You know it's easier with things like this to sit back and enjoy it
Isaac Send a noteboard - 13/06/2012 02:39:35 PM
I've actually got a nice set of Tarot cards lying around and books on astrology, it's interesting stuff, just like my SF/F novels and D&D rulebooks. Utter garbage, but the methodology can be fun and it's nice to practice cold reading people, which is a handy skill to be good at. Where possible it's nice to explain to people on the edge that no, the planets really don't exert influence and no, vaccines are perfectly safe, those are neither entirely true but that's the problem. Without expertise the curious layman is simply limited to how good an 'expert' is as convincing them which tends to be controlled a lot by how pretty a picture of the world you can paint for them. Trying to explain the gravitational influence of Neptune on them is roughly the same as the 10 ton boat their neighbor parked in their driveway tends to result in them actually using a good sense of reason to say something like 'well yeah, but that's had a huge impact on my life, so so could Neptune, and that's on everyone, it's like everyone has a yacht parked in the lot next to theirs!' [that's nearly a perfect quote of a real case by the way]. The various all-natural diet/lifestyle crap is irritating but it's the mindset itself, not the specific incarnation, that's the problem, and there's little you can do about that.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein
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- Albert Einstein
King of Cairhien 20-7-2
Chancellor of the Landsraad, Archduke of Is'Mod
Facebook eye-openers.(partially NSSP)
13/06/2012 05:10:53 AM
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A cousin of my wife just posted a link to his new business
13/06/2012 12:00:19 PM
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You know it's easier with things like this to sit back and enjoy it
13/06/2012 02:39:35 PM
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The worst I got lately was football idiocy
13/06/2012 12:36:22 PM
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You complain about football comments, and then you post things like that?
13/06/2012 10:31:10 PM
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Same here
14/06/2012 12:24:46 AM
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A lot of people used to think like that
14/06/2012 10:13:27 AM
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What were his stats again?
14/06/2012 08:38:40 PM
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Because he's your only offensive player who seems at all effective?
14/06/2012 09:38:49 PM
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Hasn't he got a reputation for being able to start a fight in an empty room though?
14/06/2012 10:09:08 PM
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Maybe you can clarify...
13/06/2012 02:01:58 PM
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Maybe I can.
13/06/2012 04:55:28 PM
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Facebook is about the casual insulting of opposed political, religious and social viewpoints.
13/06/2012 07:22:57 PM
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Re: Maybe I can.
13/06/2012 07:50:53 PM
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Hm.
13/06/2012 09:52:58 PM
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Hard to think of better examples, but yeah it's hardly an automatic
13/06/2012 11:20:25 PM
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This is actually the biggest reason I dislike Facebook (and other social media).
13/06/2012 03:49:45 PM
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We have two options, as I see it: 1) Wear big boy pants; 2) Hide lots of posts.
13/06/2012 04:02:07 PM
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I'm lucky that I pretty much never see anything on Facebook that really annoys me
13/06/2012 04:23:43 PM
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I've been thinking about that.
13/06/2012 05:02:17 PM
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Same. And re: the backlash: there'd almost have to be, wouldn't there?
13/06/2012 10:18:57 PM
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An AZ cop posted a FB pic of him with kids, a gun and a bullet riddled shirt with Obamas face on it.
13/06/2012 11:40:38 PM
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I <3 the Constitution, and was only friends with you so I could cheat off your tests.
13/06/2012 09:00:07 PM
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Almost half of the comments I see on Facebook aren't even in English!
13/06/2012 11:13:00 PM
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I find a lot of interesting news on Facebook
14/06/2012 01:37:59 PM
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Same on the replacing much of what I once received from this community.
14/06/2012 09:48:15 PM
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