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One of my dinner guests took that as significant and generally a bad thing. Unfortunately the conversation veered to more local events and we never got back to it.CaptainFluffyBunny wrote:Somewhat ironically the same people scolding VP Pence for not being alone with women are the same ones cackling at all the sexual harassment claims.
In certain circles some men in a position of authority years ago noticed that being alone with a woman is grounds for a future problem not to mention a lawsuit and have taken measures to protect themselves. She will get time with the male during office hours only, with the door wide open. No one and one in a meeting room. Forget about out of town visits with just her and the boss. As a matter of fact casual after hours gatherings are rare if at all.
Forget about the recent hoo hah. This has been going on for at least the last decade. Of course no one mentions this. Good example where other reasons are floated and correctly mentioned but not the most compelling one.
This has been noticed: Example from 2013 Are Women Being Excluded?
Consequences? They do not get mentored to the same degree as men. This is not going to change in the near future. My guess is recent events are not going to help either.Women often feel left out of casual get-togethers and informal social events where team bonding takes place, introductions are made, relationships are established, and information is shared. The participants in these networks and events are predominantly if not exclusively men, primarily because they’ve been traditionally designed by men for men. They generally reflect men’s interests, like golf outings, and often include clients or prospects. Many times, men won’t think to extend the offer to the women on their teams, assuming they don’t golf, don’t want to go to a sporting event, or don’t want to be around men being men!
Mind, is it as bad as it seems? Is the practise generally as wide spread as the many articles on the subject seems to indicate? Perhaps I am unjustifiably extrapolating my personal knowledge of a few events into something bigger than it really is.
Dunno.
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https://imgur.com/3D9Yx7y.pngCaptainFluffyBunny wrote:Somewhat ironically the same people scolding VP Pence for not being alone with women are the same ones cackling at all the sexual harassment claims.
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Why would PZ ever have to explain himself? He has a trophy wife and never fawns over younger women. The open door policy isn't so PZ can zoom out of the room and beat the extremely small percentile of false accusers to the dean 's office. It would be silly to think that.
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True, although I imagine he most certainly beats the extremely small percentile later on, in the comfort of his own home...free thoughtpolice wrote:Why would PZ ever have to explain himself? He has a trophy wife and never fawns over younger women. The open door policy isn't so PZ can zoom out of the room and beat the extremely small percentile of false accusers to the dean 's office. It would be silly to think that.
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This has wormed its' way into my psyche lately.
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Given his recent appearances in videos, it's more likely to be an act of kindness to the student, sparing them from being alone in a room with a sweating lump of rancid whale oil that smells like piss, shite, and cheap deodorant.free thoughtpolice wrote:Why would PZ ever have to explain himself? He has a trophy wife and never fawns over younger women. The open door policy isn't so PZ can zoom out of the room and beat the extremely small percentile of false accusers to the dean 's office. It would be silly to think that.
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free thoughtpolice wrote:This has wormed its' way into my psyche lately.
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So far this is a reasonable comment ...DaveDodo007 wrote:Christ, I live in the socialist capital of Europe, Liverpool and even they are not buying the narrative, Liverpool is still highly Christian and most people are saying how bad do you have to be to piss off the Buddhists. The government, who love votes are following a different narrative which will just bring about the 'day of the rope' and the 'helicopter rides' earlier than expected.AndrewV69 wrote:In other news :
Protesters call for Canada to revoke Aung San Suu Kyi’s honorary citizenship
And as day follows night :
Trudeau appoints Bob Rae as special envoy to Myanmar
I believe I understand what is happening with the Rohingya. Put very simply it is a cultural clash and the Rohingya supremacism has written cheques that they never had the resources to cash against the Myanmar supremacism (IOW Buddhism (88%) vs minority Muslim (5%)).
I am not saying who started it. That is actually immaterial. The fact of the matter is that it is occurring within a culture where a quick escalation to violence as a dispute resolution mechanism is common, and given the incompatibility between the cultures and the inability of the populations in conflict to merge, the result is inevitable.
Meanwhile the West twitters and wrings it's hands in incomprehension. But of course the West firmly believes in "diversity" and "multiculturalism" so no surprise there.
