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Malcolm Says:
I also recently heard an interesting stat, that out of the guys under 30, 1/3rd of them are not getting laid.
Despite what you read in the stoopid glossy magazines, where the 'surveys' show that everyone is having sex all the time, that there are no STIs or risks and that relationships are just incidental... everyone in this world is attractive, and if you go more than 2 weeks without astonishing sex with a total stranger, it's just statistically aberrent...
GC, because of the point of view. It sounded to me like the guy killed himself without being convinced by everyone else, I put the burden on him to prove it, so it doesn't matter to me whether he was convinced since the proof is what killed him.
If someone asserts that reality is not real it is up to them to prove it, not for me to prove it is real.
I'd rant about how this silly thinking is a product of the UC system, but I can only handle a couple of people wanting to string me up at a time, so I won't say it.
My poor brother, he got a communications degree from UCSD, and it literally made him a poorer communicator. I don't know if it is the courses or if he just didn't show up for them. What a waste of time for him.
This is the problem I have with the postmodernists. The difference between something *real* and something *illusionary-but-perceived-exactly-as-if-real* is inconsequential.
Isn't that more the phenomenalists or empiricists? That movement dates back centuries. e.g.
After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the nonexistence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it -- "I refute it thus."
James Boswell: Life of Samuel Johnson Book 3
The postmodernists more question 'the document' and 'claims to knowledge' than the fact of existence or phenomena themselves... ref. Foucault and Derrida...
Anyhow, I am not a good postmodernist. I am a pragmatist.
erm, couldn't you be both? foucault is an ultra-pragmatist and ultra-realist when it comes to analysing politcs and power claims... that's what the whole thing's about -- removing the veil of BS from pronouncements from pollies and other 'textual' information such as the newspapers...
Different Sean:
It was just thrown out on one of those radio shows and it was surprising to me, that's all. There was no judgment or opinion on my part either way. I'm just the messenger, I didn't write it.
Actually, one does not necessarily need facts and logic to reach agreement from the other guy. One does not even need to communicate well. So long as the other guy gives in you have achieved your goal.
You don't even need him to give in, just for the mob to think he did. Just shout over him, that's the way to win an argument.
Peter P is an ironic sophist with a sense of humor.
I, on the other hand, am just an old fashioned asshole.
That's why I love debating online. The loudest anyone can get IS TO WRITE IN ALL CAPS, MAYBE ADD SOME FROWNIES.
Has anyone seen the 'until their 4' 9 use a booster chair' ads. I thought it was 60 pounds. There are a lot of people especially women who are 4'9. That seems kind of tall for a car seat.
I, on the other hand, am just an old fashioned asshole.
Huh? Oh, that's right. You made all those avatars cry. You meanie!
I'm just self centered. Not selfish though, but I am the center of my universe. Oh wait, my perceived universe, which is real to me.
I’m just self centered. Not selfish though, but I am the center of my universe. Oh wait, my perceived universe, which is real to me.
Who isn't? Until you have that out-of-body experience, you SHOULD be self-centered.
I'm still making them cry. I just picked up an angry Latvian/Finnish fanboi stalker recently who keeps sending me barely comprehensible rantings about how evol I be.
My last reply to him was something along the line of:
"muhahahahahaha"
I had the beginnings of one as a child. It was very interesting, even had the sense that I could know anything I wanted to ask, what a time to get a mental block, normally I ask too many questions.
LOL
I actually don't taunt many FBs, unless they are named Casey and make a blog parade out of it.
I do taunt stuffed hair shirt academics and weeping fatso fanbois who think a computer game with jerky, clunky graphics represents a brave new world in which they are the future playboys and oligarchs.
I really need to check out this SL thing. I was always fine just playing monopoly.
Perhaps Patrick should open a shop on SL. I suspect they may soon have housing bubbles.
Not if their reality is that house prices go up 15% per year just because they do. I wonder if David Lereah is a sophist?
RE: Holden
Wow. I hope they have more seafood shipments from down under as well.
Malcolm Says:
It was just thrown out on one of those radio shows and it was surprising to me, that’s all. There was no judgment or opinion on my part either way.
reread my reply, malcolm -- irony.
self-ironic irony... i believe the 1/3 stat, it's more likely in all reality than the GQ or FHM or Cosmo image... I think most women are pre-wired to play it safe and restrict sexual access for psycho-biological reasons, but it can vary across cultures... in many species, selection revolves entirely around female choice...
hmm, a straw man like 'rich libs using carbon taxes to assuage their consciences'?
The thing I can't figure out though, the guys that I know that fall into the category are not ugly nerds, or even losers. One is actually an attorney, whether that's good or bad I don't know.
Yet, I see the ugliest people walking around with kids. I can't figure it out. There's a good song that goes "been around the world to only find that stupid people are breeding....."
When I heard the term 'breeder' a few years ago, I hit the deck laughing. That is the funniest thing to call someone.
"If I start a speculation fund today, would you send me money?"
What would you call it?
The name "GC Speculation Fund" would be a marketing tragedy.
GC stands for Gentle Cheetah, right?
The "Grand Cheetah Fund" sounds cool.
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During the boom, if borrowers asked about the adjustable rates on their mortgages, they were told "oh, you can just refinance and start over".
But no one told them you can't refinance if your house is under water, that is, if the loan amount is more than the value of the house. Banks won't go for that, even in the continuing lax lending environment.
So their rates will adjust upward, and they won't be able to pay the mortgage, or refinance, or sell for what they paid.
Interesting times ahead.
Patrick
#housing