'He ain't slender, but he always gets his man. She ain't a man, but she sure as hell is slender. John Goodman plays Adam Slender, a renegade cop who doesn't play by the rules, with Joely Richardson...|||I don't subcribe to any organised or codified spiritual doctrine and I don't believe in the supernatural, which is usually what people mean when they talk about religion. Whether or not I am...|||Nonsense, but terrifying nonsense. :P Like alien visitors, I read about it, scoff and dismiss it as a load of rubbish, but I'm still looking over my shoulder nervously for an hour or so afterwards. :P|||I love animals. Better than people. I get on naturally well with most animals, particularly dogs. Particularly big dogs, or any big animal. A lot of animals seem quick to trust me. Small animals, I...|||@Aurum : I think there's a case to be made that the pharmaceutical industry is guilty of inventing epidemics - not on purpose, I think, but they've exploited a situation. But I think there's a...|||@Rather Unusual : I've been on a few things. Without wanting to sound like a spokesperson of the pharmaceutical industry, I think it's a matter of finding the drug that works for you. That's easy if...|||That's not what I'm getting at at all. Just that different purposes require different approaches. I wouldn't dare make an appeal to my own authority; I'm only a student.|||I think I would go pretty much everywhere. If I could go forward, I'd go far enough that I could be made immortal, then go back very, very far and just live through it all. And then go back again to...|||The song Monkey & Bear by Joanna Newsom.    Deep in the night shone a weak and miserly light, where the monkey shouldered his lamp. Someone had told him the bear'd been wandering a fair piece...|||I appreciate the anticapitalist sentiment, but I don't think they are right. I think self-regulating systems defy the laws of physics: the third law of thermodynamics dictates that the system must...|||Sarcastic, surrealist, sometimes dark. The hardest I've ever laughed at someone just speaking was someone parodying comments on the website of the Daily Mail; he was so spot-on and biting, and his...|||No, I suppose it wasn't very spiritually grounded. I suppose because I still have no idea what that means. It could mean forcing an oppressive, hierarchical religion and possibly the most toxic...|||I disagree strongly with it being destructive, if he's talking about culture. I believe the exact opposite. Nature is cruel. If you're born weak, you die; if you're born strong, you live and prosper...|||That's 200,000 years before present, with behavioural modernity at roughly 50,000 years before present, not 10,000 years. The first permanent settlements already existed 10,000 years ago, inhabited...|||I just find the notion of 'spiritual charity' for the ungrateful brats of billionaires when there are people vomiting blood because their drinking water's filthy as a direct result of the...|||I think the spiritual suffering of the super rich (and besides, they can afford enough headshrinking to get a scrip for happy pills if they're that upset with their opulent luxury) pales into...|||Poor little CEOs, how terrible is their suffering.|||That doesn't change the fact that Whynd's speaking about a nonexistent society. Who lived in peace with nature? Find me an anthropologist who would use that description of any culture that's ever...|||@Jennywocky :  Certainly, there are workable generalisations. It depends largely on what you want one for. What I'm concerned about is making restrictive, false generalisations - creating...|||Hunter-gathering isn't all dancing, chanting and sleeping, you know. There's also a great deal of dying of easily curable illnesses and injuries involved. It is true that in hunter-gatherer cultures,...|||I think someone who's experienced both would, aside from not really having experienced one or the other in the same way as anyone who's only experienced one, still only understand an individual...|||Is it the same thing if it can change? Teiresias, who lived alternate lives as a man and as a woman, might have been able to compare them fairly. Then again, having known one as well as the other...|||What is a group other than the average of the wills of a number of individuals? One need not submit to the will of a group, one need only share one's will with a group. This doesn't constitute...|||No one has experienced both, so no one can fairly compare the two.|||I get something like limerence for people I've just met, sometimes, if something about them stands out - usually about their personality; if they're attractive I just fancy them, and it's different...|||I had a dream where I was in some sort of '70s-decorated psychological laboratory as part of a group of test subjects. We did psychometric tests, ran on treadmills with electrodes on our heads, that...