Interesting Student,

There are many virtues and as your logic is evidently right vices then have also always existed.

So then as virtue desiring beings with vice being ever present how does one not get tempted by it ?

Tom, no offence but you are part of the problem with the current state of psychology.

Peddle the psychobable and prejudice all day it won’t make it right.

Self-reflection on your part is required with introspective honesty.

Perhaps then you might offer some fresh insight and pioneer new ideas for your profession rather than parroting the same old outdate concepts.

But this is but modern day psychology still entrenched in dogma, prejudice and psychobabble and executes these with hitlerian authority.

Let’s just legalise eugenics next

If by chance the therapist denies therapy then they are worse then the patients they portent to treat.

Hypocrisy of Hypocrisies

Next they will suppress vision too for they are the judge of what should or should not be seen.

That is the application of thought and vision control that Orwell so predicted.

Welcome our new masters the psychotherapists who are the thought police.

They need help but do not admit it.

If Russia did ask to join nato back in 2000 what was their intention and long game.

There is no precedent in history of two superpowers forming such an explicit alliance. But perhaps western influence would have been useful to their leadership.

I strongly believe in social mobility although hard disrupting the status quo of the burgoise in the end I see nothing but acceptance and if they don’t then they do so at their peril

That’s ok. Thank you for your stance in all this. At the very least I have been educated on the thoughts of various philosophers on your profile wall as I glanced at it and even absorbing pink floyds brief philosophical point

Disagree on your last sentence at best both parties are to blame with NATO not really taking into account the little man’s insecurities.

I think Germany made similar mistakes … to regain the glory days and by doing so you don’t really understand what empire building really is.

Whether Ukraine would have been absorbed into NATO is nothing but pure speculation now.

The guy was obviously paranoid. Not only this but he wanted to return to the glory days of USSR where they had bigger territory.

This is where his real idiocy lies. Imagine the BRITISH empire going… fuck I miss the good old days let me take back those darn colonies.

You see he wanted to make Russia great again and now he’s fucked it up.

Stupid little man

Ah yes the posh Eton going twats that are doing an excellent job of ruining the economy.

Still I prefer this circus to communism

He was actually trying to exert political influence on Macron before the war begun. He was offering Europe security to which macron rightly rejected.

To ascribe such properties as good bad to God is missing the point slightly.

To err is human. Morality then is not simply rule following otherwise perhaps we’d never got out of Eden but as human curiosity is such that everything must be tried to en extent obviously depending on the corruption or deviousness of such beings then morality can be leaned on through other ways.

To learn it the hard way is of course the natural way I mean do not covet thy neighbours wife is law. But feel free to try it. Once the neighbour starts coveting your wife then you start to understand morality a bit better.

Go swinging for all I care.

Contrast this to say Gates amongst others who although ultra wealthy do not feel the necessity to pass on this wealth to them.

Perhaps it’s right … spoiling your offspring with such flattering wealth can perhaps be depriving them of the real struggle of being a human being and the importance of earning your way

I hope putin doesn’t feel like a cornered dog and with those grubby finger on the button whether he will press it is what a suicidal madman would do.

Not tangential at all. I’ve answer your question fully.

Let me repeat it. For every man made invention there should be a repository of that knowledge/instruction of replicating that invention. When something is invented in a lot of cases it’s also patented.

This I’m sure is stored somewhere

High specialised technical or otherwise knowledge comes at the cost of time invested in it. As it would practically be impossible to learn the mechanism of every invention it is better to have the manual or instructions for its replication somewhere.

But can you regulate your gluttony with the ever increasing amount of SPAM?

Maybe stick to sushi and if you can’t catch it yourself buy it from a fishmonger

I don’t even want to think of the wests response they can play dirty too and are probably counting on it.

I say bring it on.

So this is the dilemma as through conventional means he knows he is losing.

Deploying those tactical nukes (in this day and age) would probably end the war…but then again would he then redeploy his forces to take more land knowing the advantage he has and resume the barbaric land grabbing Witt renewed impetus ?

Problem is his threat of low yield nukes … will the nutter play that card? If it carries on as a stalemate that delays it. If the Russians are forced out back into the unofficially recognised areas where would he deploy such a weapon. He would have to in an area where it wouldn’t affect his forces.

I am not asking for proof in as far as I am asking you not to make up lies.

I did say so but I must contradict myself here. The accumulation of wealth and worldly possessions can be healthy until you die of course so there is that.

