Satire?

[merh]

Dec 29, 2021 22:04:42 GMT abbey1227 said:

Dec 29, 2021 14:57:58 GMT merh said:

So one can see the relation between China & India, but Native Americans? All this argument about where native Americans came from. Must have had a connection to those myths

well, of course.

That's my first thought, too. It started in the Far East and migrated it's way over into North America

The various groups are a good example of evolution and how environment can alter species in a relatively short amount of time.

The Lenape myth of the "Great Turtle" was first recorded between 1678 and 1680 by Jasper Danckaerts. The myth is shared by other indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands, most notably those of the Haudenosanee confederacy, and the Anishinaabeg.

So they allegedly came across some Bridge from Russia, so one would assume it would be all the tribes or at least the western tribes.

So maybe they came over a different route?
Like by boat?

[abbey1227]

Dec 30, 2021 12:08:39 GMT merh said:

So they allegedly came across some Bridge from Russia, so one would assume it would be all the tribes or at least the western tribes.

So maybe they came over a different route?
Like by boat?

yep

different tribes

different modes of transport

different eras

They're not all gonna share exactly the same stories

[merh]

Dec 30, 2021 13:14:13 GMT abbey1227 said:

Dec 30, 2021 12:08:39 GMT merh said:

So they allegedly came across some Bridge from Russia, so one would assume it would be all the tribes or at least the western tribes.

So maybe they came over a different route?
Like by boat?

yep

different tribes

different modes of transport

different eras

They're not all gonna share exactly the same stories

Yet they insist we all evolved from one original ancestor

[abbey1227]

Dec 30, 2021 20:54:25 GMT merh said:

Dec 30, 2021 13:14:13 GMT abbey1227 said:

yep

different tribes

different modes of transport

different eras

They're not all gonna share exactly the same stories

Yet they insist we all evolved from one original ancestor

Well, technically yes, technically no.........depends on how you arrange the family tree

We're all cousins, though

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True

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[abbey1227]

Jan 12, 2022 4:32:16 GMT merh said:

Multi-tasking talking primates.

Impressive in their unnatural environments.   Not

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Jan 12, 2022 4:52:21 GMT abbey1227 said:

Jan 12, 2022 4:32:16 GMT merh said:

Multi-tasking talking primates.

Impressive in their unnatural environments.   Not

Your brain doesn't run through different scenarios?

Die Gedanken Sind Frei.

Smile. 
No one needs to know what one is thinking. 

In this political environment, it’s easy to look at Republicans and Democrats as having next to nothing in common. Regardless of the issue at hand, we see them as wanting completely different things—especially when it comes to issues of sex and sexuality.

From differences in the way they have approached the sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to their views on abortion and same-sex marriage, Democrats and Republicans appear worlds apart.

It’s not just their public policy positions that seem to differ wildly, though.

According to the largest and most comprehensive survey of sexual fantasies ever conducted in the United States, it would appear that there are also political differences in our private sexual fantasies.

I surveyed 4,175 adult Americans from all 50 states about what turns them on and published the findings in a book entitled Tell Me What You Want. As part of this survey, participants were given a list of hundreds of different people, places and things that might be a turn-on. For each one, they reported on how frequently they fantasized about it.

I learned a lot about the nature of sexual desire in modern America, but one of the more intriguing things I uncovered was the political divide in our fantasy worlds.

While self-identified Republicans and self-identified Democrats reported fantasizing with the same average frequency—several times per week—I found that Republicans were more likely than Democrats to fantasize about a range of activities that involve sex outside of marriage. Think things like infidelity, orgies and partner swapping, from 1970s-style “key parties” to modern-day forms of swinging. Republicans also reported more fantasies with voyeuristic themes, including visiting strip clubs and practicing something known as “cuckolding,” which involves watching one’s partner have sex with someone else.

Why do Republicans seem to be drawn to non-monogamy and Democrats to power play in their sexual fantasies?

