For Jason

topic posted Fri, October 16, 2009 - 1:23 PM by  offlinePinky
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  • Re: For Jason

    Fri, October 16, 2009 - 1:35 PM
    I loved this comment: "is this for real????"
    • Re: For Jason

      Fri, October 16, 2009 - 3:46 PM
      POSITIVELY KITCHY!!!Ha!Ha! You cant possibly clown this phagocytic hater enough to suit me and my daughter. I have shared his views with her because if she came here to comment herself there would be all kinds of ALT hullabaloo and trashing both of us. She asked me if I told this fool about her love of sex, and I told her I did. Of course I waited until he couldnt cover his tracks.Ha!Ha!
      • Re: For Jason

        Fri, October 16, 2009 - 4:10 PM
        Adam, It is refreshing to hear of other parents who promote a sex positive attitude when talking to their children. I have no kids myself, but I know one parent who talks openly to their kids about safer sex and contraception and keeps a supply of condoms for her teen agers to take on dates. This is much more common in more sexually enlightened countries in Europe where the Christian influnce is on the decline. Another middle age couple that I know are active in the local PFLAG and get to the pride parade every year. All this makes me hopeful that the dark ages of sexual repression are quickly fading into the past.
        • Re: For Jason

          Fri, October 16, 2009 - 4:59 PM
          I agree. I look forward to raising my future child(ren) in a way that promotes safety, knowledge, understanding, independence, and honesty (in all aspects, not just sex). I can think of no better way than by showing and sharing with him/her/them my own safety, knowledge, understanding, and independence, and being completely and openly honest with him/her/them as well.
        • Re: For Jason

          Fri, October 16, 2009 - 5:15 PM
          HUMM POSTED :Adam, It is refreshing to hear of other parents who promote a sex positive attitude when talking to their children

          RESPONSE : No, it isn't it . What it is is frightening and disgusting ......

          In this present era of postmodern relativist obtuseness it helps to state the glaringly obvious , cause people have lost sight of it .

          A parent should NOT encourage their children to accept FILTH .
          • Re: For Jason

            Fri, October 16, 2009 - 5:21 PM
            Jason said: "A parent should NOT encourage their children to accept FILTH ."

            They don't encourage filth that is why their kids are atheists and free thinkers.
            • Re: For Jason

              Fri, October 16, 2009 - 6:39 PM
              Jason said: "A parent should NOT encourage their children to accept FILTH ."

              HUMM POSTED :They don't encourage filth that is why their kids are atheists and free thinkers.

              RESPONSE: Encouraging their children to be sex positive is to encourage degenerate filth .

              Any parent who ecourages their child to be sex positive or gladly consents to their child getting brith control pills as a teenager is being deliberately outrageous and shockingly irresponsible . That filth is a sign of just how depraved and pathetic the present era is ..scalp deep in filth . A parent should encourage their daughters to be moral and upright and say NO to filth like liberated sex .
              • Re: For Jason

                Fri, October 16, 2009 - 7:11 PM
                Jason: "Any parent who ecourages their child to be sex positive or gladly consents to their child getting brith control pills as a teenager is being deliberately outrageous and shockingly irresponsible ."

                You're right, Jason. It would be far less irresponsible to deny them access to birth control and condoms, so they can get pregnant and contract diseases. That'll teach 'em!
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                  Fri, October 16, 2009 - 8:06 PM
                  I think I figured out where and when Jason would be happy. In 1950's TV shows where married couples were shown sleeping in separate beds during an era when people actually took gender roles seriously.

                  The thing is Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary. Back then people were fucking outside of marriage for reasons other than procreation. It was the invention the pill that helped to free women from the worry of an unwanted pregnancy and ushered in a new era of sexual freedom. The rise of the womens' liberation movement began to pull down male domination and gave inspiration to the gay liberation movement. The days of clearly defined roles for men and women are numbered. Finally we can say; it WAS a mans world, and happily men no longer call all the shots in large parts of the globe. Patriarchal society is drawing to a close and an equalarchy is on the horizion. As a gay man I try to do anything humanly possibe to undermine patriarchy
                  • This is the maximum depth. Additional responses will not be threaded.

                    Re: For Jason

                    Fri, October 16, 2009 - 10:18 PM
                    I've always thought of Jason as a very "Pleasantville" kind of guy - most likely Big Bob. Did you ever see that movie? I think THAT role fits him well.
                  • This is the maximum depth. Additional responses will not be threaded.
                    HUMM POSTED : I think I figured out where and when Jason would be happy. In 1950's TV shows where married couples were shown sleeping in separate beds during an era when people actually took gender roles seriously.

                    The thing is Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary. Back then people were fucking outside of marriage for reasons other than procreation.

                    RESPONSE: And what percentile of the U.S. Populace was doing that back then as opposed to circa 2009 ?

                    HUMM POSTED : It was the invention the pill that helped to free women from the worry of an unwanted pregnancy and ushered in a new era of sexual freedom.

                    RESPONSE: And what has that sexual revolution brought us besides more liberated sex itself ?

                    Aside from liberated sex itself--- in all its mundane excuse for glory ...what has the sexual liberation brought us as a civilization ? Anything besides a feeling of acceptance of liberated sex ---a feeling of freedom from the puritanical mores of earlier decades, or to PUT THE MATTER MORE SIMPLY has it brought anything besides all that ---which is to say: has it brought anything important ?

                    Has it made a thousand flowers bloom, or merely the figurative careless flower of youth ?
                    • PINKY POSTED :I've always thought of Jason as a very "Pleasantville" kind of guy - most likely Big Bob. Did you ever see that movie? I think THAT role fits him well.

                      RESPONSE: The contermporary pop culture media has brainwashed you quite well, Pinky !
                      • Jason: "And what has that sexual revolution brought us besides more liberated sex itself ? "

                        The sexual revolution need not bring us anything other than liberated sex. Sexual pleasure is its own reward. Nobody has to justify the pursuit of pleasure weather it is sexual pleasure or the pleasure of looking at a crystal or art. It is no longer necessary to talk about sex in hushed tones. It is good that people no longer attach shame or guilt to sex. The impulse for sexual pleasure has always been with us, but now we can openly validate each other and share information about increasing sexual pleasure.

                        The internet has made access to sexual information eaiser for everyone. You can obtain information about safer sex, contraception and basic "how to" guides for just about any kink.

                        It is wonderful that people who get anti sexual messages from parents, schools or churches can go online and hear an opposite point of view. If some kid is told early on that they should not masturbate they can go here www.jackinworld.com/

                        to get pro masturbation information and hear from medical experts that in fact there are zero negative consequences from regular masturbation. (there are also sites for females) There are also clergy and theologians who counter the lie that masturbation is a sin.
                        I like how one minister explained it. He said that the ability to have orgasams is a gift from God and not using that gift would show a lack of gratitude. (I express my gratitude at least once day.)
                        • Jason: "And what has that sexual revolution brought us besides more liberated sex itself ? "

                          HUMM POSTED :The sexual revolution need not bring us anything other than liberated sex.

                          RESPONSE : So that's the best it can come up with .

                          HUMM POSTED : Sexual pleasure is its own reward.

                          RESPONSE : How vapid .

                          HUMM POSTED : Nobody has to justify the pursuit of pleasure weather it is sexual pleasure

                          RESPONSE :Yes, they have to try and justify it. If it cannot be justified then it is shown to be a waste of time .

                          HUMM POSTED :or the pleasure of looking at a crystal or art.

                          RESPONSE: The experience of looking at a crystal or great work of art that feeling of awe at the intricate order, there is an experience that is neither pain nor pleasure, but an experience of awe of the sublime which transcends both .

                          There is the experience of what is called *esthetic repose* ---see the writings of Ethel Puffer on that topic .

                          HUMM POSTED : It is no longer necessary to talk about sex in hushed tones. It is good that people no longer attach shame or guilt to sex.

                          RESPONSE : No it is NOT good . People should feel guilty about sex fun . Sexual fun is ugly-minded .

                          HUMM POSTED :The impulse for sexual pleasure has always been with us, but now we can openly validate each other and share information about increasing sexual pleasure.

                          RESPONSE: Hopefully , the backlash against sex in some circles, will spread and turn the tide against that .

                          High time to stir up and mobilize the good people Loki calls feebs .

                          HUMM POSTED :The internet has made access to sexual information eaiser for everyone. You can obtain information about safer sex, contraception and basic "how to" guides for just about any kink.

                          RESPONSE: The trash doth abound .

                          HUMM POSTED : It is wonderful that people who get anti sexual messages from parents, schools or churches can go online and hear an opposite point of view. If some kid is told early on that they should not masturbate they can go here

                          RESPONSE: Let us hope they never find such degenerate trash sites . When and if my wife to be and I have kids we shall instill in them a very ANTI-sexual outlook .

                          HUMM POSTED : I like how one minister explained it. He said that the ability to have orgasams is a gift from God and not using that gift would show a lack of gratitude. (I express my gratitude at least once day.)

                          RESPONSE : That is at best misinformed , and at worst blasphemous .
                    • Jason: "what has the sexual liberation brought us as a civilization ?"

                      Were it not for sexual liberation, the porn industry would have never skyrocketed like it did. Were it not for the porn industry, VHS would have never won out over Betamax as the most popular media format, modern conveniences of even non-sexual entertainment would never have had the funding to produce the high-definition, ultra-advanced computer animation and big-ass-flat-screen as early as we have it, and were it not for the advancements and popularity porn lent to the world wide web you likely wouldn't be on it now, spewing shit at us.

                      And those are just obvious connections. You don't have to dig deep to find that economically, porn has made great things possible for things even so far reaching as rocket science and modern medicine.

                      And that's just porn!
                      • Jason: "what has the sexual liberation brought us as a civilization ?"

                        PINKY POSTED :Were it not for sexual liberation, the porn industry would have never skyrocketed like it did. Were it not for the porn industry, VHS would have never won out over Betamax as the most popular media format, modern conveniences of even non-sexual entertainment would never have had the funding to produce the high-definition, ultra-advanced computer animation and big-ass-flat-screen as early as we have it,

                        RESPONSE: Even if that is the case ---then so ?

                        PINKY POSTED :and were it not for the advancements and popularity porn lent to the world wide web you likely wouldn't be on it now, spewing shit at us.

                        RESPONSE: About the time the Internet as we now it became publically manifest around late 1993/ early 1994 , I don't recall *at that time* porn being its selling point that was touted . Hopefully , interest could have been garnered even without porn by internet sites that show pictures of beautiful crystals, architecture, art. science, cooking tips, tips on how to ferment liquers , and other highfallutin content ....

                        PINKY POSTED :And those are just obvious connections. You don't have to dig deep to find that economically, porn has made great things possible for things even so far reaching as rocket science and modern medicine.

                        RESPONSE: Specifically how do you allege porn has done that ?

                        Let me ask you an interesting question , Pinky . If you had never discovered sexuality ..imagine that you had been raised in some sort of community that structured lifeworld encounters in such a way that sex was veiled from you ..or you were some how especially conditioned in a totally non violent and NON-confrontational way to prevent desire from sex from ever coming about , are you sure that your life would be joyless ?
                        • Jason: RESPONSE : No it is NOT good . People should feel guilty about sex fun . Sexual fun is ugly-minded .

                          HUMM POSTED :The impulse for sexual pleasure has always been with us, but now we can openly validate each other and share information about increasing sexual pleasure.

                          RESPONSE: Hopefully , the backlash against sex in some circles, will spread and turn the tide against

                          Actually the sexual revolution is in part a backlash against sexual repression. Sexual freedom becomes stronger with each generation. About 40 years ago widespread use of contraception was sort of a novelty and even considered daring by large segments of the population. Now days contraception is considerd almost a birthright (pun intended). When I was in my teens you had to ask the pharmacist to get the condoms from behind the counter and sometime they would ask you age. Now if you go to major drug store chains there is almost an entire aisle with condoms and lubes openly displayed and sold. In some places condoms are advertised on TV.

                          I would bet Jason would have felt right at home back when the nazis were burning books they considered "degenerate" What he fails to understand is that the Bill of Rights trumps his objections to sexual information. In America if you object to pro sex literature your only choice is to not read it yourself. In fact since America is a secular nation the first ten amendments to the Constitution trumps the ten commandments.

                          Things are only going to get more liberated about sex than it is right now. The Jasons of this world need to keep their noses out of the lives of other people. Living in a free society means that we do not have to answer to anybody for what happens in the privacy of our own bedrooms. Recent court decisions from Roe v. Wade to the 2003 decision that nullified laws against things like oral sex have confirmed that their is a right to privacy.
                          • RESPONSE: Hopefully , the backlash against sex in some circles, will spread and turn the tide against

                            HUMM POSTED :Actually the sexual revolution is in part a backlash against sexual repression. Sexual freedom becomes stronger with each generation. About 40 years ago widespread use of contraception was sort of a novelty and even considered daring by large segments of the population. Now days contraception is considerd almost a birthright (pun intended). When I was in my teens you had to ask the pharmacist to get the condoms from behind the counter and sometime they would ask you age. Now if you go to major drug store chains there is almost an entire aisle with condoms and lubes openly displayed and sold. In some places condoms are advertised on TV.

                            I would bet Jason would have felt right at home back when the nazis were burning books they considered "degenerate"

                            RESPONSE: No I would NOT. The nazis were quasi-relativist , despite the revisionist propaganda people have been given by the relativists which have infiltrated much of Academia , which alleges otherwise .

                            HUMM POSTED :What he fails to understand is that the Bill of Rights trumps his objections to sexual information. In America if you object to pro sex literature your only choice is to not read it yourself. In fact since America is a secular nation the first ten amendments to the Constitution trumps the ten commandments.

                            RESPONSE: Again , get it through your mind that I'm NOT advocating censorship . i advocate just guilting and shaming people verbally so that they feel guilty about seeking such content .
                            • << i advocate just guilting and shaming people verbally so that they feel guilty about seeking such content . >>

                              What happens when people simply refuse delivery of guilt or shame and advise you to go fuck yourself in the bargain?
                              • Rockstar
                                <<< i advocate just guilting and shaming people verbally so that they feel guilty about seeking such content . >>

                                What happens when people simply refuse delivery of guilt or shame and advise you to go fuck yourself in the bargain?>>>

                                That lilly livered phagocytic scumbag can only do this online because if he did it these days to people face to face someone like me would knock the taste out of his pathetic mouth. He is a chickenshit perverted hater and here online is the only place he can openly hate people in his sick-o fashion.

                                All he does is evidence himself as a sick-o pervert and any weak minded person who felt guilt as a result of his rambling rhetoric is just as pathetic as he is...
                              • << i advocate just guilting and shaming people verbally so that they feel guilty about seeking such content . >>

                                ROCKSTAR ASKED :What happens when people simply refuse delivery of guilt or shame and advise you to go fuck yourself in the bargain?

                                RESPONSE : Then I keep on trying to shame /guilt them . After all , doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results from what happens initially is perserverence .

                                Also I hope and pray that seeds of guilt that have not germinated right away will do so later , even if it takes many years .
                                • << Also I hope and pray that seeds of guilt that have not germinated right away will do so later >>

                                  "Seed"? "Guilt?" "Germination"? These are rather odd, indeed priapic, metaphors from someone who claims NEVER to even acknowledge his own schlong, socially or otherwise.

                                  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port..._Complaint

                                  Tell Dr. Spielvogel all about the the pounding on the bathroom door...
                                  • << Also I hope and pray that seeds of guilt that have not germinated right away will do so later >>

                                    ROCKSTAR POSTED : "Seed"? "Guilt?" "Germination"? These are rather odd, indeed priapic, metaphors from someone who claims NEVER to even acknowledge his own schlong, socially or otherwise.

                                    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port..._Complaint

                                    RESPONSE: Mr.Rockstar, you are stretching the metaphors .

                                    ROCKSTAR POSTED :Tell Dr. Spielvogel all about the the pounding on the bathroom door...

                                    RESPONSE: I do NOT suffer from 'Portnoy's Complaint' . Just because you are enamored of sex , does NOT mean you have epistemic grounds for projecting such a disposition on to all others .
                                    • << RESPONSE: Mr.Rockstar, you are stretching the metaphors . >>

                                      Tosh. I apply metaphors -along with other poetical precision instruments- with strictest attention to principles of aesthetics, morality and the Greater Good and you can't prove I don't.

                                      << RESPONSE: I do NOT suffer from 'Portnoy's Complaint' . >>

                                      I think you do.

                                      << Just because you are enamored of sex >>

                                      Why the reflexive projection, Jason? It isn't *ME* who spends all day posting about sex on Tribe.net like YOU do. Everyone here had seen your dozens of posts, some numbering in the many hundreds of words, about that subject and little else. You drag every last inquiry into anything else back to sex.

                                      I'm a writer, Jason and must live by my pen. I can tell you as a pro that many of your posts are significantly shorter than the stuff I write and sell. I made some small dent as a music writer and the essays that made me my bones in a hypercompetitive area aren't anywhere NEAR as verbose, involved and recondite as the theory of sexuality you keep going on and on about at glacial length.

                                      Your interest in sex, indeed, makes Portnoy seem almost a one-handed monogamist.

                                      << does NOT mean you have epistemic grounds for projecting such a disposition on to all others . >>

                                      Your every post, as I say, is one more epistemological brick in the wall.
                                      • << RESPONSE: Mr.Rockstar, you are stretching the metaphors . >>

                                        ROCKSTAR POSTED :Tosh. I apply metaphors -along with other poetical precision instruments- with strictest attention to principles of aesthetics, morality and the Greater Good and you can't prove I don't.

                                        RESPONSE : It is important to be so precise that the relativists call what one writes "anal-retentive". That what one writes gets called anal retentive is a seal of cogent writing . I *doubt* that the relativists would call the above post you posted "anal retentive" .

                                        << RESPONSE: I do NOT suffer from 'Portnoy's Complaint' . >>

                                        ROCKSTAR POSTED :I think you do.

                                        RESPONSE: On what grounds ?

                                        << Just because you are enamored of sex >>

                                        ROCKSTAR POSTED :Why the reflexive projection, Jason? It isn't *ME* who spends all day posting about sex on Tribe.net like YOU do. Everyone here had seen your dozens of posts, some numbering in the many hundreds of words, about that subject and little else. You drag every last inquiry into anything else back to sex.

                                        RESPONSE :Not every "obsessive" denunciation of a topic evidences that the person who does the denouncing has a latent or secret liking or affinity for what they denounce (as is so often alleged in the present era) .
                                        An enviromentalist, for example can have an earnest disapproval of pollution and can rant at length obsessively about the evils of pollution without having secret desire to engage in pollution themselves .

                                        Likewise I can rant obsessively AGAINST sex without having any secret desire to engage in sexual activity .

                                        ROCKSTAR POSTED :I'm a writer, Jason and must live by my pen. I can tell you as a pro that many of your posts are significantly shorter than the stuff I write and sell. I made some small dent as a music writer and the essays that made me my bones in a hypercompetitive area aren't anywhere NEAR as verbose, involved and recondite as the theory of sexuality you keep going on and on about at glacial length.

                                        RESPONSE : There are times when brevity can be well taken, however, often to do the conceptual unpacking of a topic justice longwinded dissertation is often necessary .

                                        (Incidentally if you know of any agents who can help a fella out who doesn't know the ropes of geting published I'd be very greatful . I've got short stories , a novel , and a novella plus a welter of memoirs, and treatises on philosophy and cultural criticism chock full of absolutist rigid fanatical intolerance to hopefully inspire the readers to become single-minded idealistic people who want to change the world into something grand and highfallutin )

                                        ROCKSTAR POSTED :Your interest in sex, indeed, makes Portnoy seem almost a one-handed monogamist.

                                        RESPONSE: But the interest in sex is interest against it . Just like the interest of a sincere enviromentalist in polution is interest against it .

                                        (I happen also to be an enviromentalist too by the way opposed to pollution , littering , deforestation so it isn't like liberated sex is the only problem I oppose. That's one of the reasons I hate conservatism , though the pro-sex posmods tend to assume I'm a right winger cause I'm against sexual fun .)

                                        << does NOT mean you have epistemic grounds for projecting such a disposition on to all others . >>

                                        ROCKSTAR POSTED :Your every post, as I say, is one more epistemological brick in the wall.

                                        RESPONSE: How so ?
                                        • << It is important to be so precise <>

                                          Exactly. When are you going to start showing any of this in what you post?

                                          << Not every "obsessive" denunciation of a topic evidences that the person who does the denouncing has a latent or secret liking or affinity for what they denounce >>

                                          But that's the way to bet.

                                          << Likewise I can rant obsessively AGAINST sex without having any secret desire to engage in sexual activity . >>

                                          I don't believe that. You type about sex with the same itch-palmed manual obsession Portnoy used to slap his schlong.

                                          << (Incidentally if you know of any agents who can help a fella out who doesn't know the ropes of geting published I'd be very greatful . I've got short stories , a novel , and a novella plus a welter of memoirs, and treatises on philosophy and cultural criticism chock full of absolutist rigid fanatical intolerance to hopefully inspire the readers to become single-minded idealistic people who want to change the world into something grand and highfallutin ) >>

                                          *ugh* The usual commercial come-on from an "idealistic" amateur after the equally routine barrage of insults and bad faith. I don't have a relationship with you, so don't try to cash in on it.

                                          << But the interest in sex is interest against it .>>

                                          Obsession ABOUT sex is obsession WITH sex.
                                          • << It is important to be so precise <>

                                            ROCKSTAR POSTED :Exactly. When are you going to start showing any of this in what you post?

                                            RESPONSE: Aside from how the above statement is a facile diverginary tactic designed to detract from the importance of precision as a methodological rule being highlighted by the witty sort of "so why don't you routine?' that shifts attention away from methodology to persons, you have yet to demonstrate that the texts I've posted are in any way NON-precise . For example , waiting for you to present plasuible rebuttals to the post I posted ...if memory serves righly in the 'Notes For A Moral Indictment Of Loki ' (the original thread , *not* the new version from Josh) where it is pointed out that it is a lazy mind which *refuses* to split hairs . You disagreed with that insight , and I presented systematic argument against it. I cited many names from the history of philosophy of unabashed hairsplitters and explained the more hyperprecision the better . After all , as Descartes explained philosophy is about 'clear , distinct ideas' . It is AGAINST any of that flim flam of tolerating ambiguity

                                            << Not every "obsessive" denunciation of a topic evidences that the person who does the denouncing has a latent or secret liking or affinity for what they denounce >>

                                            ROCKSTAR POSTED :But that's the way to bet.

                                            RESPONSE: So at best you have is proabilities, *not* any demonstrative propositional attitude report .
                                            Do you extend such a method of putative evaluation to say, the enviromentalists who are so given to ranting against pollution that they are likely to have a secret desire to engage in pollution themselves , or do you use that method of they talk- so- much- against- it- so- they're- probably- secretly -for- it stuff only with people who denounce sex a lot ?

                                            Do regular attendees at the Mothers Against Drunk Driving conferences who pound the pulpit about DUIs latently fantasize about driving plastered ?

                                            << Likewise I can rant obsessively AGAINST sex without having any secret desire to engage in sexual activity . >>

                                            ROCKSTAR POSTED :I don't believe that. You type about sex with the same itch-palmed manual obsession Portnoy used to slap his schlong.

                                            RESPONSE: Present specific quotes and a point by point analysis of how you allege that is so .

                                            << (Incidentally if you know of any agents who can help a fella out who doesn't know the ropes of geting published I'd be very greatful . I've got short stories , a novel , and a novella plus a welter of memoirs, and treatises on philosophy and cultural criticism chock full of absolutist rigid fanatical intolerance to hopefully inspire the readers to become single-minded idealistic people who want to change the world into something grand and highfallutin ) >>

                                            ROCKSTAR RESPONSE :*ugh* The usual commercial come-on from an "idealistic" amateur after the equally routine barrage of insults and bad faith. I don't have a relationship with you, so don't try to cash in on it.

                                            RESPONSE: Please let me know of agents. Please...Mr.Rockstar . The most vitriolic insults were for Loki, Andrew, and Humm . I'm hoping to help you regain a single-minded idealism that you *may8 have once had years ago before you decided to take an ironical postmodern turn . Speaking (or typing actually) of idealism , I noticed that you put the word 'idealistic' in sneer quotes . Do you allege that the idealism I profess is not in earnest ?

                                            I truly want to try and change the world and help it become a highfallutin, excellent ethereal place .
                                            I would be sincerely greatful if you could link me to an agent .

                                            << But the interest in sex is interest against it .>>

                                            ROCKSTAR POSTED :Obsession ABOUT sex is obsession WITH sex.

                                            RESPONSE: Let us take a closer look at the word 'with' . Could that obsession 'with' sex be an obsession against sex .
                                            • << in the 'Notes For A Moral Indictment Of Loki ' (the original thread , *not* the new version from Josh) where it is pointed out that it is a lazy mind which *refuses* to split hairs . You disagreed with that insight >>

                                              Rubbish. Stop misrepresenting people. It doesn't go well with protestations of good faith.

                                              I simply doubted (and still do) what you call "hair-splitting" and "precision" are anything but diversions of the sort a squid squirts when cornered or frightened. You can CALL such badly typed mush whatever comports with your delusions, but you've been repeated TOLD by myself and others it's ISN'T "precision" or "logic."

                                              << Do you extend such a method of putative evaluation to say, the enviromentalists >>

                                              No. Nor to anyone not in the throes of open folly.

                                              Quit trying to get an unearned free ride off people like environmentalists who actually make a difference in the world, please. Jabbering about your sex obsessions on Tribe.net doesn't make the world a better place.

                                              << RESPONSE: Present specific quotes and a point by point analysis of how you allege that is so . >>

                                              You're still posting about sex aren't you?

                                              << RESPONSE: Please let me know of agents. Please...Mr.Rockstar . The most vitriolic insults were for Loki, Andrew, and Humm .>>>

                                              In other words, help you make money or you're gonna say WORSE things about me?

                                              Christian vitriol is a REALLY lousy sales strategy, btw.

                                              << I'm hoping to help you regain a single-minded idealism >>

                                              I don't need your help regaining something I never lost.

                                              << that you *may8 have once had years ago before you decided to take an ironical postmodern turn >>

                                              The demands for aid are once again followed by insults.

                                              I tell you, if they're not drunks fucking with you at parties, they're online cranks trying to get you to underwrite their March to Blue-Balled Jerusalem.

                                              Small wonder Fitzgerald and Bukowski drank antifreeze....

                                              << Let us take a closer look at the word 'with' . Could that obsession 'with' sex be an obsession against sex . >>

                                              Obsession AGAINST sex is obsession ABOUT sex which is obsession WITH sex.

                                              Stop latrine-lawyering.
                                              • << in the 'Notes For A Moral Indictment Of Loki ' (the original thread , *not* the new version from Josh) where it is pointed out that it is a lazy mind which *refuses* to split hairs . You disagreed with that insight >>

                                                ROCKSTAR POSTED :Rubbish. Stop misrepresenting people. It doesn't go well with protestations of good faith.

                                                RESPONSE: Well didn't you liken hairsplitting about distinctions of language to something you called "latrine -lawyering" ?

                                                ROCKSTAR POSTED :I simply doubted (and still do) what you call "hair-splitting" and "precision" are anything but diversions of the sort a squid squirts when cornered or frightened.

                                                RESPONSE: On what grounds do you make that comparion , with the squid squirting when cornered and the action of me engaging in what I call 'hair-spliting' and 'precision' ?

                                                ROCKSTAR POSTED :You can CALL such badly typed mush whatever comports with your delusions, but you've been repeated TOLD by myself and others it's ISN'T "precision" or "logic."

                                                RESPONSE: By what conceptual criteria do you claim that the putativer distinctions I put forth are not 'precision ' or 'logic' ?

                                                Are you using a pattern of thought somewhat like unto the person who calls a resolve to do somthing 'stubborn' when it is towards a goal they don't like and 'tenacious' when someone shows that resolve towards a goal they do like ?

                                                Which is to say are you approaching the issue: as to whether to call the method of inquiry I've been using ...pressing for more alembicated distinctions (as in the case--- when I argued that there was a distinction between (A) voting to ostracize Loki , becuase of a putative characterization of him and (Z) voting on the characterization itself) "mush" instead of precision , in a way that prefers mere honorific and anti-honorific criteria of preferred style and temperment , INSTEAD of a fine grain conceptual criteria ?

                                                << Do you extend such a method of putative evaluation to say, the enviromentalists >>

                                                ROCKSTAR POSTED :No. Nor to anyone not in the throes of open folly.

                                                RESPONSE: Well what is the criteria why you doubt that the opposition is in earnest when I denounce a phenomenon like liberated sex, yet do not denounce the enviromentalist is in earnest when they denounce a phenomenon like pollution .

                                                ROCKSTAR POSTED :Quit trying to get an unearned free ride off people like environmentalists who actually make a difference in the world, please. Jabbering about your sex obsessions on Tribe.net doesn't make the world a better place.

                                                RESPONSE: Please use the right nomenclature . It is ANTI-sex obsession . Furthermore, the invoking of enviromentalists was designed to show you that someone can be obsessed with denouncing something without having a secret liking for what they denounce. As an enviromentalist can rant obseessively against pollution without having the desire to pollute themselves , likewise I can earnestly denounce liberated sex without having any desire to engage in it .

                                                << RESPONSE: Present specific quotes and a point by point analysis of how you allege that is so . >>

                                                ROCKSTAR POSTED :You're still posting about sex aren't you?

                                                RESPONSE : Posting against it , not for it .Key distinction. That is NOT all I oppose. I opppose littering ---which is both ugly and kills birds in the neighborhood pond . I oppose puerile trash : like people finding amusement in farting .

                                                << RESPONSE: Please let me know of agents. Please...Mr.Rockstar . The most vitriolic insults were for Loki, Andrew, and Humm .>>>

                                                ROCKSTAR POSTED :In other words, help you make money or you're gonna say WORSE things about me?

                                                RESPONSE: That is a mistaken inference . That is not what I meant. i was just showing you a compare contrast. The most scathing statements were directed at Loki, Andrew, and Humm .

                                                ROCKSTAR POSTED :Christian vitriol is a REALLY lousy sales strategy, btw.

                                                RESPONSE: I seek to change the world .

                                                << I'm hoping to help you regain a single-minded idealism >>

                                                ROCKSTAR POSTED :I don't need your help regaining something I never lost.

                                                RESPONSE: You assert that you never lost it , but the way you think has a very "multifacted", ANTI-rigid tenor does it not ?

