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wvParticipantAnd another thing. Photo Synthesis — If mums and other screaming flowers, eat light, then why doesn’t it get darker and darker as more and more flowers eat more and more light?
Maybe its a good thing to run over mums. More light for the rest of us.
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VScience tells us that as flowers consume the light the sun gets dimmer and dimmer until there is nothing but darkness. The technical term for this is “night” which is short for “no light”. Having consumed all of the sun’s light the flowers enter a state of dormancy in which their voracious appetite for light is temporarily abated. This allows the sun to recharge unmolested. As the sun grows brighter a phenomenon known as ‘day’ occurs and the cycle repeats itself as it has since the beginning of time 6000 years ago.
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lol
i cannot top that
u have won this round.
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vwvParticipantI like the play a lot. Better than Macbeth which I think is overrated. I haven’t seen the movie, but I have seen in on stage 3 times. Is the movie any good?
I have almost finished the movie, and I thought it was quite good. Seemed to get better as it went along, too.
Course, i could watch Vanessa Redgrave read a phone book and I’d
be fascinated.And Ralph Fiennes, who i never would have cast in that part, was great. I had no idea he could create such…intensity/weight/presence. That guy can act.
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wvParticipant..Ironic how your desperation to save the mums actually led to their demise. Poetic, huh?
Oh how they must have screamed in terror and pain as your 2 ton deathwagon slowly backed over them. I’m just glad flowers scream at decibel levels inaudible to the human ear. At least the neighborhood children were spared a lifetime of night terrors from the tortured shrieks you squeezed from the mums as you crushed them with your car.
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And another thing. Photo Synthesis — If mums and other screaming flowers, eat light, then why doesn’t it get darker and darker as more and more flowers eat more and more light?
Maybe its a good thing to run over mums. More light for the rest of us.
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v“….Last night, after a day in the garden, I asked Robin to explain (again) photosynthesis to me. I can’t take in this business of _eating light_ and turning it into stem and thorn and flower…
I would not call this meditation, sitting in the back garden. Maybe I would call it eating light. Mystical traditions recognize two kinds of practice: _apophatic mysticism_, which is the dark surrender of Zen, the Via Negativa of John of the Cross, and _kataphatic mysticism, less well defined: an openhearted surrender to the beauty of creation.
Maybe Francis of Assissi was, on the whole, a kataphatic mystic, as was Thérèse of Lisieux in her exuberant momemnts: but the fact is, kataphatic mysticism has low status in religious circles. Francis and Thérèse were made, really made, any mother superior will let you know, in the dark nights of their lives: no more of this throwing off your clothes and singing songs and babbling about the shelter of God’s arms.When I was twelve and had my first menstrual period, my grandmother took me aside and said, ‘Now your childhood is over. You will never really be happy again.’ That is pretty much how some spiritual directors treat the transition from kataphatic to apophatic mysticism.
But, I’m sorry, I’m going to sit here every day the sun shines and eat this light. Hung in the bell of desire.”
― Mary Rose O’Reilley, The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd
wvParticipantI burn stray cats, here. Its not as efficient as
wood, and there’s a lot of screetching,
but it gets me through the Winter.The chopping is the fun part.
I used to use an axe but I went to Lowes
and invested in a cat-saw.w
vwvParticipantYeah, a lot of heat in that analysis but very little light.
The jilted reporter syndrome.
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Yeah, Im tellin ya, these ‘jilted’ reporters are missing something, imho.I just bet there are a LOT of St.Louis fans who still like and follow
the TEAM. (maybe not the management/owner). I mean most St.Loo folks
just watched em on TV like the rest of us.I doubt if that big group of local pro-rams fans likes all this
bile being spewed by the jilted-reporters.The ‘business’ side of Sports sucks. The team/players/game does
not suck. Just my opinion.w
vwvParticipantThat one fell below, even Jeff Gordon standards.
I wish he wouldn’t pick on the mentally-ill Tre Mason, btw.
That’s a little low, even for a sports-pundit.w
vwvParticipanthttp://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/jeff-gordon/gordo-rams-giving-haters-plenty-of-reasons-to-smile/article_860be581-6fcc-5e83-ac75-c7f0b7b6a826.html
Rams giving haters plenty of reasons to smile
Jeff Gordon
Since St. Louis stole the Rams from Los Angeles, you can’t really complain that LA stole them back.Because you welcomed Georgia Frontiere despite her many eccentricities, you shouldn’t begrudge the City of Angels the right to embrace land-hoarding recluse Stan Kroenke.
What goes around comes around, as Justin Timberlake would sing.
But as jilted fans you certainly can lash out against the sheer incompetence of Kroenke’s regime and his tactless departure. Cheering against the Rams is a healthy way to blow off steam and vent your spleen.
Fortunately they have looked like the Same Old Sorry (Act) Rams during their return to LA.
The problem starts at the top. Listen to Rams CEO Kevin Demoff rave about Kroenke to the Los Angeles Times:
“I’m fortunate to have the tutelage of Stan, who has really pioneered how you combine resources and sports in a way that has never been done before. I’m grateful for his mentorship. He pushes our team for greatness and challenges us to envision the impossible.”
