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Post by kungfuzu on May 8, 2022 20:05:39 GMT -8
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Post by Brad Nelson on May 9, 2022 8:53:00 GMT -8
Oh my god. LOL. That's great. I'm surprised this feminist chick is being so honest about it.
Not having grown up as a female in the rich man-hating (really, woman-hating) feminist environment that females now grow up in, my knowledge is limited. But I don't think you have to resort to the above Freudian claptrap to explain how yet another woman became alienated from traditional female roles and things. Being a Jew (and apparently an intelligent one), it's easy to see that she was over-thinking it.
Her mother sounds like a real gem though. There she had the perfect role model in front of her all the time. Instead she chose to try to be a man in a man's world, so to speak. She rejected the deepest part of herself in order to satisfy what all the man-hating feminists said she should be.
Hmmm. There's a thought.
I wonder if a whole lot of Jews have been screwed up by this Freud junk. Who speaks in terms of "essential forces" regarding needing to make a living? Or love? A weird way to think.
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Post by artraveler on May 9, 2022 14:46:40 GMT -8
I wonder if a whole lot of Jews have been screwed up by this Freud junk There is an element of Freud's work that touches on truth. Freud is attempting to define what makes up a human soul. Why do some people act the way they do? What motivates them to good and evil? These are questions that Talmud struggles with and so does Freud. Not all psychology involves running rats through mazes. Freud considered himself a secular Jew, but he was raised as a part of the tribe and influenced by the teaching of Talmud and Torah. His insights offer a small picture of the motivations that drive us. Is is it accurate? No, about as accurate as shooting an arrow at a target in a dark room. Others have done great work but Freud did define a few parameters of human motivations and desires. The problem is people who take his every word as gospel.
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Post by Brad Nelson on May 9, 2022 15:05:32 GMT -8
My thought was that in the zeal to overturn religion and replace it with "reason," a lot of garbage (including most of Freudianism) has been accepted...merely because it is modern and "scientific."
The truth is, it's doubtful you could have a better insight into the human soul than that already offered by the Torah or the Bible.
Without a doubt. And some of what B.F. Skinner taught also offered insights. But the main problem is the one of trying to cram a spiritual-immaterial round peg into an atheist-materialist square hole.
Some insights, yes. But only around the edges.
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Post by Brad Nelson on May 9, 2022 15:16:02 GMT -8
By the same token, to apply a religious explanation to every bit of human behavior is also problematic. The truth is, we are a spiritual being inside a material body. We are body and mind. We aren't all one or the other. They intersect.
And sometimes one predominates over the other. Or it's 50-50. But atheists/materialists don’t have a 50-50 mind. To them, we are all nothing but material, and thus there is no real moral element to a person. We are just a set of mindless and automatic impulses that give the illusion of being something more.
I believe without a doubt that exorcism has helped some people. I also believe without a doubt that there are people (such as with schizophrenia) who are a product of a chemical imbalance (or genetic disorder) and that it's not some moral shortcoming.
In reality, those extremes on either end are relatively rare. And if we are honest (and very few people are these days), we would realize that we use the idea of materialism to get around holding ourselves to proper moral standards.
The Kungian Principle applies: Life is complex. And there's no way God or anyone else could have made a creature like man without oodles and oodles of orders of magnitude of complexity. When we over-simplify (which is rampant these days), we not only make ourselves stupid but we do a disservice to the Creator of us all.
Whatever sexual or psychological issue one may be struggling with, you are doing a disservice to yourself and your Creator if you are a man who dons a dress and decides to call himself Caitlyn.
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Post by kungfuzu on May 23, 2022 11:53:39 GMT -8
This shows the piggification of American females. The mean weight of the adult American female in 2016 (170.8lbs) was only some 20 odd pounds less that what I, a 5'9", 68 year-old male, weigh. I am sure that six years later that mean has increased. This is another example of the complete collapse of standards, and the pursuit of excellence, in our nation. Believe me, this is what the elites want. They want the plebs to revert to their "natural barbarian state" so that they are easier to rule and present less competition to the patricians. I'll have fries, onion rings and a milk shake with that
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Post by Brad Nelson on May 23, 2022 16:08:59 GMT -8
The very heart of the thing. Morlocks feasting on Eloi.
Doesn't sound as if Woke Navy was doing very well.
