zontar
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oh yeah, the survey...... can we pause the pissing match and personal verbiage for a moment?
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jenb
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That's pretty much what DGCR has become. The same posts have been recycled hundreds of times since 2007 and DGCR lags behind Udisc in terms of reviews/course information and innovation so there's not much left to do other than to have pissing matches.
Skamanda
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Wow, you post on a disc golf forum, but your favorite hobby is apparently putting words in other peoples mouths.
Don't ever assume I said anything I didn't say, or directly refer to. I don't care one whit what happened in the pages before I chimed in on this post. I'm responding specifically to what was said to him while I was around, and the ensuing responses. I honestly couldn't care less about the farce of a survey the PDGA sent out, or what any of you not on the board think of it.
Also, you all may be randos to me, but I've known ChrisWoj for many years. His character spoke well of him well before I noticed he was on this message board. You, on the other hand, I can only judge by your grumpiness. Can't say I'd want to get to know you in person, based on that.
Skamanda
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Sorry, but when it comes to political ideologies there is no distinction to be made there. Single, particular nutty statements are precisely what fueled the decline of the Republican party, and modern conservative ideology.
And sorry, I'm not young and naive enough to believe that I can't infer what isn't being said to fill a silence, when it comes to a huge portion of people throwing themselves gleefully off the cliffs of insanity, and what those in their party aren't saying to regulate that, or dial it back. You can pretend you've got some ground to infantilize my mental faculties in that regard, but don't ever expect me to come within a light year of believing it.
On the bright side, participation is voluntary.
Skamanda
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You're right. Conservatives are an awful lot braver online than they would be in person.
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The same could be said about liberals or Libertarians or classical liberals or centrists or socialists or racists or anyone else.
I'll admit, I like inferring others' beliefs as well. It frees me to continue the debate, long after they've left the room, and pads my debate winning percentage considerably.
Skamanda
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Maybe some. I'm actually way more polite in here, because I don't want to tax the mods/admins. If half the stuff that's been said in this thread were said to my face, people would've left in tears from what I said to them. <3
The perception could be that I've "lost" every conversation I am a part of and that'd be fine. I see what you seem to be insinuating I'm going for with my posts - but the fact is that no matter the venue I will be as I am. Winning isn't the point, and never will be.
TBF... the only thing I *want* to have to care about is disc golf. Needing to focus on the rest of this stuff is exhausting and annoying. But thus is life. We're all a part of this great big interconnected bunch of bull****, and we all decide how we'll play a role. I've decided how I'll play mine. But for sure.... I'd much rather have to ONLY talk about disc golf for the rest of my days.
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It was intended to be tongue-in-cheek. Not that you've lost any conversations. Just that it's better to rebutt Shallows for what he said -- or, for that matter, me for things that I've said -- than to impugn people with what they haven't said. Lord knows, I've supplied sufficient ammunition for return fire on myself.
Skamanda
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Isn't it sad that the conservative existence focuses solely on winning, not what is being won, or how, or at what cost, or whether it's worth winning? The rest of the planet is actually living, and those poor souls are just angry that they aren't totally on top of everyone else... :clap:
Spectacledbear
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Did you just type this unironically.
Skamanda
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What other way would it make any sense to type it? I'm rather proud of making bigots storm off in a huff. It's something of a hobby of mine. A game I play, anywhere I find them.
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I bet you find them often. Anyone with a differing opinion, right? :wall:
Spectacledbear
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You try to sound hard when in reality youre not. Thats why what you posted was so laughable.
I would like to definitely continue to recommend the book We Are Our Brains by D.F. Swaab - a brilliant neurobiologist and the head of the Netherlands Institute for Brain Research for over two decades.Let's get back on topic
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20260137-we-are-our-brains
The key takeaway from this book is just how important the brain is to our identity as an organ. I can not see how a chromosome or genitalia could possibly be more important than the brain as the nexus for personhood. Some of the primary critiques of the book insist upon the idea that the neurochemical signaling in the nervous system (primarily the central nervous system) is somehow separate from the actuality of the mind - but as yet there is no evidence that this is so. All evidence thus far points to our being as tied up in our neurochemistry. What we perceive as the "mind" is in its wholeness the neurochemical interactions of our physicality.
This is who we are, and that is more relevant than any other physical attributes we may possess.
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