                                                << that you *may8 have once had years ago before you decided to take an ironical postmodern turn >>

                                                ROCKSTAR POSTED :The demands for aid are once again followed by insults.

                                                RESPONSE: I'm trying to reform the way you think, Mr.Rockstar ?

                                                ROCKSTAR POSTED :I tell you, if they're not drunks fucking with you at parties, they're online cranks trying to get you to underwrite their March to Blue-Balled Jerusalem.

                                                RESPONSE: And where would be the loss in everyone joining the March to Blue-Balled Jersualem . ?

                                                ROCKSTAR POSTED :Small wonder Fitzgerald and Bukowski drank antifreeze....

                                                RESPONSE: Did they literally do that ?

                                                << Let us take a closer look at the word 'with' . Could that obsession 'with' sex be an obsession against sex . >>

                                                ROCKSTAR POSTED :Obsession AGAINST sex is obsession ABOUT sex which is obsession WITH sex.

                                                RESPONSE: Parse the way you want the preposition 'with ' to mean ?

                                                ROCKSTAR POSTED :Stop latrine-lawyering.

                                                RESPONSE: Define that phrase .

                                                Furthermore, precision should NEVER be tempered / never be balanced with any common sense Big Picture acceptance of even a little ambiguity. Do you conceed that ?
                                                • << RESPONSE: On what grounds do you make that comparion , with the squid squirting when cornered and the action of me engaging in what I call 'hair-spliting' and 'precision' ? >>

                                                  Because you natter at length about unrelated topics, won't answer direct questions and use the crudest kinds of smear and misdirection when nettled.

                                                  Then there's the dumb, my-dog-ate-my-homework gambit of asking people be "specific" when what they say is clear, unambiguous and detailed.

                                                  When these fail, you simple retreat into a haze of purloined, misspelled and misapplied proper nouns. This you call "precision ." Anyone else would call it "muck."

                                                  << I can earnestly denounce liberated sex without having any desire to engage in it . >>

                                                  I don't believe you.

                                                  That is to say, I don't find what you're saying even remotely plausible.

                                                  << RESPONSE: I seek to change the world >>

                                                  By typing up paralogia for strangers to laugh at on a declining social networking site?
                                                  • << RESPONSE: On what grounds do you make that comparion , with the squid squirting when cornered and the action of me engaging in what I call 'hair-spliting' and 'precision' ? >>

                                                    ROCKSTAR POSTED :Because you natter at length about unrelated topics,

                                                    RESPONSE: List some of the purportedly unrelated topics I've presented in the above posts and show anlaytically the purported lack of relation to the antecedent matter under review .

                                                    ROCKSTAR POSTED : won't answer direct questions

                                                    RESPONSE: List some of the direct questions I have supposedly failed to answer in the previous exchanges above

                                                    ROCKSTAR POSTED :and use the crudest kinds of smear and misdirection when nettled.

                                                    RESPONSE: List but one example of a type of misdirection that I have (allegedly) used when nettled ?

                                                    ROCKSTAR POSTED :Then there's the dumb, my-dog-ate-my-homework gambit of asking people be "specific" when what they say is clear, unambiguous and detailed.

                                                    RESPONSE: How do you know that what they say is clear, unambiguous, and detailed ?

                                                    (Is it because the outlook they espouse is more in keeping with some catch-all "common sense" , or do you, *instead*, have a more analytic criteria for claiming what they say is clear ? If the latter, than please present said criteria)

                                                    ROCKSTAR POSTED :When these fail, you simple retreat into a haze of purloined, misspelled and misapplied proper nouns. This you call "precision ." Anyone else would call it "muck."

                                                    RESPONSE: List some particular examples of "missapplied proper nouns" and present point counterpoint arguments as to how they are (allegedly) misapplied .


                                                    << I can earnestly denounce liberated sex without having any desire to engage in it . >>

                                                    ROCKSTAR POSTED :I don't believe you.

                                                    That is to say, I don't find what you're saying even remotely plausible.

                                                    RESPONSE: On what grounds do you disbelieve what I state the motives for me posting denunciations ?

                                                    On what grounds do you not find what I am typing not even remotely plausible ?

                                                    << RESPONSE: I seek to change the world >>

                                                    ROCKSTAR POSTED :By typing up paralogia for strangers to laugh at on a declining social networking site?

                                                    RESPONSE: It is NOT paralogia . It is linear thinking / thinking inside the box ---logic...thinking designed to destroy ambiguity---the absolutist approach . After all genuine philosophy fosters a hatred and intolerance towards that worthless quality called ambiguity !
                        • Jason: "Let me ask you an interesting question , Pinky . If you had never discovered sexuality ..imagine that you had been raised in some sort of community that structured lifeworld encounters in such a way that sex was veiled from you ..or you were some how especially conditioned in a totally non violent and NON-confrontational way to prevent desire from sex from ever coming about , are you sure that your life would be joyless ?"

                          I doubt it would be completely joyless, Jason, but that's hardly makes sex a disposal asset. Honestly I have a very hard time imagining such a hypothetical scenario for me specifically. Before I was ever exposed to higher understandings of anatomy, sex education, or sexual images/scenarios (like, back when I was in preschool and kindergarten), I remember masturbating. When I was 7/8 (at which point the only exposure I'd had was VERY VERY basic education on female puberty), I stole my mom's clothespins and put them on my nipples and labia while I played naked in my room, or would even keep them on under my clothes so I could go downstairs and pursue my usual family activities. A year later I started using the massaging shower head in my shower to stimulate my clitoris, and not long after I started that I put a popsicle stick in my ass just to find out what it felt like.

                          I was a FREAKY little girl - long before I knew what I knew what I was really doing, why it felt good, what sex was, or how much I would come to enjoy sharing such transcendental experiences with people I cared about.

                          Masturbation is completely natural Jason, I think that's why I have a hard time believing you never did - a friend of mine has four children, ages 7, 6, 4 and 2 - and she's caught EVERY ONE OF THEM masturbating, even her 2yo (and no, none of them have ever seen their mom having sex or masturbating).
                          • Re:minder

                            Sat, October 17, 2009 - 6:44 PM
                            I guarantee you were far more normal as a child than this pervert we're all dallying with.

                            Most children push sensation to the extreme, becoming more and more urgent and creative with it as they age until puberty strikes, releasing a ton of nervousness and the urge to conform (so as to achieve sexual intercourse) which can teeter a person either way or leave them poised on self-denying disbelief of the native urge. Most people, I gather, tend to simply edit out all of the "freakiness" from their memories - experimentally touching self a/o other kids, peering at anuses, etc, normal kid exploration - and strain to convince themselves and the world that the only desires they have are the acceptable kind. Obviously, not everyone goes that way.

                            As repression and self-loathing command less and less cachet, baseline sexual health will become more common.

                            It's necessary to out-Jason the Jasons, in my opinion, and *utterly disenchant* the retarded notion that sexuality is "filthy". That attitude indexes with lack of education, lack of material progress, inhibition of intellectual progress, loss and lowering of happiness and general satisfaction, earning power, you name it. Sexual repression indexes perfectly with suffering and backwardness.

                            Those who practice enforced sexual illness contribute to suffering on more levels than merely "raining on everyone's parade": terrorism, state-condoned mutilation, autocracy, the death penalty, torture, murder, war: these are what civilizations who practice it engender, and what Jason demands we all visit upon the humans he claims to love so much. The very best such people can do for the human race is to sequester themselves far away, keep their yaps shut, and gently fade away into nothingness, as the Shakers did. The will of God is manifest, thus.
                            • The "reminder" of Loki debunked .

                              Sun, October 18, 2009 - 9:35 PM
                              LOKI POSTED : I guarantee you were far more normal as a child than this pervert we're all dallying with.

                              RESPONSE: It is bizarre to the point of being Owellian that somebody would call someone else a pervert because the other person does NOT like liberated sex .

                              LOKI POSTED :Most children push sensation to the extreme, becoming more and more urgent and creative with it as they age until puberty strikes, releasing a ton of nervousness and the urge to conform (so as to achieve sexual intercourse) which can teeter a person either way or leave them poised on self-denying disbelief of the native urge.

                              RESPONSE: Conformity to teen trends ---whcih include the dynamics of "getting laid" shows a lack of depth and a
                              LACK of integrity . Shallow minded stuff .

                              LOKI RESPONSE :Most people, I gather, tend to simply edit out all of the "freakiness" from their memories - experimentally touching self a/o other kids, peering at anuses, etc, normal kid exploration - and strain to convince themselves and the world that the only desires they have are the acceptable kind. Obviously, not everyone goes that way.

                              RESPONSE: HOW DO YOU KNOW that such vast numbers of people as you allege , get involved in such activities and then edit the memory out ?

                              As repression and self-loathing command less and less cachet, baseline sexual health will become more common.

                              LOKI POSTED :It's necessary to out-Jason the Jasons, in my opinion, and *utterly disenchant* the retarded notion that sexuality is "filthy". That attitude indexes with lack of education, lack of material progress, inhibition of intellectual progress, loss and lowering of happiness and general satisfaction, earning power, you name it. Sexual repression indexes perfectly with suffering and backwardness.

                              RESPONSE: More undemonstrated hogwash from scurrilous Lokifreign the consummate hustler .

                              LOKI POSTED Those who practice enforced sexual illness contribute to suffering on more levels than merely "raining on everyone's parade": terrorism, state-condoned mutilation, autocracy, the death penalty, torture, murder, war: these are what civilizations who practice it engender, and what Jason demands we all visit upon the humans he claims to love so much.

                              RESPONSE: The burden of proof is upon you , Loki to demonstrated that such developments come from an anti-sex ethos .

                              LOKI RESPONSE :The very best such people can do for the human race is to sequester themselves far away, keep their yaps shut, and gently fade away into nothingness, as the Shakers did.

                              RESPONSE: No the best such people can do is protect the children from the filth that you liberated sexual degenerates promote .

                              LOKI POSTED :The will of God is manifest, thus.

                              RESPONSE: You have been told NOT to blaspheme , Lokifreign .
                          • Jason: "Let me ask you an interesting question , Pinky . If you had never discovered sexuality ..imagine that you had been raised in some sort of community that structured lifeworld encounters in such a way that sex was veiled from you ..or you were some how especially conditioned in a totally non violent and NON-confrontational way to prevent desire from sex from ever coming about , are you sure that your life would be joyless ?"

                            PINKY POSTED :I doubt it would be completely joyless, Jason, but that's hardly makes sex a disposal asset. Honestly I have a very hard time imagining such a hypothetical scenario for me specifically.

                            RESPONSE: Hmnnn....

                            PINKY POSTED :Before I was ever exposed to higher understandings of anatomy, sex education, or sexual images/scenarios (like, back when I was in preschool and kindergarten), I remember masturbating. When I was 7/8 (at which point the only exposure I'd had was VERY VERY basic education on female puberty), I stole my mom's clothespins and put them on my nipples and labia while I played naked in my room, or would even keep them on under my clothes so I could go downstairs and pursue my usual family activities. A year later I started using the massaging shower head in my shower to stimulate my clitoris, and not long after I started that I put a popsicle stick in my ass just to find out what it felt like.

                            :I was a FREAKY little girl - long before I knew what I knew what I was really doing, why it felt good, what sex was, or how much I would come to enjoy sharing such transcendental experiences with people I cared about.

                            RESPONSE: That is very frightening .

                            PINKY POSTED :Masturbation is completely natural Jason, I think that's why I have a hard time believing you never did

                            RESPONSE: Pinky, I regard the phallus with revulsion .

                            PINKY POSTED :- a friend of mine has four children, ages 7, 6, 4 and 2 - and she's caught EVERY ONE OF THEM masturbating, even her 2yo (and no, none of them have ever seen their mom having sex or masturbating).

                            RESPONSE: That is horrifically frightening . Wonder if it is something that is going into the junk food that is causing some sort of hormonal mutation in the present era .?
                            • Jason: "That is horrifically frightening . Wonder if it is something that is going into the junk food that is causing some sort of hormonal mutation in the present era .?"

                              The unhealthiest thing my friend feeds her children is...pfff...fruit snacks maybe? Nutritious cereals and milk every morning; homemade lunches of fruits, yogurt, and whole grains in one form or another; home-cooked dinners every night (which I often join her for), made from scratch and always involving protein, veggies, and Koolaid at worst - usually water and never soda. She buys most of her produce organic to my knowledge, and honestly I don't know how she does it.

                              Besides, children are biologically capable of orgasm from the age of 2 (if I remember properly). Masturbation is to be expected in toddlers (especially prior to and during potty training when they are first capable of undressing themselves). This has been true for decades at least.

                              Try again.
                              • Jason: "That is horrifically frightening . Wonder if it is something that is going into the junk food that is causing some sort of hormonal mutation in the present era .?"

                                PINKY POSTED :The unhealthiest thing my friend feeds her children is...pfff...fruit snacks maybe? Nutritious cereals and milk every morning; homemade lunches of fruits, yogurt, and whole grains in one form or another; home-cooked dinners every night (which I often join her for), made from scratch and always involving protein, veggies, and Koolaid at worst - usually water and never soda. She buys most of her produce organic to my knowledge, and honestly I don't know how she does it.

                                RESPONSE: Maybe its something in the Kool Aid . Maybe the FDA has gotten lax .

                                PINKY POSTED :Besides, children are biologically capable of orgasm from the age of 2 (if I remember properly). Masturbation is to be expected in toddlers (especially prior to and during potty training when they are first capable of undressing themselves). This has been true for decades at least.

                                RESPONSE: Expected by whom ?

                                I've had friends with toddlers and I've never heard of that phenomenon going on with them . I wonder if parents with weird aka sex positive attitudes have either latently or explicitly encouraged such behavior in their children .
                                • Jason: "Maybe its something in the Kool Aid . Maybe the FDA has gotten lax ."

                                  No Jason, it's the water. They're leaking Viagra and Provestra into the water supply. It's all just one big conspiracy.

                                  Jason: "Expected by whom ?"

                                  Child psychologists, pediatricians, parental guidance counselors, toddler development professionals...

                                  Jason: "I've had friends with toddlers and I've never heard of that phenomenon going on with them . I wonder if parents with weird aka sex positive attitudes have either latently or explicitly encouraged such behavior in their children ."

                                  Then I would suspect at least one of the following practices are present:
                                  1) they know not to talk about things like that with you because they recognize you as having wildly unrealistic and unhealthy views about it
                                  2) they don't spend enough personal time with and/or do not pay enough attention to their children
                                  3) they don't know what masturbation is themselves
                                  4) they're in denial
                                  5) they never allow their children to be naked, and scold them when they undress themselves, thus instilling major precursors to negative body image, eating disorders, and can even promote codependency, not to mention prolonging and/or delaying potty training
                                  • Jason: "Maybe its something in the Kool Aid . Maybe the FDA has gotten lax ."

                                    PINKY POSTED :No Jason, it's the water. They're leaking Viagra and Provestra into the water supply. It's all just one big conspiracy.

                                    RESPONSE: Well I don't latch on to every conspiracy notion that comes along , but I certainly wouldn't put it past the goverment .

                                    Jason: "Expected by whom ?"

                                    PINKY POSTED :Child psychologists, pediatricians, parental guidance counselors, toddler development professionals...

                                    RESPONSE: Geeze looks like their ranks have been infiltrated by sex positive weirdos .

                                    Jason: "I've had friends with toddlers and I've never heard of that phenomenon going on with them . I wonder if parents with weird aka sex positive attitudes have either latently or explicitly encouraged such behavior in their children ."

                                    PINKY POSTED :Then I would suspect at least one of the following practices are present:
                                    1) they know not to talk about things like that with you because they recognize you as having wildly unrealistic and unhealthy views about it

                                    RESPONSE : Actually, my friend Zack has been persuaded to be more puritanical than he used to be . He has become repulsed and quite opposed to trash like fellatio. He's not quite as puritanical in outlook on all points of doctrine , but I'm still; working on that

                                    PINKY POSTED AS A POSSIBILITY :2) they don't spend enough personal time with and/or do not pay enough attention to their children

                                    RESPONSE: Well that scenario is certainly not the case .

                                    PINKY POSTED :3) they don't know what masturbation is themselves

                                    RESPONSE: That is not the case either .

                                    PINKY POSTED :4) they're in denial

                                    RESPONSE: That phrase is bandied about a lot in the present era .
                                    PINKY POSTED :5) they never allow their children to be naked, and scold them when they undress themselves, thus instilling major precursors to negative body image, eating disorders, and can even promote codependency, not to mention prolonging and/or delaying potty training

                                    RESPONSE On what grounds do you allege that such phenomeonon (not that my friends do that) woul cause eating disorders and/or codependency ?
                                    • This is my carny routine:

                                      Mon, October 19, 2009 - 1:44 PM
                                      My eyes are closed.

                                      "I see...... five logical fallacies..... hypocrisy.... deflection? Yes; yes: deflection is definitely here among us...."
                                      • Re: This is my carny routine:

                                        Mon, October 19, 2009 - 1:49 PM
                                        LOKI POSTED :My eyes are closed.

                                        "I see...... five logical fallacies..... hypocrisy.... deflection? Yes; yes: deflection is definitely here among us...."

                                        RESPONSE: Take it you are referring to what you posted , Loki ?
                                      • Re: This is my carny routine:

                                        Mon, October 19, 2009 - 1:51 PM
                                        Jason: "Actually, my friend Zack has been persuaded to be more puritanical than he used to be . He has become repulsed and quite opposed to trash like fellatio."

                                        I am sure by this time anyone who knows Jason understands that he needs to be humored from time to time. (He is lying to you, Jason)
                                        • Re: This is my carny routine:

                                          Mon, October 19, 2009 - 2:00 PM
                                          Jason: "Actually, my friend Zack has been persuaded to be more puritanical than he used to be . He has become repulsed and quite opposed to trash like fellatio."

                                          HUMM POSTED :I am sure by this time anyone who knows Jason understands that he needs to be humored from time to time. (He is lying to you, Jason)

                                          RESPONSE: Look creep, you don't know him . He'd have some choice words to say to you if he heard you speak .

                                          Last time I was over at his house when he and I were discussing Lokifreign he referred to Lokifreign with a name I'd not repeat in mixed company , when his wife and daughter were out of earshot .

                                          Just because you are a filthy degenerate Humm does not mean everyone is .
                                          • Re: This is my carny routine:

                                            Mon, October 19, 2009 - 2:04 PM
                                            Humm, I think Jason may be right.

                                            Anyone who would have to humor Jason enough to remain on good terms with him would be sane enough to know they shouldn't have to put so much work into being someone's friend.

                                            I really do think this "Zack" person is as fucked in the head as Jason, as scary a thought it may be.
                                            • Re: This is my carny routine:

                                              Mon, October 19, 2009 - 2:11 PM
                                              PINHKY POSTED :Humm, I think Jason may be right.

                                              Anyone who would have to humor Jason enough to remain on good terms with him would be sane enough to know they shouldn't have to put so much work into being someone's friend.

                                              I really do think this "Zack" person is as fucked in the head as Jason, as scary a thought it may be.

                                              RESPONSE: Decode that "designation" is that Zack is an on the level , wholesome guy. The ranks of concerned citizens include more than just me . And we will continue to denounce sexual filth and protect our children from it .
                                    • Jason: "Geeze looks like their ranks have been infiltrated by sex positive weirdos ."

                                      They're all out to get you, Jason. We're all going to Hell in a picnic basket and you're the only one who isn't hungry :D

                                      Jason: "Actually, my friend Zack has been persuaded to be more puritanical than he used to be . He has become repulsed and quite opposed to trash like fellatio. He's not quite as puritanical in outlook on all points of doctrine , but I'm still; working on that"

                                      They should make you a Halloween special. I can't think of anything scarier.

                                      Jason: "That phrase is bandied about a lot in the present era ."

                                      Yeah, isn't it incredible how as time keeps going, we discover more about human psychology and the human experience, giving us better insight into the inner workings of the mind? A damn shame it took us so long to uncover this condition...

                                      Jason: "On what grounds do you allege that such phenomeonon (not that my friends do that) woul cause eating disorders and/or codependency ?"

                                      By brainwashing your children from such a young age that the naked body is something to be covered at all times and in all situations instills shame - beyond a healthy level of modesty, and actually creates unhealthy and unrealistic views of personal ugliness and imperfection (I wouldn't be surprised if this has been a great problem in your own life). Eating disorders are fueled by nothing more than a feeling of shame and believing that one is ugly (not everyone who feels this way has an eating disorder, but everyone who does have an eating disorder feels this way).

                                      Codependency is less likely to occur, but still can, born of realizing that "it's ONLY ok when Mommy or Daddy undresses me (when you change a diaper, when you get them ready for bed, when you wake them up in the morning, etc.), but NOT when I do it." Children will first start undressing themselves at unnecessary times - not when you want them to (children aren't convenient like that, Jason). So before they are ever able to undress themselves when it is appropriate, they will have learned that they're not allowed to, thus complicating, prolonging, and likely postponing potty training. Such learned codependency is also easily interpreted on a more general basis, making it very difficult to teach your children how to be self sufficient (which is the very basic point of being a parent - producing another generation of self-sufficient lifeforms to continue the biological existence of your species).
                                      • Jason: "Geeze looks like their ranks have been infiltrated by sex positive weirdos ."

                                        PINKY POSTED :They're all out to get you, Jason. We're all going to Hell in a picnic basket and you're the only one who isn't hungry :D

                                        RESPONSE : Hmnnn .

                                        Jason: "Actually, my friend Zack has been persuaded to be more puritanical than he used to be . He has become repulsed and quite opposed to trash like fellatio. He's not quite as puritanical in outlook on all points of doctrine , but I'm still; working on that"

                                        PINKY POSTED :They should make you a Halloween special. I can't think of anything scarier.

                                        RESPONSE : What do you mean a "Halloween special' ?

                                        Jason: "That phrase is bandied about a lot in the present era ."

                                        PINKY POSTED :Yeah, isn't it incredible how as time keeps going, we discover more about human psychology and the human experience, giving us better insight into the inner workings of the mind? A damn shame it took us so long to uncover this condition...

                                        RESPONSE : Don't bet on it. Some people are just brainwashed by Dr.Phil and self-help books .

                                        Jason: "On what grounds do you allege that such phenomeonon (not that my friends do that) woul cause eating disorders and/or codependency ?"

                                        PINKY POSTED :By brainwashing your children from such a young age that the naked body is something to be covered at all times and in all situations instills shame - beyond a healthy level of modesty, and actually creates unhealthy and unrealistic views of personal ugliness and imperfection (I wouldn't be surprised if this has been a great problem in your own life). Eating disorders are fueled by nothing more than a feeling of shame and believing that one is ugly (not everyone who feels this way has an eating disorder, but everyone who does have an eating disorder feels this way).

                                        RESPONSE : Eating disorders have to do with a body image predicament where the person in question thinks of themselves as too fat even when they are thin . How would merely telling them not to undress themselves convey the message that they are fat ?

                                        PINKY POSTED :Codependency is less likely to occur, but still can, born of realizing that "it's ONLY ok when Mommy or Daddy undresses me (when you change a diaper, when you get them ready for bed, when you wake them up in the morning, etc.), but NOT when I do it." Children will first start undressing themselves at unnecessary times - not when you want them to (children aren't convenient like that, Jason). So before they are ever able to undress themselves when it is appropriate, they will have learned that they're not allowed to, thus complicating, prolonging, and likely postponing potty training. Such learned codependency is also easily interpreted on a more general basis, making it very difficult to teach your children how to be self sufficient (which is the very basic point of being a parent - producing another generation of self-sufficient lifeforms to continue the biological existence of your species).

                                        RESPONSE : Well that argument has somewhat more plausibility . However, children could be instructed that undressing themselves is NOT necessarily inappropriate ---but doing it for masturabtory purposes is .
                                        • Jason: "Look creep, you don't know him . He'd have some choice words to say to you if he heard you speak ."

                                          Jason: "What do you mean a "Halloween special' ?"

                                          A publicized attraction, either on or around the date of Halloween, that may or may not be televised, presented to the public for the purpose of scaring the living shit out of them. You would be perfect for it - but not for the reasons that you would like, I don't think.

                                          Jason: "Some people are just brainwashed by Dr.Phil and self-help books ."

                                          Sure, but would you actually believe the same of the vast majority of authorities on psychology, including universities, teachers, practitioners, medical doctors, therapists, counselors, etc.? I personally hate Dr. Phil and never owned a self-help book.

                                          Jason: "Eating disorders have to do with a body image predicament where the person in question thinks of themselves as too fat even when they are thin . How would merely telling them not to undress themselves convey the message that they are fat ?"

                                          Because no matter what society you live in, except perhaps the Amish (and not even then, since you are allowed one year to live in "civilization"), you cannot ever hope to completely shield your children from the media's influence on their standard of beauty, especially not after they've grown up (and the media's influence is unfortunately so strong as to get to adults as well). Media's beauty standards (for both men and women) are unreachable by AT LEAST 85% of the population (in fact, many "beautiful" bodies presented by the media only look the way they do after digital editing), presuming that they stay healthy, and some cannot ever hope to reach it even by risking their health. When those are the only influences they have SUPPORTING nudity (or near nudity) and exposed skin, that naturally sends the message that only those kinds of bodies are beautiful, or "worthy" of being naked. The easiest, most effective, and healthiest way to combat this issue is by not even necessarily PROMOTING nudity, but by completely abstaining from scolding it (except in situations where it is unavoidably inappropriate, keeping age in consideration).

                                          Then of course, eating disorders is only one of several likely outcomes from body-shame.

                                          Jason: "However, children could be instructed that undressing themselves is NOT necessarily inappropriate ---but doing it for masturabtory purposes is ."

                                          I realize you don't have kids, but actions speak far far louder than words (and reprimand makes a much longer-lasting impression than encouragement). To punish your children for disrobing, but then telling them that it's ok SOMETIMES, is more confusing for young children than you seem to believe. Depending on just how young it may be, I'm not sure you could even put the distinction into words that they would understand. I'm sorry Jason, humans just aren't made to develop such outrageously puritanical mindsets naturally or healthily.
                                          • Jason: "What do you mean a "Halloween special' ?"

                                            PINKY POSTED :A publicized attraction, either on or around the date of Halloween, that may or may not be televised, presented to the public for the purpose of scaring the living shit out of them. You would be perfect for it - but not for the reasons that you would like, I don't think.

                                            RESPONSE : Are you claiming I'm scary ? People like Loki and Humm are scary .

                                            Jason: "Some people are just brainwashed by Dr.Phil and self-help books ."

                                            PINKY POSTED :Sure, but would you actually believe the same of the vast majority of authorities on psychology, including universities, teachers, practitioners, medical doctors, therapists, counselors, etc.? I personally hate Dr. Phil and never owned a self-help book.

                                            RESPONSE: The self-help movement ideology of thinking similar to that espoused by Dr.Phil has infiltrated a number of therapy related circles . One also has people like the so-called parenting expert John Rosemond, who has a lot of fruticake notions (at least he did when he had a column in the newspaper I used to read) about how to raise kids ...who promote a lot of weird yuppie ideology .

                                            And even if you have never owned a self-help book , nor are a fan of Dr.Phil , could it be that you have friends and acquaintaces that have and are ...and thus the influence has indirectly spread to you ?

                                            (The popular trend in some circles of glibly , quickly calling anyone reporting extenuating circumstances so-called "excuses" is likely due to the influence of Dr.Phil, who apparently has the slogan of 'No excuses.')

                                            Jason: "Eating disorders have to do with a body image predicament where the person in question thinks of themselves as too fat even when they are thin . How would merely telling them not to undress themselves convey the message that they are fat ?"

                                            PINKY POSTED :Because no matter what society you live in, except perhaps the Amish (and not even then, since you are allowed one year to live in "civilization"), you cannot ever hope to completely shield your children from the media's influence on their standard of beauty,

                                            RESPONSE: Actually , there is a sect called the Hutterites , in the Dakotas, that is similar to the Amish , but even more strict than the Amish about not adopting motifs of secular culture . If I'm not mistaken they do not have the Rumspringa like the Amish do .

                                            PINKY POSTED : especially not after they've grown up (and the media's influence is unfortunately so strong as to get to adults as well).

                                            RESPONSE: There are a number of communes called intentional communities (sometimes called ecovillages) out there. Its probably a safe wager that some are without t.v., that could cordon their children off from media influence .

                                            PINKY POSTED : Media's beauty standards (for both men and women) are unreachable by AT LEAST 85% of the population (in fact, many "beautiful" bodies presented by the media only look the way they do after digital editing), presuming that they stay healthy, and some cannot ever hope to reach it even by risking their health. When those are the only influences they have SUPPORTING nudity (or near nudity) and exposed skin, that naturally sends the message that only those kinds of bodies are beautiful, or "worthy" of being naked. The easiest, most effective, and healthiest way to combat this issue is by not even necessarily PROMOTING nudity, but by completely abstaining from scolding it (except in situations where it is unavoidably inappropriate, keeping age in consideration).

                                            Then of course, eating disorders is only one of several likely outcomes from body-shame.

                                            RESPONSE: But how would the children think that the reason they are being told to refrain from being naked around the home is because they are fat...if one does NOT tell them , "you are overweight so that is why you should not undress" or some similar statement ? Please do more to connect the conceptual dots ...

                                            Jason: "However, children could be instructed that undressing themselves is NOT necessarily inappropriate ---but doing it for masturabtory purposes is ."

                                            PINKY POSTED :I realize you don't have kids, but actions speak far far louder than words (and reprimand makes a much longer-lasting impression than encouragement). To punish your children for disrobing, but then telling them that it's ok SOMETIMES, is more confusing for young children than you seem to believe. Depending on just how young it may be, I'm not sure you could even put the distinction into words that they would understand. I'm sorry Jason, humans just aren't made to develop such outrageously puritanical mindsets naturally or healthily.

                                            RESPONSE: Well a simple way to convey the distinction is if one finds them engaged in apparent masturbation tell them 'Bad!' , or 'Yucky; or , 'That's nasty' or something similar. If they are undressed around the house and do not engage in any masturbation than do not reprimand them for it provided there are no other adult vistors --other than those of a medical or healthcare role present . Tell them when a visitor who is not a medical personell present that it is not polite to undress in front of guests .
                                            • Jason: "Are you claiming I'm scary ? People like Loki and Humm are scary ."

