Yeah, this is a point espoused by people who see themselves as wolves, but end up finding out they are actually pigs.

They’ve been telling Gen X and younger that we’re going to suffer when old since we were kids.

Yep, I don’t, either. I think mostly subconsciously, then in raw concepts, then images, then words. I have to actively translate what I’m thinking into language in order to consciously understand it myself or communicate it, but I do better if I externalize the language through writing or speaking.

I wonder what it would be like to have a home town. Not to mention one so proud of you.

Agree. When I say “people are stupid” I mean they are living below their potential. The average person may have the intelligence, but consistently refuse to use it.

Some of us even have difference in sensitivity from one side to the other.

Right?

I mean, you teach yourself to drink something that tastes rotten. It impairs your ability to think and accomplish basic tasks. It increases your risk for legal trouble. It can make you vomit and sick the next day. It damages your internal organs, and it costs a ton. Finally, it traps you into needing it.

Yet, it’s the people who DON’T do it who are weird?

I use it exclusively. No Bluetooth headphones for me.

Because people lack both critical thinking skills and an imagination.

This, completely. I didn’t even know how much I depended on reading lips until everyone worth listening to was wearing a mask.

That happened to me, but now they are taking it again.

So much happiness in this little sound.

https://youtu.be/6iCPIUGnHQ8?si=3HL_hsn34getR53x

I don’t think he’s redeemable because at this point, he’s choosing to be what he is. I still empathize a bit with his circumstances, though. He was created to be what he is. I pity him. Same as my ex husband. They both bluster because they are, inside, incredibly insecure. They know on a subconscious level that they don’t contribute anything worthwhile, and they fear they aren’t worthy of respect or love. So they resort to control and fear.

It is quite pathetic, really. Thank heaven my ex doesn’t have Trump’s platform. His tyranny is much more localized.

This is a great point for the vast majority of opinions. I have an aunt who’s a flaming, angry conservative. She and her husband lost their jobs because of Obama tax increases and he now works as a flunky for his brother.

I understand where she’s coming from because I listened. Didn’t stop me from blocking her eventually, though. One must limit the amount of toxicity one sees on a daily basis.

And your education has sadly failed you in teaching you what an analogy is.

An analogy is a comparison. I wasn’t comparing, just trying to teach you a basic logical thought process. Don’t worry, I’ve given up on that. I can see why your teachers failed. Prejudice is a hell of an intelligence blocker.

You can choose to leave a country and join a different one. But you haven’t, so you belong to it.

But your thought processes are clearly blocked. I’m certainly not going to try to open them. Closed minds are boring.

You’re excusing cartels: organizations that are absolutely and unashamedly expanding and taking over the world, simply because they aren’t a religion.

That may not be your intended meaning, but it’s definitely connotated.

Dogma doesn’t have to have a God to be dangerous.

Oh, so it’s okay to belong to a group of people whose open tenet is murdering and enslaving people, but a religion that teaches against those things, but has a few nutjobs is somehow not?

Strong logic there. Completely free of bias. 🙄

I mean… you’re a citizen of a country, right?

The part of that that breaks down is that one group’s interpretation of it being okay to kill people isn’t necessarily another person’s religious practice. Mocking the latter is like treating everyone who eats bacon like a psychopath who enjoys slaughtering animals.

And religion isn’t always a choice for everyone. It should be, but isn’t always.