Post what you're thinking right now.

[zaftig]

Someone who is capable of a view, different from ones own, should be seen as an inspiration, and certainly not as a person to reject, outright.

Depends though if their view is damaging or not.

... but see, that's the thing we must naturalize. "Damage" is mostly just a challenge to our growth, making us stronger as we learn from it.

In a way I agree with you.  Without opposition, nothing would ever get accomplished.  If Rosa Parks hadn't refused her seat to a white man, the road to the Civil Rights Movement would have been much longer. 

BUT if the other view (in this example racist) didn't exist, there wouldn't be a need to rebel in the first place   


I mean, I don't see extremists, neo-nazis or any other crazies as particularly inspiring.

[Pyraxis]

i hate how people cant see things from my point of view when i know i am right. i cant understannd iut

Exactly, but it causes me to think less of them.

I get intensely curious until I think I've worked out what brings them to have their views. Then I seek to convert.

Perhaps too strongly. The jury's still out on that one. I've had both very good and very bad results.

Or, in more rare cases, I seek to learn.

[Calandale]

I mean, I don't see extremists, neo-nazis or any other crazies as particularly inspiring.

I do. They show us that we CAN (and should) oppose things.

[DirtDawg]

Someone who is capable of a view, different from ones own, should be seen as an inspiration, and certainly not as a person to reject, outright.

Depends though if their view is damaging or not.

... but see, that's the thing we must naturalize. "Damage" is mostly just a challenge to our growth, making us stronger as we learn from it.

In a way I agree with you.  Without opposition, nothing would ever get accomplished.  If Rosa Parks hadn't refused her seat to a white man, the road to the Civil Rights Movement would have been much longer. 

BUT if the other view (in this example racist) didn't exist, there wouldn't be a need to rebel in the first place   


I mean, I don't see extremists, neo-nazis or any other crazies as particularly inspiring.

Unfortunate, that.

[zaftig]

5 more posts till I reach 500.

Then I'm outta here.

[Calandale]

YOu missed.

[Peter]

I just came out of the shower 20 minutes ago, and already I can smell my armpits quite clearly, despite having rubbed soap into them and rinsed them.  It's not necessarily a bad smell, just a Peter smell, but it's quite noticeable.  Mum and my sisters complain about my strong smell, but other people don't seem to notice or be offended by it, even when I ask them about it.  It's natural that my mum and sisters would be disinclined to my body odour given that we're related, but I wonder how other people perceive it.  I'm wearing a vest top right now, which makes the smell sharper and more acute; with a shirt or t-shirt, it diffuses into the fabric to give a more mellow, musky smell, which is probably more pleasing to people.

[DirtDawg]

I just came out of the shower 20 minutes ago, and already I can smell my armpits quite clearly, despite having rubbed soap into them and rinsed them.  It's not necessarily a bad smell, just a Peter smell, but it's quite noticeable.  Mum and my sisters complain about my strong smell, but other people don't seem to notice or be offended by it, even when I ask them about it.  It's natural that my mum and sisters would be disinclined to my body odour given that we're related, but I wonder how other people perceive it.  I'm wearing a vest top right now, which makes the smell sharper and more acute; with a shirt or t-shirt, it diffuses into the fabric to give a more mellow, musky smell, which is probably more pleasing to people.

Yeah. I always smelll myself, but I am aslo told that I have no smell. I think the rest of the people in the world hase no sense of smell, unless the smells is are very strong.

[zaftig]

I might watch Singin' in the Rain



Crap quality, great scene.

[zaftig]

Wrong thread 

I can't be arsed to go to work today.

[Calandale]

Rather see Clockwork Orange,
the song is done so much better there. 

[zaftig]

Haven't seen that in ages.

Actually, maybe I'll make it a Kubrick night/morning today 

Have got a taste for a musical though.

[Calandale]

Clockwork orange isn't a musical? 

[zaftig]

Not counting Beethoven, I fear A Cloakwork Orange isn't exactly musical 

[Calandale]

But, there's singing in it.

About as much as I can handle.

musicals are gay.