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PaperclipPerfector  6mo ago (text post)   2706 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 29, 2023

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Knights, in ages past, trained incessantly at knightly shit from childhood. Are there groups of people or cultures that train this intensely at networking...the kind of people where, if charisma and political competence was martial skill, they'd be very similar to Japanese samurai or European knights or other martial aristocrats? Or: since the average person has the same kind of material comfort and wealth as the aristocrats in ages past, are they just determined as all hell and making like ducks, seeming to not try very hard while actually putting in extremely demanding performances, like JFK and his career as a soldier and politician while suffering from severe chronic pain and never letting on, except to his closest friends, how much he was suffering? FDR the polio sufferer seems to have been cut of the same cloth. More mundanely, I've seen a few people who have chronic pain and don't really look like they're suffering. Maybe Joe Average is secretly determined as all hell and doesn't cop to it...

Mormons and JWs. Go spend every Sunday knocking on strangers doors trying to sell them something they didn't want.

Interesting - would have thought it was political families to be honest. I know there are families of engineers, military families... probably bush league politics and networking families too.

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