Sweet, thanks.

The Iliad (third time, damn it's so good)
The Hero with a Thousand faces (thought it was a little starry eyed)
Currently Divine Comedy (tons of allusions to classical literature, and all poetic af, quiet good).

All good, I've done tons and tons of it, so I'm probably just perma-stoned is all.

Full disclosure, I haven't had any weed in a couple months, but I'll be getting some soon, I have periods of stress, and sleeplessness is my excuse, normally I just listen to music, get totally lost in thoughts, and lay around, so I don't tend to post very much when I have any anyway.

So you're wrong if you're thinking recently.

Probably all of the above. Though, unless super harmful, I'm not puritanical, I think one definitely shouldn't kill themselves, or engage in self-destructive behavior, but the body likes stimulants, and drugs. Shiva was totes into weed.

Except for Benkei, he's too little for blood sports.

I wasn't trying to squelch anyone, I just wanna say, I want to hear more and more from them, and for them to do the opposite of going away. I wouldn't even pay any attention to them at all if I was indifferent to their contributions. More!

Imagine we're all neurons in a single brain, neurons do two things basically, they fire, and recruit other neurons to fire the same way, to harmonize with them. The second thing they do, is tell other neurons to stfu. They inhibit other neurons from firing differently.

I think that we can actually do without the second one. I think that one neuron can change the whole brain, I believe in that power, and think that we can be confident and steadfast in our harmonizing tune, believing in its truth and goodness, and not at all engage in strong negative recruitment, in the silencing and suppression of dissent, but seeing it as highly valuable, if we believe in more than just the selfish fulfillment and adoptions of our tune, but know that we're all in this together, and we steer the world towards greener pastors, or off a cliff.

Philosophy is the love of the pastor, and not the cliff.

Sapientia can be kind of a jerk, I have video evidence.

The average interlocutor.

I don't really know, there is surely a male bias, based on the demographics and numbers alone, and not at all based on any male's opinions, sensibilities, favoritism, or discrimination. That's all male bias, because it a male doing it, and it is biased. The only way to defeat that bias would be with female numbers, and equalization. We want more women, more women is the only cure. Being enemies and friends of women is just more male bias. That's all I'm saying.

I was reactionary, and was in the mind of thinking of being accused of being like some mocho neanderthal, and that's not cool, not cool at all. That ain't hows I sees it at all.

I'm trying to think hard, and speak carefully this time, all I want to expound is that we all agree that there is an imbalance, and that that is unfortunate, and impoverishing, and undesirable. I am merely reacting to the notion that it's anyone's fault, that there can be other explanations.

I like Sapientia, but I argue with him all the time, that "higher caliber" stuff was a bit much, I guess that I just believe that women are strong, and don't like to see dudes coming to their defense, and stealing their strength. Doing things for people that they can do for themselves isn't helping them, it's robbing them.

I agree that abuse, or a jagged edge is definitely in need of sharpening, and we don't want to be cutting for the sake of violence, but remedy. I just felt like we're all kind of being attacked and called dicks here, maybe it wasn't was you said, I think it was probably Benkei, I misspoke, not you. I blame him.

I know that you have a great relationships with him, and I would like to think that I do as well. I am a competitive person, but not unreasonable, so I may annoy him from time to time, but I don't think that he disrespects me, nor I him. Maybe that was an uncalled for comment, I just couldn't help myself, because this one time, mommy and daddy didn't get along, and then mommy left over it, and I have a sore spot for that happening...

I just want to say, are we sure that we want to conclude that the reason there isn't a 50/50 split of the sexes with contributors is because we're all just fuckers? Well, not the one pointing the finger surely... I've mastered the whole hand point, so that none are ever pointing back at me.

I've defended you lots of times, and I hope that you don't think I've ever disrespected you, we's tight.

Sup Kevin, you're responsible for my good buddy taking off, sure we had our ups and downs, closeness, and falling outs, but who can stay mad at me? She fucking hated you though, and you were a big contributing factor in her leaving. That's just a fact. What actual female contributors has Sapientia made leave because of clashes of values and ideologies? How do you know what the women want out of their philosophy, do you attract them to the forum, or scare them outs?

Now, I like you great, this isn't a personal attack, just a fact check.

Notice how you've actually called me names? Attacked me personally, while supposedly being all for the precise opposite of that?

When people start getting accusatory, and saying that a victimization is taking place, and start to go on a witch hunt for the oppressors, then maybe they really need some damn good evidence of witches, and their evil deeds? Not just self-righteousness, and a deep need to be the good one, that puts pitch forks firmly into their hands?

You can disagree with my characterization, as you exaggerate it to a point I rarely attain in every exchange.

I'm all for welcoming suitable new members, whether male or female, human or avian — Sapientia

Indeed, it's alls about the content, and not the form.

I'm definitely all for welcoming women, and would like to see more of them as much as anyone else does, I in no way think that they can't be as good, or offer differing perspectives and experiences that are fundamental, and requisites to a fuller deeper view, but I just don't like the explanation that the reason there already isn't a 50/50 split ratio is because there is something wrong with anyone or anything necessarily.

Which is probably why women aren't going to be as interested in philosophy, the hard sciences, or political groups, because they're all about brutal attacks of ideology. They're intellectual blood sports.

