http://www.theguardian.c...diction-is-not-a-disease

Survival isn't for the popular or convincing but for the fittest, and fitness is about constant striving and adaptation. So I need not assure anyone of anything. I only need to achieve my goals per time.

So far, your goal seems to be finding a tune of your liking even despite the claim that you're learning. Words changing context and meaning to fit your purpose in contrast to mine.

The conversation is no conversation at all.

Is the expression 'intrusively extractive' an euphemism? I realize that not all exchange is or should be a conversation. For example, it could be predatory behavior. Like, why should the lion apologize for hunting down the deer?

From what you've posted I can infer that you've been working to protect your belief system than understand mine. And that the apology is meant for the same effect.

I accept your apology. Think not of any offense because I see none.

What I'm trying to do is to expose the working of two apparently different minds, and their possibly common features and if successful, use the information to further the discussion that may have been perhaps too constrained.

1. I haven't defended having affairs- I have only accepted my propensity for it and used myself as an entry into the psychology and philosophy involved. Nay, I have been digging into my own spirituality. So how is it that all this has passed your notice that you think I'm defending affairs?

2. What does it mean to be 'unnerved', and how were you affected as far as your response goes?

3. Are there similarities between the working of our minds? Can the similarities be said to be objective?

Let's keep talking, you're helping me open and probably change my mind.

Quote:

What I have learned from examining the site’s the source code is that Ashley Madison’s army of fembots appears to have been a sophisticated, deliberate, and lucrative fraud. The code tells the story of a company trying to weave the illusion that women on the site were plentiful and eager. Whatever the total number of real, active female Ashley Madison users is, the company was clearly on a desperate quest to design legions of fake women to interact with the men on the site.

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No one got laid on Ashley Madison — or nearly no one. Clearly, Noel Biderman, chairman of Avid Life Media, lucked out. As to the rest, even Josh Duggar appears to have hooked up outside of Ashley Madison — at a strip club to be precise. Tens of millions of men paid up to $1,000 or more to find a cheating housewife, and instead, found a clever bot with which to converse.

in the Will Smith movie - Focus, there is a quote:


I suspect some knew they had been conned but could not tell anyone.

I respect your choice of action. In fact, you need not defend it to ME, though you may need to interrogate it for your self.

For me, I realize that the propensity for affairs is actually a kind of condition resulting from what appears to be a mind virus- mvirus- lag. For this mvirus, the basic premise is simply that my needs are met from without. How this mvirus fashions itself in my experience is most intriguing, especially when I consider that it was formed in the womb, and was affirmed through the entire socialization process.

Notice your choice to walk out is driven by the mviral basis.

So far, it seems that I have a very limited understanding of the mind. This has left me with plenty of vulnerability, even to con games.

The universe as it is seems to me, to be under perfect love, but affairs and evil exist. Why is it so? I realize it's because of how my mind works, and what it requires of me as a self conscious being.

Ethics is beyond pain and pleasure. I see it as a matter of computational efficiency and focus.