The phrase
"mental masturbation" is used to describe indulging in excessive and pointless intellectual or theoretical thinking without any real productive outcome.
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The engineers are our «parents», Vickers wants her parent dead, not to mention that David compares his parent (maker) being dead as freedom... In typical «Lost» fashion it's
thematic mental masturbation that doesn't necessarily bother with answering the question, but I'll take that in a popcorn flick over a dumb one, any day.
Censorship should not warranted if your convictions are so threatened by someone else's perspective then grow some thicker skin or spend you time on a site where dissent is not tolerated and you can float along in those constant states of
supreme mental masturbation know as delusion and denial.
Religious people utilize faith which is nothing more than
mental masturbation and relying on a premise that is manmade that does not exist.
Prayer is
mental masturbation.
So we keep to
our mental masturbation on the forums.
Any and all talk of retroactively taking away pensions from former electeds is (what a former colleague of mine called)
MENTAL MASTURBATION.
«A mathematical model is a nice exercise,
a mental masturbation about how these things could work, but it makes better sense to do that once we know a bit more.
In other words,
mental masturbation.
This my friends is not science it is
mental masturbation.»
If we are in a long - term warming trend that will last hundreds of years more, I'm afraid debates about anomaly charts, and whether or not a year set a new record, are
mental masturbation — some decades will have warming, other decades will have cooling, but record high average temperatures will occur regularly or irregularly while the Modern Warming temperature uptrend is in progress. . .