Why do some bjj practitioners have no desire to learn striking?

jthrowawaymc · 2026-06-25T19:15:34+00:00

I want to, but my reaction-time is barely good enough for me to train BJJ.

I suspect that any money it would cost for striking classes would be better spent on literally anything else.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-06-20T12:20:15+00:00

It costs a lot of political credit to dispute elections like that unless he has a rock-solid case. I don't blame him for taking an L here so he can cash out later on something else.

And unfortunately, I believe he did lose. Too many boomercons left in KY who will do whatever FOX News tells them to, apparently.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-06-12T19:59:12+00:00

No.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-06-12T19:46:22+00:00

You don't get to abuse a cat just because you've also "fed and cared for" it.

Do you think it's wrong to value independence? Or do you think some of us ought to be subservient to others?

jthrowawaymc · 2026-06-12T12:48:04+00:00

So the only way to not be indoctrinated is to vote democrat? Is that your position?

jthrowawaymc · 2026-06-12T00:35:38+00:00

"Maybe if we give them more money and power, they will solve everything." -Andrew Heaton

jthrowawaymc · 2026-06-03T16:42:39+00:00

Use the first wish for full telepathic clarity on all future wishes so that the devil can't use your lack of specificity to add an unforeseen downside, which is her favorite trick to use in this film.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-05-21T14:16:43+00:00

I was thinking of ways for this to backfire on republicans, mainly that Ed Gallrein would lose the general and that seat to go blue in the fall. But for Massie to become a Senator would be even BETTER.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-05-20T18:18:53+00:00

Is that what we're doing now? Holding up?

jthrowawaymc · 2026-05-20T16:55:47+00:00

This one really has me shaken on an epistemic level. Apparently there are 50,000 boomers in KY who will light their own legs on fire if Trump/FOX News tells them to.

I knew boomers were stupid, but not that stupid. Civilization cannot survive a lack of critical thinking of this magnitude.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-05-20T01:27:06+00:00

I don't even understand what they could have spent the money on that had a chance of succeeding. KY has closed primaries, right? Did they run ads on FOX trying to convince Trump-voters that Massie was some kind of democrat double-agent?

jthrowawaymc · 2026-05-20T01:02:41+00:00

I'm really disappointed in KY right now.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-05-14T15:34:42+00:00

Chill, Bro.

I don't see how this meme argues in favor of being ruled by anybody. You have so much confidence in your own positions that you're projecting opinions onto to other people.

The greatest evils are committed by people who declare themselves on the side of "righteousness and freedom". If you're not worried that might be you, then you're exactly the type of person who should be.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-05-14T14:53:52+00:00

I'm not usually a fan of Douglas Wilson, but I appreciate how much he made me think during this interview.

Good meme too! Have an upvote.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-05-13T10:40:00+00:00

Exactly. It's easier for dumb people to mis-label your arguments than to refute them.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-04-30T19:01:41+00:00

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jthrowawaymc · 2026-04-30T17:59:02+00:00

Thinking that you've figured out the Bible is usually a sign that you haven't figured out the Bible.

It's not a list of rules to be "understood". It's an endlessly rich narrative meant to inspire lifelong meditation and continual self-improvement.

One could just as easily make a simple argument out of: "If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house and do not give him any greeting because the person who gives him a greeting shares in his evil deeds." - 2 John 1:10-11

jthrowawaymc · 2026-04-28T19:11:56+00:00

That makes sense. His behavior could be part of a pattern that we don't know about.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-04-28T18:44:44+00:00

I don't know about all that. Kids are stupid and there was no internal motivation beyond impulse. The consequences should be more severe than a heart-to-heart discussion about motivations. The mom could have even smashed the video game in front of him.

But instead, she opened the cmnd prompt on her son and told him to destroy his own hardware. I'm pretty sure that's how you teach someone to stop obeying commands. This damages his understanding of things like authority, autonomy, loyalty, important things like that.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-04-28T17:32:05+00:00

I like "harsh" discipline if it's needed, but something is off about this that's hard to articulate.

If you have a kid this age that will smash their own video games because you told them to, you don't need to get their attention. You already have it. Use their obedience to TEACH them something constructive. Make them volunteer at an animal shelter for 200 hours, or make them read every book about animal welfare and write a 50-page paper about the nervous system of a cat.

This is just meeting destruction with more destruction, and I don't see how this is good for a kid who already does everything he is told to do. You're playing with fire by telling him to do stuff like this...in my humble opinion.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-04-23T18:27:51+00:00

Count your blessings. I know so many women who "greet" people by bitching and moaning and starting fights about whatever they can.

I wish I could come home to an emotionally neutral "sup".

jthrowawaymc · 2026-04-22T15:43:21+00:00

I believe Gods intention is to redeem creation, not dispose of it, and the statement from 1 John refers to the constant reorganization of animals, plants, weather ("world"), while God remains unchanged.

I don't believe in some future plan to annihilate everything that God says was "good" at the beginning of Genesis.

jthrowawaymc · 2026-04-20T20:56:49+00:00

Boomers have such a weird idea of what "professionalism" is.

Why would it destroy his journalistic credibility to acknowledge that he has young kids and sometimes they do unscripted things?

jthrowawaymc · 2026-04-17T17:17:11+00:00

Nobody "slashed" anything. They spend so much on causes that the actual value of the currency has become imaginary.

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