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Prayer & ritual: positive gains, in brief
Jan. 31st, 2010 05:42 amHaving mentioned religious faith in my brief rundown of objectivist points and being still being prey to insomnia for the sake of covering the entire argument I ought to clarify my argument.
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Prompted by this ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
bad_rpers_suck post I have to say that I’ve never understood this RP buddies = actual friends theory. I can understand becoming friends with the people you RP with, I can understand joining an RP because your friends are involved in it, I can even understand that perhaps many people do genuinely ‘want to meet new people’ and other such stock tripe that gets put on UCAS applications but that still doesn’t make friendship an instantaneous occurrence.
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bad_rpers_suck post I have to say that I’ve never understood this RP buddies = actual friends theory. I can understand becoming friends with the people you RP with, I can understand joining an RP because your friends are involved in it, I can even understand that perhaps many people do genuinely ‘want to meet new people’ and other such stock tripe that gets put on UCAS applications but that still doesn’t make friendship an instantaneous occurrence.( Read more... )
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Apr. 14th, 2009 02:18 pmAmazon calls mistake ‘embarrassing and ham-fisted’ Seattlepi.com
General roundup and theories about the entire affair.
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Earlier details.
General roundup and theories about the entire affair.
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Earlier details.
On the topic of argument
Jan. 29th, 2009 11:35 am- If you cannot explain your point even in vast swathes of words you are simply inarticulate. If you can only make your point in vast swathes of words then you’re not all that articulate either.
- If your argument results in creating a different impression to the one you had been seeking the onus is on you to rearticulate your argument or settle for being misunderstood.
- If you have to tell your audience that you possess a certain character trait in the course of your argument that they have not noticed in you themselves, you probably don’t actually possess it.
- Regardless of the impression you create you cannot dictate your audience’s reaction. And in fact attempting to do so is more likely to do your cause harm than good.
- If your argument results in creating a different impression to the one you had been seeking the onus is on you to rearticulate your argument or settle for being misunderstood.
- If you have to tell your audience that you possess a certain character trait in the course of your argument that they have not noticed in you themselves, you probably don’t actually possess it.
- Regardless of the impression you create you cannot dictate your audience’s reaction. And in fact attempting to do so is more likely to do your cause harm than good.
On LJ becoming more searchable
Oct. 10th, 2008 05:05 pmThis update from the LJ staff is an interesting thing by way of social networking.
( Which is more a case of stating that I shall gladly be opting out )
( Which is more a case of stating that I shall gladly be opting out )
For the sake of jotting things down
Mar. 22nd, 2008 10:56 amGauged in something of a degrees of repetition fashion the general trend seems to be as follows:
Step 1 – the joke is actually funny.
Step 2 – it’s getting a tad old.
Step 3 – the response to your telling it is either, being ignored outright or shrugs of indifference.
Step 4 – people actively tell you to stop.
Step 5 – people start to get distinctly uncomfortable when you start taking.
All of which applies to many things beyond bad joke renditions and may in fact already have a similar framework outlined in the Promethean sourcebook in regards to disquiet.
Bette Davis centenary The Telegraph
Which sports a wonderful image from The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, which is one of those marvellous films along with The Prisoner of Zenda that I’ve always adored.
The Cure: Ghouls who refused to die The Telegraph
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Step 1 – the joke is actually funny.
Step 2 – it’s getting a tad old.
Step 3 – the response to your telling it is either, being ignored outright or shrugs of indifference.
Step 4 – people actively tell you to stop.
Step 5 – people start to get distinctly uncomfortable when you start taking.
All of which applies to many things beyond bad joke renditions and may in fact already have a similar framework outlined in the Promethean sourcebook in regards to disquiet.
Bette Davis centenary The Telegraph
Which sports a wonderful image from The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, which is one of those marvellous films along with The Prisoner of Zenda that I’ve always adored.
The Cure: Ghouls who refused to die The Telegraph
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