The Random Thoughts Thread

[Tannhauser]

Most adults are just over-sized babies.

 

[bvanevery]

I just want to live, to love and have brunch in spite of everyone's learning process.

Food Safety Kills

 

[peoplesuck]

I was thinking about trying to make another voice or personality has anyone else tried this?

 

[bvanevery]

When hawking a property rights ballot measure in Eastern Washington, I once pretended to be a slower talking country boy. I put a "John Deere" hat on my head. Not a lick of dirt on me though! I don't know if anyone saw through the act, or if the act mattered or helped. It was amusing to try some real life acting though.

 

[peoplesuck]

I meant a voice in your head xd

 

[Seteleechete]

I am once again reminded by my seeming disconnection between my body and my mind. There are several things which makes me feel really nauseous(usually related to blood, just recently taking a blood test) but every it happens it just fascinates me more than anything. "Huh interesting I am feeling nauseous but I don't really have a reason too, fascinating". People always fuss over me when it happens which is weird since despite my body going all voobly mentally I am totally at ease with the situation.

 

[Sinny91]

I read all of Sete's posts with his accent in my head...

He sounds amusing - in a good way.

 

[nanook]

looked at INFP pics on personality cafee. can't relate to most of them, feel like i am staring into laser eyes ... 13 lazereyes to 5 familiar eyes.

so then i looked at the ISFP pics, for comparison. and it's just about the same. i feel the laser eyes rule 23 to 7. only that in addition to those 30, there were about 5 who seemed extroverted to me.

either i'm just seing this wrong or it's what i always felt about the mbti: the N/S distinction is totally broken.

 

[Procinogen]

Different people from different places are like different breeds, with mixed and pure-bred. Odd, eh?

 

[Sinny91]

I feel no sympathy towards Iraq or Afghan tour veterans at all.

They signed up to Murder Inc, and now they want us to pity them because their respective Governments have thrown them to the curb, and because they have to turn to drink and drugs to drown out the nightmares that they have.

Good, that's your conscience coming back to haunt you... You can try to run from it all you like, but no amount of pity sought will wash the blood from your hands.

You reap what you sow, enjoy.

 

[Tannhauser]

I feel no sympathy towards Iraq or Afghan tour veterans at all.

They signed up to Murder Inc, and now they want us to pity them because their respective Governments have thrown them to the curb, and because they have to turn to drink and drugs to drown out the nightmares that they have.

Good, that's your conscience coming back to haunt you... You can try to run from it all you like, but no amount of pity sought will wash the blood from your hands.

You reap what you sow, enjoy.

Thats easy to say when we can fit current narratives to their actions, post hoc.

You gotta consider the past as the extension of previous past, not the past that followed.

 

[bvanevery]

Sinny, I think you are missing the history of "stop loss" contracts in the USA. Previous to 9/11, joining the armed forces was usually just a way for a poor person without a lot of opportunities to get some training and education. You were not likely to see combat. You were probably going to do your time over in Germany or wherever and then you'd be out. 9/11 changed all that. Not only were volunteer military people sent into combat, their contracts were extended as long as the government could possibly get away with, under the "stop loss" provisions of those contracts. Imagine if you've gotten career stuck at McDs hoping you're going to get some college education and a leg up on your future at the end of it, but instead of flipping burgers you have to kill people, or at least be a target for people who want to kill you. There were no "rear lines" in those wars. Any woman just driving a supply truck can be blown up by an IED, for instance.

Even National Guard people got sent into combat. Thought you were just keeping up your skills in case of unlikely home invasion, or domestic disaster like hurricanes or riots? Nope. Off to foreign lands with you! Maybe we could rename them "International Guard".

I don't know what to think about vets who joined subsequently, who should jolly well have known this was going to be a shitstorm, that Uncle Sam was going to seriously use them. But the pre 9/11 crowd and shortly thereabouts, boy did they get a screw job compared to historical expectations.

I meet homeless vets regularly on the streets of Asheville, and Florida. I'm not capable of being anywhere near as cold about it as you are. I'm wondering how many homeless or vets you've met and spent time interacting with?