My guess is that a lot of women didn't want to be seen buying stuff at what was now "the fat store."
Let me translate that for you: Women will not be held to traditional standards of health and beauty as inflicted on them by that vile creature, men.
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Post by kungfuzu on Jun 2, 2022 9:14:40 GMT -8
In the old days, i.e. about 15 years back, I said the one of the big reasons queer marriage was being pushed on us was because lawyers wanted a new income stream from all the queer divorces which would inevitably take place.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 2, 2022 9:18:32 GMT -8
Of course, that sounds utterly ridiculous. Which is why it might be right.
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Post by kungfuzu on Jun 2, 2022 9:33:56 GMT -8
It was not the main reason behind the push for queer marriage, but it was one which was based on palpable material gain instead of some "higher" goal. As regards people, I will always take greed over "goodness" as a motivator, particularly in politics.
In this case, one only has to think of a couple of points which make my idea more likely. 1) Homosexuals have a higher earning rate than straight people. 2) Homosexual relationships are notoriously unstable and fluid.
Thus it (queer divorce) was like having a cherry on top. The sundae (queer marriage) is the main thing, but that cherry is a real nice extra. What's not to like from a lawyer's point of view? Lawyers have to eat too.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 2, 2022 10:55:00 GMT -8
As much as I’d like to cast that off as an overly cynical view, I think when you transcend the normal person-to-person relationship (which isn’t all wine and roses, even on a good day) and look at influences of groups, you’d be damned hard-pressed outside of the Lion’s Club to find motivations one could call good and pure.
I don’t want this to be true. But I do believe it is true. And this is exactly how the average person gets gamed by the system. Because they are such wonderful people themselves, and generally are kind and fair with individuals who come into their life, they automatically relate that way to some organization.
Granted, I’m not talking about the hardcore zealots who knowingly vote for the assholes in the Democrat Party because they want “the rich” to get their comeuppance and know full well (at least on some level) that the organization is rotten. I mean the 68.5% of people out there who, in there interpersonal relationships, are generally decent and fair. These are the ones who just can’t seem to believe that some organization with a nice-sounding title might have (and probably does have) motivations other than “saving the planet” or “saving the children."
People have not run out of paranoia. Good god, the nation is awash (left and right) in all kinds of conspiracy theories. But what’s missing is just due, reasoned skepticism.
Do I think the homosexual neighbor that I know (he used to have an office down the hall) wants to groom grade school children into the cult of homosexuality? No. But do I think that all the organizations that he likely either belongs to or supports does? Yes, without a doubt.
Still, regarding lawyers and queer marriage, I just don’t know how many of these odd marriages are happening. And I certainly wouldn’t want to try to make a living out of the divorces that come from them. But then you could consider such a thing just another piece of the lawyeristic pie…if one was of a cynical mind.
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Post by kungfuzu on Jun 2, 2022 11:44:52 GMT -8
I believe most people, particularly Americans, have a real problem grasping the fact that others do not necessarily think the same way they do.
I find many Americans have little interest in much other than that which they perceive as effecting their immediate lives. They give scant thought to much that is complex, spiritual or foreign to their experience or imagination, which is fairly limited. Considering the possibility that things may not be exactly as they believe is perhaps too disturbing, so they do not do much considering.
In a word, many Americans are extremely poorly informed as they are too lazy to inform themselves. It takes time and effort which could be better put to use playing video games.
If anyone disagrees with me, then I would like an explanation as to how the KFF fraud was perpetrated so easily. How so many have simply accepted the lies which the news media has spewed forth for decades. How so many could go along with the obviously vicious lies about gender, etc.
This is one of the reasons I do not have much intercourse with people. They often have no idea what I am talking about, because they have had nothing like the same experiences I have had. Try talking to an "average" American about a serious subject and see how that goes. But they sure know about the Cowboys or Rangers.
While I agree there are many wonderful people out there, I probably think that number to be somewhat smaller than some believe. Small kindnesses are great, (I have noted many such kindnesses which I was the recipient of in this blog) we should all try to increase our performance of these, but they are called small for a reason. In my opinion, if you want to see how good someone truly is, take note of what he or she does when their actions could, or will, cost them something. To do something, help another simply because it is right and moral without thought of reward, on the contrary, knowing it will cost you, is in my opinion, the mark of a wonderful person.
