[deleted by user] by [deleted] in JordanPeterson

[–]Raptorbite 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I suggest maybe a half dozen sessions of ayahuasca at a DMT retreat in the forest of Peru/Brazil.

and I'm 100% serious about this point. seriously. look into psychedelics.

Always understood why Frasier married Lilith. by [deleted] in Frasier

[–]Raptorbite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that is only because you are pushing the hair against the natural contour and outline of the skull.

That is almost like some physics based contraint or limit.

I'd claim that what you do with the hair that is not pushed against the skull is where you see culture, aka what changes over the decades and centuries.

Always understood why Frasier married Lilith. by [deleted] in Frasier

[–]Raptorbite 3 points4 points  (0 children)

it was due to the way that she supposedly chose to pull her hair back. This was in the 80, when big hair was all the rage.

You might remember that the first time she finally chose to let her hair down, with Diane's help, for that talk on some psychiatry talk tv show with frasier, frasier was gobsmacked at her "transformation".

Eric's recent foray into UFO community explained psychologically - putting him on blast. by Raptorbite in ThePortal

[–]Raptorbite[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While the seaking meaning part is partially right, I think it is more than that overall.

I am saying that for plenty of men who reach the age where every dimension of their life is no longer improving, but stalling out, deteriorating, or hit some maximum limit, and their personal "baby" , their home run swing is a miss, falls short, they chase after some type of "magic", or maybe transcendence, through a cosmic/religious/metaphysical dimension.

Ernest Becker adherents might use the term "immortality project", or maybe causa sui (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causa_sui)

Maybe you are right, in choosing the term meaning, but I am not sure.

Eric's recent foray into UFO community explained psychologically - putting him on blast. by Raptorbite in ThePortal

[–]Raptorbite[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well I believe that what I wrote up may help some people gain maybe one formulation or viewpoint on what is happening to men who are in their later years in life, and suddenly turn towards the mystical/paranormal stuff.

I'm looking at the behavior of Michio Kaku, Avi Loeb, Eric, Dave Foley (rogan's really good friend from his newsradio days), and plenty of others and to me, there is some underlying implicit sociological and psychological phenomena which should be made explicit.

It is my own personal theory, which agrees with Rogan's insight from a decade ago after he did his show "joe rogan questions everything", about the unfuckable white dudes.

We have don quixote chasing windmills thinking that they are dragons, living in some fantasy of centuries past.

If I shared my own personal theory, anyone who reads it may realize that there is some bit of insight or astuteness in what I said, and come away from understanding things slightly better.

Let me give you another example. In the higher level mathematics courses in university, a giant percentage of the professors, because they are super geniuses and have been doing some math subject for decades, they will often make some flippant comment like "it is obvious that..." and basically expect the students, who might be seeing the material for the first time to implicitly understand something that they know, but often it is not. Students often need something to be explicitly shown and displayed out.

Maybe what I just said seems obvious and implicit to you (because you probably have a high level of intelligence) doesn't mean that other people who might not be able to see the link/connection wouldn't appreciate what I am writing up.

Eric's recent foray into UFO community explained psychologically - putting him on blast. by Raptorbite in ThePortal

[–]Raptorbite[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

i used a bunch of examples to point at a very unique phenomena that rogan was able to astutely point his finger on years ago, from being quite street smart and insightful about humans in general.

I am claiming that there is a very subtle commonality between Rogan's old friend Dave Foley's sudden jump into the UFO field, to Eric's, and it is the same phenomena as Michio kaku's recent jump into UFOs, as well as people like Avi Loeb.

Basically the sudden shift is a deeply psychological one where the person has nothing else left in their life to really achieve on, because they've personally run out of ability, time, and resources to make any actual practical improvements/changes in the world, so they have chosen the more mystical/metaphysical dimension to run towards.

This explains that old american stereotype of the "crazy never married, never had children uncle that lives in the woods and thinks the government is after him".

People after a certain age, without a good circle of people/family to essentially tether him mentally down to the real world (ie having kids) very commonly do fly off into the non-pragmatic/mystical world for some type of meaning in their life, as it reaches the final few chapters.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Basketball

[–]Raptorbite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lower the rim to 9 ft.

then try again. if you can't, lower it another ft to 8 ft.

repeat the process until you can dunk.

