It all begins and ends in your mind.

@divegeester said
Who’s the guy in the bathtub and why is he handcuffed?

Is this a homosexual fantasy of yours?

@philokalia said
(1) It's from a film.

(2) No, it's not a fantasy of mine.

(3) Aren't you against homophobia? You are really bad at being liberal and tolerant, yet you otherwise embrace all of their stances.

If I want to have sex with a man in a bath tub, isn't that something to be celebrated?

Don't try to take up jiu-jitsu, bro. You are not very skilled at reversing these things.

@philokalia said
Don't try to take up jiu-jitsu, bro. You are not very skilled at reversing these things.

Let's be the change we want to see.

... Dive, I love you, and I want us to start over. Let's just talk about things in a calm way and understand that our differences do not have to make us rant bitterly.

Let's just post oru thoughts, and our replies, and avoid the ad hominem.

What do you say, mate?

@philokalia said
Let's be the change we want to see.

... Dive, I love you, and I want us to start over. Let's just talk about things in a calm way and understand that our differences do not have to make us rant bitterly.

Let's just post oru thoughts, and our replies, and avoid the ad hominem.

What do you say, mate?

@philokalia said
I'm talking about how we are limited to the real circumstances around us and thus it does not all begin and end with our mind.

Feel free to mount an argument against that position as opposed to dislodging the context.

@philokalia said
The you is the abstract concept of the everyman, lol.

It applies to the universe.

Like, for instance, when a car crashes through the window of a storefront, a man might say,

"You don't see that every day!"

Or, a man reflecting on his previous life as a drug addict and trying to make an observation might say,

"You can try as hard as you want, but if you d ...[text shortened]... t truly, actually want to quit, you can't quit."

Do you (specifically you, FMF) see what I mean?

@fmf said
Surely this disingenuous prattle has nothing to do with the previous off-target prattle I was asking you about. Look, I'm interested in the stuff I mentioned and not in bathtubs and broken windows. Substance abuse could be relevant to what interests me about the OP quote but you'll just have to talk to someone else about all this other pretentious blather.

@fmf said
I'm not interested in stuff like steel handcuffs.

@philokalia said
Obviously, it doesn't have to be steel handcuffs.

It can be your sickness, or your hunger, or your poverty, or the fact that you have to work 40 hours a week to survive, or the fact that you need a car to get into the city, or the fact that your mother died of cancer when you were 9 and you have been emotionally shook up to some degree ever since, never fully recovering ...[text shortened]... , and I hope that you put more effort into understandign content, and thus avoid these smug retorts.

@philokalia said
It can be your sickness, or your hunger, or your poverty, or the fact that you have to work 40 hours a week to survive, or the fact that you need a car to get into the city, or the fact that your mother died of cancer when you were 9 and you have been emotionally shook up to some degree ever since, never fully recovering from the heartbreak...

@philokalia said
I decided to explain the basic English of it to you because I thought it was absurd for a native speaker to ask such a question...

@philokalia said
I love you, FMF, and I hope that you put more effort into understandign content, and thus avoid these smug retorts.

@philokalia said
Are you really pretending that ... like ... you suddenly can't extrapolate something?