The travesty is not the shutting down. That was - and is still - required for public safety.

The mistake in public programming(the language being used to talk about the pandemic nearly across the board atm) is to call the shut down a travesty, as if it is the problem. It's not. Rather, those measures were taken based upon our knowledge of how to best stop the spread of infectious disease which is, in turn, based upon our own past experience of them. — creativesoul

I'm still reprogramming, here. Bear with me here. What was the point of shutting down schools? It's not kids travel to Malaysia or China for the matter.

What does that have to do with your own expressed desire to reprogram yourself? — creativesoul

Too much error code?

Ah... I think you're referring to the current collective attempts at restarting the American economy which are attempting to have Americans accept the fact that some people will die? — creativesoul

Bingo, you're always on point.

I do not understand how pre-schools and schools got shut down. How did this travesty happen?

Not sure what the mention of GDP has to do with this. — creativesoul

Good programming is good GDP.

Yup, I can believe that. What's wrong with accepting death? — creativesoul

It's cruel. We shouldn't accept death and become apathetic, should we? It hurts auer Gee-Dee-Pee.

I just keep on stalling creative. We're raised to accept death, can you believe that?

That's the first step. Set out as many of the adopted belief within your own worldview that you can. — creativesoul

Too fucking many, creative! Is creativity the answer? Is it really?

OK, I think I understand. But, can you actually deprogram and then reprogram, your-self?

A reprogramming is a change in one's worldview, in how one thinks about the world and/or themselves. World-views consist of thought and belief. Thus, a change in programming is a change in worldview which is a change in one's own belief-system about the world and/or oneself. — creativesoul

What then, is a deprogramming sequence?

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/535573796854431764/709148978662473809/ecqcp7gZjg1a.gif

We all are, all the time, through space-time. — tim wood

*bliss*

Best advice I ever got was from an unlikely source, and a throw-away line at that: "Sometimes you just have to kick yourself out the front door." Doesn't mean you cannot or should not plan, but when the time comes to move, move. And if that's a problem, then the solution. — tim wood

You must be moving at light-speed man.

*stalling*

Broadly speaking, philosophy. Done as seriously as one can, not like a twit as with many of us here. Serious questions, serious answers to those questions. — tim wood

I feel as though this is the best of all possible channels. But, the remote is a little inflexible. I've gotten programmed hard here. How about you?

ABA is a science so they have documented data and studies to show what works and what doesn't. Plus, walking in sandals is not so good for the winter especially if it snows. — Julia

Then put on those weird Scandinavian pantofels or whatever they're called. :blush:

But I say, and the evidence supports, that it is not entirely one's head that is intolerable, but the what society projects into one's head. When society is projecting onto some other 'enemy', as in war time, then the suicide rate drops. — unenlightened

Unprogramm me, master.

When homosexuals are not persecuted, labeled as perverted and deviant, beaten up on the streets, and, ahem, forcibly treated by psychiatrists, lo and behold, they commit suicide less. — unenlightened

Actually, asexuals suffer the most.

The ABA therapist will stop their escape and will not let them leave until the shoes are on and tied whether by the child alone or by the child and the therapist if help is needed. — Julia

That torture, not therapy.

Let them walk in sandals.

I'm getting mad depression dudes. Idk what's going on lately.

Can one do otherwise when faced with the truth of meaninglessness? Existential nihilism is the stuff of horror stories - like a malicious spirit it'll haunt our thoughts until our deaths. Quite odd that the very reason for our angst - death/nonexistence - will also serve to liberate us from that angst. — TheMadFool

Don't die, then. Just philosophize. I would miss ya.

I believe there was a philosopher, I forget his name, who claimed that the biggest problem in philosophy is suicide in the sense that not enough people are contemplating it in the face of the meaninglessness of life. People who are suicidal seem to see no purpose in their continued existence. — TheMadFool

But, not to fixate on it surely?

One cannot teach or enforce cooperation by means of coercion. — unenlightened

Oh my fucking God. I have seen things and this is one of them.

:ok:

Yeah, I know Biden just ate that baby on live TV, but you know, the supreme court! — Baden

Or smoke crack.

I wanna see Biden have a mental breakdown on stage.

Papa, son, mommy!

Either of them could eat a live baby and it'd still only be a fight over a few percentage points. Such are the wonders of a two party system and the self-fulfilling attitude of having no choice. — Baden

Let's elect Coronavirus, please. It's doing pretty well on the forum, and we have it going for something like 4-5 months.

You can safely relegate that to the bottom of your solution list, Shawn. — Baden

Baden, is this really happening? What's this going to be:

90% Trump-0, 5% Biden?

But according to Dianne Feinstein, who was instrumental in going after Kavanaugh, Reade is a liar, because, I don't know, it's a Dem this time. Stacy I'll-say-anything-to-get-that-VP-slot Abrams recently jumped on that train of shame too. :vomit: — Baden

Dude, it's such a fucking trainwrek, I want to start meth or something.

Did we really just abandon Sanders over this sloth-turd?

I have been living of fear my whole life of death; but, then I read this, and became enlightened.

They have all the keys BTW:

The NSA won't comply, and he's telling them fuck off.

Only if it means Trump might not get reelected. — Hanover

He's throwing a party every damm day in the White House. I heard they're out of presents, and he's asking Homeland for the keys the the House. What's going on? Derp.

Where I live, it's the same. Any pocket of affluence requires very little government oversight. Such is Sweden. If you have one homogenous class, no warfare. — Hanover

I'm concerned about what's happening in US politics, aren't you?

Hope you have a nice day. — ernestm

Thank you Sir, and likewise.

I think the eagles in the US are fighting with the hawks. Poor FBI never had an eagle in its emblem and got swallowed up by Homeland.

Because their population is absurdly responsible and competent. Being a politician there is like coaching a team of all stars. They're going to win regardless of who's in charge. — Hanover

Wow, Hanny, that's very nice of you. What the actual fuck is going on in the US currently?

A horse doesn't care... @unenlightened

What about frogs? They kinda just ribbit, and hide from eagles and hawks. Hehe.

How do you explain that? Why the obsession with all these birds of prey? — Shawn

Are we like so insecure that we need these birds circling around all the time? Every national intelligence agency has some hawk in it in the US.

Yeah! — ernestm

How do you explain that? Why the obsession with all these birds of prey?

Wow man, thanks for that! I used to think psycho and sociopaths have no utility; but, they do prey in solitary confinement. The US is in love with hawks and eagles.