|||My gran is a very matriarchal ESFJ and manipulates people without even thinking about it. To combat it, I just bluntly ask her what her hidden motive is to show that I know what she's doing and it's...|||I personally think you should steer clear of religion altogether lest you find priests breathing down your neck, or if you really need one, just do what comes to you intuitively rather than reading...|||That's interesting. I went to a shrink when I was younger who lamented that my rational and irrational sides seemed to be totally out of touch with one another, like they existed indepedently of one...|||Being gay, I'm sort of excluded from the manliness contest that seems to be constantly going on between all straight men. I don't really understand why anyone would want to feel or be 'more manly'....|||That was Sylvia Plath, surely? Then again, she was very possibly an INFP.  I can be transparent or I can be totally opaque. If I'm properly upset about something, I try not to show the slightest...|||Since the first thing I did when I got up this morning was make a politically charged post here...   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYiKdJoSsb8|||With our present means, the elimination of suffering does seem impossible yes.   That said, 40,000 years ago we could cross rivers and chennels, but it seemed impossible to cross the sea, yet we...|||There is such a thing as workplace organisation that a lot of people seem to have given up on. Unions are supposed to unite workers to give them leverage to make transitional demands, yet a lot of...|||I also consider it to be true that my morals are my own. Unfortunately, I don't exist in a vacuum. I'm surrounded by people whose actions have consequences. It is within my power to influence those...|||Proving people wrong gives me no pleasure, either. I do find pleasure, however, in disabusing people of beliefs that lead them to harmful and destructive behaviour. There is pleasure, for me, to be...|||I'm speculating here; I'm not a marine biologist. :P It's also possible that they don't possess empathy, as we understand it. They may confuse us with other dolphins. They may be acting tactically to...|||If our morals aren't the ultimate factor in our decision making, this does not impede us from striving that they should be. As far as I'm aware, dolphins are not known to have sufficiently...|||The great white shark is not a moral agent; you and I, on the other hand, are. We didn't ask to be moral agents. If your preferences are being superseded by others' wills, then you're being treated...|||They're exempt because they're incapable of preference, like sand or the moon or a baseball bat. The only things that need to be taken into moral consideration are those which are capable of being...|||Of course it is, and neither do I mean to dispute your right to hold it nor do I mean anything personal by challenging it. But no one has a right not to be disagreed with, and if I see something...|||Well, you might not have managed to express your motives, convincingly, at least. But I don't think I correctly apportion blame to myself, it's just a strategy to keep me from becoming frustrated...|||My dad seems to be an INFP, too. I'm male and gay, incidentally. I rated our relationship a 5. He's supportive, but not in an overbearing, intrusive way. I was depressed for a few years, and when I...|||Again, though, there are numerous aspects of nature - both of our own nature and of nature in general - that we would certainly reject as wrong. That something is natural does not make it right any...|||An arguing INFP is an interesting thing, because you never know quite where the line beyond which reason is no longer applicable lies. :P|||It's not totally healthy (according to the shrink I had a couple of years ago, at least... ><) but I tend to blame myself for being misunderstood: there is a way to communicate with this person that...|||Because you're more intelligent by orders of magnitude and possess cognitive abilities to which they don't even have an equivalent, like the ability to conceive of the future, self-awareness and...|||I internalise it as much as I can. I do get rather short with people; I snap, I tut, I scowl, I'm rude when usually I'm almost sycophantically polite. Inside my head, I'm promising a million...|||I sort of resent the fact that I have necessary bodily functions, anyway, so I couldn't really care less about my food as long as it does its basic job of keeping me alive. If I'm going to eat...|||I don't find the health aspect relevant. In the absence of alternatives, I would turn to meat no quicker than I would turn to cannibalism, which is to say that I'd starve first.   To say that it's...'