Thinking inside a very small box

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  1. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    Does anyone else get the feeling that the box inside which we have to think is getting smaller and smaller?
     
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  3. Gustav Banned Banned

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    explain please
     
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  7. James R Just this guy, you know? Staff Member

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    Reference: [thread]97557[/thread]

    SAM's (still) whinging about being given a warning.
     
  8. noodler Banned Banned

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    No, personally I find that once I consider the box, it seems to not actually exist after all.
    I like to think I can act like an unassuming, accepting sort when needed, but I know it isn't really true, although I have accepted that I need to act like I accept things...
     
  9. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    How does that work? You pretend to agree with stuff even though it makes no sense?
     
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  11. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    Thats my point exactly. Wtf is he so worked up about?

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  12. Gustav Banned Banned

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    sam
    i still see no relevance in your response to string's unreasonable demand
    i mean there really need not be since he is being idiotic but were you aiming for relevance?
     
  13. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    I was pointing out that one crazy loon is as good as any other. Although it was interesting to see the differences in responses when the friendly fire was from a Muslim.
     
  14. wynn ˙ Valued Senior Member

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    Absolutely. The lowest of the untouchables somewhere in India is free to believe in God, have His pictures at home, perform worship.
    But I, living in the big free civilized West may not.
     
  15. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    Actually even the untouchables are not, but I understand why you think you should be. I get the feeling that there is a lot of small print in society, no matter who puts themselves in charge.

    Meanwhile James has moved this from SFOG and it is meant to be about the box of acceptable discourse on sciforums.
     
  16. (Q) Encephaloid Martini Valued Senior Member

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    Stop thinking inside boxes, then.
     
  17. EndLightEnd This too shall pass. Registered Senior Member

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    Are you alluding to conformity of thought, or lack of critical thinking when you say the box is getting smaller?
     
  18. wynn ˙ Valued Senior Member

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    Even they are not? So much for that dream ...


    Yes. Actually, on of the recent threads by Psychotic Episode made me realize how the struggle for survival goes on on the mental level as much as it does on the physical level - but how it can be so easy to forget this.

    The relative absence of immediate physical threat may make us conclude that we're safe and worthy and that nobody is there to attack us or to feed off of us mentally/psychologically/emotionally.

    I think we are generally socially trained to be blind to the "mental" warfare, the "immaterial" struggle for survival that goes on all the time, and that we are socially trained to underestimate it. Which is why many people so easily fall prey to it.


    I gathered that, although I came in late.
     
  19. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    Is there a difference? If we're all forced to toe an imaginary line with ever constricting parameters, then where is the challenge?

    The idea is not to reduce it to a line [i.e. 2D from 3D]

    But thats always been true. Everything is a normal distribution and where you fall when not in the region of acceptable discourse [i.e. woo woo or eccentric/problem] is only semantics
     
  20. wynn ˙ Valued Senior Member

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    ... and receiving warnings ...

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  21. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    Thats par for the course. If they don't understand, they want to control
     
  22. cluelusshusbund + Public Dilemma + Valued Senior Member

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    Well SAM... as far as discuss groops go... i dont get my pantys in a bunch dew to what somone says or how they espress themselfs... even if i thank ther rong an biased an have an agenda... especialy sinse i thank everone is rong an biased an has an "agenda" at times... lol... but its the owners of the "box" who determins its size... an discussin that issue is perty much considered "whinging" by the powers that be... an the punishment for "rong-thout" is a smaller box from which to "whing"

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  23. wynn ˙ Valued Senior Member

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    Not necessarily. It is their turf, they already are in control.
     

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