28 Jun 19:25
--I'm not upset, I'm sorry if I upset you, didn't meant too!
Shout Box archive
28 Jun 19:23
--Empathy is our best tool here, putting ourselves in the other guy's shoes and understanding what he feels.
28 Jun 19:23
--It's ok John and Mech....I'll disengage now lol. I don't think I'm going to be able to be clear enough in a shoutbox discussion
28 Jun 19:22
--I think that actually thinking about what violence is and what it means is the best way to cure us of it. I think a lot of people be inured to it by unrealistic depictions of it.
28 Jun 19:22
--Yeah, we are probably the only species that has to contemplate its own mortality!
28 Jun 19:21
--Wasn't talking abot0ut that link Muzz...yeah we're all gonna die, and we don't like the idea....not arguing with that haha
28 Jun 19:21
--@Amit: Hey man, it is. And I'm happy for you that you aren't in this position. Some of us literally need to break a beer bottle just to cross the street of crazy rowdy people.
28 Jun 19:21
--I'm just saying that people behave in scary ways, and you seem to be implying that we are participating in making it that way.
28 Jun 19:20
--Terror management theory isn't trying to tell you that you should be scared lmao
28 Jun 19:20
--And where whole groups of people hate other groups of people, just for being different.
28 Jun 19:19
--We all do. We all live in a world where some people are willing to kill to get there way.
28 Jun 19:19
--yeah! I think it's a very useful way to understand the world. it explains why people get more racist around terror attacks.
28 Jun 19:19
--You know what is crazy though, think of what might happen if humans became entirely peaceful. And then we found out that everyone else in the galaxy hadn't. What then?
28 Jun 19:18
--This makes Transhumanism another means of Terror Managment, doesn't it? XD
28 Jun 19:17
--If you want a proper understanding of it, look for a guy called sheldon solomon on youtube.