Displaying 301 To 330 Of 1,872 Comments Stoner Question: What is Money? Fruitcakes ROCK! [img]http://rlv.zcache.com/mmmm_fruitcake_t_shirt-p235965666091778810trlf_400.jpg[/img] » Posted By Questinia On January 18, 2011 @ 5:04 am I LOVE FRUITCAKES!! Are we the only ones? In that case we should form a coalition. We need to start managing a PR campaign to reverse the awful rep they have. Of which I am guilty of perpetuating. I am truly sorry for trying to fit in with the fruitcake-haters. I am not worthy of fruitcake! » Posted By Questinia On January 18, 2011 @ 4:56 am Invest in fruitcakes as they could be the next currantsy. » Posted By Questinia On January 18, 2011 @ 4:40 am SUCH an interesting post, Cher! I’m one of those people who finds money vulgar and an embarrassment to have to think so much about because of just the inanity of the delusion! Can you imagine how much TIME is spent on fretting about money? How many divorces occur because of money? Time IS money! Let’s get rid of it and deal with another lucre. In Katz’ Delicatessan, for instance they have tickets. But tickets are dumb too. We should deal in FOOD! Like a lean brisket sandwich will get you a new roof (OK, it would have to be awesome brisket and a year’s worth). The best cooks and bakers would be the “richest”. They could teach lesser cooks to hone their skills. Prep cooks could be the new work force and, you guessed it, sous-chefs would be middle management. The only “fiscal” crisis would occur around Christmas time when there would be an influx of bad fruitcake into the “eggconomy”. Places like McDonald’s would go out of business because they do not deal in food. It’s as faux as the money that it puts into investors’ pockets. OMG, I am SO hungry right now. » Posted By Questinia On January 18, 2011 @ 2:02 am Martin Luther King Jr. – Remembrance and Revival I wonder how MLK would have fared with the Patriot Act in effect. » Posted By Questinia On January 18, 2011 @ 1:27 am It’s really hard to be purely reasonable because of your indignation, Cher. I know because I feel it too. Avidly. But as I state above, the indignation needs to be attended to within us as we “fight back” in a more integrated way. People were attuned to the MLK sixties, as you say because it was the zeitgeist. MLK and the people were resonating. Now there is a dissonance, but it is the dissonant voices of the unheard sixties who were not on board. The trick is how to get them on board without splitting ourselves off from the indignation it brings up in us and resorting to bland recitation of policies, even if they are “good medicine”. Nor is caving in to unedited expressions of rabid retribution the answer. The idea, imo, is to use the anger we feel to make us aware of the anger they feel regardless of its origins or justifiability. Their anger simply just is. How does one deal with anger, tantrums, fear, and anxiety without becoming condescending, impatient, or angry oneself. How does one become the nurturing parent? Are we honestly dealing with Hitlers on the right? Or Stalins? Are any of the truly malevolent anything more than the higher, more strident registers of anger and intolerance of the mid-range? Look what happens when their rhetoric has actual consequences. The shootings in Tucson (at least now and hopefully never) were not part of a battle cry to storm anything that is left of very right. There was the understanding that hyperbole might need to be toned down and not become the mid-range of that anger, fear ,and intolerance. I think this is the challenge of today: How our country deals with the limiting factors in this society that impede progress. » Posted By Questinia On January 17, 2011 @ 6:07 pm “Obama’s approval numbers rising. Ultimately, all of this is good news but it does seem to portray how some voters’ political beliefs are quite malleable and often shaped by prejudices and negative emotions rather than reason and principles”. You are being such a hopeless Democrat, my dearest Adlib!! 