Originally posted by PalynkaSuch a long and mundane list... 🙄 Let's start with this thread in this forum, right here, right now, where I'm actually trying to spread what I consider valuable information to folks that I don't even know...
You're on your last days of your worthless life, widgy. Tell me, what have you done to change the world?
Let me guess. 'Be the change'?
... and that's despite their lack of interest and snide and simplistic remarks 😀 ... and I abhor negativity 😕
Originally posted by widgetThat's the best you can muster? Ok, I'll take it at face value.
Such a long and mundane list... 🙄 Let's start with this thread in this forum, right here, right now, where I'm actually trying to spread what I consider valuable information to folks that I don't even know...
... and that's despite their lack of interest and snide and simplistic remarks 😀 ... [b]and I abhor negativity 😕[/b]
I'm then contributing by claiming that your (dis)information is, in fact, pseudo-science.
Originally posted by PalynkaObviously everything that is read is somehow selected. 🙄 I choose not to read the package in which toilet paper come from the store. I will, however, read material that might open my mind or enlarge my vistas. I make those decisions based on a little research and a preliminary scan of the material. 😛 How do you make those choices? 😕 What do you consider important?
Indeed. Only a closed mind thinks that selective reading isn't necessary.
Originally posted by widgetIf what is said affected your world, then all of it would be important. no?
Obviously everything that is read is somehow selected. 🙄 I choose not to read the package in which toilet paper come from the store. I will, however, read material that might open my mind or enlarge my vistas. I make those decisions based on a little research and a preliminary scan of the material. 😛 How do you make those choices? 😕 What do you consider important?
If most everybody is a puppet, then whoever offers the best candy bars can use those puppets as wanted. Anyone else with a few candy bars can jump in to use the puppets where most everybody does not even know the results. As long as that happy world is contained and protected then it's assumed everything is fine in the blindness contained within a happy wardrobe.
Originally posted by widgetShe makes the assertion that someone over-indentifying with an ideological cause is a bad thing? That's garbage. Its a matter of what the cause is. Apartheid for instance. Was Mandelas' or his followers, commitment to there ideological cause a bad thing? Certainly not. He was argueable even more committed to his cause than Eichmann.Mandela was committed enough to not want to weasel his way out of prison.
No trial provides a better basis for understanding the nature and causes of evil than do the Nuremberg trials from 1945 to 1949. Years later, reporting on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt wrote of "the banality of evil." Like Eichmann, most Nuremberg defendants never aspired to be villains. Rather, they over-identified with an ideological cause ...[text shortened]... y: they couldn't fully appreciate the human consequences of their career-motivated decisions.
Strongly or over-identifying with a cause is not in itself a bad thing. Anyone who says that can suck it.
Its a matter of right and wrong. The problem arises when people don't identify STRONGLY enough with what is RIGHT. If anything, THAT'S the problem.
Originally posted by widgetI have my criteria. So do you.
Obviously everything that is read is somehow selected. 🙄 I choose not to read the package in which toilet paper come from the store. I will, however, read material that might open my mind or enlarge my vistas. I make those decisions based on a little research and a preliminary scan of the material. 😛 How do you make those choices? 😕 What do you consider important?
What I find fascinating is that you approach different perspectives with accusations of being evidence of a 'closed mind'.