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Report | 11/03/2012 8:56 pm

rilakkuuma

aw i was being nosy (like i always am) and your profile is coooool lol, Queen ;D and old Disney! :3 and a lot of other stuff...
i like to tell people when they have nice stuff :3

Report | 11/01/2012 11:53 am

Lunar Real Estate Agent

But, you're saying I'm things I'm not. That I'm more technical in orientation when in fact I'm more interested in things like history, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and economics. And literature. It's like you've fallen into that common and ignorant false dichotomy between the natural and social sciences, like one is some cold, analytical, soulless being and the other a warm, intuitive, open-minded one.

I'm just a rational thinker and I follow strict rules of logic and semantics when I engage in discussions about serious things. Philosophy isn't just navel-gazing or wool-gathering but a disciplined way of perceiving and thinking about the world, and it relies so heavily on logic that without a basic understanding and implementation of its formal rules anyone who considers himself philosophical is fooling himself.

I understand where you're coming from, but you're saying I imply things when I explicitly state them, conflate topic domains (anecdotal versus empirical), and seem to be saying that I'm an accountant-eyed lab technician wed to his electron microscope when I'm nothing of the sort and haven't presented myself as such.

Report | 11/01/2012 11:39 am

Lunar Real Estate Agent

So, socialization isn't psychology? And psychiatrists and anthropologists aren't scientists?

I'm dismayed that you'd think so or imply as much. I'm feeling like you're not hearing or understanding me at all.

Report | 11/01/2012 11:21 am

Lunar Real Estate Agent

Plausible but uncertain, and ultimately moot. And still no convincing refutation of a well-studied and -documented aspect of developmental psychology.

Yeah, I'm not much for anecdotes. It could be that I've always been somewhat singed around the edges in terms of empathy and so am more inclined towards general principles and dynamic processes than I am in individual experience, especially since I also have a somewhat deprecating view of the value of and impact of individual beings. Life is an organic process that seems to envelop particles and render nearly impossible such individualist concepts like genius and revolt.

This coming from an individualist. Isn't it neat how human minds can embrace two seemingly contradictory things?

Report | 11/01/2012 10:47 am

Lunar Real Estate Agent

Of course, turning out all right doesn't even weakly imply that you couldn't have turned out better if conditions had been different. Personal experience is a poor litmus paper to dip into reality and derive conclusive results from its readings.

How does one learn to be assertive yet considerate? Trial and error, jumping curbs on the first week on the job as a delivery trucker: strife. In other words, part of how people develop socially is by exposure to others and the inevitable friction that develops between two self-interested beings. I doubt I could ever have learned how to defuse drunken debates in bars that threaten to escalate if I'd have spent my life in a Utopian commune where everyone was like-minded and full of love and tranquility.

Report | 11/01/2012 10:34 am

Lunar Real Estate Agent

The primary advantage to having siblings is improved social development, and that only occurs when they're proximate and aren't abusive.

I've concluded that the nuclear family is an ancient beast that needs to be put to pasture and replaced by communal models of child-rearing. Not only will you have even better social development, there will be improved accountability to minimize instances of abuse and neglect, and depending on how it's implimented it could also diminish tendencies toward provincialism and clannishness.

Report | 11/01/2012 10:19 am

Lunar Real Estate Agent

Isn't there a biblical quote, maybe somewhere in Proverbs, that states that brothers siblings are born into adversity (with one another)? I have a blood brother and x-amount of half brothers and sisters; my younger brother looks, acts, thinks, and probably is deep down almost nothing like me at all — I inherited the brains and the looks, while he managed to get the ability to suffer life among human beings in a world he only sees as most people do, dimly like through the shallows of a murky creek.

I wonder if pain is propagated more vertically or horizontally along the generation axis in family.

Report | 10/31/2012 4:26 pm

Lunar Real Estate Agent

Siblings...

... there's a concept that's very alien to me, family affection and loyalty. I got rid of my family, as in I excommunicated myself from them some years ago. Makes me a bit of an anomaly, since even people who dislike their families tend to stay at least somewhat in touch.

