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There is nothing negative about asking honest questions, and asking questions does indeed indicate an open mind. Having an open mind doesn't mean we have to be convinced, it just means we have to be willing to be convinced. I understand you don't have the answers, and that's fine, but...

No doubt that the ego has a lot of baggage that comes along with it, but packed somewhere in that baggage are some very useful items we need to make the trip. It can be hard to talk about these subjects because they are so ephemeral, so if defining ego the way you do helps you to communicate...

The ego is the glue that holds together our psyche. While is can be beneficial to sometimes detach ourselves, it's probably good that this is extremely hard to do and only temporary. And ego is not necessarily correlated with anger or selfishness. Someone like The Dalai Lama has a very strong...

Being mean is cheap and easy. It doesn't require much mental resources, and often feels cathartic. Actually making the effort to put yourself into someone else's shoes is a high-energy task. It takes willpower and self-control because you are resisting tribalism. Tribalism exists deep down in...

Sometimes, probably. The faults we find in others are often things we do not like about ourselves. However, human emotions are too complex and nuanced to think that all anger is redirected self-hate. Often, we tend to excuse our own undesirable behaviors as being a result of external factors...

Send the bottle out to sea Signed solitude and misery

In a random universe coincidence is expected. The remarkable thing would be if we never encountered strange coincidences, because then we would have reason to suspect a non-random universe. But yes, I agree, very creepy. One good thing about being a human is that we can experience these...

Electricity. ;) not kidding. https://www.kinkly.com/2/1367/passion-play/sex-toys/electrify-your-orgasms-tens-units-for-beginners

The human psyche has developed to want consonance and feels very uncomfortable with dissonance. As such, the brain is motivated to reduce the feeling of dissonance similar to the way it is motivated to reduce hunger. When our view of ourselves or our view of the world contrasts with something...

Awaken ye fallen thread, and rise to take your morning dew.

Well, which is it? Am I simply talking nonsense, or am I arguing with hearsay? I've done nothing but give a reasonable assessment of your tactics and proivide quotes directly from you. It's not my fault that you keep proving me right by stomping your feet and insisting we only talk about...

Cry foul and steer the conversation back to your rhetoric. That sounds familiar. The purpose of playing devil's advocate is to explore a position by taking the opposite view with the aim of evaluating it, exposing weakness, and strengthening arguments. Ultimately, the devil's advocate...

You seem quite fond of assigning labels yourself... Let's not pretend you are here for some sort of civil discourse. You are here to validate your own views, and your mind is only equipped to insult and denigrate other's views rather than support your own. Fortunately for you, a mind that...

Although it isn't hard to guess my position on the shape of the Earth, I've not actually offered any arguments. Yet, although you haven't even heard them, you already seem to know that they are full of logical fallacies. Clearly it doesn't matter to you what my arguments are and nothing I...

Interesting that you recognize yourself as the sealion the post was referring to. Looks like you know more than we give you credit for.