James Imnotgonnatellyou
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James Imnotgonnatellyou commented on The Importance of the word "I" on February 8, 2008, 1:38 PM
Truth is still just a measurement. We think of it as an abstract because it's not easily measurable. I have also read Anthem, by the way, and I don't think that "ego" was the best word Rand could have chosen to be the unspeakable word. What that whole society is trying to do is rob people of their individual identities and throw them into a group identity instead, and the way that Prometheus breaks free from all that completely is when he starts using the word "I."
James Imnotgonnatellyou commented on Women are crazy, men are pigs on February 7, 2008, 11:12 PM
classify the evenT***
James Imnotgonnatellyou commented on Women are crazy, men are pigs on February 7, 2008, 11:11 PM
I think the insult theory veralynns vocalized is valid. Men generally take very little offense when insulted by their friends. Generally, if I say something insulting to another man I classify the even in one of three ways:1) He's my friend and I don't really mean it, and this is understood by both parties.2) I hate his guts and I mean the insult, and both parties know this.3) I say something genuinely insulting on accident and meant nothing by it because I didn't realize it was an insult.I never insult anyone unless I know them fairly well.
James Imnotgonnatellyou commented on Secrecy on February 7, 2008, 10:52 PM
Well, maybe in some cases it's shame. Mostly, though, it's because people feel uncomfortable sharing some of their more private matters with people they don't know well enough. It may be because they don't know whether the person in question will or will not spread the secret around, or maybe it's that they don't want the person to base their image of them from this secret. It could even be that they think the person might possibly condemn them as a person for this secret.It's more of a trust thing, Unthinkable.Yes, you made your point DonnyMac.
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James Imnotgonnatellyou commented on What is the most important war in human history? on May 7, 2008, 8:37 PM
Okay, effect on civilization: that's asking what conflict we think would (had its outcome been different) have made the present the most different from what it is now. This being the case, I hope you will agree with me that the farther back into history we look, the more branching would have had time to take place since the conflict (not to mention the modified outcome of the conflict itself; there would have to be an event changed within that conflict to modify its outcome as well, so that which raises the question "What conflict, with it's outcome changed by the modification of some event interior to the conflict, would least modify history since?" But, I digress.), and therefore would cause the greatest discrepancy between that history and our own. By this logic, the conflict that would most change the present would also be the oldest.In short, I vote for whatever the oldest conflict in human history was. :)