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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 10:35 am Post subject: |
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same goes for if you ever make it to nyc.
anyway, i got the book, thun! thanks for the buttons as well as the impatient squirrel drawing.
how many pieces is this series going to run for?
There might be a good chance of this in 2009, if I can somehow finance a trip to an illustration show/comic convention.
Glad you got the book (finally). To answer your question: I'm not entirely sure of the final page count, but as an indication, Issue #1 covered what I had labeled "scene 1" in my notes. Urgh. I could see this being another 100–200 page endeavour, plus the associate materials (adventure game, and an exhibit of sorts next month). _________________
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Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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_________________ I felt sheer anarchic joy when I ran over my first pedestrian. |
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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i've heard it said that a good man is hard to find. _________________
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:16 am Post subject: |
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http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/Voting_for_Obama_anyway.html?showall
holy poopstick.
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The two most unreal moments of my professional life of watching focus groups:
54 year-old white male, voted Kerry '04, Bush '00, Dole '96, hunter, NASCAR fan...hard for Obama said: "I'm gonna hate him the minute I vote for him. He's gonna be a bad president. But I won't ever vote for another god-damn Republican. I want the government to take over all of Wall Street and bankers and the car companies and Wal-Mart run this county like we used to when Reagan was President."
The next was a woman, late 50s, Democrat but strongly pro-life. Loved B. and H. Clinton, loved Bush in 2000. "Well, I don't know much about this terrorist group Barack used to be in with that Weather guy but I'm sick of paying for health insurance at work and that's why I'm supporting Barack." |
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Dracko .
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:46 am Post subject: |
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dhex wrote: | though not if you're the uk gov't, apparently: |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7656607.stm
This country, I swear to God. _________________ "This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!" |
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:56 am Post subject: |
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hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
that is indeed very, very strange. treating a very specific religious/ethnic "radicalization" like a street gang is kind of "interesting"? _________________
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Dracko .
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What's your favourite colour children?
Mine is red!
It will be your favourite colour too, in time! _________________ "This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!" |
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 12:19 pm Post subject: |
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Heh, Ed Balls.
Edward Testicles (pronounced like Pericles).
Eddie Goolies. |
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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goolies?
that's a new one. _________________
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Dracko .
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7674775.stm
hurd durf
"The biggest civil liberty of all is not to be killed by a terrorist."
Someone should revoke his, then. _________________ "This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!" |
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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i do not believe that word means what he thinks it means. _________________
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Yeah, way to miss the point. Even if the last generation weren't any smarter or informed than ours, it would only stress the point. Were the last generation's leaders that much better than ours? Minus Bush, I'm pretty sure they're of equal, bad quality. _________________
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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it varies, i think , depending on time and personage. extraordinarily shitty people in the wrong place can be blunted, just as they can wreak havoc in the right places.
bush as a shitty updated version of fdr still sucks it though. _________________
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 11:46 am Post subject: |
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While there's probably a surplus of ignorance all around, some of those thing in the article about dumb americans are more like factoids. Like, I remembered only the last name of PM of England, (and from a glam politician standpoint he's no Tony Blair) but more to the point I think I know that the Liberal party has been strong for a while but now seems to be losing ground, possibly in part as a hangover of Blair's lapdog-ism.
I remembered Condaleeza Rice (sounds delicious) but forgot the title "Secretary of State", oddly.
