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| Random Thoughts.... | |
| By: guest5 Date: July 17, 2020, 9:22 pm | |
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| I'd feel like a real ass if I died of melanoma considering my | |
| user name. Hopefully there's an enemy out there thinking: 'don't | |
| worry bro you ain't gonna die of no fucken melanoma....', by | |
| now, or all may have been for naught. :) | |
| Funny where I wound up in life so far.... | |
| That's always a good point to make to people before you share | |
| some hard truths, neither of us asked to be here, and nor did we | |
| make the world the way it was the day we were born. That's two | |
| things all people, including animals, will always have in common | |
| from the day they are born, to the day they die. | |
| All of the worlds problems really are rooted in population and | |
| demographics. | |
| When ever a person makes an anti-depopulation argument you will | |
| notice that they rarely even pretend to truly care about other | |
| people and future generations. Even the argument, "but then a | |
| leader or doctor or somebody we really needed may never be | |
| born", has no sincere compassion in it for the person that has | |
| to be born and suffer a life of violence, trauma, | |
| disappointment, disease and ailments, loneliness to varying | |
| degrees and intervals, physical and mental degradation via aging | |
| process, and a whole host of other bad shit, just to live a | |
| short life and die. Now they're even talking about reproducing | |
| humans to be born in space stations and colonies.... | |
| Bringing consciousness into existence in the material realm | |
| really is some cruel shit to do. I truly believe worshiping a | |
| god who would do something like that is evil.... | |
| #Post#: 993-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Let's talk about things not going the way you planned.... | |
| By: guest5 Date: September 3, 2020, 12:49 am | |
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| Let's talk about things not going the way you planned.... | |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S26-2RXRdOc | |
| I think Beau makes some good points here too. | |
| My biggest take-away from what he said here: (paraphrasing) | |
| [quote]Things are not going to go how you think they | |
| will....[/quote] | |
| [quote]You better believe if this thing kicks off every | |
| adversarial nation to the U.S. is going to try and flood this | |
| country with weapons to help Americans tear each other | |
| apart....[/quote] | |
| #Post#: 1107-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Reformed Neo-Nazi Explains How People Fall Prey to QAnon Online | |
| By: guest5 Date: September 10, 2020, 8:08 pm | |
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| Reformed Neo-Nazi Explains How People Fall Prey to QAnon Online | |
| [quote]Shannon Foley-Martinez, a former violent white | |
| supremacist now working to extract others from extremist groups, | |
| says QAnon attracts people looking for a meaningful connection | |
| and a way to navigate a world that feels unsafe.[/quote] | |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4DkztDjlak | |
| #Post#: 1659-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Gnostic Concepts in Contemporary Entertainment and Art | |
| By: guest5 Date: October 20, 2020, 8:42 pm | |
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| Haven't played this game seriously in quite a while, but the | |
| latest expansion Shadowlands goes live on the 26th of this month | |
| and I think I'm about to jump back in the fray. I know | |
| Aryanists, especially 90sRF probably do not think too highly of | |
| it because it's in 3D, but it's the only game I've played for | |
| the last two decades besides Diablo III. | |
| Anyway, check out this trailer for Shadowlands. I believe it to | |
| be highly Gnostic in concept. Lady Sylvanas is the queen of 'The | |
| Scourge', basically the undead.... | |
| Tell me the ending is not Gnostic, almost Mohammaden Gnosticism, | |
| no?: | |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7L_3J6Rl9Q | |
| [quote]This world is a prison... - Mohammed [/quote] | |
| #Post#: 2203-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Is Borat racist? | |
| By: guest5 Date: November 14, 2020, 12:03 pm | |
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| The comments to the video are priceless! ;D | |
| Is Borat racist? | |
| [quote]Sacha Baron Cohen�s �Borat� films skewer American | |
| prejudices while depicting Kazakhstan as backwards and | |
| anti-Semitic. Are the �Borat� films racist? #Borat | |
| #SachaBaronCohen #Kazakhstan[/quote] | |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVNdYZhHdlI | |
| #Post#: 3597-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Using your voice is a political choice | Amanda Gorman | |
| By: guest5 Date: January 24, 2021, 2:52 pm | |
