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Showing posts with label THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS. Show all posts

Friday, June 26, 2015

"Homophobe" is a stupid word

[THOUGHT EXPERIMENT]

I think it's incorrect to refer to these guys or this guy or this fellow as "homophobes." The term is an innacurate convention of English. None of these people, or others like them, are really afraid of "homos." Many people who liberals label as homophobes actually stalk "homos" to bully or assault.

It seems clear that what "homophobes" fear, in fact, is their own recognized homoerotic impulses; they fear being recognized to have these urges or giving in to them.

So I think we need a new label for "homophobes." I recommend that from now on we refer to them as "faggots."

Friday, September 12, 2014

Optional paranoia

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[THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS]

Sometimes I like to let my mind meditate on topics such as this.

I don't watch graphic horror movies, or other exploitatively violent commercial productions, or viral web videos. Instead, I indulge in meditations on topics like these to satisfy my (subconscious) impulse to terrify myself. It seems that most (web-conneceted) humans have a similar impulse, considering how familiar the internet and old-media operations seem to be with videos of overseas beheadings and various kinds of domestic executions.

Obviously, the link (no better or worse than 50/50) is probably published mainly to give its author the same kind of paranoiac gratification I referred to above. And, I'd ask if this fellow really "knows more" than the multitude of other Virginia-based psychos who are cashing in on their (rapidly aging) mastery of "how things work."

But let your mind experiment. What if the "hypothesis" explored by the article really did give a direct glimpse into federal governance? Suspend disbelief and consider what else would be implied by that reality? How would it change your worldview?