I don't think that it says anything negative about women for not being interested in them, and I think that women should definitely be encouraged and welcomed in them, but to fundamentally alter their very natures, destroy them, transform them into something else entirely in order to market better to female sensibilities over male ones, as if there is no difference at all, or female sensibilities are always superior, in every single imaginable context is not valuable, nor desirable.

Being protected from harm, a safe space is the precise opposite of vulnerability. Just like a bomb shelter does the opposite of making one vulnerable to bombs.

Thinking that one has to remove the possibility of harm in order to make vulnerability possible is to vastly misunderstand something.

Scientific theories simply arent generalized localized observations in the first place...

You said you had only 10% women, if you look at a creative writing poetry, music, or romantic fiction forum (not because those are the go to girl topics, but because of my own experiences with them), you will find a far greater balance, the latter most one being like 70% women. When only 10% are women, that means little interest, in my eyes.

Men act differently in a group of 90% women, and women act differently in a group of 90% men, than they do given other balances, of say 50/50, or majority of their own gender, or even exclusivity of the other gender, which is why girls and boys clubs exist, and exclude the other gender in the first place.

I just think that it's the subject matter, can't do much to inspire interest and engagement when it just isn't there.

I'm pretty sure that it's the subject matter. A poetry or creative writing forum would have a better balance, as would a music forum. (I had a website dedicated to romantic fiction that was majority female populated back in the day... always been a big believer in true love)

As for it being a man's world, and women don't want to be attacked and spoken over, even on an alt-left forum, full of people that accepted hardline thirdwave feminism? Where you guilty of it, unconsciously? Was it just like a couple people?

What could be done about that, other than shut up, and don't disagree? Or don't disagree without gushing apology and kid glove kindness, as to not force them into silence...

The speed of light isn't based on observation, but theories about how mass, acceleration, energy, momentum, and gravitation work. What supports them is predictions, not describing things that have been observed, and then inferring a general principle, but theorizing a general law, and predicting the observation before hand.

I miss her, should have just angry danced it out...

Maybe it's haunted, and Porat is afraid of spooky ghosts.

I think that the difference is one of dissent, and suppression. We should be able to vehemently verbally disagree, and tell people what we really think 110% of the time, but when we start burning heretics, we've gone astray.

I'm willing to take all of the credit for that. People, including ourselves, can write of accuracy and sense as fallacious nonsense sometimes too. The risks we take.

I guess this would just support a case where it is that our memories are fallible and cannot be relied on as fact. — Another

Don't have much of a choice on that most of the time, can't be too uncertain of our thoughts and recollections, or we wouldn't be able to operate in the world, but shouldn't be too sure either, or we won't be as willing to update, and reevaluate them. Somewhere in the middle is usually best.

I don't risk sounding crazy, I strive for it. One time my roommate used my little metal tea container dealy, and put it in his cup of tea, and it all spontaneously boiled over, and he was shocked and confused, but I told him that it was all full of air, and when you put it in the hot water like that, and it's heavy and metal, it sunk quickly, quickly forcing the air through the holes, making it appear to boil, and then I saw his face go from being shocked at something fantastic, to seeing it mundane, and feeling silly, and then turn to rejection, and denied that that was the whole story. Doesn't make as good of a story. Just like life of pi. Insertion of the fantasy amps up the emotional significance, memories are emotionally tagged and ordered as well. I imagine that not knowing how we feel about something makes us also not quite sure about how we remember it from time to time as well.

That's because we tell stories, piece things together algorithmicly and heuristically, all falling back on the same kinds of principles for thought and action. There are only so many different ways it would make sense to reconstruct a coherent memory of something, the monopoly man having a monocle, rich fancy dudes often do, a dash or not in kitkat. No one remembers a little drawing of a dinosaur in there though, or remembers the monopoly man being a red neck, or indian chief.

You can to a degree, people like to call it the Mandela effect sometimes. Go to a place you were years ago, watch a movie you saw years ago, or read a book or something, you will find that both detailed recollection, and whole picture apprehension to be distinctly different now than you remember. I'm sure you've experienced that.

I posted it because what you said above reminded me of it, so really you posted it. That's how this works now.

Not really, I was just being cute, one of my specialties. I don't experience deja vu, I get jamais vu -- it's the feeling you get when you realize that those that are closest to you have been replaced by exact doubles by the FBI, or aliens... not sure, I'll tell you how the interrogation goes.

I think I've seen this topic before...

I still think we are dealing with more than just left and right brain thinking. Maybe an intuitive grasp of a transcendent Reality? — MysticMonist

This is the funny thing about it, as the video attempts to illustrate, the one form of grasping through precise models, details, and formulations is always to some degree empty. Framing it in terms of hemispheric function is going to get the whole message across better to certain sensibilities, because all of the pieces that are used to paint the picture seem more real, or persuasive, attention grabbing, significant to a certain mindset. The double edged sword though, is that it appeals to people that do not find more mystical, traditional representations persuasive, significant or true. Those that do though, will find this sort of representation as cheapening, or reducing the reality of the message by painting it in more materialistic, mechanistic, functional language, rather than that of art, emotion, spiritual grandeur.

I favor eminationism, like the Gnostics, and Hindus. They jive best with my experiences and sensibilities.

"What adult goes full force against children?" - Madara Uchiha.

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Ha! I just noticed that the lyrics writer didn't get the Pavlov's dogs reference.