You respec what? Your WoW characters?
Now, now, not my WOW characters, me. I respeced myself from a character afraid to make a mistake in case someone would try to put me down such that I had to diligently scrutinize and edit everything I write to insure there are no mistakes, to one who can tolerate making an error here and there. I have enjoyed the results thereby of an old human saw: To err is human, to forgive Devine, and in this way satisfy the full range of my nature and by forthwith so proclaiming, also, the wolf entrusted to my keeping. It’s a threefer.
I understand the rage thing, I really do. I am not a zen master though so I feel rage and must vent like a normal human so it doesn't build up and destroy me. Maybe someday I will find a way to elevate past that but today is not that day.
If you think it is relevant than at least do me the favor of explaining (succinctly) how it is relevant.
I will try. Having it build up and destroy you is entirely the point. You aren’t going to destroy yourself. You are going to sail off the known world map where the dragons lurk. Your fear is the loss of self control. You will become that which is taboo, the nasty little needy thing that brought you parents to the same edge where they murdered you to spare themselves the same fate you fear. Rage is the last piece of the set of armor we wear, when fully felt it leads to unbearable grief, pity and love for that lonely broken child. That is what I love in you dank. We are all that child and the God that had to be put deeply away and hidden to escape the intolerable pain.
Such a child has thus learned to swallow resentment, avoid being spontaneous and unguarded, never show any weakness that can be exploited, to never really feel. And if that dead thing is prodded to remember here comes the rage.
Buy you are not a child anymore and you will not die and everything you fear has already happened anyway. All that we fear is to ember and thereby feel it all over again.
I am not telling you to just feel that rage when somebody is handy to beat on. A therapeutic situation of some kind would be needed. The Buddha, they say, sat under the Bo tree and felt it all. I am not enlightened in this way. I had a teacher that was. But I have experienced the sudden realization that occurs when rage become remembering. I am still full of rage because I don’t remember everything. I am not that Zen master, which, by the way is another ridiculous term.
So what I am saying is that because of the knowledge handed me by people I believe to be farther along, I have what I need to step back sometimes from self justification, that anybody out here in the world is the cause of my problems or deserves any kind of revenge I might fancy. To suffer is enormously painful because it requires that we forgive and we won’t forgive ourselves because we do not want to know we were never guilty in the first place. Every step to heal this a step that tells you you suffered for nothing and believed you did. Should’ve really knowing that really piss you off. All there is then is to die on the cross saying Father forgive them because they had no idea that all along they were forgiven. And don’t forget the rising from the dead part that comes next.[/QUOTE]
I seem to remember a Moonbeam of the past who was acutely aware of the destructive nature of capitalism and the relentless competition it breeds. I'm not sure what happened to that Moonbeam because I think he could have very easily figured out who to believe when the two options are A) hundreds of scientists who have dedicated their lives to understanding disease in order to help people and B) a few scientists who have also dedicated their lives to the same thing but are equally concerned about the MOTHERFUCKING ECONOMY.
Of the many things I have said in the past you may remember also that I have pointed out that liberals and conservatives differ in the number of things about which they have moral concerns. Also, conservatives and to a lesser degree liberals become blind when facts threaten core beliefs that give validation to their egos. They rationalize away challenging facts that would tend to cause ego shame. So the concerns of conservatives will not be your concerns 100% and they will worry about things you don't give a wit about. But all of those moral concerns they have have in the past served evolutionary survival, they helped us to stay alive, things like distrust of the other in a dog eat dog world. Selfishness is another and that easily laps over into economic considerations. Thriftiness is a virtue. The ants and the grasshopper etc. It is stupid to be wasteful of money and there is nothing wrong with using it wisely. You know this but in this or that situation you will weigh the importance of various moral concerns differently. It does not mean you or more moral or less morally committed. It does mean you have fewer moral values in the equation and conservatives will understand you better then you will understand them because they also understand justice and equality, the two biggies with liberals. They just can't focus on those two alone. This is also why you won't get Shapiro. [/QUOTE]
And now that Peterson has been dragged into this it isn't herd mentality and Jordan Peterson doesn't see the lunacy that pervades the left. He sees a bullshit version of the left that doesn't actually exist. It is the image of the left that has been cultivated by the right since before the oldest person still alive was born. Mass cultivated to the point that most kids these days know that liberal hippies want to destroy the world before they can even talk.
So when the latest SJW twatter feud erupts it gets attributed to the left. But it isn't the left. Depending the context it's a mix of some far lefties, a bunch of trolls both amateur and professional, and bored angsty people that might not even like politics and may even be mad about something completely different in their personal lives that just need to vent and this context just happens to be a convenient outlet. But no, Peterson, you, and millions of other Americans have just like that committed to your hard drives that "the left" is upset about some stupid fucking nothing.
"The left" is upset about Dr. Suess. "The left" is upset about Mr. Potato Head. "The left" is upset about personal fucking pronouns. And now we have to vote Democrats out of office to stop the insanity despite the fact that not one single Democratic politician has said one single thing about Suess or Potatoes or personal fucking pronouns whatsoever.
Peterson misunderstood a simple fucking law. He thinks he is fighting a righteous fight and he has convinced you he is fighting a righteous fight but he is fighting a phantom that does not exist. He is still under the impression that government is trying to force him to say specific things when it never did that.
We have the expression 'triggered'. A triggered person feels rage. Rage is violence. Enraged people become more enraged the more you critique their rage. Rage is a physiological response to fear, a protection against feeling pain as I described above. It will demand silence of those who provoke it. We create what we fear. The right has become dangerously deranged and that will produce the same effect on the left. I see it everywhere, the very thing you describe as insignificance I believe, is exactly how the conservatives viewed going down the Trump path would be, glorious and wonderful, America great again. There is an authoritarian left and it is growing. This forum is full of it, people who think revenge is the answer to their suffering. I speak to the things in front of me, the things I see on this forum. I see a left that grows day by day more intolerant, who can't deal in a rational manner with their pain. You have described as fringe and I get that. I see you rationalizing away this reality because your moral beliefs are at stake. You fear conservatives will win. I fear they will if the left becomes as insane as the right. The urge to succumb to that insanity is growing and I see it everywhere. The dogs of war are loosed with fear become intolerable. Without it we become what we hate because what we really hate is ourselves.
I can see what Peterson sees in the left because I can see it in myself. When it comes to killing the Nazis I lean toward 'all in'. Unfortunately, however, that would mean I'd have to shoot myself. And as a repressed fascist with with some mitigation to the repression, perhaps also I don't fear Peterson will turn me into something I already am. I am not worried his opinions will corrupt me or anybody else. He doesn't trigger me. I'm not as afraid of my own rage as I once was. As a nobody, my rage is no big deal. I am not important enough. But only if I am awake.