Anyway, unless the West wants to invade, bombs, boots on the ground, etc. etc. the Rohingya are going to be exterminated. There is not enough sympathy for them within the rest of Burma to maintain a viable existence.
(As I noted above this is very simplistic. The reality is much more complex and I am pretty sure I have missed much. I am not going to pretend I understand everything. I do not. What I do understand is enough to predict the outcome in this situation )
My only advice is fuck the main stream media and that is it. Were is the outrage of the ethnic cleaning of Hindus from Bangladesh yet we are supposed to be outraged that the Burma reacts to 14 of their police stations getting attacked by muslims (37 dead) trying to force their own ethnostate in a foreign land where there have been many abuses of the locals.
Were you responding to what I wrote or was it something/someone else?DaveDodo007 wrote: You seriously need to get a grip of your love of muslim cock, whether it is up your arse or in your mouth. I'm no fan of the French but without Charles Martel then the whole world would have been a total shithole.
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No Chunky Monkey hybrid for you infidel. :PTheMudbrooker wrote:free thoughtpolice wrote:This has wormed its' way into my psyche lately.
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Being angry with people for recognizing the dangers of the world and taking rational measures against them is a hallmark of the sjw.CaptainFluffyBunny wrote:Somewhat ironically the same people scolding VP Pence for not being alone with women are the same ones cackling at all the sexual harassment claims.
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Ya know, this "Screech at the Sky Day" thing has me thinking....What would happen if someone with adequate troll skill were to plant an article purporting to prove Donald Trump is autistic in areas of the internet infested with the fashionably ASD? Could make for much mirth and merriment.
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Re Graham Hancock:
The estimable Jason Colavito did a roaring review of Magicians of the Gods at:
http://www.jasoncolavito.com/magicians- ... fACOGhSy00
The latest Skeptic magazine has an article on Hancock’s claims, by Marc J. Defant, at:
https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/de ... -the-gods/
I’ve been having a long-running (but very slow battle) with Danny Hilman Natawidjaja, the “excavator” of Gunung Padang, at The Lateral Truth, six posts altogether with much debate in the comments. I’m following up with a series on the history of the Atlantis meme. I did skim through Magician of the Gods, but it was pretty awful—regurgitated stuff from his previous maunderings, and deadly dull.
https://www.skepticink.com/lateraltruth/
The estimable Jason Colavito did a roaring review of Magicians of the Gods at:
http://www.jasoncolavito.com/magicians- ... fACOGhSy00
The latest Skeptic magazine has an article on Hancock’s claims, by Marc J. Defant, at:
https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/de ... -the-gods/
I’ve been having a long-running (but very slow battle) with Danny Hilman Natawidjaja, the “excavator” of Gunung Padang, at The Lateral Truth, six posts altogether with much debate in the comments. I’m following up with a series on the history of the Atlantis meme. I did skim through Magician of the Gods, but it was pretty awful—regurgitated stuff from his previous maunderings, and deadly dull.
https://www.skepticink.com/lateraltruth/
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What's all this talk about Sundaland? They got one at the Battle of Britain Museum, Hendon. It's massive.RebeccaB wrote:Re Graham Hancock:
The estimable Jason Colavito did a roaring review of Magicians of the Gods at:
http://www.jasoncolavito.com/magicians- ... fACOGhSy00
The latest Skeptic magazine has an article on Hancock’s claims, by Marc J. Defant, at:
https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/de ... -the-gods/
I’ve been having a long-running (but very slow battle) with Danny Hilman Natawidjaja, the “excavator” of Gunung Padang, at The Lateral Truth, six posts altogether with much debate in the comments. I’m following up with a series on the history of the Atlantis meme. I did skim through Magician of the Gods, but it was pretty awful—regurgitated stuff from his previous maunderings, and deadly dull.
https://www.skepticink.com/lateraltruth/
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It's fun to watch public intellectuals smirch their reputations by turning flaky on Twitter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Kotsko
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Kotsko
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Look who's talking ;)DaveDodo007 wrote:This statement is just asinineSunder wrote:Whenever a conservative does anything stupid their excuse is always "I was just pretending to be retarded."
