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Enoch-Fox wrote:Well, according to this definition (and certain thought processes), we'd all be female. X3

devi ever wrote:I think he may be talking about in relation to guitar gear / electrical equipment.

Enoch-Fox wrote:

Brettski wrote:I DO feel that, personally, I'm faking something. I have a cool job, a great girl, and I'm generally true to myself and stick to my guns. I'm satisfied materially, but something's missing. Some would call this a spiritual issue, but given my deeply rooted contempt for religion, that one's not clearing up very soon.

I think the problem is that I'm not supposed to wake up to a blaring alarm clock, polish myself, go perform a task that is not directly related to my survival for the majority of my waking hours, only to have someone tell me that I owe them some of the fiat currency I earn from said activity, and the list just goes on and on. Why do we submit to this? For one, we're TOLD to. Everywhere you look, you're being told how to be, think, act.

I think this is a big reason for the tremendous amount of mental instability we're experiencing as a nation.

I can get behind that. Although I think it's less to do with male/female and more to do with all these social constructs essentially being B.S. to begin with. Yeah, it doesn't make sense to the primal part of anyone's brain that they should go sit at a desk, then forfeit a big chunk of their reward to a government who isn't visibly doing much of anything to earn it. But I think a woman sitting in a suburban house her whole life caring for kids is gonna be deeply dissastisfied with that as well, on a primal level. Religion has spun everything to tell us that we are NOT animals, that we have NO animal instincts, and that as humans, having those thoughts and feelings is wrong... I think the problem is as a species, we're unwilling to admit that we're animals; really smart animals, but animals nonetheless. The fact that we are ABLE to defy our biological hard-wiring is what seperates us. I know you aren't saying anybody SHOULD do anything. But this hard-wiring argument is often used (often in appeals to a "higher power") to that end, while at the same time we're told to DENY our hard-wiring in other places... so yeah, a lot of tension between the hardware and the software.

Although I still think those instincts are, at heart, vestigial. By that I don't mean trivial or stupid or imaginary or anything like that. They're real instincts, but, I mean, hunting instincts serve no purpose in a world where to get food I drive to Taco Bell and ask the clerk nicely. Hardwired? Sure. Deeply, even Irremovably ingrained? Maybe. But do they serve a purpose? We've been born with appendices for generation after generation, but all the organ does is get us killed.

Just a note about the last thing... Yeah, I care about everyone's overall well-being too... society is what happens when a lot of people get together and don't think for themselves. There's this experiment that was performed... Stanford I wanna say? where they put people in a room, and show them four straws, and ask them to pick the longest one. When they're seperated, pretty much everyone gets it right... but all they have to do is put everyone in the same room and plant one guy who very loudly picks the wrong answer, and a huge percentage go with him. They stop thinking and start group-thinking. So yeah, I could give a fuck what society thinks too... as long as the people around me refuse to let that construct do the thinking for them.

effetebomb wrote:
Now, if you can stomach some pretty extreme idiocy and sexism you should read this, WTF?!!?!?!?!
http://acapella.harmony-central.com/for ... ?t=2260155
I don't have an account there and don't really want one, but nobody has told these guys off? uuuggghhhhhh

morningstaru wrote:I think people responded properly. Best way to defeat internet trolls is to simply ignore them.

They get off on people responding, even if they don't agree. Plus, You can never win an argument on the internet.