11-09-2016, 05:24 AM
(11-09-2016, 04:49 AM)Galen Wrote:(11-09-2016, 04:31 AM)taramarie Wrote:(11-09-2016, 04:26 AM)Galen Wrote: Which definitely does not describe Eric (insult redacted). How you feel about circumstances does not matter. Events always have a logic to them, understand the logic of the circumstances and the people involved and you understand the event. Always remember the five questions, they will help you in understanding the people involved. I have also had people threatening me with the "End of the World" longer than you have been alive and it has invariable be a crude attempt at emotional manipulation in an effort to get me to go against my own interests.Why? Is being polite a crime now? What is going on over there?
As for end of the world, I do not think so but the drastic change is scary and as this is a 4T it is understandable why people feel this way. It is also a very dangerous time.
Whenever you are investigating something it is best to divorce yourself from your feelings. Remember that you are trying to understand the current situation and so your feelings about it are irrelevant. The more like a dispassionate observer you become the better you will able to understand. Like many Xers, I compartmentalize in a way that you can't imagine and its one of the reasons I am still alive after all of these years. Ask Dannilyn, if you don't believe me, because I am pretty sure she has been doing the same thing for almost as long as I have.
It is only when you understand and need to decide on a course of action does your understanding of ethics and your feelings become relevant.
When it comes to a moral issue one had better not divorce oneself from one's feelings.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.