The evolution of emotion

Thirdform, truth be told if you behaved the way you do on this forum to my face or my friends faces I’d kick your cunt in
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
And of course it’s harder to be disagreeable in person. I often find myself being nicer in person against my will because I can’t bear pain in a face. I’m an empath!
Sometimes I just don't acknowledge unfavorable behaviors/statements.
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
Or else I cast a heavy gaze. When our dog misbehaves, I just give her this look, and she immediately transitions into submission submissive body language. It has a similar but less obvious effect on people, I've found.
 
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Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
Or else I cast a heavy gaze. When our dog misbehaves, I just give her this look, and she immediately transitions into submission body language. It has a similar but less obvious effect on people, I've found.
Its nice because I often don't even need to raise my voice, or even speak, in order to effect the intended conditioning.
 

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
Similar to my approach to desire: not to repress it or deny it, but to observe its flights and vacillations, so as to dispel any illusion of its absoluteness; to accept its nature as but a thread in the larger cosmic loom.

just as I thought of a segue to


It just seems that, at a certain point of demystification, one becomes less prone to being swept up by these emotional currents.

the path led to

 

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
stare downs can be hysterical, anyone who’s been out on the piss enough has lived it

when it happens to mates and you whisper he just called you a cunt in their ear, self control tests
 

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
where are emotions going?

how are they exploited?

does the metaverse yield them obsolete?

there’s too much money in marketing to nullify them altogether, so like primates you want a fair degree of tension in a population, keep people on the fear tit

insidious numbing of emotions is big business too, a side affect of all the above, eg diazepam has seen its own surge during Covid by script or illicit routes
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
The direction we seem to be moving in involves emotions being quantifiable objects of gamification. In fact we are well underway, held back largely by our inability to properly quantify them.
 

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
First time doing benzos with mates decades ago. Its specific slug calm state languished in via an active teenage physiology, the ferocity of complete power of comfort, zoning in rather than out, tremendous novelty initially. Limbic system zapped down in 10-20mins. Charting the oooooph that’s nice subjectivity and relaxedness. Detached observer slug in an hour

You see how embedded benzos are, still, when everyone knows they linger in healthcare ammunition. It’s the only drug experience I fear due to the seduction of “oh fuck it, just check in on 50mg one more time”, like a hotel room. Big link to dementia so the devolving brain factor is real

Can the pharmacological-industrial complex run programs of drug development to negate emotions? All the time. The market is increasingly open. Rupturing worlds = industrial healthcare systems with less face time = extra script prescribing
 

thirdform

pass the sick bucket
where are emotions going?

how are they exploited?

does the metaverse yield them obsolete?

there’s too much money in marketing to nullify them altogether, so like primates you want a fair degree of tension in a population, keep people on the fear tit

insidious numbing of emotions is big business too, a side affect of all the above, eg diazepam has seen its own surge during Covid by script or illicit routes

Agreed. this is not a development I'm celebrating. Of course we'd love it if we weren't constantly zonked out on ssris and benzos, but what other choice do we have today? And I respect shiels, I do. But he's so overeager. Like how I was when I was 14. digga digga full of a ball of positivity. This lethargic state — well, I wouldn't wish it on him.
 

thirdform

pass the sick bucket
Thirdform, truth be told if you behaved the way you do on this forum to my face or my friends faces I’d kick your cunt in

I can think of many ways in which that could be used to my advantage, you know. I know West Ham fans do like a good whinge but mashallah brother xhaka got sent off to fuck over the Spuds. This is what happens when you let brother sissoko go. It is a red card for which you must prepare for.
 

luka

Well-known member
when i lived for a year round arsenal id walk home from work against the current of the fans leaving the stadium and it was always impossible to tell if they'd won or lost, same miserable faces either way, so that much is objectively true
 
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