My granddaughter's Christmas show springs to mind and it was certainly avant-garde. I took umbridge at the depiction of grandmas in the baby shark song (no teeth) and commented afterwards that it wasn't very focussed on the nativity. My granddaughter retorted without hesitation, "It was our Christmas show and we can do what we like."
That told me.
When was the last time a child argued their case and proved you wrong?
After 10 days avoiding passing on a virus, I've just seen my daughter working at my local Co-op. I didn't know she was working tonight, was surprised to see her and had a wee flood of emotions.
Yeah, I make whopping great grammatical errors at times.
It's a part of my authentic experience and identity. I hold the funny ones close to my heart and they're often associated with enriching human interaction.
So, I liked the grunty piggy and you liked the dwarf who belched.
I wonder what that says about us.
Thinking about it, in later childhood years I collected pigs. I had all sorts of ornaments, pictures and utility items related to the snouted creatures. On my 12th Birthday I had a windowsill full of pig related cards...and pork chops for tea.
I've not eaten meat since that day.
I wonder if the course of my life has been influenced by those bins. I can't imagine what else might have sparked the interest in pigs.
I don't litter and I'm very particular about that.
I was taught not to litter as a child and as an adult I'm aware of the toll on wildlife.
But perhaps the greatest influence on my attitude was a family holiday at Butlins in Minehead when I was two years old. They had bins in the shape of a pig with a vacuum in the mouth area. When you put any rubbish in the pig's mouth you'd get that grunt noise you get when vacuuming something obstructive off the carpet.
To this day, I get a pleasure response from finding a bin and throwing stuff away, so effectively did the grunty piggy bins programme my formative mind.
Removing posts without pulling the thread leaves a message:
We can, we will and this is the sort of thing we will not tolerate.
Walking away from threads which rile us is different from a call to boycott and bury particular threads. The former is managing one's own behaviour, the latter could constitute bullying.
There may be threads that are so destructive we all should walk away rather than support them, but that has to come from individual choice and self-control, rather than group decisions and suppression of others.
That would depend upon the identification required and the access to it.
If everyone has equal access to the identification required, you have equal rights. The problem comes when you make the cost, or physical practicalities of obtaining specific ID prohibitive to certain groups of people.
Voter fraud has been used in the US to introduce ID laws, but denying equal access to the ID has lead to voter suppression. This effects more people and the vote count far more than voter fraud.
ID is introduced as an idea to keep everyone safe and yet the reality is it enables corruption, oppression and a lot of danger for many people.
But those people don't matter because they've had their voice taken away and they're not one of us.
Dyslexia is linked with using different cognitive pathways, not stupidity.
Albert Einstein was dyslexic. He didn't speak until he was five, delayed speech being one of the potential early indicators. A doctor told his mother he would never amount to anything.
Using different cognitive pathways and perceiving things differently manifest in creativity.
I was curious as to what the blunt answer was, that's all. There's an irony in there somewhere, I'm almost sure of it.
I wonder if there's more social pressure on men to be in relationships. I wonder if women having more choice about relationships over the last 60 years, or so, has changed the psychology of being single for men.
I don't know, but I do find single men aren't very subtle about highlighting they're single sometimes.
It's like their dissatisfaction with being single has them focussed on finding a partner, any partner, rather than just getting to know women and letting things unfold one way, or the other.
It leaves me feeling that I, as a human being, am somewhat irrelevant. It feels like it's a relationship they seek, not a person and I find it objectifying.
For me, being single is fine. I think I can sometimes feel lonely on my own, or with people about. I can not feel lonely on my own, or with people about. It strikes me loneliness, or otherwise is about my frame of mind as much as being alone, or otherwise.
I find it interesting that this thread appears to be operating on an emotional level.
The condemnation of conspiracy theories and the supporters as being an emotional occurence rather than an intellectual one, appears to be eliciting emotional responses.
The disparagement of the conspiracy theory phenomenon as being rooted in the need for drama, is dramatic in itself.
Perhaps it would be more productive to contemplate hierarchy on varying scales and how communication and trust work, or don't work, within them.
I get that someone might not be happy if their partner said the above.
They might experience a different emotion, or a number of emotions. Personally, I'd be curious about what they do think and feel, but wouldn't necessarily interpret that statement as negative. I wouldn't necessarily be unhappy.
It could be the start of an emotionally intimate interaction and/or an interesting intellectual one. Love is such a nebulous word, but also a versatile and somewhat indefinable one.
You've directly linked agnosticism, neither believing, nor disbelieving with the concept of ambivalent love and implied happiness is contingent upon commitment to one, or the other. So, who do you think feels unhappiness as a result of agnosticism?
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