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I had an uncle who was ground crew on these (I say "GROUND" crew, but they were taking off from lakes).Matt Cavanaugh wrote:What's all this talk about Sundaland? They got one at the Battle of Britain Museum, Hendon. It's massive.RebeccaB wrote:Re Graham Hancock:
The estimable Jason Colavito did a roaring review of Magicians of the Gods at:
http://www.jasoncolavito.com/magicians- ... fACOGhSy00
The latest Skeptic magazine has an article on Hancock’s claims, by Marc J. Defant, at:
https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/de ... -the-gods/
I’ve been having a long-running (but very slow battle) with Danny Hilman Natawidjaja, the “excavator” of Gunung Padang, at The Lateral Truth, six posts altogether with much debate in the comments. I’m following up with a series on the history of the Atlantis meme. I did skim through Magician of the Gods, but it was pretty awful—regurgitated stuff from his previous maunderings, and deadly dull.
https://www.skepticink.com/lateraltruth/
One day they were told they were shipping out. He said "where are we going?". They told him Sierra Leone. He said, "I thought we had been in Sierra Leone for the last six months?". He had been in Gambia.
Thats is some pretty tight security right there! You would assume the pilots and navigators knew where they were, but nobody had bothered to tell the crews that there had been a change of plan. I always keep this story in mind whenever people give me witness testimony as evidence. If somebody can be in a situation where they don't know what country they are in and not know they don't know what country they are in... anything is possible.
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I dunno. Saw this and thought it seemed ironic/humorous
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Does Watson ever tweet anything that isn't self-congratulations or insulting someone or something else?HoneyWagon wrote:I dunno. Saw this and thought it seemed ironic/humorous
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No - snark and self-delusion is all that holding her together at this point.
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Or, as with a now deceased woo-soaked mystic friend, you personally can't explain some aspect of a scientific theory so his internerd anecdote backed or guru sourced alternative must be true. Eventually my stock answer became "ask a physicist", or something along those lines. He used to really get my goat when he tried to illustrate the truth of some whacky belief by relating a parable, almost always ancient and involving a supposedly unanswerable snappy comeback from either an ascetic or a dude on a horse. For some reason, the older a story is, the greater the power. Something to do with unverifiability, maybe.DrokkIt wrote:ThreeFlangedJavis wrote: Joe Rogan had Randall Carlson and Hancock together on his podcast. I have my doubts about Rogan's skeptical radar as he seems to lap this shit up and I don't think he is using the let them hang themselves ploy.
Yeah I think I've seen that. I don't mind Rogan, and I think he is interested in stuff in an intellectually honest way, but I agree that he's lousy skeptic.
The notion that two claims must be of equal likelihood if neither are directly and immediately provable is very common and always frustrating.
Just because there may be inconsistencies in our factual understanding of who built the pyramids does not mean that they must have been built by space goblins because I got high an hallucinated a vision of it.
In my experience, I'd say people like mystery and like the idea there could "be more" to things, and also they dislike that being taken away by logic or reason.
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Colin Kaepernick Dumped by his black father, raised by white people who help him become rich and famous - calls America racist
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It used to be quite fashionable (and possibly still is) to claim that zen budhism predicted quantum uncertainty.ThreeFlangedJavis wrote:
Or, as with a now deceased woo-soaked mystic friend, you personally can't explain some aspect of a scientific theory so his internerd anecdote backed or guru sourced alternative must be true. Eventually my stock answer became "ask a physicist", or something along those lines. He used to really get my goat when he tried to illustrate the truth of some whacky belief by relating a parable, almost always ancient and involving a supposedly unanswerable snappy comeback from either an ascetic or a dude on a horse. For some reason, the older a story is, the greater the power. Something to do with unverifiability, maybe.
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Even if you argue that the US was built on slavery, how does that preclude POCs alive today from reaping the rewards? By SJW logic anyone from Mali or Benin is drowning in privilege.Ape+lust wrote:It's fun to watch public intellectuals smirch their reputations by turning flaky on Twitter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Kotsko
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Well the Bhuddists can argue with the Hindus about who discovered quantum physics.MarcusAu wrote:It used to be quite fashionable (and possibly still is) to claim that zen budhism predicted quantum uncertainty.ThreeFlangedJavis wrote:
Or, as with a now deceased woo-soaked mystic friend, you personally can't explain some aspect of a scientific theory so his internerd anecdote backed or guru sourced alternative must be true. Eventually my stock answer became "ask a physicist", or something along those lines. He used to really get my goat when he tried to illustrate the truth of some whacky belief by relating a parable, almost always ancient and involving a supposedly unanswerable snappy comeback from either an ascetic or a dude on a horse. For some reason, the older a story is, the greater the power. Something to do with unverifiability, maybe.