So let me then delve into human happiness and selfishness at what point do we truly realise that we in fact are happy and not just feeling a chemical biofeedback mechanism that tells us what we are doing is right ? Is it just happiness itself and the general feel good factor ? I would go as far as to say so.

At some point it doesn’t matter how rich you are that at a basic human level you will have to interact with other human beings for no man is an island although you might own an island.

Perhaps the janitor that works on can simply say … I am not your property or your slave but then another dependent idiot will take their place so it’s not a win win but a lose lose.

Creating dependability on someone worse off than you is parasitic at best and at wirst exploitative.

Not worth answering pandering to my opinion of what I think of such and such a personality is a waste of time.

You made a statement without providing proof then came up with some sort of story.

Didn’t know I was in the fiction section of the site. It seems to me than that all conclusions and accepted facts of this field are not in fact so but narratives of the field itself clinging on to existence by self-justification to the point of inventing and making up lies.

Lies that are easily seen for what they are. Such bold assertion are not philosophical but made up bullshit by uneducated and ignorant minds.

When such uneducated and ignorant minds are practicing psychologist then it’s harmful and dangerous.

I guess my question here is at the risk of coming up with statements describing current economical reality … what are the best ways of combating modern day cartels/monopolies who don’t have the best interests of the common man as their driving principle…

That website is obviously run by an unhinged nutter or a collection of nutters.

Not sure what you mean by the brink word and too many pointless questions there.

Where is the part where they start asking you for money to join?…

It has the makings of a cult playing on the current climate of fears.

Edit: Classic end of days stuff

I’ve lost you ? The train of thought goes something like this … humans have both the capacity for good/evil. Greed and other more explicit forms of immorality should be self assessed by each individual to live in a symbiotic relationship with nature. By nature I include your fellow human being…by for example not taking his land because you think the grass is greener over there. Nor dumping toxic material in the ocean as sometimes by oversight or cost cutting some large corporations do…

Doubt there will be economic democracy then if large corps dictate pure politician policy via lobbying bribes etc

Don't assume much is risked, nor little gained. Putin's wealth is intact, he will be remembered by many as a daring hero of Russia even if he loses (including losing his presidency). The guillotines of the past are gathering dust. A lucrative chairmanship and probably a stunning book deal await the defeated Putin.

As to gains, Europe's a mess. The right wing are gaining ground in the chaos. Ukraine is bankrupt and he still has the most lucrative regions. — Isaac

Lucrative the land he currently holds may be but what’s the point of mining gold if the value of it is determined by the market? Furthermore, the current client base of this is what China ? India? … he has started to in fact Alienate more oil rich former soviet states. His incompetence on display for all to see, not all former Soviet’s have the same level of brainwashing going as Russia.

The other thing if the land you hold is lucrative but you can’t comercially exploit it because the machinery to do so is western means you’re essentially sitting on goldmine but eating gold is not what keeps your biology alive but real nourishment like the basics.

He can drink his oil once his inability to produce milk because he detonated a nuke is not only self/damaging and stupid but …a death wish indeed.

He will have signed his own death warrant then…and though guillotines are rusting novichok has a certain shelf life and like wine gets better with age

The problem with this particular field which so badly wants to be accepted as a science is the illusion of progress.

That is not long ago human beings were tortured, beaten up and killed all in the name of therapy. And as the link I’ve posted above demonstrates it’s still going on.

The profession up to and including director level of such trusts and establishments needs to reflectively ask itself … am I really required here? Am I helping my fellow member of the human species or am I imprisoning them?

And if those questions do not play on their conscience ask am I making a profit from their misery ? Will my next car be a Ferrari or an Aston Martin?

Good draft. No questions here.

I would title it Mutual Enrichment.

There’s already a tax on it the tangible in the form of paying for internet access and the intangible, hijacked attention.

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Perhaps you meant to post your ideas here
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/13531/the-purpose-of-suffering

But since you’re here anyway let me address your point, if the cause is seen as noble and worth suffering for then why not?

Whether this soft science or Micky mouse degree founded by Freud was intended to develop such a cult following that it become dogmatic and anti-scientific remains to be seen but yes it did in fact become so and various myths still perpetuated by it eventually become known as psychology remains at most like alchemy is to modern day chemistry.

They never could turn crap into gold.

He’s timid and that’s fine.

The fact that someone gets rich does not inhibit the poor guy from getting rich. Where it often can go wrong is that the rich guy makes the poor guy depend on him for certain goods, services or needs.

You ask rhetorical questions without giving hints as to what I should be contemplating here.