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This reminds me of Girard's idea that Christianity (and others I'm sure) was effective because it showed things from the victim's point of view. I'm not making the claim that it fixed everything, but it's an interesting idea nonetheless.
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>College students are literally trained to associate out-competing rival universities as a fun and desirable activity. This was not my experience in undergrad, literally at all. No idea where this comes from
I really enjoy trolling the Harvard grads I know by referring to their “time at Yale or Princeton or wherever.” Old school rivalries run deep and are a lot of fun to play up. Also, for all of you in South Carolina, go Tigers (and Chants), booo Cocks!
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I'm not American and I've only visited for four months total, so my view of the politics is mainly from the news and forums like this one. From this, given how often I see Republicans saying it's the Democrats who are restricting freedoms, I have to assume the two camps (as in being or the other as identity, not necessarily just voting red or blue last time) actually want to do different things — if you'll bear with…
The freedoms that republicans care about is the freedom to deny gay people marriage, the freedom to purchase assault weapons before your brain fully matures and without any training whatsoever, the freedom to use your religion as an excuse to shit on people and indoctrinate the children of others Democrats only care about corporations and profits. Republicans are social conservatives, Democrats are fiscal conservativ…
> The researchers had 35 male college students complete a competitive, aggressive task against either a student from their university or from what they were told was a rival university. Male college students, an “aggressive task”, and a rival university. College students are literally trained to associate out-competing rival universities as a fun and desirable activity. It’s the entire foundation of sports programs.…
> The researchers had 35 male college students complete a competitive, aggressive task against either a student from their university or from what they were told was a rival university. Male college students, an “aggressive task”, and a rival university. College students are literally trained to associate out-competing rival universities as a fun and desirable activity. It’s the entire foundation of sports programs.…
This research gives evidence that outgroup aggression feels good/rewarding. I’d tend to think this is hard-wired biologically. You’re right that it could conceivably be trained, but that’s not what it felt like for me as a young male in college. While many people (myself included) could anecdotally say that aggression to an outgroup can feel good, it’s the job of science to look for the hard evidence in the brain. Th…
This research gives evidence that rival college competition is fun to male college students.
The point I was trying to make is that this is a specifically narrow finding with confounding factors (mirrors the structure of sports programs, which are significant social activities at many colleges).
The study authors stretched the narrow funding into a very general finding, which is heavy editorializing. This stretching gets a free pass from many because it feels truthy, but it’s not great science.
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The freedoms that republicans care about is the freedom to deny gay people marriage, the freedom to purchase assault weapons before your brain fully matures and without any training whatsoever, the freedom to use your religion as an excuse to shit on people and indoctrinate the children of others Democrats only care about corporations and profits. Republicans are social conservatives, Democrats are fiscal conservativ…
I thought Democrats also cared about keeping the church out of the state? Which is also a restriction on the freedom of the teachers to get preachy, and I can easily imagine someone upset and demanding "I want the right to pray before each class"… not that I would sympathise with them: my memories of school include being annoyed by the mandatory religion, as my parents sent me to a Catholic school (in the UK, though…
The Germans even have a word for it: Schadenfreude It comes from envy, the second deepest level in Dante’s Inferno. Dante’s cure for envy was sewing the eyes shut.
Not precisely. "Envy" literally means what rhetorically can be rendered as "having eyes sewn shut": it means "not seeing" (Latin "invidia").
That the envious can be admitted to Purgatory and cleansed through penitence seems to signify that those eyes consciously sewn - which is the actual condition, as per the above - can be part of a process to develop a more subtle sight, also considering that envy is specified as grown out of a focus on earthly goods (so, an idea is to "close the earthly eyes" and learn to see the spiritual goods).
In other words, "if you can't see (which is envy) the spiritual goods, close your eyes to the earthly ones and refocus".
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I thought Democrats also cared about keeping the church out of the state? Which is also a restriction on the freedom of the teachers to get preachy, and I can easily imagine someone upset and demanding "I want the right to pray before each class"… not that I would sympathise with them: my memories of school include being annoyed by the mandatory religion, as my parents sent me to a Catholic school (in the UK, though…
Democrats only care as much as their corporate overlords pay them to care
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我想昧耳，昧心，变石头
Could you kind explain, provide the best translation, and reveal if that was a cultural reference?
The translation of the Chinese is roughly "I want to darken my ears and heart and become a stone."
Scroll about halfway down on this page to find some info: https://fireflychinese.kevinsullivansite.net/title/serenityn...