More important than stuff like this is a rough understanding of the system, and the legacy of checks and balances. not that i think we're swimming in smarts about that. _________________ =/ \(<D)_/
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:05 am Post subject: |
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well yeah, it's all about factoids. the actual concept of that genre of article is really a factoid about a set of factoids and OH MY GOD MY HANDS THEY'RE HUGE
anyway, i'm far more worried about financial stupidity on the micro level. people not knowing how to do basic math, or run their lives in any meaningful way. that's a lot more important than remember which rumpled fuckhole runs which slate-grey hellhole.
on the macro level it's sort of the way things are at this point. we'll get small government in our post-apocalyptic scenarios, or if the paranoids are right and the entire system is run by baby-raping pedophiles and it somehow all comes out. crowds of regular, decent americans stringing up civil servants and congressional aides in the street; UN limos tipped over and burned; the night sky lit up as local politicians are cast into the fires, still desperately grasping at patronage jobs to spread back in the home district.
now if you'll excuse me i must change my pants. _________________
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:35 am Post subject: |
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ok in all seriousness who the fuck decided to bring back the fairness doctrine paranoia routine? the fairness doctrine is dead, not UNDEAD UNDEAD UNDEAD.
the entire fucking political landscape is just going to play musical chairs, with republicans playing the part of jesus on the cross and...damn. it's exhausting to consider. _________________
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 10:07 am Post subject: |
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http://www.furious.com/Perfect/freakshow.html
two-parter from almost two years ago.
it's funny how as the essay begins i'm able to hang on in there, but by the time it ends i'm thinking that i can't ever get those twenty minutes of my life back. it is an odd view of cultural flow that has little to do with cultural flow as it actually exists, but rather the last twenty years of the imagination of the leading forces found in the *cultural*studies.* culture, for lack of a better term.
it's an interesting impersonation of "small-town values"; everyone gets to be the local pastor and busybody wrapped up in one. don't want to be hanging around with the wrong kind, after all.
obviously i think much of what was written was increasingly ridiculous, but i would think that, of course.
"Although none of these NWA acts don the equivalent of minstrelsy's burnt cork blackface (yet what are we to make of the men's flagrant, flamboyant hirsutism?), the cool pose of their anachronistic identities, misty mountain hops, tribal markings and peasant garb is still alienating."
if you've never done acid or hung out with fuckups, that's probably true. i have a lot of back hair; i would like to ask the author what that means, though the question would only be taken as an insult.
what i will never understand - be this a mental issue on my end or a transmission issue on their end, or some combination thereof - is this insistence that the performer/singer/actor/comedian/whatever automatically has to be identified with in some fashion by the audience. has to - no exceptions. doesn't anyone just listen to music? hear it with their ears? no doubt - we can call this the palin effect for contemporary jazz points - there are folks who go see bands only because they wish to fuck/be/fuck again the person on stage; that seems like it sucks, but perhaps i have intellectualized music to the point where sound is sound and sound is all. that may be true. hell, the least interesting critique of 90s idm was "but they just stand there" - go to the fucking ballet if kinetics is your interest.
i don't like rock theatrics, and am actively annoyed by the "hello seattle" crowd banter. i like a silver mt. zion a lot, but ephrim's personal interests aren't very interesting to me, personally. you're asking a crowd of young left wingers in their 20s for their input, then being saddened that everyone sounds like a shitty bumper sticker. of course they do! it's a soundbite environment, and they're soundbite people.
a shorter version of the second page, really, is "joanna newsom: be black and less cool. or at least asian. and gay, if you can fit that into your schedule."
total side note: musicologists, i would like to find out what modern metal really has in common with the blues; especially in its more extreme forms. i hear this claim made constantly, and as i am not a musicologist (IANAM) i can neither understand it nor refute it. obviously i cannot hear it, either, but i'm also not a huge metal fan when it comes down to it, nor am i well-versed in the blues. _________________
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pentatonic scales _________________ Signature:
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Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 9:02 am Post subject: |
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that's it?
or is that a big deal?
i feel like i should know this stuff but i do not. _________________
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Not just pentatonic scales. Call and response was another thing that was taken from the blues. But really it was more like blues influenced Cream, who influenced Black Sabath and a lot of funk influencing groove metal. There's several generations between them currently. _________________ Signature:
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Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:48 am Post subject: |
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ahh, so it's more like the "808 kick in early hip hop came from african drums" type thing?
in other awful fucking news:
http://reason.com/blog/show/129620.html
scum. _________________
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Quote: | It's been a while since I've argued politics, and my previous swearing off it as an attempt to keep my sanity and yours appears to have failed. So if you're trying to keep your head in the soil and ride this one out, I recommend either hitting the backspace button as firmly and quickly as you can, or putting your fist through the screen. In fact, by the end of this blog, you may well be seething enough to do the latter! (LORDY!)
