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09-02-2024, 03:55 PM
Humans are mimetic, in that they mirror one another's behaviour - monkey see, monkey do.
However, some humans "copy" by mirroring the opposite of others - these people are the natural born contrarians.
It is not a choice - in the same way that normoids don't choose to be normoid, contrarians don't choose to be contrarians.
For example, I can't listen to music that has over a certain number of views on YouTube
And while we're on the subject of music, does anyone else get serious ZOGbot vibes from spotify? I involuntarily lose a bit of respect (just a little bit, don't worry) for someone when I find out that they use spotify.
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Do you think that sociopaths have a choice and free will?
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(09-02-2024, 04:07 PM)RuudVanNistelrooy Wrote: Do you think that sociopaths have a choice and free will?
Not sure how you define free will
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(09-02-2024, 04:09 PM)Honest Wrote: Not sure how you define free will Philosophically we are free beings who can act as free agents but in the "real", solid world there is no true freedom, mostly a casual chain of events.
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If non-rational forces are "forcing" us to think certain thoughts and act on them than that would deny most of our free will claims.
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(09-02-2024, 03:55 PM)Honest Wrote: Humans are mimetic, in that they mirror one another's behaviour - monkey see, monkey do.
However, some humans "copy" by mirroring the opposite of others - these people are the natural born contrarians.
It is not a choice - in the same way that normoids don't choose to be normoid, contrarians don't choose to be contrarians.
For example, I can't listen to music that has over a certain number of views on YouTube
And while we're on the subject of music, does anyone else get serious ZOGbot vibes from spotify? I involuntarily lose a bit of respect (just a little bit, don't worry) for someone when I find out that they use spotify.
hate to break it to you, but there's nothing deeper to this than your need to compensate for your perpetual-loserdom-induced trauma, which (the need) manifests in an extremely normtard-like way, so accordingly to your just as normtard-like cognitive capacity and originality
not even discrepant with your main point in this thread, just saying
(18-09-2025, 06:49 PM)MVP Wrote: i already said, rӏ is built different
Quote:![[Image: Screenshot-2026-06-20-at-23-46-52-Lookis...-Lists.png]](https://i.ibb.co/8nqCLH50/Screenshot-2026-06-20-at-23-46-52-Lookism-Edit-Buddy-and-Ignore-Lists.png)
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(09-02-2024, 09:41 PM)Michelangelo Wrote: (09-02-2024, 03:55 PM)Honest Wrote: Humans are mimetic, in that they mirror one another's behaviour - monkey see, monkey do.
However, some humans "copy" by mirroring the opposite of others - these people are the natural born contrarians.
It is not a choice - in the same way that normoids don't choose to be normoid, contrarians don't choose to be contrarians.
For example, I can't listen to music that has over a certain number of views on YouTube
And while we're on the subject of music, does anyone else get serious ZOGbot vibes from spotify? I involuntarily lose a bit of respect (just a little bit, don't worry) for someone when I find out that they use spotify.
hate to break it to you, but there's nothing deeper to this than your need to compensate for your perpetual-loserdom-induced trauma, which (the need) manifests in an extremely normtard-like way, so accordingly to your just as normtard-like cognitive capacity and originality
not even discrepant with your main point in this thread, just saying
You could be onto something big here
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your title you think is original and semantically resonant is just an oxymoron vulgaris, btw
there are multiple possible/more or less adequate word choices to describe "copying by mirroring the opposite" (what a pretentious failure of an expression, specially coming from a native speaker), and mimetic is not among them
do you guys not have access to google in northern ireland?
(18-09-2025, 06:49 PM)MVP Wrote: i already said, rӏ is built different
Quote:![[Image: Screenshot-2026-06-20-at-23-46-52-Lookis...-Lists.png]](https://i.ibb.co/8nqCLH50/Screenshot-2026-06-20-at-23-46-52-Lookism-Edit-Buddy-and-Ignore-Lists.png)
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(09-02-2024, 10:17 PM)Michelangelo Wrote: your title you think is original and semantically resonant is just an oxymoron vulgaris, btw
there are multiple possible/more or less adequate word choices to describe "copying by mirroring the opposite" (what a pretentious failure of an expression, specially coming from a native speaker), and mimetic is not among them
do you guys not have access to google in northern ireland?
Wrong
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