 

[bvanevery]

looked at INFP pics on personality cafee. can't relate to most of them, feel like i am staring into laser eyes ... 13 lazereyes to 5 familiar

I became curious about what "personalitycafe" is. Was wondering what "laser eyes" might mean. I found a video of some ISTP gal mildly complaining about her boyfriend, who is INTP. That got old. I also wondered about how many assumptions concerning their relational dynamics she was willing to unpack, vs. going for stereotypes of what "all INTPs are like". One thing I've learned on INTPforum, is tons of aspects of people's personalities are not explained or addressed by the MBTI at all. It's actually only interesting, to me, to observe what actually similar. What can be seen as facts on the ground. Oooh, uh, did that suddenly turn me into a "S" ? Her complaining video might claim it to be so.

 

[TBerg]

This makes me feel pretty dumb:

https://youtu.be/lXKWkwBWpXw

Not her criticism of the validity of IQ, but the fact that she has a score about one standard deviation more than what I usually receive from testing. I always regarded her as dumbing down already tired Progressive tropes, so how is it that someone so smart parrots received wisdom so readily?

 

[bvanevery]

Analysis of politics requires experience. Intelligent people don't necessarily have it. For instance, I applied myself as best as possible to the problem of "should we invade Iraq?" after 9/11. I put as much time and brainpower into it as any non-professional, conscientious citizen was going to do. And, I got many things wrong, and chose in hindsight the wrong stance, to support the war. Whoops. I can enumerate the various errors of my reasoning at the time: the meta message is, they were all based on "not being around the block on this sort of thing before".

In fairness, nobody had had a skyscraper bombed to the ground before either. The other part, is I was only in my 30s. 9/11, Afghanistan, and Iraq were merely my "second rodeo" of political consciousness. My 1st was Kosovo and the air campaign against Serbia. Which again, I probably chose the wrong side: "Don't bomb 'em!"

After 9/11 the Vietnam era protesters weren't much help. Most of 'em, the only thing they were capable of saying, is "all wars are Vietnam" and always bog down. They turned out to be partly right over time, but definitely wrong as far as American casualties, military consequences to us, etc. Wars can be similar in some respects without being the same.

My ongoing question for you, TBerg, on your various strong views about Western values, Islam, etc. Have you really been around the block on any of this before? Or are you just constructing narratives from available historical materials, that you've chosen to emphasize or ignore? People screaming about how good or bad anything is, aren't actually reality or facts on the ground.

To be intelligent about politics requires lots of experience. Even then, there are so many ways to get it wrong. What does one do with a situation like ISIS, for instance? There are at least 13 different national actors in the region. Many of them are totally beyond my personal control, i.e. I have no influence on Russian or Turkish politics. Even in the USA my political influence is exceedingly limited. It would be fair to regard such political situations as semi-random crapfests.

 

[Sinny91]

Sinny, I think you are missing the history of "stop loss" contracts in the USA. Previous to 9/11, joining the armed forces was usually just a way for a poor person without a lot of opportunities to get some training and education. You were not likely to see combat. You were probably going to do your time over in Germany or wherever and then you'd be out. 9/11 changed all that. Not only were volunteer military people sent into combat, their contracts were extended as long as the government could possibly get away with, under the "stop loss" provisions of those contracts. Imagine if you've gotten career stuck at McDs hoping you're going to get some college education and a leg up on your future at the end of it, but instead of flipping burgers you have to kill people, or at least be a target for people who want to kill you. There were no "rear lines" in those wars. Any woman just driving a supply truck can be blown up by an IED, for instance.

Even National Guard people got sent into combat. Thought you were just keeping up your skills in case of unlikely home invasion, or domestic disaster like hurricanes or riots? Nope. Off to foreign lands with you! Maybe we could rename them "International Guard".

I don't know what to think about vets who joined subsequently, who should jolly well have known this was going to be a shitstorm, that Uncle Sam was going to seriously use them. But the pre 9/11 crowd and shortly thereabouts, boy did they get a screw job compared to historical expectations.

I meet homeless vets regularly on the streets of Asheville, and Florida. I'm not capable of being anywhere near as cold about it as you are. I'm wondering how many homeless or vets you've met and spent time interacting with?