                                              Loki is scary in the kind of "adrenaline-pumping, loin-tingling, exciting" kind of way, and I'm not so sure if I find anything scary about Humm at all, but YOU are fucking TERRIFYING. That there are people in the world who can slump to such a counter-productive, self-perpetuating circle of hate, intolerance, marginalization, and Guilt-Trips-for-Jesus level...well, it makes me ashamed to have to share the same species with some kinds of people.

                                              My sister is another kind, but for entirely different reasons. I can't believe I'm related to her. Ugh.

                                              Jason: "The self-help movement ideology of thinking similar to that espoused by Dr.Phil has infiltrated a number of therapy related circles . One also has people like the so-called parenting expert John Rosemond, who has a lot of fruticake notions (at least he did when he had a column in the newspaper I used to read) about how to raise kids ...who promote a lot of weird yuppie ideology ."

                                              Ok, so there's more of this, "Even though I don't have any experience whatsoever in what I speak of, I know I have the right answers, so only the professionals of such a topic that agree with my version of Truth are the ones that are right." I heard this before with feminists. Now you're trying to tell me that you know how to be a better psychologist than however many psychologists out there, who have gone to school for several years dedicating their lives to understanding the human condition on levels which no one who hasn't gone through such rigorous testing could possibly begin to understand? There's a reason they get paid so goddamn much money for doing their job: it's not that simple. To tell me that there are psychologists out there who don't necessarily know what they're doing (because goodness knows there's not only fakes, but lousy therapists just like there are lousy doctors and lousy lawyers), that's ok; but when you try and preach that you know exactly which ones don't know what they're doing simply because they don't agree with you? THAT'S where everybody's getting these "selfish, proud, narcissistic, and delusion of grandeur" claims on you, Jason. You think you know better than people who define such knowledge not because you have any experience but because you're so sure you don't need experience to know a subject inside and out when you have a little voice in your head telling you that you have some kind of access to divine knowledge.

                                              Honestly, you've thought of everything. You need a damn psychologist to tell you to stop LISTENING to the voice in your head (you're not actually supposed to HEAR it), but the only ones who can are the ones said little voice tells you are full of shit. Don't you feel comfy?

                                              Jason: "Hutterites"

                                              Many Hutterites will even venture into the big, scary, "civilized" world. Many of them attend college outside of their communities. They also do a lot of "choral singing" in old-folks homes, charity events and hospitals (also outside of their communities). No one in the United States is completely isolated from media influence - that's how devastating it is.

                                              Jason: "But how would the children think that the reason they are being told to refrain from being naked around the home is because they are fat...if one does NOT tell them"

                                              Developing children use deductive reasoning, and often try to find the simplest solution. For most children, in the given scenario, it will follow with them that they see no one else being naked, so it is not right to be naked. This will often satisfy younger people who do not insist upon lengthy explanations since they simply just want to mimic adults so they appear to be smart when they really don't know why they're doing what they do (not all children are infinitely curious). If they are never given a definitive reason (either a good enough one to battle future media influence, or a good enough one to battle their own curiosities as well if they ARE the infinitely curious kind) to be clothed in front of others, the media will answer it for them, by pumping their senses full of advertisements to be thin/muscular and beautiful with diet pills, workout machines, and fill their eyes with images of unreachable standards, creating an obvious contrast between their lean, cut, tight, trim (nearly) naked bodies, and the (now older) child's larger, flabbier, looser, chunkier covered body (anyone's body would be by comparison). It doesn't take a genius to notice that you display things that are beautiful and hide things that are ugly - thus the media's entire goal has been reached: to make people feel ugly, so they will BUY BUY BUY things to make them beautiful - and they've had a lot more practice convincing people of all that than you've had raising kids to be sure. If you teach a child that their body is something to be covered up, they can (and most will) make that connection.

                                              Jason: "Well a simple way to convey the distinction is if one finds them engaged in apparent masturbation tell them 'Bad!' , or 'Yucky; or , 'That's nasty' or something similar. If they are undressed around the house and do not engage in any masturbation than do not reprimand them for it provided there are no other adult vistors --other than those of a medical or healthcare role present . Tell them when a visitor who is not a medical personell present that it is not polite to undress in front of guests ."

                                              Oh lord. I'm not even sure I'd like to attempt to developmental issues that can arise from scolding a child's exploration of their own bodies. I'm sure you won't have any of it and I'll be throwing my pearls before swine.

                                              On a logical standpoint, there's a slim to none chance you'll ever find a woman that not only shares your views on sex, but also on kids, and is compatible enough with you in enough other ways that you would ever actually end up impregnating anyone, so I'm not sure I really have to worry at all about you corrupting any future generations (beyond Zack's kids of course) anyway.
                                              • Jason: "Are you claiming I'm scary ? People like Loki and Humm are scary ."

                                                PINKY POSTED :Loki is scary in the kind of "adrenaline-pumping, loin-tingling, exciting" kind of way, and I'm not so sure if I find anything scary about Humm at all, but YOU are fucking TERRIFYING. That there are people in the world who can slump to such a counter-productive, self-perpetuating circle of hate, intolerance, marginalization, and Guilt-Trips-for-Jesus level...well, it makes me ashamed to have to share the same species with some kinds of people.

                                                RESPONSE: Intolerance and guilt , provided they are properly deployed, are good qualities that help to make the Earth a more beautiful place ! Renounce sex psitive ideology and join the good cause , Pinky !

                                                PINKY POSTED :My sister is another kind, but for entirely different reasons. I can't believe I'm related to her. Ugh.

                                                RESPONSE: Maybe I could persuade your sister to join the ANTI-sex bandwagon .

                                                Jason: "The self-help movement ideology of thinking similar to that espoused by Dr.Phil has infiltrated a number of therapy related circles . One also has people like the so-called parenting expert John Rosemond, who has a lot of fruticake notions (at least he did when he had a column in the newspaper I used to read) about how to raise kids ...who promote a lot of weird yuppie ideology ."

                                                PINKY POSTED :Ok, so there's more of this, "Even though I don't have any experience whatsoever in what I speak of, I know I have the right answers, so only the professionals of such a topic that agree with my version of Truth are the ones that are right." I heard this before with feminists.

                                                RESPONSE: THE Truth NOT "my" anything . And yes the ones that agree with what I agree with are the ones with the right answers . Do not let yourself get mesmerized by the mystification of vaunted credentials .

                                                As Alfred North Whitehead explained long ago, the 'ultimate court of appeal is intrinsic reasonableness' , not whether someone of renown and credentials says this or that .

                                                PINKY POSTED :Now you're trying to tell me that you know how to be a better psychologist than however many psychologists out there, who have gone to school for several years dedicating their lives to understanding the human condition on levels which no one who hasn't gone through such rigorous testing could possibly begin to understand?

                                                RESPONSE: Much of so-called "psychoanalysis" and the like in the present era is social ideology...ideoogical presuppostions disguised as social science .

                                                PINKY POSTED :There's a reason they get paid so goddamn much money for doing their job: it's not that simple. To tell me that there are psychologists out there who don't necessarily know what they're doing (because goodness knows there's not only fakes, but lousy therapists just like there are lousy doctors and lousy lawyers), that's ok; but when you try and preach that you know exactly which ones don't know what they're doing simply because they don't agree with you? THAT'S where everybody's getting these "selfish, proud, narcissistic, and delusion of grandeur" claims on you, Jason.

                                                RESPONSE: FALSE allegation . I did NOT attribute to myself any mysterious smartness , nor mysterious superior powers of observation to myself . Rather I maintain that anyone who uses the proper methodology that I support and has access to the requisite data can come to the right conclusions . I NEVER stated there was anything inherently special about myself , Pinky . Hence to accuse me of pride or selfishness is a scurrilous and false accusation .

                                                I maintain the beliefs I support are superior . I do NOT maintain my personal self is superior . Distinctions , Pinky.
                                                The role of me here is a mere instrument for the beliefs . One among others out there . If I ever compromise those beliefs and get flexible than I have instructed friends to denounce me for such flexibility , if I ever were to become a flexible relativist sellout .

                                                PINKY POSTED : You think you know better than people who define such knowledge not because you have any experience but because you're so sure you don't need experience to know a subject inside and out when you have a little voice in your head telling you that you have some kind of access to divine knowledge.

                                                RESPONSE: Are you referring to the "voice" of conscience, Pinky .?

                                                PINKY POSTED :Honestly, you've thought of everything. You need a damn psychologist to tell you to stop LISTENING to the voice in your head (you're not actually supposed to HEAR it), but the only ones who can are the ones said little voice tells you are full of shit. Don't you feel comfy?

                                                RESPONSE: I hope I am in a comfort zone . I recommend that people get in the comfort zone and stay there like a barnacle to the hull of a sturdy ship . I am very much opposed to that goofy postmodernist slogan that in the recent era tells people to "get out of their comfort zone" . That's as bad as that goofy slogan that tells people to think outside the box that is so bandied about recently . I recommend people get into a comfort zone---especially if it is a sex negative one !!!

                                                Jason: "Hutterites"

                                                PINKY POSTED :Many Hutterites will even venture into the big, scary, "civilized" world. Many of them attend college outside of their communities. They also do a lot of "choral singing" in old-folks homes, charity events and hospitals (also outside of their communities). No one in the United States is completely isolated from media influence - that's how devastating it is.

                                                RESPONSE: Yet hopefully they won't get much time to get mesmerized by television during such excursions .

                                                And again people can raise their kids in a commune in a rural area with NO television and homeschool them so they will be sheltered protected from contemporary pop culture's , superficial , sex-positive television filth !

                                                Jason: "But how would the children think that the reason they are being told to refrain from being naked around the home is because they are fat...if one does NOT tell them"

                                                PINKY POSTED :Developing children use deductive reasoning, and often try to find the simplest solution. For most children, in the given scenario, it will follow with them that they see no one else being naked, so it is not right to be naked. This will often satisfy younger people who do not insist upon lengthy explanations since they simply just want to mimic adults so they appear to be smart when they really don't know why they're doing what they do (not all children are infinitely curious). If they are never given a definitive reason (either a good enough one to battle future media influence, or a good enough one to battle their own curiosities as well if they ARE the infinitely curious kind) to be clothed in front of others, the media will answer it for them, by pumping their senses full of advertisements to be thin/muscular and beautiful with diet pills, workout machines, and fill their eyes with images of unreachable standards, creating an obvious contrast between their lean, cut, tight, trim (nearly) naked bodies, and the (now older) child's larger, flabbier, looser, chunkier covered body (anyone's body would be by comparison). It doesn't take a genius to notice that you display things that are beautiful and hide things that are ugly - thus the media's entire goal has been reached: to make people feel ugly, so they will BUY BUY BUY things to make them beautiful - and they've had a lot more practice convincing people of all that than you've had raising kids to be sure. If you teach a child that their body is something to be covered up, they can (and most will) make that connection.

                                                RESPONSE: Making some wild out of sequence link between being told not to undress around the house and being told by messages in the media that they are too fat sounds like the sort of link they would make in thought if they are NOT using deductive reasoning, but using *INSTEAD* that goofy, ANTI-logical sort of thinking known as lateral thinking .

                                                Of course a parent has an obligation to instruct children to think logically (aka in a linear sequence) so that goofy MTV era sort of thinking called lateral thinking is NIPPED IN THE BUD (discouraged from the get go) at an early age, should there be any inkling of that displayed by a child . It is the mass media that encourages lateral thinking and other types of ANTI-logical thinking and since it is the media that also tells youngsters that they are too fat if they happen to be even slighly plump or less, than one can kill two stones with one bird by NOT having any television or nay similar media in the house when the children are coming of age !

                                                It is the media that tells young people that they are too fat, so blame the media, don't blame parents who tell their kids not to undress around the house !


                                                Jason: "Well a simple way to convey the distinction is if one finds them engaged in apparent masturbation tell them 'Bad!' , or 'Yucky; or , 'That's nasty' or something similar. If they are undressed around the house and do not engage in any masturbation than do not reprimand them for it provided there are no other adult vistors --other than those of a medical or healthcare role present . Tell them when a visitor who is not a medical personell present that it is not polite to undress in front of guests ."

                                                PINKY POSTED :Oh lord. I'm not even sure I'd like to attempt to developmental issues that can arise from scolding a child's exploration of their own bodies. I'm sure you won't have any of it and I'll be throwing my pearls before swine.

                                                RESPONSE: Present arguments if you can, Pinky of those alleged developmental issues .

                                                PINKY POSTED :On a logical standpoint, there's a slim to none chance you'll ever find a woman that not only shares your views on sex, but also on kids, and is compatible enough with you in enough other ways that you would ever actually end up impregnating anyone, so I'm not sure I really have to worry at all about you corrupting any future generations (beyond Zack's kids of course) anyway.

                                                RESPONSE: Though women of refinement and quaintness are few and far between especially in this part of the country in circa 2009 of the present depraved , conformist decade ...there have got to be some left .

                                                Furthermore , the clergy in the church I attend not far from Winter Haven , Florida are purtitanical when it comes to being against liberated sex .The priest in the Eastern Orthodox church I have been attending has shared worries with me about the sex positive filth on the internet and young people in the church being led astray by it .

                                                Furthermore, Zack has a degree from radio broadcasting from a private radio broadcasting school in Florida and has talked about us getting a talk radio show sometime. He has worked with some major radio affiliates in Michigan ...and if we get sponsorship we can stirr up the ANTI-sex , intolerance backlash big time !

                                                Unfortunately the outlook you have on life Pinky is very contemporary .
                                                • Jason: "Maybe I could persuade your sister to join the ANTI-sex bandwagon ."

                                                  I quite literally laughed out loud when I read this. That doesn't actually happen online very often for me.

                                                  My sister has had something like 4 abortions, she has 3 children with 2 different men, her current husband's Mormon bishop decided to marry them so that the sex they were having would no longer be premarital, she's currently pregnant with her 4th child, and she's looking into more permanent forms of birth control so she can continue having sex without worrying about getting pregnant again.

                                                  Good fucking luck!

                                                  Jason: "THE Truth NOT "my" anything . Truth NOT "my" anything . And yes the ones that agree with what I agree with are the ones with the right answers . Do not let yourself get mesmerized by the mystification of vaunted credentials ."

                                                  Your level upon level upon level of delusion is all that's mesmerizing. This is really the only reason I bother responding to you - as an anomaly you are simply FASCINATING. That you can say things like this, alongside denying any vanity or "I'm better than you" attitude is fucking mind boggling! Many people live their lives in a state of delusion to some extent, but you really do top the charts.

                                                  Jason: "FALSE allegation . I did NOT attribute to myself any mysterious smartness , nor mysterious superior powers of observation to myself . Rather I maintain that anyone who uses the proper methodology that I support and has access to the requisite data can come to the right conclusions . I NEVER stated there was anything inherently special about myself , Pinky . Hence to accuse me of pride or selfishness is a scurrilous and false accusation ."

                                                  Is this a joke, right? Did the other Jason rack up 24 friends and completely replicate your profile when I wasn't looking, and he's just making fun of you by posting in your place again? You really do have to be kidding me.

                                                  Jason: "I maintain the beliefs I support are superior . I do NOT maintain my personal self is superior . Distinctions , Pinky.
                                                  The role of me here is a mere instrument for the beliefs ."

                                                  Let me TRY to spell this out for you in a language you might better understand... Ok, so "the beliefs you support" are superior, but not you. However, by appointing yourself the role of informing others about said superior beliefs, you have thus appointed yourself to a position of authority, one in which you tell others what is right and what is wrong, one in which you know things that others do not (yet), one in which you have the power to dictate what is right and what is wrong when others do not. By appointing yourself said position, you are naming yourself better than others, superior to others, and thus prideful and vain. Not because you support superior beliefs, but because you use them to tell others how to live and how not to live, while denying that they have the same power. Can you see that? That you are appointing yourself power that you deny recognizing in others? That makes us unequal - that grants YOU something that others do not have. Not because you support certain beliefs, but because you dictate them. Am I getting through yet?

                                                  Jason: "I hope I am in a comfort zone . I recommend that people get in the comfort zone and stay there like a barnacle to the hull of a sturdy ship . I am very much opposed to that goofy postmodernist slogan that in the recent era tells people to "get out of their comfort zone" . That's as bad as that goofy slogan that tells people to think outside the box that is so bandied about recently ."

                                                  Oh for fuck's sake. He just keeps getting crazier!

                                                  Jason: "Yet hopefully they won't get much time to get mesmerized by television during such excursions ."

                                                  It doesn't take long at all - not for everyone.

                                                  Jason: "And again people can raise their kids in a commune in a rural area with NO television and homeschool them so they will be sheltered protected from contemporary pop culture's , superficial , sex-positive television filth !"

                                                  It's not just television. It's far, far more reaching than that.

                                                  Jason: "It is the media that tells young people that they are too fat, so blame the media, don't blame parents who tell their kids not to undress around the house !"

                                                  Gee, it looks like he tried to throw the ball back to me, but it disintegrated in mid air... Have you anything to say other than "that sounds like a load of crap so I'm going to blame everything bad on what I think you're arguing in support of instead of actually forming an argument based on the relevant context of our discussion"?

                                                  Jason: "Though women of refinement and quaintness are few and far between especially in this part of the country in circa 2009 of the present depraved , conformist decade ...there have got to be some left ."

                                                  And how many fertile ones have given you the time of day lately?

                                                  Fortunately the outlook I have on life is joyous, positive, beneficial to myself and my loved ones, inspirational to my friends and acquaintances, bountiful, rich, realistic and healthy.
                                                  • Jason: "Maybe I could persuade your sister to join the ANTI-sex bandwagon ."

                                                    PINKY POSTED : I quite literally laughed out loud when I read this. That doesn't actually happen online very often for me.

                                                    My sister has had something like 4 abortions, she has 3 children with 2 different men, her current husband's Mormon bishop decided to marry them so that the sex they were having would no longer be premarital, she's currently pregnant with her 4th child, and she's looking into more permanent forms of birth control so she can continue having sex without worrying about getting pregnant again.

                                                    Good fucking luck!

                                                    RESPONSE: Yikes . That would be an uphill battle perhaps against an avalanche .

                                                    Jason: "THE Truth NOT "my" anything . Truth NOT "my" anything . And yes the ones that agree with what I agree with are the ones with the right answers . Do not let yourself get mesmerized by the mystification of vaunted credentials ."

                                                    PINKY POSTED :Your level upon level upon level of delusion is all that's mesmerizing. This is really the only reason I bother responding to you - as an anomaly you are simply FASCINATING. That you can say things like this, alongside denying any vanity or "I'm better than you" attitude is fucking mind boggling! Many people live their lives in a state of delusion to some extent, but you really do top the charts.

                                                    RESPONSE: The notes below will hopefully disabuse you of the weird notion that what i am stating is somehow mind-boggling .

                                                    Jason: "FALSE allegation . I did NOT attribute to myself any mysterious smartness , nor mysterious superior powers of observation to myself . Rather I maintain that anyone who uses the proper methodology that I support and has access to the requisite data can come to the right conclusions . I NEVER stated there was anything inherently special about myself , Pinky . Hence to accuse me of pride or selfishness is a scurrilous and false accusation ."

                                                    PINKY POSTED : Is this a joke, right? Did the other Jason rack up 24 friends and completely replicate your profile when I wasn't looking, and he's just making fun of you by posting in your place again? You really do have to be kidding me.

                                                    RESPONSE: Are you feigning shock for rhetorical purposes ?

                                                    Jason: "I maintain the beliefs I support are superior . I do NOT maintain my personal self is superior . Distinctions , Pinky.
                                                    The role of me here is a mere instrument for the beliefs ."

                                                    PINKY POSTED :Let me TRY to spell this out for you in a language you might better understand... Ok, so "the beliefs you support" are superior, but not you. However, by appointing yourself the role of informing others about said superior beliefs, you have thus appointed yourself to a position of authority, one in which you tell others what is right and what is wrong, one in which you know things that others do not (yet), one in which you have the power to dictate what is right and what is wrong when others do not. By appointing yourself said position, you are naming yourself better than others, superior to others, and thus prideful and vain.

                                                    RESPONSE: There is quite a misconception there in what you have posted . The crux of the matter is that ANYONE , NOT merely me (not exclusively me) if they make the volitional alignment with those right beliefs I support and are aware of what they are about (and others can do that just as well as me) can inform the people who hold beliefs to the contrary that those beliefs to the *contrary* of the right beliefs are indeed quite wrong. Others beyond merely me if they align with the right beliefs can *verbally* dictate what is right and what is wrong . Thus , since I believe that anyone who aligns themselves with the right beliefs and is aware of what the right beliefs are about and has the willingness to tell others about them (and there is NO inherently special role for me , it is the beliefs which count) there is NO pride in self ,there is NO feeling that I am any better than others in any inherent sense .

                                                    PINKY POSTED : Not because you support superior beliefs, but because you use them to tell others how to live and how not to live, while denying that they have the same power. Can you see that? That you are appointing yourself power that you deny recognizing in others? That makes us unequal - that grants YOU something that others do not have. Not because you support certain beliefs, but because you dictate them. Am I getting through yet?

                                                    RESPONSE: The crux of the matter that you overlook, Pinky, is that the right beliefs can use anybody to tell the others how to live and how not to live, that other people who agree with the right beliefs have just as much right to tell those who have the wrong beliefs (like sex positive people and other relativists being an example of those who have wrong beliefs) how to live and how not to live . Other people like Editorialist Ms. Jennifer King who show apparent moral opposition to sex positive lifestyles ---people like her who prize chastity and decency --NOT liberated sex---have just as much grounds to tell people how to live as I do and so you can see that in light of how I claim that others who share the right beliefs have just as much grounds to tell people with the wrong beliefs how to live , that I do *NOT* ascribe any inherently superior role or rank to my personal self !

                                                    Jason: "I hope I am in a comfort zone . I recommend that people get in the comfort zone and stay there like a barnacle to the hull of a sturdy ship . I am very much opposed to that goofy postmodernist slogan that in the recent era tells people to "get out of their comfort zone" . That's as bad as that goofy slogan that tells people to think outside the box that is so bandied about recently ."

                                                    PINKY POSTED :Oh for fuck's sake. He just keeps getting crazier!

                                                    RESPONSE: If we decode the "lexicon" of Pinky, does "crazier" =unwilling to sellout to contemporary trends ?

                                                    Jason: "Yet hopefully they won't get much time to get mesmerized by television during such excursions ."

                                                    PINKY POSTED : It doesn't take long at all - not for everyone.

                                                    RESPONSE: Even the Hutterites ?

                                                    Jason: "And again people can raise their kids in a commune in a rural area with NO television and homeschool them so they will be sheltered protected from contemporary pop culture's , superficial , sex-positive television filth !"

                                                    PINKY POSTED :It's not just television. It's far, far more reaching than that.

                                                    RESPONSE: Well than who would send them the message if the kids are homeschooled and raised in a commune in a rural area far from the mass media and people influenced by it ?

                                                    Jason: "It is the media that tells young people that they are too fat, so blame the media, don't blame parents who tell their kids not to undress around the house !"

                                                    PINKY POSTED :Gee, it looks like he tried to throw the ball back to me, but it disintegrated in mid air... Have you anything to say other than "that sounds like a load of crap so I'm going to blame everything bad on what I think you're arguing in support of instead of actually forming an argument based on the relevant context of our discussion"?

                                                    RESPONSE: Now, Pinky that is a misrepresentation of the argument I raised !

                                                    If the parents do not tell the children "you are too fat that is why you should not undress around the house" and do NOT rell them they are too fat at all , though ask them not to undress around the house and the media shows are telling them they are too fat , then who is sending them the message that they are too fat the media or the parents ?

                                                    Please think in a linear (logical) manner !

                                                    Jason: "Though women of refinement and quaintness are few and far between especially in this part of the country in circa 2009 of the present depraved , conformist decade ...there have got to be some left ."

                                                    PINKY ASKED :And how many fertile ones have given you the time of day lately?

                                                    RESPONSE: Lately some of the younger ladies haven't been attending the church as often .

                                                    And its been a couple of weeks since I was in Winter Haven last .

                                                    PINKY POSTED :Fortunately the outlook I have on life is joyous, positive, beneficial to myself and my loved ones, inspirational to my friends and acquaintances, bountiful, rich, realistic and healthy.

                                                    RESPONSE: It is NOT beneficial to your loved ones nor is it inspirational ...you are currently a relativist. That is the wrong outlook . Please stop being contemporary and cultivated quaintness , Pinky .
                                                    • Jason: "Yikes . That would be an uphill battle perhaps against an avalanche ."

                                                      The major difference between my sister and I sexually (as much as it pains me to say that we are so similar), is that she hasn't been as smart about protection. Just because her activities have manifested more tangibly (abortions, children, etc.), does not mean she is any more sexually liberated than myself. Had I gotten pregnant as early as she had, I would have gotten an abortion. Had my husband's and my (or any of my previous fiancees' and my) sexual relations been an issue for any of our religious authorities (had there even been any), I would have married much sooner (and for the wrong reasons). And once I am done having biological children (after I start, of course), not only does my husband plan to to get a vasectomy, but I also plan to have my tubes tied, so we don't need to worry about our continuing sexual escapades producing more children than we desire.

                                                      You have about as much likelihood of guilting me out of my love of sex as you do her, and (in risk of speaking for everyone else here) everyone else here as well.

                                                      Jason: "Are you feigning shock for rhetorical purposes ?"

                                                      Absolutely not. You'd be fucking hilarious if you weren't so damn sad.

                                                      Jason: "Others beyond merely me if they align with the right beliefs can *verbally* dictate what is right and what is wrong . ... Other people ... have just as much grounds to tell people how to live as I do"

                                                      Just because other people are CAPABLE of having the same power you appoint yourself (under certain conditions - NOT unconditionally), and there are other people who (in your eyes) maintain the SAME power you appoint yourself, does not mean that you do not treat yourself in a way superior to others. I'm not saying you THINK yourself superior, or SEE yourself superior, but you TREAT yourself that way. If you were believe that EVERYONE had the same power that you do (to dictate what is right and wrong), then you would be treating yourself and everyone else equally, but because you believe that ONLY people who support the same beliefs that you support have the same power to dictate said beliefs to others, you are TREATING people unequally in comparison to yourself (and others who support the same beliefs), putting you (and those select others) in a position of superiority.

                                                      Jason: "If we decode the "lexicon" of Pinky, does "crazier" =unwilling to sellout to contemporary trends ?"

                                                      Nope. That went right over your head.

                                                      Jason: "Even the Hutterites ?"

                                                      To say that "all Hutterites take a large amount of exposure to be influenced by the media," or "all Hutterites take a small amount of exposure to be influenced by the media," would be discriminatory. There's not always a way to lump together "the people who are more easily influenced" vs. "the people who are less easily influenced" into any group other than those very specific conditions. Besides, extremist groups like the Hutterites and the Amish and such are known to do some pretty heavily influential brainwashing of their own.

                                                      Jason: "Well than who would send them the message if the kids are homeschooled and raised in a commune in a rural area far from the mass media and people influenced by it ?"

                                                      Jason, hello!? If one is never exposed to the media, than you can't expect one to be influenced by it. If "media" only meant "TV," I would have said "TV." Media refers to TV, magazines, billboards, posters, junk mail, movies, radio, the internet, video games, souvenirs, apparel, and great many more things.

                                                      Jason: "then who is sending them the message that they are too fat the media or the parents ?"

                                                      The media.

                                                      Jason: "It is NOT beneficial to your loved ones nor is it inspirational"

                                                      Two points.
                                                      1) The only things you know about me are what I choose to tell you (or simply how I choose to present myself to you). There is a great deal more to my character than what I share on Heated Debate. You cannot possibly know anywhere near who I am as a person or any aspect of my personality or my life that I do not share with you. Do not begin to think I am as shallow or one-dimensional as you might be.
                                                      2) You cannot speak for my loved ones, nor my friends, nor my acquaintances. Until you know them personally I request that you at least not dictate what my relationships are like with them. You can state how you feel about about me or what I have to say, but I'm afraid you have no leverage with me, nor do you have any place, telling me how people whom I know and you don't feel about me. Thou art not omniscient.
                                                      • PINKY POSTED :You have about as much likelihood of guilting me out of my love of sex as you do her, and (in risk of speaking for everyone else here) everyone else here as well.

                                                        RESPONSE: I've got to try to guilt you out of loving sex , Pinky . Got to try to reform you .

                                                        Jason: "Are you feigning shock for rhetorical purposes ?"

                                                        PINKY POSTED :Absolutely not. You'd be fucking hilarious if you weren't so damn sad.

                                                        RESPONSE: Hmnnn .

                                                        Jason: "Others beyond merely me if they align with the right beliefs can *verbally* dictate what is right and what is wrong . ... Other people ... have just as much grounds to tell people how to live as I do"

                                                        PINKY POSTED :Just because other people are CAPABLE of having the same power you appoint yourself (under certain conditions - NOT unconditionally), and there are other people who (in your eyes) maintain the SAME power you appoint yourself, does not mean that you do not treat yourself in a way superior to others. I'm not saying you THINK yourself superior, or SEE yourself superior, but you TREAT yourself that way. If you were believe that EVERYONE had the same power that you do (to dictate what is right and wrong), then you would be treating yourself and everyone else equally, but because you believe that ONLY people who support the same beliefs that you support have the same power to dictate said beliefs to others, you are TREATING people unequally in comparison to yourself (and others who support the same beliefs), putting you (and those select others) in a position of superiority.

                                                        RESPONSE: No I do NOT even treat myself with any sense of superiority . It is those select others who support the same beliefs I treat as superiors. Them I will praise and laud . NOT myself . The people who agree with the same sound beliefs them I will praise and gladly call myself a mere nobody . For it is the beliefs that ultimately count not me.

                                                        The people who agree with those beliefs that are supported by me, they are the ones to tell the rest how to live .Think of me as a mere echo to them ...wherever and whenever they may manifest .

                                                        Jason: "If we decode the "lexicon" of Pinky, does "crazier" =unwilling to sellout to contemporary trends ?"

                                                        PINKY POSTED :Nope. That went right over your head.

                                                        RESPONSE: Are you sure ?

                                                        Jason: "Even the Hutterites ?"

                                                        PINKY POSTED :To say that "all Hutterites take a large amount of exposure to be influenced by the media," or "all Hutterites take a small amount of exposure to be influenced by the media," would be discriminatory. There's not always a way to lump together "the people who are more easily influenced" vs. "the people who are less easily influenced" into any group other than those very specific conditions.

                                                        RESPONSE: With more exposure comes more reconditioning does it not ?

                                                        PINKY POSTED :Besides, extremist groups like the Hutterites and the Amish and such are known to do some pretty heavily influential brainwashing of their own.