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| Using your voice is a political choice | Amanda Gorman | |
| [quote]For anyone who believes poetry is stuffy or elitist, | |
| National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman has some | |
| characteristically well-chosen words. According to Amanda, | |
| poetry is for everyone, because at its core it's all about | |
| connection and collaboration. In this fierce Talk, Amanda | |
| explains why poetry is inherently political (in the best way!), | |
| she pays homage to her honorary ancestors, and she stresses the | |
| value of speaking out despite your fears. "Poetry has never been | |
| the language of barriers, it's always been the language of | |
| bridges.[/quote] | |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plU-QpcEswo | |
| #Post#: 3610-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Using your voice is a political choice | Amanda Gorman | |
| By: guest5 Date: January 24, 2021, 6:47 pm | |
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| Marlon Craft - Do The Work (Official Music Video) | |
| [quote]Me and the OUR.S movement are hosting a week of | |
| collaborative non-profit events with dope organizations that are | |
| "doing the work" in NYC.[/quote] | |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa0Uj_d2DTM | |
| They don't want to do the work that much is now obvious to | |
| everyone who did do their work. Many only care about themselves | |
| and feeling good. Those of us who have been paying attention can | |
| now clearly see where these attitudes lead lazy cowardly people | |
| who only care about feeling good. | |
| If the world is a negative place talking about and acknowledging | |
| this fact is not negativity, it is realism.... | |
| #Post#: 3676-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Using your voice is a political choice | Amanda Gorman | |
| By: guest27 Date: January 26, 2021, 7:35 am | |
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| [quote]If the world is a negative place talking about and | |
| acknowledging this fact is not negativity, it is | |
| realism...[/quote] | |
| When you just acknowledge it that's realism. When you fight it | |
| that's idealism. When you bring negativity to the light, and | |
| kill the light, that's negativity. When you bring negativity to | |
| the light, and kill the negativity, that's positivity. | |
| (Do the work. Don't just do the dirt.) | |
| #Post#: 3677-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Using your voice is a political choice | Amanda Gorman | |
| By: guest27 Date: January 26, 2021, 7:48 am | |
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| [quote]Marlon Craft - Do The Work (Official Music Video)[/quote] | |
| These lyrics are brilliant thanks for sharing. I hope this stuff | |
| actually gets to people. | |
| "yo I ain't tryna do the work, homie I could keep it vegan | |
| but **** free range I need free-range feasting | |
| on anything need my dollar fries and i won�t apologize | |
| I�m tryna economize and I ain't tryna do the work" | |
| "i just think you�re / | |
| a little immature if you think i could make a change | |
| i�m just tryna make some change homie i ain�t tryna do the work" | |
| "i protect my own feelings and i watch you get hurt | |
| cuz there's nothin I can do, there�s nothin I can do | |
| that I can add, but there's just so much that I can lose. lose" | |
| #Post#: 3786-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Why It Pays to Be Grumpy and Bad-Tempered | |
| By: guest5 Date: January 28, 2021, 10:51 pm | |
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| I've believed much of what is said in this article to be true | |
| for a very long time, intuitively. Interesting that someone put | |
| it all in an article. I cannot help but laugh at the fools who | |
| jump on the unrealistic 'positivity' bandwagon, or don't believe | |
| that anger is an important emotion therefore attempting to | |
| suppress it. Suppressing emotions because they make you | |
| uncomfortable will lead to a much earlier death than expressing | |
| anger and frustration ever will. This has always been intuitive | |
| for myself, apparently not most people who are quick to jump on | |
| any new bandwagon that comes rolling down the street. "Positive | |
| vibes only!" | |
| Why It Pays to Be Grumpy and Bad-Tempered | |
| [quote]Being bad-tempered and pessimistic helps you to earn | |
| more, live longer and enjoy a healthier marriage. It�s almost | |
| enough to put a smile on the dourest of faces.[/quote] | |
| [quote] On stage he�s a loveable, floppy-haired prince charming. | |
| Off camera � well let�s just say he needs a lot of personal | |
| space. He hates being a celebrity. He resents being an actor. To | |
| his ex-girlfriend Elizabeth Hurley's friends he was apparently | |
| known as �Grumpelstiltskin.� | |
| Hugh Grant may be famed for being moody and a little challenging | |
