Jim

Unseen wrote:
You’re arguing that men (individual men) retain their mates via the patriarchy (which you characterize as unconscious) rather than through making themselves more attractive (which would be conscious, presumably). But I don’t think women marry men they don’t find attractive somehow.

What men try and do, and what women want to do, a…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers,

That’s “Yet another diary entry.”

Fortunately, I notified my Managers about the lack of knowledge of my trainee had with U.S. coinage and my Managers agreed this was a problem and they will be transferring my trainee to another department.

There are some object lessons to learn here:

One, DEI should DIE! The only reason an…[Read more]

Reg and Fellow Unbelievers,

Valid concerns about anti-Muslim bigotry should not be used as an excuse to appease Islamist fanatics

On Friday and Safurday at my workplace, my Managers taked me with training a new employee all the tasks involved with being a cashier. The new employee was to work on my register while my money till was in and my…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
But the patriarchy isn’t voted in. It’s actually a fundamental orientation of males, given the male-female reproductive differences where the male gives up millions of cheap sperm while the female carries a few costly babies. So, the male reproduces by finding as many females as possible, and the female by finding as much res…

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Belle Rose,

Kindest thoughts to you and yours at your time of loss.🥀

FYI – I posted an article in this week’s Long Reads about patriarchy.

Unseen wrote:
If the GOP represents patriarchy to a greater extent than the Democratic Party, it’s interesting that white women tend to lean toward voting GOP. (source) I guess you would characterize that as “liking to be repressed.”

Another reason might be the way in which patriarchy gets confused with pair-bonding, since both are general metho…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
The patriarchy we have, such as it is, is through the assent of the citizenry. Women now have the vote and tend to slightly dominate voting. For starters, there are at last count (2022), there were 7.4 million more women than men registered to vote (source)

But the patriarchy isn’t voted in.  It’s actually a fundamental orientation…[Read more]

Belle Rose wrote:
My biological Mom died today 😢

So sorry. Staying active and interested is always the best way to keep from going off the rails.

Simon Paynton wrote:
@unseen – you seem to be thrashing around somewhat in your efforts to say that patriarchy doesn’t exist, or that women like being oppressed, or something.

“…or something.” So, you admit at the start that you are arguing strenuously against something you don’t really understand.

The patriarchy we have, such as it is, is thr…[Read more]

Abbott might be Trump’s VP nomination too!

Reg,

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tells U.N. to ‘go pound sand’ after LGBTQ+ rights criticism.

The United Nations–with Russia and Red China as permanent Members of The Security Council, with an entire Islamic Bloc and a Third World/”South” Bloc with the worst human rights records on the Planet–has no right or moral place condemning anyone on Hum…[Read more]

Belle Rose wrote:
The grandson ponders this for a moment and then asked, “Grandfather, which wolf will win?”

The old Cherokee smiled and simply said, “The one you feed”.

I think that’s very true.  There’s even a precise definition of light and dark: achieving one’s goals to mutual benefit, or achieving one’s goals at the expense of others[Read more]

It reminds me of the story of two wolves:

The story of the two wolves
An old Cherokee Indian chief was teaching his grandson about life.

He said, “A fight is going on inside me,” he told the young boy, “a fight between two wolves.

The Dark one is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment,…[Read more]

“What can I do to think more skeptically?”

Adopt some basic principles of critical thinking:

Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence. This principle was proposed by David Hume and popularized by Carl Sagan. We probably wouldn’t request evidence if someone boasts of having a 2020 penny in their pocket—but we likely would if they c…[Read more]

Have a great week!

Kaufman, Scott Barry; David Bryce Yaden; Elizabeth Hyde; and Eli Tsukayama – “The Light vs. Dark Triad of Personality: Contrasting Two Very Different Profiles of Human Nature”: Frontiers in Psychology, 10:467, 2019

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00467/full

It was 1518 people, not 1800 as I state…[Read more]

@Simon that graph is interesting, where is it from?

Belle Rose wrote:
But now I also know that people are monsters and they don’t really give a shit about anyone but themselves

I’m sorry to hear about your mother.

What I’ve learned is that people enjoy doing things together, that benefit them both.  People are “mutualist”: what’s good for you is good for me.  Also, I always remember this: peo…[Read more]