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Greetings from LuisDantas

TashaN

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Oh man! Mazinger and Grandizer? :cover:

I watched it when i was younger in video tapes, but my elder brothers told me they were watching it on tv before i was eve born. :D
 

Sahar

Well-Known Member
It certainly looks like the Japanese generally have less of nudity taboo than western people. And there is no point in denying that their fiction has lots of drama and exageration, often involving gender roles.

Myself, I find that fascinating. I have the good fortune to live reasonably close to the biggest colony of Japanese descendents outside Japan. It is such a clash of values, with so much useful to learn from each other!

Mirai Shounen Conan is an intriguing anime. It seems to have been dubbed and shown in Portugal, but not here in Brazil. I get the vibe that it has some real good values, and obviously a very clean, wholesome drawing style as well.

Last but not least, I'd like to suggest that the average Arab and the average Japanese approach their fiction in fairly different ways. Broadly speaking, I get the impression that most Japanese are all too aware of their own perversions (to whatever degree they may have then) and decided that feelings of shame are not true repentance, so they don't make too much effort to hide their feelings. Traditional as it is, Japanese culture has a healthy tolerance for deviant behavior.

Ultimately, I feel that I am generalizing too much out of desire for understanding and predicting other people.
This needs its own thread. :)
 

wilsoncole

Active Member
The Moderation Team, better known as the "Mod Squad", was kind enough to accept me as a member in training. I look forward to being useful in some capacity.

I usually talk a lot about myself through the topics, but just in case, feel free to ask questions here.

I'm an Buddhist of what I consider to be an orthodox attitude, which means that I seek a lot of my own answers and interpretations. I'm Brazilian, 41 years old. I'm also, and have been as far as I remember, a strong atheist, agnostic, and apatheist - meaning that I definitely do not believe that there is any god, but recognize that it is not possible for a human to prove anything on the matter. As an apatheist, I don't think that is a particularly important matter to settle, either.

Religion is and has always been a topic of interest to me. IMO, it is because there is no God that religion is of paramount importance - we ought to look for each other, because no one Above will. I define Religion as the art of dealing with the conflict between the need of making mundane decisions and the desire of being pure and attuned to higher abstract principles. As such, it is not opposed to science, but rather basically oblivious to natural sciences while also partnered and to some extend guided by social and human sciences.

I have a strong personal interest in the exchange of information through internet. Enthusiasm for PHP forums such as this one and for wiki systems such as Wikipedia came naturally for me. I wish I had more time to learn and become fluent with all those interesting matters.
Sir,
I am frequently accused of plagiarism by a single individual - Autodidact.
The accusations are untrue and I would like you to investigate the supposed infractions and take note that the credits are duly assigned except in one case where it slipped my mind.
I made these points clear to Autodidact but she called me a liar and thief and refused to go check for herself.

Please investigate.
Thank you.
Wilson.
 

Starsoul

Truth
Oh congrats! :) I'm not sure how that gives anyone an edge on the forums, ( not unless they get to do whatever they want hehe)

So are all brazilians are as polite as you or more? :D
 

suncowiam

Well-Known Member
Hey Luis!

I actually assumed you were a futball fan since I read that you were from Brazil but didn't want to generalize. =P I don't follow the brazilian leagues at all simply because we do not get coverage here. I do know of the most popular players like Neymar. He just blows my mind when I see his highlights. I actually started playing again several months ago. Do you play at all?
 

LuisDantas

Aura of atheification
Premium Member
Sorry, Suncowiam. I'm afraid I am just not representative of Brazilians, particularly when it comes to Soccer.
 

suncowiam

Well-Known Member
Whoops, I thought I read something from this thread indicating you're a soccer fan. Totally missed the joke. My bad.

I used to watch lots of anime in my youth. Not so much these days though.
 

paarsurrey

Veteran Member
The Moderation Team, better known as the "Mod Squad", was kind enough to accept me as a member in training. I look forward to being useful in some capacity.

I usually talk a lot about myself through the topics, but just in case, feel free to ask questions here.

I'm an Buddhist of what I consider to be an orthodox attitude, which means that I seek a lot of my own answers and interpretations. I'm Brazilian, 41 years old. I'm also, and have been as far as I remember, a strong atheist, agnostic, and apatheist - meaning that I definitely do not believe that there is any god, but recognize that it is not possible for a human to prove anything on the matter. As an apatheist, I don't think that is a particularly important matter to settle, either.

Religion is and has always been a topic of interest to me. IMO, it is because there is no God that religion is of paramount importance - we ought to look for each other, because no one Above will. I define Religion as the art of dealing with the conflict between the need of making mundane decisions and the desire of being pure and attuned to higher abstract principles. As such, it is not opposed to science, but rather basically oblivious to natural sciences while also partnered and to some extend guided by social and human sciences.