Okay, so now you've just informed me of the "stop loss" contracts. Doesn't change my opinion at all.

And to answer your question, I've personally interacted with none, afask. Would witnessing their plight first hand change my pity stance? No.

 

[Sinny91]

Analysis of politics requires experience. Intelligent people don't necessarily have it. For instance, I applied myself as best as possible to the problem of "should we invade Iraq?" after 9/11. I put as much time and brainpower into it as any non-professional, conscientious citizen was going to do. And, I got many things wrong, and chose in hindsight the wrong stance, to support the war. Whoops. I can enumerate the various errors of my reasoning at the time: the meta message is, they were all based on "not being around the block on this sort of thing before".

In fairness, nobody had had a skyscraper bombed to the ground before either. The other part, is I was only in my 30s. 9/11, Afghanistan, and Iraq were merely my "second rodeo" of political consciousness. My 1st was Kosovo and the air campaign against Serbia. Which again, I probably chose the wrong side: "Don't bomb 'em!"

After 9/11 the Vietnam era protesters weren't much help. Most of 'em, the only thing they were capable of saying, is "all wars are Vietnam" and always bog down. They turned out to be partly right over time, but definitely wrong as far as American casualties, military consequences to us, etc. Wars can be similar in some respects without being the same.

My ongoing question for you, TBerg, on your various strong views about Western values, Islam, etc. Have you really been around the block on any of this before? Or are you just constructing narratives from available historical materials, that you've chosen to emphasize or ignore? People screaming about how good or bad anything is, aren't actually reality or facts on the ground.

To be intelligent about politics requires lots of experience. Even then, there are so many ways to get it wrong. What does one do with a situation like ISIS, for instance? There are at least 13 different national actors in the region. Many of them are totally beyond my personal control, i.e. I have no influence on Russian or Turkish politics. Even in the USA my political influence is exceedingly limited. It would be fair to regard such political situations as semi-random crapfests.

90% of wars are Vietnam rehashed.

Proxy wars for arms deals, and triangular drug trade inorder to fund and lavish our plutocratic oppressors.

You're just making up excuses for falling for that shit.

In fairness, nobody had had a skyscraper bombed to the ground before either.

Let alone two at once! Right?!

So what was it Bvan , was it bombs or was it planes? Was it both or was it more?

Keep your story straight.

 

[bvanevery]

Oh you iqtest.com SOBs! I took their test quickly, encouraged that it wasn't expected to take longer than 38 minutes, and 13 if I was really smart. They didn't tell me I'd have to pay to get the result. Fuck them. I may not be smart about reading fine print to keep my time from being wasted, but this fool and his money weren't parted yesterday!

Only had 1 really difficult question I had trouble visualizing, about 3 congruent regular hexagons.

AFAIAC that test would only have demonstrated that I'm "math and geometry smart". Which I knew already. I thought there were some questions in there to gauge whether people were especially slow at basic math.

 

[bvanevery]

90% of wars are Vietnam rehashed.

You can't rehash by going backwards. Probably 90% of wars happened before Vietnam.

Proxy wars for arms deals, and triangular drug trade inorder to fund and lavish our plutocratic oppressors.

That's causality. The actual courses of various wars have been different. For instance, the American soldier body count of Vietnam was quite a bit more than Iraq or Afghanistan, by an order of magnitude. Possibly true of civilian body counts as well, although many Iraqis did die. (One of my errors of calculation). Vietnam was also militarily winnable... if only the USA hadn't jerked around with "hands tied" military policy for so long. By the time Operation Linebacker came around, which in terms of brute military force was working, the political capital of the American public putting up with the war had long since been spent. You have to actually do a war in a short enough time that the population doesn't say FUCK YOU! especially if people are being drafted. That's why we have a voluntary military now, a key structural difference from the Vietnam era.

You're just making up excuses for falling for that shit.

No... we haven't even discussed what I actually fell for. Or the cold parts of my analysis that I got wrong.

Let alone two at once! Right?!

So what was it Bvan , was it bombs or was it planes? Was it both or was it more?

