Ooga booga wumble woo ! ! On 2/19/10, denstar <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > >
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