BTW Moonie, saw on TV that they are planning a helicopter rescue for these activists. Now other people are risking their lives to save these activists from their own publicity stunt. Surely it is okay to make fun of these people now that they are endangering others to a greater extent than themselves.
I swear, I don't know what to do with you people sometimes, hehe. There are many things that folk just don't understand about themselves because they don't want to. Not just conservatives but everybody, and one of them is that we all hate ourselves, liberals and conservatives alike. One of the greatest weapons against this is a sense of humor, the ability to laugh at yourself, the capacity to not take yourself too seriously. Humor is like becoming enlightened. It is caused by an insight that causes a shift in cognition and mood, the arrival of a different altered perspective on things. A punch line is like truth, it arrives from a completely unsuspected direction, the fitting together of seemingly unrelated things. It is a synthesis of opposites that creates a higher understanding but it can also be cruel, the emotional release that happens when misfortune befalls others and not the self, or merciless when it does happen to the self. There is suppressed emotions and then a release, and so humor is often based on what we individually suppress.
Now you conservatives, not that you are much of one, in my opinion, that's a complement, by the way, feel guilty about your global warming denial. You don't know it, of course, but you feel guilty about everything. So when something like global warming scientists get trapped in ice, it causes a psychic release, if the pieces required fall in their proper place. And this also happens for liberals, say when some conservative vocally homophobic politician is discovered to have a wide stance.
I do not remember any specific example I can give you right now, nor do I feel a need to document my case, but I have the feeling which I am certain is true that there are many many cases when liberal humor when posted on this forum is condemned as insensitive and cruel by the many conservatives who post here. If you will look back at my post where I condemned you guys for that you will see that I said this is how I would see this issue if I had a conservative brain but added later that personally I saw it as funny.
But self hate does many other things to our motivations. It makes us easily offended because we are already expending a great deal of energy to deny it. We are offended because we believe whatever insult we get to be true already before we even got it. We carry our repressed childhoods within us.
So all I need to do is pass on information that is truthful, say the conservatives will ridicule and attack you if you inform them they will ridicule and attack you if you tell them that. And that is essentially what has happened. I am a monster because I call this having a conservative brain defect. You guys are hilariously funny, but you don't seem to laugh much when the joke is on you. The same thing can happen to me. Just because I know everything doesn't always mean I can see it about me.
So I hope it's clear that I wanted to point out that when liberals find something funny about the things conservatives do, in many of those cases conservatives will tell us how unchristian we are. I just wanted to say that what you would have done here if the story was say, a bunch of missionaries being cooked by the natives and served as crackers and wine.
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