Message from @TheUserNameofPeace
Discord ID: 639728640803995659
they just need permission to hate
and we re off
You have to be agile, Trommm
well not all encounters with other people are good opportunities
Globo-homo is everywhere
it depends on the setting, mood, and people
You can always segue a conversation
People laugh at globo homo. If you're not happy about it, then you're just cynical and a downer.
Yeah
If it's totally chill leave it chill
Nah
That's where you put them in scenarios
The Platonic dialogues are a really good model for how to take over a lot of social situations with meaningful discourse
When I first read the Republic I thought to myself, "I've done this sort of dialogue pattern most of my life, by instinct."
yeah, people do that in their head natuarlly
thoughtful people at least
youre a natural
Part of what Socrates does, if you notice, is he makes people personally accountable
That's part of the trick to getting engagement
i wish i could bask in your glory
lol
So you mean try to get them to play along with hypotheticals, like "If it was your daughter or your son, would you put them on hormone blockers?"
I just bro it up with people first idk
If I piss them off they'll piss me off and then the discussion is pointless
I haven't read Plato's Republic.
I should read it?
yes!
I'm in the same boat, I really should read more of the classics
Is it better than Mein Kampf?
I've not finished MK, but yes
I'm kidding. I'll read it.
Let me just learn Greek first.
how hard can that be?
I've listened to The Republic more times than I've read it
seriously, is it hard to learn greek
Like I became buds with this coworker over maybe a month
And I got a feel for him and could tell where he was
Then I made a 1350 joke and his eyes bulged out of his head in excitement lol
That's all I'm good for <:smugooze:398100987866251265>
what's 1350
13% of the population...
oh
50% of crime
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