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Laeserin | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +6 
 Are we going to pretend like a bit of controversy isn't fun? šŸ˜‚

The Internet actually has too little controversy and too many personal attacks, in my opinion, so everyone watches morbid news videos and hardcore porn, to get their hindbrain excitement fix, instead of watching a debate on the ethics of aloof elitism or the pros and cons of various hard currencies.

Most new human knowledge is gained to win the upper hand in a debate or solve some problem people told you couldn't be solved. Lack of controversy causes our brains to atrophy and stymies innovation.

I'm here for the intellectual flight club that is going to delay the onset of dementia.
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Laeserin | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 An Ode to the Uncomfortable People

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Laeserin | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Another positive is that controversy is taxing and therefore tiring. After I have a good, hard debate, I'm literally wiped out and I'm like,

Okay, that was enough Internet for today. Sheesh. Let me go cook dinner and go for a walk.
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Laeserin | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +5 
 Not joking about dementia. I'm in that age where the people who are intellectually lazy have brains that slowly begin to rot, if they don't use them hard enough.

I can literally see it happening, on their faces, as they lose expressive mimic. *shudder*
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inpc | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 "so everyone watches morbid news videos and hardcore porn"

Speak for yourself!
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Laeserin | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
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mainvolume | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Iā€™m not sure how without iron
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Dawn | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Not at all. There's a big difference between organic debate & manufactured controversy. The latter serves no purpose in furthering consciousness & connection.