                                                        RESPONSE: On what grounds do you claim that they do ?

                                                        Remember Amish and the Hutterites are the good guys (and gals) . It is the decadent pop culture yuppie types that are the bad guys (and gals) .

                                                        Jason: "Well than who would send them the message if the kids are homeschooled and raised in a commune in a rural area far from the mass media and people influenced by it ?"

                                                        PINKY POSTED :Jason, hello!? If one is never exposed to the media, than you can't expect one to be influenced by it. If "media" only meant "TV," I would have said "TV." Media refers to TV, magazines, billboards, posters, junk mail, movies, radio, the internet, video games, souvenirs, apparel, and great many more things.

                                                        RESPONSE: I see .
                                                        Jason: "then who is sending them the message that they are too fat the media or the parents ?"

                                                        PINKY POSTED :The media.

                                                        RESPONSE: Well in light of that it is then the media who should be blaimed if the children develop eating disorders from the notion they are too fat .The parents then who tell their kids not to be undressed about the house are NOT to blame .

                                                        Jason: "It is NOT beneficial to your loved ones nor is it inspirational"

                                                        PINKY POSTED :Two points.
                                                        1) The only things you know about me are what I choose to tell you (or simply how I choose to present myself to you). There is a great deal more to my character than what I share on Heated Debate. You cannot possibly know anywhere near who I am as a person or any aspect of my personality or my life that I do not share with you. Do not begin to think I am as shallow or one-dimensional as you might be.


                                                        RESPONSE: Well I did read in your profile that help out animals that are neglected and so on . That is admirable , that is certainly a case of doing that , so in regard to that matter you are doing good. However, the liberated sex you promote is not doing people good .

                                                        PINKY POSTED :2) You cannot speak for my loved ones, nor my friends, nor my acquaintances. Until you know them personally I request that you at least not dictate what my relationships are like with them. You can state how you feel about about me or what I have to say, but I'm afraid you have no leverage with me, nor do you have any place, telling me how people whom I know and you don't feel about me. Thou art not omniscient.

                                                        RESPONSE: Liberated sex doesn't do anyone any edification . That was the insight I wished to convey there .
                                                        • Jason: "I've got to try to guilt you out of loving sex , Pinky . Got to try to reform you ."

                                                          Oh, right. Are you (*snicker*) OBLIGATED? :D

                                                          Jason: "No I do NOT even treat myself with any sense of superiority . It is those select others who support the same beliefs I treat as superiors. Them I will praise and laud . NOT myself . The people who agree with the same sound beliefs them I will praise and gladly call myself a mere nobody . For it is the beliefs that ultimately count not me."

                                                          And there's the rub. You praise other people for having something in common with you. Even if you verbally denounce yourself, it is more a feigned humbleness than it is actually humbling, since your praise of these other people is solely based on their commonality with you (you are vessels to the same beliefs or however the fuck you want to put it), thus you are indirectly putting yourself on the same pedestal. I'll concede that you don't mean to, that you don't do it on purpose, and even that you don't see it at all since your views on psychology and understanding the human experience are entirely unprofessional. But that's what's up: I'm trying to help you by pointing something out to you and helping you recognize something you have previously refused to see. The more you see, the more you understand, and the more knowledgeable you become.

                                                          Although, I feel I'm fighting as uphill a battle trying to raise your intelligence as you are fighting trying to get me renounce my pleasurable ways.

                                                          Jason: "Are you sure ?"

                                                          Without a doubt. Completely over your head.

                                                          Jason: "With more exposure comes more reconditioning does it not ?"

                                                          Generally yes, but everyone is different, Jason. Some people have a higher resistance to such influence, some even to the point of near immunity, so even with the longest exposure said people may still walk unaffected or barely so. Some people have much higher susceptibility, with which even minimal exposure can leave long-lasting, deep-running effects that take much time and effort to remove or reverse.

                                                          Jason: "On what grounds do you claim that they do ?"

                                                          Look up "brainwashing." If you still don't get it, there are people far better than I am at explaining - find them.

                                                          Jason: "Remember Amish and the Hutterites are the good guys (and gals) . It is the decadent pop culture yuppie types that are the bad guys (and gals) ."

                                                          OooOOOhhHHh! Classic "us" against "them" mentality. Jason my dear, that's another sign of self-superiority. When you separate groups like that ("good folks" and "bad folks"), you create a ranking system. "These people are better because they do good. Those people are worse because they do bad." Unless you categorize yourself in with the "bad folks" (and I don't believe you do - who would?), you are proclaiming yourself better than others. It's right there in black and white. If you still don't see it, it's because you really are in denial (and I'm not talking about a river in Egypt).

                                                          Jason: "Well in light of that it is then the media who should be blaimed if the children develop eating disorders from the notion they are too fat ."

                                                          I'm glad we've confirmed this, but this was never the point - this STARTED as "given" knowledge. Where I'm trying to go with this is a little more important. Is it not the parents' responsibility to their children to protect them when they are young, but also to prepare them to be able to protect themselves when they are grown?

                                                          Jason: "Well I did read in your profile that help out animals that are neglected and so on . That is admirable , that is certainly a case of doing that , so in regard to that matter you are doing good. However, the liberated sex you promote is not doing people good ."

                                                          Again - the only things you know about me are what I choose to make known. I am not limited to my personality here on Heated Debate, or on all of Tribe, though I recognize how you may assume that of others if it is true of yourself. Should the influences on my loved ones, friends and acquaintances be disadvantageous, they wouldn't be my loved ones, friends and acquaintances, would they?

                                                          Jason: "Liberated sex doesn't do anyone any edification . That was the insight I wished to convey there ."

                                                          I disagree. You give no insight - on this particular subject you are equipped to give only conjecture at best.
                                                          • Jason: "I've got to try to guilt you out of loving sex , Pinky . Got to try to reform you ."

                                                            PINKY POSTED :Oh, right. Are you (*snicker*) OBLIGATED? :D

                                                            RESPONSE: Yep. Indeed !

                                                            Jason: "No I do NOT even treat myself with any sense of superiority . It is those select others who support the same beliefs I treat as superiors. Them I will praise and laud . NOT myself . The people who agree with the same sound beliefs them I will praise and gladly call myself a mere nobody . For it is the beliefs that ultimately count not me."

                                                            PINKY POSTED :And there's the rub. You praise other people for having something in common with you. Even if you verbally denounce yourself, it is more a feigned humbleness than it is actually humbling, since your praise of these other people is solely based on their commonality with you (you are vessels to the same beliefs or however the fuck you want to put it), thus you are indirectly putting yourself on the same pedestal. I'll concede that you don't mean to, that you don't do it on purpose, and even that you don't see it at all since your views on psychology and understanding the human experience are entirely unprofessional. But that's what's up: I'm trying to help you by pointing something out to you and helping you recognize something you have previously refused to see. The more you see, the more you understand, and the more knowledgeable you become.

                                                            RESPONSE : As I feared you are GUILTY OF THE OWNERSHIP FALLACY: that weird fallacy (based on lateral thinking) which conflates (A) the message with the totally *separate context* of (C) the messenger !!!!

                                                            I do NOT praise the people because I have something in common with them ..rather the situation of me having something in common with them is a by-product of me deciding *not to fight the duty* that obliges me to say that the beliefs they have are already worthy of praise regardless of whether I fess up to it or not !!!

                                                            CHAIN OF EVENTS : (1). Duty informs that the beliefs espoused by the one group is praiseworthy and it is right to conceed that fully . THEN (2) I decide NOT to fight that Duty but , instead to totally align with it . NEXT (3) I then affiliate with the group that supports said beliefs .

                                                            YOU , PINKY , REVERSE THE CHAIN OF EVENTS ..PRESENT A BACKWARDS CHAIN OF EVENTS .
                                                            You Pinky try to make it seem that Number (3) in the chain of events is the cause (the antecedent) of Number (1) when it is not .!

                                                            I don't call the beliefs of one group good because I affiliate with them . Rather, I affiliate with that group because I observe that the beliefs they support are allready good , and I decide *not* to give in to the temptation to be perverse in fighting that Duty ! The humbling of myself is not feigned , nor am i proud of any former humility (nor ashamed either) .Instead it comes from the decision not to fight Duty for fighting against Transcendent Duty is perverse, and there is no sense in doing what is perverse . As a corollary I decide to act on the precept that there is no sense in acting on what there is no sense in doing .

                                                            PINKY POSTED :Although, I feel I'm fighting as uphill a battle trying to raise your intelligence as you are fighting trying to get me renounce my pleasurable ways.

                                                            RESPONSE: If duplicty , equivocation, and other NON-consitent squish is what you mean by "intelligence"
                                                            then perhaps such "intelligence" isn't what it is cracked up to be .

                                                            Jason: "Are you sure ?"

                                                            PINKY POSTED :Without a doubt. Completely over your head.

                                                            RESPONSE : How ?

                                                            Jason: "With more exposure comes more reconditioning does it not ?"

                                                            PINKY POSTED :Generally yes, but everyone is different, Jason. Some people have a higher resistance to such influence, some even to the point of near immunity, so even with the longest exposure said people may still walk unaffected or barely so. Some people have much higher susceptibility, with which even minimal exposure can leave long-lasting, deep-running effects that take much time and effort to remove or reverse.

                                                            Then the probability that the good , noble , pure wholesome, idyllic Hutterites who might see some worthless tacky contemporary pop culture for a fleeeting glimpse when singing at a nursing home and glancing out of the corner of their eye at some passing t.v. show , would be far less than people in bourgeous suburbia (the latter who are saturated with that worthless trendy stuff then , right ) ?

                                                            Jason: "On what grounds do you claim that they do ?"

                                                            PINKY POSTED :Look up "brainwashing." If you still don't get it, there are people far better than I am at explaining - find them.

                                                            RESPONSE: I know what brainwashing refers to .I was looking for on what specifc grounds do you allege that the Hutterites are brainwashed ? Specifically how ?

                                                            Is it because they *refuse* to sell out to superfical tacky trends of contemporary pop culture ?

                                                            Jason: "Remember Amish and the Hutterites are the good guys (and gals) . It is the decadent pop culture yuppie types that are the bad guys (and gals) ."

                                                            PINKY POSTED :OooOOOhhHHh! Classic "us" against "them" mentality.

                                                            RESPONSE: Damn right it is .

                                                            Us versus them with superfical groups like the yuppies is right on .
                                                            Us versus them = *NOT* being a namby pamby, RELATIVIST opinion-respecting SELL OUT .

                                                            Yes we should be us versus them with vapid, murky groups be they the KKK, or the Aryan skinheads , or the conformist trendy yuppies . The abolitionists were certainly us versus them towards the slaveholders . They were NOT opinion- respecting ambivalent sissies .

                                                            PINKY POSTED : Jason my dear, that's another sign of self-superiority. When you separate groups like that ("good folks" and "bad folks"), you create a ranking system. "These people are better because they do good. Those people are worse because they do bad." Unless you categorize yourself in with the "bad folks" (and I don't believe you do - who would?), you are proclaiming yourself better than others.

                                                            RESPONSE: That statement is a bunch of goofy , MTV Generation / Nintendo Generation , postmodernist sellout horsesh---t ! The thought is *not* directed to myself being ranked in with someone . The thought is *towards* the belief in precepts of virtue which transcend my personal self --those beliefs are right and contrary beliefs are wrong . They are NOT wrong because I affiliate with them , they are wrong because of preexisting axiological criteria based on an evaluation of qualities . Yes, I proclaim that the one group is right and the other group (superfical trendy yuppies) is totally wrong...but the one group is not good because I affiliate with it . Rather , I affiliate with it because of a duty to align with that which is good .

                                                            YOU ARE PUTTING THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE, PINKY ! The tendency for me to affiliate with the one group called good is NOT antecedent to the decision of me to call the one group good. Rather it is the reverse---the evaluation of the one group being called good is antecedent to me affiliating with that group !

                                                            You've turned around the order of predication backwards--- as to why I call them good .

                                                            You are so pervaded by the ownership fallacy (and ambivalent sellout thinking aka relativism ) in general that I'm inclined to think you are like unto a female version of Pomo Kid from Pomo kid !
                                                            To respect some crass opinion even if one disagrees with it is to *inwardly betray* what one does support .

                                                            PINKY POSTED :It's right there in black and white. If you still don't see it, it's because you really are in denial (and I'm not talking about a river in Egypt).

                                                            RESPONSE: What squishy open ended , trendy, pop psychology buzzphrases ! What next are you going to tell me to come out of the comfort zone or use the phrase , "Um kay" , or make some cheesy statement like claiming that "the opposite of love is not hate but indifference " , or similar chic squish ???

                                                            Jason: "Well in light of that it is then the media who should be blaimed if the children develop eating disorders from the notion they are too fat ."

                                                            PINKY POSTED :I'm glad we've confirmed this, but this was never the point - this STARTED as "given" knowledge. Where I'm trying to go with this is a little more important.

                                                            RESPONSE: So you change what the context was all about now !!! You act like that the notion that the parents who told their children not to undress being falisified by a closer look at how the media is the one that presents the notion that young women are too fat if they are not super skinny, that such a revelation is mere water under a bridge ?! A major thesis you had was shown to be NOT in keeping with precision and you want to shift the gears into a different context now ! Why didn't you express that sort of tendency by just typing , 'tisk , tisk , details , details' when the notion that they anti-undressing parents were to blame for eating disorders was then refuted by an analysis of media influence ?!!!

                                                            PINKY POSTED :Is it not the parents' responsibility to their children to protect them when they are young, but also to prepare them to be able to protect themselves when they are grown?

                                                            RESPONSE: That's a separate / peripheral issue , tangential to the initial thesis under review . Again lay off the lateral thinking .

                                                            Jason: "Well I did read in your profile that help out animals that are neglected and so on . That is admirable , that is certainly a case of doing that , so in regard to that matter you are doing good. However, the liberated sex you promote is not doing people good ."

                                                            PINKY POSTED :Again - the only things you know about me are what I choose to make known. I am not limited to my personality here on Heated Debate, or on all of Tribe, though I recognize how you may assume that of others if it is true of yourself. Should the influences on my loved ones, friends and acquaintances be disadvantageous, they wouldn't be my loved ones, friends and acquaintances, would they?

                                                            RESPONSE: Perhaps their minds are led astray by tolerance/relativism/ respect for opinions aka sellout thinking .
                                                            • Jason: "I've got to try to guilt you out of loving sex , Pinky . Got to try to reform you ."

                                                              PINKY POSTED :Oh, right. Are you (*snicker*) OBLIGATED? :D

                                                              RESPONSE: Yep. Indeed !

                                                              Jason: "No I do NOT even treat myself with any sense of superiority . It is those select others who support the same beliefs I treat as superiors. Them I will praise and laud . NOT myself . The people who agree with the same sound beliefs them I will praise and gladly call myself a mere nobody . For it is the beliefs that ultimately count not me."

                                                              PINKY POSTED :And there's the rub. You praise other people for having something in common with you. Even if you verbally denounce yourself, it is more a feigned humbleness than it is actually humbling, since your praise of these other people is solely based on their commonality with you (you are vessels to the same beliefs or however the fuck you want to put it), thus you are indirectly putting yourself on the same pedestal. I'll concede that you don't mean to, that you don't do it on purpose, and even that you don't see it at all since your views on psychology and understanding the human experience are entirely unprofessional. But that's what's up: I'm trying to help you by pointing something out to you and helping you recognize something you have previously refused to see. The more you see, the more you understand, and the more knowledgeable you become.

                                                              RESPONSE : As I feared you are GUILTY OF THE OWNERSHIP FALLACY: that weird fallacy (based on lateral thinking) which conflates (A) the message with the totally *separate context* of (C) the messenger !!!!

                                                              I do NOT praise the people because I have something in common with them ..rather the situation of me having something in common with them is a by-product of me deciding *not to fight the duty* that obliges me to say that the beliefs they have are already worthy of praise regardless of whether I fess up to it or not !!!

                                                              CHAIN OF EVENTS : (1). Duty informs that the beliefs espoused by the one group is praiseworthy and it is right to conceed that fully . THEN (2) I decide NOT to fight that Duty but , instead to totally align with it . NEXT (3) I then affiliate with the group that supports said beliefs .

                                                              YOU , PINKY , REVERSE THE CHAIN OF EVENTS ..PRESENT A BACKWARDS CHAIN OF EVENTS .
                                                              You Pinky try to make it seem that Number (3) in the chain of events is the cause (the antecedent) of Number (1) when it is not .!

                                                              I don't call the beliefs of one group good because I affiliate with them . Rather, I affiliate with that group because I observe that the beliefs they support are allready good , and I decide *not* to give in to the temptation to be perverse in fighting that Duty ! The humbling of myself is not feigned , nor am i proud of any former humility (nor ashamed either) .Instead it comes from the decision not to fight Duty for fighting against Transcendent Duty is perverse, and there is no sense in doing what is perverse . As a corollary I decide to act on the precept that there is no sense in acting on what there is no sense in doing .

                                                              PINKY POSTED :Although, I feel I'm fighting as uphill a battle trying to raise your intelligence as you are fighting trying to get me renounce my pleasurable ways.

                                                              RESPONSE: If duplicty , equivocation, and other NON-consitent squish is what you mean by "intelligence"
                                                              then perhaps such "intelligence" isn't what it is cracked up to be .

                                                              Jason: "Are you sure ?"

                                                              PINKY POSTED :Without a doubt. Completely over your head.

                                                              RESPONSE : How ?

                                                              Jason: "With more exposure comes more reconditioning does it not ?"

                                                              PINKY POSTED :Generally yes, but everyone is different, Jason. Some people have a higher resistance to such influence, some even to the point of near immunity, so even with the longest exposure said people may still walk unaffected or barely so. Some people have much higher susceptibility, with which even minimal exposure can leave long-lasting, deep-running effects that take much time and effort to remove or reverse.

                                                              Then the probability that the good , noble , pure wholesome, idyllic Hutterites who might see some worthless tacky contemporary pop culture for a fleeeting glimpse when singing at a nursing home and glancing out of the corner of their eye at some passing t.v. show , would be far less than people in bourgeous suburbia (the latter who are saturated with that worthless trendy stuff then , right ) ?

                                                              Jason: "On what grounds do you claim that they do ?"

                                                              PINKY POSTED :Look up "brainwashing." If you still don't get it, there are people far better than I am at explaining - find them.

                                                              RESPONSE: I know what brainwashing refers to .I was looking for on what specifc grounds do you allege that the Hutterites are brainwashed ? Specifically how ?

                                                              Is it because they *refuse* to sell out to superfical tacky trends of contemporary pop culture ?

                                                              Jason: "Remember Amish and the Hutterites are the good guys (and gals) . It is the decadent pop culture yuppie types that are the bad guys (and gals) ."

                                                              PINKY POSTED :OooOOOhhHHh! Classic "us" against "them" mentality.

                                                              RESPONSE: Damn right it is .

                                                              Us versus them with superfical groups like the yuppies is right on .
                                                              Us versus them = *NOT* being a namby pamby, RELATIVIST opinion-respecting SELL OUT .

                                                              Yes we should be us versus them with vapid, murky groups be they the KKK, or the Aryan skinheads , or the conformist trendy yuppies . The abolitionists were certainly us versus them towards the slaveholders . They were NOT opinion- respecting ambivalent sissies .

                                                              PINKY POSTED : Jason my dear, that's another sign of self-superiority. When you separate groups like that ("good folks" and "bad folks"), you create a ranking system. "These people are better because they do good. Those people are worse because they do bad." Unless you categorize yourself in with the "bad folks" (and I don't believe you do - who would?), you are proclaiming yourself better than others.

                                                              RESPONSE: That statement is a bunch of goofy , MTV Generation / Nintendo Generation , postmodernist sellout horsesh---t ! The thought is *not* directed to myself being ranked in with someone . The thought is *towards* the belief in precepts of virtue which transcend my personal self --those beliefs are right and contrary beliefs are wrong . They are NOT wrong because I affiliate with them , they are wrong because of preexisting axiological criteria based on an evaluation of qualities . Yes, I proclaim that the one group is right and the other group (superfical trendy yuppies) is totally wrong...but the one group is not good because I affiliate with it . Rather , I affiliate with it because of a duty to align with that which is good .

                                                              YOU ARE PUTTING THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE, PINKY ! The tendency for me to affiliate with the one group called good is NOT antecedent to the decision of me to call the one group good. Rather it is the reverse---the evaluation of the one group being called good is antecedent to me affiliating with that group !

                                                              You've turned around the order of predication backwards--- as to why I call them good .

                                                              You are so pervaded by the ownership fallacy (and ambivalent sellout thinking aka relativism ) in general that I'm inclined to think you are like unto a female version of Pomo Kid from Pomo kid !
                                                              To respect some crass opinion even if one disagrees with it is to *inwardly betray* what one does support .

                                                              PINKY POSTED :It's right there in black and white. If you still don't see it, it's because you really are in denial (and I'm not talking about a river in Egypt).

                                                              RESPONSE: What squishy open ended , trendy, pop psychology buzzphrases ! What next are you going to tell me to come out of the comfort zone or use the phrase , "Um kay" , or make some cheesy statement like claiming that "the opposite of love is not hate but indifference " , or similar chic squish ???

                                                              Jason: "Well in light of that it is then the media who should be blaimed if the children develop eating disorders from the notion they are too fat ."

                                                              PINKY POSTED :I'm glad we've confirmed this, but this was never the point - this STARTED as "given" knowledge. Where I'm trying to go with this is a little more important.

                                                              RESPONSE: So you change what the context was all about now !!! You act like that the notion that the parents who told their children not to undress being falisified by a closer look at how the media is the one that presents the notion that young women are too fat if they are not super skinny, that such a revelation is mere water under a bridge ?! A major thesis you had was shown to be NOT in keeping with precision and you want to shift the gears into a different context now ! Why didn't you express that sort of tendency by just typing , 'tisk , tisk , details , details' when the notion that they anti-undressing parents were to blame for eating disorders was then refuted by an analysis of media influence ?!!!

                                                              PINKY POSTED :Is it not the parents' responsibility to their children to protect them when they are young, but also to prepare them to be able to protect themselves when they are grown?

                                                              RESPONSE: That's a separate / peripheral issue , tangential to the initial thesis under review . Again lay off the lateral thinking .

                                                              Jason: "Well I did read in your profile that help out animals that are neglected and so on . That is admirable , that is certainly a case of doing that , so in regard to that matter you are doing good. However, the liberated sex you promote is not doing people good ."

                                                              PINKY POSTED :Again - the only things you know about me are what I choose to make known. I am not limited to my personality here on Heated Debate, or on all of Tribe, though I recognize how you may assume that of others if it is true of yourself. Should the influences on my loved ones, friends and acquaintances be disadvantageous, they wouldn't be my loved ones, friends and acquaintances, would they?

                                                              RESPONSE: Perhaps their minds are led astray by tolerance/relativism/ respect for opinions aka sellout thinking .
                                                              • Jason: "As I feared you are GUILTY OF THE OWNERSHIP FALLACY: that weird fallacy (based on lateral thinking) which conflates (A) the message with the totally *separate context* of (C) the messenger !!!! ... YOU , PINKY , REVERSE THE CHAIN OF EVENTS ..PRESENT A BACKWARDS CHAIN OF EVENTS .
                                                                You Pinky try to make it seem that Number (3) in the chain of events is the cause (the antecedent) of Number (1) when it is not .!"

                                                                Really, there's no need to yell. I'm flattered that I have such a profound effect on you to arouse such anger and frustration, but really, misuse of the caps lock can be considered very rude.

                                                                That being said, your chain of events (1: you are driven to support the "beliefs espoused by" a group; 2: you align with said group; 3: you join the group and support said beliefs) is a valid means of...well, it's valid. It happens all the time - it is the path of "the follower." Instead of coming up with some beliefs of your own, you copy someone else's. This doesn't negate the fact that said beliefs are, still, SOMEONE'S opinion, even if they're not your own (which I would still argue that they are also YOUR opinion since you made the active, personal, free choice to follow them vs. not as you outlined in your lengthier-worded version of Step Two), but I know you'll get all butt-hurt and defensive if I say that so let's just forget I ever did, and I'll try a (slightly) more diplomatic approach below:

                                                                So just to recap, you found a group that supports some kick-ass beliefs. You decide those are some kick-ass beliefs to support, so you decide to join said group and support said kick-ass beliefs. That still isn't what makes you a self-righteous dickhead. That's never been what I'm saying does. What I am (and have been) saying makes you a self-righteous dickhead is that you berate people who support not-so-kick-ass beliefs for not supporting kick-ass beliefs along with you. The problem here is that you do not just berate the beliefs others support (which you do do, admittedly), but you ALSO berate (insult, chastise, belittle, make unfavorable comparisons of, etc.) the PEOPLE that support them. If anything YOU are blurring the line between the beliefs people support and the people that support them by treating them as one and the same. By insulting others (and their beliefs) you publicly, clearly and undeniably identify said people (and the beliefs they support) as lesser (lower, inferior, not-so-kick-ass, etc.) than you (and the beliefs you support, and the people who also support them), whether or not you consciously intend to.

                                                                Jason: "If duplicty , equivocation, and other NON-consitent squish is what you mean by "intelligence"
                                                                then perhaps such "intelligence" isn't what it is cracked up to be ."

                                                                No, but thanks for playing.

                                                                Jason: "How ?"

                                                                How did it go over your head? It could be one of (or a multitude of) many things. You misread, I mistyped, you misunderstood, I mis-explained...could be a lot of things, but if I knew HOW it managed to fly over your head, I would be spending my time trying to correct it instead of bickering with you as to why it fucking happened in the first place, but really I have no idea.

                                                                Jason: "Then the probability that the good , noble , pure wholesome, idyllic Hutterites who might see some worthless tacky contemporary pop culture for a fleeeting glimpse when singing at a nursing home and glancing out of the corner of their eye at some passing t.v. show , would be far less than people in bourgeous suburbia (the latter who are saturated with that worthless trendy stuff then , right ) ?"

                                                                I believe the ending to this proposition you were looking for was, "to be influenced by the media." Without a subject your sentence (which was also very unnecessarily long-winded btw) was directionless and a little confusing. But assuming I'm correct about the subject, then my answer would be: Presumably.

                                                                Jason: "Yes we should be us versus them with vapid, murky groups be they the KKK, or the Aryan skinheads , or the conformist trendy yuppies . The abolitionists were certainly us versus them towards the slaveholders . They were NOT opinion- respecting ambivalent sissies ."

                                                                You're taking a very aggressive outlook on these things, and I'd say it's fueled by an overabundance of testosterone, but if it were, you would have gotten your dick wet by now, so I'm not sure what to blame it on. The point is, fighting the KKK/skinheads/pre-Emancipation slave-owners was LESS of an "US vs. THEM" kinda thing and more of a "us FOR them" kinda thing ("them" being the blacks/minorities/slaves in the given situations, respectively). In fact, the abolitionists were VERY MUCH opinion-respecting - of the SLAVES. Abolishing racism, sexism, oppression and the like are movements of working FOR equality, tolerance, freedom and justice AT LEAST as much as they are movements of working AGAINST inequality, intolerance, tyranny and injustice (and/or the people who support such things). So instead of "fighting the good fight" for the right reasons (to save lives, to promote peace, to contribute to positive change), you might still be "fighting the good fight" but for the wrong reasons (to pick on someone, to yell and bitch and moan and whine, and thus contribute to negative change by inspiring more people to pick on others and yell and bitch and moan and whine).

                                                                Make love, not war. And that doesn't have to mean "have sex," it can just mean "love thy neighbor." How about a little more of that? Eh?

                                                                Jason: "So you change what the context was all about now !!!"

                                                                No, really, I was talking about this from the beginning. I never proposed that parents are the ultimate reason why anything bad happens to their kids (although sometimes it is, but not by the specifics of which we are discussing). NEVER. I HAVE been proposing, however, from the beginning, that parents are responsible for sending the best messages, in the best ways, to their children, in order to avoid as many bad things happening to them as possible (if at all possible). I'm sorry if you were unable to recognize this, but I promise I make a point not to hide any agendas. Perhaps I could have been more clear and/or obvious than I was and for that I apologize, but I never intended you to think that parents are entirely to blame for their children becoming anorexic, bulimic, self-hating, or anything of the like (or that I think so).

                                                                Jason: "Perhaps their minds are led astray by tolerance/relativism/ respect for opinions aka sellout thinking ."

                                                                Perhaps you're a santorum-addicted cuckold who's into pegging, but what do any of these presumptions have to do with anything relevant to ANY of the dozens of inevitably pointless squabbles we've been toying with?
                                                                • Jason: "As I feared you are GUILTY OF THE OWNERSHIP FALLACY: that weird fallacy (based on lateral thinking) which conflates (A) the message with the totally *separate context* of (C) the messenger !!!! ... YOU , PINKY , REVERSE THE CHAIN OF EVENTS ..PRESENT A BACKWARDS CHAIN OF EVENTS .
                                                                  You Pinky try to make it seem that Number (3) in the chain of events is the cause (the antecedent) of Number (1) when it is not .!"

                                                                  PINKY POSTED :Really, there's no need to yell. I'm flattered that I have such a profound effect on you to arouse such anger and frustration, but really, misuse of the caps lock can be considered very rude.

                                                                  RESPONSE: Well I didn't do it for the sake of being stident for its own sake, but rather to emblazon the key concepts in the forefront of attention .

                                                                  PINKY POSTED :That being said, your chain of events (1: you are driven to support the "beliefs espoused by" a group; 2: you align with said group; 3: you join the group and support said beliefs) is a valid means of...well, it's valid. It happens all the time - it is the path of "the follower." Instead of coming up with some beliefs of your own, you copy someone else's. This doesn't negate the fact that said beliefs are, still, SOMEONE'S opinion, even if they're not your own (which I would still argue that they are also YOUR opinion since you made the active, personal, free choice to follow them vs. not as you outlined in your lengthier-worded version of Step Two), but I know you'll get all butt-hurt and defensive if I say that so let's just forget I ever did, and I'll try a (slightly) more diplomatic approach below:

                                                                  RESPONSE: (1) They are NOT "my" anything . Ultimately, there are NO yours nor mine , theirs nor ours nor his nor hers when it comes to intangible abstractions like beliefs . My fingers are mine, the ink pen i sometimes write with is mine likewise your fingers , property ect is yours , but there is no yours and mine to abstract intangibles like beliefs ect. Realizing that can help you, Pinky to avoid the ownership fallacy .

