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| crow | Mar 7 2017, 11:22 AM Post #1 |
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I ran into a quote, today, that stated: "Traditional sex roles are a good idea." Reflecting on this bizarre statement, I decided: Traditional gender roles are not a good idea. Because gender roles are neither roles, nor ideas. They define the different genders. I am a man. I do man things. I do them because I am a man. This is not an idea. It is a consequence of being a man. I could have an idea, say, to do woman things, even though I am a man. This would be an idea. But being a man, thus doing things I naturally do, without modifying them via ideas, is natural. Like many human ideas, manipulating what is natural into what is not natural, does not make it natural; it makes it crazy. Gender roles do not even exist, for they are not roles at all, until the mind decides they are, thus losing track of what is natural. |
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| Ardy | Mar 7 2017, 03:02 PM Post #2 |
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A fight against the tide Crow. One of many? This is a strong part of modern education where children as young as 7 are encouraged to try on different ideas about their sexuality. Very strange and very dangerous and written by mostly gays or lesbians on a recruitment plan.
Edited by crow, Mar 7 2017, 03:27 PM.
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| crow | Jan 15 2018, 12:52 PM Post #3 |
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I quit fighting against the tide a while back. A Canute, I am not. A mirror, perhaps, whether I like it, or not. |
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| Simpleton | Jan 15 2018, 10:46 PM Post #4 |
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Tides go in and out, we see this throughout history and I'm far from the first to make that observation. Whether one man does something or not society will change, in somewhat predictable ways. From my viewpoint it looks like that standards will slowly get more insane in western societies, perhaps there will be major wars but more likely it will end with a whimper and not a bang, a warband will emerge such as with early Rome or even the early United States, then slowly become so prosperous that people become far too comfortable and weak, become hedonistic libertines, and the cycle repeats again. Edited by Simpleton, Jan 16 2018, 06:17 PM.
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| Ardy | Jan 16 2018, 01:47 PM Post #5 |
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Simpleton: I read a fair amount of Greek and Roman history and you are right the battle goes on and rarely changes. I have noted that due to strange circumstances humans have an outburst of logical thinking and development that happens fast over a few hundred years, then we fall back into a state of non-enquiry and everything slips backwards until another age of questioning and investigation. The previous one was between about 600BC and around the birth of Christ. At this time Buddha appeared, we learnt the distance from the earth to the sun, we developed all our current mathematics, most of our philosophy, our democracy, the abstract idea of freedom from oppression and the growth of law. The second one started about 1600 with the enlightenment and the start of scientific questioning, Bacon then defined the basis of the scientific method and you know the rest. I think this second great age of progress finished at the start of the 1960's and we are now heading back into a dark age. The advantage/disadvantage of ages of little change is that the growth of spiritual searching increases as does the false ideas of the REALITY and its dark sister mysticism. So around 700-900AD in China was the great age of Zen. It is all your fault Simpleton, as your question brought one of my hobby horses out to play! |
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