George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
The things you lean on / are things that don't last
User ID: 107
You're not answering my question.
I ask the question not to second guess or belittle your frustration and rage, but to suggest that whoelsale massacre of your opponents is in this case wrong, and that you may yourself not even really believe that it it isn't, and thus for you to post kill-em-all comments is largely performative and not helpful to your own cause.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
17hr ago
First I think you'll need to define your terms. Tell me what you mean by "native traitors and enemies" and/or "political enemies" and then how you would suggest they should all be killed. As it stands this is borderline fedposting.
Are you literally advocating for the killing of your politcal adversaries? Ot is this the usual hyperbole?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
2d ago
I largely agree here, but the ability or gumption to wrap your head around median, mean, and mode is only barely entry level if "understanding stats" is the goal. I have probably a fair understanding of statistics--if by that we mean different methods (or methodologies), the relevance of statistical significance (and/or irrelevance), and the development of statistics over time. But I take a great deal on faith, unable to personally recite formulas or really understand how Cronbach's alpha is calculated, etc. I do think anyone writing, making, or citing conclusions based on statistical data has the responsibility to mention the limitations and assumptions made in gathering and computing that data. I'm personally very wary of using quantitative methods to measure anything affective (attitudes, for example), but abuse, or at least uninformed use, of statistics is rampant, and not just by left-leaning journalists.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
2d ago
on a Japanese website, where child-abuse enthusiasts might be a peculiar but relatively esteemed community.
Care to explain the reasoning here?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
3d ago
I would like to think so.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
3d ago
I'm old but not quite that old.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
4d ago
TIL the term gooning. To quote my grandmother, will wonders never cease?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
5d ago
It's an attempt (which seems to have worked) at putting into practice nudge theory.
Sorry for the wilkipedia link. It's basically a way of mentalizing people to, in this case, become self-conscious and unsettled. I could theorize why this particular application works on Japanese but that would be armchair psychology.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6d ago
Thats an extreme simplification of Napoloen Chagnon's research.
I noticed that. Suing the tri-Delts. Was she actually in that sorority? Suing her own sorority is going to cut into her fan base. Or maybe they'll all rally around her; it isn't as if logical consistency is always required in such matters. (I mean by this that certain subgroups of progressive white people will profess to despise everything that characterizes their own lives, e.g. "whiteness," wealth, capitalism, and so on.)
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
7d ago
They do, thanks. Guy Raz, I knew a Guy Raz once, wonder if it is this same dude.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
7d ago
Very true. I was never better behaved than when I was sitting at home playing WoW for hours into the evening. Then when I quit I would go out drinking into the great constant party that is Osaka, and...well that wasn't ideal either.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
8d ago
Congratulations to you and your missus. I was entering the portal of BC as a druid when it first dropped, slightly older then than you are now. It was a fun game, and I played mainly because I had a group of similar dudes I knew in real life who played. Quit at Pandaria, never looked back, but it was a great time while it lasted. My wife did not find my gaming particularly attractive.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
8d ago
That link is dead for me, just fyi.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
9d ago
Indeed. I've known many who share your views, though would not have been able to state them so succinctly.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
9d ago
I think largely it's his self-satisfied voice, and my sense that he imagines his own glistening bubble of experience generalizes. He's at his best I think when he doesn't simplify or draw satisfactory conclusions. That shows intellectual rigor, and I expect intellectual rigor is why many people read him to begin with.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
9d ago
Scott's writing sometimes annoys the shit out of me.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
9d ago
I wouldn't suggest I have a handle on modern Christianity, though your use of the word passionless is brutal and poetic. I would however suggest that hating evil and hating people are quite different. But I am not personally interested in having a meta or even base-level discussion on Christianity as a phenomenon in the world. Nothing against you as an interlocutor, just not my thing.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
9d ago
That is one of the premises--but Lamb is not incompetent. He is just a slob and has been eroded into a slob of a man. Even Taverner recognizes his worth. I think I was hoping Cartwright would develop somehow. Otherwise it's just Keystone Cops, the MI:5 version.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
9d ago
Ah, so that is what you meant by synthetic. Yes. Soapy in its way--or like the drum of a washer, as you say (I never got that). I guess we'll have to just disagree on this one, but again I think it's interesting how smells hit people differently.
Another 13, if you will forgive the synethesia, is like a bright, light blue sky, but with white clouds, some thick, some less opaque, floating in wisps and tufts. Polo cologne was like its bottle--deep murky green with dark brown highlights, leading to a dark well. Some scents are like bright purple and orange mixed together, and those are the ones that I can't abide. A lot of perfumes marketed to women hit me this way--busy, clashing, neon but dark. I have trouble describing them in marketing terms like woody, amber, citrus, base notes and sillage, but I can see the scents in my head.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
9d ago
It was Kierkegaard who said in Works of Love (1847) (I did a paper on him in undergrad for some reason):
I wonder if a man handing another man an extremely sharp, polished, two-edged instrument would hand it over with the air, gestures, and expression of one delivering a bouquet of flowers? Would not this be madness? What does one do, then? Convinced of the excellence of the dangerous instrument, one recommends it unreservedly, to be sure, but in such a way that in a certain sense one warns against it. So it is with Christianity. If what is needed is to be done, we should not hesitate, aware of the highest responsibility, to preach in Christian sermons—yes, precisely in Christian sermons—AGAINST Christianity.
I didn't take this to mean Christianity was dangerous in the sense of violence, but in the sense that it will upend one's life. If I were to start noticing motes in eyes, I'd say I have met precious few I'd say lived up to my idea of Christianity. Maybe one or two of them in a church. And none of them were particularly into proselytizing. And all of them held a kind of charitable goodwill and patience toward others--that always took the form of actual behavior and proactive doing.
I've also met a lot of people who claim Christianity as their guiding principle and are full of a seething anger (I'd characterize the stereotype of the Westboro Baptist members here. Mind you just before I attended Catholic churches for a few years I had been attending Baptist churches.)
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
10d ago
I suppose I resent as a viewer the notion that I should invest time on plots involving someone who is an irredeemable idiot.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
10d ago
Ambroxan, synthetic ambergris. Interesting, thanks. A pheromone and is-it-bullshit deep dive may be in order.
I lold.
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