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Krayzeenbk
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quote: Originally posted by Fez
I am not the one with the arbitrary illogical system... so that comment was directed at you... 
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Yeah you are... any logical system is arbitrary. Your logic is arbitrary in that you assume what everyone else agrees upon is true, monkspider's logic is arbitrary because he makes arbitrary logical leaps. You start being ignorant, and when information shows you you can't use conventional logic anymore, you progress to being illogical, in which case, if you manage to not become a blind fanatical communist/Christian/whatever, you soon realize that you are completely insane, so you decide to just shut up for a while and not agitate while you sort things out.
However, the illogical part is nice because it makes you feel like you understand all the prophets (which you pretty much seem to do). Egoes grow way too big when you think you think like Jesus, Confucius, Buddha, and the rest of the prophets combined .
The last part feels like a debilitated depressed Buddha. It's the part where you accept things, you realize that you were hypocritical in the previous stage, you really FEEL that change should start in the person, and you begin to change. Human nature becomes a myth.
Everything feels different. You lose the nationalism, you believe what you said stronger than ever before, and you have no desire to say it anymore. You have gained the best, most faithful convert - yourself, a very difficult victory indeed.
It starts with a thought, and ends in disaster (victory? disaster? paradoxes abound, all can be understood).
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JohnT

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Mar 1999 time: 00:21
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Nah, you'll move towards the Left. One of the points that I was trying to make is that the impressions and needs of other people in your life will tend to moderate you over time. The title of this thread says "protestations against capitalism" but that is merely because the Left is far, far more vocal on this board than the Right and so, thus, I aimed it at the larger audience.
But do not think that the principle doesn't apply both ways...
Kropotkin: yup. You're right. There are a lot of assumptions, but you know something? I'm pretty OK with making them. Marriage happens to more people than it doesn't. Same with kids, same with the upward mobility desire. Of course the post doesn't apply to 100% of people, but honestly: does one really have to put disclaimers on every point? Is it not obvious that, for example, the bit about kids will (likely) not apply to gay couples?
To reiterate: Youthful radicalism decreases: the beliefs might not, but the passion does. Anyway, you'll get bored. Bored of making the same arguments, bored of being angry all the time, bored of hearing the same rebuttals, bored at the lack of progress. Once the boredom reaches a certain level, you'll find something else... hopefully a nice spouse and kids. 
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Krayzeenbk
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This thread should be closed and/or deleted
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