Through The Looking Glass http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/forums/6 Individuals, free will, and group dynamics.Step through the mirror, and take a look back ... ]]> en-us Copyright 2006, Yuku feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster) Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:58:00 GMT Yuku Feeds 1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Yuku http://static.yuku.com//feed/bypass/images/button-yuku.png http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/forums/6 Yuku - free hosted forums and profiles 88 31 {pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1 ) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0 )) Search Search Domain q http://yuku.com/search/direct/ <![CDATA[ Societal priorities ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1280/t/Societal-priorities.html The average high energy physicist will receive a much greater benefit from the LHC [Large Hadron Accelerator] than will the average human. Consequently, the self-interests of high energy physicists don't align with that of the rest of humanity in deciding whether to turn on the LHC, so we should be very suspicious of their claims that the LHC is safe.
- feeds@yuku.com (Tenebris) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1280 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:16:14 GMT <![CDATA[ Ponce de Lon ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/725/t/Ponce-de-Lon.html ideal of youth. Never mind that worldwide demographics still carry that strong pyramidal shape which reminds that what it means to be under the age of majority varies sharply from culture to culture: those trends which are shaped by English-language mass media, primarily in the western world, cultivate a near worship of youth and... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tenebris) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/725 Tue, 18 May 2004 13:53:00 GMT <![CDATA[ Embarrassment ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/731/t/Embarrassment.html Why do we feel embarrassed?
Why is it that when others recognize our shortcomings, failures, and/or mistakes, we feel acute discomfort? Does the estimation (merely a mental excercise) or analysis of the others or the public harm us?
Why is it that when others recognize our association with another person, we feel discomfort when that person's mistakes, failures etc. are recognized? Does the estimation or analysis of others about... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (MH Ecthelion) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/731 Mon, 20 Jan 2003 16:41:53 GMT <![CDATA[ Merry Christmas!!! ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/734/t/Merry-Christmas-.html
Heheheh.....Merry Christmas to all.


Even those who like me too much!!;-) ]]> feeds@yuku.com (UrnotmeRU) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/734 Tue, 24 Dec 2002 17:18:52 GMT <![CDATA[ Old friends, new friends. ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/736/t/Old-friends-new-friends-.html
And in the process, treat our old friends as if they were worth less than the new ones? ]]> feeds@yuku.com (RuffledPuppy) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/736 Mon, 21 Oct 2002 19:08:46 GMT <![CDATA[ Blindspots ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/722/t/Blindspots.html
It's the problem of the "pot calling the kettle black." :)

My favorite example of pot calling kettle black is a person I know who speaks all the time in an extremely abstract, esoteric, and academic fashion. It's as if this guy is on Professor-lecture mode 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This guy would probably talk to his 2 year old baby in the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered User) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/722 Sun, 20 Oct 2002 01:21:19 GMT <![CDATA[ The Problems of Dead Level Abstracting ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/739/t/The-Problems-of-Dead-Level-Abstracting.html
For example, certain persons remain stuck at very high levels of abstraction in their writings and speaking, with little or no contact with lower levels. Such language, according to semanticist S.I. Hayakawa, remains permanently in the clouds.

S.I. Hayakawa gives a concrete example of a person who is stuck in the clouds at a very... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Haveobi) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/739 Sun, 13 Oct 2002 18:35:59 GMT <![CDATA[ Let's change Feminism's name... ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/730/t/Let-s-change-Feminism-s-name-.html
I've come to the conclusion that the whole problem with feminism is the name. It's gathered up some serious baggage, so maybe if we have a discussion about feminism, we should ditch the name. Perhaps, we could make some suggestions as to what we could call it instead. (Mildred?)

