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Re: Why It Pays to Be Grumpy and Bad-Tempered
By: guest27 Date: January 29, 2021, 5:02 am
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I agree we must bravely confront evil, not be disingenuously
positive just to avoid discomfort, which seems to be the
"positivity" of most people hence they turn to hedonism,
desperately clinging to the illusion when true happiness rests
in honour, not analgesic distraction. I'm always getting
reprimanded for "killing the vibe" and "being
annoying/negative", but they're the ones who are really being
negative. Courage and moral indignation have little to do with
the mature virtues of being "pessimistic" or
"grumpy/ill-tempered", genuine positivity has little to do with
hedonism, smiling, hormones, or self-reported happiness.
Furthermore, a line could be drawn between heroic and defeatist
pessimism | heroic and delusional optimism | grumpiness and
brooding | bad-temper (aggression) and sensitivity |
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The bulk of your article was just about the worldly advantages
of grumpiness/bad-temper.
[quote]It turns out that happier participants keep more of the
prize for themselves, while those in a sad mood are
significantly less selfish.[/quote]
Religious children are meaner than their secular counterparts,
study finds
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That settles it. Atheism is more noble than being religious.
*sarcasm*
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General Patton's Death - Accident or Murder?
By: guest5 Date: February 11, 2021, 5:37 pm
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General Patton's Death - Accident or Murder?
[quote]Was General George S. Patton, America's most famous WWII
general, murdered in December 1945? And why? We examine the
circumstances and the theories.[/quote]
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I Asked Leading Entomologists: ‘What’s The Smartest Bug In The W
orld?’
By: guest5 Date: February 11, 2021, 10:11 pm
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I Asked Leading Entomologists: ‘What’s The Smartest Bug In The
World?’
[quote]Some insects can count, recognize human faces, even
invent languages.[/quote]
[quote]The biggest problem with asking about animal intelligence
is defining what we even mean by “intelligence.” The animals
generally thought of as smartest—among them the great apes,
dolphins, and the octopus—are believed to be intelligent because
they demonstrate some of the behaviors that we associate with
our own superiority as humans. These qualities include problem
solving, advanced communication, social skills, adaptability,
and memory, and also physical traits like the comparative size
of the brain or number of neurons in the brain.
Scientists study these qualities, but they study them
individually, as concrete behaviors and attributes, and don’t
usually like to then add up an animal species’ scores on those
qualities and then declare them objectively intelligent.
Insects are a particularly difficult group of animals to study
for these traits, because they’re just so different from us.
Srour walked me through the basics of an insect’s brain, and
holy god, they are so weird. Insects are extremely modular
creatures, not like us at all: the easiest way to understand an
insect’s nervous system is that an insect has many different
sub-brains in different parts of its body, which feed into and
can be controlled by a slightly larger central brain but can
actually also operate separately. The antennae of an insect has
its own brain. So does the mouth, the eyes, and each leg. Even
if the central brain of an insect stops working, its legs still
have their own sub-brains, and can keep walking.[/quote]
Read more:
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Re: I Asked Leading Entomologists: ‘What’s The Smartest Bug In T
he World?’
By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 11, 2021, 11:41 pm
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Westerners always obsess over intelligence.
A better question would be: what is the most Aryan bug in the
world?
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrotermitinae
[quote]The worker termites bring plant material such as dried
grass, decaying wood and leaf litter, back to the mound. This
material is chewed up and semi-digested by the termites,
fertilised with their faeces and placed in the chambers where it
is quickly colonised by the fungus to form a "fungus comb". The
termites cultivate these fungus gardens, adding more substrate
as required, and removing the older parts of the comb for
consumption by all members of the colony.[5][/quote]
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungus-growing_ants
[quote]Leaf cutter ants are sensitive enough to adapt to the
fungi's reaction to different plant material, apparently
detecting chemical signals from the fungus. If a particular type
of leaf is toxic to the fungus, the colony will no longer
collect it.
...
The fungi used by the higher attine ants no longer produce
spores. These ants fully domesticated their fungal partner 15
million years ago, a process that took 30 million years to
complete.[8] Their fungi produce nutritious and swollen hyphal
tips (gongylidia) that grow in bundles called staphylae, to
specifically feed the ants.[9]
...
The Atta colombica species, unusually for the Attine tribe, have
an external waste heap. Waste transporters take the waste, which
consists of used substrate and discarded fungus, to the waste
heap. Once dropped off at the refuse dump, the heap workers
organise the waste and constantly shuffle it around to aid
decomposition. A compelling observation of A. colombica was the
dead ants placed around the perimeter of the waste
heap.[10][11][/quote]
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My Husband Abandoned My Daughters And Me Because We Have Blue Ey
es
By: guest5 Date: February 15, 2021, 4:46 pm
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My Husband Abandoned My Daughters And Me Because We Have Blue
Eyes
[quote]Risikat Azeez is a blue-eyed mother of two blue-eyed
daughters in Ilorin, Kwara State.