Report | 10/31/2012 2:25 pm

Lunar Real Estate Agent

cat_lol People like you used to infuriate me! You'd've gotten much amusement from me if you'd have befriended me in person ten years ago. I have an incredible knack for infuriating people, in my own particular way, so you may have given me the middle finger salute (even a double?). I used to go in for tempestuous relationships with people, I've come to realize.

Here in the Northwest we just get occasional dry and warm summers and a lingering dusting of snow that paralyses us for a few days, much to the amusement of a Minnesotan friend of mine, cat_sweatdrop or ex-friend, actually (that talent of mine I just mentioned).

Report | 10/30/2012 6:20 pm

Lunar Real Estate Agent

Such a delightfully mercenary approach! I'd have to get more social in order to tell you how similar I may be to that. I know I'm totally a don't-call-me-I'll-call-you kind of person.

You know what? Confession time: I've not even the faintest glimmer of this hurricane on the East Coast, except that I just heard some 8 million homes lost power because of it. Whoah.

Report | 10/30/2012 3:13 pm

Lunar Real Estate Agent

I agree with your dismal view of society. Part of why I'm the bum I am today is because I never wanted to be more than a peripheral participant in society and even now my goal is to do something Punk Rock, or Beat, or Whatever, like own and operate a food cart and live in a boat or a motor home a bit out of town.

Heh, you sound like trouble ... this may be fun, or scary. Or both?

Report | 10/30/2012 3:00 pm

Lunar Real Estate Agent

I suppose the average human being is just that, average, and isn't all that curious, adventurous, independent, or unique ... just a few rungs above the level of ********, and that much probably thanks primarily to the development of language and civilization.

I'm just recently coming out of a sort of punk-rock phase of refusing to compromise with the world system, at least in terms of work goes. Be unemployed for a long time and look unemployable on paper, and after a while you get sick of living off bottle and can deposits and living for malt liquor and the better soup lines.

Report | 10/30/2012 2:50 pm

Lunar Real Estate Agent

I'll have to talk to you a bit before I contrive a nickname for you. Alas Moon Goddess is already taken.

You know, I've often wondered if people who appear (and often are) more "simple" or baseline in terms of personality and self-expression are that way by choice, having for years succumbed to societal pressure to be widely acceptable, or if that's just how most (or at least many) people actually are.

Report | 10/30/2012 2:46 pm

Lunar Real Estate Agent

Bit of a complex personality, is it? Yet more refreshment for me from today's Gaia experience.

What should I call you? You can call me Corwin.

Report | 10/30/2012 2:40 pm

Lunar Real Estate Agent

Blech! I'm a bit of a culinary snob ... well, somewhat a snob in general, I guess, at least to most people. I even make my own ketchup and mustard, which is a bit much I realize.

You're one of those people who deflect others with a veneer of humor and frivolity? I'm one of those people who keeps people at bay with gloomy, dour aloofness.

Report | 10/30/2012 2:28 pm

Lunar Real Estate Agent

I think I may be similar but oppositely aligned: I do tend to think I'm better than my peers, but they think football and malt liquor and tater tots are the epitome of intellectual and cultural sophistication so that's not difficult for me to do, and I tend to telegraph my flaws more than my virtues.

Report | 10/30/2012 2:21 pm

Lunar Real Estate Agent

I used to think I was smarter and better than everyone, but some years of being irresponsible and not amounting to much has humbled me somewhat. Besides, when it comes right down to it, the most important thing is learning to know yourself and be true to yourself, to be a decent and aware person who is at peace with the world around him ... everything else is just nifty gadgets and entertaining doodles.

Report | 10/30/2012 12:01 pm

Lunar Real Estate Agent

I find that rather refreshing, since my social life consists mostly of boorish bums and welfare hotel rats and the silly youth on this site.

Report | 10/30/2012 11:57 am

Lunar Real Estate Agent

cat_lol You girls happen to like it when we guys are silly, or at least sometimes you do. I guess it's because so many of us are so full of machismo and bravado and all the silly posturing that goes along with that social orientation. There I go analyzing again. You have any silly pics? I'm silly to hide my insecurity in front of a camera, I think.

Report | 10/30/2012 11:51 am

Lunar Real Estate Agent

This isn't my best photo of me, but HERE it be.

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