Keep your story straight.

Forgot you're a Truther. To the rest of us, a plane is obviously a sort of improvised fuel air bomb. Like throwing a big Molotov cocktail with wings. As could a container car on a train be. Or a Uhaul van full of fertilizer, if you want to do things Timothy McVeigh style. You can talk as many conspiracies as you want, but at some point you'll have to acknowledge that some acts of terrorism have been conducted by the expected means and have the expected explanation.

 

[Sinny91]

I'm quite confident that you talk out of your arse.

 

[TBerg]

Here is a good free one to keep you interested while I finish my response to you:

http://www.intelligencetest.com

I got 121 on that one.

Also, MENSA has a mini Raven's Progressive Matrices, for which I got 130.

My g factor is good. So is my verbal and spatial intelligence. But my mind is often undermined by my shitty psychological makeup, slowing me with distractions and anxiety. I am also terrible at math, by my standards.

 

[TBerg]

Holy shit. Is Laci Green smarter than Hillary Clinton?

 

[TBerg]

Bvan, I have had many political iterations, but I can discern a common theme among all of them.

Fifteen years ago or more, I pushed my mind into the world of politics in a manner that I thought was reflective of independent thought. My parents were left-liberals, and so was I. I was also the first in my family to declare myself to fit the definition of an atheist, and also loved to disparage Christianity at every turn. The only thing I noticed about my family that seemed to be a self-indictment of the ideology I accepted was the fact that my parents fought with each other over and over again. This, to me, was the emotional basis for my rejection of notions of tolerance and peace. From my experience, pacifistic morality meant that the pacifist became a useless victim to be trodden upon time and time again. Tolerance also meant making excuses for worse and worse behavior, allowing for disgusting behavior to take hold before we know it.

I also grew up with a dad who neglected many important roles as a father, meaning that my most personal role model was my mom. This meant that I hung out with a lot of women during my formative years, treating them like friends. But even though I was socialized much as a woman, I did not get the benefits of acting like a woman. Feminists still liked to undermine my opinions, and people just treated me like a useless faggot in general. I had no idea how to interact properly. Feminists sure as hell would hypocritically tell me to act like a useless faggot but would then go and have wonderful romances and sexual encounters with men who were my exact opposite. Well, fuck that.

While I still had a belief in the advancements provided by modern thought, I had held to an absolute conception of freedom of speech. After I began to realize that many people who considered themselves liberals would persecute ideas and people they did not like, as in those who criticized Islam, that was one nail in the coffin for liberal moral superiority. Another nail was liberal and leftist support for jihadists and Islamists as freedom fighters who were taking down the Military Industrial Complex. It seemed like Progressives would side with whomever fought their domestic political enemies, even while their allies of convenience were promising to put vast swathes of territory under their totalitarian madness. Thus, I started to take invocations of tolerance with a grain of salt.

In regard the wars you mentioned, I took the word of Bill Clinton during his campaigns in the Balkans. I was kind of young at the time, though.

When Bush started his wars, I was still politically within the American Left, and so I believed that Bush was too inept to pull it off, and I still believed that Republicans had ill-intentions in whatever they pursued. So I believed many of the bad things said about crimes committed during the Bush era.

But then I encountered Christopher Hitchens, someone who was able to completely destroy every single Progressive argument against the war. I knew that Bush did not have very good war plans and plans for rebuilding Iraq and Afghanistan, but now I understood that there was indeed a case to be made for going above and beyond what Bush was doing.

As I was going through this period of questioning, I began to see more and more vindictiveness and discrimination against white males. So many discussions were bogged down in anti-White rhetoric and ad hominem attacks that it became clear to me that if I, as a white male, did not toe the party line, then I could easily be banished from many social circles as well as become barred from certain jobs and clubs. Thus, if I said anything positive about white males, then I could be accused of white supremacism and Nazism and all kinds of stuff. And it seemed to get worse and worse the more advances nonwhite people made and the more diverse social circles became. And, knowing what I know about the wrath of so many other civilization and contemporary societies, I was not about to be cut down for something all other people do.

Another thing is that racial differences are overwhelmingly significant, as I have learned more and more. But I will avoid expanding the discussion for now.

