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@Delano is F = G X ((m1 X m2)/r2) True? What is your point Del, are you saying @Pioneer1 is height or that mass IS energy? Spit it out man. While you don't answer questions, enigmatically, you sure as hell like to pose them.

@Delano Keep in mind I did not write the code that powers the discussion forum. It is a 3rd party application that I've installed on my web server. Aside from the administrative functions, you may be as aware of the features as I am. I recently upgraded the software that runs this forum. The upgrade crashed and it took about a day for the vendor to correct the problem. There are some new features and some things will work differently. The assumption is that overall the software should be superior. That said all software has bugs. Sometimes new features are difficult to distinguish from new features. For example, in the screen shot below. When you highlight text it used to say something like copy comment. I don;t remember exactly what is said but it was clearer what would happen. The "-" shown now is unclear. I was only able to guess what it did because I know what happened previously. Is this a bug maybe, but I don't know. Given the stuff on my plate it is not a high priority to determine and resolve. Now the problem with the buttons not showing what they do. That is a problem I have not seen before because I have not attempted to delete a post from a mobile device, since the upgrade. I do however think I know what is causing it and will attempt to fix this as this is a problem. I've seen in the admin screens. I was willing to tolerate this personally but this materially impacts the user experience and I'll get on as soon as I can. Could there be other issues? Of course, but I depend on y'all to let me know I don't have a team of people to test this code. Before I roll it out.

True. I experience this ALL THE TIME. Often when I'm struggling with a solution to a problem. I'll tell myself to forget about it and go onto to something else, confident that my subconscious will continue working on the problem and get back to me with a solution. I only discovered this ability in the last decade or so, as I've dealt with more changing problems working on this website. Some people described this as talking to God or tapping into a collective consciousness. My "story" is a lot simpler: it is simply the way our brain works. You don't need to meditate or gaze into a crystal. In fact, concentrating on a problem only makes it more difficult for arrive at a optimal solution. Your unconscious mind can more effectually do the work -- it has access to more and is not detracted. It can also formulate solutions more creatively.

So don't speak for them. Stop copying and pasting what others have written and speak for yourself. Persumably when you do this you are advancing and idea that you've are thinking about -- otherwise why share the idea? Are you a feminist and what is your option of porn @Delano

Hey @Delano and @Kalexander2 you are in good company. Nikki Giovanni, have also lost $50 betting that 45 would be impeached. While emotion is great for a poet, as gambler reason and logic always "trumps" emotion. 😉

@Delano Thanks for deleting that last post. As far as the screen shots you've posted I don't understand what you are trying to communicate.

@Pioneer1 For the umpteenth time matter is not energy. Lets say that you are 6' tall. Because you have height does not make you height -- get it?

@Delano I've already provided my rationale. Pioneer gets it. You don't. You simply refuse to see how you are coming across; and when one asks for clarification you dodge the questions, redirect, or otherwise obfuscate the issue. Point in case: I asked you if you were a feminist. I want to know what YOU think, that is why I asked YOU. Giving the a definition of the word does not answer the question -- particular as it pertains to porn, which was the underlying issue which you've been avoiding. @Pioneer1 🙂 yes this conversation has morphed, but it is all related. Do you know that Black girls going to strip clubs, to hang out, is a thing? I mean you'd always see a chick in a strip club, but this is now something that is a "mainstream" activity, like going to the movies. I mention this because it influences how we view Black women; strip clubs has influenced our popular music ala Cardi or Lil' Kim. One must realize that we are beginning to view the beauty of Black women through the lens of pornography. More importantly this perspective is NOT of our making. It is a standard that our corporate masters have put in place to appeal our more baser instincts to wring more profits out of us and it is working marvelously.

@Pioneer1 If I were a more active moderator I would have deleted @Delano's last post (at least), as it just copied what someone else has written without added anything . Hopefully, after he comes down, from his high, Del will clean these up. 😉

I have not been following the story and have only heard what other people have said about the reporting. That said Smollett made the whole thing up. Sure the police will set people up, but why this?

@Delano actually own the Zhané album you posted but did not recall the cut you posted, maybe somethings happen for a reason 😉 @Mel Hopkins that was an interesting article and even though it is a few years old I don't think the thinking on the subject has changed much in that our unconscious mind is in far more control over what we do than people are generally aware or would want to admit. In the same way that we are compelled to drop a hot pan, or don't have to think about how we have to move our muscles to form words... Hmm, not only don't we have free will we are aren't even aware of how we craft the stories to justify it😉

Lol! Yo @Pioneer1 you gonna let him punk you like Dat?! Just playing but it was funny though... Y'all think we can elevate the conversation reminds me of Facebook 😉

@Delano so you are not a feminist? Does one have to be a woman to be a feminist? Del you did write, "I don't know how many feminists you know, but it's is an issue." Which indicates familiarity with their (your) issues. Pornography is an "issue" with many people. You have admit that you made it seem like feminists have to be against porn. At least until you pasted quotes on both sides of the issue. That is why Pioneer is challenging your apparent position.