By contrast, self-identified Democrats were more likely than Republicans to fantasize about almost the entire spectrum of BDSM activities, from bondage to spanking to dominance-submission play. The largest Democrat-Republican divide on the BDSM spectrum was in masochism, which involves deriving pleasure from the experience of pain.

Why is that? Why do Republicans seem to be drawn to nonmonogamy and Democrats to power play in their sexual fantasies?

On the surface, it might be tempting to see this as revealing a fundamental difference in their sexual psychology. However, if you dig a little deeper, you’ll find that while some of the activities that turn Republicans and Democrats on appear vastly different, the underlying processes that drive our sexual fantasies may actually be the same. There’s far more that unites us than divides us when it comes to sexual desire.

[abbey1227]

Jan 12, 2022 5:01:22 GMT merh said:

Jan 12, 2022 4:52:21 GMT abbey1227 said:

Your brain doesn't run through different scenarios?
Die Gedanken Sind Frei.
Smile. 
No one needs to know what one is thinking. 

Why is that? Why do Republicans seem to be drawn to nonmonogamy and Democrats to power play in their sexual fantasies?

On the surface, it might be tempting to see this as revealing a fundamental difference in their sexual psychology. However, if you dig a little deeper, you’ll find that while some of the activities that turn Republicans and Democrats on appear vastly different, the underlying processes that drive our sexual fantasies may actually be the same. There’s far more that unites us than divides us when it comes to sexual desire.

Yet the thought police and woke cancel culture is running at full steam? 

That's interesting sexual discussions. One could argue that fantasies are just that, though. And it's somewhat hilarious to point out the monogamy thing on the right.........cuz that's just not really even a consideration on the left? I have been joking about 50 Shades since the get go.

I've watch Mike Birbiglia's comments on those seeking to shut down comedy because of being offended.

And a recent find of Rhys Nicholson's extremely flamboyant act was inventive and entertaining. You got Netflix?

[merh]

Jan 12, 2022 5:12:55 GMT abbey1227 said:

Jan 12, 2022 5:01:22 GMT merh said:

Your brain doesn't run through different scenarios?
Die Gedanken Sind Frei.
Smile. 
No one needs to know what one is thinking. 

Yet the thought police and woke cancel culture is running at full steam? 

That's interesting sexual discussions. One could argue that fantasies are just that, though. And it's somewhat hilarious to point out the monogamy thing on the right.........cuz that's just not really even a consideration on the left? I have been joking about 50 Shades since the get go.

I've watch Mike Birbiglia's comments on those seeking to shut down comedy because of being offended.

And a recent find of Rhys Nicholson's extremely flamboyant act was inventive and entertaining. You got Netflix?

Still don't have Netflix. 

Dude, isn't that forever?

Leonard Alfred Schneider (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), known professionally as Lenny Bruce, was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, and satirist. He was renowned for his open, freestyle and critical form of comedy which contained satire, politics, religion, sex, and vulgarity. His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial was followed by a posthumous pardon, the first in the history of New York State, by Governor George Pataki in 2003.

On October 4, 1961, Bruce was arrested for obscenity at the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco; he had used the word cocksucker and riffed that "to is a preposition, come is a verb", that the sexual context of come is so common that it bears no weight, and that if someone hearing it becomes upset, he "probably can't come". Although the jury acquitted him, other law enforcement agencies began monitoring his appearances, resulting in frequent arrests under charges of obscenity.

Bruce was arrested again in 1961, in Philadelphia, for drug possession and again in Los Angeles, two years later. The Los Angeles arrest took place in then-unincorporated West Hollywood, and the arresting officer was a young deputy named Sherman Block, who later became County Sheriff. The specification this time was that the comedian had used the word schmuck, an insulting Yiddish term that is an obscene term for penis. The Hollywood charges were later dismissed.

On December 5, 1962, Bruce was arrested on stage at the legendary Gate of Horn folk club in Chicago. That same year, he played at Peter Cook's The Establishment club in London, and in April the next year he was barred from entering the United Kingdom by the Home Office as an "undesirable alien".

