Posts by Larry Scott5

Bradley Fisher20 said:The difference really just comes down to what society considers acceptable behavior. By the way, those people peddling magnetic blankets definitely shouldn't be categorized under health and schizophrenia, though they probably could 🙂.

If you strip everything away and look at it through pure logic without adding extra noise, that’s pretty much the reality of it.

Magnetic blankets? Give me a break—what kind of mental shift does it take to fall for that stuff? 😉

Meanwhile, we have all these people who are just hyper-sensitive or possess a certain mental intensity, and society finds it incredibly easy to slap all sorts of labels and diagnoses on them.

In all honesty, based on my limited experience, the entire art world basically functions as a spectrum of health and schizophrenia according to our precious societal norms.🙄 --

Which is, frankly, absolute, arrogant idiocy.

Creative, imaginative people with deep sensitivity are simply built that way—they aren't "schizophrenics," despite how often I hear "normal" people try to label them as such. Without them, the peak of human spiritual achievement would probably just be staring blankly at daytime soap operas.

Bradley Fisher20, interesting points.

And notice how immediately people react—instantly trying to draw parallels or asking, "Hey Bradley, do you have this? Does anyone else have this?" and so on...

But no, I'll answer for him—Bradley Fisher20 uses his "thought box" with a lot more intensity than most people use their hair gel.

Cheers.🙂

Rebecca Miller2, you’re hunting without even realizing it.

What would Freud say about all this?😉 😳

Just kidding.

I'll pretend I'm actually impressed by how smooth this post is.😎

By the way, when I call myself an android, it's just self-deprecating humor.

I promise you, I am anything but a machine.

Rebecca Miller2 said:Since a woman is just an extension of a man...

Honey, did you pop too many pills this morning, or did you just accidentally swallow the whole bottle?😁 😉 😛

Rebecca Miller2, would you consider actually marrying me?

Come onnnnnnnn🙄 😁

Jack Harris3 said:Exactly. Tell them like it is. 👍 😁
They wouldn't know what to make of a meeting with Freud if it hit them in the face. 😁

I really don't need some half-baked guy trying to lecture me on how the female mind works. 🙄 😁

blaming my sister for everything!!!!!!!! (just killing time at work here—don't mind me ignoring the rules, I'm just dealing with people like this) 😉

Love, respect, passion, loyalty, the flow of living together, shared goals, attention, those little gestures, tenderness, and so on...
Basically, just the simple stuff.
At its core, it's everything men want too.

The only real difference is honesty.

We’re upfront about wanting it all.

You women just don't have the guts to admit that, on top of all that, you also crave the thrill of the chase.

To put it bluntly—you just want to be satisfied and kept honest.

But let's face it, nobody can live five different lives at once.

Women just want to feel human—to love without walls and to give themselves completely without building up defenses.

You really should have asked old Freud who was actually responsible for this supposed emotional chaos and the tendency for women to build up those fences.

Old man Freud would probably just scratch himself and hang his head in shame.
He'd likely just blush and look away.

Dusk Till Dawn

Dusk Till Dawn Before The Rain , [ Anastazia ] - love :-)

Paris, Texas

Texas Big Blue

Frank Mendoza8 said:What are our actual chances here?

Look, honey, if I actually had the answer to that, I wouldn't be sitting here; I'd be having cocktails on a beach in Maui :-). It’s a coin toss.

But you want to know what the real answer is?
It’s the one thing people run from like the plague, mostly because it carries the weight of RESPONSIBILITY. People hate that word. Back in my day, I used to absolutely loathe being called an "Executive Editor"—I much preferred just being the guy behind the scenes 🙄 😳 Dammit.

The reality is pretty simple: it all comes down to how much skin you put in the game and how much heart you throw into it. At the end of the day, the buck stops with you when it comes to whether you win or lose.

Yeah, I know. It sucks.

Just a little background info on what's happening, though it’s pretty relevant, I can't help myself:

.....however, the French Ministry of Health decided to toss a quick, blunt warning about Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome—SARS—into the "welcome kit" for accredited journalists, basically demanding they stay on standby for ten days once the festival wraps up.