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Hi @Carol Denise Mitchell (or @Carol Denise Mitchell) I tryst all is well. I see you've been busy. Please post the ISBN13 for the books I'm missing, and I'll update your author profile: https://aalbc.com/authors/author.php?author_name=Carol+Denise+Mitchell Peace, Troy

I did not base my use of the word disparagement based solely upon the use of the word unorthodox it was basely upon several statements you made, which I related, not just the one. But we can agree to disagree. I subscribe to CBS to watch Star Trek; yes I too enjoy "banal entertainment." But I'll probably drop the subscription after that and watch the 60 minute segments via podcast. @Cynique I understand that your personal love with affair with social media has blinded you to, or forced you to, downplay it's downsides. You sound like Zuckerberg and Trump denying the impact these platform had in the last election in the face of all the evidence. I assume you believe the findings of how social media was exploited to help get 45 into office. Assuming you do believe the findings what I don't understand is why you believe it is worth the trade off. You say you despise 45, but would you be willing to get rid of Facebook if would have stopped 45 from getting elected? Another thing I don't understand is why you give social media so much credit for providing spiritual memes and Buddhist quotes, ridiculing celebrities and sacred cows If it is not like these things did not exist before, and could not exist without, social media. Again, as I've said before, I really don't what people do for fun as long as it does not effect me. Unfortunately the even thought I don't use Facebook the fact of the matter is Facebook is mining all of our data -- without permission and even without having a Facebook account.. and all you can think about is the funny memes.

No there there is no way can either position or even an unconceived (or unconcievable) position can be proven. I though it was an interesting thought experiment. At least that is the predetermined story I tell myself in my illusion of free will 😉

Sure you did. You called her views unorthodox. Why, because they did not fit the narrative you learned watching TV or conform to the white man's way of thinking? Then you stopped short of pulling a Del move by dropping that unsubstantiated rumor that Welsing married a white guy -- as if that mattered. You implied her ideas were stale and out because of step with the times because if the age if the video. You are obviously not a "devotee." Please, let's call a spade a spade. So what! Is that your criteria; The validation of white folks? Has oprah did any stories of people who are unapologetically pro Black? So watching TV broadens your horizons?! OK I'll leave that one alone. @Cynique you have of habit taking general statements I make about the behavior of a group and defending them by telling me what YOU do. Please stop taking my statements about a group and making them about you. It is clouding your judgement and you ability to understand my points. There is no single pure source of news. If one consumes news from a single source one is being misinformed at best and lied to at worse. Where do i get my news from? I get it form a wide variery of sources and platforms. Magazines, newspapers, TV (Though not traditional broadcast), and books. Look MOST people do not watch PBS like you and I. By the way I do watch 60 minutes. I have a subscription to CBS all access. Most people do not click through on links to articles on social media. So while you and i do this cynique most people do not. This is common knowledge to those in or who follow the industry. What most people do is read the snippets copy and pasted on the social media platform. The social media algorithm then decides what to out in your news feed based upon what will keep you most engaged. Then people simply read and engaged with the snippets the are put in front of them. When i used to read social media too often i found the opinions formed were not supported by the actual article; because no one had bothered to read it! Often links to the source articles weren't even provided and i had to run queires to find the articles. If course there is the very real problem of fake news, false equivalence, and senstantalism that is the hallmark of social media. Social media's goal was NEVER to inform. So no, social media is not a "news source" for me.

Oh Brother @Cynique I thought you knew me better than that. I've seen Davis numerous times have produced video of her myself. I saw Kathleen a few months ago. Oprah.... really? That is what you put up as a suitable alternative to Tony Brown's Journal? Oprah is fluff for the female masses. I've seen the show. has it changed from 20 years ago? How many Black men you know who regularly tune into Oprah? You easily desparage Welsing and elevate Oprah. I don't get it... Of course there are still people doing good programming. Rock Newman has a good program it is (was) a local program, but i get to see it because it is on Youtube. And it is not decades old. There is years worth of new content published on youtube everyday. Part of what i do is share good shows on this site. -- i even share oprah's stuff even though i dont personally care for it but i know others, like you, do The reality is most people get their news from social media. So we consume a diet of 45's tweets and Jessie Smollett updates I've probably exposed myself to a far greater variety of Black folk than most. Bubble... nah you are way off the mark there @Cynique but you keep watching TV and consuming a steady diet of social media. Social media and broadcast TV are two platforms I've chosen to stop consuming information from, because that is actually were filter bubbles are born.

Perhaps, but that is not the position I have taken and no one have said anything to convince me otherwise. No, the creation of the universe does not imply a creator. If you think that is what I'm saying then forget it because I'm not saying that. Yes humans have had an impact on climate change. That, like everything else, was set into motion almost 14 billion years ago. Just because everything that has or will happen can be known does not mean we are not active participants. We are little more than robots, a series of sophiticated but completely predictable chemical reactions. We just believe we have free will. We have no more free will than a tree or a guppy.

Sure it is Cynique. "my theory," (more accurately the idea im defending is not novel I'm sure) does not eliminate or negate blame. Did you enjoy the academy awards last night?

@Delano 38. I dunno @Delano? I never tried to count them. How many do you know? What difference does it make? I know the definition of the word. Again you think in extremes failing to see nausance in people and beliefs. The world is not so black and white neither is "porn. " You know at least one feminists who likes it how do YOU square that? Again, not all feminists are the same. I asked you the following question (which you characteristicly ignored) del, because it informs YOUR belief in what a feminist should believe. Del im not sure why the pasted these quotes; they make my earlier point. @Mel Hopkins I see all the people I described, as devils. But they are wildly successful. Success is simply the accomplishment of a goal. Why are the people i described not sucessful?

how do you know that's not something you're telling yourself?  @Cynique I guess we can go back and forth with this ad infinitum. For the 2nd time it IS something I'm telling myself. I don't know why my brain directed me to write this -- I acutally had no choice; this chain of events was set into motion at the moment the universe was created Just because something like free will feels like it is true and the stories we've created seem to make sense. Does not make it true. @Mel Hopkins (anybody) do you like the song. Have you ever heard it before?

It is something I'm telling myself and this could have been foreseen at the instant of the big bang.