C.C., I wouldn’t put too much stock in the idiotic posts you see on here. Sure some of the ignorant ideas are probably honest and infect the everyday life of whoever wrote it, but some ideas are nothing more than empty words meant to enrage you. Sree doesn’t believe all the crap he flings around on here.
Your anger is his entertainment. I read, play pickleball, play board games, hike in the mountains, and run, while Sree annoys people: we all have our hobbies.
3pt is our wise guru, sitting in the Lotus position off to the side, listening, then every now and then holding up two fingers to the sky and giving us a koan.
Sree is our mascot. If we want to get mad about something, respond to the Zeitgeist, just find his latest twisted logic that self-contradicts and is designed to anger whoever reads it.
I appreciate his value as a practice dummy.
lordie, lordie, where do you read anger at sree, yes he is a joke and quite probably nothing like his persona, he’s a toy.
But, his most recent nonsense has reminded me of various self-satisfied blinded rich pigs I’ve been able to serve and observe up close. Some worse than others, like the guy who got off on making people grovel while waving a Ben Franklin in front of them, if you didn’t jump fast enough, he’d burn the offered 100 dollar bill in front of them just to rub his wealth and assumed superiority into everyone face. Just a nasty mean spirited little dinkie hiding his insecure emptiness by wrapping himself up within a god awful superiority complex.
Or the young execs, sitting in magnificent surrounding etc, etc. and all they can do is try to out brag each other about the great deals they’ve pulled off, and the more swindle the more excited the story gets, and then there’s that constantly dropping price tags on all the great stuff they own - I mean how pathetic is that? I could-a puked in their drinks more than once, and these are the folks running the world today. The stupid kids of people who once did great things - who think the world owes them.
And so on and so forth. As for my anger at the state of the world, the lack of humanity or brains on the part of its leaders and the citizens who allowed them into office. You know, I’d rather have my self-righteous anger than all that normalization of this self-destructive monstrosity we have locked ourselves into and have settled for. This is ALL so wrong and so off the rails. But then look back at history and try to find better in the story of empire, gluttonous self-destruction is what much of our human history has been about. Either you were lucky to be born among the few haves, or you’re screwed.
Then came America, land of riches and treasure beyond measure, two, three centuries and look at how far we got, more toys than we know what to do with, and we’ve managed to destroy pretty much all that made it so great, and we’re still not satisfied, but who cares, the worst of the reckoning we’ll leave to our kids, so full steam ahead, ay sree?
I appreciate his value as a practice dummy.I spent a couple years during high school being the clean up boy in a genuine butcher shop, that received hanging sides of beef. Now that makes a great practice dummy. Specially for a teen. ;-) Damned I should write more memoirs, so many cool interesting fascinating times. Good thing my parents raised me not minding hard work, or a little hardship, that made all the difference in the world for this poor boy.
Sree can keep his real and imagined Rickie Rich emptiness.
Bet he doesn’t know about team work and real friendships that aren’t forged around money calculations.
∏ to your bigger point. Yes of course, sree says what he says for effect. It’s the alt-right’s number one tactic and used with amazing success.
I say things for effect, sometimes. I just try to make sure that they are true.
where do you read anger at sree, yes he is a joke and quite probably nothing like his persona, he’s a toy.
I think he’s a troll, personally.
I think he’s a troll, personally. --mrianaI'm glad to hear CC call him a toy, but this question about where do I read anger really throws me. Given that CC has specifically tried to convince me that I'm not mad enough at the racist idiots of the world. He and I must have some very different definitions of what anger looks like.
Yes, Lausten you certainly are confused, seems to me the general state of affairs - someday I’ll try to explain the nuance to you.
Once I wrap my head around why some think endlessly playing with ancient texts is somehow better than attempting confronting the bullshit lies and slanders regarding rational sciences such as climate sciences, or evolutionary sciences, or now simple medical science that the right wing has so successfully beat the shit outta such juvenile winning slanders and deceptions.
Christ trump is still getting away with attacking the World Health Organization, now the CDC appears to be next on his chopping block. All so hoo hum - nobody seems capable of bringing sanity into this situation and to reign in the malicious vandal.
All so hoo hum – nobody seems capable of bringing sanity into this situation and to reign in the malicious vandal. -- CCIt's no hoo hum to me. Do you think you are capable of bringing sanity to this situation?
I don’t really live by ethics, once you see how arbitrary they are they don’t seem to matter that much at all. I never really learn ethics as a kid, I usually questioned what people told me and why it was right. Often I just went along with “the right answer” because it just made things easier than questioning folks. Now I don’t really give a damn what people do as long as they don’t involve me, kind of like what happens in nature.
Snowbird, no doubt you are 1 in a million, but I think that even your choice of not giving “a damn what people do as long as they don’t involve me” IS actually an ethic. (An ethic is just a rule about what you believe is right.)
Just thought I’d mention it. I hate to let irony pass unnoticed.
Now I don’t really give a damn what people do as long as they don’t involve me, kind of like what happens in nature. -- SnowSnowman! What a treat. How's it hangin' bro-miester?
That’s not like nature at all. Unless you are a bull moose maybe. If you are a member of a social species, like humans, and you don’t give a damn about anyone but you, you’d better be a level 10 fighter, cuz otherwise, you’ll be dead. What you actually are, is one of the millions of people that we all have to keep an eye on so they don’t harm us while “not giving a damn”.
The ethics that guide my behavior are those of the community and that which inform the laws of the country. I conduct myself the same way at home or abroad, always regarding myself as a visitor in an unknown world.I think most people anywhere would say the same. It's practical, and practicality works. Well, most of the time it works.
He and I must have some very different definitions of what anger looks like.
I don’t know how he gets that either.
That’s not like nature at all. Unless you are a bull moose maybe. If you are a member of a social species, like humans, and you don’t give a damn about anyone but you, you’d better be a level 10 fighter, cuz otherwise, you’ll be dead. What you actually are, is one of the millions of people that we all have to keep an eye on so they don’t harm us while “not giving a damn”.Being a member of a social species doesn't mean I have to participate. I'm not "one of the millions"
Being sentient means you can make choices. Living in a free country means you have choices. Having accumulated advantages gives you choices. But actions still have consequences. You can’t choose that away.
Damn that’s good, I’ll have to use that in my mentoring work.
But actions still have consequences. You can’t choose that away.Of course, you can when you have the money; especially, if you don't believe in Almighty God, whose justice system no one can mess with.
Having rich friends that get you out of trouble still involves consequences, and money can’t buy everything. Wow, do I have to say that one.
Looks like he missed it. Lets try it again:
@LaustenBeing sentient means you can make choices.
Living in a free country means you have choices.
Having accumulated advantages gives you choices.
But actions still have consequences.
You can’t choose that away.