I Have a Weird Sense of Humor

@Anonymartyr it’s never occurred to me to go for more physical attractiveness over intellectual prowess, but apparently I’m willing to overlook a measure of crazy for substantial conversation and great sex lmfao... ( I am aware this is a flawed approach to relationships 😂😅😂)

@SW-User I'm not sure why but I value visual aesthetics little in anything. I'm a "function over fashion" person. I do not find any single women that are sufficiently functional to be attractive. Probably because they have become too reliant on expensive external products and not enough on personal development.

@Anonymartyr hmmm I think of it as more of a health issue than aesthetic. Sometimes ‘attractiveness’ is simply the product of living a healthy lifestyle.

@SW-User That is the only part of physical attraction that phases me. Even the woman with the flu and baggy track suit looked fit and healthy otherwise. Perhaps I am just put off by people who need to wear disguises.

@Anonymartyr I hear yeah, but at a certain point we just have to accept that, arbitrary and manipulative as they may seem, symbols and rituals are the glue of ‘culture’ itself. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@SW-User not to everybody. We must all learn to accept the we are all minorities, each an individual with more that is unique than what is common with anyone.
First we are told what to believe, then we are taught to respond to the symbols and rituals. I respond to different symbols and rituals because I was educated elsewhere.
Nothing can be popular without first being artificial, exaggerating the commonalities and subduing what is different from the "perceived" majority.

@Anonymartyr there was a time I would’ve agreed with you, and I suppose I still do, but at this point in life I believe that culture is necessary for most people. They need that sort of cohesion to function personally, as well as to maintain stability within a society. Sometimes it bugs me that those kind of lines in the sand are still necessary for humans to get on, but the alternative is chaos. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I hope at some point humanity reaches a level of existential awareness where they can function and have a reasonable code of conduct without needing all the arbitrary guidelines

@SW-User That is the effect of media and advertising. I have avoided such for the past 6 years and now have a much better opinion of myself than before.

@Anonymartyr oh.. I don’t know about that. Culture as an operating system is timeless. I’m no fan of the media, but we can’t blame it for everything

@SW-User So is business. Make-up dates back to what ancient Egyptians would have called ancient Egypt. Economy has always dictated what culture is.

@Anonymartyr hard to say. Economy&culture is a little bit of a ‘chicken or the egg?’ debate, but I’m not trying to sway you 🤷🏻‍♀️ At a certain point in these kind of conversations it’s all null because the basis of any statement (yours and mine) retraces to something hypothetical/ unprovable/inapplicable etc roundabout. 😅

@SW-User True and well said. It may help though to consider clan or tribe to be an extended family rather than a culture and barter to be the natural means of exchange, not currency.

@Anonymartyr Perhaps, but currency is an inevitability. Nothing has an absolute value of significance for an absolute, equal exchange. The value is weighed, agreed upon, then applied = need for currency.

When we start redefining culture as clan or family it starts to be splitting hairs. Biologically speaking, humans have a limited capacity for interpersonal relationships/empathy reserve/resources. Culture serves as a code of conduct with people outside of our interpersonal sphere even when we have no intimate ties to them.

@SW-User Currency IS a constant but dependency on it is not. If everyone in your neighborhood exchanged favors with their own skills and products, fr only 1 year how much currency do you think they would all be able to save? Do you make your relatives and friends pay you for everything you do for them?

@Anonymartyr in 2019? Not much. The skillset of the average person these days is pretty lacking 😅

@SW-User That's too bad. I wish I could convince my neighborhood because their employment really underpays them and they are worth much more outside of their jobs- but don't realize it. I had my standard first aid and home-nursing certificates as a volunteer medic for instance. I would rather buy home cooked recipes than restaurant food- even though I worked as a preparatory chef when I could work. Many people here grow marijuana which is quickly becoming recognized as nearly a cure-all, etc.
What has no real value is paperwork and earning off the money of other people- which ironically was forbidden (cf. Usury). When the next Great Depression happens, barter will be the only means of survival. those without crafts or skills to trade will be at the mercy of over burdened charity or perish.