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Sorry Unseen

i knew a guy in his 30s who had a pacemaker. Pacemaker had to be replaced once every decade. Told me there was a 1 percent chance he would die. He died. Statistics are filled in by the unfortunate.

Unseen wrote…When was your gf hysterical? Was she aware it was about to happen or was she hysterical during or afterward? Did your “aaaaaaaaaaaah” alert her that something bad was about to happen?

My scream cued her into what was about to happen. During and immediately after she was wild with fear. As soon as i cracked the joke she smiled and…[Read more]

Unseen wrote…One observation I often make in discussions about death is “Dying is an experience. Death is not.”

That is a great line. I wonder whether there is flexibility in the definition of death. As our medical knowledge grows our capability of doing the Lazarus shuffle increases. Last decade’s dead man is perhaps waiting to be res…[Read more]

Rest in peace is a nonsense notion. One can no more rest in peace than in a state of turmoil. Rest requires a you. Aint no you in the great beyond.

I get the connection with anesthesia. But i like the stories of how it actually feels to die. And many humans have been clinically dead and come back. My uncle had that experience. He said he lied…[Read more]

If the Greeks of antiquity had come to dominate the world in the way that the Greek Freak dominated the NBA finals then the Barbarians might have adopted the term People of barbarism.

Yeah Unseen i think what you are getting at is that the perspective of the dominant population produces the descriptors of others. It is so arbitrary to refer to Blacks as colored or people of color. Except it is not arbitrary. It is because White or what passes for white is the normal default state of humans. Had the Blacks conquered Whites then…[Read more]

Yeah Pope it is a mainstream thing. No doubt. It is also stupid as can be.

I’ve come up with a brilliant acronym to replace POC. In so doing the stain of coloured and all associations is abjured and rebuked. The stain is the abhorrent and implicit meaning in which Whites are standard model default ACTUAL humans and Blacks are colored, debased…[Read more]

Pope you have served up a lot of meat. And i am a vegetarian. Thanks for sharing part of your experience with mental illness which by the way is a bit of a misnomer. But goddamnit don’t get me going on that!

Pope: I’m good with PoV usage evolving to invoke pride, while you’re good with pointing out its historical malicious usage. That is not com…[Read more]

Cop a poc. Poc da Poc. That horse is a lock. https://zaroorat.in/2021/06/23/campbell-whats-the-name-study-finds-bettors-inappropriately-influenced-by-horse-names-horse-racing-news/ Bettors are influenced by names. Fast Buck Freddy is gonna take more action than is warranted on his PPs. Hmmm. What is in a name?

Better more neutral descriptions of…[Read more]

Good luck new learner of English in getting that meaning of sick.

Pope, there is no question that language evolves. If you read old literature you are cognizant of words that are archaic and words that once were this and now that. And the this words sometimes change meanings when they become that. There is some scale or other that purports to give the frequency of various word usage during prior years or…[Read more]

Pope, it does not work for me. The three or four authors took the position more or less that the term POC is an expression of the opposition to oppression by Whites. A united front. (Yeah i am paraphrasing without any bs) On that basis the addition of other populations that are now included in POC minimizes those groups who have suffered the…[Read more]

Quick addendum: An entire population or populations ought never be defined by their nexus to another group particularly when that nexus paints them in a bad light-the lens through which they had been perceived.

Hay.la.luyah Simon…glad to know somebody agrees with me.

Most of the authors i read who dislike the term, POC, are opposed because of how it has broadened in meaning to be more inclusive. In being more inclusive it fails to distinguish the levels of oppression various people have experienced. For me that is legit but secondary. STOPS the rant…[Read more]