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RE: Random Thoughts
September 16, 2025 at 9:01 pm
Most people's driving skills are much like Arthurian tales. Mostly mythical.
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RE: Random Thoughts
September 17, 2025 at 12:10 pm
What really gets me is all the creative content, books and telly series and films, depicting good vs evil. Yet, the political human still chooses the conservative evil.
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RE: Random Thoughts
September 17, 2025 at 12:19 pm (This post was last modified: September 17, 2025 at 1:19 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
Batteries are a lot like screws - never seem to have the right size for the job at hand.

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RE: Random Thoughts
September 17, 2025 at 12:20 pm
(September 17, 2025 at 12:10 pm)Paraselene Wrote: What really gets me is all the creative content, books and telly series and films, depicting good vs evil. Yet, the political human still chooses the conservative evil.

The good v evil trope in the arts is escapism. That’s why it works. 

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RE: Random Thoughts
September 17, 2025 at 12:47 pm
(September 17, 2025 at 12:20 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(September 17, 2025 at 12:10 pm)Paraselene Wrote: What really gets me is all the creative content, books and telly series and films, depicting good vs evil. Yet, the political human still chooses the conservative evil.

The good v evil trope in the arts is escapism. That’s why it works. 

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It feeds upon Just World ideology that many people want to believe.
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RE: Random Thoughts
September 17, 2025 at 1:06 pm (This post was last modified: September 17, 2025 at 1:06 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(September 17, 2025 at 12:47 pm)Angrboda Wrote:
(September 17, 2025 at 12:20 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: The good v evil trope in the arts is escapism. That’s why it works. 

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It feeds upon Just World ideology that many people want to believe.

Exactly. Just World is a fallacy, but such an incredibly popular one that it might almost be called a universal.

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RE: Random Thoughts
September 17, 2025 at 1:40 pm
It explains the imperfect justice system, but not why we accept such imperfection.
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RE: Random Thoughts
September 17, 2025 at 3:45 pm (This post was last modified: September 17, 2025 at 3:46 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(September 17, 2025 at 1:40 pm)Paraselene Wrote: It explains the imperfect justice system, but not why we accept such imperfection.

It’s not meant to explain why we accept it. It’s meant to avoid doing so. It’s why people would skimp on food during the Great Depression to spend 25c to see a Charlie Chaplin film.

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RE: Random Thoughts
September 18, 2025 at 9:00 am
Nothing starts with N and ends with G.
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RE: Random Thoughts
September 18, 2025 at 12:28 pm
(September 18, 2025 at 9:00 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Nothing starts with N and ends with G.

‘Sugar is the only word in English in which “su” is pronounced “sh” .’

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