| to work with. But could a grumpy attitude be the secret to his | |
| success? | |
| The pressure to be positive has never been greater. Cultural | |
| forces have whipped up a frenzied pursuit of happiness, spawning | |
| billion-dollar book sales, a cottage industry in self-help and | |
| plastering inspirational quotes all over the internet. | |
| Now you can hire a happiness expert, undertake training in | |
| �mindfulness�, or seek inner satisfaction via an app. The US | |
| army currently trains its soldiers � over a million people � in | |
| positive psychology and optimism is taught in UK schools. | |
| Meanwhile the �happiness index� has become an indicator of | |
| national wellbeing to rival GDP. | |
| The truth is, pondering the worst has some clear advantages. | |
| Cranks may be superior negotiators, more discerning | |
| decision-makers and cut their risk of having a heart attack. | |
| Cynics can expect more stable marriages, higher earnings and | |
| longer lives � though, of course, they�ll anticipate the | |
| opposite. | |
| Good moods on the other hand come with substantial risks � | |
| sapping your drive, dimming attention to detail and making you | |
| simultaneously gullible and selfish. Positivity is also known to | |
| encourage binge drinking, overeating and unsafe sex. | |
| At the centre of it all is the notion our feelings are | |
| adaptive: anger, sadness and pessimism aren�t divine cruelty or | |
| sheer random bad luck � they evolved to serve useful functions | |
| and help us thrive. | |
| Take anger. From Newton�s obsessive grudges to Beethoven�s | |
| tantrums � which sometimes came to blows � it seems as though | |
| visionary geniuses often come with extremely short tempers. | |
| There are plenty of examples to be found in Silicon Valley. | |
| Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is famed for his angry outbursts and | |
| insults (such as �I�m sorry, did I take my stupid pills today?�) | |
| yet they haven�t stopped him building a $300 billion company. | |
| For years, the link remained a mystery. Then in 2009 Matthijs | |
| Baas from the University of Amsterdam decided to investigate. He | |
| recruited a group of willing students and set to work making | |
| them angry in the name of science. Half the students were asked | |
| to recall something which had irritated them and write a short | |
| essay about it. �This made them a bit angrier, though they | |
| weren�t quite driven to full-blown fits of rage,� he says. The | |
| other half of the group were made to feel sad. | |
| Next the two teams were pitched against each other in a game | |
| designed to test their creativity. They had 16 minutes to think | |
| of as many ways as possible to improve education at the | |
| psychology department. As Baas expected, the angry team produced | |
| more ideas � at least to begin with. Their contributions were | |
| also more original, repeated by less than 1 percent of the | |
| study�s participants. | |
| Crucially, angry volunteers were better at moments of haphazard | |
| innovation, or so-called �unstructured� thinking. Let�s say | |
| you�re challenged to think about possible uses for a brick. | |
| While a systematic thinker might suggest ten different kinds of | |
| building, it takes a less structured approach to invent a new | |
| use altogether, such as turning it into a weapon. | |
| In essence, creativity is down to how easily your mind is | |
| diverted from one thought path and onto another. In a situation | |
| requiring fight or flight, it�s easy to see how turning into a | |
| literal �mad genius� could be life-saving. | |
| �Anger really prepares the body to mobilise resources � it tells | |
| you that the situation you�re in is bad and gives you an | |
| energetic boost to get you out of it,� says Baas. | |
| To understand how this works, first we need to get to grips with | |
| what�s going on in the brain. Like most emotions, anger begins | |
| in the amygdala, an almond-shaped structure responsible for | |
| detecting threats to our well-being. It�s extremely efficient � | |
| raising the alarm long before the peril enters your conscious | |
| awareness. | |
| Then it�s up to chemical signals in the brain to get you riled | |
| up. As the brain is flooded with adrenaline it initiates a burst | |
| of impassioned, energetic fury which lasts for several minutes. | |
| Breathing and heart rate accelerate and blood pressure | |
| skyrockets. Blood rushes into the extremities, leading to the | |
| distinctive red face and throbbing forehead veins people get | |
| when they�re annoyed. | |
| Though it�s thought to have evolved primarily to prepare the | |
| body for physical aggression, this physiological response is | |
| known to have other benefits, boosting motivation and giving | |
| people the gall to take mental risks. | |
| All these physiological changes are extremely helpful � as long | |