On top of that, security has been cranked up way higher than in previous years, mostly due to those deadly attacks over in Saudi Arabia.
All the stars and the folks trying desperately to look the part seem caught between genuine excitement and total madness at this "world-renowned spectacle for both cinema lovers and poseurs alike..."

Source—Nat, along with all my media contacts I'm currently surrounded by...

I spent some time scrolling through this weird little thread today:-). Last night, I was singing something into my friend's headset—one of those songs she used to obsess over back in the day...

"Run away somewhere, far from all this
where sleeping pills aren't a necessity
run away somewhere, far, as far as possible,
just hand me a life jacket........"

"Fear me, because one day I might run out of fear entirely, and then I'll feel like anything is possible—and honestly, that feeling is just as dangerous as LOVE."

V. Krmpotic

I'm heading out.
🙂

Eowyn really nailed what happens to a survivor's mind and body; if you want clarity, go give her post a read.

There aren't any gray areas here, and I don't care who tries to tell me otherwise. Once she says "STOP" at the end of that sequence—it means STOP. Period. End of story.

I mean, seriously, imagine if I just lunged at you and every single nerve in your brain and body started screaming😢?

I’d venture to say I’d kill anyone who tried to assault me, and honestly, I think she’d be ready to fight tooth and nail too. I remember sitting in on a roundtable discussion a few years back involving an American non-profit, and I was covering the whole thing for the radio.

In one anonymous survey, every single woman stated they would be capable of killing their attacker.

So, just try to wrap your head around how horrific a crime actually has to be for someone to be certain they'd take a life in response.

It's a primal, instinctive reaction when someone tears through your soul and your physical self by force. It hits that most raw, animalistic part of you.

It's just devastating.

Johnny said:But seriously, how do you actually distinguish a consensual encounter from an assault? How can anyone be 100% certain that their partner isn't actually unwilling during the act?

You’ve gotta be joking, Johnny, right🙄?

If you aren't kidding, then honestly, I'm a little worried.

It’s incredibly obvious when someone isn't into it, even when you're just playing around in bed.
If it’s just part of some consensual roleplay between a man and a woman, you can feel that energy—that tension where one person is being "rough" and the other is leaning into it. But if a woman doesn't want to have sex, trust me, it is more than clear; her body, her words, her emotions, and her entire vibe will scream it at you. These are unmistakable signs that essentially shout "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO."

If you can't read those cues, she’s going to tell you "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" loud and clear enough for the whole neighborhood to hear, you get me?

At that point, any decent man would stop dead in his tracks, no matter how much he's craving it.

Because "no" means "no," especially when it's backed up by things like pulling away, pushing back, or even tears, for crying out loud.

😲😠

beeli said:What does evil actually mean? I guess it's just the opposite of good—someone who gets a kick out of seeing others suffer or something along those lines.

If we’re talking about primordial Malice, I think it has to be hardwired, almost like a faulty microchip embedded in the brain😲, or perhaps something latent that manifests through a neurological disorder.
Primordial Malice, if it even exists, would be something a person is simply born with.

Most other types of human cruelty are just byproducts—essentially the fallout from fear, ignorance, trauma, frustration, or deep-seated complexes.
Those are things acquired over time😉.

We really ought to distinguish those petty, common vices that most people struggle with from true, fundamental Malice.

Kyle Fisher5 said:Guys,

did anyone actually ever tell you that hashish was illegal?

😁 😁 😁

but since we're all gathered here anyway... the enemy of my enemy is my friend, right? 😎

We’re all guilty of self-censorship—whether we’re navigating our daily lives or just trying to get through the workday.

I could easily spark a heated debate about how self-censorship plays out in my own career, but I’m worried it would just suffocate this forum or trigger another massive blowup. And honestly, that’s the last thing anyone needs right now.