                                                                  In popular talk we may use ownership terms like that if we are pressed for time as a sort of hyperbole that makes language less drawn out , but not talking such ownership terms literally in regard to beliefs can help us avoid the ownership fallacy !

                                                                  (2) The beliefs the group I agree with presents --the beliefs that Duty has led me to agree with --are NOT opinions , but absolute truths ..but moving on to the rest of the paragraphs you posted .

                                                                  PINKY POSTED :So just to recap, you found a group that supports some kick-ass beliefs. You decide those are some kick-ass beliefs to support, so you decide to join said group and support said kick-ass beliefs. That still isn't what makes you a self-righteous dickhead. That's never been what I'm saying does. What I am (and have been) saying makes you a self-righteous dickhead is that you berate people who support not-so-kick-ass beliefs for not supporting kick-ass beliefs along with you. The problem here is that you do not just berate the beliefs others support (which you do do, admittedly), but you ALSO berate (insult, chastise, belittle, make unfavorable comparisons of, etc.) the PEOPLE that support them. If anything YOU are blurring the line between the beliefs people support and the people that support them by treating them as one and the same. By insulting others (and their beliefs) you publicly, clearly and undeniably identify said people (and the beliefs they support) as lesser (lower, inferior, not-so-kick-ass, etc.) than you (and the beliefs you support, and the people who also support them), whether or not you consciously intend to.

                                                                  RESPONSER: Well let us NOT lose sight of that the crass and murky beliefs ought to be berated, denounced, browbeat, chastised, denigrated , debunked and belittled with utmost vehemence. Yes, we should try not to get personal in doing avoid using cuss words at people and whatnot , nonetheless , we should *not* hesitate to tell people when beliefs are crass , murky , disingenous , that such beliefs are indeed totally wrong for that is helping those people to reform ---it is *constructive criticism* when we denigrate such beliefs as totally wrong and worthless ! Constructive criticism !

                                                                  See the people who have crass, murky opinions and so on they should just regard those crass, murky opinions as some mess then temporarily got involved in ! They should not feel any kinship for such beliefs , but should just regard them as some mess they unfortuantely got into , feel ashamed of such beliefs, reform and then move on without looking back ---leaving such beliefs behind as so much mess or dung to be sloughed off !

                                                                  I'm certainly greatful for people when they rightly told me off, during those times in the past I professed a belief like (at times) in my pre-teen , or teenage , or early to mid 20's that was murky or in any what NON-consistent and I'm glad for the ones who made me feel guilty about having a lazy , murky belief in the past--that they did not talk any of that namby pamby sellout talk of saying "i respect your point of view but there is another perspective yada yada" squish, but instead explained matters vehemently in a way that made me ashamed of such murky beliefs . I could kiss their hand in gratitude !

                                                                  Jason: "If duplicty , equivocation, and other NON-consitent squish is what you mean by "intelligence"
                                                                  then perhaps such "intelligence" isn't what it is cracked up to be ."

                                                                  PINKY POSTED :No, but thanks for playing.

                                                                  RESPONSE: Hmnnn ....

                                                                  Jason: "How ?"

                                                                  PINKY POSTED :How did it go over your head? It could be one of (or a multitude of) many things. You misread, I mistyped, you misunderstood, I mis-explained...could be a lot of things, but if I knew HOW it managed to fly over your head, I would be spending my time trying to correct it instead of bickering with you as to why it fucking happened in the first place, but really I have no idea.

                                                                  RESPONSE: I see .

                                                                  Jason: "Then the probability that the good , noble , pure wholesome, idyllic Hutterites who might see some worthless tacky contemporary pop culture for a fleeting glimpse when singing at a nursing home and glancing out of the corner of their eye at some passing t.v. show , would be far less than people in bourgeous suburbia (the latter who are saturated with that worthless trendy stuff then , right ) ?"

                                                                  PINKY POSTED :I believe the ending to this proposition you were looking for was, "to be influenced by the media." Without a subject your sentence (which was also very unnecessarily long-winded btw) was directionless and a little confusing. But assuming I'm correct about the subject, then my answer would be: Presumably.

                                                                  RESPONSE: Yes, that was a typo . Earnest thanks in correcting the typo (for the phrase you supplied at the end would be similar to what I left out) . Okay .

                                                                  So since presumably , we absolutists can be optimistic about the Hutterites being less likely to get corrupted by media influence . Reassuring .

                                                                  Jason: "Yes we should be us versus them with vapid, murky groups be they the KKK, or the Aryan skinheads , or the conformist trendy yuppies . The abolitionists were certainly us versus them towards the slaveholders . They were NOT opinion- respecting ambivalent sissies ."

                                                                  PINKY POSTED :You're taking a very aggressive outlook on these things, and I'd say it's fueled by an overabundance of testosterone, but if it were, you would have gotten your dick wet by now, so I'm not sure what to blame it on.

                                                                  RESPONSE: Duty inspires the passion to fervently *dislike* ambivalent thinking (i.e. sellout thinking)

                                                                  PINKY POSTED :The point is, fighting the KKK/skinheads/pre-Emancipation slave-owners was LESS of an "US vs. THEM" kinda thing and more of a "us FOR them" kinda thing ("them" being the blacks/minorities/slaves in the given situations, respectively). In fact, the abolitionists were VERY MUCH opinion-respecting - of the SLAVES.

                                                                  RESPONSE: Wait a moment. There you go astray with the wrong nomenclature again .The beliefs supported by the slaves that slavery was evil was NOT mere opinion in the first place , but, instead, totally, absolutely right, noble, and True ethical beliefs .

                                                                  The beliefs of the racist white slaveowners was what was opinion and false opinion at that totally wrong NOT "wrong to us" or "wrong from a perspective " but totally wrong opinions and totally worthless and evil opinion!

                                                                  Thus , we have the glaring contrast of the virtuous , noble, absolutely true beliefs of the African slaves and the mere opinion (and totally false evil worthless opinion at that) of the rich racist , slaveowners , quite a contrast !.

                                                                  PINKY POSTED :Abolishing racism, sexism, oppression and the like are movements of working FOR equality, tolerance, freedom and justice AT LEAST as much as they are movements of working AGAINST inequality, intolerance, tyranny and injustice (and/or the people who support such things).

                                                                  RESPONSE: Those movements such as abolitionism were moverments FOR justice and equality , but not for tolerance .

                                                                  Read some of the abolitionists , like John Brown, Lysander Spooner, Sojourner Truth, the other abolitionists . They did NOT speak any of that squishy . MTV Generation relativist talk about tolerance nor any sissy notion of respecting opinions. They with utmost vehemence denounced the pro-slavery opinions of those slave owners , overseers , and the like as totally wrong , NOT wrong "to us"..NOT wrong from a "perspective", or any of that similar squishy pomo talk .

                                                                  The abolitionists did *NOT* talk any of that postmodern MTV-era , sellout talk of saying to the slavewhipping plantation masters of the Old South , "I respect your point of view , but I don't agree" , or any similar squish .

                                                                  PINKY POSTED :So instead of "fighting the good fight" for the right reasons (to save lives, to promote peace, to contribute to positive change), you might still be "fighting the good fight" but for the wrong reasons (to pick on someone, to yell and bitch and moan and whine, and thus contribute to negative change by inspiring more people to pick on others and yell and bitch and moan and whine).

                                                                  RESPONSE:

                                                                  PREVENTING some pusiilanimous attitude of "give and take" of "middle-ground" between what is virtuous and what is crass, is fighting the good fight . There should NEVER be any give and take , *never* be any middle ground between beliefs that are good and beliefs that are crass . The notion that "life is give and take" is hogwash and trash . Such an attitude of "give and take" / balance (or middle ground) between goodness and even a tiny bit of crassness is duplicity and a betrayal of the good !!!


                                                                  PINKY POSTED :Make love, not war. And that doesn't have to mean "have sex," it can just mean "love thy neighbor." How about a little more of that? Eh?

                                                                  RESPONSE: Among the ways one can love one's neighbor is to rescue them from the mess of wrong opinions they have temporarily gotten involved in . Compassion does not solicit any respect for mere opinions . Nobody ever died from having some opinions they had belittled .Helping people to become totally ashamed of crass opinions and shake them away like so much mess is helping those people ...doing them a favor...reforming them .

                                                                  Jason: "So you change what the context was all about now !!!"

                                                                  PINKY POSTED :No, really, I was talking about this from the beginning. I never proposed that parents are the ultimate reason why anything bad happens to their kids (although sometimes it is, but not by the specifics of which we are discussing). NEVER. I HAVE been proposing, however, from the beginning, that parents are responsible for sending the best messages, in the best ways, to their children, in order to avoid as many bad things happening to them as possible (if at all possible). I'm sorry if you were unable to recognize this, but I promise I make a point not to hide any agendas. Perhaps I could have been more clear and/or obvious than I was and for that I apologize, but I never intended you to think that parents are entirely to blame for their children becoming anorexic, bulimic, self-hating, or anything of the like (or that I think so).

                                                                  RESPONSE: Well perhaps that is what you meant , but the way you phrased it in the earlier post prmoted the impression that you did maintain that parents telling their kids not to undress around the house would lead to those body image problems that lead to eating disorders .Maybe that was accidental missphrasing , in all fairness , as to how you phrased it.

                                                                  Jason: "Perhaps their minds are led astray by tolerance/relativism/ respect for opinions aka sellout thinking ."

                                                                  PINKY POSTED :Perhaps you're a santorum-addicted cuckold who's into pegging, but what do any of these presumptions have to do with anything relevant to ANY of the dozens of inevitably pointless squabbles we've been toying with?

                                                                  RESPONSE: The tendency to respect beliefs that one does not agree with for the sake of balance of not being onesesided is indeed weird, duplicious, and hence , an evil tendency . To do that is to inwardly betray what one believes with ambivalence and ambiguity. Ambivalence/ ambiguity is totally worthless , infinitely worthless !

                                                                  Which comes back to the perennial insight that all thought sooner or later should return ---that we should always stive to single-mindedly take intrinsic virtue to extremes , that intrinsic virtue should *never* be balanced with anythng even a little bit inherently contrary to goodness. That virtue should NEVER be diluted ; that intrinsic virtue should never be balanced with opposite qualities/ never practiced in moderation.

                                                                  The notion that intrinsic virtue should be practiced in moderation is an even more evil (infinitely evil) notion than the notion that would even exhort people to seek nothing but evil . Goodness should never be diluted . Ambiguity/ambivalence be dammed . Virtue to extremes --accept nothing less !
                                                                  • Jason: “Well I didn't do it for the sake of being stident for its own sake, but rather to emblazon the key concepts in the forefront of attention .”

                                                                    Is that also what the multiple (“!!!!”) exclamation marks are for? I use caps for emphasis too, on specific words, not sentences. Calm down.

                                                                    Jason: “My fingers are mine, the ink pen i sometimes write with is mine likewise your fingers , property ect is yours , but there is no yours and mine to abstract intangibles like beliefs ect.”

                                                                    Well first of all I asked you to ignore that particular paragraph because I knew you’d get all butthurt, but since you apparently WANT to bitch – whatever; fine. So anything tangible can be owned, but anything intangible cannot? So it’s not actually MY name, it’s the name that was given to me – no wait, if it can’t be owned then it can’t be given, so...it’s the name I use? And they’re not actually MY thoughts, they’re thoughts that are already there that my mind just wanders through and those that it passes are what I think about? And they’re not actually MY feelings, they’re preexistent emotions that I just experience the presence of? How many things does this BULLSHIT (you have yet to provide me with any kind of source, or link, or any explanation of it beyond your own personal feeble arguments, leaving no plausible explanation other than you made the damn thing up yourself) “ownership fallacy” apply to OTHER than beliefs, Jason?

                                                                    Jason: “Constructive criticism !”

                                                                    CONSTRUCTIVE criticism is when you assist someone by giving valid reasons why something is wrong or doesn’t work; you just name things you don’t agree with and sling negative adjectives around hoping no one will notice your lack of practical argument. Explain WHY liberated sex is bad: what does it cause and how does it cause that? Explain WHY lateral thinking is bad: what does it lead to and how does it lead to that? Explain WHY bodog fighting, penises and vaginas are ugly: what makes them ugly and why does that make them ugly (and while you’re at it, explain WHAT bodog fighting is, because I still don’t know what that specifically refers to). But please don’t do it here – dig up their respective threads (or create new ones) and explain all of that within their relative topics; I’m already working through nauseatingly lengthy posts with you as it is.

                                                                    Jason: “Wait a moment. There you go astray with the wrong nomenclature again .”

                                                                    Ok sure. Just ignore all the rest of the IMPORTANT content of that quote and pretend like it’s not even fucking there. Fine. I’ll pick up your slack later:

                                                                    Jason: “Those movements such as abolitionism were moverments FOR justice and equality , but not for tolerance .”

                                                                    How exactly was/is fighting racism NOT a fight for tolerance of blacks, in the face of racists’ intolerance? How exactly was/is fighting sexism NOT a fight for tolerance of women, in the face of sexists’ intolerance? How exactly was/is fighting oppression NOT a fight for tolerance of minorities, in the face of bigots’ intolerance? (I say “was/is” because racism, sexism, etc. is hardly entirely abolished.)

                                                                    Jason: “Read some of the abolitionists , like John Brown, Lysander Spooner, Sojourner Truth, the other abolitionists . They did NOT speak any of that squishy . MTV Generation relativist talk about tolerance nor any sissy notion of respecting opinions.”

                                                                    So because of how they talked about it, you think they’re main motivation was to cause tension between people they disagreed with, rather than promoting equality, freedom and justice for the oppressed? Because I think the whole point of freeing the slaves was to free the slaves, not just to deny plantation owners cheap labor. I think equalizing women was about identifying women as first-class citizens, not just bickering about gender roles. I think legalizing gay marriage is about allowing every person capable of love equal legal recognition and rights, not just about pissing off the conservative fundamentalists.

                                                                    Jason: “The notion that "life is give and take" is hogwash and trash .”

                                                                    Than what do you propose life be? Just give, or just take? Because pertaining to these specifics, life is about either only giving, only taking or some balance including both giving and taking. Just giving would quite literally leave you with absolutely nothing. Just taking would be downright selfish. That’s why I live my life within the balance of the two. What about you, Jason? What about if you ever get married? Will you give everything to your wife? Or will you take everything from her?

                                                                    Jason: “parents telling their kids not to undress around the house would lead to those body image problems that lead to eating disorders .”

                                                                    It can. I don’t believe I ever said it “would,” because that would imply inevitability, but it CAN.
                                                                    • Jason: “Well I didn't do it for the sake of being stident for its own sake, but rather to emblazon the key concepts in the forefront of attention .”

                                                                      PINKY POSTED :Is that also what the multiple (“!!!!”) exclamation marks are for? I use caps for emphasis too, on specific words, not sentences. Calm down.

                                                                      RESPONSE: Yes, ma'am , that is what the multiple exclamation points are for .

                                                                      Jason: “My fingers are mine, the ink pen i sometimes write with is mine likewise your fingers , property ect is yours , but there is no yours and mine to abstract intangibles like beliefs ect.”

                                                                      PINKY POSTED :Well first of all I asked you to ignore that particular paragraph because I knew you’d get all butthurt, but since you apparently WANT to bitch – whatever; fine. So anything tangible can be owned, but anything intangible cannot? So it’s not actually MY name, it’s the name that was given to me – no wait, if it can’t be owned then it can’t be given, so...it’s the name I use?

                                                                      RESPONSE: Well if we are to be accurate about them matter it is imprtant to get technical if we keep in mind that terms like "my name" "your name" are figurative use of possessive pronouns --that it is a figurative hyperbole --then it is okay to use such terms in every day speech , however we should realize that terms are indeed figurative and not think that intagibles are actually part of us of our personal self .

                                                                      PINKY POSTED : And they’re not actually MY thoughts, they’re thoughts that are already there that my mind just wanders through and those that it passes are what I think about?

                                                                      RESPONSE: Ultimately they are thoughts that instantiate possible *types of* thoughts ---the types being abstract entities . They are not a part of your personal self in terms of identity , however your personal self / its will directs those thoughts freely (save in the case of what are called uncontrollable thoughts which are a different affair)

                                                                      PINKY POSTED : And they’re not actually MY feelings, they’re preexistent emotions that I just experience the presence of?

                                                                      RESPONSE: Techincally not yours although you are the subject which does experience them . They do instance (or to use a term that philosophers like to use) instantiate particualr instances of pre-existing types of emotions .

                                                                      PINKY POSTED :How many things does this BULLSHIT (you have yet to provide me with any kind of source, or link, or any explanation of it beyond your own personal feeble arguments, leaving no plausible explanation other than you made the damn thing up yourself) “ownership fallacy” apply to OTHER than beliefs, Jason?

                                                                      RESPONSE : All intangibles like positions, principles, stances , moods, sensibilities ect --all the intangibles except for an individuals volition or will (which is part of the mind of the individual) . Not to be confused with Will at large --the vary category of Will itself .

                                                                      Jason: “Constructive criticism !”

                                                                      PINKY POSTED :CONSTRUCTIVE criticism is when you assist someone by giving valid reasons why something is wrong or doesn’t work; you just name things you don’t agree with and sling negative adjectives around hoping no one will notice your lack of practical argument.

                                                                      RESPONSE: But I did do that in other posts , i gave elaborate arguments as to those matters. Perhaps with the flurry of posts by Andrew they got lost from view and you did not see them .

                                                                      PINKY POSTED : Explain WHY liberated sex is bad: what does it cause and how does it cause that?

                                                                      RESPONSE: Well to recap with a condensed version : it fosters a sense of lassitude and abandon in the affect of the person that is antithetical to contemplative habits of mind . A penchant for seeking crude visceral excitement becomes quite often pervasive . In the case of hideous practices like fellatio it deranges the arangements of bodily organs putting organs in orifices than were never designed to hold them . It fosters an enamorment with the phallus an organ whose visual characteristic is ugly ---goes against the canon of esthetic taste ---being an object that looks like a botched cylinder of superfluous and ludic carnality ...and , hence, such practices foster a mood a sensibility of phallocentrism ..which warrs *against* esthetic refinement .In the case of sodomy there is the excretory associations of the butt --which makes enamorment with it repulsive from an esthetic standpoint .

                                                                      PINKY POSTED : Explain WHY lateral thinking is bad: what does it lead to and how does it lead to that?

                                                                      RESPONSE: It leads to conceptually loose comparions , equivocation, attempts to mix up separate contexts, skewings of predications and conceptual patterns. It tends to lazily presume that because any two or more items have some sort of relation even if the relation is indirect that they are somehow part of each other , interchangeable, or one and the same ---which glosses over conceptual parameters and domains of discourse .

                                                                      PINKY POSTED :Explain WHY bodog fighting,

                                                                      RESPONSE: Bodog fighting fosters voyeurism with gratuitous violence . The partcipants do not wear head or face protection and flail at each other in a way that they could damage the heads and eyes of their opponents in a way that could be quite severe .

                                                                      PINKY POSTED :penises and vaginas are ugly: what makes them ugly and why does that make them ugly (and while

                                                                      RESPONSE: I did NOT state that vaginas were ugly (provided that area is shorn of hair that is and not flaunted) Penises are ugly ---they lack the sort od symmetrical and clearly delinated muscluture that can be seen in attractive cases of muscle definition such as in hands in arms . Penises in terms of their shape look like botched muddled attempts at cylinders ---they are somewhat almost like cyliners yet they fail to have sharp line contours that cylinders have--they fail at presenting a Euclidean geometric shape ...

                                                                      PINKY POSTED :you’re at it, explain WHAT bodog fighting is, because I still don’t know what that specifically refers to). But please don’t do it here – dig up their respective threads (or create new ones) and explain all of that within their relative topics; I’m already working through nauseatingly lengthy posts with you as it is.

                                                                      RESPONSE It is an apparently recent sport a variant or extention of a type of sport called kickbocking where the particpants kick and punch their opponents in a cordoned off area yet apparently without face protection or helmets .

                                                                      Jason: “Wait a moment. There you go astray with the wrong nomenclature again .”

                                                                      PINKY POSTED :Ok sure. Just ignore all the rest of the IMPORTANT content of that quote and pretend like it’s not even fucking there. Fine. I’ll pick up your slack later:

                                                                      RESPONSE: I thought I did get around to addressing the other content a few paragraphs down below in that post ?

                                                                      Jason: “Those movements such as abolitionism were moverments FOR justice and equality , but not for tolerance .”

                                                                      PINKY POSTED :How exactly was/is fighting racism NOT a fight for tolerance of blacks, in the face of racists’ intolerance? How exactly was/is fighting sexism NOT a fight for tolerance of women, in the face of sexists’ intolerance? How exactly was/is fighting oppression NOT a fight for tolerance of minorities, in the face of bigots’ intolerance? (I say “was/is” because racism, sexism, etc. is hardly entirely abolished.)

                                                                      RESPONSE: Because the movements for equality of those groups of people sought not to have them tolerated by the others but sought to empower and emancipate them , instead .

                                                                      Jason: “Read some of the abolitionists , like John Brown, Lysander Spooner, Sojourner Truth, the other abolitionists . They did NOT speak any of that squishy . MTV Generation relativist talk about tolerance nor any sissy notion of respecting opinions.”

                                                                      PINKY ASKED :So because of how they talked about it, you think they’re main motivation was to cause tension between people they disagreed with, rather than promoting equality, freedom and justice for the oppressed?

                                                                      RESPONSE: The motive of the abolitionists was to promote equality, freedom , and justice for the oppressed IN A WAY THAT DID *NOT* seek any namby-pamby balance with the totally wrong opinions of those who supported slavery

                                                                      PINKY POSTED :Because I think the whole point of freeing the slaves was to free the slaves, not just to deny plantation owners cheap labor.

                                                                      RESPONSE": Yes, but in so doing there is something so great and grand when justice is never tempered nor balanced with a little injustice , but when such justice is extreme and untrammelled ---*not* diluted !

                                                                      PINKY POSTED :I think equalizing women was about identifying women as first-class citizens, not just bickering about gender roles. I think legalizing gay marriage is about allowing every person capable of love equal legal recognition and rights, not just about pissing off the conservative fundamentalists.

                                                                      RESPONSE: Empowering women with equal opportunity is the goal , not bickering , however the same principle about undiluted never balanced extreme justice being right as with Aftrican americans applies there as well .

                                                                      Granting full goverment benefits to gay couples under what is called a domestic partnership (rather than redefining the word marriage) is what yours truly supports. And if gay bashers don't like equal goverment benefits being allotted to gay couples , then piss on the opinions of the gay bashers .

                                                                      Jason: “The notion that "life is give and take" is hogwash and trash .”

                                                                      PINKY POSTED :Than what do you propose life be? Just give, or just take?

                                                                      RESPONSE: Please understand that I was referring to the phrase 'give and take' as it is often presented in another context .That other context meaning in disputes between opposing beliefs the phrase give and take is often used in a relativist vein to signify the notion of balancing a position by adopting opposing beliefs in order to serve some duplicious namby-pamby goal of not being too rigid nor "onesided" .

                                                                      PINKY POSTED : Because pertaining to these specifics, life is about either only giving, only taking or some balance including both giving and taking. Just giving would quite literally leave you with absolutely nothing. Just taking would be downright selfish. That’s why I live my life within the balance of the two. What about you, Jason? What about if you ever get married? Will you give everything to your wife? Or will you take everything from her?

                                                                      RESPONSE: Again, I wasn't referring to the context of giving and taking as it pertained to resources and time devoted between oneself and another person . A giving and taking in that sort of context can be acceptible (though with the caveat it is better to mostly give than take) . As an aside I would want to give about everything to my wife. But again what I was disparaging was a different usage context for that phrase---one that promotes a balance between opposing beleifs which is namby- pamby sellout thinking !

                                                                      Jason: “parents telling their kids not to undress around the house would lead to those body image problems that lead to eating disorders .”

                                                                      PINKY POSTED : It can. I don’t believe I ever said it “would,” because that would imply inevitability, but it CAN.

                                                                      RESPONSE: Allright . I acknowledge that you are stating that it can --*rather than* it would inevitably .However, how would the parents telling kids not to undress around the house if they never told them nor insnuated that they were in any way fat --cause them to maybe even develope eating disorders ?
                                                                      • Jason: “Yes, ma'am , that is what the multiple exclamation points are for .”

                                                                        Well I promise, you really only need one; I’ll get it. Using so many is overkill.

                                                                        Jason: “All intangibles like positions, principles, stances , moods, sensibilities ect --all the intangibles except for an individuals volition or will (which is part of the mind of the individual) .”

                                                                        How does volition and will differ from other intangibles, therefore defining the two as actual properties of a person rather than “transcendental” ...characteristics?

                                                                        Follow-up: Do you not define yourself by the beliefs you support? Do they not count as a part of your character, defining what kind of a person you are?

                                                                        Jason: “But I did do that in other posts , i gave elaborate arguments as to those matters. Perhaps with the flurry of posts by Andrew they got lost from view and you did not see them .”

                                                                        I’m talking about our conversations. You have never before defended your positions against ANYTHING in any truly constructive way against me specifically. I’m not a stalker – I’m not going to go read everything you say to everyone else just to get the answers I want you to give me. I don’t work that way.

                                                                        In response to your “explanations” of liberated sex, bodog fighting, penises and vaginas:

                                                                        You’re using adjectives and related nouns to describe why you think these things are bad/ugly, but you’re STILL not explaining why these descriptions and associations are BAD. Why are putting two body parts together not traditionally considered proper a bad thing? Why is it ugly? What makes the “gratuitous violence” of bodog fighting (or the voyeurism for that matter) a bad thing (do you presume the participants would rather wear protection)? What is it about penises’ imperfect cylindrical nature and asymmetrical muscle structure (for the record, I have seen many penises that are, indeed, symmetrical) makes them aesthetically offensive? Are all things that do not fit within Euclidean geometrical shapes ugly (if so, why)? Why must a vagina be shaved/waxed/trimmed (not sure what you implied by “shorn of hair”) to not be ugly? What about flaunting them changes their appearance?

                                                                        Jason: “Because the movements for equality of those groups of people sought not to have them tolerated by the others but sought to empower and emancipate them , instead .”

                                                                        How is tolerance not included in that? Wouldn’t tolerance be one of the first steps toward WANTING to empower or emancipate a person or group of people? And once they ARE empowered and emancipated wouldn’t part of the process be promoting tolerance toward them from the group that were previously belittling or enslaving them?

                                                                        Jason: “The motive of the abolitionists was to promote equality, freedom , and justice for the oppressed IN A WAY THAT DID *NOT* seek any namby-pamby balance with the totally wrong opinions of those who supported slavery”

                                                                        Respecting alternative opinions/perspectives does NOT require always taking said views into consideration when reforming the rules. Being “namby-pamby” as you put it, does not mean finding a middle ground between the “wrong” views and the “right” views, it means finding a solution that makes the most people happy without infringing upon other people’s rights. Sometimes that means compromise, sometimes it means taking extremes, but the point is taking everyone’s rights into consideration, not their feelings.

                                                                        By the way: “But please don’t do it here – dig up their respective threads (or create new ones) and explain all of that within their relative topics; I’m already working through nauseatingly lengthy posts with you as it is.”

                                                                        Did you completely miss this? Seriously, Jason. Pay attention!

                                                                        Jason: “redefining the word marriage”

                                                                        I’m not even sure I want to bother going there, but true to historic etymology, “betrothal” is the current word more accurately translated from passages in the bible that define “marriage” as being between a man and woman (or several women, and/or several concubines) taking into consideration the languages the bible was originally translated from. The word “marriage” has entirely different and separate etymological origins, languages from historical cultures that married men to women, men to men, and women to women with no differences in rights, recognition or title. So marriage has already been “redefined.” And even if you don’t want to believe that, “marriage” has been redefined to allow black people to marry, then later to allow blacks to marry with equal rights, and later again to allow blacks to marry whites (and there were plenty of people fighting a “redefinition of marriage” back then, too).

                                                                        Jason: “Please understand that I was referring to the phrase 'give and take' as it is often presented in another context .”

                                                                        Then perhaps you should refrain from using phrases/words/definitions from contexts outside of how they have been defined in our specific conversations. I don’t appreciate being held to answer for what other people have said.

                                                                        Jason: “how would the parents telling kids not to undress around the house if they never told them nor insnuated that they were in any way fat --cause them to maybe even develope eating disorders ?”

                                                                        I’ve explained this several times now, in length. Go over our conversation and read it again. If you’re still confused, then try asking some more specific questions.
                                                                        • Jason: “Yes, ma'am , that is what the multiple exclamation points are for .”

                                                                          Well I promise, you really only need one; I’ll get it. Using so many is overkill.

                                                                          Jason: “All intangibles like positions, principles, stances , moods, sensibilities ect --all the intangibles except for an individuals volition or will (which is part of the mind of the individual) .”

                                                                          PINKY POSTED :How does volition and will differ from other intangibles, therefore defining the two as actual properties of a person rather than “transcendental” ...characteristics?

                                                                          RESPONSE : Volition being another name for will --when applied in the sense of the will of an individuated person (or other sentient agent such as animals and other sentient creatures ) ...and here we do review the notion of the will of particular persons rather than the category of Volition / Will at large , differs from other intangibles , wherefore each person's will counts as a property of each individual for the following considerations . The wills of particular people are not concepts nor meta-concepts (though the acts of will may deal with such often times) neither are they arrangements of concepts or metaconcepts , but, instead, the faculty of individual will in a person is a dispensation of a *causal sort* .

                                                                          Individual wills of individuals persons are NOT categorical Types (not in terms of being Platonic abstractions like thoughts, concepts , positions, beliefs are) but instead are *causal loci* . *Causal loci* --is a key phrase here for understanding the difference so I highlighted .

                                                                          They are causal loci for individuated acts of causation . The will of an individual person is a locus for acts of causation ...a locus for causality . Such a locus ...an originating point for a vector of directed action is distinct from separate from *in terms of identity* from the conceptual content of whatever goals it may seek to direct actions towards from moment to moment . The will of a person is the phrase given to name the faculty of being able to act (either externally or in terms of the 'internal act' which is a deliberate effort to think of this or that thought) . But each capacity to act... its potential possibilities to select this or that ensemble of particular actions...is unique (even if in some cases the uniqueness in terms of what ensemble of actions it chooses over the course of the history of that particular individual is merely cosmetic) , so much so that-- even though the conceptual content of the goals it chooses do instantiate abstract types that are not part of the individual person but merely manifested by the meeting of those goals ---the potential possibility it has to select possible ensembles of actions can be so unique to each individual person so much so that such individuation characterizes a particular person's will *in terms of what it is as a faculty* as being not identical as a faculty to the chracteristics which transcend a person . Though it remains the case that the *specific goals* sought *by the* faculty of an individual will.... shall manifest pre-existent characteristics that are not part of the person , the faculty itself --or to phrase the matter another way : *the raw potential* for action which is a person's will is *not* itself a manifestation of characteristics that transcend the individual, but instead *is* a property of the person . That is why a person's will is an intangible that is part of a person --though most intangibles are not part of a person's self .