I have a strong personal interest in the exchange of information through internet. Enthusiasm for PHP forums such as this one and for wiki systems such as Wikipedia came naturally for me. I wish I had more time to learn and become fluent with all those interesting matters.

It is a long time since you started this thread.
Any update on your above post.

Regards
 

LuisDantas

Aura of atheification
Premium Member
Other than my age? I have emphasized by atheism, embraced anti-atheism, and become more critical and more demanding of religious beliefs in general.
 

Avi1001

reform Jew humanist liberal feminist entrepreneur
Other than my age? I have emphasized by atheism, embraced anti-atheism, and become more critical and more demanding of religious beliefs in general.

Good deal...what are your thoughts on choosing a very gifted poster....and nominating him to be the next new Staff member ? :D Any poster come to mind ? ;)
 

LuisDantas

Aura of atheification
Premium Member
Hi Luis.

Could you elaborate on your beliefs regarding Nation/Territory?

For starters, I think the idea that people can in any meaningful sense "own" territory is hopelessly flawed and must be disposed off for good.

Territory exists. It is a natural, vital resource, and people can live in it, occupy it, convince others to stay away from it by the use of several tools, violence or the threat of its use not least among them. But it is simply not possible for any person or people to "own" territory in any meaningful sense.

Nations are political abstractions. At its core, a nation is a group of people promissing each other mutual support and sharing a common political authority. They are incredibly cumbersome to use in practice, given the actual numbers of typical populations and the increasingly divisive nature of our political ambitions. I fully expect the concept to be recognized as unsustainable and obsolete in the next few decades, and good riddance it will be.

Even so, the concept of nation has a core of a valid idea. It can not be saved, but we can salvage good lessons from it in order to develop better, more constructive and realistic policital abstractions.

Unfortunately, very few people are politically mature enough to even realize that we need such more ambitious models. The craving for the glory of the proud nation still runs deep in our fantasies, and it may very well end up dooming us all.
 

Aquitaine

Well-Known Member
Cheers for the reply, my next post is regarding a different topic.

I think you're a very thoughtful and intelligent person, Luis.
You're one of the very few people on RF whom I've never seen "break" or lose-one's-temper during a debate.

I want to ask you if you have any tips for being able to formulate such detailed and methodical opinions on complex issues: does it come natural to you? Or do you often feel mentally overwhelmed etc?

I notice that you also like to focus a lot on exploring Ethics. This is probably just an inaccurate stereotype that I hold: but I've always assumed that "intelligence" and "Ethics" were almost mutually exclusive - yet you tend to delve into both (which I admire).

Do you ever feel as though there is a battle between Intelligence and Ethics?
 

LuisDantas

Aura of atheification
Premium Member
Cheers for the reply, my next post is regarding a different topic.

I think you're a very thoughtful and intelligent person, Luis.
You're one of the very few people on RF whom I've never seen "break" or lose-one's-temper during a debate.

There are techniques for improving one's perception of behavior patterns, but I'm afraid I'm not all that up to date on where to find them.


I want to ask you if you have any tips for being able to formulate such detailed and methodical opinions on complex issues: does it come natural to you? Or do you often feel mentally overwhelmed etc?

I was raised by my worst enemy. I guess that helped. Sort of.


I notice that you also like to focus a lot on exploring Ethics. This is probably just an inaccurate stereotype that I hold: but I've always assumed that "intelligence" and "Ethics" were almost mutually exclusive - yet you tend to delve into both (which I admire).

Tell me more about that.

Do you ever feel as though there is a battle between Intelligence and Ethics?

Quite on the contrary. I tend to see lack of ethics as a direct manifestation of stupidity, even.

Ethics does not just thrive on intelligence. It very much relies on it to exist and express itself. Or going by the complementary perspective, intelligence demands ethics when it becomes aware of the matters of human sciences. The level of ethical ability of any specific person is directly limited by his or her intelligence.
 

LuisDantas

Aura of atheification
Premium Member
Are you married?

No.

Do you believe in any sort of an afterlife, like rebirth?

Rebirth, yes, but it is very much a stretch to call my conception of it an afterlife.

Far as I know and believe, people do indeed die for good. I would not want it any other way even if I had the choice.

It is a good thing that we all die as individuals.
 

MD

qualiaphile
No.



Rebirth, yes, but it is very much a stretch to call my conception of it an afterlife.

Far as I know and believe, people do indeed die for good. I would not want it any other way even if I had the choice.

It is a good thing that we all die as individuals.

So what is it that is reborn?
 
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