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I’m back. Did you miss me? No? OK.
It turns out that what I’ve been diagnosed with is not schizophrenia but Schizotypal personality disorder, which is a related but much less serious condition.
It basically means that I’m a loner and a weirdo, but I knew that already.
I still don’t know why the nurse told me I had schizophrenia. There must have been a mix up or something.
On the plus side a lot of things about my thoughts and behaviour are making a lot more sense to me now. On the negative side, there doesn’t seem to be a cure.
That’s all I want to say about the subject.
It turns out that what I’ve been diagnosed with is not schizophrenia but Schizotypal personality disorder, which is a related but much less serious condition.
It basically means that I’m a loner and a weirdo, but I knew that already.
I still don’t know why the nurse told me I had schizophrenia. There must have been a mix up or something.
On the plus side a lot of things about my thoughts and behaviour are making a lot more sense to me now. On the negative side, there doesn’t seem to be a cure.
That’s all I want to say about the subject.
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Dawkins at #75 followed at #82 by the first serious headbut back by ...... Oggie!!
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Well, you are a Pitizen.Suet Cardigan wrote:I’ve been diagnosed with is not schizophrenia but Schizotypal personality disorder, which is a related but much less serious condition.
It basically means that I’m a loner and a weirdo, but I knew that already.
Sez the guy up at 2:30 am trying to catch a rat in the kitchen of his shack in the woods.
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Well, you are a Pitizen.Suet Cardigan wrote:I’ve been diagnosed with is not schizophrenia but Schizotypal personality disorder, which is a related but much less serious condition.
It basically means that I’m a loner and a weirdo, but I knew that already.
Sez the guy up at 2:30 am trying to catch a rat in the kitchen of his shack in the woods.
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So does her ass.HoneyWagon wrote:I dunno. Saw this and thought it seemed ironic/humorous
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Mirror Mirror on the wall .......
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Bollocks :nin:
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Kirbmarc wrote:Does Watson ever tweet anything that isn't self-congratulations or insulting someone or something else?HoneyWagon wrote:I dunno. Saw this and thought it seemed ironic/humorous
https://i.imgur.com/zrJUWse.png
Dunno.
I have her blocked because among other things the temptation is too strong for me to resist pointing out stuff to her. Example, I would have responded that she is not too far from the point that comments like the one above are equally applicable to her.
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That too.
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Eeeesh. I just discovered Rorschach's blog was taken over by some Japanese outfit.Brive1987 wrote:Ape+lust wrote:Success! Migration tools know how to eat the "most interesting" comments, starting with Dear Muslima.
Any notion you have about Peez monkeying around with history is an uncharitable fantasy.
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If only there was a way to snapshot these things.
Oh. Wait.
https://web.archive.org/web/20110706211 ... _names.php
Dawkins at #75 followed at #82 by the first serious headbut back by ...... Oggie!!
I never saved the blog post where he demanded Dawkins come to his blog and explain himself. The one that ended with the toe-tapping, "I'm waiting..."
Kee-ripes, you never know the things you'll miss until you lose them :lol:
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AndrewV69 wrote:Kirbmarc wrote:Does Watson ever tweet anything that isn't self-congratulations or insulting someone or something else?HoneyWagon wrote:I dunno. Saw this and thought it seemed ironic/humorous
https://i.imgur.com/zrJUWse.png
Dunno.
I have her blocked because among other things the temptation is too strong for me to resist pointing out stuff to her. Example, I would have responded that she is not too far from the point that comments like the one above are equally applicable to her.
Doesn't stop me even though I doubt she see's them as I have long suspected she mutes her critics rather than block them.
