Icelander said:

Yeah you're all they think about.

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Nah, just most of the time

Cognitive_Shift said:

I would type a response to either you or Icelander, but i will just get banned from this forum.

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Cognitive_Shift said:

I wasn't going to respond in insult.  The mods in this forum keep my ass hole puckered up like a snare drum.

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There's an easy way around that.  Ignore the assholes (and Diploid, neither post was in reference to anyone in particular ).

Cognitive_Shift said:

What happens when rational debate offends someone?  Why does everyone turn their head?

We need to start dealing with anxiety provoking stimulus instead of throwing down the argument of ignorance and say "its not for the classroom"

In the US black men are 7 times more likely to go to jail then white men (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12154123/)

However when this fact is interpreted its seen as "racist" and the head of ignorance digs its head back into the sand.  People need to start realizing reality, instead of ignoring it.  I think this is a great tragedy of western society.  This ability to just turn your head at the sight of something we don't want to see.  It's what we are doing to our planet, turning the head.  "We will deal with it later."  And it is our greatest downfall.  We need to teach or children to be polite, but we must also teach them reality... not this mass hallucination induced by culture.

How do you change a society to start dealing with anxiety provoking stimuli?  I think we must start teaching them to not be lazy, care about the weirdness, wonder about things.  Examine reality in an unbiased fashion void of its political, social, or economic value.  But its too late for that. 

We are fucked beyond all repair.  People are too comfortable in ignorance.  Mine as well just hedonistically indulge in repetitive compulsive behavior feeding immediate gratification

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