                                                                          The will of a person (or other sentient agent such as an animal or other sentient creature) involves a sort of causality that is different from the various types of cause listed by Aristotle such as : formal, efficent, material, and final cause) , though it can dovetail with formal and final cause certainly and be influenced by them ...and though it can indirectly interact and in a secondary sense direct efficient and material cause .

                                                                          PINKY POSTED :Follow-up: Do you not define yourself by the beliefs you support? Do they not count as a part of your character, defining what kind of a person you are?

                                                                          RESPONSE : No . Not in any direct sense ,

                                                                          Jason: “But I did do that in other posts , i gave elaborate arguments as to those matters. Perhaps with the flurry of posts by Andrew they got lost from view and you did not see them .”

                                                                          PINKY POSTED :I’m talking about our conversations. You have never before defended your positions against ANYTHING in any truly constructive way against me specifically. I’m not a stalker – I’m not going to go read everything you say to everyone else just to get the answers I want you to give me. I don’t work that way.

                                                                          RESPONSE: But I thought I did make some rather lengthy and constructive argumentation in exchanges with you , Pinky
                                                                          in particular . Again, maybe not only just posts where I dissertated with other members of the present message board , but even ones addressing you might have gotten hidden from you seeing them by the flurry of posts by Andrew .

                                                                          PINKY POSTED :In response to your “explanations” of liberated sex, bodog fighting, penises and vaginas:

                                                                          You’re using adjectives and related nouns to describe why you think these things are bad/ugly, but you’re STILL not explaining why these descriptions and associations are BAD. Why are putting two body parts together not traditionally considered proper a bad thing? Why is it ugly? What makes the “gratuitous violence” of bodog fighting (or the voyeurism for that matter) a bad thing (do you presume the participants would rather wear protection)? What is it about penises’ imperfect cylindrical nature and asymmetrical muscle structure (for the record, I have seen many penises that are, indeed, symmetrical) makes them aesthetically offensive? Are all things that do not fit within Euclidean geometrical shapes ugly (if so, why)? Why must a vagina be shaved/waxed/trimmed (not sure what you implied by “shorn of hair”) to not be ugly? What about flaunting them changes their appearance?

                                                                          RESPONSE: Yours truly is rather sleepy at this present hour and would like to defer longer dissertation on those more intricate matters of review until tommorrow . When I'm sleepy it can often interfere with articulation . By tommorrow (barring computer malfunctions or externuating circumstances offline I hope to to present more elaborate explanations on those matters tommorrow) .

                                                                          Jason: “Because the movements for equality of those groups of people sought not to have them tolerated by the others but sought to empower and emancipate them , instead .”

                                                                          PINKY POSTED :How is tolerance not included in that? Wouldn’t tolerance be one of the first steps toward WANTING to empower or emancipate a person or group of people? And once they ARE empowered and emancipated wouldn’t part of the process be promoting tolerance toward them from the group that were previously belittling or enslaving them?

                                                                          RESPONSE: Tolerance would be the sort of attitude which in the matter in question would involve a sort of approach wherefore the slaveowners would still maintain support for the notion that slavery or disenfranchisement of the oppressed race , female gender, minority ethnic group ect was still somehow an okay notion , but that the notion that such groups should be free and given justice is but some mere opinion to be then accorded merely the standing of another mere alternative opinion , that the pro-slavery or pro-disenfrachising crowd *deigns* to give some acceptance to . True rectitude , reform would come if the people who were once pro-slavery or pro-disenfrachisement for the minorities and women were to come around to conceiving of the beliefs in support of emancipation and/societal empowerment of negroes , women , and other minorities as NOT merely some opinion to be given some acceptance to , but rather absolutely right beliefs that they should at long last confess to be right , and the pro-slavery pro-disencfranchisement beliefs that they (albeit most likely disingenuously) supported was the mere opinion and totally wrong and worthless opinion at that .

                                                                          Jason: “The motive of the abolitionists was to promote equality, freedom , and justice for the oppressed IN A WAY THAT DID *NOT* seek any namby-pamby balance with the totally wrong opinions of those who supported slavery”

                                                                          PINKY POSTED :Respecting alternative opinions/perspectives does NOT require always taking said views into consideration when reforming the rules.

                                                                          RESPONSE: I'm puzzled as to how to parse that statement shown above . Sounds like you are advocating respecting opinions (yuck) ...let me then ask you are you as part of the import of that statement advocating the tendency to (yuck) respect opinions---even the crass opinions which supported slavery ?
                                                                          • ADDENTUM OF FURTHER COMMENTARY FOR PINKY .

                                                                            Sat, October 24, 2009 - 4:46 PM
                                                                            PINKY POSTED :In response to your “explanations” of liberated sex, bodog fighting, penises and vaginas:

                                                                            PINKY POSTED :You’re using adjectives and related nouns to describe why you think these things are bad/ugly, but you’re STILL not explaining why these descriptions and associations are BAD. Why are putting two body parts together not traditionally considered proper a bad thing? Why is it ugly?

                                                                            RESPONSE: It involves a reappropriation of bodily organs not intended by natural design for an act of coitus to mimic an act that crudely resembles coitus (intercourse) . Thus it involves a *derangement of the relation* of bodily organs .

                                                                            The mouth in particular (when used in something as monsterous as fellatio) takes an orifice designed for eating and drinking and speaking and makes it either ape the act of coitus and/or ape the act of seeming to ingest the phallus (with almost mock-cannibalistic overtones) the phallus and/ or its emissions ...to wit trhat even if the phallus or its emissions are never actually ingested by the person ---the very semblance of such a prospect manifests such a ghastly , inanely destructive sort of presentation as to be intrinsically contrary to the meta-theme of * Order * .

                                                                            It is the meta-theme of *Order* that is the key term at the crux of both ethics and esthetics ---a meta-theme which subtends them both !

                                                                            Taking the phallus and plunging it into orifices where it is not intended by somatic design to ever go , is to GO AGAINST such ORDER ...and to foster inherent chaos in terms of presentational content .

                                                                            The notion invoked by the words 'fit' and 'fitting' is quite informative in terms of this topic .

                                                                            Beauty (and virtue) is that which fosters a fittingness ---a sort of congruent ensemble of presentational components ---in any given enterprise . In contrast evil , and ugliness , foster the opposite ...a sort of *misfitting* ---hence the term ' misfit' (that term used often as a perjorative term ).

                                                                            PINKY POSTED :What makes the “gratuitous violence” of bodog fighting (or the voyeurism for that matter) a bad thing (do you presume the participants would rather wear protection)?

                                                                            RESPONSE: The gratuitous physical violence , seeks to foster the risk of somatic chaos (injury, maiming ect) for apparently no greater goal then amusement of the participants and spectators and/or bravado/ visceral excitement from the participants . Thus when one does a metaethical loss versus benefit analysis of the goal sought and the content of what is offerred by the goal (which in the case of bodog fighting is merely amusement and bravado ) and measure it against the loss (the loss being the loss of bodily stability in the case the risk of injury is manifest) .

                                                                            With bodily injury there is a sense of somatic and possibly hence, also (cognitive /neurological disorder...think head injuries that can cause neurological damage) . That is antithetical to goodness , for goodness (virtue) is about order . Virtue seeks to foster what is best called an *ordering of significance* in any given relation or mileu . The purpose of the enterprise of Existence at large is to foster greater ever more intricate degrees and distributions of order in all relations thus presenting an *ordering of significance* as it is manifested within relations..taking the raw ballast of deep significance and ordering it .

                                                                            Activities and ways of thinking and feeling which intrinsically and with intentional abandon , go contrary to the ordering of significance are , hence , in varying degrees evil , wrong, bad ---the level of badness proportionate to the extent to whcih said phenomenon go *against* the deep *ordering of significance* --and , hence , intrinsically foster chaos .

                                                                            Bodog fighting intrinsically fosters chaos . The sort of vicarious pleasure, vicarious bravado solicited from a voyeuristic audience which revels in such pointless violence which is not directed towards the protection of anyone (as more just violence might be) is a sort of mental disposition which then wants chaos also . Hence wanting to witness such a risk of chaos ---when the voyeurs in the audience wish to witness such violence , is to wish for a risk of chaos --and hence is an evil inclination .

                                                                            For ethical concerns apply to what we wish for , as well as what we say and do . So for a spectator in an audience to wish for some evil risk to be made manifest is to wish for something evil . We are obligated to wish for waht is good instead of something evil .

                                                                            PINKY POSTED :What is it about penises’ imperfect cylindrical nature and asymmetrical muscle structure (for the record, I have seen many penises that are, indeed, symmetrical) makes them aesthetically offensive?

                                                                            RESPONSE: See the notes in the paragraphs below --where great detail as to why is presented .

                                                                            PINKY POSTED :Are all things that do not fit within Euclidean geometrical shapes ugly (if so, why)?

                                                                            RESPONSE: Not necessarily . There are , for example, wispy clowds in the sky that appear from time to time which are NON-Euclidean in terms of their shape , yet still are NOT so chaotic in appearance as to be ugly . The problem is when there is an object whose shape crudely apes a Euclidean shape but fails terribly to make a plausible facsimile of it . Shapes that are barely almost Euclidean ...not almost Euclidean but *barely almost* Euclidean in terms of morphology .

                                                                            The problematic shapes are like a lousy rendition of a Euclidean shape . With objects that are completely
                                                                            NON-Euclidean , in that they are completely quintessential to that NON -Euclidean status they are less likely (barring some other visual factor that introduces some orther sort of visual disarray) to present ugliness (ugliness being a severe antithesis of the characteristics of beauty ) . Objects like the phallus , in contrast, are betwitxt and between Euclidean and NON-Euclidean geometric form such as they present a sort of basterdization of the Euclidean shape .

                                                                            Phalluses look like muddled , aborted renditions of cylinders . Hence, they are an affront to beauty for they instead of maximizing a fully delineated / crisp shape or a fully amorphous shape , they look like a slovenly attempt at a tertium quid ...a sort of loose amalgam of almost delineated and almost amorphous features . They portend a sort of *presentational confusion * in terms of the visual arrangement .


                                                                            PINKY POSTED : Why must a vagina be shaved/waxed/trimmed (not sure what you implied by “shorn of hair”) to not be ugly?

                                                                            RESPONSE: Pubic hair has a motley appearance is visually jarring . It does *not* have the structural texture of , say, hair on someone's scalp--which can often have a more well organized , and , hence, beautiful texture .

                                                                            Chances are pubic hair evolved (or was retained) as a biological protection for the genital area from the vicissitudes of temperature changes effecting the reproductive material behind the genitals . Form follows function there in the most crudely utilitarian sense . However, it lacks the sense of an ordered morphology as a figure ---in terms of how it protudes from its bodily background .

                                                                            PINKY POSTED :What about flaunting them changes their appearance?

                                                                            RESPONSE: Flaunting them seems to conjure up the suggestion that coitus is somehow invited and with that there is the attendent sense of a visceral sort of abandon , a lewdness, a ludic sort of demeanor which is contrary to the *esthetic repose* requisite to the sublime/ the beautiful .


                                                                            PINKY POSTED :By the way: “But please don’t do it here – dig up their respective threads (or create new ones) and explain all of that within their relative topics; I’m already working through nauseatingly lengthy posts with you as it is.”

                                                                            :Did you completely miss this? Seriously, Jason. Pay attention!

                                                                            RESPONSE : With such a flurry [or deluge\ of posts from Andrew in the threads that would be a quite paisntaking process indeed .

                                                                            Jason: “redefining the word marriage”

                                                                            PINKY POSTED :I’m not even sure I want to bother going there, but true to historic etymology, “betrothal” is the current word more accurately translated from passages in the bible that define “marriage” as being between a man and woman (or several women, and/or several concubines) taking into consideration the languages the bible was originally translated from.

                                                                            RESPONSE: And on what grounds do you claim there is such a disparity between the significance of the word 'betrothal' and the word 'marriage' . ?

                                                                            PINKY POSTED :The word “marriage” has entirely different and separate etymological origins, languages from historical cultures that married men to women, men to men, and women to women with no differences in rights, recognition or title. So marriage has already been “redefined.”

                                                                            RESPONSE :What are the purported different etymological origins of the word 'marriage' that you are referencing ?

                                                                            Furthermore, what are the cultures that ever married men to men ect ?

                                                                            PINKY POSTED :And even if you don’t want to believe that, “marriage” has been redefined to allow black people to marry, then later to allow blacks to marry with equal rights, and later again to allow blacks to marry whites (and there were plenty of people fighting a “redefinition of marriage” back then, too).

                                                                            RESPONSE : No it has not been redefined . That isn't an example of redefinition of the term . The dictionary definition makes NO stipulations regarding the race of the man and woman in the marriage covenant . Unfortunately , you are falling into lateral thinking there with that "comparison" .
                                                                            • Re: ADDENTUM OF FURTHER COMMENTARY FOR PINKY .

                                                                              Sat, October 24, 2009 - 6:15 PM
                                                                              PINKY POSTED :In response to your “explanations” of liberated sex, bodog fighting, penises and vaginas:

                                                                              PINKY POSTED :You’re using adjectives and related nouns to describe why you think these things are bad/ugly, but you’re STILL not explaining why these descriptions and associations are BAD. Why are putting two body parts together not traditionally considered proper a bad thing? Why is it ugly?

                                                                              RESPONSE: It involves a reappropriation of bodily organs not intended by natural design for an act of coitus to mimic an act that crudely resembles coitus (intercourse) . Thus it involves a *derangement of the relation* of bodily organs .

                                                                              The mouth in particular (when used in something as monsterous as fellatio) takes an orifice designed for eating and drinking and speaking and makes it either ape the act of coitus and/or ape the act of seeming to ingest the phallus (with almost mock-cannibalistic overtones) the phallus and/ or its emissions ...to wit trhat even if the phallus or its emissions are never actually ingested by the person ---the very semblance of such a prospect manifests such a ghastly , inanely destructive sort of presentation as to be intrinsically contrary to the meta-theme of * Order * .

                                                                              It is the meta-theme of *Order* that is the key term at the crux of both ethics and esthetics ---a meta-theme which subtends them both !

                                                                              Taking the phallus and plunging it into orifices where it is not intended by somatic design to ever go , is to GO AGAINST such ORDER ...and to foster inherent chaos in terms of presentational content .

                                                                              The notion invoked by the words 'fit' and 'fitting' is quite informative in terms of this topic .

                                                                              Beauty (and virtue) is that which fosters a fittingness ---a sort of congruent ensemble of presentational components ---in any given enterprise . In contrast evil , and ugliness , foster the opposite ...a sort of *misfitting* ---hence the term ' misfit' (that term used often as a perjorative term ).

                                                                              PINKY POSTED :What makes the “gratuitous violence” of bodog fighting (or the voyeurism for that matter) a bad thing (do you presume the participants would rather wear protection)?

                                                                              RESPONSE: The gratuitous physical violence , seeks to foster the risk of somatic chaos (injury, maiming ect) for apparently no greater goal then amusement of the participants and spectators and/or bravado/ visceral excitement from the participants . Thus when one does a metaethical loss versus benefit analysis of the goal sought and the content of what is offerred by the goal (which in the case of bodog fighting is merely amusement and bravado ) and measure it against the loss (the loss being the loss of bodily stability in the case the risk of injury is manifest) .

                                                                              With bodily injury there is a sense of somatic and possibly hence, also (cognitive /neurological disorder...think head injuries that can cause neurological damage) . That is antithetical to goodness , for goodness (virtue) is about order . Virtue seeks to foster what is best called an *ordering of significance* in any given relation or mileu . The purpose of the enterprise of Existence at large is to foster greater ever more intricate degrees and distributions of order in all relations thus presenting an *ordering of significance* as it is manifested within relations..taking the raw ballast of deep significance and ordering it .

                                                                              Activities and ways of thinking and feeling which intrinsically and with intentional abandon , go contrary to the ordering of significance are , hence , in varying degrees evil , wrong, bad ---the level of badness proportionate to the extent to whcih said phenomenon go *against* the deep *ordering of significance* --and , hence , intrinsically foster chaos .

                                                                              Bodog fighting intrinsically fosters chaos . The sort of vicarious pleasure, vicarious bravado solicited from a voyeuristic audience which revels in such pointless violence which is not directed towards the protection of anyone (as more just violence might be) is a sort of mental disposition which then wants chaos also . Hence wanting to witness such a risk of chaos ---when the voyeurs in the audience wish to witness such violence , is to wish for a risk of chaos --and hence is an evil inclination .

                                                                              For ethical concerns apply to what we wish for , as well as what we say and do . So for a spectator in an audience to wish for some evil risk to be made manifest is to wish for something evil . We are obligated to wish for waht is good instead of something evil .

                                                                              PINKY POSTED :What is it about penises’ imperfect cylindrical nature and asymmetrical muscle structure (for the record, I have seen many penises that are, indeed, symmetrical) makes them aesthetically offensive?

                                                                              RESPONSE: See the notes in the paragraphs below --where great detail as to why is presented .

                                                                              PINKY POSTED :Are all things that do not fit within Euclidean geometrical shapes ugly (if so, why)?

                                                                              RESPONSE: Not necessarily . There are , for example, wispy clowds in the sky that appear from time to time which are NON-Euclidean in terms of their shape , yet still are NOT so chaotic in appearance as to be ugly . The problem is when there is an object whose shape crudely apes a Euclidean shape but fails terribly to make a plausible facsimile of it . Shapes that are barely almost Euclidean ...not almost Euclidean but *barely almost* Euclidean in terms of morphology .

                                                                              The problematic shapes are like a lousy rendition of a Euclidean shape . With objects that are completely
                                                                              NON-Euclidean , in that they are completely quintessential to that NON -Euclidean status they are less likely (barring some other visual factor that introduces some orther sort of visual disarray) to present ugliness (ugliness being a severe antithesis of the characteristics of beauty ) . Objects like the phallus , in contrast, are betwitxt and between Euclidean and NON-Euclidean geometric form such as they present a sort of basterdization of the Euclidean shape .

                                                                              Phalluses look like muddled , aborted renditions of cylinders . Hence, they are an affront to beauty for they instead of maximizing a fully delineated / crisp shape or a fully amorphous shape , they look like a slovenly attempt at a tertium quid ...a sort of loose amalgam of almost delineated and almost amorphous features . They portend a sort of *presentational confusion * in terms of the visual arrangement .


                                                                              PINKY POSTED : Why must a vagina be shaved/waxed/trimmed (not sure what you implied by “shorn of hair”) to not be ugly?

                                                                              RESPONSE: Pubic hair has a motley appearance is visually jarring . It does *not* have the structural texture of , say, hair on someone's scalp--which can often have a more well organized , and , hence, beautiful texture .

                                                                              Chances are pubic hair evolved (or was retained) as a biological protection for the genital area from the vicissitudes of temperature changes effecting the reproductive material behind the genitals . Form follows function there in the most crudely utilitarian sense . However, it lacks the sense of an ordered morphology as a figure ---in terms of how it protudes from its bodily background .

                                                                              PINKY POSTED :What about flaunting them changes their appearance?

                                                                              RESPONSE: Flaunting them seems to conjure up the suggestion that coitus is somehow invited and with that there is the attendent sense of a visceral sort of abandon , a lewdness, a ludic sort of demeanor which is contrary to the *esthetic repose* requisite to the sublime/ the beautiful .


                                                                              PINKY POSTED :By the way: “But please don’t do it here – dig up their respective threads (or create new ones) and explain all of that within their relative topics; I’m already working through nauseatingly lengthy posts with you as it is.”

                                                                              :Did you completely miss this? Seriously, Jason. Pay attention!

                                                                              RESPONSE : With such a flurry [or deluge\ of posts from Andrew in the threads that would be a quite paisntaking process indeed .

                                                                              Jason: “redefining the word marriage”

                                                                              PINKY POSTED :I’m not even sure I want to bother going there, but true to historic etymology, “betrothal” is the current word more accurately translated from passages in the bible that define “marriage” as being between a man and woman (or several women, and/or several concubines) taking into consideration the languages the bible was originally translated from.

                                                                              RESPONSE: And on what grounds do you claim there is such a disparity between the significance of the word 'betrothal' and the word 'marriage' . ?

                                                                              PINKY POSTED :The word “marriage” has entirely different and separate etymological origins, languages from historical cultures that married men to women, men to men, and women to women with no differences in rights, recognition or title. So marriage has already been “redefined.”

                                                                              RESPONSE :What are the purported different etymological origins of the word 'marriage' that you are referencing ?

                                                                              Furthermore, what are the cultures that ever married men to men ect ?

                                                                              PINKY POSTED :And even if you don’t want to believe that, “marriage” has been redefined to allow black people to marry, then later to allow blacks to marry with equal rights, and later again to allow blacks to marry whites (and there were plenty of people fighting a “redefinition of marriage” back then, too).

                                                                              RESPONSE : No it has not been redefined . That isn't an example of redefinition of the term . The dictionary definition makes NO stipulations regarding the race of the man and woman in the marriage covenant . Unfortunately , you are falling into lateral thinking there with that "comparison" .
                                                                              • You provide no support for your assertions. Your insistence ≠ support. When you attempt to offer a "cite" (minus *any* of the ch&v / exegesis / specificity you claim to find so important and persistently demand from others), you fail to show any credibility - you fail to show that your attempted cite in any way supports your argument.

                                                                                The only way in which you are consistent - despite your oft-professed admiration for that quality - is that you are consistently wrong. You're wrong in what you believe to constitute reality, you're historically ignorant, and you lack the education that would have shown you *why* and *how* this is so.

                                                                                You will moronically call for some sort of clarification iiiin 5.... 4..... 3..... 2........
                                                                                • Lokifraud

                                                                                  Mon, October 26, 2009 - 9:34 AM
                                                                                  Yes , please do clarify on what grounds you claim any of that ...clarify for once in your depraved adolescent semblance of a life/ give some evidence to back up a "eructation" (to use one of the favorite words of Loki) .
                                                                              • Re: *ORDER* According To Jason The Sick-o Fucktard

                                                                                Mon, October 26, 2009 - 9:16 AM
                                                                                Jason
                                                                                <<<RESPONSE: It involves a reappropriation of bodily organs not intended by natural design for an act of coitus to mimic an act that crudely resembles coitus (intercourse) . Thus it involves a *derangement of the relation* of bodily organs .

                                                                                The mouth in particular (when used in something as monsterous as fellatio) takes an orifice designed for eating and drinking and speaking and makes it either ape the act of coitus and/or ape the act of seeming to ingest the phallus (with almost mock-cannibalistic overtones) the phallus and/ or its emissions ...to wit trhat even if the phallus or its emissions are never actually ingested by the person ---the very semblance of such a prospect manifests such a ghastly , inanely destructive sort of presentation as to be intrinsically contrary to the meta-theme of * Order * .

                                                                                It is the meta-theme of *Order* that is the key term at the crux of both ethics and esthetics ---a meta-theme which subtends them both !

                                                                                Taking the phallus and plunging it into orifices where it is not intended by somatic design to ever go , is to GO AGAINST such ORDER ...and to foster inherent chaos in terms of presentational content .

                                                                                The notion invoked by the words 'fit' and 'fitting' is quite informative in terms of this topic . >>>

                                                                                The dick *FITS* in the ass and the mouth, so it is therefore *FITTING* to conduct such acts. The crux of YOUR ethics and esthetics is an imagined *ORDER* borne of a demented sexual aversion YOU suffer from. The meta-theme of *ORDER* mandated by the evolving standards of todays maturing society is MIND YOUR OWN FUCKING BUSINESS. Nobody cares what bothers you and we will continue to do as we see fit. In case you havent noticed, it seems to be you against the world in this guilt wielding crusade of yours and you are loosing miserably. One day you are going to voice your fetid hateful vitrol in public and someone is going to change the color of your fucking sky. I'd probably just bitch slap you 3 or 4 times because you are more than likely a frail bent little old runt and I cant score on that by knocking the taste out of your mouth.Ha!Ha! Talking about your GRATUITOUS VIOLENCE....I'd more than likely get a fucking standing ovation from onlookers....
                                                                                • Sexual Aversion =Decency

                                                                                  Mon, October 26, 2009 - 9:47 AM
                                                                                  ADAM POSTED :The dick *FITS* in the ass and the mouth, so it is therefore *FITTING* to conduct such acts.

                                                                                  RESPONSE: Was referring to fit , or the LACK of fit in terms of somatic and biological function . Noone is going to be ferilized by a phallus going into their mouth or bottom .

                                                                                  ADAM POSTED :The crux of YOUR ethics and esthetics is an imagined *ORDER* borne of a demented sexual aversion YOU suffer from.

                                                                                  (1) It is THE ethics and esthetics , NOT "my" anything since the ethical and esthetic precepts transcend me .

                                                                                  (2) Sexual aversion=decency . Sexual aversion =REFUSING to be a skank .

                                                                                  ADAM POSTED : The meta-theme of *ORDER* mandated by the evolving standards of todays maturing society is MIND YOUR OWN FUCKING BUSINESS.

                                                                                  RESPONSE: That's not order . Quite the opposite it is anomie and chaos . Trendy chaos .

                                                                                  ADAM POSTED : Nobody cares what bothers you and we will continue to do as we see fit.

                                                                                  RESPONSE: You have certainly gotten "ruffled feathers" for someone who claims to be so undaunted by "crackpot" moralizers trying to tell you how to live !!! Wonder why ? Trying to assuage a guilty conscience by going on the aggressive, maybe ????

                                                                                  ADAM POSTED :In case you havent noticed, it seems to be you against the world in this guilt wielding crusade of yours and you are loosing miserably.

                                                                                  RESPONSE: Someone has to sally forth and TRY to turn back the windmills of smut and slay the dragons !

                                                                                  ADAM POSTED :One day you are going to voice your fetid hateful vitrol in public and someone is going to change the color of your fucking sky. I'd probably just bitch slap you 3 or 4 times because you are more than likely a frail bent little old runt and I cant score on that by knocking the taste out of your mouth.Ha!Ha! Talking about your GRATUITOUS VIOLENCE....I'd more than likely get a fucking standing ovation from onlookers....

                                                                                  RESPONSE: Yes, you very well might get a hearty round of applause from aspiring rapists , slasher film fans , child molesters , adult film store denizens , and various and sundry other t.v. influenced postmodern opinion respecting pipsqueaks , louts, and cretins .
                                                                              • Re: ADDENTUM OF FURTHER COMMENTARY FOR PINKY .

                                                                                Mon, October 26, 2009 - 11:21 AM
                                                                                Jason: Volition, will, blah blah blah...

                                                                                So you’re saying that volition=will=soul/spirit?

                                                                                Jason: “No . Not in any direct sense ,”

                                                                                Are volition/will the only intangible(s) that act as “property” of a person (for lack of a better term)?
                                                                                Does one’s sexuality define a person, for instance? Or is that flip-floppy like moods or thoughts?

                                                                                Jason: “But I thought I did make some rather lengthy and constructive argumentation in exchanges with you , Pinky in particular .”

                                                                                When? Where? How so?

                                                                                And who the fuck is Andrew?

                                                                                Jason: “would be the sort of attitude which in the matter in question would involve a sort of approach wherefore the slaveowners would still maintain support for the notion that slavery or disenfranchisement of the oppressed race , female gender, minority ethnic group ect was still somehow an okay notion ,”

                                                                                Of course – that’s why it’s a STEP. People don’t change overnight – that’s why getting angry at people, insulting them, and trying to guilt trip them into changing positions so radically hardly ever works. You can’t bully a fat person into losing weight, you can’t argue an alcoholic out of drinking, you can’t guilt someone out of having sex...unless they already feel (deep down) that whatever you’re yelling at them is right, which is what I’m willing to bet my life’s savings happened with the infamous “Zack” (if he even exists).

                                                                                Jason: “PINKY POSTED :Respecting alternative opinions/perspectives does NOT require always taking said views into consideration when reforming the rules.

                                                                                “I'm puzzled as to how to parse that statement shown above . Sounds like you are advocating respecting opinions (yuck) ...let me then ask you are you as part of the import of that statement advocating the tendency to (yuck) respect opinions---even the crass opinions which supported slavery ?”

                                                                                What is it that you believe “respecting opinions” entails? Are you under the impression that it obligates anyone into doing anything in particular? Why are you so opposed to it?

                                                                                Jason: “It involves a reappropriation of bodily organs not intended by natural design for an act of coitus to mimic an act that crudely resembles coitus (intercourse) .”

                                                                                Who are you to say what a penis’ and a vagina’s “naturally designed intentions” are and are not? Are you aware that other primates participate homoerotic genital-to-genital contact and even oral sex? Where would the bonobos have learned to go against nature, Jason? Surely they don’t have Sex In The City in the Congo jungles.

                                                                                Jason: “The notion invoked by the words 'fit' and 'fitting' is quite informative in terms of this topic .”

                                                                                But my husband’s penis fits very well in my mouth. My ass takes a little more coaxing, but it works very well for both of us. His tongue also fits nicely in my vagina – and I’ve never had complaints about taste either (as I’ve tasted myself, I think the most accurate description to date has been “like spiced honey”). If “fitting” is the issue here, I’m not sure I find any issue at all.

                                                                                Jason: “The gratuitous physical violence , seeks to foster the risk of somatic chaos”

                                                                                I’m finding that you’re biggest issue with almost anything you’re against (if not everything) is because it involves or promotes some semblance of what you interpret to be “chaos.” I *HIGHLY* recommend you see a professional to be sure you don’t have some serious diagnosis of OCD or perhaps Down Syndrome. Fear of chaos is one thing, but you seem to go FUCKING NUTSO at the threat of it, and that’s not medically healthy.

                                                                                Jason: “There are , for example, wispy clowds in the sky that appear from time to time which are NON-Euclidean in terms of their shape , yet still are NOT so chaotic in appearance as to be ugly .”

                                                                                Until you can find a better defense for why something is bad, evil or ugly other than “it’s chaotic,” I’m afraid you really have no argument. The world is not kept pristine in some nice, well kept, fancy little package – chaos is simply part of how things work. LOOK AROUND YOU.

