Okay let's talk abt Psychics.

[Weird]

thus the reason I used the word ethnicity

are ethnicity and culture constructs of white Europeans or the divided European tribes divided by culture and ethnicity as are Africans, Asians and south Americans.

There are cultural divides between Africans and Jamacians, Chinese and Japanese as well many of the south American Hispanic cultures.

My Spanish and German grandparents spoke different languages and looked different, ate different foods and loved the same grand children.

diverse and harmonious.

As far as projecting Europeans as racists, I always found condemnation only furthers the cause.

 

[Weird]

the duality of a level of difference as well as a level of likeness will always exists, the irony caused by it need not be

 

[Genghis Kush]

"Racially the newest generations are far less separated than those that come before. "

False statements like that, are racist. "Races" do not exist.

why are you so concerned with dividing people?

 

[Weird]

that was to illustrate mixing of asian, black, white and other races veruses the mixing of the cultures contained within them

its one thing when people of the same color and different cultures start to mix but its another thing when races hybridize which is happening rapidly. Science predicts a much different looking generation because of this in the next couple generations.

Just because I cite difference doesn't mean any one side is better than the other, we see the world in contrast because of difference, how we let contrast effect us is what either divides or unifies us.

Division is on you and me and I didn't put the hate branch out.

 

[mufinman]

I thought this thread was about a meteor falling on Wisconsin. Its not my thread but take you 'racism' to your own thread..

as far as the meteor, lets hope the OP is wrong..
or it falls on Washington DC while all the AHs are in session but I do not want to get onto politics either.

 

[CannaBrix]

Everything was meant not just to change, but evolve, even the way we perceive the world and understand each other and the world around us.

The more information we receive the more information upon which to base an understanding of the world.

That's a take away if I've ever read one!

 

[Weird]

If you want to expand on it, that process happens in pour sub conscious in the same system that does our flight or fight response, one part of the para sympathetic/sympathetic nervous system.

We are programmed by life to have a default response and even emotion regarding things and situations even to symbols.

a stop sign or a red light in many cultures means something very specific to many of us

this is programming via life, part of the ego, some of which is very necessary but also limits understanding outside of these constraints

most people never achieve true ego death or truly understand the scope of ego. If you have lost your ego, there is nothing to get bent about when talking about something, part of ego is attachment.

 

[Genghis Kush]

"that was to illustrate mixing of asian, black, white and other races veruses the mixing of the cultures contained within them

its one thing when people of the same color and different cultures start to mix but its another thing when races hybridize which is happening rapidly"

so, you are a racist moron

lets move on

 

[DrFever]

Why don't you ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"?

 

[trichrider]

Symbolism (Metaphysical)

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Symbolism was a term used by psychical researcher Ernesto Bozzano in relation to "cases in which by subconscious or mediumistic methods, an idea is expressed by hallucinatory perceptions, or ideographic representations, or forms of language differing from the ideas transmitted, but capable of suggesting them indirectly or conventionally. In other words, there is metaphysical symbolism every time an idea is transmitted by means of representations which are not reproductions."

Symbolism frequently occurs on occultism, particularly in prophetic dreams, which are sometimes represented in visual or etymological puns.

Sigmund Fraud made a point of such symbolic imagery in his psychoanalytic theory of dreams.

Many psychics find that their visions of future events occur by means of symbols. Traditionally astrological predictions used to be presented in symbolic pictures called "hieroglyphs."

 

[BruceBanner]

Why don't you ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"?

Because seeing into future is not something you can do by your own will or whenever you want, you see the future when it's given to you to see...
But maybe there are some cases of winning lottery this way, but it didn't happened by own will.

 

[Weird]

"that was to illustrate mixing of asian, black, white and other races veruses the mixing of the cultures contained within them

its one thing when people of the same color and different cultures start to mix but its another thing when races hybridize which is happening rapidly"

so, you are a racist moron

lets move on

Do not slander me, it is unacceptable. I demand you a prove my racism.

Do it and I will gladly leave the board

I am not racist because I am suggesting the hybridization of race is going to change the paradigm of culture as my multi ethnicity has changed my paradigm of culture compared to my ancestry

The only racist here is you because you are making the assumption that categorization of humans by race or ethnicity means something in regards to their humanitarian value.

To make that connection is completely on you and a projection of something from within you, not something that exists within me.

 

[waveguide]

why are you so concerned with dividing people?

"we're wired to divide people"



help me identify these in-sect bastards

 

[DrFever]

You forgot Hard wired and set to default lol

 

[Genghis Kush]

Take a deep breath and relax. Everything is going to be ok.

Clearly you don't understand, let me explain, again.

