The evils of solipsism revisited
Oct. 27th, 2013 07:27 pmLast night, I figured out something. I figured out why many cishets (cisgender heterosexuals, AKA "people who are the same gender as their sex and are attracted to the opposite sex") have ridiculous stereotypes about homosexual people, such as "gay men are effeminate," "gay women are butch," and "homosexuals are pedophiles." And it ultimately boils down to solipsism.
Basically, that kind of cishet does not feel attraction to members of their own gender. And their mentality is so incredibly selfish and self-centered that if they don't think it or feel it, they can't understand how others could think or feel such things. In fact, they DON'T think others feel they think/feel those things. They cannot think outside of themselves, so they project their own thoughts and feelings onto others. Oh sure, they can understand mild differences, like minor different tastes in food or fashion, but major differences they cannot understand. Because it never occurs to them that gays feel for certain members of their own gender/sex as cishets do for their opposites, they don't really understand what homosexuality is.
Put simply, since *they* don't feel homosexual desires, as far as they can think, NOBODY does. Thus, homosexuality, by their twisted logic, MUST be a choice; it cannot possibly be anything else. And since they see their own feelings as natural and good, that automatically makes homosexuality something that gays and lesbians must be doing on purpose because they are evil or uncivilized. And if they think someone evil, then that person becomes capable of anything! They could choose to do all kinds of other unnatural things, like, I dunno, fuck goats or rape children. Which goes a long way toward explaining the whole "next we'll be legalizing marriage to goats!" stuff that so often Lefties think comes out of nowhere, and makes us Lefties wonder "What the fuck? Why would you say that? Do YOU want to fuck goats?"
No, of course they don't. But they assume gays and lesbians do, because if they're willfully going against nature, who knows what else they might do?
There's more: I figure, they do make some sort of half-assed attempt to understand why anyone would want to have sex with someone of their own sex/gender, and the best they can do is "well gay men must all be effeminate because obviously they feel the same way I do about women, they're just rejecting that because they're evil." Same for lesbians being butch; they cannot make the connection that others have different feelings about these things. Oh, and it kind of explains the whole "homosexuals are pedophiles" bullshit, too: young boys are more effeminate than grown men by way of being androgynous, and young girls are more masculine than grown women for the same reason, so because this kind of cishet cannot fathom the notion that GAY PEOPLE FEEL LUST/LOVE FOR THEIR OWN SEX/GENDER, pedophilia becomes a logical extension of the perversity that is, to them, homosexuality.
This same kind of solipsism explains, also, their ideas on religion and politics. Because X is right to THEM, and they cannot think outside of their own feelings, so anyone who isn't also X must be ignorant of X. "I will explain X to them and they will immediately see the wisdom and convert because everyone thinks exactly the same way I do about major things like this." And then when it becomes plain that the other person DOES understand, and still rejects that wisdom, well, to their POV the other person is just being rebellious, and possibly evil.
This is obviously a very twisted attempt at empathy, a mutant pseudo-empathy born of these peoples' confusion. And it becomes clear to me that it's a result of a failure of education. This kind of mentality is visited upon children by their parents through many generations, and needs to be countered in public schools by constantly, repeatedly drilling into kids' minds that everyone is different, and THAT IS GOOD. Our society keeps harping on about how we're all really the same, really, and that kind of crap just reinforces this solipsistic bullshit. True, we are all the same in many ways, but focusing on that does more harm than good. We need to focus heavily on how everyone is different, how everyone has different thoughts and feeling about things, about how everyone has different WAYS of thinking. NEURODIVERSITY is the key, and goes far beyond accepting auties and aspies; every human being is unique and the only way to counter the danger that is solipsism is to drill into kids that everyone has their own reality tunnel. The only way to get out of solipsistic thinking is to constantly remind oneself that others do NOT think and feel the same way that you do. Yes, others are all thinking, feeling human beings; THAT particular epiphany is equally important to the fact that NOT EVERYONE THINKS AND FEELS THE SAME THINGS, OR THE SAME WAY.
