Confessions

Random admissions.

Nobody, but the obtuse, come to ILP for Intellectual discourse.
This is but the justification - to conceal the primal motive.

For each it is different, but it is always physical, biological, not spiritual, intellectual.

Group dynamic gathers those of its own kind.
It’s intuitive.
One feels a harmony, even among the seeming conflicts.
It attracts.

Interactivity - attraction indicates a superior harmony relative to the ever-present disharmony, manifesting les friction, less resistance.
The individual is pulled in, and remains fixed to the degree that it feels the harmony as a reward, viz., less friction is experienced as less suffering ([size=85]pleasure[/size]).

Respect is founded on anxiety - fear.
Fear of being denied something one values
Fear is extreme anxiety.

Not only fear of physical repercussions but psychological, intellectual ones.

We fear the bad judgement of others only if we depend on them for our well-being, our self-esteem, otherwise we remain indifferent.
Power = indifference.
Independence. Freedom.

Dependence is a sign of weakness.
Care.
We care about the judgment of others in as much as we depend on them.

Therefore, free-will is a measure of will-power.

Mutual respect just requires knowing the other is a self with the same default needs/drives as every other/self. You wouldn’t want your toes stepped on, so you don’t step on theirs. You need your toes respected, so you respect theirs.

It’s a dance of mutual appreciation fueled from and overflowing joy … which casts down all fear to be danced on underneath those toes.

It’s implied in what I wrote.

Reciprocity is a balance of individual needs - each fearing to lose what the other is providing.

universal respect, is the fear of the socioeconomic - collective - repercussions.
we are forced to respect every moron, out there, not because of them, or anything we need form them, but because we depend on a collective, he/she is a part.

Unfamiliar territory … if focused on building/maintaining economic conditions that situate the relationship … contributions of all shareholders must be considered as “How much would this cost me if I wasn’t getting it for free?” And no one should be treated as a means to getting something for free. The conditions are the means to mutually situating the ends.

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It’s a long time -decades- since I’ve been to confession…

…give me a long while, I’ll think of something.

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I confess to not suffering fools gladly… please Father, relinquish me, from my sin. [-o<

walks in chewing gum with mouth open

Brooklyn accent, dressed like a clown

heyyy ahhh …Did somebody order a fool?

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In general… but [continue to] put yourself in the middle of every post and situation, won’t ya. :wink:

She’s looking for converts.
Real gullible ones.

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I’m already subjected to banter and what-not, in my real life… but do I need to come on here to be exposed to/experience more, of it?

…a little… sure, often… nah! Do we not all congregate here, to avoid the hand-grenades of/that is, life.

So is being conscientious towards each other… an impossibility? :-s

I’ll try and be more giving in my tolerance, but not at my own expense, ok!

I shot the sheriff… but I also shot the deputee.

There’s a hole in your boot cowboy.,…I think you shot your foot.

We shouldn’t be fighting like this, Lorikeet. You know, if they threw me in a concentration camp today, you would be right there with me.

I would never agree to be thrown into a concertation camp…
But only outside my country.

Most of those that died in those concertation camps, dies of diseases and hunger, especially as the war was nearing the end ands Germany could not even feed its own people and troops.
There were no mas extermination.
As in all wars atrocities occurred.

The history books you read are not the entire truth.

Baby doll, that’s the whole point of concentration camps is that you don’t necessarily have to agree.

No? You don’t think you would be candidate #1? Fine, maybe candidate #2, I would be 1. You agree with the commies on most things.

I know how it goes though, right now you are a rebel, but as soon as things start swinging your way…

Like Mr R over here, or iambiguous.

Marshmellows the bunch of you. I am disgusted.

Nah, no, I’m not disgusted Lorikeet. Let’s not don’t fight anymore.

In all seriousness, I’m glad you agree that if the things happened which we claim happened, that would constitute an atrocity.

I may be a Jew and a Gypsy and you may not like me at all, but to put me and mine, millions of women children and old men, in extermination camps is about the cowardliest, most spineless thing one could think of.