Yes, well, Kroenke is quite the ground-breaker when it comes to converting billions in family wealth into steady sports failure. His Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche can’t keep pace with their NBA and NHL rivals and his Rams set modern standards for futility.
It’s extremely difficult to remain irrelevant in the parity-minded NFL, but, like Kevin says, Stan challenges his people to envision the impossible.
That explains how coach Jeff Fisher could be in line for a contract extension after guiding the Rams to four losing seasons. That explains how tag-along general manager Les Snead could still be employed despite wasting precious draft picks and blowing millions on useless free agents.
Impossible? With the Rams it’s surely not.
This season they may outshine the San Francisco 49ers — who are banking on the unlikely Chip Kelly-Blaine Gabbert collaboration — but they won’t seriously challenge the Seattle Seahawks and Arizona Cardinals in the NFC West.
Recurring themes undermine this team. At quarterback the Rams pulled the reverse RGIII maneuver and spent multiple draft picks to select Jared Goff first overall in the draft.
Trouble was, Goff wasn’t a Robert Griffin III-caliber prospect and he certainly wasn’t another Andrew Luck. He was a middle to late first-round prospect who rose to the top during a down year at his position.
Like most young quarterbacks, he will need a few seasons to develop properly. Asking him to become the front man for a team moving back into the challenging LA market was absurd.
Look at the numbers Goff posted in the preseason: 55.8 passer rating with a 44.9 completion percentage, two interceptions, four sacks, three fumbles and an average gain of 4.7 yards per passing attempt.
If he serves as the face of the franchise, then the franchise wears a befuddled expression.
By default, pint-sized scrapper Case Keenum remained the starting quarterback. And after a messy preseason finale, Fisher suggested Goff could open the season at No. 3 behind Keenum and fringe prospect Sean Mannion.
Goff would become the first quarterback since, ahem, JaMarcus Russell to arrive as the first overall pick and not start in Week 1. That second overall pick Carson Wentz is the Philadelphia Eagles’ starting quarterback just adds to the disappointment.
Goff’s reserve role is probably for the best, because the Rams lack aerial firepower. Hapless Brian Quick dropped more passes this summer, leaving Kenny Britt, gadget player Tavon Austin and a bunch of rookies as the go-to targets.
The young offensive line remained unsteady, too, particularly with right tackle Rob Havenstein missing preseason time with an injury.
While elite running back Todd Gurley can move the chains, the Rams lack a change-of-pace back. Speedy Tre Mason, a former 75th overall draft pick, washed out of the NFL with some alarming mental health problems.
(After an offseason arrest, Mason told officers that “he was going to call the White House and we were all going to lose our jobs” and that “the police were responsible for teaching al-Qaida how to fly planes.”)
The Rams preseason included the usual special teams sloppiness and practice field chippiness Fisher-coached teams are known for. HBO’s “Hard Knocks” highlighted a brawl started by middle linebacker Alec Ogletree and escalated by Gurley.
Fisher lit into his players with a profanity-laced lecture. From the looks of things this summer, that won’t be the last time he addresses them in such coarse terms.
You should do the same if makes you feel better. Swear your lack of allegiance to the Rams again and again as their sacks, fumbles and interceptions mount.
Let go of it all, from Brian Quick to Jake Long to Jared Cook to the Kellen Shaun Austin Nick Clemens Hill Davis Foles mish-mash at quarterback. Yell loud enough and perhaps those blurred memories of one wobbly pass fading into the next incompletion will finally quit haunting you.
wvParticipantYes but what are the odds to finish 7-9?
Well–I don’t know, but does 8-8 get sprinkles?
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No. 8-8 does not get sprinkles.
Playoffs get sprinkles.
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vwvParticipantJust read the whole article. Its got lots of great quotes about the seventies.
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vwvParticipantI think this means less than it used to.
If you look at the avg. years of experience on the 2 starting units, O and D, the Rams STARTERS are not young.
Both average 4 years of experience (with different decimals after the 4).
That’s not young, that’s prime.
Whoa, whoa, whoa there Mr. Scientist.
I refuse to discuss prime numbers.
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…yeah right, Pa Ram — Mr Five letters in your name.
Go ahead. Pretend like you know nothing about Snisher’s new analytics — the
Prime theory of team building.w
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_numbers
The first 1000 prime numbersThe following table lists the first 1000 primes, with 20 columns of consecutive primes in each of the 50 rows.[1]
1–20 2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47 53 59 61 67 71
21–40 73 79 83 89 97 101 103 107 109 113 127 131 137 139 149 151 157 163 167 173
41–60 179 181 191 193 197 199 211 223 227 229 233 239 241 251 257 263 269 271 277 281
61–80 283 293 307 311 313 317 331 337 347 349 353 359 367 373 379 383 389 397 401 409
81–100 419 421 431 433 439 443 449 457 461 463 467 479 487 491 499 503 509 521 523 541
101–120 547 557 563 569 571 577 587 593 599 601 607 613 617 619 631 641 643 647 653 659
121–140 661 673 677 683 691 701 709 719 727 733 739 743 751 757 761 769 773 787 797 809
141–160 811 821 823 827 829 839 853 857 859 863 877 881 883 887 907 911 919 929……(sequence A000040 in the OEIS).
