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People can’t get used to a lot of things, especially if they feel they have no control over it. Kevin Samuels deserves his own thread. One of my boys told me about him and said I definitely got to check him out. I watched a few of his videos. He was pretty harsh on the sisters. Admittedly some of them seem the need a little bit of tough love and candor. Thing I didn’t like, however is that he would dismiss women who weren’t accepting his advice to “die alone.” I wonder if he died alone?

it seems to me, you would completely understand that dogged attachment to an idea. The notion of Asians, being docile and subservient is a stereotype. I encourage you to disavow yourself of it.

These things were explained @Pioneer1, perhaps not to your satisfaction. The reason you are having difficulty understanding is you keep shoehorning ideas that have no relevance like “evil” and “obeying.” if you touch something that is unexpectedly very hot, your hand will recoil. It’s not a decision that you made, it’s not good or evil, you weren’t obeying anyone, you just reacted. Now you could create a story in which you touched the hot thing, and made a decision, in a fraction of a millisecond, to remove your hand to prevent yourself from being hurt. But you and I both know that is a false narrative. I appreciate that was a trivial example, however it is should not be difficult to see how that situation could be extended to the universe. It’s not an idea you have to believe in, but it is one that you can ponder.

Sounds like the National Black Writers Conference is off to a great start. Thanks for sharing the coverage @richardmurray was it a full house?

…stepping up on the virtual soap box. I agree with most of what @aka Contrarian just wrote, though she gives people more credit than I think is warranted. I’ve been in conversations with many people who believe the earth is flat, believe Trump would be a good president, and that the earth is 6,000 year old. It is commonly accepted that the media had a great deal of influence in the rise of Trump. If one accepts this is true and thinks it is a bad thing, The question becomes. What do we do about it? Personally, I am not sure there is much we can do about the media and how they relate “information.” AI promises To make this cataclysmically worse. It will become impossible to discern truth from lies and fact from fiction. Those with the most money will control the narrative far more effectively than they do today. But if people are increasingly lied to, misled, and manipulated, we will still end up doing the bidding of the wealthy and powerful against our own self interest. As far as presidential elections, I think we should get rid of the electoral college and have ranked choice voting nationally. Once voting history should be available online so that we could confirm accuracy our vote. that would put much more power in the hands of the people and grifters like Trump would not be able to win the office when actually losing the popular vote by millions.

yes, and on some level this was always true. It’s just that the Internet fueled by social media has made the impact of sensationalism much worse.

Yep that was his name!

Well thanks for sharing a link to that old film review. Back in 2008 I had a guy who is the write movie reviews and interview celebrities. He interviewed Alicia Keys about this film as well. The reviewer died several years ago. I haven’t posted a film review since then. i’m sure the sisters who created the video review. Appreciate you sharing their videos as well. @richardmurray Do you have a connection to their platform or are you just a fan?

I read the AP story posted in the NPR article @Pioneer1 shared, “Trump says some migrants are 'not people', and warns of 'bloodbath' if he loses.” I mean again, this kind of article will it attract more attention, Trump’s message a very different headline could’ve been crafted, but this headline attracts attention. The media can’t help themselves they play right into trumps game act like this kind of story is gonna hurt him. NPR should know better.

As soon as I hear one chirp, I change the batteries to all of them. yeah, I saw a video with that guy who used to advise women on men. I forget his name, but he died recently. At any rate he told one woman she definitely didn’t have a man in the house because he could hear the smoke alarm chopping during their conversation

Enjoy your weekend too @richardmurray and consider going to the national Black writers conference next week too

I had zero interest in watching the state of the union address. It has nothing to do with Biden. These things are really just a pep rallies and propaganda. I’d rather watch a rerun of Sanford and son.

I wrote that? Show me. “Fear for my safety” was never a significant factor for my list for leaving NYC. When my safety was most in jeopardy, I was too young to leave. By the time I was old enough and had to wherewithal to leave I left for a nicer climate and lower cost of living. Not counting college, I left New York City to live in three other places suburban Philadelphia and Florida (twice) never did I leave for fear of my safety. Although every place I left for had a much lower crime rate. The way crowds behave is very different than the way individuals behave. It is not uncommon for people to get stampeded hurt and killed in situations that was initiated by a relatively innocuous event. This is why you don’t yell “fire” in a crowded theater.

@ProfD, oh ok.

@gulshanm I was on the fence about sprucing your account. Why do you think Emily Henry would be surprised for the National black writers conference?

Oh, ok gents thanks. However “univided” seems oxymoronic.

“Stupidly” is a very harsh description of the behavior. I guess you’ve never been in a situation were there was gun fire. I’d say the people were not sure what was happening and were scared. Also to be clear. I was saying that New York in the late 70s was relatively unsafe. In the 20 teens before I left, it was a relatively safe city— it wasn’t crime free, but compared to the 70s. It was a completely different place not just Harlem the entire city.

you were asking the same question 15 billion different ways. The answer is yes to all of it. lol! No one, who said they had to be some being behind this? Why is that an assumption, or prequiste?

@CHEEZITQUEEN well thanks for choosing to post here, finally If it were not for a handful of regular posters, this form would be dead. Many of the posts here get a tremendous amount of views, but people don’t create accounts and if they do create an account, they don’t post. since I have you here. You post on LSA, but it took you a couple of years to post here. Why did it take so long? I am contemplating the use of an open source social networks as the next iteration of this site software: https://bsky.app/profile/aalbc.bsky.social I’ll check LSA out tomorrow it have has been a few years… time really flies .

I agree pioneer; that is the situation we are currently in!

of course, but it is debatable if one can shift between those different realities, or if different versions of you exist and that can never interact. Sorry to hear about your. It could be in a different universe we don’t have knees, or we don’t stop at grocery stores. Maybe we don’t even experience pain. Of course, we don’t experience those realities. Just this one, and this one has made better by the presence of the poster formerly known as Cynique

Wars have objectives. If the number of mass school shootings , executed by lone gunman, increase what’s the point? When Hamas killed all those people at that concert, that was not war. When the Israelis retaliated by leveling Gaza, and killing everyone in sight, that was war. The goal being destroying Hamas regardless of the collateral damage.

So basically rioting.

punishing them is following the script. i’m not gonna try to extend the argument to the Soul, as I don’t no what you think it is, whether it adheres to the laws of physics. You’re stuck on the idea that our perception of choice is proof of a nondeterministic state. That is one way to view a dream. @Delano we have the ability to see some of the patterns. maybe that is why some people believe if you know the initial conditions of one’s birth, like their relative place in the cosmos, you can predict a lot about their lives.

OK what the heck does “multivided” mean?