2 hours ago, I wrote:
Indeed I have learned a lot about victimology from observing lemmings. Even on this list. ;-]
It dawned on me (without input from anyone) that this statement could be misunderstood to suggest that lemmings are posting to this list. I would like to clarify that I regard the vast majority of posters to this list to be of high to very high intelligence. Observations on the mental mechanisms in lemmings can be drawn mostly indirectly here.
I certainly am aware of a mode of being which is neither lemming-like or existentially "authentic".
I cite an example from an old movie, Jaws, to avoid being relevant: The great white shark terifies the town and people are afraid to go in the water. The mayor goes in the water to show it is safe (well, we may dispute the mayor's motivations and/or cognitions, but the mayor goes in the water by self-choice. The asst. mayor is nearby The mayor sugests that the asst. mayor also come in the water to show it is safe. The asst. mayor goes in the water, but not in a lemming-like, i.e., enthusiastic, way.
\Galileo Galilei
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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