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- Wed May 16, 2007 4:07 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: What's in a face?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1558
What's in a face?
I started a new topic & moved this to the Worldly Matters forum since it doesn't have much to do with philosophy. There's a difference between the vacant, has an IQ not much above some of the mentally retarded clients I used to take care of and the inhuman psychopath. Certainly. What I was getting a...
- Wed May 16, 2007 1:28 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Guys with too much time on their hands.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1458
- Wed May 16, 2007 1:12 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The affirmative nature of femininity
- Replies: 437
- Views: 26260
Re: FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
I wonder if you ever heard this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3AvigRGakA Heh :) Good grief, Leyla, what is that? It was quite bizarre, especially the juxtaposition of this black-leather-coated creature attempting to be sexy & his conservatively-dressed audience of trained seals. Looking into...
- Mon May 14, 2007 11:10 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: American National Anti-Gun Association
- Replies: 251
- Views: 23851
I think the anti-gun lobby gets its martyrs in the form of 6 year olds who accidentally shoot themselves with dad's gun, or from the likes of Cho. That sort of 'martyrdom' only makes people want to support the irrational idea of gun control when, as I mentioned, the only result of that would be to ...
- Mon May 14, 2007 1:00 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: American National Anti-Gun Association
- Replies: 251
- Views: 23851
This thread seems to be mostly an opinionfest, so I thought I'd offer mine. I think at one time, long ago, it would have been a good idea to have more control of guns, but now it's way too late - at least in the US. When the country was first being set up there was a lot of concern not to give the f...
- Sat May 12, 2007 12:23 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: The Far Side of the World
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3248
What Jason Looks Like
Big, almost kind of bearish, but not hairy. Kind of long face. Dark hair, pale skin, grayish (?) eyes, small hands, big feet. But I don't feel I'm anymore likely to be right than chance. At the time I published those descriptions on Genius-L I saw them whenever I read the people's words, so I had mo...
- Fri May 11, 2007 12:34 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: women and dogs
- Replies: 75
- Views: 6282
- Fri May 11, 2007 11:38 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: women and dogs
- Replies: 75
- Views: 6282
- Fri May 11, 2007 1:55 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: The Far Side of the World
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3248
Hey Shardrol, I joined Genius-L right at the beginning, back in mid '97 (10 year anniversary of Genius is coming up in June) just like you did. Possibly because of how long ago it was, I cannot remember for certain how I got there. I found this place through a mysterious email from someone I didn't...
- Thu May 10, 2007 3:51 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: women and dogs
- Replies: 75
- Views: 6282
I'm not arguing that people shouldn't desire what they desire, I was just pointing out the hypocrisy of failing to mention that this intelligent, insightful & aware woman who would be the only proper mate but somehow can't be found must also be slender & blond with big tits, or whatever fetish the s...
- Thu May 10, 2007 1:20 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: women and dogs
- Replies: 75
- Views: 6282
One of the major reasons why I could never have children is that I've never encountered a woman that seemed worthly of receiving my genes, and I dont claim to be absolutely perfect, their mental handicaps always left me feeling rather turned off, and not to mention the huge finanical responsbility,...
- Wed May 09, 2007 10:48 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: The Far Side of the World
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3248
Interesting. I don't think I'm conversant enough with the cultural differences between Britain, Canada & Australia to make accurate judgments. You (David) sound English to me, Dan sounds Australian & Kevin doesn't seem to project any particular rationality - I mean nationality . Sue & Jamesh sound B...
- Tue May 08, 2007 10:55 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: The Far Side of the World
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3248
The Far Side of the World
I'm curious about why there are so many posters here from Australia, porportionally speaking. Is this forum somehow more well-known in Australia, or are you all acquaintances, or what? I'm just surprised that an internet forum would have noticeably more people from a particular part of the English-s...
- Tue May 08, 2007 10:50 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Can one satirise women?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2255
Okay, fair enough. Your analysis seems overcomplicated to me, though. I thought the piece about the 'bad hair day' was satirizing what they saw as women's vanity, triviality & emotional instability by reporting on this situation as if it really were as terrible as the female protagonist made it out ...
- Tue May 08, 2007 12:38 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Can one satirise women?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2255
Hmmm. What about 'Women Now Empowered By Everything A Woman Does' ? Or 'Area Woman's Entire Day Ruined By Bangs' ? These articles (& others) certainly satirized women, though perhaps not as heavy-handedly as you might have liked. You do realize that the whole thing is satire, including 'factual' art...
- Sun May 06, 2007 7:02 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The affirmative nature of femininity
- Replies: 437
- Views: 26260
Re: FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
I wonder if you ever heard this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3AvigRGakA Heh :) Good grief, Leyla, what is that? It was quite bizarre, especially the juxtaposition of this black-leather-coated creature attempting to be sexy & his conservatively-dressed audience of trained seals. Looking into...
- Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:10 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Why it is awkward to say "I love you"
- Replies: 112
- Views: 9665
David Okay, yes it's possible that a spontaneous exclamation of enthusiastic appreciation such as "I love you" could have the effect of stimulating the ego of the recipient & causing him to become more infatuated with himself, etc. However the same could be said about a spontaneous exclamation of en...
- Thu Apr 26, 2007 2:57 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Why it is awkward to say "I love you"
- Replies: 112
- Views: 9665
Wow, it's odd to find myself on the sunny side of a discussion where cynicism runs rampant. I agree with y'all that many & possibly most declarations of love between people are some sort of attempt at manipulation; either to embarrass the person into reciprocating, feeling grateful, thinking more po...
- Fri Apr 20, 2007 5:20 am
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: Tibetan Buddhism - Dr Alexander Berzin
- Replies: 169
- Views: 176667
I thought Alex Berzin's 'defense' of the Dalai Lama was the weakest part of his presentation. What he said, more or less, is that he just felt the Dalai Lama was the person of greatest spiritual attainment he had ever met - in spite of the fact that he had already agreed with the idea that unless we...
- Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:56 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Emotional experts
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1849
Dang. Call me Pollyanna but I just thought David was saying that since women live in the world of emotions, that's what they know about. Not necessarily manipulation or blackmail, but just insight into their own & others' feelings. Not every sentence with the word 'women' in it has to be saying some...
Unidian, I think that's a bit of a strange idea you have there, that people with high IQs 'should be barely able to function'. People who have high IQs are just people who did well on an IQ test. It mostly means they are good at a particular kind of logical problem-solving & pattern recognition. The...
- Sat Apr 07, 2007 5:07 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Nocturnal or diurnal?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2021
Maybe our hunting gathering ancestors were more nocturnal? Predators are often out at night; maybe you don't want to be sleeping when they're on the prowl. Or maybe it's that vampire blood from Eastern Europe. . . I would like to be a morning peprson, get up at sunrise, work all morning, have a 2-ho...
- Thu Apr 05, 2007 1:27 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Memory, the Masculine and the Feminine “Iâ€
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2073
Re: Loner...
Anyway, yes, people go crazy from being completely isolated... Not always. Solitary retreat is part of some Buddhist practices. I know of an American woman who did a solitary retreat for 10 years, & I've met people who have also done retreats lasting several years where they had no contact with oth...
- Sat Mar 31, 2007 12:10 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Global Warming
- Replies: 182
- Views: 112075