On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:28 PM, denstar wrote: >> So I'm only "responsible" for myself? Whew, because I thought my >> actions had consequences. I guess those consequences only affect >> myself? Or that's all I should personally care about? > > If you are unable to resist flying a plane into a building because of > a TV channel you are watching, then canceling cable and selling your > TV is protecting yourself, and anyone else you would kill in your > potentially deluded state.
I was more alluding to the volume of "hard evidence" that's out there now which shows that we are affected by *far* more than you'd think. The music we listen to, stuff we read, the things we see... hell, random tones actually change the chemical makeup of your brain-- I'm not making this stuff up. :) PBS had a pretty mind-boggling (for some people) show on the plasticity of the brain just a bit ago, you should try to catch it if you can. I'm sure you're hip enough to my style by now to know that I'm not advocating that the responsibility is on the stuff "outside", but it has a palpable effect. Nature vs. nurture is another fairly interesting discussion (and we don't have to use examples that turn you off even, to discuss it). >> But you have to see the humor in you putting the responsibility of >> Judah's point about the media's impact on mental states, on the >> non-central political aspect instead, when you say that's exactly what >> you dislike about these threads, neh? Probably that's just my wacked >> out sense of humor. > > I just tend to view crazy people as crazy. You might also like to > subdivide that group of "crazy" into subgroups like "crazy political" > or "crazy religious zealots", but they are still in the big all > encompassing group of "crazy". Dude, when you find "sane", give a fucking holler. :) I've put a fair bit of thought into conscience-- or maybe it's cognition... no... consciousness! That's the one-- and I just don't see it as cut and dry as you do, I guess. Maybe really thinking about stuff just does that to you. Less easy to see black and white as just black and white. Heh. Thinking about color makes me think about that deal with prisms, and how all those colors are in something that looks like it's nothing. And the nothing that looks like something, really is nothing. If there's such a thing as nothing, of course. :) Perspective is such a weird deal. What relates, what doesn't... context... blah blah blah... Like, does the e before the i make "weird", weird? Maybe, maybe not. Depends on how much you know, I guess. Or maybe not. *shrug* > I'll leave it to you to figure out their mommy issues and what type of > therapy they need but in my book If you are a murderer you are a > murderer. Period. Your book is at like a 1st grade level then, my friend. :) Seriously tho, I wasn't trying to get all phycho-anal on you, I was just wondering. Also seriously-- you can't be serious, right? Murder == murder, and motivation and whatnot means nothing in your book? Hrm. Killing == bad. I can generally get behind that, except for the fact that we must kill to survive. That part always throws a wrench into the works. Ah well... destruction, creation... sane, insane... these are interesting things to contemplate, regardless. :den -- Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning. Marsilio ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:312368 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
