Transgenderism is so literal-minded. 'I'm having feelings more often associated women. I must be a woman.' Christ, have some imagination. There are hundreds of ways of being a man, hundreds of ways of being a woman. Can you imagine that? 'No, there's only one way. So therefore I'm really a woman.' 99% of transgenderism is bullshit. A failure of the imagination. "In the mornings after a heavy night out I can't move much. I think in those times I must be a paraplegic." It is pathetically literal-minded.
talking about stomach problems, msmith to david
"your mind is doing all the heavy lifting. You're not letting your body take the weight. And the reason why your mind is not letting your body do this is because your mind has too much time on its hands and wants something to do. When your mind is occupied by moving your life forward, your stomach will start moving forward on its own. Trust me.
supratentorial - what doctors say when they mean it's in the mind.
fear
Fear of being associated with trump: lab leak, hydroxy
fear of viruses - hence the gain of function research
The aliens
Fear is the core of sentient life, conscious life.
Our civilisation was ending through fear. We somehow managed to escape. But when we got to earth, we were terrified of saying hello. We know the only way to cope with fear is distraction. So we got really good at building craft, technology in general. Fifty years ago our stuff was pretty ropey, but now, it's fucking top notch.
We are at the point when even childhood friends will turn away if you get death threats from jihadists. They might even think you deserve it. This is the pit-of-hell in which we find ourselves, the canine teeth exposed as civilisation frays. All the normal intelligence and empathy of a functioning society decays to a sharp, blood-flecked spike as we become dog-like. What's behind all of it is not respect and politeness to minority groups, but fear. The turning away is an act of cowardice. Things have got to a point where survival feels threatened and it brings out the animal. It keeps happening. We're still not learning, even now, to recognise and deal with fear; neither the issuer of the death-threat, nor the associate of the threatened. It's a cascade of fear. And for what? Opinions. Feelings. Thoughts. Reflections. Memories. Hopes. And so it goes. And so those who hold memories of freedom and progress are stuck out like sore thumbs to take the flak. Oh, but, they've gone horribly right-wing. They've joined the hard-right. Is Monty Python hard right? Is Lenny Bruce hard-right? Richard Dawkins? Alan Bennett? Stewart Lee? That was our culture. It mocked religion. It wasn't that long ago. We were allowed to do it. And it seemed like a good idea at the time. I've not gone insane. You have. You've forgotten who you are. You've forgotten your life. Actually no, you've not forgotten it. You've ditched it. I'M NOT DITCHING. I'm not I'm not I'm not. And that's that.