One of the best things about children is that you get to reexperience the magic of the world through their eyes. — DifferentiatingEgg
And what can we say about the superordinate concept imparting to ‘masculine’ and feminine’ their intelligibility? — Joshs
I mean, when my will is moving my hand, I can call it "magic" according to Crowley's definition. I can also call it non-magic as I have a scientific explanation for it. — Quk
In the end everything can be called "magic" and "non-magic" as well. — Quk
Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), a British occultist, defined "magick" as "the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will",[9] adding a 'k' to distinguish ceremonial or ritual magic from stage magic.[1] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_(supernatural)
Men have been abusing women from the dawn of recorded history. I'm sure the abuse happend way before that. If you get a bunch of men and women together human nature is such that a non-trivial amount of men are going to violate the women. Tim wood thinks perhaps 100% of women can tell a story of sexual assault. I think he's right. All the women I know have horror stories about men. — RogueAI
The egalitarianism typical of human hunters and gatherers is never total but is striking when viewed in an evolutionary context. One of humanity's two closest primate relatives, chimpanzees, are anything but egalitarian, forming themselves into hierarchies that are often dominated by an alpha male. So great is the contrast with human hunter-gatherers that it is widely argued by paleoanthropologists that resistance to being dominated was a key factor driving the evolutionary emergence of human consciousness, language, kinship and social organization.[33][34][35][36]
Most anthropologists believe that hunter-gatherers do not have permanent leaders; instead, the person taking the initiative at any one time depends on the task being performed.[37][38][39] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter-gatherer#Social_and_economic_structure
What I'm making is the more modest claim, that the feminine parts are strictly feminine and the masculine parts are strictly masculine. — fdrake
Isn't it unavoidable. — fdrake
You can parse each of these transitions as inseminations or births, and flip the gender they count as. If your word spills on the page, you birth it from within you, blah blah. — fdrake
The only thing we have at hand as listeners and readers is ink and sound. So how can anything be transmitted? — JuanZu
I have no problem with an intention being the cause of the characteristics of something written in ink. But it is one thing to be the cause and another to be the ghost in the ink or in the sound. Since the sound comes out of our mouth the intention is left behind. — JuanZu
Meaning and purpose to be exact. — Darkneos
With making meaning I don’t think you need purpose to do so. — Darkneos
If intentions and purposes were somehow in the ink (for me that is pure fantasy) there would be no possibility of misunderstanding. — JuanZu
Effectively it is to me, especially since we are talking about language where use does determine use. We aren't talking about objects or anything else so your argument doesn't apply. — Darkneos
Still doesn't change what I mean about two sides. — Darkneos
You're intending to make use of something — Darkneos
I repeat, this is because if it were not absent we would be talking about something similar to the ghost in the machine, in this case the ghost in the ink. — JuanZu
With making meaning I don’t think you need purpose to do so. — Darkneos
Use determines use, paradoxical it may seem. — Darkneos
I will respond to your longer post, just when I've got more brainpower. — fdrake
I tend to walk up to those people when I see them in the street. They get sick of me. — fdrake
There is another aspect of my disagreement, which I've focussed on up until this point - a methodological one. But let's focus on this object level one for now, since the methodological discussion should probably come after this one. — fdrake
They then publish your article, which puts it into the world, which is male... or is it giving birth? — fdrake
You can parse each of these transitions as inseminations or births, and flip the gender they count as. If your word spills on the page, you birth it from within you, blah blah. — fdrake
The point there is that whether something is masculine or feminine will depend upon how it's described. Which it shouldn't, because the act should be intrinsically masculine or feminine, no? A manifestation of all permeating principle? It should not turn on the whims of our description. — fdrake
Thanks for clarification. If I can ask for a bit more, how do you think I have been disagreeing with it? While I know what you've written, I don't know how you've read what I've written. — fdrake
Okay. Can you please recap your position for me, what you believe we're disagreeing about, so that I can better engage with you? — fdrake
-- The masculine is interpreted, be it psychologically or physically, as being “that which penetrates (alternatively expressed, as that which inseminates via information)”.