I will just say that I am more and more realizing the spiritual poverty of modern life and how much liberals and leftists have done to increase the lack of spirituality. Social bonds are becoming more and more significant to me. I know that I am responsible first for myself, then for my family, then for my community, then for my nation, and finally for my race. Denying the importance of race, in this way, is like denying the significance of chains of familial structures. And since I do not want to destroy families, I cannot be in favor of the destruction of races of people. I favor the strengthening of the one race with the historical memory of vast accomplishment. I favor the strengthening of Europe.

Since we know that strengthening the race means a closer connection rather than our current globalized dispersal of meaning, we know that it would provide a healthier ideal than globalization. It is much better to have a few deep connections rather than many shallow ones. Robert Putnam showed how damaging diversity is to social cohesion. The more diverse a community is, according to his strong research, the less social trust there is within that community.

Since I know that this outlook allows me to sustain the stock from which the history and wisdom I enjoyed studying, the same people I prized during my days as a liberal, I see my newfound devotion to the European race as consistent with the maintenance of many aspects of Western civilization. The West can be seen as dependent upon both the biology and the spirituality of Europe.

 

[Tannhauser]

This makes me feel pretty dumb:

https://youtu.be/lXKWkwBWpXw

Not her criticism of the validity of IQ, but the fact that she has a score about one standard deviation more than what I usually receive from testing. I always regarded her as dumbing down already tired Progressive tropes, so how is it that someone so smart parrots received wisdom so readily?

There are only two possible outcomes of taking an IQ test: either you find out you are dumb, or you wasted time taking an IQ test.

 

[Sinny91]

What the fuck is the "European Race" ???

Lol.

And how is NoFriends online viewing the philosophy section

 

[TBerg]

People will believe every word of profession of racial identity, except for profession of European identity.

If someone wants me to tackle the significance of race, they can see what I have already said here:

http://intpforum.com/showpost.php?p=547351&postcount=101

 

[Sinny91]

So are you talking about race or identity?

A "European race" doesn't exist.

And neither does "European identity", I present the FAILED EU as evidence of my point.

Its failed like 3 or 4 times now, its just not meant to be is it?

But what do I know? I'm just an ignorant "European" lol.

And the ONLY thing that makes me "European " are the tectonic plates which I'm sat upon... haha.

The only people trying to convince other people that there's a "European identity" are those who wish to revive the Holy Roman Empire, so unless you want to revive that Empire (as an atheist?!), I suggest you get a new ideology .

 

[TBerg]

I might as well dump this here in hope that you will enjoy it:

https://youtu.be/3rnRPhEwELo

 

[Sinny91]

Denying the importance of race, in this way, is like denying the significance of chains of familial structures. And since I do not want to destroy families, I cannot be in favor of the destruction of races of people. .

You say this, yet offer your support to Nazi Neo Cons.

Neo Con ideology was birthed when Henry Jackson decided to merge the American Conservative ideology with the ideology of Israeli Zionists - who are racist baby suckers, incase you didnt notice... like there wasn't enough racism in the Nazi infiltrated right anyway.

Your obsession with race just goes to show how easily influenced you are.

 

[TBerg]

You seem to want to fight, Sinny. Why can't you accept my evolution of focus?

 

[TBerg]

Why do you call atheists baby-suckers, BTW?

 

[nanook]

europe seems ill defined. what the fuck do we (england, germany) have in common with spain, greek and italy (and even with france) and why is russia supposed to be our enemy? makes no sense to my perceived european identity, whether it's a cultural construct or has genetic roots. the (historical) romans are precisely not european, if you ask me, but europe's antagonist. those fuckers can go conquer algeria.

europe appears defined by contemporary political and economical traits of countries, not by cultural stuff. this isn't necessarily a bad thing, it's just confusing on a language level.

 

[Sinny91]

You seem to want to fight, Sinny. Why can't you accept my evolution of focus?

I dont want to "fight", I just want you to make sense.

Which you currently do not.

I want you to make sense because in the mean time you are allowing your self to be tool of blind fascism.