In April 1964, he appeared twice at the Cafe Au Go Go in Greenwich Village, with undercover police detectives in the audience. He was arrested along with the club owners, Howard and Elly Solomon, who were arrested for allowing an obscene performance to take place. On both occasions, he was arrested after leaving the stage, the complaints again pertaining to his use of various obscenities.

A three-judge panel presided over his widely publicized six-month trial, prosecuted by Manhattan Assistant D.A. Richard Kuh, with Ephraim London and Martin Garbus as the defense attorneys. Bruce and club owner Howard Solomon were both found guilty of obscenity on November 4, 1964. The conviction was announced despite positive testimony and petitions of support from—among other artists, writers and educators—Woody Allen, Bob Dylan, Jules Feiffer, Allen Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, William Styron, and James Baldwin, and Manhattan journalist and television personality Dorothy Kilgallen and sociologist Herbert Gans. Bruce was sentenced on December 21, 1964, to four months in a workhouse; he was set free on bail during the appeals process and died before the appeal was decided. Solomon later saw his conviction overturned

It's sort of funny how wounded some of these guys get.

Bruce was sent to prison & died.

But POOR LOUIS CK & all the others.

[abbey1227]

Jan 12, 2022 21:18:05 GMT merh said:

Still don't have Netflix. 

Dude, isn't that forever?

Leonard Alfred Schneider (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), known professionally as Lenny Bruce, was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, and satirist. He

It's sort of funny how wounded some of these guys get.

Bruce was sent to prison & died.

But POOR LOUIS CK & all the others.

Maybe try youtube?

Forever? Before it was the Govt and the unelected FCC..........now it's every Tina, Diane and Karen complaining about being offended and forming a group to protest.

Bruce was wounded long before he served time......typical celeb with the drug & alcohol abuses. Remind me to be surprised by the next one that keels over.

Good example. Why does a guy who asked to masturbate in front of others get canceled? That goofy 'power' argument again? None of those women could verbalize a big "No!" at the moment?

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[abbey1227]

Jan 13, 2022 2:48:28 GMT merh said:

picture kinda reminds me of the movie The Ugly Truth   

[merh]

Jan 13, 2022 2:57:55 GMT abbey1227 said:

Jan 13, 2022 2:48:28 GMT merh said:

picture kinda reminds me of the movie The Ugly Truth   

You don't think the Louis CK thing was that little men with power thing Castiel was talking about?

He had a small amount of power to exert over people?
Like Weinstein?

[abbey1227]

Jan 13, 2022 7:50:39 GMT merh said:

Jan 13, 2022 2:57:55 GMT abbey1227 said:

picture kinda reminds me of the movie The Ugly Truth   

You don't think the Louis CK thing was that little men with power thing Castiel was talking about?

He had a small amount of power to exert over people?
Like Weinstein?

I do think he thought he was kind of a big shot.........he was famous and was getting wealthy. But he still asked to do it in front of others. Did a single person immediately say "NO! WTF are you thinking even asking?" Nope

They all just giggled and told rumors about it for months and years until the #MeToo thing popped up. What a buncha brave souls they were

Weinstein had far more power for far longer than Louis........but if you're gonna claim none of those women could have just said No?? I'm gonna argue with you. They traded sex with that pig for a shot at some fame and fortune for themselves.

Notice again........there were stories and rumors of Harvey for YEARS........they even joked about it in public and a few Hollywood projects. Everyone KNEW........but it was fine back then WHY? Because he was on the right team? Hung around the Clintons? and others? Let's hear your take on it

I'll tell you this.........if there was a female version of him lording over me.......there's no way in hell I'm giving it up to a POS like that.

Heck, I really like  Louis CK and still think he's funny.......but he's not jerking off in front of me.......not even if he paid me.

[merh]

Jan 13, 2022 13:50:42 GMT abbey1227 said:

Jan 13, 2022 7:50:39 GMT merh said:

You don't think the Louis CK thing was that little men with power thing Castiel was talking about?

He had a small amount of power to exert over people?
Like Weinstein?

