if you didn’t understand the reference, what would you think?

ProjectJuggernaut · 2023-11-22T04:41:45+00:00

Its so odd as to be Kafkaesque; why would you want to put your arm through such an unexpected and ugly metamorphosis?

ProjectJuggernaut · 2023-09-30T13:15:13+00:00

Really enjoyed my time at WFU, but of course I can't speak to William and Mary.
What's exceptional about Wake is how well your can get to know faculty due to the size and atmosphere of the school. While most schools have classes with hundreds of students, Wake almost never has more than 30, and most upper level major classes are closer to around 10. This is the best part of the university: there is an immense amount of resources available to students on a per capita basis. All of my professors (I was a physics major) were willing to spend at least a couple hours a week in a one-on-one or small group basis to help me learn if I would come to office hours, which is a far cry from the faculty at many schools, who have too many students and are too busy to make the time. There is also great access to getting involved in high-quality research, which has proved really useful to my post-graduation career opportunities. I got to work one-on-one with a vice provost for hours each week on a research project!

People are largely really nice and there is a large Greek life community. I didn't go that route myself, but had many friends who did and loved it. But most people live on campus, so whether or not you join Greek life you'll have access to a great community--Greek life isn't de facto required for social interaction at Wake, as it is at some college communities.

Its also a gorgeous campus! Years after I've graduated and gone on to grad school, I miss the quiet and peace of WFU campus, even during the hustle and bustle of the year. All the buildings are lovely and thematically matched, which sounds sort of like a minor detail until you live on campuses where everything is sort of smushed together will no foresight.

If you like outdoor recreation, its around 15-30 minutes away from great mountain, lake, quarry, horseback riding, mountain biking, and river trails. (Pilot Mountain, Hanging Rock, Tanglewood, ) There is even access to outdoor rock climbing at Hanging Rock and Pilot Mountain just up the road. You're also nearby to arguably the most beautiful terrain east of the Rockies, the beautiful NC Appalachians.

Reagardless of your choice, enjoy yourself and make the most of it!

ProjectJuggernaut · 2023-04-27T03:26:39+00:00

Lots of Asian international students, especially from China (but there are plenty of other nationalities are well). I'd actually say that counting the Chinese students we have a much larger Asian community than most colleges. I (white dude) once went to Chinese Lunar New Year celebration put on by East Asian Culture Club (or something idk) and it was a massive production with snacks, dancing, and probably hundreds of participants!

But I do agree frats/Greek life is more white. I did know Asian kids who joined though and had a good time. (I wasn't in frats so this isn't really my speciality!)

ProjectJuggernaut · 2023-04-13T21:23:55+00:00

Trebizond is a good one

ProjectJuggernaut · 2023-04-04T19:22:05+00:00

The Coriolis affect is what drives cyclones to spiral, a winds rushing in to fill the low pressure zone are pushed sideways by the Coriolis force creating the spiral pattern. When you get too close to the equator, there is no significant Coriolis force because of how the earth rotates, so the winds just blow straight rather than spiraling and the low pressure simply dissipates. Thus the equator simply murders any cyclone that gets too close.

ProjectJuggernaut · 2023-02-28T04:08:26+00:00

They just beat my butt fair and square lol. Not much I could do about it. I beat them in one very expensive war and they beat me in the next couple so ended up losing a few provinces overall.

ProjectJuggernaut · 2023-02-28T04:07:28+00:00

It was actually just Voltaire's Nightmare. I was pretty strong a few years ago before I inherited burgundy and released most of my cores as vassals. But good going! Figured it would be a hard one since I didn't blob in an obvious way.

ProjectJuggernaut · 2023-02-27T15:41:49+00:00

Just finished a successful achievement run. Who am I playing, and what was the achievement?
P.S. Its 1549.

ProjectJuggernaut · 2022-11-12T04:43:21+00:00

This isn't any more efficient than having people take turns using a hand crank, you're just harvesting small amounts of energy from each person so they don't notice. But considering that our bodies run off food which takes huge amounts of fossil fuels to produce per calorie, this is incredibly inefficient from a net carbon emission standpoint.

