed the 'women good, men bad' trope to a troublesome degree. The mum annoyed me right off of the bat when she said the part about looking at someone and wondering what is going on inside their head, like it has to be some kind of cosmic mystery. How about asking? This gives me a feeling that the movie will go about resolving this issue though. I think that there could be a lot of promise in this. All in all, the more I think about it the more excited I become! Time to watch it again