Comments by "TheDionysianFields" (@TheDionysianFields) on "ContraPoints" channel.

  1. @NeoSeraphi Are you implying that philosophy is "meaningless trite"? Maybe Nietzsche's life was empty and pointless? Schopenhauer? Kierkegaard? Sartre? Wittgenstein? Hobbes? Rand? Locke? Hume? Smith? Descartes? Spinoza? Leibniz? Kant? Bentham? Really, you can go away now.
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  2. @NeoSeraphi I guess that makes the movie Bambi the pinnacle of art and culture in your universe.
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  3. Your friend does sound a bit envious.
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  4. You can call it anything you'd like. After all, it's theoretical.
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  5. I'm a conservative and I'm glad to see Trump go. He was never our boy.
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  6. Except the queen would seem to have little interest in being a good person. And she IS looking into a mirror. To me, the story presents a tragic irony. The things we envy aren't even the things we should be envying in the first place. The queen should be jealous of Snow White's lightness of spirit, more so than her looks.
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  7.  @aarishowton8037  "I'm scared of all men." Do you get why that's a problem and it discounts anything you say on any topic involving men?
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  8. @Unicorn Baby I'm sorry that you're afraid of men but the question here is whether that's a rational and acceptable fear. I don't think it is because the vast majority of men aren't out to harm women. I got bit by a dog when I was young and was afraid of dogs for many years. But the reality is that it was my own issue to deal with, and I did eventually conquer that fear. Since this is a politically charged thread, I took exception to the suggestion that all men are dangerous. The image of men has already take too many hits in recent times. I might have been more inclined to let it go if the poster had stated that they were afraid of anyone bigger than them. Even though I'd still consider that a personal problem.
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  9. Does someone need to watch the video again?
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  10.  @aarishowton8037  I don't care what your opinion of men is, and whether you're single or have an SO means nothing to me. If you out yourself as someone who's biased against the entirety of the male population, you don't get a seat at the table. And, wow, your reply only made it 10 times worse.
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  11.  @arandomcomment1092  Only until they realize that his presidency was a net negative for Republicans and the right in general. Hillary could never have done so much damage to the right and it makes me wonder if the whole thing wasn't a setup.
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  12.  @aarishowton8037  Consider that all of the nouns you used in your reply to the other commentor reference people , not men. You even used the word people. Also consider that there's a lot of ground between the scenario you're describing and a "gated community." I live in a lower-class neighborhood where homes sell for as little as 20K, and the most action we get is an occasional store robbery. By a person or persons. If you start citing statistics to me, you've completely missed the point. As far as not defending yourself, I believe people are saying just the opposite.
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  13. Yeah, no. Captain Kirk, Steve Irwin, Bruce Lee. There are plenty of positive male figures in our culture. This whole thing's a farce.
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  14.  @aarishowton8037  I commented to make others aware, for the benefit of the community. I really don't care what your sentiments are, but people still need to know.
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  15. Hard to believe she ever denigrated Jordan Peterson.
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  16. Well if you empathize with someone that means you sympathize with them, right? And if you sympathize with someone, that means you're an apologist for them? You just gotta connect the dots.
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  17.  @tatiana.gazaryan  I was being facetious. I do think we need to watch who we associate ourselves with, but in this case I believe Stephanie was just genuinely concerned.
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  18. @Unicorn Baby No, I didn't misunderstand your post. Anyone can attack you when you go out so it's always prudent to be aware and take general precautions relevant to the circumstance and environment. But even if most of the women you know have been attacked or harassed by men (and only by men), that doesn't mean the majority of women overall have been. You're making an unfounded claim. Furthermore, most of the men I know have had to deal with unprovoked aggression from another human being, and they're still not generally afraid of men. Finally, I could accept you saying you're afraid to go out because there are ill-intentioned people in the world, and I would agree that isn't irrational (but still problematic). But if the vast majority of men have no intent to harm you, it's not fair to point at them (us).
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  19.  @nina-mill  They are opposites, like yin and yang. But also interdependent, like yin and yang.
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  20.  @stephaniesmith3544  What you describe seems more like the difference between introvert and extrovert, which I can relate to. Anyway, you can envy someone's particular skill without wanting to be them. After all, they are (for the most part) kind of boring and superficial, no? Something tells me Nietzsche wasn't the life of the party.
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  21.  @ineffablemars  Best of luck.
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  22. I'm not sure how your comment applies to the video but it's definitely the question of the day.
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  23.  @jose-qp4yz  Going hungry 2x a week will make you much healthier than rich people, but in a country like this it still seems like it should be a choice.
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  24. Do you?
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  25. Please don't encourage this individual.
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  26. Except nationalism isn't a bad word, language is hardly over-glorified and we do have a connection with our ancestors.
