11-19-2018, 02:10 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-19-2018, 02:12 PM by Bob Butler 54.)
I know I have unusual hobbies. I collect and use music synthesizers, am into fantasy role playing games like Dungeons and Dragons, fly flight simulators like X-plane, work computer generated images, and here I am into a mix of history and politics.
But I don't show contempt for people who just listen to music, but don't create it. Nor do I sneer at people who are into movies, books, plays or other media which do not allow one to change and effect the plot on the fly and create unique characters with unusual ways of looking at things. I do not sneer at folks who can't land a plane, or create a fair image. I likely can't or won't do what they do, and what I do is often kinda weird.
What is it about holding an extreme worldview which makes one show contempt for others with different world views? Are extremists by nature ready to stereotype, to think the worst of those who see the world differently? Like I know Pbower is into classical music and dogs, but that alone doesn't make him superior or inferior. Me, I will take a ragtime piece like Maple Leaf Rag and play it on a simulated set of vibes because I find the usual piano boring. That does not me inherently superior. It just means I have weird ways of spending my time.
What is it with you guys?
But I don't show contempt for people who just listen to music, but don't create it. Nor do I sneer at people who are into movies, books, plays or other media which do not allow one to change and effect the plot on the fly and create unique characters with unusual ways of looking at things. I do not sneer at folks who can't land a plane, or create a fair image. I likely can't or won't do what they do, and what I do is often kinda weird.
What is it about holding an extreme worldview which makes one show contempt for others with different world views? Are extremists by nature ready to stereotype, to think the worst of those who see the world differently? Like I know Pbower is into classical music and dogs, but that alone doesn't make him superior or inferior. Me, I will take a ragtime piece like Maple Leaf Rag and play it on a simulated set of vibes because I find the usual piano boring. That does not me inherently superior. It just means I have weird ways of spending my time.
What is it with you guys?
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.