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Ukpoohbear

Well-known member
I did NOT say that.

Trump is MUCH worse than any other president. He's a fascist. He's trying to be a dictator. He's thoroughly incompetent. And that's just the nice part. :whistling:

In fact, I refuse to call him my president.

What I did say is that another president--a competent and fairly well regarded one--could have done essentially the same thing as what Trump did but dressed it up as a more rational act, and they would have gotten more buy in from the people. Trump isn't getting much buy in because he's so horrible. Plenty of people were already marching in the streets against him. It's no stretch to add his unauthorized act of war to his list of sins.

(And here I feel a need to add a disclaimer: although I am a moderator, I am speaking for myself here, not for the forum. AW is an apolitical site. My political opinions are from me as an individual, not me as a moderator.)

Ok ok lol but you did say it is worse to goad someone indirectly, which another president is likely to have done?

I’m glad you’re expressing your own opinion, I’m not American so less likely to get offended but hey if I wanna report you will it be a fair trial?(joking!)
 

Osamenor

Staff member
Ok ok lol but you did say it is worse to goad someone indirectly, which another president is likely to have done?
No. What I said was that it's especially easy to raise people's sentiments against what Trump did because so many already dislike Trump. If a better liked president had done the same thing, it might be harder to get people to resist.

That's saying nothing about how likely a hypothetical other president would have been to do the same thing. Just that if they did, they'd be much better able to make it look justified and get Americans to agree with them. Trump isn't even trying to do that.
but hey if I wanna report you will it be a fair trial?(joking!)

I dunno. Tim calls this forum a limited dictatorship, you know. ;)
 

david starling

Well-known member
Didn't the US President have military and diplomatic advisers who advised him before bombing the general?

Two possibles--1) When it comes to foreign policy decisions, ANY President has to follow the dictates of what Eisenhower labeled "The Military Industrial Complex". 2) This particular President is immune to advice from his analysts, and fires them if they don't agree with his decisions, no matter how obviously wrong-headed those decisions may be.
A Blitzkrieg-style, sneak-attack does fit him, but the M.I.C. would have had to approve it.
 

petosiris

Banned
Does there exist an oneiromantic equivalent of Ptolemy, I know that plenty equivalents exist of cafeastrology? :sad:

Like Placidus needed only Ptolemy and reason for astrology, so do I need only X and Y for dreams? Non-psychoanalytic preferably, thanks.
 
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Gemini888

Well-known member
Does there exist an oneiromantic equivalent of Ptolemy, I know that plenty equivalents exist of cafeastrology? :sad:

Like Placidus needed only Ptolemy and reason for astrology, so do I need only X and Y for dreams? Non-psychoanalytic preferably, thanks.
Back to astrology eh?


It's hard for me to talk about dream without going into psychology actually. It depends on how you see dreams.
 

petosiris

Banned
Back to astrology eh?


It's hard for me to talk about dream without going into psychology actually. It depends on how you see dreams.

Aren't dreams supposed to say something useful and particular, whether psychological or physical that doesn't necessarily have to do with suppressed incest undertones or generalities that apply to everyone?
 
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Gemini888

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Aren't dreams supposed to say something useful and particular, whether psychological or physical that doesn't necessarily have to do with suppressed incest undertones or generalities that apply to everyone?
"Incest" and "generalities" aren't the first words that come to me when I think of psychology. At worst, it's just "deep desire" to me. Psychology sums up a bunch of patterns that most people have, but how those patterns manifest is totally up to the individual.



Are you talking about the 12H idea of the collective consciousness inside each of us?
 

petosiris

Banned
"Incest" and "generalities" aren't the first words that come to me when I think of psychology. At worst, it's just "deep desire" to me. Psychology sums up a bunch of patterns that most people have, but how those patterns manifest is totally up to the individual.



Are you talking about the 12H idea of the collective consciousness inside each of us?

Do you read what I wrote? No (amateur) psychoanalysis, not psychology. I am very interested in psychology myself.
 

Gemini888

Well-known member
In the end which house should rule dreams, 9H or 12H?


I know CT told me the 9H rules dreams, but I haven't seen the reason why.
 

petosiris

Banned
What's the latest version of psychology?

Most undergraduate degrees focus on general overview of subjects like the following:
''To answer these and other questions about the mind, psychologists observe evolutionary factors, biological bases of behavior, cultural and social inputs, and the day to-day situations in which individuals find themselves. Most of the research conducted in Harvard’s Department of Psychology concerns basic psychological processes such as attention, perception, memory, categorization, reasoning, decision-making, language, cognitive and social development, social cognition, intergroup relations, and morality. In addition, some members of the department conduct research on the etiology, development, and treatment of psychopathology. All members of the department share the common goal of understanding mind, brain, and behavior through empirical investigation, and our teaching reflects this goal.'' - https://undergrad.psychology.fas.harvard.edu/

In the process they may mention opinions from specialists in psychoanalysis, behaviorism, cognitive psychology, evolutionary psychology etc., but they do not force you into thinking within a particular school (say radical behaviorism), rather they focus more on empirical studies drawing on different theories.
 
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david starling

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Most undergraduate degrees focus on general overview of subjects like the following:
''To answer these and other questions about the mind, psychologists observe evolutionary factors, biological bases of behavior, cultural and social inputs, and the day to-day situations in which individuals find themselves. Most of the research conducted in Harvard’s Department of Psychology concerns basic psychological processes such as attention, perception, memory, categorization, reasoning, decision-making, language, cognitive and social development, social cognition, intergroup relations, and morality. In addition, some members of the department conduct research on the etiology, development, and treatment of psychopathology. All members of the department share the common goal of understanding mind, brain, and behavior through empirical investigation, and our teaching reflects this goal.'' - https://undergrad.psychology.fas.harvard.edu/

In the process they may mention opinions from specialists in psychoanalysis, behaviorism, cognitive psychology, evolutionary psychology etc., but they do not force you into a particular school (say radical behaviorism), but focus more on empirical studies drawing on many theories.

No mention of pharmaceutical solutions to mental conditions?
 
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