The point is, is that out of all the websites I've ever been... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (HarfArstBandicoot) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/730 Mon, 23 Sep 2002 22:45:59 GMT <![CDATA[ A Weighty Decision... ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/742/t/A-Weighty-Decision-.html
My dilemma is - should I donate my Larger wardrobe to charity, or keep it in my closet? That would force me to think of myself as a Permanently Smaller Person, but I know my weaknesses, too, and I... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (RuffledPuppy) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/742 Sat, 21 Sep 2002 17:16:12 GMT <![CDATA[ The historical roots of feminist hatred of men ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/745/t/The-historical-roots-of-feminist-hatred-of-men.html
The earliest works on 'the woman question' criticised the restrictive role of women without necessarily claiming that women were disadvantaged or that men were to blame. Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is one of the few works written before the 19th century that can be called feminist. By modern standards her metaphor of women as nobility, the elite of society, coddled, fragile and in danger of... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/745 Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:55:35 GMT <![CDATA[ Proposed - feminists think men are subhuman ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/738/t/Proposed-feminists-think-men-are-subhuman.html
I'm specifically talking about the example of VAWA that we have been discussing. I've made the claim (which I beleive has been accepted) that feminists generally support VAWA despite its discrimination against men. All but Sab of the feminists here has supported the idea of VAWA and its discrimination. There seems no... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/738 Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:50:04 GMT <![CDATA[ "EZ Board is a tin-hatted little hitler!" ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/743/t/-quot-EZ-Board-is-a-tin-hatted-little-hitler-quot-.html
This thread originally had a slightly different title, and a very different topic. Then I noticed that the last 2 or 3 paragraphs were all in italics, so I used the edit button to go back and insert the "end italics" in the proper place. I also added a comment that all I had done in my edit was to insert an "end italics". As usual, I used brackets rather than parentheses around my comment. [You're all way ahead of me here,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (RuffledPuppy) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/743 Wed, 18 Sep 2002 07:00:12 GMT <![CDATA[ Feminism - NO *EDIT* ADMINS PLEASE ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/729/t/Feminism-NO-EDIT-ADMINS-PLEASE.html feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/729 Sat, 14 Sep 2002 09:01:18 GMT <![CDATA[ VAWA, is it sexist? ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/735/t/VAWA-is-it-sexist-.html
"The VAWA is a piece of legislation in the U.S. that focuses on helping women who are victims of violence, hence the name "Violence Against Women Act." When instituted it was believed that the vast majority of... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (UrnotmeRU) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/735 Mon, 09 Sep 2002 22:21:46 GMT <![CDATA[ VAWA - The next generation ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/732/t/VAWA-The-next-generation.html
Mara had said:
Quote:

And it's not like you can shelter men in the same place as battered women, just like you can't shelter women in the same place as battered men.




And why not? The old excuses that it would bring violence into the shelter are utterly... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Dr Evil) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/732 Mon, 09 Sep 2002 16:30:32 GMT <![CDATA[ Bookends ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/721/t/Bookends.html
I've never been sure whether that meant that the only thing you've lost is your memories, or the only thing you have left is your memories. Or both at once.

How important are personal memories to the quality of one's life? Are memories a good thing or a bad thing? ]]> feeds@yuku.com (RuffledPuppy) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/721 Sat, 07 Sep 2002 19:59:12 GMT <![CDATA[ What would you do? ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/746/t/What-would-you-do-.html feeds@yuku.com (RuffledPuppy) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/746 Sat, 07 Sep 2002 19:41:48 GMT <![CDATA[ What's condescending about "Beachy"? ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/744/t/What-s-condescending-about-quot-Beachy-quot-.html
I have to talk down to her because she's a grown woman that I have to play a long and prompt and push and prod just to get her to take a solitary wobbly step on the way to adulthood.

How much work I have to put in just to get her to say a few words. I really hate all this crap too. Truthfully I hate to patronise even... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/744 Tue, 03 Sep 2002 19:35:59 GMT <![CDATA[ is equality horizontal or vertical? ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/749/t/is-equality-horizontal-or-vertical-.html
for many of those calling themselves feminists (or having the label thrust upon them), it would appear that the equality of the sexes is not a qualitative one. the question isn't of better/worse or superior/inferior. there's the notion there that equality (or lack of) is quantitative: statistically equal in the number of disparate abilities, if not necessarily possessing the same... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (andromeda) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/749 Tue, 03 Sep 2002 18:25:09 GMT <![CDATA[ So, this is what we have been deciding... ]]> http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/740/t/So-this-is-what-we-have-been-deciding-.html
:) :)

Good morning to you all! Fresh coffee is offered into this thread, please help yourself!!

Ok, so... you may have noticed that a slight agressivity could be almost felt in this forum today. It's subtle, but I think that if you look closely, you may almost feeds@yuku.com (Darth Sabe) http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/740 Mon, 02 Sep 2002 03:03:45 GMT