Prince Myshkin

I so wish that had been filmed. Both the argument and the moment of him learning the fallacy.

You're both great people in my eyes. You've both come out with interesting posts on serious topics and you're not filled with hate. You both have a good level of self awareness too. Nothing to dislike in either of you.

Don't apologise. People can learn a lot from each other with openness, and this is your ideal place to share it given face to face could be harder. If anything, it's a good thing. Things like anxiety are not very well understood by the general public, passed nerves for exams and hating work, etc. The internet is proving a crucial platform for these kind of things to be heard, hopefully leading to greater empathy and an adjustment to help these people and find a way in which to make things easier for them.

I agree with a lot of this. Solidarity is essential and I find it weird when people crave absolute solitude, Christopher McCandless style. There is much to learn from solitude but the very evolution of humans has depended on solidarity. It's what has lead to our increased intelligence, what has brought about all culture, what has led to established technique that can help us achieve solitude, safely. I watched a BBC Horizon last week (not sure when it was from but it was this summer) about what makes us human and part of it was looking at pregnancy and the gestation period and the fact that when we are born we are totally incapable of looking after ourselves. In the rest of nature (to varying degrees), the animals don't have the same level of helplessness and have greater levels of self reliance. Some can walk on their first days, others can fucking fly. They are all about instinct for survival, and it is within them biologically (like we have with breathing and other basic functions that we can do from the very beginning). Anyway, the fact we are born early means that we need to be looked after in order to survive and keep the species going. This means that we are raised on both instinct and also things that we are taught. We are taught things, and these things get passed down from generations and generations previous. Techniques, cultures, concepts, everything. We take them on board because we have that connection with our parents, which spreads out to society, further increasing the amount of information we can take in. Without solidarity we would be a completely different species.

https://capuk.org/

There is a rare British bat which has ears three times the size of its head.

Good.

I googled lameman and it came up at the top. In my mind it's going to become the equivalent of cool story bro, except for posts about bad shit. But I don't know how the Internet works so it'll never happen.

Lam, Eman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eman_Lam

Part of a deal to spare the death penalty? Bit weird.

Glide.

Now there's a sig worthy post. It's been my sole motivation for returning to the board. All those bloody awards.

I just wanna see you kids play nicely, that's all.

But yeah, I no doubt read too much into it. Still, got another bloody good thread out of it, didn't I?

That particular thing was one part of it. But the main one which could have become something bigger. Discussions on weirdness and introvertedness to an extent which lacked health. I could see shit going down. But generally, people seemed to be snipey all over the place. People generally getting slightly annoyed, whether it's been Cobalt and Tnspieler or people who don't usually have any iota of negativity in them usually.

Uh oh, the key players are back.

The tenseness was arising from a lack of clarification and just general posts. It could be an absence of the key players rather than positivity through randomness.

Board seeming less tense.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/08/07/stephen-fry-compares-russian-winter-olympics-to-nazi-hosted-1936-olympics-in-letter-to-david-cameron/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Pinknews+%28Pink+News%29 Please read.

Do they tend to be things simply to pass the time, like games or entertainment, or do they tend to be concepts or thought provoking articles that can provide changes in your outlook? Obviously both of these possibilities can be have positive and negative outcomes. Games can improve your problem solving abilities, entertainment can shape you culturally in a positive manner, and outlooks can be changed for the worse.

I reckon they have Skype orgies all the time.

There are no special powers. Only biases.

In experiencing this solitude do you fill the space more with the creations and ideas of others, or do you wrestle with your own internal thoughts? I very much lean towards solidarity, and my time alone is often at its most productive when I am taking in what the rest of the world has to offer. Obviously I then go on to interpret this into my own model of preconceptions (I'm certainly no blank slate), but generally I thrive in listening and meeting up with others. A total absence of solitude is not something I would want though, of course.

Good answer.

Spider-Man for Mod!!