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The de-polarizing thread

#22
The part that bottles (sic) my mind is when people are angrily typing away on their keyboards or smartphones, launch anonymous attacks against anonymous people, they could be talking to the person right next to them.
One of the greatest intellectual fallacies is the "us vs them" mind set.

For all the good the internet and smart phones of have, they have also damaged our society greatly. The digital disconnect allows people to engage in conversations with a vitriol they would never dare in person. It lends credence to the old axiom that you should discuss money, politics, or religion in polite company.
 
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socialleper said:
The part that bottles (sic) my mind is when people are angrily typing away on their keyboards or smartphones, launch anonymous attacks against anonymous people, they could be talking to the person right next to them.
One of the greatest intellectual fallacies is the "us vs them" mind set.

For all the good the internet and smart phones of have, they have also damaged our society greatly. The digital disconnect allows people to engage in conversations with a vitriol they would never dare in person. It lends credence to the old axiom that you should discuss money, politics, or religion in polite company.
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Gaolee said:
But, don't get me started on the Mets vs. the Yankees. There are some disconnects that are just too wide to bridge.
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I second that emotion but with west coast baseball teams.


slobake said:
Some of my best friends are Dodgers fans. :bag:
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I once sold my favorite car just because someone described the color as "Dodger blue".
 
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socialleper said:
The part that bottles (sic) my mind is when people are angrily typing away on their keyboards or smartphones, launch anonymous attacks against anonymous people, they could be talking to the person right next to them.
One of the greatest intellectual fallacies is the "us vs them" mind set.

For all the good the internet and smart phones of have, they have also damaged our society greatly. The digital disconnect allows people to engage in conversations with a vitriol they would never dare in person. It lends credence to the old axiom that you should discuss money, politics, or religion in polite company.
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Don't hit me -- I have B- blood, of which only 1.9% of the population has. :eek:
 
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When Kirk Hammett got the Metalica gig, he immediately booked some lessons with none other than Joe Satriani. De-polarizing to the MAX :woot: HOWZAT? That's impressive. And a very good policy.

Have youse come across the invisible handyman, in your travels, perchance? He's got a good deal to say about this sort of jibber jabber.

Maybe it's a coincidink, but, earlier today, I was learning about Adam and his concept of 'indifferent' spectatorship. Not dissimilar. Good reading too, for those inclined towards de-polarization and such like. Love the word, just quietly, new to me :)

Deep. OLÁ ! ;)

Chap. IV: Of the social Passions
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As it is a divided sympathy which renders the whole set of passions just now mentioned, upon most occasions, so ungraceful and disagreeable; so there is another set opposite to these, which a redoubled sympathy renders almost always peculiarly agreeable and becoming. Generosity, humanity, kindness, compassion, mutual friendship and esteem, all the social and benevolent affections, when expressed in the countenance or behaviour, even towards those who are not peculiarly connected with ourselves, please the indifferent spectator upon almost every occasion. His sympathy with the person who feels those passions, exactly coincides with his concern for the person who is the object of them. The interest, which, as a man, he is obliged to take in the happiness of this last, enlivens his fellow-feeling with the sentiments of the other, whose emotions are employed about the same object. We have always, therefore, the strongest disposition to sympathize with the benevolent affections. They appear in every respect agreeable to us. We enter into the satisfaction both of the person who feels them, and of the person who is the object of them. For as to be the object of hatred and indignation gives more pain than all the evil which a brave man can fear from his enemies; so there is a satisfaction in the consciousness of being beloved, which, to a person of delicacy and sensibility, is of more importance to happiness, than all the advantage which he can expect to derive from it. What character is so detestable as that of one who takes pleasure to sow dissension among friends, and to turn their most tender love into mortal hatred? Yet wherein does the atrocity of this so much abhorred injury consist? Is it in depriving them of the frivolous good offices, which, had their friendship continued, they might have expected from one another? It is in depriving them of that friendship itself, in robbing them of each other's affections, from which both derived so much satisfaction; it is in disturbing the harmony of their hearts, and putting an end to that happy commerce which had before subsisted between them. These affections, that harmony, this commerce, are felt, not only by the tender and the delicate, but by the rudest vulgar of mankind, to be of more importance to happiness than all the little services which could be expected to flow from them.

The sentiment of love is, in itself, agreeable to the person who feels it. It sooths and composes the breast …
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BadSanta1281 said:
I second that emotion but with west coast baseball teams.




I once sold my favorite car just because someone described the color as "Dodger blue".
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Mrs slo bought me a nice blue and white windbreaker. She understood when I explained my reason for disliking it and gave it to goodwill.
 
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