I do think he thought he was kind of a big shot.........he was famous and was getting wealthy. But he still asked to do it in front of others. Did a single person immediately say "NO! WTF are you thinking even asking?" Nope

They all just giggled and told rumors about it for months and years until the #MeToo thing popped up. What a buncha brave souls they were

Weinstein had far more power for far longer than Louis........but if you're gonna claim none of those women could have just said No?? I'm gonna argue with you. They traded sex with that pig for a shot at some fame and fortune for themselves.

Notice again........there were stories and rumors of Harvey for YEARS........they even joked about it in public and a few Hollywood projects. Everyone KNEW........but it was fine back then WHY? Because he was on the right team? Hung around the Clintons? and others? Let's hear your take on it

I'll tell you this.........if there was a female version of him lording over me.......there's no way in hell I'm giving it up to a POS like that.

Heck, I really like  Louis CK and still think he's funny.......but he's not jerking off in front of me.......not even if he paid me.

Because the casting couch is infamous in Hollywood, isn't it? Sort of a right as seen by some powerful people.
Brendan Fraser said it really messed with his life. 

Fraser alleged in 2018 that he was sexually assaulted by Philip Berk, the president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, at a luncheon in the summer of 2003. The assault, his subsequent divorce, and the death of his mother launched Fraser into a depression that, combined with his health issues and a backlash within the industry over speaking out against Berk, caused his career to decline

I mean, a guy telling the world a guy assaulted him sexually isn't demeaning to the victim?

Same for female victims dude.

As for Louis CK

2015, rumors about C.K.'s behavior towards women in his professional life began to appear on various websites, starting with comedian Roseanne Barr, who told The Daily Beast in an interview that she had heard stories of C.K., "locking the door and masturbating in front of women comics and writers". Barr added in a subsequent tweet that she had no idea if C.K. was a sexual offender or not, but said that given the number of accusations, he should address the rumors. Two years later, in a September 2017 Vanity Fair interview, comedian Tig Notaro cut ties with C.K., a one-time collaborator and producer on her show One Mississippi, saying that he should address the rumors of sexual impropriety, and alluding to an unspecified "incident" between herself and C.K. As he had repeatedly in the past, C.K. denied the allegations in a September 2017 New York Times interview, saying "They're rumors, that's all that is ... I don't think talking about that stuff in the press ... is a good idea."

On November 9, 2017, The Orchard, distributor of C.K.'s upcoming film I Love You, Daddy, canceled the New York premiere of the film due to "unexpected circumstances", while a scheduled appearance by C.K. on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert promoting the movie was also canceled. The Hollywood Reporter ran an article claiming that a very damaging story on the comedian was about to be published in the New York Times, and the premiere was canceled to mitigate the damage. Later that day, the Times published allegations of sexual misconduct from five women against C.K. The women who spoke out in the article included comedy duo Dana Min Goodman and Julia Wolov, who claimed that C.K. had invited them to his hotel room in 2002 during the US Comedy Arts Festival, where he asked them if he could take out his penis. The two women assumed he was joking, but C.K. masturbated to completion in front of them. They relayed the incident to ImprovOlympics founder Charna Halpern. The comedian Rebecca Corry described that, on the set of a television pilot in 2005, she reported an incident to the show's producers where C.K. offered to masturbate in front of her, and no action was taken. Comedian Abby Schachner said that during a 2003 telephone conversation, C.K. began speaking about his sexual fantasies and masturbating. Schachner felt C.K.'s conduct was "unprofessional and inappropriate" given that she was inviting him as an established comedian to one of her comedy shows, and that C.K. was working in a writers room with Schachner's then-boyfriend. Schachner said that C.K. apologized for his past behavior several years later.

So he was getting some fame & was flaunting his power.
Just really strange. 
And reported, but nothing done?
Because don't make waves.

Did the Clintons know?
Who knows?
Look at Epstein. Surely some people who interacted with him weren't perverts. 

Don't people do that?
Ignore a certain amount of eccentricities in the name of getting something done?