TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
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TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
23hr ago
Personally I just don't see the appeal, but it's clear that many men do.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
1d ago
The latter is more commonly available. I understand there are edge cases involving quadriplegia and so on.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
1d ago
Yeah I've really never comprehended the idea of hiring a prostitute. If you want mechanical gratification, that can be had for free. But sex is mostly about validation as a man; being selected as worthy of reproduction, and a prostitute can't do that for you. I'm fairly disturbed by the idea of someone paying for sex. Something has to have gone very wrong there.
Though I do have a friend who gets handjobs at a Chinese massage parlor, which he says do more for him than masturbation and which he prefers in lieu of 'using' young women whom he has no intention of taking seriously. Guess I can see where he's coming from but his problems aren't my problems.
Rude. I want my spiritual writing to have correspondence with observable reality, otherwise it's just LARP.
This assumes that 'observable reality' doesn't change over time. IMO the most reasonable interpretation of, e.g., much of what's in Genesis is that reality used to be one way, and now it's different. Sort of like how in The Silmarillion the earth used to be flat, but now is round (unless you're an elf). Spiritual reality, on the other hand, can independently remain constant.
I think material reality is downstream of, and manifested from, spiritual reality, and that the nature of that manifestation can and does change. Including retroactive evidence. Starlight from billions of years ago, for example.
This is the sort of thing which seems to be indicated by the Fall.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
7d ago
Calling attention to your antagonistic editorializing is not rude, no.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
7d ago
It can be both. But I've seen you be rude and not him.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
8d ago
Looks like the timeline is fairly well-understood though and it'd be pretty hard to get those pilots on board with intentionally making major mistakes and dying for it.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
8d ago
I think even right-wingers have somehow internalized that the only respectable position is that Trump somehow nebulously 'sucks'. Can't remember the last time I've seen praise for him that wasn't prefaced in such a way.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
8d ago
there is probably room to be "kinder", but the issue probably sank the Biden campaign and I can't expect a return to those policies
I have yet to see that the Democrats (or Republicans for that matter) actually learn from stuff like this.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
9d ago
Yeah he has a great line of actual quality chocolate products.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
10d ago
Reese's used to be awesome but it's all so much slop now. Even the scion of the family has written about it in protest.
If you want good ones, at this point it's Mr. Beast or other specialty brands.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
10d ago
(Never heard from again)
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
13d ago
This is a tempting hypothesis but there are plenty of reasons to avoid endorsing it. Not that I'm at liberty to go into those, regrettably.
I don't think that's true. We did put a lot of Japanese into concentration camps after a very specific incident gave rise to what was, IMO, a reasonable fear that the Japanese within our borders were both nationalistically loyal to Japan and liable to act on that loyalty.
The Japanese really were fanatical and after that went down I can't say I'd have made a different choice.
So until baseline Chinese-Americans start acting in ways that imply a credible threat that they'll do the same, I don't think there's any concern here. Even if China (for some reason) sneak attacks us.
However, if they do, it would indeed become reasonable to keep Chinese nationals out of high-security positions without extreme levels of vetting.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
13d ago
Next you'll be telling me Sicilians, or the Irish, are white too.
"White" has only recently been understood to refer to skin color rather than certain ancestral clusters and the psychological traits associated with them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_European_marriage_pattern
Slavs definitely would not qualify.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
13d ago
I think of 'hard right' as split between trad-Christians and pagans, who tend to have fairly oppositional views of sexual morality. So idk what @hydroacetylene meant either.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
13d ago
Yeah, well, what can I offer as a white man except that this perfectly matches my experience with the Asian-American women I've known.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
15d ago
I don't suppose I'll be able to.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
16d ago
How's democracy been working out in general?
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
17d ago
No, by learn to ignore it I also mean remove their institutional power and right to vote.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
19d ago
Just so.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
19d ago
This is going to come off as much more flippant than I intend it, especially given the brevity, but: I really think part of growing up is learning to ignore spurious female complaining. While they can and do have real problems, shit-tests are endemic.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
20d ago
The rest notwithstanding, I'm a bit confused at the prospect of voting for someone who will implement much worse policies on the basis that their opponent engaged in some ugly campaigning. Like yeah, presumably we used to have standards along those lines, but we're also pretty clearly past them at this point.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
20d ago
Or a feral one
I just want better-defined standards for public spaces. Took my kids to an amusement park recently and there was a group of five extremely obese adults dressed like giant babies, in diapers, trans colors and scarves everywhere.
I still don't know how to answer the questions my kids asked. But I think in my grandfather's day this sort of thing would not have stood, and I don't think we're better off having got here from there.
Am I in favor of niche spaces for aberrant people to pursue whatever it is they're on about? Mostly, yeah, and I think that sort of thing is important, especially so that the next generation of functional adults can flirt with it a bit in youth and come to understand for themselves why we don't tolerate it more generally.
But I also want to be able to take my family out without seeing that, and I'm not going to feel guilty about it.
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