CBD is real! (Turning conservatives into liberals)

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J.Wilkins

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heh. I wonder what would happen in an experiment which required liberals to take for granted that America is one of the least racist nations on earth, or that multinational corporations don't actively look around for little people to screw-over, or that Christians don't masturbate to the thought of discriminating against gays, or that the world and humanity will be just fine irrespective of climate change, or...

How would liberals' beliefs change if they must profess at the outset that the world doesn't need their saving?

To say that progressives don't harness fear as conservatives do is positively asinine. Joe Biden about republicans putting blacks back in chains. The Latino Victory Fund ad that ran in the VA gubernatorial race. The freakout over Net Neutrality. Good gravy. What progressive cause isn't pushed by progressives as the harbinger of the end of the world?

Yeah, first of all the US is the ONLY severely racist nation in the west period, we do not make distinctions in any shape or fomr in the rest of the developed world, ONLY you do that so.. yeah, you are the ONLY FULLY racist nation in the western world.

Second, why do you argue that you need guns to be protected against other races?

We don't argue that, nor do any first world nation.

You argue that since guns are prevalent you need more guns and you need them readily available which means that they are going to be stolen at a rate to 9000:1.

And you do this becaue of an amendment that clearly states that the members of a militia (the national guard) should be well trained (you ignore that part, no one nees training) and well equipped.

I mean, do you actually lie to yourselves every time you read it or do you just disregard the parts you do not like?

It's either or, either way, i need a reply on that.
 

dank69

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I prefer to just amplify what they are actually saying:

Being a liberal is worse than being a child molester.
 

Moonbeam

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I prefer to just amplify what they are actually saying:

Being a liberal is worse than being a child molester.
Do you really mean amplify in the manner you specify, because when you say prefer you mean 'find more egotistically satisfying' rather than more rational, which is, of course, the very thing that is wrong with conservatives which is tantamount to saying, when faced with a dangerous and destructive mental condition, I will act that way too. You must surely know that people with a deep emotional need to deny reality would rather die than change making any hope you will affect them by helping them to that end will have any positive effect. You only make them delight in the fact they have driven you mad also.
 

dank69

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Do you really mean amplify in the manner you specify, because when you say prefer you mean 'find more egotistically satisfying' rather than more rational, which is, of course, the very thing that is wrong with conservatives which is tantamount to saying, when faced with a dangerous and destructive mental condition, I will act that way too. You must surely know that people with a deep emotional need to deny reality would rather die than change making any hope you will affect them by helping them to that end will have any positive effect. You only make them delight in the fact they have driven you mad also.
Remember when you said you were holding up a mirror? That's what I mean, just with a really high resolution.
 

Moonbeam

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Remember when you said you were holding up a mirror? That's what I mean, just with a really high resolution.
OK. But don't forget the moral value that allows them to overlook child molestation claims is the certainty they have that God is on their side and liberals are on the side of the Devil. They aren't simply insane. They have moral values that define the good as something it's not and they can't see that. That is the actual condition and what would need showing in a mirror to make it really really complete in Panavision.
 

dank69

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OK. But don't forget the moral value that allows them to overlook child molestation claims is the certainty they have that God is on their side and liberals are on the side of the Devil. They aren't simply insane. They have moral values that define the good as something it's not and they can't see that. That is the actual condition and what would need showing in a mirror to make it really really complete in Panavision.
Nobody can fix a person that has God on their side. They either fix themselves or they die an asshole.
 

Moonbeam

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They hit rock bottom like you did. Dunno what determines if they roll over and die or decide to make changes.
Well My own experience with that is not what I think ails conservatives. My problem was that I did not have a qualified conservative brain. I could not accept anything as true I could not prove including all of my sacred beliefs. So bottoming out for me lay in the hopelessness of ever believing in an absolute loving supreme being, That was very bad news for me because it meant that all those children who are murdered and die before they even have a chance to live are all ultimately just as eternally dead as the unpunished people who killed them will one day also be.

The kind of bottoming out that seems the only option for people in denial who will not face the negatives they feel is an unconscious desire to see all life on the planet end. The bottoming out open to that kind of mentality is the realization that all of the things denial was supposed to prevent the denial actually caused instead. By that time it will be pretty much too late for all of us if it isn't already.

As I have said a million times on this forum.......we create what we fear. The only escape I can see from that is to end fear. In psychoanalysis that is done by feeling the feelings we have suppressed and discovering that feeling them is not only not a death sentence but the ultimate in healthy relief. Of course any real way out of out sickness will be labeled as doing something insane.