@FeralPHunter
This is great. You're someone who learned to change, not someone who had it "naturally". The latter isn't very useful for people who really need help and inspiration.
@extradeadjcb
A one both compassionate and prosperous, but if my experiences with down syndrome people are any indication they can give back to their communities
@Goodtweet_man
Infanticide wasn't uncommon in cultures with tremendous material scarcity and strict norms around childbirth. The oddity here is that there are options for someone in her position here that didn't exist in those cultures.
@kisstheblade_
I don't think most parties involved are able to draw the connection between the campy nature of trad Catholicism and homosexuality... despite it coming up often in ex. Anglican politics.
@cremieuxrecueil
Almost like "g" tends towards overall good functioning for most traits most of the time.
Tortured genius' are real but most intelligent people aren't geniuses and the tortured part is more an artifact of dealing with normal people rather than inborn madness
@eyeslasho
It's part of a much longer grudge against Jews in general, who in the narrative betray Christ and deny him after his resurrection.
Jesus' death was God's will but that doesn't mean that those who betrayed him were admirable. And the value of Christ's death was only fully...
@Empty_America
Online "autist" isn't a genuine autistic person at all imo, very different interpersonal style.
Genuinely well educated and funny people actually... get along well with others even as they see the absurdity around them
@Scholars_Stage
The underlying assumption is that having children was previously ever a "rational" "deliberate" and "moral" act when in reality it was often a biproduct of accident, immense social pressure and necessity, and didn't strictly benefit the individuals involved.
Building a culture.
@Empty_America
Actually the extroversion seems to be a big survival factor. Being weird and extroverted is much easier than being weird and introverted.
@robertlasagna1
The is/ought distinction is imo a product of early modern autism. Prior to that the intellectual world somehow didn't seem troubled by the innate tension between present reality and possible desired future state. The world with desires, actions, and facts autistically separated..
@Aelkus
There's a bizarre bipolar attitude towards popular franchises. They must be deeply important enough to obsess over but also so trivial that the enemy's investment must be contemptible.
@sneedkuanyew
@bibeIradikaI
Yeah it's a huge loss. Many criminals are just troubled or poorly socialized but dudes like that are monsters and should be called such.
@kitten_beloved
Low compartmentalization, good for managing fluid complex realities of relationships but leads to mere sense impressions being more important than reality beyond them.
Women can be very pragmatic and realistic though so it's not like there's a reality deficit.
This is the stupidest fucking passage I've ever read. "Far-right writers want the same things as everyone else, and sometimes they make a bit of money," concludes the expert after "extensive research." How does a full prof not down pesticide from embarrassment after writing this?
There is something pathetic about this. Firstly anti-semitism is hardly universal within Christianity, Secondly it's not exclusive to Christianity at all, and thirdly it hardly is the core problem of Christian history nor does the world turn around philo v.s anti-semitism.
The best argument against Christianity is not the problem of evil or the argument from DH. It's the antisemitism that can be found in the history of the Church.
@_britmonkey
The hidden issue was his brutal alcoholism during this time.
McDs can be bad for you especially in excess, but 10 drinks a day is probably worse.
Wordcels rule the world because power is immune to autism. Why yes, there are logical inconsistencies in the system we've deliberately made logically inconsistent for decades to demonstrate our power, thank you
C.S. Lewis anticipated our present predicament by 80 years - & he did it by starting from the assumption that "it's not rocket science, they're just evil & want to diddle kids"
@meaning_enjoyer
There's a kind of basic shame/gratitude that is a healthy part of moral development... but it's something to be overcome through generosity and grace, not rationalized to oblivion.
@giantgio
Nerd culture is in short the decontextualized abstraction of all content and its reduction to a universal medium of valuation. The elimination of all complexity and depth.
@Historycourses
Source: student pilot
You could potentially accomplish this under very ideal conditions, with adequate time to prepare (here's THIS button, here's THIS lever for at least 20 mins or so).
The "hard" parts of landing come from questions of timing and degree...
@lisatomic5
The best technique is always combining the two. The internet can help you know what to tell your doctor, and what they may be missing if a treatment doesn't work.
@Scholars_Stage
He was an absolute genius. It's humbling to read it and then to look at the decidedly mixed quality of his decision-making AND see how the latter didn't stop his ascent.
@ne0agent1c
@LandsharkRides
I've wondered this regarding remarks made in myths and legends, that people are giving impressionistic accounts of how things felt rather than external observations.
@politicalmath
Reasonableness is a fungible reality not an inherent ethical principle. Being reasonable in a vacuum is a terrible idea, only good when you have good faith actors
@tracewoodgrains
@ITDept4Life
Missing from discussions of secular v religious institutions is the centrality of ritual and storytelling and motivation to commit. Talking about "ideology" imo misses what religion really does, give people a cool, viscerally compelling and relatable story.
