Bippity-boppity esse, bippity-boppity. :) On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Vivec wrote: > > 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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