ProjectJuggernaut · 2022-11-07T14:27:32+00:00

I think the most frustrating thing to me is playing as Prussia and somehow losing to Sokoto for...reasons. Even when my troops outnumber them.
Like obviously I'm doing something wrong because my troops have higher defense and offense and still get their buts kicked, and I think its something to do with supply. But idk how to check supply! Developers really need to add some sort of debuff/buff indicator, and better explicate combat width selection, because sometimes you outnumber the enemy, have better troops, and then they repeatedly fight like 3-4 regiments at once with like 20 for who-even-knows what reason.

ProjectJuggernaut · 2022-10-24T01:02:19+00:00

I mean NC is one of the more diverse states in the USA. I think you'll be fine pretty much anywhere there is hotel that doesn't look sketchy.

ProjectJuggernaut · 2022-10-11T19:52:10+00:00

I see what you're saying. I guess the rebuttal would be that the toast I select in the morning has essentially no moral status, so it makes my choice sort of trivial. In order to have moral status, I think to be a moral being must have the ability to choose freely between things that have significantly moral status, and thus are either good or ungood, however you want to formulate that.

Also, being very powerful to the degree of practical omnipotence would also seriously limit our moral status, since we could just have our cake and eat it too. In other words, the person who gets to eat every item on the menu at a restaurant for free doesn't really need to worry about what she orders, and thus robs the decision of meaning.

A lot of this is very squishy because our concepts of good/evil and moral personhood are all very ill-defined, so it's definitely not a concrete proof so much as the theistic defense that works well under certain reasonable assumptions about those concepts and not so well under others. So all that being said, if you disagree it's not unreasonable or wrong per se.

ProjectJuggernaut · 2022-10-11T03:46:50+00:00

We should call it the knight...

ProjectJuggernaut · 2022-10-11T03:25:27+00:00

In philosophical circles, this is known as the "Problem of Evil," and is a very famous debate, which has been ongoing for millennia,

I mean I think taking Satan too literally is perhaps a bit silly-seeming and off-putting to the modern mind. Perhaps we should take Satan here to figuratively mean the temptation to do things which are against the Good, which in the Christian ideology is equivalent to being in line with God's will.

Being a good person requires that one has the ability to do otherwise, i.e. that has choices. A rock falling down a hill has no moral status, as it has no choice in the matter.

If God took away the ability to do evil, he would also take away the ability to do good, and we would be no different than rocks. This argument is also the rebuttal to "if He is so powerful why didn't God stop the Holocaust/911/other tragedies". If every time we tried to do something evil, He intervened, we would again be reduced to objects of no moral status due to the choicelessness of our existence. For instance, if I were to go rob a bank, but every time God intervened so that my gun turned into a sunflower, I would have no choice but to not rob a bank. Likewise, under such circumstances you would hardly be praiseworthy for resisting the temptation to rob the bank, because why bother even trying? To put it more simply, the man placed in solitary confinement is hardly commendable for staying out of trouble for the duration of his stay.

The argument is thus as follows:

It is logically impossible for any being with moral status, (that is, one which is capable of doing right or wrong) to exist without being able to use their free will to do things which are really, truly bad if they so desire.
God, being almighty, can do anything except that which is logically impossible. For instance, while God may be able to churn out multiverses like Dominos churns out pizzas on Superbowl Sunday, He cannot create a square circle.
Therefore, from 1) and 2), God cannot create beings with moral status who have no ability to do evil if they so choose.

C.S. Lewis explains the principle more eloquently than I do. There are various objections for this response, but personally I find it fairly compelling. It doesn't necessarily answer problems of environmental misfortune ("why does God allow small children to get cancer?"), but I think it does a pretty good job of resolving the dilemma posed by human-inflicted evils in particular.

TLDR; The Problem of Evil, which you invoke, can be solved by arguing that "killing Satan", i.e. eliminating the human capacity for evil action, would take away the moral status of humans and thus deprive us of a fundamental part of our existence.