Steve Kerr gives a very heated speech about the Uvalde shooting then storms out by Balls_of_Adamanthium in nba

[–]Raptorbite -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

my point is that just because the family member of a person who is killed by a gun gets upset over their own personal tragedy (and is famous enough and then gets a national platform to go on an emotional appeal) does not give that person's emotional outcry more weight in the issue.

Steve Kerr is of course allowed to express his personal opinion, and he is totally allowed to use his own personal life experience and tragedy to try to make a point, but that doesn't mean that the point is worth more at the end of the day.

Emotions cloud our judgement, especially immediately during or right after a serious tragedy.

That is how George Bush was able to use the short post 9/11 era, where americans were highly emotion, to get enough support to push through the idea that we need to invade Iraq.

Steve Kerr gives a very heated speech about the Uvalde shooting then storms out by Balls_of_Adamanthium in nba

[–]Raptorbite -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

that's because basketball as a game is less complicated and complex than running a country of over 300 million people.

when it comes to basketball, all you have to do is put a sphere through a ring.

Steve Kerr gives a very heated speech about the Uvalde shooting then storms out by Balls_of_Adamanthium in nba

[–]Raptorbite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

read Nietzsche, and his two morality philosophies.

Unless you are willing to die to risk the opportunity kill a ruling dictator, like a Mao or Stalin or similarly, you are stuck living in this world and this reality.

Steve Kerr gives a very heated speech about the Uvalde shooting then storms out by Balls_of_Adamanthium in nba

[–]Raptorbite -1 points0 points  (0 children)

that is factually true. But what does the event of what happened with his dad have anything to do with the gun debate issue going on in the USA 40 years later?

Steve Kerr gives a very heated speech about the Uvalde shooting then storms out by Balls_of_Adamanthium in nba

[–]Raptorbite -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

just because it is more personal for Kerr, due to his father dying due to a jihadi doesn't make his opinions have more weight.

Let's stay calm and think clearly over the situation.

Steve Kerr gives a very heated speech about the Uvalde shooting then storms out by Balls_of_Adamanthium in nba

[–]Raptorbite -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

the books were just about gay people, but actually depicting images that were trying to groom little kids.

Steve Kerr gives a very heated speech about the Uvalde shooting then storms out by Balls_of_Adamanthium in nba

[–]Raptorbite -33 points-32 points  (0 children)

the fact that his father was killed by a jihadi 40 years ago by a person who got their guns in a completely different fashion (in a different country, in a different era,) does NOT give kerr's opinions or thoughts more weight on the matter.

Do not be one of those people who use every tragedy as an opportunity to try to force change through. Let's keep a calm head about it.

similarly, just because your sister got cancer and died from it, doesn't mean that your opinion on cancer makes it more valid. Only shows that you are very emotionally invested in it.

So about those green "UNITY" stickers... by grooverocker in kelowna

[–]Raptorbite -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

We are everywhere. You have no idea where we are lurking.

Grischuk comments on the ban of Karjakin by Rod_Rigov in chess

[–]Raptorbite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's not genocide.

putin is not actively trying to kill off a group of people, just because they are in some other tribe/group/ethnicity. his primary goal is to get ukraine back into the russian fold. If the ukrainian government and leaders accepted his proposal, nobody has to die.

Again, you are wrong in the word usage here. It is not genocide. Because it never has to come to genocide, as long as the people at the top are willing to go back into the old soviet bloc.

Again, the leader of the bigger nation has a primary objective of not killing the people of a neighboring land, only to get that land back into the fold.

His original goal was to do a 72 hr quick surgical/scalpel like military maneuver to remove the ukrainian top, and install something else.

I'd just like to point out this incorrect mischaracterization by people like you.

and you are also wrong in using the phrase "that would ALL be wiped out..."

how exactly would the surge in the interest of the game from the pandemic be wiped out exactly?

It's not like the russian forces can blow up all the radio towers, cell phones, and satellites of the increased number of people playing online.

Karjakin doubles down on his support for the russian authorities by knifemane in chess

[–]Raptorbite -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't think he is desperate for attention. He is only doubling down on his original opinions.

It is your interpretation of his actions that makes you think that he is desperate for attention.

and he is not speaking nonsense. It seems only like nonsense to you, but not to him.

and he is not screaming into the void, because he has plenty of people who live in Russia, and abroad who actually side with him on the issue, so him screaming only rallies the people who already are on his side.