GENIUS FORUMS

What would be the difference between an intentional persuader and an unintentional persuader? Wouldn't an intentional persuader be more of a manipulator than an unintentional one? Yes, I guess it would. The idea would be that we're playing the game of persuasion all the time in milder forms or that...

Maybe some women are becoming gnawingly aware of the possibility of men waking up in general, and as a fearful reaction these women frantically try to re-enlist those 'straying' men into a commitment to keeping society running? Maybe this will be a new movement after feminism XD As a non intellectu...

Maybe some women are becoming gnawingly aware of the possibility of men waking up in general, and as a fearful reaction these women frantically try to re-enlist those 'straying' men into a commitment to keeping society running? Maybe this will be a new movement after feminism XD As a non intellectua...

yuck! I never demanded you explain anything to me. You're the one who came into this topic criticizing people that they don't understand masculinity and femininity, and in a very blunt way. I've been telling you, if you really knew better, you wouldn't waste so much time an energy angrily criticizin...

Last years I've been following more regularly some output from Scott Adams and I think he's a smart guy with good humor and some insights into especially all things Trump but also how socially constructed realities work for us in general. You might know him as creator of the Dilbert cartoons. Altho...

Soooo summarizing your post, according to you a lot of people here don't know what they're talking about when it comes to masculinity and femininity? Let me put in the most direct and, if you will permit me, the most uncompromising terms: the founders of this forum, and very definitely Diebert and ...

Then again, what would be the correct and realistic definition of left and right wing politics? A very good question, to which Pye has a very good answer . You seemed to think that it portrays the extremes, but how better to delineate a fundamental binary? The extremes don't deny the possibility of...

I went into this subject because I'm in a difficult situation where someone I know is going through trouble, and it's hard for me to figure out how much the situation can be helped and how much I can help given my level of clarity What has surprised me is how little can be done beyond the basics. P...

If aid being given is explicitely labeled to be aid by people, as it is in say political policies, social rules, etc. it's very unlikely to have come as a result of a buddha mind state Political policies and social rules never comprise more than a tiny amount of reason, regardless of what they are ...

The confounder of unreasonableness is in general always present unless we're dealing with fully enlightened people. Otherwise this discussion wouldn't be necessary in the first place. Therefore a measure of the amount of aid given in general does not need to or can even be controlled for unreasonab...

The confounder of unreasonableness is in general always present unless we're dealing with fully enlightened people. Otherwise this discussion wouldn't be necessary in the first place. Therefore a measure of the amount of aid given in general does not need to or can even be controlled for unreasonab...

I think if you're a buddha, even the foulest fart would smell like divinity itself

I'm fairly certain the OP isn't interested in any real discussion, but a better and perhaps related question to ask might be "how and to what extent can masculinity and femininity manifest in politics?" Politics discriminates and acts, which are masculine because they need reasoning and b...

The confounder of unreasonableness is in general always present unless we're dealing with fully enlightened people. Otherwise this discussion wouldn't be necessary in the first place. Therefore a measure of the amount of aid given in general does not need to or can even be controlled for unreasonabl...

For example, in a family, if the child comes to the parents for financial aid, will a father be more likely than a mother to refuse to help? Will the mother try to seduce the father into providing aid? In social circles, will women manipulate men into giving others aid they would otherwise not have...

I have to say I'm not well read enough in history to answer your questions. Maybe another way to verify whether the left and right are each rooted in the feminine and masculine is by observing right wing/left wing type behaviours in the context of smaller groups in the present. For example, in a fam...

The fact that Leftist ideologies are of the Feminine is something so obvious and matter of fact that one would have to be severely detached from reality if they were to deny this. That explicitly Leftist political movements around the world find greater support among women is all that needs to be s...

I'm fairly certain the OP isn't interested in any real discussion, but a better and perhaps related question to ask might be "how and to what extent can masculinity and femininity manifest in politics?" Politics discriminates and acts, which are masculine because they need reasoning and b...

I associate the left with the feminine, with nature, unconsciousness, and the right with the masculine and the spiritual. Both sides seem necessary to me, and both can go bad. So in recent times and in history as well, I wonder, what are the methods by which the right and more specifically the left ...