Revenge Addiction

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subgenius wrote:
Mon Dec 14, 2020 4:24 pm
Moksha wrote:
Sun Dec 13, 2020 8:28 pm
Any chance Trump's example could spawn a generation of sore losers who will refuse to accept defeat?
Given that Hillary Clinton spawned such vengeful and enduring losers...
You seem to be referring to the ones that wailed and stamped their feet about how she was the antichrist, and that are now prattling on about how Gawd has chosen their Orange Hero to lead to the secession of Righteous States in achieving the will of The Lord and the assuaging of their injured pride.

We have to destroy the Nation in order to save the Nation, right?
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Whatabouter say what?
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canpakes wrote:
Mon Dec 14, 2020 5:26 pm
We have to destroy the Nation in order to save the Nation, right?
That is Steve Bannon's thesis. From the ashes can arise the New Confederacy, the Kingdom of Deseret, and perhaps some other ill-defined entities. Traitors to America, but that is their desired endpoint.
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Moksha wrote:
Mon Dec 14, 2020 6:38 pm
canpakes wrote:
Mon Dec 14, 2020 5:26 pm
We have to destroy the Nation in order to save the Nation, right?
That is Steve Bannon's thesis. From the ashes can arise the New Confederacy, the Kingdom of Deseret, and perhaps some other ill-defined entities. Traitors to America, but that is their desired endpoint.
That's "Self Described Leninist Steve Bannon" to you, sir penguin.
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Res Ipsa wrote:
Mon Dec 14, 2020 6:08 pm
Whatabouter say what?
convenient for you now - why no "revenge" concern when you guys jumped to impeachment on Nov 4th 2016?
Oh yeah, i forgot - Democrat/libs always live by the "ok for me but not for thee" mantra.
Shut up and take your medicine like an adult.
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subgenius wrote:
Mon Dec 14, 2020 6:59 pm
Res Ipsa wrote:
Mon Dec 14, 2020 6:08 pm
Whatabouter say what?
convenient for you now - why no "revenge" concern when you guys jumped to impeachment on Nov 4th 2016?
Oh yeah, i forgot - Democrat/libs always live by the "ok for me but not for thee" mantra.
Shut up and take your medicine like an adult.
Butthurt poster is butthurt.

Back in 2016, I don’t remember half of Democratic Party legislators and 80% of its voters throwing a mass tantrum, inventing fanciful fraud schemes, and threatening to secede from the Nation or forcibly place their own candidate in power under the mandate of their God.

Indeed, you might take your own advice as opposed to insisting on being the poster boy for this thread.
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subgenius wrote:
Mon Dec 14, 2020 6:59 pm
Res Ipsa wrote:
Mon Dec 14, 2020 6:08 pm
Whatabouter say what?
convenient for you now - why no "revenge" concern when you guys jumped to impeachment on Nov 4th 2016?
Oh yeah, i forgot - Democrat/libs always live by the "ok for me but not for thee" mantra.
Shut up and take your medicine like an adult.
Four years of good and decent posters taking the time to explain to you... things. And you’re still at square one sucking that fat Trump mushroom dick you seditious piece of crap. Just don’t ever take the vaccine, but I have a feeling you’ll get in line like the little bitch you are and you’ll just take it. Just like you’ve been takin’ it your whole life and just like you’ve been hopping line for a shot at your master’s balls.

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The only way I can rev myself up enough to clean house is to make a battle out of it where I viciously kill the dirt, so I guess I am taking revenge, but I'm not particularly happy or even satisfied afterward. And definitely, no one would EVER suggest I am addicted to cleaning, so I'll have to think this through a bit to understand the neurological process being advanced.

Unlike Kevin Christensen over at MDDB, who has decided this revenge research describes (don't ask, I have no idea how he made the leap) the grievances of CES-Letter influenced ex-Mormons who, when asking 'why didn't I learn about this,' really mean to say "we all deserve 'God-like Omniscience' ...before mak[ing] any serious decision." oh, brother. As gemli said recently, can this stop before I have to see an eye doctor to unroll my eyes from the back of my head?

Anyway, I'm off to savagely destroy some dirt, a la Attila the Hun. I'm not happy about it.
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Michael Chricton's second fiction book was The Terminal Man. The plot revolves around a man who had an implant that would send an electrical impulse to the pleasure center of his brain every time it detected the precursor to a specific kind of seizure. The stimulation given to the pleasure center of the brain would interrupt the seizure.

The man was defeated by his physiology. His body figured out that the way to receive pleasure was to initiate a seizure, so he started having seizures constantly so his body could get the jolt of pleasure that it craved.

It's interesting to apply that idea to 'revenge' pleasure. If you get pleasure from the thought of having revenge fantasies against people you feel have victimized you, would your brain want to manufacture situations where you are the victim?

Sometimes it feels like the limbic, primitive part of our brain is constantly at war with the brain lobes. What we feel influences what we think, many times on an unconscious level.
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MeDotOrg wrote:
Mon Dec 14, 2020 9:25 pm
Michael Chricton's second fiction book was The Terminal Man. The plot revolves around a man who had an implant that would send an electrical impulse to the pleasure center of his brain every time it detected the precursor to a specific kind of seizure. The stimulation given to the pleasure center of the brain would interrupt the seizure.

The man was defeated by his physiology. His body figured out that the way to receive pleasure was to initiate a seizure, so he started having seizures constantly so his body could get the jolt of pleasure that it craved.

It's interesting to apply that idea to 'revenge' pleasure. If you get pleasure from the thought of having revenge fantasies against people you feel have victimized you, would your brain want to manufacture situations where you are the victim?

Sometimes it feels like the limbic, primitive part of our brain is constantly at war with the brain lobes. What we feel influences what we think, many times on an unconscious level.
That was a really interesting take.

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