🙂 I am being a bit hyperbolic, you know. Reason and principles are NOT where it’s at for people. People don’t lead “reasonable” lives in accordance with policies and ideologies. They don’t seek nor are they attracted to reasonable policies with which to to go along. They are primarily emotive and when they are experiencing negative emotions those emotions do inform and taint any brain processes “higher” than that. So, while I agree with your code words for racism, I don’t think racism needed to be operative as much as perhaps it is. Plausible racism is the result of a natural and instinctually primordial displacement of negative affect upon the “other”. Externalization of the blame is as human as tears. There is a void when policies and reason are the only things which take center stage to the exclusion of the negative feelings people are having in their lives. Even if those feelings originate from the prejudicial, ill-informed, base, or offensive. In other words, are anti-MLK’s advancements. That takes TRUE tolerance. The great thing about MLK, and something that Obama could probably learn from, is that MLK knew how to mobilize the disenfranchised in our society and many of the enfranchised. Even though the disenfranchised in those days were of similar skin color to that hero of our nation’s past, the elemental sufferings of people know no color. That is the challenge Obama faces today. That is where Obama needs to stand on the shoulders of a great man who had to evolve our collective consciousness to accept equality of all persons regardless of race. It is from that starting point that Obama needs to both consolidate MLK’s movement forward while addressing similar concerns for all people. That is ultimately the “dream”. The dream may not be in living in the same neighborhoods, sharing the same friends, holding the same ideologies, having the same earning potential or occupying the same economic niche, but it may be one where people show honor and respect to other allowing for differences rather than trying to simply integrate one into the other to create balance and equality. MLK needed to show how all people should be treated equally. Separate yet unequal was the legal ruling. Obama may need to evolve our collective consciousness beyond race and that moral ruling to include how we may need to treat people DIFFERENTLY yet equally on the basis of understanding that they DO experience things differently on an emotional level; that the negative emotions of people are valid regardless. Separate YET equal. Obama has started something in his wonderful speech in Tucson. To help things along, it may be that the GOP and their ilk shot their wad when they won in November. The dissenters may now be more willing to take in what Obama says simply because their pain, including the pain and anxiety of having a different and uncategorizable President, has been given a concrete yet simultaneously symbolic voice. As irrational as that choice was. If someone seems not to be recognizing your pain the natural, albeit less sophisticated response, is to say “enough, I’ll try the only other alternative out there and ‘forget’ they got us here in the first place. I am in pain and ANGRY!” Less sophisticated responses are important too. Separate yet equal. » Posted By Questinia On January 17, 2011 @ 5:21 pm Khirad, it’s the little things that are fehbulous. » Posted By Questinia On January 16, 2011 @ 8:25 pm Jeez, and gracious too 😉 » Posted By Questinia On January 16, 2011 @ 8:22 pm Is mincemeat considered an irregular verb? » Posted By Questinia On January 16, 2011 @ 7:29 pm Globish will be eventually replaced by Galaxish, I suspect. » Posted By Questinia On January 16, 2011 @ 7:28 pm 🙂 » Posted By Questinia On January 16, 2011 @ 6:08 pm c-lady manages to make me feel like a gump in an attic of a house somewhere outside Horseshoe Bend, Idaho. » Posted By Questinia On January 16, 2011 @ 4:55 pm Whatever happened to Esperanza? I feel sorry for anyone who shelled out the bucks to learn it on Rosetta Stone! But these days there is Google translator…. BITO è un tesoro! 😉 » Posted By Questinia On January 16, 2011 @ 4:50 pm It’s funny how these revolutions occur so asynchronously in the world. In Tunisia and elsewhere it’s the intelligentsia revolting, while in this country it’s the ignorantia. Earlier it was the converse. Perhaps something like facebook will provide the sociocultural metronome where all the countries will be more or less on the same page. » Posted By Questinia On January 16, 2011 @ 1:32 pm My simple view on that, Cher, is people can alter their environment (i.e. how they perceive it) which can in turn affect their chemistry in a feedback loop. It’s really all chemistry, including how the environment affects one. All antidepressants really do is “re-set” the brain’s own chemistry to perceive the environment in a more benevolent way, thereby making a favorable feedback loop. Kinda like what Adlib does for us here at POV. 