What say you, Jamal? — Noble Dust

According to the records, as of three years ago, Jamal has read Mr Vertigo, Leviathan, Moon Palace, and a couple of others — praxis

Attention spans are down to 5 seconds.
Being interrupted or talked over.
No one reads anything greater than 3 or 4 sentences.
No one will read, watch, or listen to what you recommend - no matter how enthusiastically.
People who, when describing what person X said, does a voice impression that reduces that X to a blithering idiot.
Anyone who thinks "Saving Private Ryan" is a great movie.
Reaction videos.
The phrase "YOLO." — Mikie

• Liars and bullshitters: the reason this is intensely annoying to me and not just a bothersome but ordinary fact of life is that I didn't know until recently just how many of them there are. There are a lot of them. Disappointed!
• The bureaucracy of national residency, visas, taxes, etc.
• The punishment of ordinary Russian citizens by EU sanctions, banks, etc.

I am from the United States and am moderately conservative. I am a Christian of the Catholic/Orthodox variety. — Leontiskos

Seems like Dick was in the vanguard — T Clark

In a sense I guess he invented dystopian fiction — T Clark

Real name - Adrian Czajkowski — T Clark

Soon after dawn I stood naked on the lawn among the drowsy pelicans.

Again I ejaculated beside the tennis courts, and hurled my semen across the flower-beds.

At the filling-station I ejaculated across the fuel pumps, and over the paintwork of the cars standing in front of the showroom. — Ballard

Adrian Tchaikovsky — T Clark

Both from The Atrocity Exhibition. Weird stuff — Srap Tasmaner

But don't miss Vermilion Sands for the other side of Ballard — Srap Tasmaner

Has no one on this site read any sociology or anthropology? — unenlightened

It seems to me a lot of our traditional "mental" vocabulary does not refer to exclusively internal states of human beings, but rather to mental rather than, I guess, bodily interactions with the environment and objects. We distinguish, and presumably have for a very long time, between chopping down a tree and looking at it, wondering if it's big enough for the beam we need. Both descriptions involve both the guy with the sharp implement and the tree, so just as <chopping down a tree> doesn't map cleanly onto postures and movements of my body alone, in the absence of a tree, so <estimating a tree's yield> needn't map onto something going on in my brain in the absence of a tree. — Srap Tasmaner

As it happens, representational theories of mind will map the necessary tree onto my internal representation of the tree, and you'll see often on this forum theories that claim my goal in either case to produce a certain state of my internal model. I think that's a very different issue from whether our everyday vocabulary around thinking, perceiving, imagining, remembering, and so on, not only presupposes objects for these activities but folds them into terms that are in some ways holistic. — Srap Tasmaner

Does that make any sense? — Srap Tasmaner

I can see you have not been persuaded by the argument thus far and probably won’t be, until you can see a reason why you should accept. At that point, you might typically say I see. So - what is it that you see? (Or in the other case, what is it you’re not seeing?) Whatever it is (or isn’t) it won’t be seen as a consequence of anything physical that has passed between us. — Wayfarer

No belief is rationally inferred if it can be fully explained in terms of nonrational causes — Wayfarer

I usually use hyphens for dashes but in this post—in your honor—I've used em dashes. — T Clark

What a pain in the ass they are. — T Clark

I think the content of your post that I took the above quotes from is fair enough but I think the assumptions made in your last sentence are inaccurate. You assume I don't understand before rejecting.
I disagree. — universeness

My point is that identifying reasons for falling in love with someone is not post hoc. They are present in your thoughts during the very moments that the experience starts imo, the reasoning is just very fast and 'flash like'. — universeness

You, and imo, Zizek are suggesting that such as 'oh my goodness look at her over there, I think I'm in love!!' has no reasoning behind it. I think that's untrue. It's just that all the reasons are happening at top speed in your head. — universeness

Aesthetically stunning ....... tick
Posture alluring (sitting or walking) ...... tick
Body language ....... tick
These reasons are manifest in parallel thought. — universeness

Basically I agree with you. But the local religion is also part of the social and geopolitical situation. So perhaps it might be more accurate to say that religion is only part of the problem, or one factor in the problem. Or, perhaps still more accurate, that the local interpretation of the religion is a factor in the problem. — Ludwig V

living in a liberal secular society — Jamal

Religion's an enabler of those prejudices though innit. Not in the abstract. But would the world have had Qutub without an amenable Islamic ideology? I doubt it. Female genital mutilation without the religious practices that mandate it? I also doubt it.

Being strongly critical of politically ascendent religion is an attempt to create a liberal notion of freedom, which must be affirmed to make more radical freedom possible. IMO anyway. — fdrake

If you have reasons to love someone, you don't love them — Zizek

Are you looking for the opinion of others regarding this quote, before you offer your own?
Is another way of putting this:
If you love someone then you must have no reasons to! — universeness

But only exaggeration is true. — Adorno

If you have reasons to love someone, you don't love them — Zizek