| as you get a chance to vent your anger by wrestling a lion or | |
| screaming at co-workers. Sure, you might alienate a few people, | |
| but afterwards your blood pressure should go back to normal. | |
| Avoiding grumpiness has more serious consequences. | |
| The notion that repressed feelings can be bad for your health is | |
| ancient. The Greek philosopher Aristotle was a firm believer in | |
| catharsis (he invented the modern meaning of the word); viewing | |
| tragic plays, he conjectured, allowed punters to experience | |
| anger, sadness and guilt in a controlled environment. By getting | |
| it all out in the open, they could purge themselves of these | |
| feelings all in one go. | |
| His philosophy was later adopted by Sigmund Freud, who instead | |
| championed the cathartic benefits of the therapist�s couch. | |
| Then in 2010 a team of scientists decided to take a look. They | |
| surveyed a group of 644 patients with coronary artery disease to | |
| determine their levels of anger, suppressed anger and tendency | |
| to experience distress, and followed them for between five and | |
| ten years to see what happened next. | |
| Over the course of the study, 20 percent experienced a major | |
| cardiac event and 9 percent percent died. Initially it looked | |
| like both anger and suppressed anger increased the likelihood of | |
| having a heart attack. But after controlling for other factors, | |
| the researchers realised anger had no impact � while suppressing | |
| it increased the chances of having a heart attack by nearly | |
| three-fold. | |
| It�s still not known exactly why this occurs, but other studies | |
| have shown that suppressing anger can lead to chronic high blood | |
| pressure. | |
| And not all benefits are physical: anger can help with | |
| negotiating, too. A major flashpoint for aggression is the | |
| discovery that someone does not value your interests highly | |
| enough. It involves inflicting costs � the threat of physical | |
| violence � and withdrawing benefits � loyalty, friendship, or | |
| money � to help them see their mistake. | |
| Support for this theory comes from the faces we pull when angry. | |
| Research suggests they aren�t arbitrary movements at all, but | |
| specifically aimed at increasing our physical strength in the | |
| eyes of our opponent. Get it right and aggression can help you | |
| advance your interests and increase your status � it�s just an | |
| ancient way of bargaining. | |
| In fact, scientists are increasingly recognising that grumpiness | |
| may be beneficial to the full range of social skills � improving | |
| language skills, memory and making us more persuasive. | |
| �Negative moods indicate we�re in a new and challenging | |
| situation and call for a more attentive, detailed and observant | |
| thinking style,� says Joseph Forgas, who has been studying how | |
| emotions affect our behaviour for nearly four decades. In line | |
| with this, research has also found that feeling slightly down | |
| enhances our awareness of social cues. Intriguingly, it also | |
| encourages people to act in a more � not less � fair way towards | |
| others. | |
| Harsh, but Fair | |
| Though happiness is often thought of as intrinsically virtuous, | |
| the emotion brings no such benefits. In one study, a group of | |
| volunteers was made to feel disgusted, sad, angry, fearful, | |
| happy, surprised or neutral and invited to play the �ultimatum | |
| game.� | |
| In the game, the first player is given some money and asked how | |
| they�d like to divide it between themselves and another player. | |
| Then the second player gets to decide whether or not to accept. | |
| If they agree, the money is split how the first player proposed. | |
| If not, neither player gets any money. | |
| The ultimatum game is often used as a test of our sense of | |
| fairness by showing whether you expect to get a 50-50 share or | |
| whether you are happy for each person to be in it for | |
| themselves. Interestingly, all negative emotions led to more | |
| rejections by the second player, which might suggest that these | |
| feelings enhance our sense of fairness and the need for everyone | |
| to be treated equally. | |
| Reversing the set-up reveals this is not just a case of sour | |
| grapes, either. The �dictator game� has exactly the same rules | |
| except this time the second player has no say whatsoever � they | |
| simply receive whatever the first player decides not to keep. It | |
| turns out that happier participants keep more of the prize for | |
| themselves, while those in a sad mood are significantly less | |
| selfish. | |
| �People who are feeling slightly down pay better attention to | |
| external social norms and expectations, and so they act in a | |
| fairer and just way towards others,� says Forgas. | |
| In some situations, happiness carries far more serious risks. | |
| It�s associated with the cuddle hormone, oxytocin, which a | |
