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Rebekah Barnett's avatar

Haha well your lived experience of South Dakota trumps mine (presuming you've been or live there) that's for sure. But my lived experience of the Anais Nin quote isn't invalidated by your lived experience of South Dakota, and most of life for most people is not conducted in an Amazon jungle at 120F. Of course, you're arguing for a positivist/objective view of lived experience and I'm arguing for a constructionist/subjective view. The latter would contend that many people will experience the same weather in different ways, and I think this is undeniably true.

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Rebekah Barnett's avatar

You're missing my point, but I understand yours.

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Yes I get it, you’re missing my point. It’s ok!

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Society's Stinky Parts's avatar

Ignore Timmy. He's our assigned NAFO officer. You can tell by his idiosyncratic formatting, his heroic solipsism, and his confusion whether he lives in South Dakota or California.

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"... but if you go to a fourth world place like the Amazon jungle, you will lose all of those thoughts going through your head right now." ....

.... AGREED, as a result with the opposite then necessarily true one can EASILY pinpoint towards the reason why "the west" (including BRICS) is mentally IIIIILLLLL ... on so many fronts that it beggars belief ... even though on full display!

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ABSOLUTELY I can perfectly relate to that experience and observation. BUT still never be fooled into one "camp" or the other. EVERYONE and EVERYTHING has its place in GOD ALMIGHTY'S CREATION, whether the individual ascribes to these description it doesn't matter. Surely there are "unhappy (moments)" everywhere on the surface of the earth, even The Belemese will have it.

I assume what you are referring to is the fact that "Americans" are living in a permanent dread going on in their head, which is born out of the affluence and as a consequence the purposelessness/uselessness experienced in their mind. While at the same time being bombarded through media what they have to be scared of and what the "cure" is, i.e. what they have to experience or what they have to posses in order to get rid of this state of MIND OF FEAR!

And THE BIBLE lays it out perfectly - not phrased like above but described as REAL LIFE EXPERIENCE over millennia.

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Timmy: Based on your provision of perspiration details whatever that movie was it must stink at least in some aspects.

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So it stunk, period. Moral: keep genitalia cool when making a movie.

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