WARNING: HERE COMES DA PAIN
On average, using a form of mathematical equationness that I like to call "making shit up based on observation" I see a general trend of Obama support over McCain on the internet. A 3:1 ratio, if you will. A sort of neo-Democrat resurgence unseen since Kennedy almost didn't get in because he was Catholic and had heavy left-leaning sympathies (not that it changed his stance on Vietnam, you may note). Myself, I am sure you realise, am a fascist. A Mosleyite. A wholesale believer in Mussolini. An adherent to the doctrine of the Futurist.
I am, however, hoping that the Democrats win this election.
I have no love for Obama in the slightest, being - as he is - generally inexperienced and a dark horse on the political polo field. He is not, contrary to popular belief, the first black man to "make history" by running for presidential candidacy - although he is definitely the closest to have got to it. This is immaterial. To be fair, it doesn't really matter if he was a gay atheist Inuit with no legs and wall-eye; his race to "make history" doesn't seem to be his motive (although I do not deny his wife may see that as more important). The Republicans have usually had better economic policy, as far as I'm concerned, although they've done so inordinately stupid things (the abolition of slavery, for example, which vanished almost US$4million with the swish of a pen).
So why, you may ask, am I supporting this uppity Democrat; a man who flies in the face of America's proud Capitalist heritage and seeks to institute taxes that are so apparently shocking that middle-America declares them on par with Pol Pot? The answer is quite simple.
If you vote for McCain; you're probably an idiot.
America has never seen Socialism. It really doesn't have an inkling of what Socialism is. Socialism, I would go so far as to say, is a vague American myth, perpetuated and writ large on the walls of the nation by the self-serving and the self-deluded. In such a case, what IS Socialism?
Quite simply, Socialism is either syndicalism (pre-1800) or the stepping stone between Capitalism and Communism according to Marxist thought. As a fascist, I of course cannot even remotely advocate nor even comprehend Marxist doctrine as having a scrap of reputability or likelihood. Even if I did, there is no way America could become Communist because it lacks the city-based proletariat or the willingness to instigate revolution. Nor could it enact Maoist-Leninism via its rural class, because - well - it doesn't have one. America is not going to become Communist through this special brand of Democratic "Socialism," and more importantly one must ask the question of whether America is - or has been - Capitalist.
Oddly enough up until 1880 the answer would be "no". The opening of the West to the masses and the introduction of railroads and metallurgical advancements sowed the seeds of Capitalism. But what of slavery? one may ask. In direct contradiction to Marxism, which holds that slavery comes before Capitalism, one can argue that slavery is actually the pinnacle of Capitalism - the ownership of a human being in totality. However, the United States (and the Confederate States while it lasted) were actually oligarchies of slave-owners, not capitalists in what we would understand today. In fact, prior to 1870, I'm sure an "American" would look upon today's financial lusts with disgust. Quite contrary, before 1870, society was far more syndicalised (or Socialist in an Americo-French context) than today. Of course, society changes - we must evolve, advance and move-on. "We are capitalist today," one might say.
This brings to mind Enoch Powell, self-confessed "killer of the Socialist virus" who prayed every Sunday and, on bended knee, thanked God for Capitalism. I grew up during the Thatcher years, the period just after the darkest economic and social era since the 1920s. In the '70s as strike and union action ran rampant, refuse overflowed in the street, bodies rotted in hospitals and petrol vanished. The nation crumbled.
