Help me with my learnings!

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Questions for... well, everyone, I guess:

1) How big is the gap between Asperger's Syndrome and high-functioning autism? (From what I understand the two overlap a lot. Please correct me if I'm wrong.)

2) What is the Baptist Church's official stance re:stigmata? (Any info about the Baptist Church would be useful, actually- I know very little about it.)

3) What does it feel like to have a nosebleed? (I've never had one.)

4) How do you know when "coffee" is not just coffee but coffee? (Because I just made plans to go for coffee with a friend, but I think said friend may be under the impression that these plans are for coffee instead of coffee. And, um, that could be problematic!)

5) How much does Thomas Hobbes suck? (Like, a lot, right?)

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ETA: From the essay I am currently writing on Hobbes' theory of the state of nature:

"Hobbes would have us believe that people tend not to murder their children because of the power of law and the state, but this is nonsense: anyone who has ever been in the same room with a fussy baby for more than ten minutes is sure to wonder why its parents do not simply drop it into the nearest lake and tell the authorities that dingoes ate it."

I don't even care if I am grossly misrepresenting Hobbes here,* I am not cutting that sentence.

* I am, but only because I don't like him.

Comments

[bleedingcherub.livejournal.com]

1. First of all be careful because this is becoming a pretty political issue. The PC stance is that there is just *differently* functioning autism, and Asperger's is the label given to those autistics very compatible with neurotypical society though they are in fact autistic. This is my stance also, with the added complication that I don't think autism is just one biological process/thing, I think it's more of a behavioural category.

3. I've only had one from coke, but I didn't notice it until I felt the drop of blood on my other skin. So, evaporation/wetness? But then coke is a topical anesthetic, so yeah I don't know.

4. Act casual but not unattractive and see how ze acts. The whole thing about coffee is that it can be anything, and your friend knows this, so if you don't like hir like that it's not going to be offensive.

5. I dunno, Hobbes seems to have got it right in some ways. My first excuse to myself to clear out "bad thoughts" is always "well think of the consequences." Even without a state and formal law, local custom would get you offed/hurt if you did something wack.

re: 5

[rawkenr0ll.livejournal.com]

ah, but you've grown up in a society that preaches selfishness and dependence on authority. what if you hadn't? just because you do it doesn't mean it's human nature, which is the issue with hobbes: just because his society did it didn't make it true of everyone everywhere forever.

Re: 5

[bleedingcherub.livejournal.com]

lots of stuff to detangle here.

1) I really hate the "human nature" thing because whatever we do IS our nature. I think we need clearer terms. & "What would we do without social contract?" Apparently, as seen all over the world, make social contracts.

2) you don't know where I've grown up; I've never even met you! but you're right, I am from the US (Iranian-American) :P

3) I haven't read very much of Hobbes's actual work at all, just throwing that out there

4) Do you think looking at the behavior of children or unsocialized persons is a good way to check out this issue? How could we possibly consider humanity in a vacuum anyway?