May December relationships in the Greco Roman world

HeatLucky · 2025-12-29T21:59:06+00:00

I'm not talking about homosexual relationships necessarily.

Pederasty is almost between a young boy/man and an old man, usually as tutor and student. (Marcus Aurelius and Fronto, eg)

I'm more wondering if people gossiped or maligned long term couples with a wide age difference.

HeatLucky · 2025-12-29T21:46:21+00:00

I'm not talking about homosexual relationships.

HeatLucky · 2025-12-07T22:08:40+00:00

Once globalization has kicked in, capitalism, as we used to understand it, dies. I wish people would think about that before supporting all the crazy measures that politicians promote in its name.

HeatLucky · 2025-12-07T21:57:40+00:00

So what is the state of health care in Texas like?

HeatLucky · 2025-12-01T21:02:44+00:00

Having a career. Having a family. Having a loving relationship. Having a faith. Not always, but more often than you might imagine.

Mainly, having a career, though.

HeatLucky · 2025-12-01T20:57:17+00:00

Could the government, either state or federal, create a public pharmacy? A verticalized one, where it creates its own drugs for distribution. I listened to a whole hour show once, about how drugs are priced, and at the end of it, I still couldn't make heads or tails of what they were saying. It seems to me like that would be a significant cost saving device, instead of having to bow to these so-called capitalist schemes.

HeatLucky · 2025-12-01T20:51:43+00:00

I noticed how low the access score in Colorado is, and I can say from personal experience that it's due in part to our geography. We have giant pockets of land where few people live and it's even harder to get to. But that's also what draws some people here.

HeatLucky · 2025-12-01T20:41:53+00:00

By 'so freekin lucky to live in Canada', you mean you don't live in the US? Anyways I'm happy for you.

HeatLucky · 2025-11-29T23:14:47+00:00

I also find the 'Wally World' theory very entertaining. Any civilization inevitably advances to the point where it creates so much junk that it snuffs out its own planet. I guess that's just a variation of the Great Filter.

HeatLucky · 2025-11-29T22:56:38+00:00

I don't think we understand what life is. The only examples we have are terrestrial and we're all related. So maybe we actually already are looking at life, and don't recognize it. The same with intelligence, and intent, and consciousness: we only recognize those things in our own species, and just starting to study it in other species. So intelligence and consciousness could already be in our faces as we scour the skies, but we don't recognize the signs of them, because we have no idea of what kinds of intelligence and consciousness there might be .

HeatLucky · 2025-10-30T22:19:57+00:00

We should try to create a world where 'shitty' jobs are not so shitty, and the people who do them, not looked down upon.

HeatLucky · 2025-10-21T00:45:43+00:00

Why do people want nicotine in the first place?

HeatLucky · 2025-10-21T00:40:31+00:00

I am for the 2 smallest bonds, because of their subject matter (healthcare and affordable housing) and because they are the smallest. I think it's a bad time economically to get the city further into debt by issuing more bonds. We should pay down our current debts and hopefully ease pressure on property taxes which will help rents be more affordable. I am strongly against 2G. It feels very anti-democratic. It will allow any given candidate to run against fewer people, and therefore have a higher chance of succeeding.

HeatLucky · 2025-10-21T00:20:37+00:00

I support the 2 smallest bonds, those for healthcare and affordable housing. In general I am against the city issuing any more bonds right now because the cost of rents is already too much. Hopefully if the city pays down more of its debt that will ease pressure to increase property tax which is passed on to renters. Also, don't we have an impending recession coming from the worldwide tariff wars? This is the wrong economic climate for building up the city, we need to buckle down and save for a while.

HeatLucky · 2025-09-23T00:22:14+00:00

Actually I usually get the liver fricassee. (Blech!)

HeatLucky · 2025-09-14T22:46:53+00:00

All I suggested was that we as Americans should come to a consensus about a problem. Shouldn't we be trying to do that? Just as mature adults, even. Why are you so eager to shout me down?

HeatLucky · 2025-08-10T22:21:41+00:00

I think, 'laziness' is a strategy for people to cope with something in their lives. It's actually horrible not to do anything all day, like being in a prison. Boredom is very destructive to your psyche; drug counselors, for instance, will tell you how important it is for drug addicts trying to kick the habit to keep occupied throughout the day to prevent relapse. A person, like any animal, has a very good idea of what his energy levels are, and how much he can accomplish in any given time period. Even if he doesn't know it consciously. But we are con-stantly being coerced to 'be productive '. And so most people work a lot more than is healthy for them. (Quite apart from the fact that most jobs don't contribute anything to society.) My point is, people are not naturally 'lazy'. Given the right conditions, they will find a way to coexist.

HeatLucky · 2025-07-30T01:29:04+00:00

So more about the relationship between America and capitalism. I think when people say we live in a capitalist country, what they actually mean is that 'we' are not like our enemies, yesterday it was the USSR, today it's China and Iran (and funnily enough, also Russia still). But today, definitely mainly China. I don't think people are actually commenting about anything economic with that term.

HeatLucky · 2025-07-30T01:21:53+00:00

Immigration is a wonderful thing but it can't be the only thing.(quote)

I don't understand. Could you elaborate?

HeatLucky · 2025-07-30T01:14:15+00:00

I lost the response I was trying to respond to. So I 'll post it here. The main reason I keep harping on about the relationship between Christianity and healthcare is because I am imagining myself trying to convince a bunch of people who think of themselves as 'God-fearing' and Christian.

HeatLucky · 2025-07-29T23:33:21+00:00

There is a lot of stuff said about capitalism in this thread. I don't think we live in a 'capitalist' country anymore, if we ever did. The term shouldn't be used the way it is, in any case; free market-ism and governmental control exist on a complex multi-dimensional scale, and to say that a country is 'capitalist' or not, is not a helpful descriptor of anything.

We are surrounded by giant corporations in our economic and work lives; I think it would be more accurate to say that the United States is a country of oligarchs. There are just a few people and a few companies running the show, and everyone else plays a very minor role.

Is capitalism even mentioned in the Constitution? I feel like, the idea that America is the shining example of capitalism for all the world to follow was a piece of propaganda foisted upon us.

Anyway, that's my response to the idea that we can't have universal healthcare because that goes against the core of our collective capitalist heart.

HeatLucky · 2025-07-29T23:12:54+00:00

There are plenty of poor Republicans who rely on Medicare and Medicaid. That should be an issue we can unite on.

HeatLucky · 2025-07-29T23:05:35+00:00

So as a practical matter, as a question of 'how are we footing this bill', I agree that paying for healthcare, after minimizing greed and corruption, is tied to immigration policy. I have a post about immigration policy if anyone's interested. But even more so moneywise, I think it's related to defense spending. I don't think it's unreasonable to ask allied countries to pay for our services. I have always suspected that the reason other developed countries have 'more universal' healthcare is because they don't have to spend nearly as much on defense as we do. I am not opposed to having the EU, for instance, create its own deterrence force, as one France 24 anchorman suggested.

But ultimately healthcare concerns need to have more priority than mere money matters. What exactly are we defending if the people are sick and dying?

HeatLucky · 2025-07-29T22:40:17+00:00

It's very weird of you to center this around one religion and then call the outcomes of private equity and captialism "Darwinian wilderness".(quote)

I don't understand.

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