I hope I have done a good job of illustrating exactly WHY solipsism is the #1 sin in religious Satanism. Because it is responsible for about 90% of the problems in the world, if not more; for true empathy cannot be borne from self-centeredness that is so blind as to project itself onto everyone else.
Basically, that kind of cishet does not feel attraction to members of their own gender. And their mentality is so incredibly selfish and self-centered that if they don't think it or feel it, they can't understand how others could think or feel such things. In fact, they DON'T think others feel they think/feel those things. They cannot think outside of themselves, so they project their own thoughts and feelings onto others. Oh sure, they can understand mild differences, like minor different tastes in food or fashion, but major differences they cannot understand. Because it never occurs to them that gays feel for certain members of their own gender/sex as cishets do for their opposites, they don't really understand what homosexuality is.
Put simply, since *they* don't feel homosexual desires, as far as they can think, NOBODY does. Thus, homosexuality, by their twisted logic, MUST be a choice; it cannot possibly be anything else. And since they see their own feelings as natural and good, that automatically makes homosexuality something that gays and lesbians must be doing on purpose because they are evil or uncivilized. And if they think someone evil, then that person becomes capable of anything! They could choose to do all kinds of other unnatural things, like, I dunno, fuck goats or rape children. Which goes a long way toward explaining the whole "next we'll be legalizing marriage to goats!" stuff that so often Lefties think comes out of nowhere, and makes us Lefties wonder "What the fuck? Why would you say that? Do YOU want to fuck goats?"
No, of course they don't. But they assume gays and lesbians do, because if they're willfully going against nature, who knows what else they might do?
There's more: I figure, they do make some sort of half-assed attempt to understand why anyone would want to have sex with someone of their own sex/gender, and the best they can do is "well gay men must all be effeminate because obviously they feel the same way I do about women, they're just rejecting that because they're evil." Same for lesbians being butch; they cannot make the connection that others have different feelings about these things. Oh, and it kind of explains the whole "homosexuals are pedophiles" bullshit, too: young boys are more effeminate than grown men by way of being androgynous, and young girls are more masculine than grown women for the same reason, so because this kind of cishet cannot fathom the notion that GAY PEOPLE FEEL LUST/LOVE FOR THEIR OWN SEX/GENDER, pedophilia becomes a logical extension of the perversity that is, to them, homosexuality.
This same kind of solipsism explains, also, their ideas on religion and politics. Because X is right to THEM, and they cannot think outside of their own feelings, so anyone who isn't also X must be ignorant of X. "I will explain X to them and they will immediately see the wisdom and convert because everyone thinks exactly the same way I do about major things like this." And then when it becomes plain that the other person DOES understand, and still rejects that wisdom, well, to their POV the other person is just being rebellious, and possibly evil.
This is obviously a very twisted attempt at empathy, a mutant pseudo-empathy born of these peoples' confusion. And it becomes clear to me that it's a result of a failure of education. This kind of mentality is visited upon children by their parents through many generations, and needs to be countered in public schools by constantly, repeatedly drilling into kids' minds that everyone is different, and THAT IS GOOD. Our society keeps harping on about how we're all really the same, really, and that kind of crap just reinforces this solipsistic bullshit. True, we are all the same in many ways, but focusing on that does more harm than good. We need to focus heavily on how everyone is different, how everyone has different thoughts and feeling about things, about how everyone has different WAYS of thinking. NEURODIVERSITY is the key, and goes far beyond accepting auties and aspies; every human being is unique and the only way to counter the danger that is solipsism is to drill into kids that everyone has their own reality tunnel. The only way to get out of solipsistic thinking is to constantly remind oneself that others do NOT think and feel the same way that you do. Yes, others are all thinking, feeling human beings; THAT particular epiphany is equally important to the fact that NOT EVERYONE THINKS AND FEELS THE SAME THINGS, OR THE SAME WAY.
I hope I have done a good job of illustrating exactly WHY solipsism is the #1 sin in religious Satanism. Because it is responsible for about 90% of the problems in the world, if not more; for true empathy cannot be borne from self-centeredness that is so blind as to project itself onto everyone else.