I realize that none of you may be interested in that, but just in case.
Ask me anything. Or tell me anything.
TESTEMONAIL: Right and Discordianism allows room for personal interpretation. You have your theories and I have mine. Unlike Christianity, Discordia allows room for ideas and opinions, and mine is well-informed and based on ancient philosophy and theology, so, my neo-Discordian friends, open your minds to my interpretation and I will open my mind to yours. That's fair enough, right? Just claiming to be discordian should mean that your mind is open and willing to learn and share ideas. You guys are fucking bashing me and your laughing at my theologies and my friends know what's up and are laughing at you and honestly this is my last shot at putting a label on my belief structure and your making me lose all hope of ever finding a ideological group I can relate to because you don't even know what the fuck I'm talking about and everything I have said is based on the founding principals of real Discordianism. Expand your mind.
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Show posts MenuQuote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 04, 2014, 09:15:23 PMQuote from: Pixie on January 04, 2014, 09:12:21 PM
does this mean evo psych can suck my strap on now?
Evolutionary psychology is an interesting budding field of investigation that is closely related to medical anthropology. However, it is, as an infant science, highly speculative and subject to loosely formed standards of rigor, as well as widely, WIDELY misunderstood/misappropriated/misrepresented by popular media.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on November 20, 2013, 08:31:46 PM
If I'm not allowed in, I'll burn the building down.
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you are conflating Freedom with Wisdom. Children are generally Free as a default state.
Funny you say that, I was tempted to say you were conflating freedom with heroism/naivety.
In my pretty extensive experience of children (who are, indeed, paragons of freedom until the age of about 3-4), I found that while they are hard little bastards who stick up for themselves like there's no tomorrow, they know full well when to shut up and put up. And are largely not suicidal.
Your experiences have been wildly different from mine.
In what way?
The shutting up and not suicidal.
Quote from: Reverend Roadkill on October 23, 2012, 05:29:52 PM
Also, while I understand your religious views onGgay marriage, I ask you to understand that our system of government and our rights as citizens do not spring from your church. In fact, the very reason you remain untaxedas an example of howis that you are supposed to be apolitical,just aswhile, in contrast, the government is not a religious function. Given that you do not feel constrained to prerserve this separation, I feel I have no choice but to ask my congressional representative to have your tax exempt status removed, with back taxes accruing from 1955 to the present.
Quote from: VERBL on September 25, 2012, 10:48:19 AM
Okay, I guess I just don't see the sense of redefining "prostitution" to cover essentially what is covered by "wage labor", since some highly impressive minds have already done a pretty good job of illustrating how awful the latter is (at least as far back as Marx), all while the former adds on a couple special layers of awful that should be differentiated from the normal kind of awful.
Quote from: VERBL on September 25, 2012, 10:48:19 AM
And I'd wager that in any culture on earth, there's a basic difference between sex and other stuff, which you can notice with the next thought experiment: would you feel very weird about doing X for a friend in need, assuming you have the time and energy to do it and neither dearly love nor strongly dislike said friend? Substitute X with sex to their liking on the one hand, or any other activity (translation, writing, lifting furniture, etc.) on the other.
While cultural hang-ups regarding sex probably make the difference bigger than it has to be, I'm willing to bet there's a difference, universally, in every human culture that ever existed.
Quote from: Ayotollah of Assehollah on September 25, 2012, 11:17:23 AM
Yes, and the fact that people are choosing to explore, in-depth, whether there aren't relevant differences between translation services and porn (there are, obviously) rather than laying out a clear and concise argument about what qualities make porn exploitative to the point that there is moral obligation on the part of the consumer/viewer to not support it, speaks volumes.
Quote from: Ayotollah of Assehollah on September 25, 2012, 11:17:23 AMValid comment, I think. So far not addressed.
...it brings up an important question about how porn stacks up, exploitation-wise, relative to other common options. Presumably, people working in porn know that there are dish-washing jobs, dependency situations where you can get taken out or help paying bills in exchange for sex, etc. and they chose porn. What do they do, if we imagine your porn is limited to X Discordian approved levels of exploitation, when these jobs don't exist? Dish-washing? If so, why don't they choose dish-washing now? Could it be they see porn as a better option? And when we think about that for a moment, doesn't a seem that a lot of this discussion is basically a soft form of paternalism. Hey kid, you're not smart enough to know what's best for you. Let *me* do your thinking for you. Are you folks comfortable with that?
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on September 25, 2012, 12:08:52 PMThe satyrical sentiment brings tears of concord to mine eyes.
It stands to reason that only fucked up, perverted, evil and badwrong people will seek work in this industry of vice and horror. People like that don't wash dishes for a living. People like that eat children and take drugs.
Quote from: Fidel Castro on September 25, 2012, 03:07:48 PM
Babboonery, ITT.