🙂 » Posted By Questinia On January 15, 2011 @ 9:16 pm bito, wow. That is a great documentation of evolving illness. Nightmarish, particularly as he walks up the stairs with a slight maniacal laugh. » Posted By Questinia On January 15, 2011 @ 1:03 pm On some level, he probably knew he was going mad but could do nothing about it. His parents were probably living in a constant state of now knowing what to do and being intimidated by his behavior. Insane people tend to rule the family while the sanest in the family tend to be scapegoated. » Posted By Questinia On January 14, 2011 @ 9:08 pm When you think about it, certain types of paranoid delusional people and people like Palin and her adherents have a lot in common. Palin is “fringe” but fringe is now front and center for many with conservative leanings. Stocking up on assault rifles and ammunition, fearing higher education, rumor as fact, loving to hate things that are different or “puzzling” like foreigners, over-valued ideas that lead to murder as in the case of abortion doctor slayings. People who take the Bible literally, read it incessantly, are obsessional about the Rapture… The fact they they both try to so fervently persuade others of their beliefs further shows the parallels. Fantastic concept, making the juxtaposition of thought and word usage styles of the not-so-fringe. » Posted By Questinia On January 14, 2011 @ 7:29 pm A short vid on what it’s like to have schizophrenic symptoms (as described by actual schizophrenics). http://www.wimp.com/schizophrenicsymptoms/ (put out by Janssen Pharma) » Posted By Questinia On January 14, 2011 @ 6:06 pm The First Obama – Palin Debate Oh futz, I forgot I signed out 😳 » Posted By Questinia On January 14, 2011 @ 6:20 pm Double negatives, kes, make my head hurt! » Posted By Questinia On January 14, 2011 @ 6:18 pm Not I, “BlooAdlibel” » Posted By Questinia On January 14, 2011 @ 4:41 pm Pres. Obama’s Memorial Speech in AZ This is the sort of time that President Obama can show his skill as a “nurturing father” to our nation’s family. How many times wasn’t “family” invoked last night? We were like a family after Christina was born 9/11/01, perhaps we can start to be like a family again after she died. The picture of that little girl and sight of her family in contradistinction to the abject self-promotion Palin displayed in her video makes one thing clear. Our country is capable of greatness on account of its people and we mustn’t let them (us) get lost in the snake oil. » Posted By Questinia On January 13, 2011 @ 8:11 am A Funny Thing Happened On My Way To The Apocalypse » Posted By Questinia On January 11, 2011 @ 8:51 pm I’m telling you. You can’t make this stuff up. I wonder about Karl Rove. Research project: Look at all the hyper-right and their childhoods. » Posted By Questinia On January 11, 2011 @ 8:48 pm That’s what happens when you bend over to pick up your conte crayons 😉 » Posted By Questinia On January 11, 2011 @ 3:50 pm Entre-nous, Khirad, this is the direction I was hoping this post’s discussion would take! » Posted By Questinia On January 11, 2011 @ 3:35 pm You may not have been spanking your child, Cher, but spanking your fear! Beating it back as it were. My father nearly spanked me, and I got so yelled at when I jumped off my horse and landed on newly quarried rocks sustaining a concussion on the side of the road for I don’t know how long. He was so afraid that the only thing he could do to combat the fear was to get angry at his fear’s proxy… me. It even took precedence over my getting medical attention and my dad was a doc! » Posted By Questinia On January 11, 2011 @ 3:20 pm Negative feelings are more insistent and primitive than reason. Objective reasoning requires a degree of equilibrium or at least control and awareness of how feelings affect one’s cognition (i.e. bias). The default mode for many people is anxiety and distrust and it is, in fact, evolutionarily more advantageous, so the more primitive brain colors the pre-frontal cortex. How does one get someone out of a gloomy mood? » Posted By Questinia On January 11, 2011 @ 3:15 pmComments Posted By Questinia
Well how can any of these people form a stable society, economy government, or any other system that doesn’t include their specific fixed ideas?
If the “Q” is meant to intimitate…
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