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by sridca 11y ago
> I have little reason to believe NTDF9's characterization of the encounter. Neither do you. I do not have such need to believe , as I take what the other person says at face value. Specifically NTDF9 gave a report of his date (a r
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by sridca 11y ago
That is such a bizarre characterization; where on this earth do you see the use of phrase "programming stuff" implicating its utterer being in a nervous state? Besides, you are ignoring the whole context that NTDF9 spelled out in
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by sridca 11y ago
Shouldn't the offended stoics (who down-voted my above comment asking a reasonable question) be practicing their own philosophy by remaining stoic (neither up-voting nor down-voting)? tongue-in-cheek .
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by sridca 11y ago
If something, such as stoicism, does not work consistently what is its measure of success?
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by sridca 11y ago
As none of what NTDF9 wrote of his experience (and nowhere did he write that it was "15 minutes of chatting") even remotely indicates her being "a little nervous" or her having said "something stupid", your two
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by sridca 11y ago
> So what if she was? It means that for a man who wants "practical, non-judgemental girls," the decision to call it quits is much easier in regards to a girl possessing an ego that is stereotypically judgemental of his identity
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by sridca 11y ago
> She didn't have an ego, you did. Why do you defend her? She was clearly being stereotypical of computer programmers; in her own words - "Tell me something about yourself...what adventures have you done? Or do you just do some
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by sridca 11y ago
I find it rather interesting that people advocate for such things as basic income (wherein a basic level of financial incentive is obviated), all the while steadfastly grasping at the notion that sexual/ marital incentive is essential
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Intel finds no pay gap between men and women at the chipmaker(washingtonpost.com)
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by sridca 11y ago
I have tried this extension in Chrome; it doesn't quite do what I'm getting it, as the extension converts the markdown once and doesn't let you edit it afterwards .
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by sridca 11y ago
It would be even cooler if HTML input can be edited using markdown source. For eg., you compile an email in Gmail, but edit it using Markdown in Atom (or whatever editor); the final content gets rendered as HTML. Effectively you are sending
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by sridca 11y ago
I am not at all sure what point you are trying to make. Moreover you contradict the key point in my original comment - that despite being an atheist, one is not free of the belief in an Authority. And there is no gene to worship something
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by sridca 11y ago
Be that as it may ... as existence of religions without Gods is a tangential point, do you have anything substantial to contribute towards the key point I've made in my (mysteriously downvoted) original comment further above?
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by sridca 11y ago
I renamed the one mention of "Religion" in my post to "Belief in a supernatural being". This is such a trivial edit anyway ... do you have anything substantial to contribute towards the key point I've made in my com
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by sridca 11y ago
While it has become fashionable and easy to cease believing in God, humans are wont to continue believing in Authority. Why, for example, that despite professing to uphold the gene-centric evolutionary understanding humans, who are otherwis
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by sridca 11y ago
I'm well aware of fear producing a faster/quick instinctual response than higher-level cognitive processes, however what you seem to be unaware of is the fact that this difference (in terms of milliseconds, actually, according t
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by sridca 11y ago
In your experience taking this drug, does propranolol have any effect on 'pre-programmed maladaptive heuristics'?
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by sridca 11y ago
First of all it wasn't me who wrote fear tells one what to do or not, it was you. Which is why I put the word "tells" in scare quotes. What you are referring to, in that first paragraph of yours, is the role of fear in moral
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by sridca 11y ago
Okay then ... name one instance of fear being a second signal (in addition to reasoning) heightening perception of a dangerous situation. And consider how effective such a course of action is, in minimizing the risk of that dangerous situat
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by sridca 11y ago
> The point is that the fear-response tells you to not play with the tiger, you astounding idiot. Last I checked, the fear-response "tells" more than not to play with the tiger. For example, it tells (via moral conditioning) no
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by sridca 11y ago
I remember seeing this documentary a few years ago. When one considers ill effects of fear, often stuff like PTSD and phobias come to mind. But normal people too are adversely affected by fear on a daily basis. As this documentary shows the
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by sridca 11y ago
Reckless behaviour is not associated with lack of fear, as reckless behaviour is not uncommon among normal human adults with fear intact (also the aforementioned drug does more than inhibiting fear). If one is going about life "witho
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by sridca 11y ago
> Have fun Yup, life is certainly way more fun without fear around. > you can play with [that hungry, pissed-off tiger] all you want. I can also choose to not play with it. That is the beauty of intelligently responding (free choice)
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by sridca 11y ago
Thank you for the response. Could the difference, in those two kinds of situations, be due to the presence/lack of awareness of the trigger of fear response? To explain my thinking: it appears that you are normally aware of the fear-
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by sridca 11y ago
> [using extended release propanelol daily for the past couple years] seem to have a powerful effect on soothing the nervous system If you don't mind me asking could you comment on what effect this drug has had, over the past couple
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by sridca 11y ago
What is your point exactly? I've followed stories around SM for quite a while, and she comes across as living a normal life, only without the debilitating fear-response. If curiously approaching a deadly creature is what it takes to be
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by sridca 11y ago
> Primordial instinctive fears are required for survival of all living things. It is one thing to regurgitate a widely believed aphorism, but an entirely another thing to justify it with facts. Primordial instinctive fear is not requir
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by sridca 11y ago
Is that an excuse for a chipmunk crossing the road? Seriously, as a member of intelligent species you don’t need fear to inhibit yourself from doing such a senseless and risky act of crossing in the middle of a busy street. A rephrasing o
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by sridca 11y ago
I don't think your summary is accurate. It is more than relieving "the trigger emotion". According to the linked study, there is an ending of the conditioned fear-response itself: "Disrupting reconsolidation of fear
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by sridca 11y ago
> getting rid of fear is foolish Name one instance of sensibility in retaining fear-response in this modern world.

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