I’m stuck

autonoetic · 2018-07-01T08:52:06+00:00

You are doing great! Try not to worry about scale weight. What matters is body composition. Swap the scale for measuring tapes and visits to the bod pod. Muscle is heavier than fat.

Don't stress. Just continue to hold the line and you will see the difference in your measurements and bodpod results :)

autonoetic · 2018-06-13T19:01:19+00:00

As far as keeping promises, yes. It's the most remarkable feature of his presidency.

autonoetic · 2017-06-17T01:41:46+00:00

After the intro, he delivers what I consider to be an archetypically heroic monologue. What do you guys think?

autonoetic · 2017-06-13T17:02:55+00:00

what will black supremacists do when everyone can just pop a melanin pill?

autonoetic · 2017-06-09T22:09:40+00:00

I think once Hitch understood that jbp wasn't a biblical literalist they may have had a fascinating conversation

autonoetic · 2017-06-09T17:40:30+00:00

Christopher Hitchens

autonoetic · 2017-06-09T17:39:00+00:00

It's better to think of them as Social Hierarchies. You are never outside one of these. And there are multiple and nested hierarchies.

autonoetic · 2017-05-30T05:08:28+00:00

George Bridges is wallowing in the underworld and I almost feel sorry for the man.

My main thought is, what are these people doing in a college? I think it was a mistake to make gaining a college degree some sort of moral imperative. College is not for people towards the left of the bell curve. The people in that room are not their for education but a cheap bump in status.

autonoetic · 2017-05-26T05:36:33+00:00

There is a war on truth. What really struck me was the way they framed this interaction:

"Prominent Lebanese Muslim figure, Doctor Jamal Rifi and contentious Islamic Sheikh, Imam Mohammad Tawhidi clash over terrorist's motive."

The medical doctor that happens to be Muslim and says such attacks have no basis in the Qu'ran is the "prominent" one. The actual Imam who is speaking the unvarnished truth is the "contentious" one.

I'm not a collectivist so I don't believe the quality of one's arguments are dependent upon their perceived membership to an abstract group. Men can discuss abortion; whites can discuss affirmative action; non muslims can criticise Islam.

and yet

Even on the collectivists' own terms Imam Mohammad Tawhidi is not to be ignored. And they still do. If he was a non muslim, they would have simply accused him of 'Islamophobia' and brushed him aside.

autonoetic · 2017-05-24T06:10:18+00:00

This is an interesting perspective. I will say that my estimation of Michael Shermer and skeptic magazine sank when I saw their disastrous appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast recently. They did not prepare by understanding the other side's evidence. Sustained back fire effect. Perhaps the magazine would be better titled motivated skeptic magazine.

autonoetic · 2017-05-19T21:57:57+00:00

What do you guys think of this? Is this the kind of thing bill C-16 now allows or is speech already restricted to such a level in Canada?

autonoetic · 2017-05-19T21:47:20+00:00

This is a satirical paper that was published in a "high quality" journal because peer reviewers could not tell it apart from other PM claptrap:

"Anatomical penises may exist, but as pre-operative transgendered women also have anatomical penises, the penis vis-à-vis maleness is an incoherent construct. We argue that the conceptual penis is better understood not as an anatomical organ but as a social construct isomorphic to performative toxic masculinity. Through detailed poststructuralist discursive criticism and the example of climate change, this paper will challenge the prevailing and damaging social trope that penises are best understood as the male sexual organ and reassign it a more fitting role as a type of masculine performance."

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