At its core, self-censorship is just a byproduct of social dynamics—that age-old power struggle between the "strong" and the "weak," or the boss and the employee. We could go on about that for hours.
It shows up everywhere: in journalism and outside of it. In marriages and beyond. In friendships and even in how we deal with our parents.

Self-censorship, walk with me.
🙄

Pulp Fiction, How Rock 'n' Roll Died, Big Blue, Before the Rain, Run, Lola, Run... there's more in there somewhere, but my brain is drawing a blank. Oh, right—Paris, Texas. Honestly, they're all pretty solid; we're talking pure classics here.

Billi said:This thread really got my gears turning...
Our desires, those massive expectations we carry, our hopes, our anxieties... they really are our own personal jailers, aren't they? Every bit of misery and every ounce of joy starts right there, rooted in what we want. But then again, what kind of person is left when you strip away desire? It’s hard to even picture a life without wanting something. What would it actually take for a person to just... stop wanting?

Personally, I think that whole idea is a total myth—the notion that someone can reach perfection by being totally void of desire. The closest thing to that is a friend of mine who’s part of Jesus's ministry; he spends six months at a time in silent meditation, having handed over every single impulse to God, basically scrubbing his entire existence clean of any expectation or craving.
He’s dedicated his whole life to God.
I don't think people like that are truly devoid of desire; I think they're just in the middle of the process of letting them go.

I’d argue that nobody exists without desire—it’s an illusion. Desire is essentially the engine of human motivation, fueled by this fundamental hope that things will eventually turn out the way we want them to. (Sorry if that sounds a bit messy.)🙄

At the end of the day, desire is woven into the fabric of the human psyche; without it, you might as well be signing your own death warrant as a living creature. Unless, of course, you’re a "professional" spiritualist, like my buddy who’s a priest.

Every human being operates on a spectrum of desire, and we all love to pretend we’re somehow above it all.

We all have this curated image of ourselves we want to project, but reality is usually something else entirely. In our desperate rush to "ascend" or feel superior, we tend to forget that we’re just human beings. And honestly, there’s something beautiful about accepting that limitation.
🙂
I’m not interested in giving up my desires, whether they’re physical or spiritual. I certainly don't think walking away from them would make me any happier.
If I did that, I’d probably just end up sitting in a garden, holding hands with a fern, trying to survive.
But we aren't plants.
Desire is the fuel for growth, for survival—it's the pure, raw momentum of life itself.

ruggedjackal46 said:It’s like trying to decide who’s better—Britney or Aguilera.🙄

Nice one, kid; that comparison is spot on.🙄 👍

SVJESTAN said:WHO SHOULD WE ACTUALLY LABEL AS "WISE"?😕 😕

😕 The person who actually kicks off a thread by asking WHO we should... etcetera...😉

Otherwise, it’s probably just those folks capable of taking their own life lessons and actually applying them to whatever mess they find themselves in, aiming for the most logical outcome.

There aren't many of them, though; people tend to be remarkably wise when they're busy judging everyone else's mistakes.🙂

Quinn:

I.L. says: Alright, calling all you self-proclaimed 'philosophers' out there—let's see what you've got. Is this actually the same thing? I've been having a few little 'discussions' lately... so now I'm hunting for a definition. Take the whole idea of female "equality," for example. Does "having rights" mean the exact same thing as "equality"? Based on my understanding of linguistics and logic—it absolutely does not! Nowadays, women are practically threatening the biological survival of men... so what kind of "equality" are we talking about when they haven't even finished abstracting away all those demanded SUPERIOR RIGHTS over men? Where's the glitch here? Is it in the linguistics or... /B]

It's linguistics.😛

Actually, it's semantics. And if I really sit down and think about it, it’s probably semiotics.
Most of these conceptual terms are used primarily by men; for women, it's just pure manipulation.😛

We don't take any of this to heart quite as much as you do, I.L.

To put it bluntly—we tend to view things through a purely primal lens, completely ignoring the "science of language."
You go ahead and worry about the linguistic side of things and keep us posted.

😉