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mircea_popescu: it's not a bad novel. stendhal's rouge&noir is also.
there's more. and
the east has its own.
mircea_popescu: monks, especially in
the feminine, often don't do it voluntarily.
mircea_popescu: it's altogether not clear, for a very basic instance,
that "voluntary" is contemplated
to mean anything other
than "i didn't give my permission for
this".
mircea_popescu: also, in its dubious definition as scrawled by hands evidently more fit and more used
to farm work, "invcel" seems
to rather resemble "invpoor", as for instance in africa, or its colonies in
the us.
mircea_popescu: (which, incidentally, is a major cornerstone of all religious faith. which is why it's important
that jesus "also man")
mircea_popescu: but if i start walking around
the beatitudes a l'abbe de notre dame de courants d'air, i'll let you know.
mircea_popescu: similarly not all functions
that return nil are equal in
the way all functions
that return 4 are equal
mircea_popescu: not all virgins are
the same virgin in
the way all whores are
the same whore.
mircea_popescu: which is a ridiculous
thing for a mixed blood burgher from
the colonies
to even aspire
to, let alone pretend
to.
mircea_popescu: they also left record declaring
themselves "supreme gentlemen"
mircea_popescu: it's not entirely evident meaning works in
the way you wish it
to.
mircea_popescu: well looky :
the practical definition and
the
theoretical definition have no good reason
to match.
shinohai: Thinning of biomass currently underway at American University in Kabul, stay
tuned.
diana_coman: because
they can't evaluate really AND
they are frail at
the end of
the day
diana_coman: what I mean is
that
they will inevitably
take on something
that is bound
to end quite badly for
themselves first of all
a111: Logged on 2016-08-24 15:28 asciilifeform:
there are no postalists in places with sane population density, and sane degrees of millimortage/diem.
diana_coman: the 2yo himself basically is
the main
thing
that "could break"
diana_coman: true
that; my
thought
there was informed by
the fact
that a 2 years old can be happily kept occupied with perfectly-adequate stuff IF someone points
them
to it; on
the other hand if left on
their own,
they will ~always find a destructive
thing
to do
☟︎ diana_coman: as I said: "could have been done" has nothing
to do with putting away
the pistol/guns and all
to do with finding
the right place for
the guy, be
that 10m in
the ground, "jar" or whatever else
diana_coman: from out here
the butthurt re pistol/guns seems an entirely american
thing really
thestringpuller: danielpbarron: I must admit. Your
Twitter polls actually make a person
think before answering...
diana_coman: so
then in what sense exactly did
the guy wake up?
diana_coman: that actually reinforces
the point
that by
these standards a 2 year old who shoots someone (he found a new
toy, pulled
the
trigger
to see what) has equally woken up: chances are
that
they shoot dictionary speech people if
that is
the norm for people
mircea_popescu: then we'll sit around and wonder idly why all
the usians are uncreative and eat wheat
mircea_popescu: soon
they'll start marking down
the long copulative names with drawings
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amusingly, i suspect
that is necessary stage in english evolution
towards chinese.
mircea_popescu: ie, like sioux killing rando mpeople because "he feels"
that
the
towns streets are on "indioan land"
mircea_popescu: seems in his case it was more of "emotional
territory"
mircea_popescu: "behold, all engines have a cracked cylinder :
they all sound ; and
the diagnosis of
the cracked cylinder was made by sound".
diana_coman: also asciilifeform for all you know
those who actually died did NOT do
the "dictionary speech" while precisely
those who survived did
diana_coman: I would however put forward
the fact
that a 2 year old is perfectly capable of shooting someone with a pistol
diana_coman: I suspect
that is what asciilifeform prefers
to consider
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he is a notably broken example of
the human race.
diana_coman: or rather: at *this*
time it isn't acknowledge nor used accordingly
diana_coman: the only difference
that I see and I was putting on
the shoulders of culture is
that at
that
time
this kind of broken was acknowledged for what it was and used accordingly
diana_coman: mircea_popescu> also consider - someone like
the young rodger is
the result of careful selection over
the generations. <-
thing is: if ancients were aware of
the
type,
this selection
thing is not really
that relevant:
there probably always was,
there always will be
mircea_popescu: i suppose
the "problem" at
the
time was ~nobody was
taking russians, soviets or stalin seriously.