The races you speak of do not exist. Popular conceptualizations of race are derived from 19th and early 20th century scientific formulations. These old racial categories were based on externally visible traits, primarily skin color, features of the face, and the shape and size of the head and body, and the underlying skeleton. They were often imbued with nonbiological attributes, based on social constructions of race. These categories of race are rooted in the scientific traditions of the 19th century, and in even earlier philosophical traditions which presumed that immutable visible traits can predict the measure of all other traits in an individual or a population. Such notions have often been used to support racist doctrines. Yet old racial concepts persist as social conventions that foster institutional discrimination. The expression of prejudice may or may not undermine material well-being, but it does involve the mistreatment of people and thus it often is psychologically distressing and socially damaging.

By continuing to classify people by race in your word choice, you are furthering the existence of racism. The idea only exists as long as people use the words. Anybody who classifies people by false ideas of race is a racist. Regardless, if you think the word is just some sort of slander to describe people that wave confederate flags. The idea that race exists as a biological fact, led to the murder of those people in the church. And historically millions more. Until we change our language we will not change our reality.

 

[Weird]

diversity is the reality we live in, one that is quite easy to realize and celebrate, racism is making it a reason to marginalize people, which is the opposite

the only ones bringing that to the table are the guys playing the marginalized card and of all people I am sure you would jump at the chance to prove me racist by deed or word to eliminate me

you can't because that behavior is not existent, the hate you project is your own, it is the mental real estate you have given the people who really do cause division that to this date you have not been able to let go of.

Please show me how I have effectuated the marginalization of any lives based on color, show me the racism or show yourself that your so spun out by the concept you have become racist yourself thinking that difference means something other than human

good job

 

[Madjag]

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[Madjag]

Take a deep breath and relax. Everything is going to be ok.

Clearly you don't understand, let me explain, again.

The races you speak of do not exist. Popular conceptualizations of race are derived from 19th and early 20th century scientific formulations. These old racial categories were based on externally visible traits, primarily skin color, features of the face, and the shape and size of the head and body, and the underlying skeleton. They were often imbued with nonbiological attributes, based on social constructions of race. These categories of race are rooted in the scientific traditions of the 19th century, and in even earlier philosophical traditions which presumed that immutable visible traits can predict the measure of all other traits in an individual or a population. Such notions have often been used to support racist doctrines. Yet old racial concepts persist as social conventions that foster institutional discrimination. The expression of prejudice may or may not undermine material well-being, but it does involve the mistreatment of people and thus it often is psychologically distressing and socially damaging.

By continuing to classify people by race in your word choice, you are furthering the existence of racism. The idea only exists as long as people use the words. Anybody who classifies people by false ideas of race is a racist. Regardless, if you think the word is just some sort of slander to describe people that wave confederate flags. The idea that race exists as a biological fact, led to the murder of those people in the church. And historically millions more. Until we change our language we will not change our reality.

Amen

re: Benjamin Whorf

 

[Genghis Kush]

Weird

do you have reading comprehension issues?

go back and read it again, because there is nothing left to say.

 

[Weird]

Take a deep breath and relax. Everything is going to be ok.

Clearly you don't understand, let me explain, again.

The races you speak of do not exist. Popular conceptualizations of race are derived from 19th and early 20th century scientific formulations. These old racial categories were based on externally visible traits, primarily skin color, features of the face, and the shape and size of the head and body, and the underlying skeleton. They were often imbued with nonbiological attributes, based on social constructions of race. These categories of race are rooted in the scientific traditions of the 19th century, and in even earlier philosophical traditions which presumed that immutable visible traits can predict the measure of all other traits in an individual or a population. Such notions have often been used to support racist doctrines. Yet old racial concepts persist as social conventions that foster institutional discrimination. The expression of prejudice may or may not undermine material well-being, but it does involve the mistreatment of people and thus it often is psychologically distressing and socially damaging.

By continuing to classify people by race in your word choice, you are furthering the existence of racism. The idea only exists as long as people use the words. Anybody who classifies people by false ideas of race is a racist. Regardless, if you think the word is just some sort of slander to describe people that wave confederate flags. The idea that race exists as a biological fact, led to the murder of those people in the church. And historically millions more. Until we change our language we will not change our reality.

Sigh your proving my point

We are not genetically identical. If we were every race would get sickle cell anemia in equal rates. There are genetic differences between races, for which it actually benefits the mixing of race for hybrid vigor. This isn't racism it is the reality of genetics. It doesn't mean that they are so different that this means anything in regards to our humanitarian value.

The simultaneous existence of our differences and similarities is reality. How we choose to perceive them in regards to humanitarian value is where people make a case to marginalize, exploit or work harmoniously together.

Variety is the spice of life, if you are willing to celebrate humanity diversity for what it is, difference based on, and riding on top of, the same underlying foundation, differences don't have the same negative connotation.

The same programming exists (marginalization of others based on difference) within races and cultures and isn't exclusive to any race, creed, religion or anything like that, it is one of the parts of our human nature we can choose to develop, or not.

In fact in the world today I argue the biggest marginalizing difference is poverty(or wealth) not race color or creed