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ThreeFlangedJavis wrote:Or, as with a now deceased woo-soaked mystic friend, you personally can't explain some aspect of a scientific theory so his internerd anecdote backed or guru sourced alternative must be true. Eventually my stock answer became "ask a physicist", or something along those lines. He used to really get my goat when he tried to illustrate the truth of some whacky belief by relating a parable, almost always ancient and involving a supposedly unanswerable snappy comeback from either an ascetic or a dude on a horse. For some reason, the older a story is, the greater the power. Something to do with unverifiability, maybe.DrokkIt wrote:ThreeFlangedJavis wrote: Joe Rogan had Randall Carlson and Hancock together on his podcast. I have my doubts about Rogan's skeptical radar as he seems to lap this shit up and I don't think he is using the let them hang themselves ploy.
Yeah I think I've seen that. I don't mind Rogan, and I think he is interested in stuff in an intellectually honest way, but I agree that he's lousy skeptic.
The notion that two claims must be of equal likelihood if neither are directly and immediately provable is very common and always frustrating.
Just because there may be inconsistencies in our factual understanding of who built the pyramids does not mean that they must have been built by space goblins because I got high an hallucinated a vision of it.
In my experience, I'd say people like mystery and like the idea there could "be more" to things, and also they dislike that being taken away by logic or reason.
It's common, isn't it?
Only last week, a friend of mine was picking my brains about the existence of ghosts.
Virtually every point he made had the unstated major principle that "ghosts exist". He thought that the wealth of stories and inconsistent anecdotal references made to ghosts were somehow evidence.
He also said that he thought ghosts were just "trapped energy" (what energy, trapped where, etc) and the idea of them as actual sentient things was ridiculous.
What I struggle to understand is, "ghosts are disembodied intelligent people" and "ghosts are recorded energy" are both equally ludicrous given that there is nothing to indicate the phenomenon both wildly postulate for.
As I said, I think people just want to believe and you can demonstrate the lack of reason until blue in the face, to no avail.
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Matt Cavanaugh wrote:So does her ass.HoneyWagon wrote:I dunno. Saw this and thought it seemed ironic/humorous
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I think he's pretty popular with many ladies, and going on this, fellas as well...
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People want to feel unique and special. Having access to a "special kind" ,of knowledge is a cheap way to feel special (real life special achievements aren't for everyone and require work).DrokkIt wrote:It's common, isn't it?
Only last week, a friend of mine was picking my brains about the existence of ghosts.
Virtually every point he made had the unstated major principle that "ghosts exist". He thought that the wealth of stories and inconsistent anecdotal references made to ghosts were somehow evidence.
He also said that he thought ghosts were just "trapped energy" (what energy, trapped where, etc) and the idea of them as actual sentient things was ridiculous.
What I struggle to understand is, "ghosts are disembodied intelligent people" and "ghosts are recorded energy" are both equally ludicrous given that there is nothing to indicate the phenomenon both wildly postulate for.
As I said, I think people just want to believe and you can demonstrate the lack of reason until blue in the face, to no avail.
Religions, conspiracy theories, the "woke" movement, "red pills" etc all provide a sense of being special and unique. In reality most of us are pretty ordinary and boring.
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I think that a lot of the time people just find a skeptical outlook on life to be arrogant. Like I'm arrogant because I don't just believe in healing chi energy because they have said so. I suspect core traits of agreeableness may be playing a part here- I do notice the same friends who display this attitude also seem to be highly agreeable/suggestible in general life when they aren't expecting pushback.Kirbmarc wrote:People want to feel unique and special. Having access to a "special kind" ,of knowledge is a cheap way to feel special (real life special achievements aren't for everyone and require work).DrokkIt wrote:It's common, isn't it?
Only last week, a friend of mine was picking my brains about the existence of ghosts.
Virtually every point he made had the unstated major principle that "ghosts exist". He thought that the wealth of stories and inconsistent anecdotal references made to ghosts were somehow evidence.
He also said that he thought ghosts were just "trapped energy" (what energy, trapped where, etc) and the idea of them as actual sentient things was ridiculous.
What I struggle to understand is, "ghosts are disembodied intelligent people" and "ghosts are recorded energy" are both equally ludicrous given that there is nothing to indicate the phenomenon both wildly postulate for.
As I said, I think people just want to believe and you can demonstrate the lack of reason until blue in the face, to no avail.
