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Hm, cute.

Something else: It's so bizarre, and I didn't learn this, per se, as much as I realized that progressives/liberals have a much, much higher chance of turning conservative when they reach a higher tax bracket than the corollary (which would be conservative people becoming progressive/liberal when they're wearing a barrel, just so we're clear.)

I'd really love to see a progressive movement actually make a difference and change stuff, because change is pretty okay in most cases, and we'll just preemptively skip the hyperbole and the idiocy that brings. It's really, really too bad that the liberals/progressives that passionately want the change don't have the brains or the means to do so, and the ones with the brains and the means don't have the passion and fervor.

Can we splice them together? That'd be cool.

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Are you suggesting convincing a rich person to breed with some lowly commoner? I don't think it can be done.

Ah, yes, accursed gentrification.

I learned (once again) that people are more comfortable complaining about stuff they don't like rather than actually doing anything about it.

But you can see the difference between complaining about stuff, and explaining stuff to others, thus making it more probable that better informed masses will improve the world someday. That is doing something. That's how culture that allowed progress of technology has always spread.
Surely you don't think only flashy things are worth doing?

But you can see the difference between complaining about stuff, and explaining stuff to others, thus making it more probable that better informed masses will improve the world someday. That is doing something. That's how culture that allowed progress of technology has always spread.

Yeah, 'cause that's been happening lately, right? Oh, wait...

He hasn't been convicted yet. Do you think it's ok for US government to keep Americans in prison for years without trial?

I'm sure people have been talking about this for a long, long time. I'm sure people have been complaining about this for a long, long time. I'm sure people have been ruminating, fuming and discussing it for a long, long time.

How's that been working out?

This post has been edited by radixius: Dec 7 2011, 13:48

Yeah, 'cause that's been happening lately, right? Oh, wait...
I'm sure people have been talking about this for a long, long time. I'm sure people have been complaining about this for a long, long time. I'm sure people have been ruminating, fuming and discussing it for a long, long time.

Just because a good idea doesn't bring in great results immediately, it doesn't cease to be good. Wile E. Coyote might have gotten a result sometime if he knew that (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

How's that been working out?

It's served to keep many more people from the same fate, so far, for example. It showed people in fundamentalist communities that there's an alternative. We probably can't even imagine how bad it would be otherwise.

Smedley D. Butler, War is a Racket: The Anti-War Classic by America's Most Decorated General

I think I'll read this book. If I can find an audiobook of it I can buy. Or download - some stupid audiobook publishers still insist on shipping tapes/CDs only.

Wile E. Coyote might have gotten a result sometime if he knew that (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

What a stupid thing to post.

It's served to keep many more people from the same fate, so far, for example. It showed people in fundamentalist communities that there's an alternative. We probably can't even imagine how bad it would be otherwise.

Do you have numbers to back this up or is it just hypothesis?

Do you have numbers to back this up or is it just hypothesis?

I have, but why should I care if you get convinced? You're useless anyway...

I have, but why should I care if you get convinced? You're useless anyway...

lol... That's why I never tell him what I'm active in, what I give speeches about (im in a club called Veterans for Peace), and that just raising awareness alone is a powerful thing. It's like arguing evolution to a creationist.

I have, but why should I care if you get convinced?

You kind of do though., at least you(plurally) seem to try because you seem to feel obliged to....
His display of never-contentedness might be a tad annoying at times, but heck if it makes him (or anybody really) feel happy...

Sorry for sounding like that, but I'm sensing an anti-BlackwaterKR-type of mentality coming up, which was already annoying and energy-wasting enough the first time(You(Dlaglacz) defended him there, though).

OTOH, do what you want, otherwise this post would automatically avert what I tried to bring across....



Crap, again this bullshit, I just can't stop it. I should actually study for the physics exam......
Whatever, I'll do a bit in the break before the exam (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

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Physics? Fun class, once you're able to wrap your head around the concepts. I remember I hated physics in high school but in college it made perfect sense. I guess my brain wasn't quite as developed back then. Afterall, the neurons of the brain are still developing and myelinating until about 25 (the jury is out on this one, depends which textbooks you consult), at which point dendritic connections still happen but nowhere near at the rate of adolescence and young adulthood, and myelination is done by then.

Why am I talking about neurology in this thread?! I DIDNT LEARN ANYTHING!

Pretty sure I was the opposite way, with both Physics and Calculus. Some functions of my brain may have gotten better over the years, but others are stagnating and decaying. That, and my Physics teacher's explanation of the solution to the [en.wikipedia.org] twin paradox made no god damn sense to me.

