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So it's like the Kevin Bacon game without a destination? Sure, uhh... Christopher Lee.

I think it's because they feel like the same person over and over again. And frustration would totally be appropriate if you had to keep showing the same person the same basic thing.

Having customers reject your answers 'cause they don't want to listen to a fancy-pants expert, they want what they expected to get.

Feminist (in the way everyone claims they mean it, but it doesn't really stick): One who believes in and advocates for equality between men and women. Feminist (as specialist): One whose primary sociopolitical lens is gender. Radical feminist: One of the above whose ideas and/or tactics are outside the Overton window. Feminazi: A vaguely defined slur against all of the above popularized by Rush Limbaugh. Learning this ended my brief turn-of-the-millennium use of the word. To better understand what exactly caused the situations you're seeing above, you need to recognize what happened to the academic left in the United States from the '60s onward. The issues above are college campus-centered because that's where they come from. The late '60s saw a lot of major, frightening defeats for the swelling left counterculture. The general strikes and occupations in France in 1968 were isolated and crushed. The assassinations of two Kennedys, MLK, and Fred Hampton scared much of the liberal and racial reconciliation specialists out of action. In the '70s, Altamont dissipated the idea of rock concerts as a friendly, open space for youth to explore their social identities. After the draft was abolished, the Vietnam protest movement mostly stopped caring about going further. The growing linkage of black and socialist movements was split apart by Nixon's institution of affirmative action and "black capitalism" campaign. Painters had already been steered away from left topics by post-WW2 government funding of more abstract things, like Jackson Pollock's paint splatters. A similar situation happened with professors, who were encouraged to come up with any random subjective theory that wasn't remotely sympathetic to the Soviets. College movements became, decade by decade, more based on the direct experience of the upper middle class who worked at or took social science paths at them. The push for greater sentencing and assumption of guilt in college rape cases is presented as being about feminism, but is much more closely related to the law-and-order push for more and heavier drug sentences, paranoia about pedos being everywhere, and generally anything that helps to expand the lucrative prison industry. Speech codes are similarly measures of right-wing character. They find more ways to get students to buckle down under threat and not make waves, limit the discourse to the particular framing of the professors in charge, and give colleges excuses to dismiss staff or students and even cut funding if a big enough story comes of it. A better example of the power-protect model slightly mislabeled as rape culture would be Penn State and the Paterno/Sandusky coverup. Incidentally, Birth of a Nation director Nate Parker was a star athlete there and received the university's top-grade legal assistance at his rape trial. If you accept the surface explanation of things like this, you're going to keep attacking the opposite of the real problem. The culturally disempowered looking for a tidy, easy way of cleaning up their oppression (limiting it to sexism, racism, LGBT discrimination, etc.) are threats to no one but those trying to band the left together like it hasn't been in many of our lifetimes. When the economically disempowered look for a tidy, easy way of cleaning up their oppression, well... you know what I'm getting at. Please, recognize when what you're doing is on the side of those looking to grind people down.

There's a site called Twitlonger for just that.

Whoops, wait, no, I get it.

I was having a conversation with my girlfriend and got off on a tangent I thought might be fun to present to the forum: How low the bar is for 2017 to be not that bad. Here are some hypothetical things 2017 needs to be better than to be a relatively okay year: - Sex and the City 3 - Ann Coulter writing a children's book about baking cookies - Carrot Top [any end to this sentence]. - Dane Cook dating advice. - Bubsy Bobcat gritty reboot. - Indiana Jones getting to the '60s and beating up hippies.

It's a quickie summary with links to other sources, and there's ample evidence all over the place about the nature of the subject. And people have never perpetuated distortions of their past before.

Your elaborate non-description descriptions are cracking me up. I'm glad I only handle the cigar-shaped UFOs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asherah

I've never been able to wrap my head around flirting. When I hit on someone, I mean it.

The "savior" label is already framing things in Christianity. Buddha? No afterlife in Buddhism, just a repeated cycle of lives (and "All life is suffering.") The proclamation was one of being able to escape this endless cycle. How? Varies a lot by which branch of Buddhism. Prometheus? Well, "not freezing to death" is a sort of saving humanity, I guess, but the afterlife in Greek myth was already an absolute. Thor? This is just an attempt to ridicule other religions. And Jesus? The "savior" concept there is that God had to trick the devil into allowing people's sins to be... absorbed, I guess is the word? Into hell. Really, this part was a retcon of the whole cosmology of Judaism, at a time when Judaism had already retconned its polytheistic past (look up Asherah some time.)

That's one way of viewing it. Skepticism doubts things are true until proven, while nihilism assumes falsehood outright.

Groove Is In the Heart.

The idea that there is no meaning in the world beyond what we give it is a component of the existentialist concept of "the absurd." It's central to existentialism. Nihilism, by contrast, posits that everything is insignificant. The meaninglessness in nihilism is also valuelessness.

I hate to say this while using an avatar of woo-woo bogus philosophy, but... The popular perception of existentialism is that it's saying life has no meaning, and that means everything cool or important or some such is now drained of color and is utterly depressing. The key, however, is not that there's nothing to find meaning in, it's that meaning has always been something we make up. It's the human activity that results that matters. Meaning is not something absolute, we break it down, recreate it, shift it in adaptive patterns. It's always been a set of stories we tell ourselves, and that changes nothing about the world. It's just a more accurate description. Postmodernism took this ball and just ran with it into many theoretical dead-ends which are best avoided, but there's great positive potential in existentialism.

For seeing through the veil to what is hidden.

Ohhhhhhh, they're so gorgeous.

Spelling meesa like the Spanish word for table?

I thought learning biology would mean my children knew it too, but I was off Lamarck.

And the profanity of the day would sound like Yosemite Sam.

One thing Doctor Strange is canonical with...

Very well. Keep whacking the stick thingy and be nicer to the librarian.

You must be prepared for the Technicolor Assassins. Have discipline and focus.

With general anaesthesia, you'll be totally knocked out. If they go with local instead (in my case, it was much cheaper), you'll be awake, but won't feel it. It's not all that different from having any other tooth pulled (and certainly isn't like a root canal), but the recovery instructions are stricter. Don't play around with the recovery instructions. Take every precaution to avoid dry socket. And you? Will be A-Okay.