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#209, #StandUpLocust, #MurphysFerry, Surah Yunus 10:71
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I personally dislike closets (which, being immovable, needlessly constrain the rearrangement of furniture) and much prefer shelving units and wardrobes.
There’s got to be a clinical term to describe this. Lol. I don’t have a great relationship with them either. Closets always dredge up the memories of where all my mother stored my toys when I was grounded and not allowed to play. On one occasion I went and grabbed my father’s toolbox and step ladder and removed the hinges off the closet door and my mother found me inside, playing with my toys. Yeah, I was whooped pretty hard, and I was a very young child.
I have one, and lexicons that help me parse my way through reading it, but I’ve always been hopeless when it came to learning other languages. I’ve heard that reading the Epistle to the Hebrews (originally written in Koine) is some of the best Greek ever written of that time period and is beautiful for those who understand it. The closer you can go to the Greek makes it evident why scholars reject the traditional ascriptions to the authorship of the New Testament. The earliest Christian sect wasn’t illiterate, or uneducated or some random fishermen. The movement was either originated or taken over by educated elites who clearly went through the best schools of the Roman Empire and learned how to compose elegant works of literature. They clearly understand Greek very well (and also the contemporary rhetoric very well) and were very well trained in it.
One of my relatives does precisely this. I’ll forward him this post and see what his thoughts are, because he collects them. Don’t know much about this kind of thing but I always liked the aesthetic feel and look of G-Shock watches. A friend of mine introduced me to the brand several years ago. I never really wore watches though out of appearance factors but for their practical use. G-Shock accomplishes something of a blend between the two but also as I’m getting older, it’s becoming difficult for me to determine what’s in vogue for the new coming of age.
Tretiak
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2d ago
This almost sounds like old school Oregon Trail, but in space. I love classic adventurism in video games but it seems like they’ve just gotten so damn complex these days, and Alpha Centauri was complicated enough decades ago. In a way your initial description also somewhat reminded me of the movie Pitch Black (which is one of my favorite movies). Perhaps I’ll take a look.
Uh, I hope he meant that was his SAT score… Dude, if you had a 960 IQ, you’d be like 50+ standard deviations above the mean if that were possible. Einstein would be a complete retard standing next to you if that’s the case. That’s one of the dumbest and funniest things I’ve ever heard of if he really said that.
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3d ago
They don’t ‘anymore’. That was the whole thesis of Charles Murray’s original work that most everybody missed.
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3d ago
Kind of reminds me of the fashion controversy back in the 20th century over whether or not Hugo Boss was a racist, due to his fashion design choices for the Nazis uniforms. Although he was a member of the Nazi Party, he joined two years before Hitler even came to power; and that mostly for purely business reasons to secure government contracts. After everything came to light about who the Nazis really were and what they did, they expressed all the regret in the world over their decision.
What’s the property rights regime like over there? I’ve heard the level of bureaucratic congestion is endlessly Byzantine and outright corrupt in some certain areas; it’s pretty bad. What are your objections to perhaps retiring there in good standing, later in life?
Lavrov has said in his statements that they have no intention of leaving Ukraine in a state of frozen conflict. If you look at their activities some months ago in Mariupol, they were determined to rebuild much of the damaged infrastructure there and reassert renewed political control of the territories they now occupy. I’m confident they probably have a policy of doing much the same elsewhere, going forward. Neither side wants to give up being able to impose the framework of discussion on the other, but Ukraine doesn’t have a lot of bargain with.
Tretiak
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4d ago
The only reason we don’t have a draft today is because we’re able to get by on a strictly volunteer basis. But I recall in the last few years there was a real worry within the US military because recruitment drives had been massively down. Most of the enthusiastic new blood comes out of red states and the cultural shift in favor of blue policies left a lot of the youth feeling apathetic. Trump’s election a second time (or rather Kamala’s loss perhaps) was able to buck the trend a bit, and you saw recruitment spike back up.
Tretiak
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5d ago
Pretty sure I’m not Ukrainian. They’d have a hard time setting one inch on our land.
