unapologetic

Unseen wrote:
Whenever I hear that smug narcissistic authoritarian troll JP I want to take a nice blackthorn shillelagh to his kidneys.

Left wing and woke people accuse him of being alt-right, because he’s not left wing or woke (as in, authoritarian left).  He’s a moderate progressive by politics.

Autumn wrote:
Except the ‘woke authoritarianism’ was MADE UP.

Cancel culture.  The woke Left has a recent history of authoritarianism.  That’s what JP was crusading against.  The transgender pronouns issue, ill-judged though it was, was only ever an excuse or a hook to hang the issues on.

Autumn wrote:
The trigger warning lets them know what’s potentially ahead so they can engage with the material on their own terms or not at all. It is, at its core, about trauma.

I know it’s the Daily Mail, which is known for right-wing-serving fabrications.  Yet this is touching on a stereotype that woke people have with the rest of us.  We sus…[Read more]

Autumn wrote:
His lies hurt people.

JP should have chosen a different mascot for his crusade against woke authoritarianism, because that’s what it was, and probably still is (although I don’t follow him on the internet now).  It was never a crusade against transgender rights, or even the pronouns issue.  He/we didn’t understand enough about t…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Being natural being tantamount to ethical would negate ethics. … Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t get this point. Can anyone explain it to me?

I have heard some Muslims say that their God is a pragmatic God, i.e., He just says yes to whatever you were going to do anyway.  This is not ethics, it’s just doing whatever we feel like…[Read more]

Those things may be true about Jordan Peterson, but I don’t think he’s a scoundrel, because I admire him for sticking his neck out.  Even flat-out lying isn’t the worst awful thing in the world.  It’s not like he was defaming anyone’s good name, beyond how they had already defamed it themselves, or trying to save his own skin, or for personal g…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
“For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself.” George Orwell 1984.

Is it really true that undergraduate students have to have trigger warnings for “1984”?  They are frightened of what exactly?

Yet it is one of several literary works which have been flag…

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Simon Paynton wrote:
I see spirituality as psychological transformation from a worse state to a better state.

That’s my definition, which is meaningful.  Someone told me about “self-actualisation” which is to attempt to live up to all one’s potentials.  That’s a spiritual practice under this definition.  However, I agree that generally, the te…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
There is no meaningful definition of it. Yet it is used by people who seem to think that I know what they mean when they use it but cannot furnish me with a definition upon my asking for one.

There’s no generally accepted definition of the word.  But I have a very clear one that I use myself.  It’s like “sociopath” -…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I still ask people to explain what they mean by spiritual. Maybe they mean a journey to a new state of mind?

From the article:

if we take ‘spiritual’ to mean perceiving, communicating with and being influenced by forces (eg, spirits) that other people are not aware of, then the presence of spirituality in psy…

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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
The religious beliefs that drive an inhumane criminal justice system.

Religion has a dark side (vengeful punishment) and a light side (peace, love and charity).  Those who concentrate on the dark side, can be pretty unpleasant.  Those who concentrate on the light side can be a bit passive-aggressive in my e…[Read more]