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  27.  @Arrogan28  "But if [intimacy] is there, then reacting to their needs, and yours almost feels like an effortless dance to me. But when that link is not there, roles almost become a way to hide behind feeling lost because of it..." I'm not sure there's a deeper analysis, and thank you for redeeming your wall of text.
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  28.  @Evelynn-y1e  From realizing that it's all mimicry. People do whatever it takes to produce an effect. Chances are, the more of a smooth/small talker you are, the less you have to say.
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  29.  @Evelynn-y1e  You can develop your intuition and you won't need to do all that small talk, but if you enjoy it, great. What I'm saying is that I don't have time in my life for inconsequential chit-chat that's almost always stilted and phony. I tend to know almost instantly the depth to which someone will impact my world, and the length they will travel with me. My original point was that the OP need not feel inferior. That's what I'm going with, 100%.
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  30. Seems like a throwaway video. Asking people to vote for someone you don't think is a worthy candidate feels irresponsible.
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  31. Well, kids do seem spoiled and unappreciative.
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  32. No, they should move to China if they want to be communists.
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  33. Almost precisely what Jordan Peterson would say. Except for the privilege part because there's no reason to point to that when it's just as often that those in question worked hard but forgot what life was about on their rise to the top. In fact, that's even more prevalent in the U.S. I don't know of anyone who ever said men were being oppressed. And they're no more lonely than anyone else in this world. Just a disingenuous video, all around.
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  34.  @PappyMandarine  You completely missed the point. Existential angst isn't "mostly a disease of privilege," it's a result of a loss of meaning -- just like Jordan Peterson says it is. The person most likely to have this angst is actually a soldier returning from war (look up Sebastian Junger). But it happens to most successful people as well at some point. Anyway, I feel like I'm wasting my breath here. Nobody can understand the simplest human psychology. A man who whines about being oppressed isn't a man and shouldn't be entertained as such.
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  35.  @PappyMandarine  I agree with nearly all of that. Except the mislabeling. People aren't privileged simply because the made it in society. THEY ARE JUST FUCKING PEOPLE WHO MADE IT IN SOCIETY. Likewise, people who are struggling aren't necessarily "less privileged", THEY ARE JUST PEOPLE WHO ARE FUCKING STRUGGLING (like myself) TO MAKE IT IN SOCIETY. Maybe you don't realize there's anything beyond your labels but Contrapoints is smart enough to know, and hence, just being a jackass. I will continue to crush all this sleight of hand bullshit that you far leftists keep pedaling.
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  36. I like your two choices, but for much different reasons.
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  37. Never has it seemed so evident that Twitter is for those who failed to escape high school. The thing is...it's not too late! Put down your phone and venture forth into the real world where adults talk to each other face to face. The moment you do so, you'll have earned your GED. From there the sky's the limit. It's not too late.
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  38. We all have that responsibility and we should take it seriously.
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  39.  @jackm1335  Don't focus on the wrong part of the comment.
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  40.  @noxclover598  So was it a joke?
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  41.  @noxclover598  In that case it seems juvenile and counterproductive. You know, unfunny.
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  42. While you make a good general point, I find you prettier than the creator of this video (and most other women out there).
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  43. There's always a way to put skin into the game if you give a s__t. But if you feel guilty for being born a white male, you're useless.
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  44. This video seems like a lot of projection. Women are the group with the identity crisis. The only men suffering an identity crisis are those who were feminized from birth and feel that masculinity is out of reach.
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  45.  @user-je4eh9ht1k  It's simple. In the pursuit of equality, women abandoned all feminine qualities and essentially became men. Now they have no idea who they are, what they want or where they're going as a collective. And in fact they're more divided and have less solidarity than ever.
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  46.  @zRhid  Even if it is, it doesn't disprove the point.
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  47.  @zRhid  I watch some and skim some, don't actually remember. It's too bad because there's an intelligent person underneath these characters being portrayed by Natalie. I remember being impressed by the way she argued her point against Blair. But she seems to have abandoned that intelligence in favor of ideology and popularity. It's a sad day. Anyway, I feel like you just came here to waste my time.
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  48.  @user-je4eh9ht1k  I'm sorry you feel that way but those are your feelings. Other women don't feel the same. And, yes, it seems women are banding together nowadays, but in reality they are as divided as ever. It's like they have no idea what they want. This is all too depressing for me to talk about.
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  49.  @user-je4eh9ht1k  I didn't make it up, I just looked around me. Some things are too obvious for the academics to see. But keep praying to your scientific research while the world goes by. Or you can look up Raven Connolly on here. She'll set your thinking straight.
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  50.  @user-je4eh9ht1k  And fully confused. But you're right, I'm only so qualified to speak about the path of women, which is why I'd encourage you to look up Raven Connolly on youtube and loosen your ingrained perspective a little. There is a real feminist movement...latent but fertile. Subtle, but powerful. Fierce, but graceful.
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