In an interview with The PUNCH, she spoke about her childhood
with her unusually-coloured eyes. She also shared how her
husband, Abdulwasiu Omo Dada, abandoned her and her daughters
because of their blue eyes. [/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GFQZuiyLP0
Stunning Transformation of Risikat and Her Daughters With Blue
Eyes After Help From Public
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Kwara First Lady, Emir Reconciled Us, Mended Our Broken Marriage
- Blue-Eyed Woman, Husband
[quote]The blue-eyed lady, Risikat Azeez and her husband, Wasiu,
has revealed the roles of the Kwara State First Lady, Olufolake
Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq and the monarch of Ilorin in the mending
of their broken marriage.[/quote]
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Tribes of Europa
By: guest5 Date: February 25, 2021, 12:24 am
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[quote]In 2029, a mysterious global blackout led to decades of
chaos and anarchy.
The old nations disappeared. Countless micro-states emerged,
developing their own beliefs and cultural identities. [/quote]
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A Defense of the Reality of Time (And Not Einstein's Special The
ory of Relativity)
By: guest5 Date: February 25, 2021, 10:16 pm
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A Defense of the Reality of Time
[quote]They would reply that it’s a consequence of Einstein’s
special theory of relativity, which holds that time is a fourth
dimension.[/quote]
[quote] This notion that time is just a fourth dimension is
highly misleading. In special relativity, the time directions
are structurally different from the space directions. In the
timelike directions, you have a further distinction into the
future and the past, whereas any spacelike direction I can
continuously rotate into any other spacelike direction. The two
classes of timelike directions can’t be continuously transformed
into one another.
Standard geometry just wasn’t developed for the purpose of doing
space-time. It was developed for the purpose of just doing
spaces, and spaces have no directedness in them. And then you
took this formal tool that you developed for this one purpose
and then pushed it to this other purpose. [/quote]
Entire article:
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Are We Mythless From a Jungian Perspective?
By: guest5 Date: February 28, 2021, 2:12 pm
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Tech Billionaires - Are They Colonising Our Future?
[quote]Billionaires wealth has grown by a trillion dollars in
the pandemic, and as the majority of the ideas about tomorrow
are now conceived by a tiny minority of ultra-wealthy
individuals and private-sector companies - are tech billionaires
colonising our future?[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe4MrUhuE60
[quote]The breakdown of a central myth is like the shattering of
a vessel containing a precious essence; the fluid is spilled and
drains away, soaked up by the surrounding undifferentiated
matter. Meaning is lost. In its place, primitive and atavistic
contents are reactivated. Differentiated values disappear and
are replaced by the elemental motivations of power and pleasure,
or else \the individual is exposed to emptiness and despair.
With the loss of awareness of a transpersonal reality (God), the
inner and outer anarchies of competing personal desires take
over. — Edward F. Edinger[/quote]
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The King: Great Film About Monarchy!
By: guest5 Date: March 5, 2021, 6:01 pm
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One of the more memorable films I've ever seen and I believe it
gives an accurate account of what true Monarchy is all about.
I've always thought the best motto for Monarchy would be: "One
for all and all for one!". This attitude is expressed well in
the film The King. I think the battle scene between France and
England is also an accurate depiction of how brutal and
unforgiving the battles between ancient peoples used to be.
Perhaps the only other depiction of such battles that is on par
with the battle scene in The King is the "Battle of the
Bastards" battle depicted in the series The Game of Thrones?
Great ancient kings used to ride into battle with their armies
and fight along side their men. True leaders always lead from
the front, thus gaining the respect of their fellow countrymen.
Ultimately, this is most likely why the wars of monarchs under a
monarchy are often less bloody than the wars of the people under
a democracy, because kings fight in all the wars they start,
whereas under democracy the people who support war in far of
lands get to stay home and go about their daily lives without
much interruption, never paying too much mind to those dying in
those far off lands....
Could anyone who reads this imagine Trump, Biden, Obama, Bush,
etc. leading anyone into battle? Of course not, these are
Western business men who push pencils and paper from the safety
of their seats. Furthermore, two of the presidents previously
mentioned dodged military service altogether, Trump being on of
them. So the question becomes, why and when did humans decide it
was better for cowardly businessmen and pencil pushers to lead
nations into war than a King who will go to war with you in
person? Answer: research the French Revolution.
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Re: Random Thoughts....
By: guest5 Date: April 5, 2021, 3:16 pm
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Love this song! The best melodies are usually the simplest!
Back to the Trenches
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