Religions, conspiracy theories, the "woke" movement, "red pills" etc all provide a sense of being special and unique. In reality most of us are pretty ordinary and boring.
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We are kind of buzzkills. For some people(perhaps many)believing in ghosts, or astrology, or a conspiracy theory, is fun.DrokkIt wrote:I think that a lot of the time people just find a skeptical outlook on life to be arrogant. Like I'm arrogant because I don't just believe in healing chi energy because they have said so. I suspect core traits of agreeableness may be playing a part here- I do notice the same friends who display this attitude also seem to be highly agreeable/suggestible in general life when they aren't expecting pushback.Kirbmarc wrote:People want to feel unique and special. Having access to a "special kind" ,of knowledge is a cheap way to feel special (real life special achievements aren't for everyone and require work).DrokkIt wrote:It's common, isn't it?
Only last week, a friend of mine was picking my brains about the existence of ghosts.
Virtually every point he made had the unstated major principle that "ghosts exist". He thought that the wealth of stories and inconsistent anecdotal references made to ghosts were somehow evidence.
He also said that he thought ghosts were just "trapped energy" (what energy, trapped where, etc) and the idea of them as actual sentient things was ridiculous.
What I struggle to understand is, "ghosts are disembodied intelligent people" and "ghosts are recorded energy" are both equally ludicrous given that there is nothing to indicate the phenomenon both wildly postulate for.
As I said, I think people just want to believe and you can demonstrate the lack of reason until blue in the face, to no avail.
Religions, conspiracy theories, the "woke" movement, "red pills" etc all provide a sense of being special and unique. In reality most of us are pretty ordinary and boring.
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Yeah well - nobody has proved that Alex Jones is not Bill Hicks yet.
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But Bill Hicks was Andy Kaufman.MarcusAu wrote:Yeah well - nobody has proved that Alex Jones is not Bill Hicks yet.
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I've been after this monster for the last week. Brazenly sitting on the front deck and stealing from the bird/squirrel/chipmunk food.Matt Cavanaugh wrote:Well, you are a Pitizen.Suet Cardigan wrote:I’ve been diagnosed with is not schizophrenia but Schizotypal personality disorder, which is a related but much less serious condition.
It basically means that I’m a loner and a weirdo, but I knew that already.
Sez the guy up at 2:30 am trying to catch a rat in the kitchen of his shack in the woods.
Stayed up till 1am trying for his mate who is much more wary. I'll charge up the Nitesite today.
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Whereas POCs living in our society haven't benefitted at all. Or the many Chinese peasants who no longer live in abject poverty as a result of our consumerism.Ape+lust wrote:It's fun to watch public intellectuals smirch their reputations by turning flaky on Twitter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Kotsko
If you're going to stretch things to the point where we're all complicit in the past crimes of the society we live in, that has to extend beyond the people who happen to share a skin tone (and often nothing else) with the subset of the perpetrators of these crimes you believe are uniquely responsible.
What a total fuckwit.
It's like a younger, dumber Chomsky, just without any of the accomplishments to warrant giving him any consideration whatsoever.
If you want some real head-bashing fun, just read the preview of "Why We Love Sociopaths" on Amazon, where it's quite clear he's either never watched the TV shows he's talking about, or if he has, he didn't understand them.
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So you missed Suet Cardigan as well.screwtape wrote:
I've been after this monster for the last week. Brazenly sitting on the front deck and stealing from the bird/squirrel/chipmunk food.
Stayed up till 1am trying for his mate who is much more wary. I'll charge up the Nitesite today.
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Look who's talking II.HoneyWagon wrote:I dunno. Saw this and thought it seemed ironic/humorous
https://i.imgur.com/zrJUWse.png
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Perhaps the nurse has this lack see ya.Suet Cardigan wrote:I still don’t know why the nurse told me I had schizophrenia. There must have been a mix up or something.
Or it was the dysfunctional part of your brain which interpreted what she said.
