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One of the greatest short stories there ever was.

Unaccompanied Sonata
Orson Scott Card
https://www.sindark.com/LaTeX/unaccompanied-sonata.pdf

Humans have the capacity to rape minds. AI is and will be a great aid in assembling The Unified Database that lists every detail of every one, the machine version of The Akashic Records, ostensibly to help mankind, but much more accessible by those without the wisdom that natural authorization conf...

Reactionary action is why socialism does not work in reality. Do people insist that socialism is logical? I think so. In socialism, people get trapped into a system of life, doing what they must, and have the innate need to change it as a reaction to the soul crushing. The overlords know this, and k...

No one knows the future, and knowing the future has never been necessary. We presume an animal can live its whole life without knowing the future, or maybe they do know and we just forget. Man has the need to create the future, according to the capacity of humans, which is creative, and constantly ...

I think the emerging question for this thread is ...

Are there women who would be okay with a man being raped by a gorilla?

Uh huh.

It's remarkable that you don't factor in the significance of politics upon the world of humans. Your obsessive tangle of nonsensical political spew is not worth factoring into much of anything. You don't care for politics, you don't understand politics, you reject reasons why politics are important...

Lacewing wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2026 4:24 pm What do children do?

The topic is whether or not a man would be okay with being raped by an overpowering force*.
I vote no.
I also think that children, and women, are also not okay with being raped.

Men, women, and children will do what they must, if raped.


*big monkey

popeye1945 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2026 8:14 pm
That is not logical, my friend. 1 and 2 don't make a logical syllogism.

Never-the-less, that's the way it is.

Men carry guns to shoot apes that rape.
That signals their level of ... Okay.

So do women.

It's remarkable that you don't factor in the significance of politics upon the world of humans. You need to apprehend the big picture. Use the good of AI to inform you, of what you don't understand. I predict that time and abilities to explain the significance of politics in a way that you understa...

Why are you so stupid? Gary, Gary. Lack of couth in an intellectual forum brings shame to your parents and ancestors, and is your responsibility. Let us pause to reflect. Under the Reactionary Law known as I KnowYouAreButWhatAmI, when the false assertion is given that another doesn’t provide eviden...

There you go again, lost in your own world. CBS fired Pelley, not the government. CBS is trying to fumigate the stench of low ratings. CBS has effectively been a house organ for the Democrat Party, for a long time. That accounts for the low ratings. After all the lies dumped on the public in the la...

popeye1945 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2026 5:09 am

That’s fine if one can reconcile this contradiction:

1. Everything you do is a reaction.
2. You are responsible for everything you do.

Contradictions don't exist in nature.
They're only in the noggin ... which is part of nature's big picture.

What if everyone reading the thread has found the McCain ape rape joke and formed an opinion, except you? That would put you on the them side of us. It would make you willfully ignorant, via ignoring. McCain was the biggest RINO in the herd in his day, and that has real-life implications. Instead o...

If an unattractive girl showed up on my doorstep with a whip and handcuffs, I would categorically say "no". What if she was the cutest girl in town, recently arrived, and she wanted to cuff you? Would you say yes? You should hear Gilbert Gottfried’s routine about Catherine Zeta-Jones, whi...