@waveturtlejake
This is great advice but at the same time while we don't have the whole story Crowder isn't really behaving like an "impulsive" character so much as someone who operates from that position normally. It suggests he's got some serious issues.
@Empty_America
Usually the work is "morally" coded (ngos). Men can do that but male motivations are usually more self focused and focused on adventure/profit.
Men still do lots of frontier-based work that can be profitable (oil, fishing) but Africa is less permissive than say Alaska.
They have an instinctual hatred for the successful that they need an outlet for. Anti-semitism once might have been a quiet position of a WASP gentlemen mid-century, now it's a prole marker.
Problem with subliterate Jew-namers is most are covert communists. If we kick out all the Jews, Mexicans, blacks, etc., and yet they're still in the unskilled labor class, what do you think they blame next? Communism is a widespread impulse we'll always have to repress violently
@thechosenberg
Western morality frankly seems anti-sexual at this point. Old sophisticated men who teach you things seems to be a turn on for a lot of women
@lmrwanda
ADHD is very real and probably adapted for harsh, changing, and resource limited environments. Abundance and stability renders it destructive.
@victoryillinois
You need more than one good person. You need the community to have some surplus funds, a committed core of people, a helpful local government and so on.
@meaning_enjoyer
Current research seems to suggest a lot of HG societies we see are post-apocalyptic remnants. Hard to see if hierarchy is the norm in all settled civilization but the link between current HG and past HG isn't as strong as it used to be
Many "traditionalists" are people from secular backgrounds trying to rationalize belonging to religions in general from a secular set of assumptions. Hard for them to understand those who have had both genuine faith and a loss of it.
a clear division exists between traditionalists and those who worship abstract traditionalism. when a non-Mormon exhorts me to stay within Mormonism, the divide is apparent
if you have lost the conviction that your tradition is uniquely Good, you are a pluralist by another name
@twinkophrenia
It can be incredibly fun or boring depending on the crowd.
I've loved every game I've played but that's because you have to read each room and choose whether randomness, dark humor, pointed jokes, or in-jokes etc will land.
@WraithTE
@EvanPlatinum
Makes a lot of money and actually helps people and is popular while not working through established channels and not staying within the confines and expectations of academic precision and discipline.
@IRHotTakes
It made sense in a time of massively growing prosperity held back only by stolid conservatism. It makes virtually no sense in a time of declining fortunes from an unrealistic peak.
@yiihya
I've been told I pronounce Czech far better than my attempts at pronouncing Russian words. Despite their common heritage I find Western Slavic more familiar and I'm not sure why
@Empty_America
Know a restaurant worker, late 30s, former drug addict, no finances, has two kids and had both during his worst periods, wife is reasonably attractive bartender
@ouroboros_outis
@extradeadjcb
Humility, not actual weakness, is the point. A physically weak man and a strong man can both be humble, the weaker man is just more delusional in his pride.
@Smug_editing
The US hasn't suffered much for its presumptions re:Russia. It has succeeded in its European goals partially because Russia got paranoid and slipped up. Same can't be said for its presumptions about the Middle East but the US doesn't NEED the ME for much
@remnantposting
Of infrastructure to function very well to do their jobs. A great pilot can't make up for poor aircraft maintenance, lack of good ATC, an overloaded schedule, and other less capable pilots
@ebruenig
I honestly blame a rationalistic, impersonal, and comfortable culture for this. If real challenges exist both forgiveness and honor/revenge make way more sense and forgiveness isn't rational.
@Timelord420
The church didn't see itself in the guise of Branch theory in the past. While squabbles and political conflict existed in principle the church was visible and one when much of what we consider Christianity was formed.
@apex_simmaps
HP is confusing because it's a defense of private elite boarding schools against the nanny state and a defense of liberal egalitarianism against aristocracy, both being in tension, both imo a product of British neuroses
@robertlasagna1
Similar experience but the other guy (the creep) didn't even have to ask anyone out to earn the label. Nuances made a huge difference in how we were both perceived.
@moritheil
@kennymxu
Pier Paolo Pasolini : Therefore, it it is a film not only about power, but about what I call "the anarchy of power". Nothing is more anarchic than power. Power does what it wants and what it wants is totally arbitrary or dictated by its economic reasons which escape common logic
@AStratelates
Actual "trad" cultures of any large size and long duration have roles for many types. The monastic life is one example. "Extreme" personalities need an outlet, everyone can't be stamped exactly the same for complex organisms to function.
Hobbes was just straight up wrong about human nature and petrified of death. He projected this fear onto all human history, but the passion for martyrdom (religious or secular) makes a mockery of this.