tmsr - Search: ordeal

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: dun matter how many day ordeal, cost will still be 2+x of otherwise.

BingoBoingo: As long as everything has invoices you can present, customs doesn't *have* to be multi-day ordeal

BingoBoingo: With the lessons learned on the way to my UY cedula, we can probably condense the next fellow's ordeal down to 3-ish weeks.

asciilifeform: ( it is pretty great b00k, all around, and quite 'liberal' even, contrary to what the derps in amerischool 'teach' about it -- forbade trials by ordeal, imposed procedure , proclaimed heretical some of the moar odd claims popular at the time re subj )

mimisbrunnr: Logged on 2018-03-23 16:22 douchebag: I don't see why every single thing that happens in this channel has to turn into some big ordeal

ben_vulpes: douchebag: it's only an ordeal because you dig your heels in when told what to do.

douchebag: I don't see why every single thing that happens in this channel has to turn into some big ordeal

BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I've been ferrying a miss trainwreck around as favor to her sponsor. Very entertaining ordeal.

mircea_popescu: ordeal is what your mom doesn't want to happen to you.

a111: Logged on 2016-09-17 06:15 trinque: ordeal is therapeutic; psychdelics maybe if they cause a beneficial ordeal

trinque: ordeal is therapeutic; psychdelics maybe if they cause a beneficial ordeal ☟︎

mircea_popescu: utside of the bedeviling god's tight scaly ring, and the dreadful ogres dissolve. It is in this ordeal that the hero may derive hope and assurance from the helpful female figure, by whose magic (pollen charms or power of intercession) he is protected through all the frightening experiences of the father's ego-shattering initiation. For if it is impossible to trust the terrifying father-face, then one's faith must be ce

asciilifeform: (criminology has zero to do with scientific evidence and everything to do with adjudicated guilt and confession. just the same today as it did when folks were tried by ordeal a thousand years ago.)

wilbns: mircea_popescu: it just seemed like something was/is a bit strange about the whole ordeal

asciilifeform recalls the ordeal of convincing mircea_popescu that al schwartz isn't a 'timecube'

williamdunne: Well yes, most of the time they take it overboard and it ends up being a suicidal ordeal

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: if mp likes n00bs, then let's see if he agrees that this should make their ordeal more rational (if not lighter) than it is currently.

asciilifeform: incidentally, 'trial by ordeal' - in particular, methods which involve functions of the parasympathetic nervous system, e.g., hot coals or modern 'lie detector' - are ancient.

The20YearIRCloud: becuase that's what happened. A ATF agent got a guy to cut a inch off a shotgun in exchange for $200, then started a whole ordeal over it

BingoBoingo: The shitty thing about the ordeal on them asking about the goddamned Silk Road I didn't use was their knocking woke me up from my day-slumber

locksmith: I'm thinking it's best to live with someone, and if you end up not liking each other just split up. what's the point of bringing the state into the whole ordeal

the20year: Even now , if I wanted to be mr legal eagle, I Could use said investment funds to pay for a PPM and get those same fiat investors, and my personal contribution to the whole ordeal is $500

Namworld: It occured. Your identity is known. There's tracks of the whole ordeal. You're arbitrarily voiding DMC 1.0 shares and taking the assets to start and sell shares in DMC 2.0

mircea_popescu: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Ordeal_of_water.jpg

mircea_popescu: BTC-Mining is this turning into a pirate, 23/690 accts paid sorta ordeal ?

BTC-Mining: Good, you never answered to that before. Arf, what an ordeal. Could have ended much earlier.