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Re: Why go out?

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Post by saraid216 » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 5:17 PM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #43

saraid216 wrote: post #38

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We bin people like that because, before the bins, we just assumed there was one and that people who weren't in it were bad. Now we know there are two, and people might simply be in a different "good" rather than out in the "bad".

Well, enough of that. Here's a new theory: There are no bins, there's a continuum of behaviours, and there's no good or bad.

> Well, enough of that. Here's a new theory: There are no bins, there's a continuum of behaviours, and there's no good or bad.

Hey, if you can convince the other 7 billion people who drop people into bins as a matter of biological instinct that you're right, then cool.

Re: Why go out?

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Post by CamperBob2 » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 7:28 PM UTC

scotty79 wrote: post #87

CamperBob2 wrote: post #35

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In her case, she doesn't seem to have any neuroses that couldn't be fixed with perspective. Instead of brooding about a perceived insult from some experimental poet guy she met at a bar, she could try volunteering in any number of capacities, from neutral social/cultural organizations to civil libertarian causes to overt partisan activism. You can't look closely at the lives and roles of others without seeing your ow…

Brooding isn't voluntary. Bad experiences with people don't fade away with time and can return in flashbacks many years after when your mood is down for whatever reason. I perfectly understand OP as I'm also the kind of person that has this strange memory for people doing me harm by what for most people seem nearly benign act.

Perhaps, but still, it seems like a lot of people are confusing the introvert extrovert axis with the self-centered socially-conscious axis. They are in fact highly orthogonal in my experience. At least insofar as it's possible to judge someone's psychology from a blog post, she would score far into the "self-centered" region of the latter axis, while being somewhere on the introverted side of center on the former... even if she doesn't recognize it.

I don't expect a leopard to change its spots, but at the same time I believe it's possible to consciously nudge yourself in one direction or the other on both axes.

Re: Why go out?

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Post by CamperBob2 » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 7:32 PM UTC

alexro wrote: post #84

icebraining wrote: post #79

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If it wasn't God who created the Universe than who did? Define "God".

God is something outside (and can be inside at the same moment) the Universe, meaning that it is something we cannot grasp. If we cannot grasp how God operates then whatever we look at is just an observation of a single event, however long we look at it. So whatever time we perceive within our Universe it may be just a single very short moment to God. Hence evolution isn't really how we interpret it - it can be compl…

God is something outside (and can be inside at the same moment) the Universe, meaning that it is something we cannot grasp, and who wants me to vote Republican.

There, fixed it.