women.timesonline.co.uk — Did you know that one person in 20 has had a fight with a next-door neighbour? That one driver in four admits to committing an act of road rage? ...It's OK to have a different opinion. Opinions are not facts - they are only what you think...Don't take anything personally. Nothing that others do or say is because of you. What others do and say is
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mondsterJun 13, 2008
LOLOLOLOL!!!!! OMG I love you! So few intellectual elites that appreciate the hilarity of the movie you quote. I love lamp.
flashingcurserJun 13, 2008
No, it is quite true.
beautifulleperJun 13, 2008
obviously you people don't understand comedy!!! Digg rage, duh!!!!!
pkoninkJun 14, 2008
To paraphrase the speaker, "Without religion it is possible that there would be no society and we would still be living in small roving bands." I always suspected religion was at the root of humanity's sickness. It makes perfect sense, you combine religious dogmatism which he called moral-communal capital with the technology of intensive agriculture and you have the past 10,000-some years right in front of you, from the epic of Gilgamesh to the Saturn V rocket. The food creates the legions and the religion creates the certainty that everyone everywhere should live just like they do and think just like they think. And the material success of the strategy creates a self-reinforcing feedback loop, the ability to create useful trinkets creates another, ad infinitum.And on and on until anyone must seem utterly insane for even thinking to question this way of life. Even though many of us are awash in innumerable existential crises and we are slowly crippling the ecosystem we live within. Even though we live with genocide and believe ourselves fundamentally flawed creatures who require a list of "thou shall nots" to live together.I also love that he chastised his community for it's lack of diversity in understanding the alternative/conservative viewpoint. Thanks for the link, Haidt is someone I will be paying more attention to. I just realized I babbled way too long.
pkoninkJun 14, 2008
There is a solution, put very eloquently a couple thousand years ago along the lines of "render unto Caesar..."To put it less eloquently but more clearly, don't just cut up your credit cards - burn your cash, dump your stocks give away your house and your car, quit your soul-sucking job and unplug the television. Learn how to grow your own food and make your own clothes and find other people who have made the same lifestyle commitment you have to pool your industry. Learn how to cope with death.The answer is right in front of everyone. But I can't blame anyone for not wanting to see it, because it requires huge sacrifices and a leap into an unkown so vast it beggars the modern person's understanding. It is an existential fear that we will only be forced into and I doubt will ever choose willingly.
tony23Jun 14, 2008
"There's no path to success in this country any more."Quit your whining. Just because YOU can't get off your ass to make something of yourself.No path to success?Three years ago, I was unemployed, after losing the best job I had ever had (which, BTW, paid $30,000/year). But I didn't whine about it. Instead, I got off my ass and worked, harder than I ever had before. Now, I am a CTO with a 6-figure salary, and I can do most of my work from home. Last week, I bought a car, cash, for no other reason than I have family visiting and I wanted something big enough to carry them all. My bills are all paid, I'm out of debt, and I'm putting money away to have a custom house built in a couple years.And, incidentally, I managed to do this without the benefit of a college degree.So please, tell me again how there is "no path to success" in this country?Or maybe you just find it easier to whine than to get up off your ass and DO something?
rosekirJun 16, 2008
Rage is a constant. A fragile ego is not exactly a novel concept either but it has especially become a problem in modernity when we are constantly being pressured to ascend but never know where, or understand why. Though now and then, people's action merit a good slap.