Message from @Larken
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Responding to gohan now
@Atomicbattlefield Dude, stop
no
It's annoying as all hell
!mute @Atomicbattlefield
Atomicbattlefield#3385 (289563013898436608) is now muted for '**Unspecified.**', alright? <:THUMBSUP6:403560443345371137>
There
😁
Thank you
I hate people like that
When you say "fear caused by the fact that one's race is different from another, caused by the underlying fear of the unknown".
I know there's such thing of the fear of the unknown. For example, when some tribes receive guests of all colors, they get perplexed and scared, because of the "unknown" that you speak of. That is normal. When something is very strange to us, we usually respond with fear, because we cannot categorize them in any of our developed faculties (This is developed by Mircea Eliade, when he talks about the Scared and the Profane in his books).
But here's the thing, the "fear" that you speak of coming from the underlying fear of unknown, is not the same "fear" that would be put in the conception of "racial tension". Those are two DIFFERENT things: one comes because of nature and because of lack of contact with other civilizations; the other comes because of the INDOCTRINATION, caused by external factors that are not consequent with the type of fear you describe.
I believe the main problem we're having is that we're defining racial tension in two different ways.
Maybe if we stopped using that label, it would help
I think it was necessary from the get go to define our terms. Sometimes people might agree on the same thing, but they disagree because their definitions are not put.
In summary, what I am trying to say is that, yes, we as humans NATURALLY fear the unknown.
And that natural fear, when applied to humans, is what I define as racial tension.
But there's no such thing as inherent fear for a race when you take into account the fact that the environment where this human is born is already constructed for a long time.
Alright, I think I get it
We're in agreement, but not understanding that we're in agreement
The best example I can give you right now is that of Tarzan (I know it's cartoonish, but it gives a great image).
Tarzan was human, but he was raised by monkeys. When humans of the SAME color as him came, he was "afraid" and curious.
It happens to some tribes: you can come on the same color of your skin. But what they're afraid of is the fact that YOU do not belong to that tribe.
Not necessarily the skin color.
I understand. We've been saying the same thing, I've just been saying it in an unfocused, hazy way
@The Gwench I just remembered that you wanted to hear my evidence as to why I'm a globie
You still want to hear it?
I will
I had more astrology stuff to talk about too.
With relation towards flat vs globe, not just random discussion of astrology.
@gohan Sure
Alright. So as I have been told often, you don't look to the sky to prove something about the ground. So I did some digging, and I came up with some solid proof.
Seismic waves.
Specifically, two properties of seismic waves. The first is the difference between surface waves (which travel along the surface of the Earth) and body waves (which travel within the Earth)
So what about them?
The second property is seismic shadow zones
I'll start with shadow zones.
Ok
The other one is a long-winded mathematical proof that I don't want to type out on a phone.
While I like math, I don’t like it that much.
Thank you
I'll see if I can bring it down, it's long in terms of length, not so much difficulty to understand