That said, I am perfectly aware that most of our daily interactions with others are not and cannot be very deep. Thus, small kindnesses, politeness, consideration for others, even just an absence of rudeness do make much of life more pleasant. I am thankful for these.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 2, 2022 12:39:39 GMT -8
There's a good line in this Soviet-era spy book that I'm reading. I didn't highlight it so I'll paraphrase: The life of the average citizen was to smile at the lies and pretend to believe them during the day. At night they could harbor their doubts in secret.
If I find that quote later, I'll post it. But my point is this: In a Communist state, you rent out your brain to those in power. You don't have an opinion. Only official opinion matters.
And thus no one need shrink from calling "political correctness" what it is: Communism. It is the replacing of individual conscience with the mind (usually a somewhat sociopathic one) of the "leaders." There are no personal opinions, only political diktats of right thought.
As you said, the KFF clearly showed that most Americans farmed out their thinking to so-called "experts."
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 2, 2022 12:42:57 GMT -8
Those kinds are few and far between. Yes, it's easy to be nice about the small stuff. The larger stuff, not so easy or common.
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Post by kungfuzu on Jun 2, 2022 13:29:12 GMT -8
One of my favorite jokes which came out of the Soviet Union was the line,
Many people knew exactly what was happening, but could only hint at this fact through such jokes. I heard a number of these during my time in Vienna in 1973-1974 and thereafter. Austria was on the front line so to speak as a large part of it had been occupied by the Soviets until 1955, at which time a treaty was made between the USSR and the West to make Austria a neutral zone. The Soviets left, but were right next door in Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
It was around this time that a USSR battle plan was leaked which showed the Soviets going through Austria to invade Yugoslavia, which was not always on the best of terms with the USSR. Tensions were fairly high.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 2, 2022 14:54:18 GMT -8
Yes, that's a great quote. I found the quote I was looking for from The Spy and the Traitor: Now, I know I don't need to twist your arm to admit to the resemblance of today's PC "woke" culture to this. And I just wish that at least the conservatives would realize that self-censoring themselves to avoid retribution from the Communists is the kind of assent-by-silence that we don't need. Someone please tell Dennis Prager that using someone's made-up pronoun is just bolstering their perverse and totalitarian world. And that other quote (which I know you've heard) is: "Silence is consent," which apparently comes from the Talmud (or is at least also featured there). When Catholics don't speak out against their far left wing nutty pope, they are giving this Marxist whack-job their consent. You know the principle. Just giving an example.
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Post by kungfuzu on Jun 2, 2022 15:07:07 GMT -8
Which is why I decided "politeness" is no longer a viable option for defeating the communist/fascist thugs, perverts, criminals and tyrants who are trying to take over and change our world. One can fight or one can acquiesce. One might get you some bruises or even badly hurt. But if one doesn't fight, this will surely lead to imprisonment of one's mind and soul, at the very least.
Derision is a good start when dealing with most lefties. They support insane lies such as the transgenderism, etc. One does not have to be polite trying to explain why such claims are lies. Everyone who is not insane knows they are lies, but most are too weak to call them what they are.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 2, 2022 15:34:58 GMT -8
I was talking to someone just the other day. I forget who it was. These conversations can come and go so quickly.
And I was astounded by the sort of shrug-the-shoulders attitude about doing something to stand up to this stuff. The idea in this guy's head was that you couldn't. The unstated (very little remains unstated to my political radar) assumption (as I also eked out) was this (and I'll condense this): There is nothing you can do because if you do something you could get in trouble.
And this has what has been apparent to me for quite some time now. We are no longer God's children set on this green earth to carry out a plan greater than leasing a new automobile. We are Homo Economicus – I spend, therefore I am.
The idea of doing with less or taking a hit for sticking up for your principles is not even in most people's wheel house. It's deeply embedded that it's a non sequitur to object if it will cost you your job.
I admit, I was really surprised to discover this, especially amongst conservatives (ratified and verified by their reaction to the KFF...they might wear a t-shirt that made light of it, but damned if they would do anything that might threaten their business or livelihood).
Listen, I'm not the bravest cultural warrior out there. But I realize the stakes we are playing. And I realize that if your threshold for being a combatant is not risking a thing financially, then they have you. You are the Left's bitch. You might as well put on a dress and red lipstick and read some Drag Queen Stories to the Kindergartners.
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