Natasha Tori Maru

@Elliott no. I don't. That's what I am saying in my post. ¿Comprende? That is different to not accepting. Or not being accommodating to their preferred pronouns and paying due respect. Or saying they are wrong, unacceptable or bad. You assume the worst of people systematically on these forums.

Forgetting - or establishing a habit? Maybe two sides of the same coin 🙃 Do something enough, repeated, and there is no need to remember. It becomes a habit. Like wiping your arse with tp. Practice makes perfect - whenever you fuck up just get back on the horse. Don't worry about falling off the wagon. The more you practice starting again the closer it becomes a habit and reflex.

That's cool. You don't know me.

Overall I think it has gotten better - especially over the last 3 years. There's some more fucked up rhotoric that irritates me, but not enough to impact my day - I want no sympathy: Women here are maligned for being emotional, feelings based. Unable to make proper decisions because "corrupt emotions" and never using intellect to make decisions with love - and generally just being painted with this frame of femininity "emotional, feeling, expressive, empathic, nurturing" etc. all well and good. Then there is a secondary dialogue of endless whinging and complaining that women don't use their head, aren't intellectual with decisions, aren't truthful. Work based off feelings etc. that we need to use rationality more. Be more forthright and honest. And then... "I am not attracted to masculine women, only feminine. Strong feminine polarity" but also don't be stupid and be in the feelings, also you need to be rational and intellectual like a man. But also don't be like a man because I won't be attracted to you. Pretzel yourself into impossible shit for me. I don't get it.

@Elliott no, I would just wonder if they were okay ¯⁠\⁠(⁠°⁠_⁠o⁠)⁠/⁠¯

@Ulax whatever

@Miguel1 there's very little I can to do say anything to alter beliefs based on cognitive bias. I am also not stupid - I wont engage in much dialogue with someone if I feel the belief is based on feelings or brainwashing. Or cognitive bias. Some users I won't engage in trying to reason with them. If I see sexism - warnings. Removing points for sexist remarks, when users don't respond to verbal warnings, when it is a repeat, systemic offense. That sends a message. Intended or not. It does. I considered stepping down as a moderator and retiring from contributing here because I do not wish to stay if I supply insubstantial value. Overall I accept I will be treated slightly poorly here. Emerald and ethereal cat have mostly retired. I would not expect a response.

@Hojo tl:dr cope? 🥹

A framework that puts one sex of a species as being totally alien? It causes needless seperation when connecting is what it's all about. The advice I have isn't isolated to this. It's a given that all frames have limits to them. This one is just especially so. I don't need to have lived experience to apply analytical logic - and if you disqualify based on that I can't help you. And you are free to not take the advice.

Not sure. How. To. Interpret. 🥹🥹🥹 @Zenterus bit extreme of me 🤐 I think it's not a pronouns issue upon reflection - and more myself being unable to understand what it is like to grapple with identity in such a way. I just don't strongly label myself as nothing, perhaps.

Now children, let us all sit around the campfire and listen to a geriatric white man lecture us on suffering: -1pt for the book plug

Subtle touch 😏

@bazera yes this is what I was pointing toward earlier - even Ralston doesn't believe all suffering can be transcended. And that is certainly not what he was saying from my understanding of "Ending Unnecessary Suffering"

@Something Funny Lordfall loves the magical fantastical narrates 🙃

@Xonas Pitfall 100% agree. Who knows if someone didn't translate a word incorrectly - resulting in a whole fucken religious belief system?

No no! The leg-gut kick remember? The fuckers gut you with the legs, and leave you to slowly die, gizzards exposed. Baking on the cracked ochre earth under the hot Australian sun. Carrions picking at exposed entrails... Suffering - what's that?

There's that horrible audio of the woman being eaten alive by a bear floating about... Awful. Buddha said "Life is suffering" It seems reasonable to infer he had not transcended suffering - as he was alive (we assume!) when he said that. Life seems to be a qualifier! If he even said that. Could be hearsay! Or maybe the Buddha never existed 🙃

@Something Funny how about we go for - root canal. No drugs 😈

That's fine, if you don't want to engage.

Might be slightly topic-adjascent only but preferred pronouns are a hard one for me. Boundaries are about what we let in, how we conduct ourselves. They aren't about forcing someone else to adhere to our wants. I've seen a lot of issues arising where individuals try to frame pronouns as a boundary issue. I am unresolved with how I think about this - as clearly offense is being taken. It's the level of offense I seem unable to grasp. It isn't comparible to calling someone a nig8er (as an example). And when I am labelled with something I am not in an effort to offend I just laugh, as it is just so obviously wrong. If someone insists on it its just not worth my time. It would be like someone calling me a bald man on the street - what even? It appears rooted in insecurity and self esteem, but this cannot be it? Not sure.

One thing I don't quite grasp is why cloning was totally halted as a technology? Ethics are an issue, sure. And I may sound conspiratorial but I feel like research may have proceeded that the public isn't aware of. But I concede there may be reasons I am just not aware of. I remain ignorant. Elon Musk, for neuralink, has wired up chimps with chips in their brains running experiments on them for his tech. You can find this stuff if you look. Lots of NDAs surrounding it. Some of the techniques are brutal. I don't want to go into conspiracy thinking due to forum rules. It just causes one to pause and wonder.

Are you speaking for all generations, or just the lower brackets? I haven't looked into it myself - but you seem to know. Do you have any quality sources you can point me to?

It makes me wonder - if transhumanism presents a way to avoid suffering, increase quality of life (and longevity) and treat disease via cloning - how will conservatives deal with this? Nice invitation for a huge serving of cognitive dissonance.

You think self aggrandizement (in men and woman - humans) was not part of our experience prior to modern times?

I am very interested to hear what pro-lifer conservatives think about this. If they argue a zygote is conscious, this is going to be antithetical to their beliefs. This is the transhumanism + ethical nuke from Bryan I predicted and have been waiting for.