What was needed was a strong man; what we got was the Iron Lady. And of course, it worked - a bitter pill, a disasterously bitter pill, that destroyed the working and lower-middle classes at a stroke, but saved the nation. Thatcherism was needed at that time. Unfortunately we have not moved on. Britain's adherence to market forces and Capitalist theory has continued even until today; the Labour Party, in the past a true SOCIALIST order committed to revolution, has stagnated into a joke centre-party, still clinging to the politics of the 1980s. The reason the politics of the 1980s worked was because it was the 1980s. It would be like returning today to the politics of 1870 or 1740. Obama is the American Thatcher of the 2000s; what he will hopefully do is break the chain, obliterate the old order a la Roosevelt and begin a new cycle. You cannot cling to a political theory for twenty, thirty, FORTY years and expect it to work.
The American middle-class is small; its working-class and underclass grows daily and its upper-class remains unduly unproductive. America seems unable to reconcile its two assumptives: ONE - that it is a Capitalist nation and; TWO - that it is a meritocracy. Unfortunately, they are mutually incompatible. Capitalism is based on gaining money for personal and familial furtherance, whereas as meritocracy is based on COLLECTIVE and SYSTEMIC furtherance of the GROUP. How can one say that the CEO of an oil company is worth the millions he earns every month, compared to the pittance of public service operators? Lawyers, a fake group if ever there was one, continue to rake in money for what common-sense could solve in half the time and a fraction of the cost (if cost be necessary at all)! America has not, and never can be, a meritocracy as long as it adheres to a Capitalist doctrine that serves only to keep money tied up in specific strata, and that is solely what it does. The aim of Capitalism is to keep property from the majority. This is not Communism, this is a fact. The redistribution of wealth that the Democrats currently argue for is not some overwrought Leninist-Marxist doctrine, where the Kulacks who hoard their grain will be dragged into the street and gunned down as an example to the proles - it is a necessity to run money as rain rather than as a swimming pool.
I could go on, but I shall instead leave it with this. The idea that the rich should be taxed more for being rich is not, in itself, anti-Capitalist (or pro-"Socialist"); contrary to popular belief the state is designed to protect and assist its citizenry. Though there is an assumption that America is vastly different from its European forebears, the fact remains that it was designed as a NATION. Each individual state is called a STATE because it is its job to protect its citizenry. Some may contend that it is not the Federal government's job to tax, because that is the state's task. I shall merely offer the Articles of Confederation and its revocation as proof that the Federal government has superceded that. In today's society, particularly in America, the disparity between rich and poor is the CAUSE of economic downturn, not a result. For too long the poor have grown poorer and the rich richer based on a long-standing view that Keynesian Theory is 'soft' and 'liberal.' It is not the job of the state to prop up failing companies, but it IS the job of the state to instigate serious attempts at nationalised services, particularly health-care and transport (the former, oddly enough, available at local levels prior to the 19th century).
tl;dr you may not like Obama, or Democrats, but you'll love cheap healthcare and not paying fucktons for insurance. |
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Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooookaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
that was my reaction to that orson scott card thing, too.
it's great everyone has lost the last moorings of sanity. _________________
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Dracko .
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dhex wrote: | hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooookaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
that was my reaction to that orson scott card thing, too.
it's great everyone has lost the last moorings of sanity. |
It was pretty straightforward. _________________ "This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!" |
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in a venn diagram, straightforward does not necessarily exclude stupid. _________________
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I wouldn't call it that either. _________________ "This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!" |
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ships pass in the night!
that is the glory of the mind, and the beauty of tall fences and high powered, easily used firearms. _________________
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author unknown:
"When you wish upon a star, you are borrowing the government's economic plan." _________________
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Redeye .
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I did a google search on "Joe The Morlock".
I didn't think I would find anything except maybe the basic reference.
Too bad the links aren't any good. At least there's a guy out there who appears to really have the name of Joe Morlock.
