The People Have Spoken

[WilliamM2]

Do tell.

First this ...

https://www.governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/news-releases/2024/october/name-1035684-en.html



And then this ...

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/30/g-s1-30644/supreme-court-virginia-elections

Leave it to the republicans, signing up non-citizens to vote for them. Always trying to rig the election.

 

[Moonbeam]

I agree, it's just that willful stupidity offends me!

That’s because you confuse willful with ‘on cue as per programming’. Nobody is willfully ignorant without motivation to avoid some unpleasant experience and those were all created by memories of ego threat in the past. In fact you believe as you do because you have a need to avoid the unpleasantness, are willfully ignorant of any truth of your actual condition might bring as I present you with the facts. May I assume you will remain willfully ignorant of this and continue to maintain others exercise conscious choice?

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

I see a debate has developed over this comment. I’m wondering if it could be that he served in the US Army as a foreign spy. Just saying.

He missed the r at the beginning there.

 

[WelshBloke]

In fact you believe as you do because you have a need to avoid the unpleasantness, are willfully ignorant of any truth of your actual condition might bring as I present you with the facts.

I would say that you are presenting your opinion there which I may, or may not, agree with.

 

[WelshBloke]

Hasn't posted an response in 20+ minutes. Either quitting time or realized they have been outed. A bot would keep going and ramble on about existentialism and the universe.

The ban hammer has been swung!

 

[Moonbeam]

I would say that you are presenting your opinion there which I may, or may not, agree with.

Does anyone posting here mention what you just suggested more than I do. At times I do fail to so state. My apologies.

 

[hal2kilo]

Trolls taking over? No never mind.

 

[Moonbeam]

He missed the r at the beginning there.

I do not understand what you mean.

I just posted because it seemed to me a person was defending himself because he had done 4 years in the Army which would be no defense at all if he were stating a true fact but had served as a traitor.

That was the only point I wanted to make. I could have added that my attitude my attitude toward the patriotism of military service I tempered by a belief that many a fine SS Officer doubtlessly prided themselves similarly. Nationalism to me is a form of mental illness. Borders are lines in the ground that exist only in people’s heads.

 

[Moonbeam]

A further point on willful ignorance. One can see in this left leaning forum it’s a popular device and in which the willfulness appears superficially accurate, but on careful consideration, at heart, and clearly just a matter of my opinion, actually provides the same sort of autonomic self protection applicable to any altered reality conservative, a was to escape self confrontation under the guise that some people are beneath contempt and not worth a hearing, in other words, an out for those in terror of looking into the mirror.

It’s called the ignore button, a relief button for cowards, but of course again, only in my opinion. Doubtlessly again, I’m just plain wrong in my opinion.

I believe in mythology we find archetypal patterns representing wisdom designed to slip past the willful ignorance censor of ego. We find such examples in the Hero Myths.

Imagine that there is a force behind willful ignorance that no matter the data presented manages to preserve that ignorance via endless mental games or rationalizations, habituated by years of mastery through practice and imagine now this to be archetypically represented by the hydra, Cerberus, a seven headed snake or the Hydra.

How will the Hero, the Seeker, the Desiree of the Golden Fleece, get past such a repellant force, one that can’t be faced. The answer is a sword and a mirror polished shield. What’s your guess those ar symbolic archetypes of? Best wishes on your journey. We sleep as the Waters of Life flow by.

Is ignorance really willful or is the result of the fact that we died psychically as children and to recover poke into consciousness the true misery that created for how we are unable to really feel what love is. I leave you to decide. How can you mend a broken heart.

I’m pretty sure it can never be done by seeking revenge or blaming the ignorance of others.

 

[dank69]

The ban hammer has been swung!

Sure would be nice to know why.

 

[Moonbeam]

Sure would be nice to know why.

I have no idea but could be a prior banned person using a different name.

 

[WelshBloke]

Sure would be nice to know why.

Obvious troll was obvious?

You could just politely ask one of the mods.

 

[dank69]

I have no idea but could be a prior banned person using a different name.

Could be any number of things, that's why I am curious. Usually a mod will post if something they post violates the rules so if there is no mod note anywhere then I am guessing it's on technical grounds like you suggest or something similar.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

I do not understand what you mean.

RUS army instead of US army.

 

[Moonbeam]

RUS army instead of US army.

Oh I see. I dont know if that is so or not, he did say US army, but that could be true while and you correct if he's a spy. I am sure the Army has their share of them. Well, actually I'm really not sure but seem a reasonable assumption.

 

[Moonbeam]

Could be any number of things, that's why I am curious. Usually a mod will post if something they post violates the rules so if there is no mod note anywhere then I am guessing it's on technical grounds like you suggest or something similar.

Well, anyway if he's a bad actor, I hope he doesn't get prrmabanned like you did and show up only virtually in my alt world imagination. Your secret is safe, don't worry. Nobody reads my posts so I'm not actually here either. Someone is passing our curses causing people to go Permablind. It could be the reptile in the other building.

 

[pmv]

A further point on willful ignorance. One can see in this left leaning forum it’s a popular device and in which the willfulness appears superficially accurate, but on careful consideration, at heart, and clearly just a matter of my opinion, actually provides the same sort of autonomic self protection applicable to any altered reality conservative, a was to escape self confrontation under the guise that some people are beneath contempt and not worth a hearing, in other words, an out for those in terror of looking into the mirror.

This is most definitely _not_ a 'left leaning forum'.