Not at all. The gains are demonstrable in fitness, fighting ability, handling precarious situations... There are also non-demonstrable gains, though no less real, in joy of gaining aforementioned skills, accumulation of historical knowledge and understanding, confidence, amazing experiences and people met... I need not justify anything; the fruits of my effort are self-evident and bountiful indeed.
You are correct in that it is the three middle eastern death cults and their backwards ideas about how others should live that are responsible for judging and hating people that don’t share beliefs. Remember, if you are a member, judgement belongs to the lord, you are responsible to love your neighbor as yourself.
For a bunch of people who claim to stand for decency and morality yadda yadda yadda, they sure do seem to think it’s their right to poke their noses into other peoples’ bedrooms. Kinda begs the question, who are the real perverts?
We know who they are because of redactions.
The irony does not escape me.
Well this is a friendly place after all…
Emotional self regulation comes in many forms.
), or having subjective scientific theories(god forbid). Uncertainty creates great distress and aversion.
Talk of obsession is relevant to my answer here. “Faith” could easily be conflated with psychological impairment like obsession. What if I have “faith” that an individual is a bigot? I may have no proof, so people will naturally say that I am incorrect. There is no such thing as “getting poked in the wrong place” or “god forbidding“. As far as subjective scientific theory, that is just a way to rationalize behavior when direct observation is unavailable. Like asking forgiveness from an invisible deity based on fear of eternal punishment or exclusion from a segment of society. Given the strident answers about belief in the efficacy of certain martial art training methodology, one might believe this topic deserves the same level of discussion for exactly the same reasons. Let’s pressure test these ideas and beliefs shall we?Emotional self regulation comes in many forms.
Wether it's obsessions of getting poked in the wrong place(god forbid
The promise may be paradise or a theory of everthing without free parameters, if you only have faith in the paradigm of system dynamics and an an omnipresent observer and rule maker that sets the constraints.
I can’t believe a deity would really care about where anyone puts their genitalia. She has better things to do like killing innocents in illegal, unjust wars. Anyway, if She did find it an so objectionable why didn’t she make it mechanically impossible for one bit to fit in the other? Square pegs, round holes, Yale key, mortice lock, (ant)agonists and receptors etc. She doesn’t care…
I'm hurt that you put me on ignore
Ha. I think I'm the one being ignored. Who would ignore someone as loveable as you?
I'm pretty sure he's ignoring me too- I miss my interactions with that insufferable pillock :'( he's the best :'(Ha. I think I'm the one being ignored. Who would ignore someone as loveable as you?
This isn't necessarily true. It's a phenomenon described as the Overton Window. If you "move the Overton window" more to one side or the other, then that moves the extremes further that direction. It's a political term, but without getting political and speaking just in general terms, the idea is that someone advocates for something that is very, very extreme... way outside the norm. This pulls the window further in that direction. While that thing may still be considered extreme, suddenly other things that were considered extreme are now discussed as a reasonable compromise.
Ah well, it's okay. I'm not ignoring you. And if you think about it, people who use the ignore feature to curate social interaction on a forum are probably not otroverts.
There is not a 'dislike' button so disagree it is. Which is also fitting IMHO.
