As a rule, it's only very small children who are never untruthful. According to experts, if your children haven't started lying artfully about once every two hours by the age of four, you're in trouble. It almost certainly means that, like some postmodern theorists, they're failing to distinguish between what is fact and what is fiction. A liar can at least recognise the difference. Only dullards, if we are to believe a McGill University survey, fail to start lying creatively and frequently by the age of four. And who wants a four-year-old postmodernist loose around the house?
No, I don't think Trump is of another species. Rather, he's a dullard of a four-year-old whose body grew while his mind was left behind.
Never forget that even three-year-olds can be as sly as foxes.
While this is beautifully presented, it is not worthy of him. This man is not postmodern. He is malignant. And he is a narcissist. The three-year-old mentality comes with the territory of being a "HUUUGE Narcissist". I do not think he is of another species either, but I think he depicts the lowest of the low on the spectrum of what human beings can sink to. He tops everything I have ever witnessed all in one package of cellulite.
His lies are not the result of experimentation or trying to figure out right from wrong. The lies he tells are always self-serving coupled with ear-splitting diatribes aimed at anyone who dare crosses him. Malignant. Narcissist with a huge dollop of anti-social personality disorder.
Sadly for the USA and the world, I can only agree.
I appreciate your anti-Trump energy, but if I may, I'd like to challenge you.
Social media tends to be an echo chamber in which people are attracted to each other on the basis of their values and then reinforce each other's views.
How can one reach conservatives and help them see why Trump is dangerous? How can we do this in a way in which they will be willing to listen and unlikely to take offence? I'm sure there are answers, but what might they be?
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I'm glad you asked so I can explain this is not the way I comport myself in reality. This is what I need to do to stay sane IN reality.
But in the real world, I treat conservatives like they are the smartest people in the room and I listen and ask questions. PERIOD. I do not assert my opinion EVER. I can't. Because if I do? Then it starts. All the goodwill I am establishing will go right down the drain. But I think you mistake this raging NUTCASE to be the only side of me. No. I am actually sane in the real world and I know that no one is going to hear a word I say if they already drank the Trump Kool-Aide, so I just send them love and talk about any subject besides politics.
But on here? I am a maniac because I CANNOT BELIEVE WHAT THIS MANIAC IS GETTING AWAY WITH.
I too have different sides to me in real life. So I get it.
But I'd love to hear the questions you ask of conservatives.
Socrates was famous for inventing dialectical argument. To solve a problem, he would break it down into a series of questions, the answers to which gradually distil the answer. In philosophy and ethics, he would use this strategy to lead students to correct answers to questions like "what is love" (answer, unconditional love). A series of questions are posed to help a person or group to determine their underlying beliefs and the extent of their knowledge. The Socratic method is a negative method of hypothesis elimination. Better hypotheses are found by steadily identifying and eliminating those that lead to contradictions. It was designed to force one to examine one's own beliefs and the validity of such beliefs. I believe it would be possible to do this with conservative thinking. Though to be fair, one would first have to apply this method to our own views - to be sure that if others reversed the process, we would be ready to meet them and prove the validity of our positions.
This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at June 22, 2019 12:27 AM MDT
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