                                                                                On a further note, clouds come in an infinite supply of shapes, many of them in forms of this pseudo-Euclidean mumbo-jumbo you so despise. Would such clouds be ugly to you?

                                                                                Jason: “Pubic hair has a motley appearance is visually jarring . It does *not* have the structural texture of , say, hair on someone's scalp--which can often have a more well organized , and , hence, beautiful texture .”

                                                                                There you go with that chaos vs. organization shit again. Not that I’d want to see you around any children anyway, but I’d be mortified to hear you had any kind of contact with any Special Needs child – those guys are chaos on a stick, man! Asymmetrical, out of proportion, physically and/or mentally undeveloped, limbs with minds of their own – they’re beautiful to me of course, but you’d be hounding them on being “visually jarring” like you can guilt them out of being handicapped.

                                                                                The world is a solidified ball of chaos, Jason. Outside of the laws of physics (which we ourselves can only really guess at and we still don’t know all of them I’m sure, let alone how or why they work), everything is left to chance, randomization and chaotic occurrence. Without the chaotic nature of random genetic mutation, we as a species wouldn’t even be here. Chaos is good for you, Jason. Embrace it. Befriend it. Let it help you.

                                                                                Jason: “Chances are pubic hair evolved (or was retained) as a biological protection for the genital area from the vicissitudes of temperature changes effecting the reproductive material behind the genitals .”

                                                                                Actually, I believe it’s more accurate to say that feminine pubic hair is a remnant of full body hair that lingered in that area specifically for purposes of hygiene and health protection, much like eyelashes work to keep dust and debris out of one’s eye. As a woman’s reproductive organs are entirely internal (as opposed to the external male reproductive organs), temperature is thus maintained internally. External hair wouldn’t make a lick (;P) of difference.

                                                                                Jason: “With such a flurry [or deluge\ of posts from Andrew in the threads that would be a quite paisntaking process indeed .”

                                                                                I quote myself AGAIN: “dig up their respective threads (or create new ones)”

                                                                                OR CREATE NEW ONES. Shit Jason: copy, click, paste, back, repeat. Very nice and organized, just like you like it.

                                                                                Jason: “And on what grounds do you claim there is such a disparity between the significance of the word 'betrothal' and the word 'marriage' . ?”

                                                                                Etymology.

                                                                                Jason: “What are the purported different etymological origins of the word 'marriage' that you are referencing ?”

                                                                                The modern English word “marriage” is derived from Old French (mariage, from marier), which itself derives from Latin (maritare, from maritus, from mas). The bible was originally written (and translated from) Hebrew, Greek, and some Aramaic. None of which have been found to have any modern derivatives of what they now label as “marriage” in modern translations, although Aramaic MAY have some etymological ties with Proto-Indo-European, the root “deru-“ of which turned into the English “truth,” giving way to “treuthe” which, when combined with the English prefix “be-“ (betreuthen), eventually became “betroth.” Two completely different origins, and two completely different meanings, apart from extremely modern lingual association.

                                                                                Jason: “Furthermore, what are the cultures that ever married men to men ect ?”

                                                                                During the Ming Dynasty in Fujian, same-sex unions were performed for both men and women, and similar European unions were AT LEAST as popular. It was extremely common practice within the Roman Empire until Christianity overtook it (and redefined marriage – which is probably when bibles were cross-translated to include such a word that has no origin or connection to the original biblical languages and writings, since they also adopted all kinds of Pagan elements around the same time; first to cover their own outlawed practices, and then to encourage converts as they outlawed Pagan practices).

                                                                                Same-sex marriages in ancient Rome were in every way equal to heterosexual marriage – in rights, recognition and respect. Cicero wrote of Curio’s and Antonius’ “stable and permanent marriage” so casually as to suggest it was just that commonplace. Martial spoke of homosexual marriages in great number, and Juvinal named same-gender marriage as being “nothing special.” The Christians later passed a law in 342AD, redefining marriage to exclude same-sex unions and ordered existing same-sex couples to be executed.

                                                                                Currently , homosexual marriages are legally recognized nation-wide in countries from Australia to Denmark.

                                                                                Jason: “That isn't an example of redefinition of the term .”

                                                                                How so? Blacks never used to be able to marry – even each other – under the same rights as whites in the United States. Their marriage vows were broken if their owners decided to separate them, and they used to be executed for having relations with white citizens.

                                                                                Jason: “The dictionary definition makes NO stipulations regarding the race of the man and woman in the marriage covenant .”

                                                                                There was never a need – during the time Webster started writing dictionaries blacks were not even considered citizens, and besides, dictionaries do not dictate law. But I wonder – how did people ever figure out what words meant before people wrote dictionaries? Maybe we’ll never know... ;)
                                                                                • I'm puzzled as to how to parse that statement shown above . Sounds like you are advocating respecting opinions (yuck) ...let me then ask you are you as part of the import of that statement advocating the tendency to (yuck) respect opinions---even the crass opinions which supported slavery ?”

                                                                                  PINKY POSTED :What is it that you believe “respecting opinions” entails?

                                                                                  RESPONSE: Granting some ad hoc designation of respect, or fiat attribution of merit , to a mere opinion merely for the sake of doing sp or for the sake of mere balance . (And balance / a middle ground is certainly not anything inherently desirable. It may be desired but it is not worthy of desire)


                                                                                  PINKY POSTED : Are you under the impression that it obligates anyone into doing anything in particular?

                                                                                  RESPONSE: First of all , respecting opinions (i.e. selling out in thought) does not call up any genuine obligations , though those who get involved in opinion- respecting give some semblance of partial deference...a sort of pusillanimous middle ground with the opinons they respect , which then betrays the affinity they have for the goal they intitally support by diluting the affirmation of the goal they supprt , turning such an affinity inot a namby-pamby , ambivalent , diluted affair .

                                                                                  PINKY POSTED :Why are you so opposed to it?

                                                                                  RESPONSE: To respect opinions one does not agree with (and I'm not referring to respecting that the opposition has a legal right to express disapproved of opinions without being repressed with physical violence ---that is a separate context ) is to betray *in thought* what one does believe. To respect opinions that one does not agree with is to be NON-consistent , to have incongruity in the affinity that one has for the position that one does support. To respect opinions that one does not agree with is to intentionally FAIL to be maximal in affirming the ultimate value or worth of what one does support , to make the affinity for what one does support dilute, moderated, "conflicted" , insipid /squishy
                                                                                  by seeking some sort of ideational balance with the opinion one does not agree with .

                                                                                  Balance is NOT an intrinsic good . There is NOTHING intrinsically good about the weird semi-inchoate desire to seek a balance between any two polarities .

                                                                                  Taking some good quality to extremes is never a vice . Practicing good in moderation is to betray good . Axiological consistency states that goodness should be maximized not balanced in some squishy middle ground with that which opposes it .

                                                                                  To seek some sort of middle ground between a good notion and a bad one is to be anti-climatic (and I don't mean antri-climax in some sexual sense so please do not equivocate ) . Hence, to seek some middle ground in thought of balance is to be NON consistent in thought about the values one does support . Such balance is NON -consistent affinity .

                                                                                  (The squishy postmod , suburban MTV Generation is rife with that duplicitous respect for opinions) .
                                                                                  • Pinky ,

                                                                                    Weill respond to the other arguments you've raised eventually (barring unforseen circumstances), but for now I have to run some errands .
                                                                                    • Until you are able to responsibly turn your critical inclination toward yourself, you will continue to be overruled by fitter minds, no matter what absurd and mentally stunted deflections you think serve as your "argument".
                                                                                      • WRONG POSTED :Until you are able to responsibly turn your critical inclination toward yourself, you will continue to be overruled by fitter minds, no matter what absurd and mentally stunted deflections you think serve as your "argument".

                                                                                        RESPONSE: You have demonstrated nothing of any specfric argumentation , you are as regular as a dial tone on a broken pay phone that spits out a persons quaters and doesn't deliver .

                                                                                        What you post to promote relativism Loki, has all the acumen of doggerel scrawled on the wall of a washroom .
                                                                                        • Jason: "You have demonstrated nothing of any specfric argumentation ,"

                                                                                          While Loki may not have provided any specific references to anything you've said, I can attest to the fact that you may find your arguments compelling, but all they ever really are is, "X is bad/evil/ugly because [equating details of X with negative adjectives], (more adjectives and big words), [general praise for opposing argument a.k.a. yours]." You're "deductive logic" consists of "X is ugly, because it does not fit the category of [something that you find beautiful], which means it's [synonym for ugly], and therefore not good. [Random insulting ADJECTIVES]!!!!"

                                                                                          That's not deductive logic. You never give reason for your hatred, you merely rephrase it this way and that, using synonyms and adjectives, and perhaps hope to lose us in the fancy words you turn to when confronted. I already addressed this specifically with your "defense" for your positions against liberated sex, bodog fighting, penises and (hairy) vaginas, and you're still haven't been doing any better since.

                                                                                          It appears that your argument strategy is to try and draw parallels between what you don't like and what you think we don't like. "X is evil because it has this and that and the other thing in common with Y," which suggests that Y is equally evil. The only reason I can think for you to draw parallels like that is to try to appeal to any prejudices we have against Y. In reality, even if we have something against Y, you can't just label a random something X as equal to it by pointing out they're similarities.
                                                                                • Re: ADDENTUM OF FURTHER COMMENTARY FOR PINKY .

                                                                                  Mon, October 26, 2009 - 9:12 PM
                                                                                  PINKY POSTED :Jason: Volition, will, blah blah blah...

                                                                                  RESPONSE: But why do you dismiss it so quickly as blah, blah , balh . i put a lot of time into composing that dissertation on the ontology of the individual will and how it relates to other sorts of causation ...or to use another word for it , ' causality ' . I was quite glad you had asked , for the question led to newer insights . The term causal loci was NO mere jargon . It is quite key .

                                                                                  PINKY POSTED :So you’re saying that volition=will=soul/spirit?

                                                                                  RESPONSE: Volition is the same as individual will. They are interchangeable terms .

                                                                                  Jason: “No . Not in any direct sense ,”

                                                                                  PINKY POSTED :Are volition/will the only intangible(s) that act as “property” of a person (for lack of a better term)?

                                                                                  RESPONSE: No, there are a few others . There is the individuated spirit for one .

                                                                                  PINKY POSTED :Does one’s sexuality define a person, for instance? Or is that flip-floppy like moods or thoughts?

                                                                                  RESPONSE: Sexual practices and inclinations are NOT part of a person , no ---if that is what you are asking .

                                                                                  Jason: “But I thought I did make some rather lengthy and constructive argumentation in exchanges with you , Pinky in particular .”

                                                                                  PINKY POSTED : When? Where? How so?

                                                                                  RESPONSE: Posts I posted in this very present thread , over the past week or so (for one) !

                                                                                  PINKY POSTED :And who the fuck is Andrew?

                                                                                  RESPONSE: Andrew now posts under the screen name of Hokey .

                                                                                  Jason: “would be the sort of attitude which in the matter in question would involve a sort of approach wherefore the slaveowners would still maintain support for the notion that slavery or disenfranchisement of the oppressed race , female gender, minority ethnic group ect was still somehow an okay notion ,”

                                                                                  PINKY POSTED :Of course – that’s why it’s a STEP. People don’t change overnight – that’s why getting angry at people, insulting them, and trying to guilt trip them into changing positions so radically hardly ever works. You can’t bully a fat person into losing weight, you can’t argue an alcoholic out of drinking, you can’t guilt someone out of having sex...unless they already feel (deep down) that whatever you’re yelling at them is right, which is what I’m willing to bet my life’s savings happened with the infamous “Zack” (if he even exists).

                                                                                  RESPONSE: Aren't you underestimating the ability of guilt to get people to adopt a different pattern of acting ?

                                                                                  Jason: “PINKY POSTED :Respecting alternative opinions/perspectives does NOT require always taking said views into consideration when reforming the rules.

                                                                                  “I'm puzzled as to how to parse that statement shown above . Sounds like you are advocating respecting opinions (yuck) ...let me then ask you are you as part of the import of that statement advocating the tendency to (yuck) respect opinions---even the crass opinions which supported slavery ?”

                                                                                  What is it that you believe “respecting opinions” entails? Are you under the impression that it obligates anyone into doing anything in particular? Why are you so opposed to it?

                                                                                  RESPONSE: See the notes on such duplicity /inward selling out in the post below the present one .

                                                                                  Jason: “It involves a reappropriation of bodily organs not intended by natural design for an act of coitus to mimic an act that crudely resembles coitus (intercourse) .”

                                                                                  PINKY POSTED :Who are you to say what a penis’ and a vagina’s “naturally designed intentions” are and are not?

                                                                                  RESPONSE: Consider what their natural structural functions are in terms of physiogomy . The penis ---in addition to a secondary usage of directing urine when it is expelled , is designed to go in the vagina so as to diseminate sperm down that canal to meet up with eggs/ ovum to make an offspring . The vagina along with the ovaries and uterus behind it , is deisgned to distribute eggs/ovum to the sperm so they can fuse and form through mitosis an offspring --after it goes through states , of zygote , embryo, fetus , and then baby .

                                                                                  PINKY POSTED : Are you aware that other primates participate homoerotic genital-to-genital contact and even oral sex?

                                                                                  RESPONSE: That's news to me . Well it is wrong for them to do that , just as with humans it is wrong to engage in filth like fellatio .


                                                                                  PINKY POSTED :Where would the bonobos have learned to go against nature, Jason? Surely they don’t have Sex In The City in the Congo jungles.

                                                                                  RESPONSE: Perhaps there are some mind altering toxins that have been diseminated in their habitat as a result of industrialization that have enticed some of them to be more given to libido , and , hence , acts of such depravity .

                                                                                  Jason: “The notion invoked by the words 'fit' and 'fitting' is quite informative in terms of this topic .”

                                                                                  PINKY POSTED :But my husband’s penis fits very well in my mouth. My ass takes a little more coaxing, but it works very well for both of us. His tongue also fits nicely in my vagina – and I’ve never had complaints about taste either (as I’ve tasted myself, I think the most accurate description to date has been “like spiced honey”). If “fitting” is the issue here, I’m not sure I find any issue at all.

                                                                                  RESPONSE: I'm talking about fittingness (or the lack thereof) in reference to the design function of those openings and organs !

                                                                                  Jason: “The gratuitous physical violence , seeks to foster the risk of somatic chaos”

                                                                                  PINKY POSTED :I’m finding that you’re biggest issue with almost anything you’re against (if not everything) is because it involves or promotes some semblance of what you interpret to be “chaos.” I *HIGHLY* recommend you see a professional to be sure you don’t have some serious diagnosis of OCD or perhaps Down Syndrome. Fear of chaos is one thing, but you seem to go FUCKING NUTSO at the threat of it, and that’s not medically healthy.

                                                                                  RESPONSE: Since when is vehement disapproval of chaos NOT medically healthy or mentally disturbed !

                                                                                  Jason: “There are , for example, wispy clowds in the sky that appear from time to time which are NON-Euclidean in terms of their shape , yet still are NOT so chaotic in appearance as to be ugly .”

                                                                                  PINKY POSTED :Until you can find a better defense for why something is bad, evil or ugly other than “it’s chaotic,” I’m afraid you really have no argument. The world is not kept pristine in some nice, well kept, fancy little package – chaos is simply part of how things work. LOOK AROUND YOU.

                                                                                  RESPONSE: You are guilty of a fallacy of an appeal to resignation there . Just because situational reality is chaotic does not eman that such a tendency of things in mere situational reality are chaotic that they are serving some prescriptive design in being disposed to manifest that way ! They prescriptive design is for a nice, well hept , pristine state of affairs . Much of the reason it is not that way , is because of people intentionally choosing lassitude instead of order !


                                                                                  PINKY POSTED :On a further note, clouds come in an infinite supply of shapes, many of them in forms of this pseudo-Euclidean mumbo-jumbo you so despise. Would such clouds be ugly to you?

                                                                                  RESPONSE: If there are types of clouds which look like botched semblences of Euclidean shapes , than yes they would be ugly under such a proviso .

                                                                                  Jason: “Pubic hair has a motley appearance is visually jarring . It does *not* have the structural texture of , say, hair on someone's scalp--which can often have a more well organized , and , hence, beautiful texture .”

                                                                                  PINKY POSTED :There you go with that chaos vs. organization shit again. Not that I’d want to see you around any children anyway, but I’d be mortified to hear you had any kind of contact with any Special Needs child – those guys are chaos on a stick, man! Asymmetrical, out of proportion, physically and/or mentally undeveloped, limbs with minds of their own – they’re beautiful to me of course, but you’d be hounding them on being “visually jarring” like you can guilt them out of being handicapped.

                                                                                  RESPONSE: Now don't be ridiculous , I certainly would not try to instill guilt in a handicapped child who did not intend to be handicapped , but were victims of physical circumstance !

                                                                                  It is the people who intentionally support chaos with the mind , that ought to be guilted .

                                                                                  PINKY POSTED :The world is a solidified ball of chaos, Jason.

                                                                                  RESPONSE: How do you figure ?

                                                                                  PINKY POSTED :Outside of the laws of physics (which we ourselves can only really guess at and we still don’t know all of them I’m sure, let alone how or why they work), everything is left to chance, randomization and chaotic occurrence.

                                                                                  RESPONSE: Isn't there a teleology that tries from time to time to direct matter and physical processes ?

                                                                                  PINKY POSTED :Without the chaotic nature of random genetic mutation, we as a species wouldn’t even be here.

                                                                                  RESPONSE: How do you know that the benefical genetic mutations , as opposed to the detrimental ones, are chaotic/random ?

                                                                                  PINKY POSTED :Chaos is good for you, Jason. Embrace it. Befriend it. Let it help you.

                                                                                  RESPONSE: On what grounds do you allege that it is good , Pinky .?

                                                                                  Jason: “Chances are pubic hair evolved (or was retained) as a biological protection for the genital area from the vicissitudes of temperature changes effecting the reproductive material behind the genitals .”

                                                                                  PINKY POSTED :Actually, I believe it’s more accurate to say that feminine pubic hair is a remnant of full body hair that lingered in that area specifically for purposes of hygiene and health protection, much like eyelashes work to keep dust and debris out of one’s eye. As a woman’s reproductive organs are entirely internal (as opposed to the external male reproductive organs), temperature is thus maintained internally. External hair wouldn’t make a lick (;P) of difference.

                                                                                  RESPONSE: Well perhaps its that factor you cite then . But in either case , mere biological function and not any esthetics is the guiding factor there . Pubic hair has an ugly visual arrngement .

                                                                                  Jason: “With such a flurry [or deluge\ of posts from Andrew in the threads that would be a quite paisntaking process indeed .”

                                                                                  PINKY POSTED :I quote myself AGAIN: “dig up their respective threads (or create new ones)”

                                                                                  OR CREATE NEW ONES. Shit Jason: copy, click, paste, back, repeat. Very nice and organized, just like you like it.

                                                                                  RESPONSE: Give me time .

                                                                                  Jason: “And on what grounds do you claim there is such a disparity between the significance of the word 'betrothal' and the word 'marriage' . ?”

                                                                                  Etymology.

                                                                                  Jason: “What are the purported different etymological origins of the word 'marriage' that you are referencing ?”

                                                                                  PINKY POSTED :The modern English word “marriage” is derived from Old French (mariage, from marier), which itself derives from Latin (maritare, from maritus, from mas). The bible was originally written (and translated from) Hebrew, Greek, and some Aramaic. None of which have been found to have any modern derivatives of what they now label as “marriage” in modern translations, although Aramaic MAY have some etymological ties with Proto-Indo-European, the root “deru-“ of which turned into the English “truth,” giving way to “treuthe” which, when combined with the English prefix “be-“ (betreuthen), eventually became “betroth.” Two completely different origins, and two completely different meanings, apart from extremely modern lingual association.

                                                                                  RESPONSE: Wait a moment , aren't you presupposing that because the root word as the origin for the word 'marriage' in English had a different phonetic and syntactic origin from the Greek , Hebrew, and Aramaic words that were used often as correlates for the word 'bethrothal' , that somehow you have grounds then to leap to the conclusion that there is also a semantic difference of meaning between the words 'marriage' and the biblical text words which correspond to the word 'betrothal' in Greek , Hebrew , And Aramaic . ? Just because the phonetic /syntactic origins of the two respective terms are different does not necessarily mean that the conceptual content of each is semantically different .

                                                                                  [And here I use the term 'semantic' , NOT in the loose connotative sense that lazy-minded people do when they say , "oh, that's semantics"--- as a way of glossing over details of meaning, but rather to refer to meanings /frames of reference that a word ostesnibly refers to ...rather than the often cosmetic factors like the sound and orthographic appearance of words] .

                                                                                  Jason: “Furthermore, what are the cultures that ever married men to men ect ?”

                                                                                  PINKY POSTED :During the Ming Dynasty in Fujian, same-sex unions were performed for both men and women, and similar European unions were AT LEAST as popular.

                                                                                  RESPONSE: Similar European unions of men and men and women and women in which nations ?

                                                                                  PINKY POSTED :It was extremely common practice within the Roman Empire until Christianity overtook it (and redefined marriage – which is probably when bibles were cross-translated to include such a word that has no origin or connection to the original biblical languages and writings, since they also adopted all kinds of Pagan elements around the same time; first to cover their own outlawed practices, and then to encourage converts as they outlawed Pagan practices).

                                                                                  RESPONSE: A supposedly common practice specifically where within the pre Christian Roman empire ? . I never heard of , say , the Celts practicing it ?
                                                                                  PINKY POSTED :Same-sex marriages in ancient Rome were in every way equal to heterosexual marriage – in rights, recognition and respect. Cicero wrote of Curio’s and Antonius’ “stable and permanent marriage” so casually as to suggest it was just that commonplace. Martial spoke of homosexual marriages in great number, and Juvinal named same-gender marriage as being “nothing special.” The Christians later passed a law in 342AD, redefining marriage to exclude same-sex unions and ordered existing same-sex couples to be executed.

                                                                                  RESPONSE: I see

                                                                                  PINKY POSTED :Currently , homosexual marriages are legally recognized nation-wide in countries from Australia to Denmark.

                                                                                  RESPONSE: I see .

                                                                                  Jason: “That isn't an example of redefinition of the term .”

                                                                                  PINKY POSTED :How so?

                                                                                  RESPONSE: Since the word 'marriage' is ontically neutral about the content of race , however, there *are* stipulations about gender .

                                                                                  In Webster's it is written .
                                                                                  Main Entry: mar·riage
                                                                                  Pronunciation: \ˈmer-ij, ˈma-rij\
                                                                                  Function: noun
                                                                                  Etymology: Middle English mariage, from Anglo-French, from marier to marry
                                                                                  Date: 14th century
                                                                                  1 a (1) : the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized by law

                                                                                  United to a person of opposite sex--the stipulation of a man and a woman --is clear .However , nothing is specified regarding colour or race .

                                                                                  PINKY POSTED :Blacks never used to be able to marry – even each other – under the same rights as whites in the United States. Their marriage vows were broken if their owners decided to separate them, and they used to be executed for having relations with white citizens.

                                                                                  RESPONSE: In the backward slaveholding states of the Antebellum South that is the case. If memory serves righly they could marry each other in the Northern states the states that fought on side of the Union .

                                                                                  Furthermore, just how many of the Northern Union states had laws against so-called miscegnation ?

                                                                                  Jason: “The dictionary definition makes NO stipulations regarding the race of the man and woman in the marriage covenant .”

                                                                                  PINKY POSTED :There was never a need – during the time Webster started writing dictionaries blacks were not even considered citizens, and besides, dictionaries do not dictate law.

                                                                                  RESPONSE: To claim that the word 'marriage' was semantically noncompatible with white to black, interracial male to female couples , is to play fast and loose with the word. Technically and lexically speaking , the word 'marriage' does not barr interracial male to female couples from being a referent , whereas , say, the say the word 'square' (in the context of a geometric figure) does barr any referent that has more than 4 geometric sides .
                                                                                  • Re: ADDENTUM OF FURTHER COMMENTARY FOR PINKY .

                                                                                    Tue, October 27, 2009 - 1:37 AM
                                                                                    Jason: “But why do you dismiss it so quickly as blah, blah , balh .”

                                                                                    Because I didn’t want to muck up my post with such a lengthy monologue, when you wouldn’t require it to be quoted in its entirety for you to know what I was referring to.

                                                                                    Jason: “Volition is the same as individual will. They are interchangeable terms .”

                                                                                    Yeah I caught that much. The question was (phrased differently), “Were those four incredibly droll paragraphs trying to say that volition/will is equal to a person’s soul or spirit?” Luckily, the following quote of yours implied a “no”: “there are a few others . There is the individuated spirit for one .”

                                                                                    That said, trying to get you to be specific about anything is like nailing jelly to a tree. See if you can answer this for me: How many other examples of “owned” intangibles are there (other than volition/will and “individuated spirit”), and what do they all have in common with each other that makes them different from “non-owned” intangibles (like beliefs, thoughts and feelings, according to you)? I’m trying DESPERATELY to squeeze some logic out of this idea but I haven’t gotten anything thus far.

                                                                                    Jason: “Sexual practices and inclinations are NOT part of a person , no ---if that is what you are asking .”

                                                                                    No, I’m not talking about “sexual practices and inclinations.” I’m talking about “sexual orientation.” Like you’re asexuality, my polysexuality, Adam’s homosexuality, and my husband’s heterosexuality. Just because you’re asexual, it’s still possible for you to “practice and be inclined to” have sex (although not likely). Just because my husband is heterosexual, it’s still possible for him to “practice and be inclined to” have sex with a male (although not likely). Practice and inclination have nothing to do with orientation. You can make a gay male renounce homoerotic practice, and even convince him that he doesn’t want to anymore (many gay men all over the US have married women and many even have biological children), but that doesn’t mean they’re not gay.

                                                                                    Jason: “Aren't you underestimating the ability of guilt to get people to adopt a different pattern of acting ?”

                                                                                    Not unless the guilt comes from within themselves, rather than others. Or is it that you believe you can create guilt in another person by insulting them?

                                                                                    Jason: “Granting some ad hoc designation of respect, or fiat attribution of merit , to a mere opinion merely for the sake of doing sp or for the sake of mere balance .”

                                                                                    Well then I can understand you being so against it! If you understood it better you may have a different opinion on it.

                                                                                    Jason: “First of all , respecting opinions ... does not call up any genuine obligations , though those who get involved in opinion- respecting give some semblance of partial deference...

                                                                                    So, you’re judging an action based on what kinds of people participate in such an action? Or what other things the kinds of people who do said action do? That doesn’t seem like the way you claim to be – that’s CERTAINLY not deductive logic at work.

                                                                                    Jason: “To respect opinions one does not agree with ... is to betray *in thought* what one does believe.”

                                                                                    How?

                                                                                    Jason: “Consider what their natural structural functions are in terms of physiogomy .” (urination, procreation)

                                                                                    Orgasm is a natural structural function of both male and female genitals, and serves a wide array of purposes including physical, mental and psychological BEYOND reproductive purposes. If orgasm was only intended for procreation, it wouldn’t feel so damn good. We are NOT the only animals that have sex for reasons OTHER than procreation, and are not the only animals that engage in sexual contact alternative to vaginal intercourse.

                                                                                    Jason: “Well it is wrong for them to do that ,” (bonobos engage in oral sex and homoeroticism)

                                                                                    How? Why? Now you believe that the values you support should not only extend to other people but also throughout the animal kingdom? WTF?

                                                                                    Jason: “Perhaps there are some mind altering toxins that have been diseminated in their habitat as a result of industrialization that have enticed some of them to be more given to libido , and , hence , acts of such depravity .”

                                                                                    What would suggest that? Where is the data from your research? Or is that just some explanation you pulled out of your ass because you don’t like the alternative?

                                                                                    Jason: “I'm talking about fittingness (or the lack thereof) in reference to the design function of those openings and organs !”

                                                                                    As am I! ORGASM.

                                                                                    Jason: “Since when is vehement disapproval of chaos NOT medically healthy or mentally disturbed !”

                                                                                    Um...since the means of measuring medical health/mental disturbance to such an extent has been available?

                                                                                    Jason: “They prescriptive design is for a nice, well hept , pristine state of affairs .”

                                                                                    Since when?

                                                                                    Jason: “Much of the reason it is not that way , is because of people intentionally choosing lassitude instead of order !”

                                                                                    The universe has been chaotic since long before we got here.

                                                                                    Jason: “If there are types of clouds which look like botched semblences of Euclidean shapes , than yes they would be ugly under such a proviso .”

                                                                                    What an interesting opinion. I’ve never before heard of an aesthetically ugly cloud, under any circumstances.

                                                                                    Jason: “Now don't be ridiculous , I certainly would not try to instill guilt in a handicapped child who did not intend to be handicapped , but were victims of physical circumstance !”

                                                                                    Well I hate to break it to you, but hairy vaginas are a very natural physical circumstance (among women who have undergone puberty, at least). Only recently (within the last handful of decades) has trimming, shaving or otherwise removing pubic hair been in practice.

                                                                                    Jason: “How do you figure ?” (that the world is a “solidified ball of chaos”)

                                                                                    Ponder all possible interpretations of the phrase “natural disaster.”

                                                                                    Jason: “Isn't there a teleology that tries from time to time to direct matter and physical processes ?”

                                                                                    I don’t know, you tell me ;) What’s your point?

                                                                                    Jason: “How do you know that the benefical genetic mutations , as opposed to the detrimental ones, are chaotic/random ?”

                                                                                    Google “evolution.” Shit, I’ll do you one better: do a little research on selective breeding. We (humans) do it all the time with dogs and flowers (among other things). That’s how we got the modern, common version of what we call the “banana.”

                                                                                    Jason: “On what grounds do you allege that it is good , Pinky .?”

                                                                                    Just for starters, it breeds diversity. If you want specifics, Beagles, China Roses, and bananas.

                                                                                    Jason: “Just because the phonetic /syntactic origins of the two respective terms are different does not necessarily mean that the conceptual content of each is semantically different .”

                                                                                    Well, “marriage,” “mariage,” “marier,” and “”maritare,” all mean essentially the same thing, the latter can also mean “to give in marriage;” “maritus,” is notably more masculine (while it can still mean the same as “marriage,” it can also refer to a husband), and “mas” simply means “male” or “masculine.” “Betroth” means essentially the same as “marriage” today, but it’s predecessor “betreuthen” (from the prefix “be-“ [“thoroughly” or “to make”] and “treuthe” [literally “truth” or “true”]) is most simply translated as “to make true.” Which is preceded by “deru-“ which itself most closely translates as “true” or “truth” as well. Thus, “marriage” and “betroth” had very different meanings up until recently.