| handful of studies have shown reduces our ability to identify | |
| threats. In prehistoric times, happiness would have left our | |
| ancestors vulnerable to predators. In modern life, it prevents | |
| us paying due attention to dangers such as binge drinking, | |
| overeating and unsafe sex. | |
| �Happiness functions like a shorthand signal that we�re safe and | |
| it�s not necessary to pay too much attention to the | |
| environment,� he says. Those in a continuous happy haze may miss | |
| important cues. Instead, they may be over-reliant on existing | |
| knowledge � leaving them prone to serious errors of judgement. | |
| In one study, Forgas and colleagues from the University of New | |
| South Wales, Australia, put volunteers in either a happy or sad | |
| mood by screening films in the laboratory. Then he asked them to | |
| judge the truth of urban myths, such as that power lines cause | |
| leukaemia or the CIA murdered President Kennedy. Those in a good | |
| mood were less able to think sceptically and were significantly | |
| more gullible. | |
| Next Forgas used a first-person shooter game to test if good | |
| moods might also lead people to rely on stereotyping. As he | |
| predicted, those in a good mood were more likely to aim at | |
| targets wearing turbans. | |
| Of all the positive emotions, optimism about the future may have | |
| the most ironic effects. Like happiness, positive fantasies | |
| about the future can be profoundly de-motivating. �People feel | |
| accomplished, they relax, and they do not invest the necessary | |
| effort to actually realise these positive fantasies and | |
| daydreams,� says Gabriele Oettingen from New York University. | |
| Graduates who fantasize about success at work end up earning | |
| less, for instance. Patients who daydream about getting better | |
| make a slower recovery. In numerous studies, Oettingen has shown | |
| that the more wishful your thinking, the less likely any of it | |
| is to come true. �People say �dream it and you will get it� � | |
| but that�s problematic,� she says. Optimistic thoughts may also | |
| put the obese off losing weight and make smokers less likely to | |
| plan to quit. | |
| Defensive Pessimism | |
| Perhaps most worryingly, Oettingen believes the risks may | |
| operate on a societal level, too. When she compared articles in | |
| the newspaper USA Today with economic performance a week or a | |
| month later, she found that the more optimistic the content, the | |
| more performance declined. Next she looked at presidential | |
| inaugural addresses � and found that more positive speeches | |
| predicted a lower employment rate and GDP in during their time | |
| in office. | |
| Combine these unnerving findings with optimism bias � the | |
| tendency to believe you�re less at risk of things going wrong | |
| than other people � and you�re asking for trouble. Instead, you | |
| might want to consider throwing away your rose-tinted spectacles | |
| and adopting a glass half-empty outlook. �Defensive pessimism� | |
| involves employing Murphy�s Law, the cosmic inevitability that | |
| whatever can go wrong, will go wrong. By anticipating the worst, | |
| you can be prepared when it actually happens. | |
| It works like this. Let�s say you�re giving a talk at work. All | |
| you have to do is think of the worst possible outcomes � | |
| tripping up on your way to the stage, losing the memory stick | |
| which contains your slides, computer difficulties, awkward | |
| questions (truly accomplished pessimists will be able to think | |
| of many, many more) � and hold them in your mind. Next you need | |
| to think of some solutions. | |
| Psychologist Julie Norem from Wellesley College, Massachusetts, | |
| is an expert pessimist. �I�m a little clumsy, especially when | |
| I�m anxious, so I make sure to wear low-heeled shoes. I get | |
| there early to scope out the stage and make sure that there | |
| aren�t cords or other things to trip over. I typically have | |
| several backups for my slides: I can give the talk without them | |
| if necessary, I email a copy to the organizers, carry a copy on | |
| a flash drive, and bring my own laptop to use�� she says. Only | |
| the paranoid survive, as they say. | |
| So the next time someone tells you to �cheer up� � why not tell | |
| them how you�re improving your sense of fairness, reducing | |
| unemployment and saving the world economy? You�ll be having the | |
| last laugh � even if it is a world-weary, cynical snort.[/quote] | |
| https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-it-pays-to-be-grumpy-and-bad-tempered?ut… | |
| Most modern Westerners: "Let's just all come together and sing a | |
| happy song while we pop Soma and be positive. Positive vibes | |
| only!" | |
| Do you not realize it's idiots like you that are destroying this | |
| planet? You make me sick! :D | |
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