ArgumentativeMonotheist

It’s joever for America.

If a teacher’s monologue counts, certainly!

Could I really know what you believe in and what flavour of upright (or immoral, but I believe people were made “good” so why expect differently?) you are by having a passing knowledge of your exes? I guess if I asked your exes everything about you, maybe, but that assumes they’re unbiased sources of information and, c’mon, lol. Or what your political (a derivation of ethics) views are? Or what your triggers and coping mechanisms are? I mean, we could get along no matter what kind of music you listen to/fast food you order, but other stuff like being a violent neo Nazi would evidently bring some friction to our friendship!

I doubt you’re as vacuous as you think (certainly more than a collection of products you consume, right?), don’t sell yourself short. 😉

That’s the kind of stuff I’m, today, mature and emotionally stable enough to force myself to lie about, lol. I’m good at yapping so I think that the one time I was asked that I just BSd my way out of it, what else would I do? Should I tell the company that consumerism is vacuous, stupid and immoral and as such they should also consider doing something prosocial instead of selling Nespresso machines?😅

Yep yep yep. A minor wrong turn and we’re back at phrenology and ‘genetic supremacy’…

I was replying with the “what would you do with the information?” with that “I don’t take personally etc etc”! 😅 As in, I won’t take offence to ‘weird’ and seemingly antisocial behaviour, because I understand there’s some differences in personality between tribes (meaning whatever they’re giving me I need to reprocess accordingly). Perhaps, they have the tiniest bit of a genetic component (and are even harder/impossible to fully change, and hence why some of these differences and characteristics have been there seemingly forever). I mean, would that be that bad? Or does it really seem that far fetched?

I don’t take it personally that the further North I go, the more spaced out people are at bus stations and the further South I go, the louder people will talk, I guess.😅 But you’re right, we aren’t ready for it.

Western Europeans (Americans are displaced Europeans just like apartheid South Africans and genocidal Israelis), for being such a small group of people in an even smaller land, have managed to cruelly oppress the world since at least the days of Jesus til this day. The consistency (the Romans, the Crusades, Francisco Pizarro and Hernan Cortez, King Leopold’s Congo, the Dutch East India Company, the native Australian genocide by the Brits, every American conflict including proxy wars, etc.) is, at the very least, curious. Has chattle slavery even been a thing outside of the Western world?! The most destructive conflicts in recent history were just Western Europeans Vs Western Europeans with displaced Europeans joining in later and some extras! Believe what you wanna believe (“we’re just better at it!”, yeah because you’re consistently heartless at times, lol), but if I were you, I’d take the history of my people a little more seriously and consider the suffering of others due to my ancestors’ crimes, idk.

What if it accounted for a little bit, the tiniest bit, of our psychological makeup? Would it be so terrible or dangerous of an idea? Not for clear minds and kind hearts, surely. I mean, everyone can swim and everyone can run but you know who’s gotta have at least the smallest of edges everything else being equal, right? That’s easy to accept, maybe this is just the next frontier, that we’re not just tabula rasa, but we have some innate tendencies towards/eases and difficulties regarding A or B the more we have of this or another tribe in us. It’s not something I will “die on a hill” for, simply because my evidence is all anecdotal, but 🤷.

It’s almost entirely cultural, of course, but I do think (I can’t prove it, it’s just travel and observation) that there are innate psychological differences to people of different tribes. The Congolese, the Austrian and the Nepali are different in a deeper way than nurture can account for, I think.

Not superior, but different. And yes, tribes are different, of course they are. Completely sober, a group of Germans/Finns and a group of Nigerians/Venezuelans/Algerians are completely different and we both know how. Western Europeans without ideology and morality turn into murderers. History proves it. They have fewer issues in dehumanising others, they sleep well at night in a house they robbed from people they killed (from the Native Americans to the Palestinians). No bs, can you say the same for other people in earnest?

“My life is very meaningless and aimless but I have the human desire to take stands and share my mind but I’ve never engaged with any topic deeply or seriously enough for it so I’m gonna talk about pineapple burgers.”

What’s the debate? Whether it tastes nice or not? Seeing the popularity of both pineapple pizza and pineapple/cheese and honey burgers (at least in Europe), I guess it’s tasty enough for a bunch of people.

I swear, some people will take a stand for anything besides important things, lol. God? Morals? Imperialism? Nah, I’m gonna spend my limited time and even more limited brainpower on cuisine debates… 🙄🤷

Good showerthought.

Someone has some difficulty being expressive and returning affection verbally, lol. Congrats! 🎉

I’d like to believe it was deleted as a bit, and not just because whoever read it felt it intensely, lol. (Also, déjà vu! I feel compelled by whatever is left of my superstition to call them out as they happen.)

“You’re a biological woman, Harry!”

They should’ve made Ron Somali and Hermione Pakistani/Indian/Chinese if they truly wanted to mix tribes up while keeping it sensical. Snape kinda has to be a white, nerdy and socially awkward guy (he’s always given angry school shooter vibes, right?), or a skinny Indian guy maybe? Either way, it’s an entirely unnecessary reboot with a bit of a ‘shock factor’ to justify its existence and force some people to waste their money in curious anger… I won’t even waste the bandwidth it would take to pirate it!

9 years and a bit today, and we got married in January. And it’s not like I wanted us to wait for it, it’s just that I spent the first half of the relationship engaged in military service (they don’t let you get married in the first 5 years where I was). God’s great! 😁