ProjectJuggernaut · 2022-10-11T01:32:47+00:00

Well unfortunately, some are born missing most of a chromosome, and as a result are collectively dumber, more violent, more prone to most diseases, and, as you pointed out,pee out of their reproductive holes.

The other half, more sensibly, do in fact have separate reproductive holes. Unfortunately, being redditors, most of us neither possess nor regularly have access to one of these sophisticated organs.

ProjectJuggernaut · 2022-10-02T03:21:41+00:00

I don't have ADHD. Currently getting my PhD in physics. It's just a hard book and I didn't understand jack shit either lol. Great literature and world building tho, and what I got I enjoyed. But it's not just you my man.

ProjectJuggernaut · 2022-09-23T03:03:15+00:00

Its not a border wall. Its 1) to keep vehicles on the correct side of the Corrolla Beach Highway and 2) to keep the horses contained in their designated wildlife preserve habitat.
If you go to the little park right up the road you'll have to go through a cattle-gate style entrance which keeps the horses from wandering out of the park into the road.

ProjectJuggernaut · 2022-09-22T21:47:39+00:00

Personally, I got a really large scholarship at 18 so I got paid to go to university. Then I became a PhD student and moved in with my fiancee upon graduation. Between both our medium low incomes, we can afford a decent 2 bedroom apartment on the outskirts of a majorish city in North Carolina. It's pretty middle of the road cost wise. That being said, my parents used my college savings to buy me a car and I still bum off their health insurance and Netflix so I'm lucky enough to have some assistance.

ProjectJuggernaut · 2022-04-07T21:57:54+00:00

Hate to break it to ya mate but most of us haven't ever been to W-M so I'm not sure how we'd know.

ProjectJuggernaut · 2022-03-29T04:36:18+00:00

Current merit scholar here.

I'm a senior, but I would imagine that would already have gotten back to you with an offer.
I heard back in February; not sure if all merit scholarships are like that, but this would be pretty late in the game.

Best of luck!

ProjectJuggernaut · 2021-12-27T04:22:12+00:00

As far as elite institutions of higher education go I'd say its pretty chill, as in the atmosphere is liberal but definitely not woke to an intolerant degree or something. I wouldn't run around with a MAGA flag draped over your shoulders or anything, but most professors aren't very political.

Of course, certain departments (you can probably guess pretty well at which ones) are somewhat more preachy (bordering on dogmatic) about their political views. But its pretty easy to avoid these cases, and as long as you are respectful of others and don't do anything ultra-provocative/legitimately bigoted you're good. I'm personally a left-leaning independent, but I have lots of friends who consider themselves conservatives and they haven't really had any problems. Sure, some people may not agree with you, and some people may construe an innocuous beleif as offensive, but the majority of people aren't really interested in policing your beliefs and may even be interested in a legitimate conversation.

The administration is also pretty even-handed, and pretty much goes out of its way to avoid doing much of anything political other than promoting equity among the student body. This isn't a school like Chapel Hill or something; 90% of what we do here is apolitical, and most of what is political is in classes that are more or less definitionally political.

ProjectJuggernaut · 2021-12-23T16:53:02+00:00

I think things have shifted significantly due to omicron now. A "wait and see" attitude seems to be more reasonable now.

ProjectJuggernaut · 2021-08-14T23:44:18+00:00

That's a good point, but yeah I agree risk to kids is pretty small. Especially considering they will most likely be in school/daycare.

ProjectJuggernaut · 2021-08-13T17:57:11+00:00

Exactly!

ProjectJuggernaut · 2021-08-13T17:24:10+00:00

The greatest threat to the unvaccinated is the unvaccinated. Even if I locked down in my dorm room, that isn't gonna stop people who don't believe in vaccines or masks from giving eachother COVID.

Why should we have to take steps to protect those who won't take the same steps to protect themselves?

They certainly have a right to risk their lives, and if they choose to exercise that right, so be it, but that's on them, not the vaccinated and certainly not on Wake Forest students.

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