And I wasn't calling atheists "baby suckers", I was calling Zionists "baby suckers" . I was going to call them mother fuckers, but I have no evidence of that, but I do in fact have evidence that Zionists are in actual fact "baby suckers". (And genocidal maniacs)

I'll link what I'm referring to because the last time I used my own description this forum collectively treated me like I was the one doing the "baby sucking".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brit_milah

 

[Sinny91]

europe seems ill defined. what the fuck do we (england, germany) have in common with spain, greek and italy (and even with france)

Fascism!!! LOL.

As a side note, anyone else seen these Unilever adverts on TV where they boast about owning pretty much nearly all the products on our shop shelves ?

Quite sickening , the open boastfulness .

I'm just looking at all my toiletries now.. Unilever , Unilever, Unilever , Unilever .. fuck, even my mayonnaise.. Boo! Let's boycott Unilever!

Who am I kidding , I'll have to travel far and wide to even attempt that.

 

[TBerg]

Dude, most Zionists were atheists. They did not have mohelim.

 

[Sinny91]

Dude, most Zionists were atheists. They did not have mohelim.

Operative word being "most"

Going to answer any of my implied queries, or are you going to gloss over them?

 

[hush]

Fascism!!! LOL.

As a side note, anyone else seen these Unilever adverts on TV where they boast about owning pretty much nearly all the products on our shop shelves ?

Quite sickening , the open boastfulness .

I'm just looking at all my toiletries now.. Unilever , Unilever, Unilever , Unilever .. fuck, even my mayonnaise.. Boo! Let's boycott Unilever!

Who am I kidding , I'll have to travel far and wide to even attempt that.

This is the same here in the States, a whole lot of Unilever, with P&G/Procter & Gamble being the other huge one.

 

[Sinny91]

Hunted - Channel 4, now.

 

[TBerg]

That show seems to have an interesting concept behind it.

 

[Sinny91]

Yea that was pretty badass, you should all try and catch it on online or something.

10 people trying to evade a team of professional hunters, all granted the investigative powers of the state. Departing from Birmingham, and scattering around the country.

Ironically the two military vets just came close to being caught first, idiots failed to cover up their electronic tracks.

 

[Praetorian]

What is this thing called a tie? An appendage, a piece of fabric hanging down from my neck that is a universally accepted/demanded form of dress. I find it pretty damn cool, but......why? Obvious answer is exposure and acceptance of the dominant cultural norm of a tie as formal wear and the concept of a suit and tie as the generally recognized foundation to a well-dressed man.

But on clothing in general and the evolution of fashion trends: sitting in a room with a bunch of students at a business event, we would consider it deranged if someone shows up stark naked and wearing a chair on their head, but consider the universe in which that is the standard formal business wear and the suit and tie is deviant. Of course, different universes/worlds would have different demands on their inhabitants and those needs will more or less dictate clothing functionality.

So the suit and tie. How'd we get here? A guess: some dominant group of some dominant culture popularized some earlier form, which established the trend, and the inferior and middle groups began to copy the dominant group; till finally, I'm sitting around here thinking every single person in here looks amazing. What a world.

 

[Sinny91]

Probably evolved from a Masonic noose or something, that's my guess.

Shall we Google it?

ETA: Damn conspiracy mindset leading me astray :

King Louis XIII hired Croatian mercenaries (see picture above) who wore a piece of cloth around their neck as part of their uniform. While these early neckties did serve a function (tying the top of their jackets that is), they also had quite a decorative effect – a look that King Louis was quite fond of.

 

[bvanevery]

Here is a good free one to keep you interested while I finish my response to you:

http://www.intelligencetest.com

I sure as heck would score lower on that right now. Not motivated to overcome "morning fog" yet. Too soon for math gymnastics.

Wonder if it would actually matter, provided I committed to taking the test and scoring well on it? Once upon a time in high school I took a PSAT on insufficient sleep and did rather well on it. Got a 790 out of 800 on math IIRC, which isn't that weird considering I used to be a math competitor. Pretty lame test compared to what high school math teams tended to face, and no, in high school I was not exceptional at those contests. I never decided whether people who could do those contests super fast, had extra or missing circuits in their brains.

