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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!

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To: greenspirit who wrote (74629)2/19/2000 5:59:00 PM
From: nihil  Read Replies (3) of 108807
 
Well, yeah. How about supplying the world with a list of those self-evident natural laws? For some reason, I don't find your philosophical writings very useful. They don't seem anchored to any thing. There's no connection to the great philosophical writings especially in the realm of theology, or morals, or ethics. You don't seem to understand how the natural self-reward systems (physiological and psychological) actually work. You don't distinguish between idealist, pragmatist, empirical and behaviorist self-reward models work. We don't know that Hitler as a child learned to reward himself (endorphinogenesis) for pulling wings off of flies or torturing animals, or that he learned to enjoy being beaten by his father by his forbidden sexual responses to the rough loden cloth of his father's breeches. We don't know while well-reared German soldiers and SS-troopers didn't shoot their officers when they were told to round up the Jews, ship them off to Auschwitz, or execute them there.
Indeed, we don't know why one of the most advanced and successful cultures of the world turned into mass murderers who perpetrated horrors. If you can find the on-off switch to "natural law" that permits masses of people to do things that conflict with all of their religious and moral histories, you will make a real contribution.
But these maunderings of yours are childish, not even sophomoric. Go read something (consult Neocon, he's read all these things), and think about it. After you have learned something, perhaps the world would be interesting in hearing your thoughts on these matters.
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