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People around you, in your class, in your family. I certainly have people around myself who are afraid to think for themselves.

It's not an easy task to think for yourself against the people around you, especially if you come from a religious background. I wouldn't be so sure if you are strong enough to cope with that task.

I'm pretty sure I addressed everything you wrote, scroll up and check.

These are not fetishes, these are sexual dysfunctions. Fetish is when you like a girl wearing shoes while in bed or when you like wearing panties or similar funny/odd/harmless sexual playfulness. Paedophilia or rape are serious sexual dysfunctions and also a serious criminal offence. I deliberately left out indecent exposure because it seems to me not particularly harmful and just plain funny. Well we are taking about sexuality not murder and I suggested you should act on your instincts regarding your sexuality as long as they don't harm anybody. Maybe not killing but I also experience the instinct of punching somebodies teeth out when I get angry - doesn't mean you have to do it because it involves hurting the other person. Sexual games with consent of all parties involved do not hurt anybody (except priests in your local church which is a great thing in my opinion)

Trust your instincts on this and don't let religion play a part in your sexuality.

Definitely thank you for the heads up StringJunky. Yeah, few years ago I've seen a documentary on people who like genital mutilation. I remember it featured a guy searching for his ultimate goal of fulfillment of finding a girl who would bash his genitals with a bat. In my opinion that is not odd but straight up f up but hey, that is a totally different "ball" game than watching porn with your girl. As for coining a term odd, you'd be surprised how many "non standard" sexual behaviors are out there. It's difficult to say whats standard and whats not or whats odd or whats not as human sexuality is very diverse and not many people admit to what they fancy. I would be surprised if most couples haven't watched porn together at least once in their life. Be careful, if you start categorizing people's sexuality on the basis of how common a certain behavior is - you're asking for trouble.

We also have no sensation of breathing (most of the time) and dozen other functions of the human body but I fail to see how this correlates to my assertion which is that color perception in living organisms does not require conscious though. If narrowing the question down to humans - its impossible to answer because there is no clear definition of what consciousness is.

I'm convinced that there are far more odd things than watching porn with your partner. I'm also convinced that anything to do with sexuality which is done with consent of all parties involved is not odd at all.

What if I watch porn with my wife? Is it still controlling and bad for us and we should stop doing it to realize how stupid it was to do ?

I agree. I have both experiences, analog and digital and although I never had my own darkroom a friend did in the late 80's - good times. I hope you will revive your 35mm film gear.As for my dream gear it would be digital these days, its just so much more versatile. I just had to sell my lenses but I will be getting it all back some time in the future Im sure. Heres a link to some of my amature work (I hope its appropriate) All photos taken with Canon 40d and 2 lenses - 17-55 f/2.8 IS and 70-200 f/4 L IS. https://www.behance.net/koti

It is possible that this thread will remain open but the chance is drastically low. It would take a massive shift of your rhetoric to achieve this.

It's not the tool that makes a great photograph but I'm all in with you on the nostalgia.

Seems a tall order at the least

Wouldn't a completely imcompressible solid mean that it would have to have infinite density?

I know his work and I love it. Most of his photographs are stunning and his style was (he died last year) truly ahead of his time.

Well...youre right, I didn't know that.

Courtesy of Phi for All, today I learned what "Argument to moderation" is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation

I would like to kindly ask you to exempt me from explanation and I would like to withdraw from this conversation. My further participation will only bring havoc to everybody.

It's neither. If I had to state a one sentence punch line I'd say that the true essence of being human is "To live in harmony with yourself and the nature around you while constantly bettering yourself" I deeply disagree with literally every sentence you wrote in your OP. It pains me to see in your profile that you are a teacher, poor students

Or the security staff, or the money involved, etc.

Because we agreed that color perception is not a reflex. We also established that organisms which do not have the brain capacity nor have a brain at all are capable of sensing colors and we also established that there must be an evolutionary reason for those organisms to sense colors within their level of perception. You're saying that reflexes refute my argument, you might as well say that breathing or swallowing refutes my argument and this does not make sense to me. I have to note that I'm not sure what is the goal of our discussion (yours and mine) This thread is so vague that I think we should establish what were trying to argue. My position is that although color perception is not a simple fenomena, it seems to me that it does not require consciousness or senscience in our human sense and that's about all I'm arguing here. I referred to your last post as a straw man because you shifted what I said a little. But no worries really...what we are talking about here is so fluid due to "consciousness" that I don't think we are getting to come to any concrete conclusions apart from this evolving into a disagreement.

I am absolutely sure that there are people who are not aware of the same universe as the one which I am aware of. Furthermore, I am convinced that these people exist in their own universe which is much different from mine.

Considering whats going on in other threads for the past few days, Strings crap post here is fascinating and top of the line. Seems that despite tight moderation theres going to be mental excrements flowing no matter what.

Today I learned what scientists on science forums talk about during Easter