-- Whereas the feminine is interpreted, again either psychologically or physically, as “that which is penetrated (alternatively, as that which is inseminated by information)”. — javra
I see you as talking about masculine archetypes, — fdrake
quite strongly criticised in eg Boise (2019)'s "Editorial: is masculinity toxic?". — fdrake
I've explained my reasons for this. — fdrake
Obviously murder and rape are evil. — fdrake
Toxic masculinity, interpreted in the sense of an essential collective archetype, is exactly the kind of mythopoetic move that feminism which deals with masculinity tends to reject. Though obviously not all feminists reject every essentialism. — fdrake
You can't specify mechanisms for Jung, conspiracies or the occult, you tend to be able to gesture in that general direction for the left buzzwords. — fdrake
If you want a stereotype to serve as an explanation, it's fine. That can even be rhetorically useful. But it's not a good lens to study anything by. — fdrake
Sex isn't something you can just define away. — fdrake
I don't like toxic masculinity as a concept at all personally. I wish we cold stop speaking about it.
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For me it's a liberal left version of mysticism. — fdrake
Homo sapiens hunter gatherers weren't just like us -- because much of what we are depends on when, where, how, and by whom we are bred and raised. — BC
Nothing you've said contradicts me. — DifferentiatingEgg
That's fine if you don't agree, doesn't make you right. — DifferentiatingEgg
It's common knowledge that Greek antiquity were premoral. As were many other. — DifferentiatingEgg
Because it's only the psychopath that does not experience this, right? — javra
No, moralizing, the bad conscience, ressentiment, and responsibility are trade marks of the Judeo-Christian morality: — DifferentiatingEgg
Nope it actually reads that the weak internalize negatively and gain a bad conscience, which the strong internalize positively and don't have a bad conscience. — DifferentiatingEgg
It is this internalization that causes within the weak, feelings of ressentiment, and bad conscience and being responsible for said shame and guilt. This is the pathology of Judaism—its own backbiting virtue. — DifferentiatingEgg
Psychopathy, or psychopathic personality,[1] is a personality construct[2][3] characterized by impaired empathy and remorse, along with bold, disinhibited, and egocentric traits. These traits are often masked by superficial charm and immunity to stress,[4] which create an outward appearance of apparent normalcy.[5][6][7][8][9] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy
The weak, however, outnumber the strong more than 1000 to 1.
This is the pathology that Nietzsche details to the Jew, before assigning to them a mission to revamp European communities. — DifferentiatingEgg
“The Jews, however, are beyond all doubt the strongest, toughest, and purest race at present living in Europe, they know how to succeed even under the worst conditions (in fact better than under favorable ones), by means of virtues of some sort, which one would like nowadays to label as vices—” — Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"The fact that the Jews, if they wanted (or if they were forced, as the anti-Semites seem to want), could already be dominant, or indeed could literally have control over present-day Europe—this is established. The fact that they are not working and making plans to this end is likewise established….[W]hat they wish and want instead…is to be absorbed and assimilated into Europe…in which case it might be practical and appropriate to throw the anti-Semitic hooligans out of the country…."
This passage exemplifies Nietzsche’s typical contempt for Germans, and it stands all the standard anti-semitic tropes of the day on their head. Of course the Jews could control Europe, since they are a “stronger race,” but it is “established” that they have no interest in doing so! And precisely because they are superior to Germans, they should be allowed to assimilate, contrary to anti-semites, who are the ones who should really be thrown out of the country. Holub, remarkably, obscures all this through selective quotation and flat-footed paraphrase (e.g., Holub seems to think Nietzsche’s mockery of German antipathy towards Jews really “validate(s) the German need to exclude Jews as crucial for the health of the nation” [122]). When Holub returns to the same passage in Chapter Five, he suggests that it endorses a distinction between “anti-Semitism and a more acceptable, less virulent Jewish attitude” (161), when it does nothing of the kind. Nietzsche’s point is that he has “yet to meet a German who was well disposed towards Jews,” a fact only obscured by the fact that some Germans advertise their rejection of extreme anti-semitism. But since Germans as a whole (unlike other Europeans) are “a people whose type is still weak and indeterminate,” Nietzsche suggests even those who reject extreme anti-semitism still maintain an anti-Jewish attitude. Holub’s misrepresentation of Nietzsche’s text here is revealing. — https://newramblerreview.com/book-reviews/philosophy/nietzsche-s-hatred-of-jew-hatred