Going to war against your children is even worse. Parents would do well to learn that the young generation always wins because the old generation dies. If you’re determined to go to war with your kids, don’t be surprised when they view you as the enemy if you’ve spent years hard at working achieving precisely that. Personally I love the idea of parenting. Yes it’s work but to me it’s also extremely fun. I’ve spent a good chunk of my life practically raising several people I know, being a positive force and influence in their lives, etc. I would love nothing more than that ideal.
If you’re a secular conservative you’re pretty much just fucked. A friend of mine and I once tried approximating what country out there and in what period might have approached something like that, that was nationally large enough to matter. Best we came up with was Czechoslovakia. Although you could say the Nazis tried something like that. They had strange ideas when you read into their “blood and soil” notions. They were against what they called “biological pacifism,” and wanted a 4-child family, health passports, a 4-stage hierarchy of eugenic marriages between biologically fit individuals (Class I, Class II, Class III, Class IV) etc. Really strange stuff.
If by “commune” you mean some bizarre, 1960’s hippy nudist colony up in Humboldt County somewhere, there’s no one on the right that I know that’s pushing that. Our lot has always been tightly community focused and proselytizing you could say. That’s why “organicism” and “primordialism” have always been two major themes in so much right-wing political thought and sociology, over a collection of “abstract rights.”
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5d ago
Anyone will go to war for a cause they’re vested in. I’m not going to join the military to become a drone operator hunting for some hideout in Iran. If the Russians were about to invade my hometown, I’d become a first rate neocon on the other hand.
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5d ago
I was thinking more along the lines of The Great Society.
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6d ago
… I've had similar issues because my neutral facial expression can come off as a bit scary, especially when I'm focused; people think I'm angry. I've repeatedly gotten comments that I scare people with my size and intensity, both in work and private settings.
Oh you too huh? So I’m not the only one then. For me when I’m focused let me stay on track and do my thing. I try to be more sociable and outgoing to compensate for the seemingly outward intensity, and most of the time it takes.
I personally think 1 Clement should’ve been kept. It’s doctrinally very cohesive with dogma, and orthodox theology. Most Catholics accept though that divine inspiration and miracles came to a close at the end of the Apostolic Age, which is why we don’t see them as much anymore, though you’ve still got Marian apparitions and everything else.
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6d ago
What was the “late republic” turning point in your view?
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6d ago
For me the desire was always there. I had my head on straight from a pretty young age as far as that was concerned. Nobody ever had to coax me into it.
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6d ago
So a lot like those people that keep tigers in their house. I wouldn’t be afraid to keep a raccoon around but I’d be very hesitant leaving it alone in the house with the cat.
That’s what I’ve always been after but it’s eluded me my whole life.
I had an interesting position between my sibling and the rest of our extended family. A lot of my 1st generation cousins are much older than me, the youngest is like 12 years older or something like that, and they would always be hanging around themselves or our parents. They’d encourage me to spend time with them and a lot of times I did, but I was clearly out of their age bracket from being able to meaningfully associate with them. The younger half was much younger than me. The oldest was within 2 years of me and the rest between 5-20 years younger. So I always stood on an island that was the middle ground, where nobody else my age was. My sibling always associated with my 1st cousins, I was always the “big brother” and mentor to my 2nd cousins and I stuck with them.
My friends interestingly enough were born the same year as me or the year prior. But they also had big families and whenever we’d spend time, their parents would encourage them to tag along with us and we’d also be in charge of them. So they participated in many of the same activities we did and we never treated them as a separate class most of the time (but not always). They always looked up to us as well.
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6d ago
The original way of doing this was to draw from your own peer group. At least that’s what we did back when I was growing up. Tech has likely permanently shifted the boundary away from the tried and true traditional paths, which is still probably the best route.
Eh, matrix math I never found that difficult. Perhaps circumstance can present challenges, unless you believe you’re disadvantaged in mathematics. Curious, what was the job (if you don’t mind sharing)?
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