Toothpaste has an expiration date.

I have, but why should I care if you get convinced?

So, then, no. Thanks for wasting my time.

You're useless anyway...

Nice double standard. It's honestly not my fault that you were trying to base your argument about something in reality by using an example grounded in fantasy, anecdotally or otherwise. If you're not going to even try, then why bother even attempting it in the first place?

lol... That's why I never tell him what I'm active in, what I give speeches about (im in a club called Veterans for Peace), and that just raising awareness alone is a powerful thing. It's like arguing evolution to a creationist.

I'd be more receptive of other people's opinions and ideas if they were able to divulge and explain their point of view by relaying facts or anecdotal evidence. What you think of the matter isn't important in any way except to create the conversation by referencing your position.

Hyperbolics, faulty analogies and minced words don't do anything to the viewpoints of the people involved except waste their time and energy. Cut the bureaucratic nonsense and get down to brass tacks. Discuss the issue, not the circumstances. Detail what's currently going on, and if that leads to a discussion of where things will go naturally, then so be it, but none of this pressing the issue, taking a minor situation and debasing it to such a point where it's just theoretics and theatrics and hysteria doesn't do anything to broach the topic, it creates ire which is another gigantic waste of time and energy.

It just seems that no one knows how to debate properly because everyone wants to express their opinions as facts, and not as opinions, which is just absolutely egregious and ignorant. It's like most people just jump to the extremes of the situation so easily, especially in topics that aren't black and white, ones that aren't made for extremes. The ignorance of the gray areas is devastating to me, because the gray areas? That's where the solutions lie.

So if I'm in the wrong for wanting the discussion to work toward a solution or a goal and not be a bunch of mind crippling back and forth nonsense that doesn't enlighten or motivate, then so be it. Feel free to flail around like idiots and malcontents but we can all see where that will get us.

Physics? Fun class, once you're able to wrap your head around the concepts. I remember I hated physics in high school but in college it made perfect sense. I guess my brain wasn't quite as developed back then. Afterall, the neurons of the brain are still developing and myelinating until about 25 (the jury is out on this one, depends which textbooks you consult), at which point dendritic connections still happen but nowhere near at the rate of adolescence and young adulthood, and myelination is done by then.

Why am I talking about neurology in this thread?! I DIDNT LEARN ANYTHING!

I had the freedom to choose it as a 2hrs/week or a 4hrs/week lesson or just completely drop it.

I decided for the 4hrs/week schedule because I wanna be a physics crunching badass(unoriginal expression). It's not that I don't understand anything, that's not the problem.... I just freaking hate learning in the sense of "sit down and memorize those fomulas!". I never actively learned vocabularies for any language, either......

But yes, two years ago I hated Physics because I didn't get it and blamed it all on the teacher (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

But yes, two years ago I hated Physics because I didn't get it and blamed it all on the teacher (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

Sometimes it is the teacher. I had two professors in the course of my required Physics curriculum. One was this British lady who obviously knew what she was doing, but she couldn't teach her way out of a paper bag. The other was this tiny Oriental lady who made it easy enough even for the idiots in the class to understand but still be deep enough to not be herp derp Baby's First Physics Book.

Physics is easy. Dynamics is where it gets hard. Stupid moving things on moving things moving in crazy directions.

Sometimes it is the teacher.

Oh, I couldn't agree more. I suck at math, and need as much help as I can get in it, even with Algebra. So I get a teacher that is pregnant and knows her shit and is helpful and awesome and lively, especially for a math teacher. Well, about two months into the semester, she gives birth and has a substitute for the rest of the class. This substitute was absolute shit. For an Asian, she was pretty fucking awful at the mathematics, not to mention that her accent was so off-the-boat thick that it's hard to understand.

We get to logarithms and it's all over. I barely passed with a D because we had to learn pretty much strictly from the book and I cannot learn from books. It was awful.

1 + 1 = 1 on a bun.

Physics? Fun class, once you're able to wrap your head around the concepts. I remember I hated physics in high school but in college it made perfect sense. I guess my brain wasn't quite as developed back then. Afterall, the neurons of the brain are still developing and myelinating until about 25 (the jury is out on this one, depends which textbooks you consult), at which point dendritic connections still happen but nowhere near at the rate of adolescence and young adulthood, and myelination is done by then.

Why am I talking about neurology in this thread?! I DIDNT LEARN ANYTHING!

In my high school, they taught Physics way before Calculus, it doesn't really make too much sense like that.

I learned that to learn things that are "interesting", read this thread. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

and

A teacher is a person who used to think he liked children.

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