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My family settled in Michigan in the 1840s. The were mostly farmers in the Western part of the state living in Dutch Christian Reformed communities. We never owned slaves. One of my relatives fought for the North in the Civil war. This is the war that was ostensibly fought to free the slaves. So... my white fucking relatives freed your sorry black asses. No, you son-of-a-bitch, you will not not get reparations money from me. Suck my tiny white dick! I have absolutely zero white guilt and I resent it when people try to shame me or shame my proud family history.BoxNDox wrote:Whereas POCs living in our society haven't benefitted at all. Or the many Chinese peasants who no longer live in abject poverty as a result of our consumerism.Ape+lust wrote:It's fun to watch public intellectuals smirch their reputations by turning flaky on Twitter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Kotsko
If you're going to stretch things to the point where we're all complicit in the past crimes of the society we live in, that has to extend beyond the people who happen to share a skin tone (and often nothing else) with the subset of the perpetrators of these crimes you believe are uniquely responsible.
What a total fuckwit.
It's like a younger, dumber Chomsky, just without any of the accomplishments to warrant giving him any consideration whatsoever.
If you want some real head-bashing fun, just read the preview of "Why We Love Sociopaths" on Amazon, where it's quite clear he's either never watched the TV shows he's talking about, or if he has, he didn't understand them.
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Valiant attempt, but unsuccessful.
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is there a way to get slymepit twitter to follow an account?
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is there a way to get slymepit twitter to follow an account?
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And if you missed the numerous threads appearing on Rebecca Watson's Facebook that's a few that appeared and a few that were quickly deleted.
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That idiot theTruePooka is trying to reanimate the corpse of A+. Because it's a double-inversion (anti-anti-SJW), it'll be entirely different, so don't let the look and smell fool you.
It's just what everyone's been waiting for.
I bet at minimum (and maximum), Shives, Arel, and Myers go for it.
https://imgur.com/o0GJ2nl.jpg
It's just what everyone's been waiting for.
I bet at minimum (and maximum), Shives, Arel, and Myers go for it.
https://imgur.com/o0GJ2nl.jpg
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That's Becky's version of 'pointy elbows'.HoneyWagon wrote:I dunno. Saw this and thought it seemed ironic/humorous
https://i.imgur.com/zrJUWse.png
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I'm not the guy to ask about twitter, however here are the screenshots in a more clickable format:Guest_ed124272 wrote:https:// anonimag . es/image/JT9sttY
https:// anonimag. es/image/JT9sttH
https:// anonimag. es/image/JT9sttK
https:// anonimag .es/image/JT9sttj
is there a way to get slymepit twitter to follow an account?
https://anonimag.es/image/JT9sttY
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That should be a lulz-milking mutant zombie cow of the highest order. Good luck to him.Ape+lust wrote:That idiot theTruePooka is trying to reanimate the corpse of A+. Because it's a double-inversion (anti-anti-SJW), it'll be entirely different, so don't let the look and smell fool you.
It's just what everyone's been waiting for.
I bet at minimum (and maximum), Shives, Arel, and Myers go for it.
https://imgur.com/o0GJ2nl.jpg
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Atheism / 0Ape+lust wrote:That idiot theTruePooka is trying to reanimate the corpse of A+. Because it's a double-inversion (anti-anti-SJW), it'll be entirely different, so don't let the look and smell fool you.
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So, Carrie Ploppy's still stirring the shitpot and being a complete dumbass as usual. Sayeth the plopster:MarcusAu wrote:I'm not the guy to ask about twitter, however here are the screenshots in a more clickable format:Guest_ed124272 wrote:https:// anonimag . es/image/JT9sttY
https:// anonimag. es/image/JT9sttH
https:// anonimag. es/image/JT9sttK
https:// anonimag .es/image/JT9sttj
is there a way to get slymepit twitter to follow an account?
https://anonimag.es/image/JT9sttY
https://anonimag.es/image/JT9sttH
https://anonimag.es/image/JT9sttK
https://anonimag.es/image/JT9sttj
Glad she made sure to note that it was a literal shout of 'yes', just in case people think the coworker gave the affirmation via the medium of interpretive dance or something.My coworker at the time literally shouted, "YES!" in response.
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https://i.imgur.com/MeJjJEO.jpgTigzy wrote:That's Becky's version of 'pointy elbows'.HoneyWagon wrote:I dunno. Saw this and thought it seemed ironic/humorous
https://i.imgur.com/zrJUWse.png