                                                                                    Jason: “A supposedly common practice specifically where within the pre Christian Roman empire ? . I never heard of , say , the Celts practicing it ?”

                                                                                    Um – everywhere? The pre-Christian Roman Empire was pretty far reaching for its time, but when I say “Roman Empire” I mean THE Roman Empire.

                                                                                    The Celts specifically either didn’t write much down, or their so-named Pagan documents were repressed and/or destroyed during the Christian take-over (or both).

                                                                                    Jason: “I see .”

                                                                                    So then you retract your previous false accusation of allowing gay marriage in the United States to be a redefinition of the word? Or do you have some other objection to pull out of your ass?

                                                                                    Jason: “Since the word 'marriage' is ontically neutral about the content of race , however, there *are* stipulations about gender .”

                                                                                    The specifications about gender ARE a redefinition as I just explained, and you acknowledged (“I see”) – homosexuals are looking to reclaim the ORIGINAL definition.

                                                                                    Jason: “In Webster's it is written .”

                                                                                    Yes, let’s just compare that to the pre-Christian definition of marriage – oh wait, there were no dictionaries back then (at least that survived the book burnings). I guess we’ll just have to let ancient marriage actions speak louder than cheap words.

                                                                                    Jason: “To claim that the word 'marriage' was semantically noncompatible with white to black, interracial male to female couples , is to play fast and loose with the word.”

                                                                                    So is it to suggest it is gender-specific, if you are true to the un-redefined meaning.

                                                                                    Jason: “Technically and lexically speaking , the word 'marriage' does not barr interracial male to female couples from being a referent ,”

                                                                                    Now YOU are putting the cart before the horse. Jason, the dictionary does not DECIDE what a word means, it records it according to what the person who writes it understands it to mean. The definition of a word is DECIDED by how it is used in context within a social community among people who communicate in the same language. That’s why the etymology of words shows how it has changed over time, and why new words are constantly being added to dictionaries – FIRST they are spoken, THEN (if they are used regularly enough and/or legally published in at least two different publically available writings, apparently) they are added to a dictionary.
                                                                                    • Jason: “But why do you dismiss it so quickly as blah, blah , balh .”

                                                                                      PINKY POSTED :Because I didn’t want to muck up my post with such a lengthy monologue, when you wouldn’t require it to be quoted in its entirety for you to know what I was referring to.

                                                                                      RESPONSE: I see . Fair enough. But please do study and contemplate that intricate explanation on the structural identity of what will is. It took a lot of time and work to distill that . I'm glad you asked me , Pinky for the question helped me to refine better conception of the subject .

                                                                                      Jason: “Volition is the same as individual will. They are interchangeable terms .”

                                                                                      PINKY POSTED :Yeah I caught that much. The question was (phrased differently), “Were those four incredibly droll paragraphs trying to say that volition/will is equal to a person’s soul or spirit?” Luckily, the following quote of yours implied a “no”: “there are a few others . There is the individuated spirit for one .”

                                                                                      RESPONSE: Volition/will is a causal emanation governed by the soul and sometimes the spirit , but not co-identical with it .

                                                                                      PINKY POSTED :That said, trying to get you to be specific about anything is like nailing jelly to a tree.

                                                                                      PINKY POSTED : See if you can answer this for me: How many other examples of “owned” intangibles are there (other than volition/will and “individuated spirit”),

                                                                                      RESPONSE: The only that I am presently acquainted with are two : personality rthymns and individualized soul (separate from individual spirit , though related to it) .

                                                                                      PINKY POSTED : and what do they all have in common with each other that makes them different from “non-owned” intangibles (like beliefs, thoughts and feelings, according to you)? I’m trying DESPERATELY to squeeze some logic out of this idea but I haven’t gotten anything thus far.

                                                                                      RESPONSE: They are permutations and configurations of factors and vectors in the lived life of a person (what Husserl called the lifeworld) as well as potentials for particular ensembles of gesture-responses unique to a particular person---due to how the happenstance circumstances of each person's personal life often has differences ---though often the differences are cosmetic .

                                                                                      Such permutations and configurations are NOT manifestation of platonic universal types (i.e. concepts and metaconcepts --though they may be an overlay over manfestations of such concepts and meta-concepts when they overlay communication acts--- which commuicate them .

                                                                                      Jason: “Sexual practices and inclinations are NOT part of a person , no ---if that is what you are asking .”

                                                                                      PINKY POSTED :No, I’m not talking about “sexual practices and inclinations.” I’m talking about “sexual orientation.” Like you’re asexuality, my polysexuality, Adam’s homosexuality, and my husband’s heterosexuality. Just because you’re asexual, it’s still possible for you to “practice and be inclined to” have sex (although not likely). Just because my husband is heterosexual, it’s still possible for him to “practice and be inclined to” have sex with a male (although not likely). Practice and inclination have nothing to do with orientation.

                                                                                      RESPONSE: Inclination has nothing to do with orientation ? Are you being hyperbolic ?

                                                                                      PINKY POSTED :You can make a gay male renounce homoerotic practice, and even convince him that he doesn’t want to anymore (many gay men all over the US have married women and many even have biological children), but that doesn’t mean they’re not gay.

                                                                                      RESPONSE: If he no longer has the desire, then he no longer has the orientation that the desire initially pertained to .

                                                                                      Jason: “Aren't you underestimating the ability of guilt to get people to adopt a different pattern of acting ?”

                                                                                      PINKY POSTED :Not unless the guilt comes from within themselves, rather than others. Or is it that you believe you can create guilt in another person by insulting them?

                                                                                      RESPONSE: No, not by the insults, in and of themselves, but by the arguments which show how they intentionally run contrary to good qualities of mind .

                                                                                      Jason: “Granting some ad hoc designation of respect, or fiat attribution of merit , to a mere opinion merely for the sake of doing sp or for the sake of mere balance .”

                                                                                      PINKY POSTED :Well then I can understand you being so against it! If you understood it better you may have a different opinion on it.

                                                                                      RESPONSE: How ?

                                                                                      Jason: “First of all , respecting opinions ... does not call up any genuine obligations , though those who get involved in opinion- respecting give some semblance of partial deference...

                                                                                      PINKY POSTED :So, you’re judging an action based on what kinds of people participate in such an action? Or what other things the kinds of people who do said action do? That doesn’t seem like the way you claim to be – that’s CERTAINLY not deductive logic at work.

                                                                                      RESPONSE: No, I'm NOT judging it based on what kinds of people participate in said action . I'm judging the mental act of people respecting opinions that they do not agree with because it is mentally duplicious .

                                                                                      Jason: “To respect opinions one does not agree with ... is to betray *in thought* what one does believe.”

                                                                                      PINKY POSTED :How?

                                                                                      RESPONSE: By latently contradicting the beliefs that one does favor; by ascribing some ad hoc merit to contrary beliefs. Tolerating ambiguity towards beliefs is to betray what beliefs one does favor. To foster a balance between the beleifs one does favor and contrary beliefs is to *dilute* the import of the beliefs one does favor , and, hence, latently deny the ultimacy of the beliefs one does favor .

                                                                                      Jason: “Consider what their natural structural functions are in terms of physiogomy .” (urination, procreation)

                                                                                      PINKY POSTED :Orgasm is a natural structural function of both male and female genitals, and serves a wide array of purposes including physical, mental and psychological BEYOND reproductive purposes.

                                                                                      RESPONSE: Such as , for example ?

                                                                                      PINKY POSTED :If orgasm was only intended for procreation, it wouldn’t feel so damn good.

                                                                                      RESPONSE: Maybe that is why it was made to feel good. To give early humans back a million or 500,000 years ago back in the eras where humans still had some apelike characteristics and in the cave days when humans weren't as given to *as much* abstract contemplations , to give them an incentive to have kids .

                                                                                      PINKY POSTED :We are NOT the only animals that have sex for reasons OTHER than procreation, and are not the only animals that engage in sexual contact alternative to vaginal intercourse.

                                                                                      RESPONSE: Well just how many other species do what you are mentioning above ?

                                                                                      Jason: “Well it is wrong for them to do that ,” (bonobos engage in oral sex and homoeroticism)

                                                                                      PINKY POSTED :How? Why? Now you believe that the values you support should not only extend to other people but also throughout the animal kingdom? WTF?

                                                                                      RESPONSE: Indeed I do. The higher animals, who have greater degrees of consciousness, also have a moral duty to foster order , and, hence, avoid engaging in activity which fosters lassitude / abandon . Why ? (you ask) . That is what consciousness is for : distilling order from the raw significance in the lifeworld .

                                                                                      Jason: “Perhaps there are some mind altering toxins that have been diseminated in their habitat as a result of industrialization that have enticed some of them to be more given to libido , and , hence , acts of such depravity .”

                                                                                      PINKY POSTED :What would suggest that? Where is the data from your research? Or is that just some explanation you pulled out of your ass because you don’t like the alternative?

                                                                                      RESPONSE: Well I just mention it as a possibility inasmuch as pollution has disrupted so much of ecology and wilderness with toxins .

                                                                                      Jason: “I'm talking about fittingness (or the lack thereof) in reference to the design function of those openings and organs !”

                                                                                      PINKY POSTED :As am I! ORGASM.

                                                                                      RESPONSE: Orgasm is but ancillary. The orgasm is *not* the design purpose , reproduction is !

                                                                                      Jason: “Since when is vehement disapproval of chaos NOT medically healthy or mentally disturbed !”

                                                                                      PINKY POSTED :Um...since the means of measuring medical health/mental disturbance to such an extent has been available?

                                                                                      RESPONSE: Isn't that just ideology dressed up as so-called "psychology" ?

                                                                                      Jason: “They prescriptive design is for a nice, well hept , pristine state of affairs .”

                                                                                      PINKY POSTED :Since when?

                                                                                      RESPONSE: Always .

                                                                                      Jason: “Much of the reason it is not that way , is because of people intentionally choosing lassitude instead of order !”

                                                                                      PINKY POSTED :The universe has been chaotic since long before we got here.

                                                                                      RESPONSE: Yet the raison d'etre of sentient creatures is to foster more intricate order .

                                                                                      Jason: “If there are types of clouds which look like botched semblences of Euclidean shapes , than yes they would be ugly under such a proviso .”

                                                                                      PINKY POSTED :What an interesting opinion. I’ve never before heard of an aesthetically ugly cloud, under any circumstances.

                                                                                      RESPONSE: Now you have. And it isn't mere opinion .

                                                                                      Jason: “Now don't be ridiculous , I certainly would not try to instill guilt in a handicapped child who did not intend to be handicapped , but were victims of physical circumstance !”

                                                                                      PINKY POSTED:Well I hate to break it to you, but hairy vaginas are a very natural physical circumstance (among women who have undergone puberty, at least). Only recently (within the last handful of decades) has trimming, shaving or otherwise removing pubic hair been in practice.

                                                                                      RESPONSE: As far as we know . There may have been methods of painless pubic hair removal prior to more recent decades that may have been practiced in secret .

                                                                                      Jason: “How do you figure ?” (that the world is a “solidified ball of chaos”)

                                                                                      PINKY POSTED :Ponder all possible interpretations of the phrase “natural disaster.”

                                                                                      RESPONSE: Yet that is something that happens on the earth , NOT the ontological identity of the earth .

                                                                                      Jason: “Isn't there a teleology that tries from time to time to direct matter and physical processes ?”


                                                                                      PINKY POSTED :I don’t know, you tell me ;) What’s your point?

                                                                                      RESPONSE: Such a teleology is directed by a metanormative directive toward order that is NOT a mere human construct, but , instead , is foundational .

                                                                                      Jason: “How do you know that the benefical genetic mutations , as opposed to the detrimental ones, are chaotic/random ?”

                                                                                      Google “evolution.” Shit, I’ll do you one better: do a little research on selective breeding. We (humans) do it all the time with dogs and flowers (among other things). That’s how we got the modern, common version of what we call the “banana.”

                                                                                      RESPONSE: Selective breeding ---unlike random mutations caused by sudden cliamte changes and other happenstance factors --is based on an orderly criteria . I elaborate on that in the paragraphs below .

                                                                                      Jason: “On what grounds do you allege that it is good , Pinky .?”

                                                                                      PINKY POSTED :Just for starters, it breeds diversity. If you want specifics, Beagles, China Roses, and bananas.

                                                                                      RESPONSE: On the contrary, such selective breeding involves order, not chaos . It involves the looking for specific characterisitics /traits/features that are vestigal in parent creatures and selectively pairing them with other creatures that have such traits in vestigal form, so that the offspring and descendents have the same traits and have them amplified in a fuller form ---rather than merely vestigal precursors of it .


                                                                                      Jason: “Just because the phonetic /syntactic origins of the two respective terms are different does not necessarily mean that the conceptual content of each is semantically different .”

                                                                                      PINKY POSTED :Well, “marriage,” “mariage,” “marier,” and “”maritare,” all mean essentially the same thing, the latter can also mean “to give in marriage;” “maritus,” is notably more masculine (while it can still mean the same as “marriage,” it can also refer to a husband), and “mas” simply means “male” or “masculine.”

                                                                                      RESPONSE : When you state that "marriage" , "mariage" , "marier" , and "maritare" "all mean essentially the same thing" ---what is the same thing that they all mean ? You did not disclose what it meant in the earlier post ...


                                                                                      PINKY POSTED :“Betroth” means essentially the same as “marriage” today, but it’s predecessor “betreuthen” (from the prefix “be-“ [“thoroughly” or “to make”] and “treuthe” [literally “truth” or “true”]) is most simply translated as “to make true.” Which is preceded by “deru-“ which itself most closely translates as “true” or “truth” as well. Thus, “marriage” and “betroth” had very different meanings up until recently.

                                                                                      RESPONSE : I see [about bethrothed] . Well the word 'marriage' ought NOT to be redefined . The word 'betrothed' should have never been redefined either --from the time it meant 'to make true'

                                                                                      Jason: “A supposedly common practice specifically where within the pre Christian Roman empire ? . I never heard of , say , the Celts practicing it ?”

                                                                                      Um – everywhere? The pre-Christian Roman Empire was pretty far reaching for its time, but when I say “Roman Empire” I mean THE Roman Empire.

                                                                                      The Celts specifically either didn’t write much down, or their so-named Pagan documents were repressed and/or destroyed during the Christian take-over (or both).

                                                                                      Jason: “I see .”

                                                                                      PINKY POSTED :So then you retract your previous false accusation of allowing gay marriage in the United States to be a redefinition of the word? Or do you have some other objection to pull out of your ass?

                                                                                      RESPONSE: The objection that if we do not have any lexicons surviving from the celtic period as to how the term 'marriage' was used then you have no grounds to claim they used it contrary to the definition listed by Webster than lists 'a man' and 'a woman' as being among the key terms in the definition .

                                                                                      Jason: “Since the word 'marriage' is ontically neutral about the content of race , however, there *are* stipulations about gender .”

                                                                                      PINKY POSTED :The specifications about gender ARE a redefinition as I just explained, and you acknowledged (“I see”) – homosexuals are looking to reclaim the ORIGINAL definition.

                                                                                      RESPONSE: Are you claiming that the specifications about gender in the Webster's Definition are a redefinition of (A) the word 'marriage' OR (B) the word 'bethrothal' ? Which ?
                                                                                      Jason: “In Webster's it is written .”

                                                                                      PINKY POSTED :Yes, let’s just compare that to the pre-Christian definition of marriage – oh wait, there were no dictionaries back then (at least that survived the book burnings). I guess we’ll just have to let ancient marriage actions speak louder than cheap words.

                                                                                      RESPONSE: So how do you know if there was a definition paired to the word 'marriage' in pre-Christian Europe if there were no dictionaries extant at the time ?

                                                                                      Jason: “To claim that the word 'marriage' was semantically noncompatible with white to black, interracial male to female couples , is to play fast and loose with the word.”

                                                                                      PINKY POSTED :So is it to suggest it is gender-specific, if you are true to the un-redefined meaning.

                                                                                      RESPONSE: On the contrary, Webster's Dictionary mentions a man and a woman in the definition .

                                                                                      Jason: “Technically and lexically speaking , the word 'marriage' does not barr interracial male to female couples from being a referent ,”

                                                                                      PINKY POSTED :Now YOU are putting the cart before the horse. Jason, the dictionary does not DECIDE what a word means, it records it according to what the person who writes it understands it to mean. The definition of a word is DECIDED by how it is used in context within a social community among people who communicate in the same language. That’s why the etymology of words shows how it has changed over time, and why new words are constantly being added to dictionaries – FIRST they are spoken, THEN (if they are used regularly enough and/or legally published in at least two different publically available writings, apparently) they are added to a dictionary.

                                                                                      RESPONSE: Yes, but once the term has been codified in a lexicon , then it is an error to redefine them .( Precising definition is different than redefining. What Peter Kostenabaum calls a precising definition is wherefore latent conceptual and metaconceptual patterns within the component words which makes up the definition is made explicit , and that is different from a redefinition).

                                                                                      Redefinition of terms ,however, which often happens when wrongheaded ANTI-logical patterns of thought (like lateral
                                                                                      thinking) take hold .

                                                                                      RESPONSE: To change how words are used over time ---to redefine them is logomancy. Once the dictionary definition has been codified then linguistic precedent has been established and, thus, it is wrong to use the word contrary to linguistic precedent , which has been lexically codified in a dictionary, or specialized encylopedia or glossary .
                                                                                      • See, now was that so hard?

                                                                                        Jason: "They [personality rhythms and individualized soul] are permutations and configurations of factors and vectors in the lived life of a person (what Husserl called the lifeworld) as well as potentials for particular ensembles of gesture-responses unique to a particular person---due to how the happenstance circumstances of each person's personal life often has differences ---though often the differences are cosmetic .

                                                                                        Such permutations and configurations are NOT manifestation of platonic universal types (i.e. concepts and metaconcepts --though they may be an overlay over manfestations of such concepts and meta-concepts when they overlay communication acts--- which commuicate them ."

                                                                                        First of all, let me just say, you deserve the purple prose award.

                                                                                        Second of all, it sounds like all you're saying is, "People are who they are because of who they've been," using "personality rthymns(sic) and individualized soul" as "who they are" and they're reactions to various stimuli being who they've been. And then you throw a bunch of fancy words over it (for whatever fucking purpose). So please tell me how this is at all related to your point...

                                                                                        Jason: "Inclination has nothing to do with orientation ? Are you being hyperbolic ?"

                                                                                        Actually yes, that's what an absolutist statement looks like.

                                                                                        They are related, they are not interchangeable. Please consider the rest of the paragraph the cherry-picked that from.

                                                                                        Jason: "If he no longer has the desire, then he no longer has the orientation that the desire initially pertained to ."

                                                                                        You can alter a person's desires for something by convincing them of details (true or false) about the subject. You can convince an ice-cream lover that they don't want to eat ice cream by telling them it's fattening, and it will give them diabetes, and the government is putting mind control drugs into all the ice cream supplies so if they eat it they will become a pawn of the system - but if they stop eating it, that doesn't mean they wouldn't still like the taste and the chemical reactions that occur in their brain from eating such a comfort food. The same things happens with "ex-"homosexuals: some people are able to convince some of them (for simplicity's sake, let's assume males) that having homosexual sex causes hemorrhoids, and will give them AIDS, and that some big angry invisible force of nature will sentence them to an eternity of unimaginable torment and suffering if they stick their dick in another guy's butt (or mouth, or hand, or vice versa, etc.) - but if they stop having sexual contact with other members of their same gender, that doesn't mean they wouldn't still enjoy the romantic company of other men more than women, and that they still have to secretly imagine another man in his head when he has sex with women in order to get off (although some are little more flexible). Gay people were always, and will always be, gay; straight people were always, and will always be, straight; etc.

                                                                                        Jason: "No, not by the insults, in and of themselves, but by the arguments which show how they intentionally run contrary to good qualities of mind ."

                                                                                        I'm dying to know how you define the word "good."

                                                                                        Jason: "How ?"

                                                                                        How what? How is relativism different than how you understand it to be?

                                                                                        Jason: "I'm NOT judging it based on what kinds of people participate in said action ."

                                                                                        You said, "respecting opinions ... does not call up any genuine obligations." The only reason you are attributing any kind of obligation to it is because you're "judging the mental act of people respecting opinions that they do not agree with." You are attributing unrelated actions to a particular concept based on what you observe people doing in addition to it.

                                                                                        Jason: "To foster a balance between the beleifs one does favor and contrary beliefs is to *dilute* the import of the beliefs one does favor"

                                                                                        We're not talking about adopting a balance between opposing beliefs; we're talking about holding onto one's own, respecting another's right to cling to theirs similarly, even if it's different, without berating them for it. I fucking LOVE whole milk. I don't drink it straight - but I use it when I cook and bake and such, and would never ever dream of using 2%, 1% or goodness forbid fat-free. I think that the "health benefits" people believe using less-fattier milks provide do not compensate for the loss in taste, texture, and what it can bring to a well-prepared dish (and fattier milk contains certain health benefits that milk lacking fat cannot provide as thoroughly). I realize that not everyone agrees with this, and they are willing to sacrifice the taste, texture, etc. for a less-fatty meal/beverage, and I can respect another person's right to use fat-free milk for their own consumption, but that doesn't mean I'm going to start using 2% to meet them at some kind of compromise - I love my whole milk! And I can do that while still respecting that other people love fat-free milk.

                                                                                        Jason: "Such as , for example ?" (pertaining to orgasm's functions beyond reproduction)

                                                                                        Stress relief, relationship building, it can work as a natural anti-depressant, as well as a natural sedative, and those who orgasm more have been shown to have higher functioning immune systems.

                                                                                        Jason: "Well just how many other species do what you are mentioning above ?"

                                                                                        A variety of primates, as well as dolphins, enjoy sex for reasons other than procreation, off the top of my head.

                                                                                        Jason: "The higher animals, who have greater degrees of consciousness, also have a moral duty to foster order , and, hence, avoid engaging in activity which fosters lassitude / abandon . Why ? (you ask) . That is what consciousness is for : distilling order from the raw significance in the lifeworld ."

                                                                                        I don't even know what the fuck to say to this. I realize you don't see the ridiculousness in recruiting humans to particular religions or moral codes - there are many out there who ignore that right along with you - but I have never before met anyone who thought it was a bonobo's duty to uphold moral law. I'm fucking astonished. I'm genuinely ashamed to related even just by species to you.

                                                                                        Jason: “Well I just mention it as a possibility inasmuch as pollution has disrupted so much of ecology and wilderness with toxins .”

                                                                                        In other words, you have NOT suddenly happened upon some kind of evidence directly leading you to the conclusion that pollution has caused wild animals to start licking each other’s genitals, you just groped around in the dark for some kind of half-assed explanation that sounds plausible enough to you not to rule it out automatically, so now you’ll just keep falling back on it because you think it’s better than believing that liberated sex is just a natural process that has nothing to do with filth, corruption or moral defiance, unless and until *I* do/find some kind of definitive research that rules pollution out of the equation.

                                                                                        Jason: “Orgasm is but ancillary. The orgasm is *not* the design purpose , reproduction is !”

                                                                                        Prove it.

                                                                                        Jason: “Isn’t that just ideology dressed up as so-called "psychology" ?”

                                                                                        No.

                                                                                        Jason: “Always .” (since when has the prescriptive design is for a nice, well kept, pristine state of affairs?)

                                                                                        Prove it.

                                                                                        Jason: “the raison d'etre of sentient creatures is to foster more intricate order .”

                                                                                        What makes you think that?

                                                                                        Jason: “Now you have. And it isn't mere opinion .”

                                                                                        Yes it is.
                                                                                        Jason: “There may have been methods of painless pubic hair removal prior to more recent decades that may have been practiced in secret .”

                                                                                        If there had been some painless method of hair removal – for any hair – at any time in history – no one would be bothering with waxing, laser hair removal, shaving and whatnot today. If you’re going to claim the possibility of something so fantastic, you’re going to have to provide equally fantastic evidence.

                                                                                        Jason: “Yet that is something that happens on the earth , NOT the ontological identity of the earth .”

                                                                                        I did not define “the earth” as “the ontological identity of the earth.” When I say “the earth” I mean “the earth” - everything that makes the earth “the earth,” which includes the plants, the animals, the atmosphere, and everything that naturally occurs as a result of the presence and interaction of it all.

                                                                                        Jason: “Such a teleology is directed by a metanormative directive toward order that is NOT a mere human construct, but , instead , is foundational .”

                                                                                        I’m getting awfully tired of having to ask you to prove things, but you’re going to have to prove this one too.

                                                                                        Jason: “Selective breeding ---unlike random mutations caused by sudden cliamte changes and other happenstance factors --is based on an orderly criteria.”

                                                                                        Heavens no! Well not any more orderly than as it is in nature. We don’t know how to entirely translate DNA into “this makes pink flowers,” “this makes long ears,” and “this will develop a beauty mark at a right angle between the left edge of this person’s right eye and the middle of the bridge of their nose at the age of 17.” All we do is take a red flower and breed it with white flowers and use the flowers that result that have pink flowers to breed more flowers with pink coloration, using more red flowers or white flowers to make the hue darker or lighter. We breed dogs with opposing traits and use the puppies from that litter with the traits we like the most to breed with dogs with other desirable traits until we create a new breed with (ideally) all the traits we like and none of the traits we don’t like.

                                                                                        And sudden climate change, or sudden change in general, is only one means of selective breeding in nature (the organisms of a particular species that are better suited to survive in the new climate will survive, those who are not will not – so maybe the members of a species who have long necks will survive after a brush fire because they can reach the foliage higher up that wasn’t destroyed, while the ones with shorter necks will starve and die out, thereby making said species distinctively long-necked, because long-necked parents will make long-necked babies). Most mutations happen very gradually (lions who are stronger and larger will impress more females and produce more offspring; while the lesser males might still produce cubs, they are fewer and less able to compete with stronger cubs when they grow up, gradually – through generation after generation of stronger lions successfully competing against weaker lions over and over – lions will become stronger in general as a species).

                                                                                        Jason: “such selective breeding involves order, not chaos . It involves the looking for specific characterisitics /traits/features that are vestigal in parent creatures and selectively pairing them with other creatures that have such traits in vestigal form, so that the offspring and descendents have the same traits and have them amplified in a fuller form ---rather than merely vestigal precursors of it .”

                                                                                        That’s exactly what nature does – but I call it chaotic as it happens randomly and even when WE do it it’s just guessing and hoping and not nearly as controlled or easy to do as some people may think. We might be breeding red flowers with white flowers to try and get pink flowers, but maybe a recessive gene in the red flower (that went undetected because we didn’t have a decoder ring for the sections of DNA that didn’t turn up actively) matched a recessive gene in the white flower that became active in the pink flower because there was no longer a dominant gene muting it, that’s undesirable. That kind of shit happens in nature, too.

                                                                                        Jason: “When you state that "marriage" , "mariage" , "marier" , and "maritare" "all mean essentially the same thing" ---what is the same thing that they all mean ?

                                                                                        To marry; it’s a legal (in most countries) status two consensual people are granted, which is generally understood as a combining of their two families, and usually involves a wedding.

                                                                                        Jason: “Well the word 'marriage' ought NOT to be redefined .”

                                                                                        It never should have been! I say reinstate the original definition of marriage ASAP!

                                                                                        Jason: “The objection that if we do not have any lexicons surviving from the celtic period as to how the term 'marriage' was used then you have no grounds to claim they used it contrary to the definition listed by Webster than lists 'a man' and 'a woman' as being among the key terms in the definition .”

                                                                                        Um...it’s not the Celtic definition. “Marriage” is not a Gaelic word. The earliest documentation we DO have of people writing about marriage includes those between men and women, men and men, and women and women. Sorry it doesn’t come from a dictionary, just people writing about what actually happened.

                                                                                        Jason: “Are you claiming that the specifications about gender in the Webster's Definition are a redefinition of (A) the word 'marriage' OR (B) the word 'bethrothal' ? Which ?”

                                                                                        The specification of gender in the Webster’s definition of marriage is a redefinition of the original usage of that word.

                                                                                        Jason: “So how do you know if there was a definition paired to the word 'marriage' in pre-Christian Europe if there were no dictionaries extant at the time ?”

                                                                                        Because even though no one wrote “the definition of marriage is...” they still wrote things like “I attended the marriage ceremony of [Male A] and [Male B],” or “[Male X] and [Male Y] have been married for [number] years.” While still using the same words (marriage, marry, etc.) for couples of opposite gender during the same time and within the same context.

                                                                                        Jason: “On the contrary, Webster's Dictionary mentions a man and a woman in the definition .”

                                                                                        Just because people have been doing something for a long time doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do.

                                                                                        Jason: “Yes, but once the term has been codified in a lexicon , then it is an error to redefine them .”

                                                                                        So we can redefine words at will so long as they’re not in a dictionary, but once a word is in a dictionary, there should be no further changes made to it? I’ll concede that “fag” should have never become derogatory slang for homosexual males, but “gay” and “queer” USED to just mean “happy” and “strange.” Just check in older dictionaries. However, more recent dictionaries are constantly being written so as to update them not only to new words, but to the alternative definitions of previously defined words. Do you as vehemently oppose people using the terms “gay” and “queer” for homosexuals since they never used to mean that?

                                                                                        Jason: “Precising definition is different than redefining. What Peter Kostenabaum calls a precising definition is wherefore latent conceptual and metaconceptual patterns within the component words which makes up the definition is made explicit , and that is different from a redefinition”

                                                                                        So it’s only acceptable to make words more specific? So we can go ahead and keep adding on more stipulations to marriage but we can’t make it more general? Are you justifying changing marriage to specify only men and women because it’s ok to make definitions more specific, even if marriage originally did not fit such a specific definition?

                                                                                        Jason: “To change how words are used over time ---to redefine them is logomancy. Once the dictionary definition has been codified then linguistic precedent has been established and, thus, it is wrong to use the word contrary to linguistic precedent , which has been lexically codified in a dictionary, or specialized encylopedia or glossary .”

                                                                                        So because the people of the Roman Empire defined marriage by writing about it more casually or documentarily than in a dictionary or encyclopedia, you’re just gonna go and say, “Sucks for you!” and claim that a definition is uselessly malleable and flexible unless it’s written in a dictionary or encyclopedia?

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