Anyways I think one reason to take "IQ" tests, is to examine the cultural idiocy of what's passing for intelligence at any given time. If they called them "math and logic" tests I wouldn't be quite as inclined to cast aspersions on them.

I'm also curious whether that 160 or 180 or whatever it was I scored on some test, had anything to do with IQ, or whether it was a fluke / branding / poor test design / marketing to call it somehow relevant to IQ. It had a lot of spatial / geometry type questions, that as a professional 3d graphics software developer at the time, I jolly well should have been able to answer in my sleep! Or I would have been ashamed of my professional standards.

I'm still irked by the 2nd to last question on that paid test (which I won't pay to see my score). Can 3 congruent regular hexagons be arranged to have 10 distinctly bounded regions within the diagram? True or false. I am good at geometry but I was really having trouble visualizing that one in my head at the time. 3 overlapping circles in a Venn diagram is easy, there are 7 regions. In set theory that's (A, B, C, A&B, A&C, B&C, A&B&C). But polygonal interfaces introduce different ways things can be bounded.

You weren't allowed / not supposed to use pencil and paper on the test, and I didn't feel like cheating. I wondered if the question was designed to chew up a lot of my brainpower and time, since the test is partly scored on time completion. That question is not easily visualized with fingers or making drawings in the air either, which I did use as tactics on some of the questions. Anyways I haven't proven it to my satisfaction one way or another even on paper, although I didn't spend long on it, maybe 10 minutes drawing before I was interrupted with something else.

It would be far easier to solve that problem by cutting out 3 congruent hexagons and just playing with them. Personally I think "I don't really have to bend my brain around this shit" is a sign of intelligence. Basic strategy shows up in math too, that you don't necessarily have to solve the entire equation to learn things about the nature of the equation.

Anyways I answered "false" on the test, on a provisional guess that if I couldn't do it with circles, I might not be able to do it with hexagons. But I haven't proven it.

 

[bvanevery]

And I wasn't calling atheists "baby suckers", I was calling Zionists "baby suckers" . I was going to call them mother fuckers, but I have no evidence of that, but I do in fact have evidence that Zionists are in actual fact "baby suckers". (And genocidal maniacs)

WTF is a "baby sucker" ? I can't find any definitions of slang on the internet to enlighten me. Is this an aspersion you just made up? What is it supposed to signify, a particularly noisy form of kissing a baby? And why would it signify anything other than "you're a Zionist", an additional aspersion heaped upon a category you've already decided should be regarded as negative for some reason?

 

[bvanevery]

Bvan, I have had many political iterations, but I can discern a common theme among all of them.

Hmm, there's so much stuff here to discuss / react to, that I think I'd rather start another thread in the Lounge for it. This is pretty heavyweight for just Random Thoughts I think. So, look there.

 

[TBerg]

Here are more things to consider:

https://menghublog.files.wordpress....ve-1994-herrnstein-and-murray-graph-p-183.jpg

https://menghublog.files.wordpress....ve-1994-herrnstein-and-murray-graph-p-175.jpg

https://notpolitcallycorrect.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/xyyd6qw.png?w=960

 

[TBerg]

Sinny means to say that all of the founders of Israel were mohels, even when they were not even observant Jews.

 

[Sinny91]

Woke up in a foul mood.

No, I got woken up into a foul mood.

I need to a find a way to quickly turn this mood around, before the rest of my day turns to shit.

Today's objective: Keep calm.

 

[Bad Itch]

Woke up in a foul mood.

No, I got woken up into a foul mood.

I need to a find a way to quickly turn this mood around, before the rest of my day turns to shit.

Today's objective: Keep calm.

BACON.

 

[bvanevery]

I need to a find a way to quickly turn this mood around, before the rest of my day turns to shit.

I don't think chocolate therapy works. At least, not for me / not any more than a dose of sugar and carbs would. A 57% cacao chocolate was tested, not super dark but not lightweight either.

I would suggest stretching. We can feel surprisingly bad / grumpy when various parts of our bodies are kinked up and not circulating, without being overly aware of them.

Breathing exercises can also be helpful.