I'm pretty sure it's a real person. _________________ I felt sheer anarchic joy when I ran over my first pedestrian. |
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/raises hand
what the hell is a morlock? _________________
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in more serious news, man i'm sittin' on some freelance. fairly easy money. big bills, too. but i just can't bring myself to work on it for more than 20 minutes at a time.
bleh. _________________
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dhex wrote: | /raises hand
what the hell is a morlock? |
As in "Joe the Plumber"
The Eloi are the Liberal Elite.
Doesn't quite fit, but yeah. _________________ I felt sheer anarchic joy when I ran over my first pedestrian. |
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Quote: | He Ended Up in Times Square, and the Rest Is History
Cowboy wearing a Florida Rebel flag belt buckle: You should go back to your own country, or learn to speak English!
Girl leaving train: Have fun in the Bronx, cowboy!
--D Train |
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dhex wrote: | http://www.templeton.org/market/ | Show me a market that's actually free and I'll decide for myself. _________________ Signature:
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it's out at coffee with the noble savage. _________________
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i have this bad habit of making fun of meyers-briggs nonsense when it is not appropriate, but i just plain don't fucking get the appeal. especially when it's people i know who are deeply atheistic or at least anti-religious, big on "rationalism" and first in line to make fun of psychics and other charlatans.
it's fucking confusing, is what it is. fucking confusing as all hell. _________________
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dhex wrote: | i have this bad habit of making fun of meyers-briggs nonsense when it is not appropriate, but i just plain don't fucking get the appeal. especially when it's people i know who are deeply atheistic or at least anti-religious, big on "rationalism" and first in line to make fun of psychics and other charlatans.
it's fucking confusing, is what it is. fucking confusing as all hell. |
what's making you think of it now?
I dunno, I always come out as a fence sitter in maybe all the categories.
It's just a way of categorizing thinking, it doesn't posit super natural entities, what's the big deal? _________________ =/ \(<D)_/
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Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 6:23 am Post subject: |
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kirkjerk wrote: | It's just a way of categorizing thinking, it doesn't posit super natural entities, what's the big deal? |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forer_effect _________________
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kirkjerk .
Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227
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Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 7:48 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, I know about Barnum Words.
I'm still not sure I get it, because Briggs-Meyer is about dichotomies, and Barnum words are about what everyone can agree with.
Is the problem people are likely to agree with the assessment? I don't think it's that great. Plus I always end up in the middle of everything, which actually might be an echo of the barnum effect. _________________ =/ \(<D)_/
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dhex Breeder
Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 6319 Location: brooklyn, Nev Yiork
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Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 9:37 am Post subject: |
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Quote: | what's making you think of it now? |
some friends of mine were all oh IQZ4 and oh yeah that's totes ENTY and i'm just really fucking puzzled.
yeah yeah we're all special snowflakes. woo.
edit: what i find ultra confusing is that a lot of these particular folks would be ripping on jung for being a kooky unrationalist or whatever (true, but irrelevant) and yet...
bah! _________________
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dhex Breeder
Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 6319 Location: brooklyn, Nev Yiork
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Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 11:37 am Post subject: |
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http://www.positiveliberty.com/2008/11/oh-theres-an-election-soon-whos-running.html
mr. ridgely lays it on down.
i tend to agree with him. if the lines are not too long (they were fucking long this morning, hence my not voting yet) i will walk in there and pull for bob barr, though this makes me feel less than good, to say the least. if mccain were in danger of taking ny (ho ho ho) i would pull for obama, but mccain will be handily spanked even by the handout loving racist rednecks who live in upstate new york, most of whom will get over their irrational fear of a black planet.
thankfully i've never been one of those let's go to a bar and watch the election come in types so i don't have to worry about going to a bar and watching the election come in.
if i were single, however, i would totally be there because you'd either get drunk nerdy wonky girls who are ecstatic that their god is now symbolic king of the little people or depressed that evil incarnate and either way that spells drunken make out times and perhaps even a little bit o' sex in the bathroom. total pain in the ass, perhaps literally, if the lady is under 5'11" but the sheer berzerker quality is totally worth whatever UTI you're likely to pull down. _________________
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