The Goldbach conjecture verification project reports that it has computed all primes below 4×1018.[2] That means 95,676,260,903,887,607 primes[3] (nearly 1017), but they were not stored. There are known formulae to evaluate the prime-counting function (the number of primes below a given value) faster than computing the primes. This has been used to compute that there are 1,925,320,391,606,803,968,923 primes (roughly 2×1021) below 1023. A different computation found that there are 18,435,599,767,349,200,867,866 primes (roughly 2×1022) below 1024, if the Riemann hypothesis is true.[4]
wvParticipanthttp://www.sacbee.com/sports/nfl/san-francisco-49ers/article99997087.html
49ers expect big things from the two towers, Armstead and BucknerBy Matt Barrows
mbarrows@sacbee.com
SANTA CLARALooking for a dominant defensive lineman? Try a basketball gym.
That’s where you could find Jerry Azzinaro, now the 49ers defensive-line coach, during the 2012 recruiting season.
Azzinaro, then the defensive-line coach at Oregon, first traveled to Sacramento, where he watched Arik Armstead muscle his way through the paint for Pleasant Grove High School in the Sacramento High Tournament.
Then he hopped on a plane to Hawaii and saw DeForest Buckner and his Punahou School teammates dominate a game in which Buckner had 12 points, 13 rebounds and a blocked shot.
“Oh, I remember the game,” Buckner said. “I had a couple of dunks in it, too.”
Azzinaro and then Ducks coach Chip Kelly weren’t seeking bulk that winter. They wanted athleticism, big guys who had stamina, players who used their hands well and understood leverage. Most of all, they longed for length.
“You can cover more space,” Kelly said in February about his preference for tall players. “That’s always been the philosophy I tried to recruit to in college.”
Kelly and Azzinaro landed what they were looking for in Armstead and Buckner, but the coaches had only a year to work with their prized recruits. After the 2012 season, Kelly and Azzinaro left for the Philadelphia Eagles. Two years later, Armstead entered the NFL draft, leaving behind Buckner at Oregon.
Now they’re back together in Santa Clara. The 49ers used the seventh pick in April to select Buckner, giving San Francisco a unique profile entering this season.
When struggling NFL teams reset, they usually look for a quarterback and surround him with an array of offensive weapons.
The 49ers have gone about it differently. Their top pick in the last four drafts has been a defensive player, and their two most recent, Armstead and Buckner, are near twins: 6-foot-7 defensive linemen who not only played together in college but became best friends there.
Linebacker NaVorro Bowman is the most accomplished and recognizable member of San Francisco’s defense. But the 49ers are betting everyone on defense – from Bowman to the edge pass rushers to the secondary – will flourish behind two skyscraping defensive linemen.
You can cover more space. That’s always been the philosophy I tried to recruit to in college.
49ers coach Chip Kelly, on his preference for tall players
GOING BIG IS OLD SCHOOLA two-tower line isn’t a new concept in the NFL.
In the 1960s, Ernie “Big Cat” Ladd and Buck Buchanan – 6-9 and 6-7 – played together for the Kansas City Chiefs. Ladd also had a career with the World Wide Wrestling Federation, in which he faced other giants, including Andre The Giant.
The Dallas Cowboys’ “Doomsday Defense” of the 1970s and ’80s featured 6-6 George Andrie, 6-9 Ed “Too Tall” Jones and 6-5 Harvey Martin.
Like Kelly and Azzinaro, the Cowboys looked for height, targeting guys such as Jones, who went to Tennessee State to play basketball, and Andrie, whose college, Marquette, dropped football before his senior year.
“We were essentially drafting a big, tall guy who was an athlete,” Gil Brandt, the Cowboys’ personnel director for three decades, said of Andrie. “We drafted him and gave him something like 250 bucks and said, ‘Here, go get a membership to a health club. Start working on getting bigger and stronger.’ That’s how we did things in the old days.”
Brandt said that in 1981 – when the Cowboys’ season ended at Candlestick Park thanks largely to a certain catch by 49ers wide receiver Dwight Clark – the Cowboys led the league with 37 interceptions, despite a secondary that included a 12th-round pick, two undrafted rookies and a former college wide receiver.
That ragtag group did so well because opposing quarterbacks must have felt they were throwing into an oak forest.
“I think the reason we had such good success with that group was because of the difficulty of throwing the ball over these big, tall guys,” Brandt said.
FRIENDS SINCE FRESHMAN DAYS
The 49ers are looking for a similar dynamic.
They want talented defensive lineman who can rattle opposing quarterbacks into turnovers. And they want a deep group that can handle the long minutes Kelly’s defenses often play because his rapid-fire offense is on and off the field so quickly.
Armstead and Buckner are accustomed to the pace.
When Azzinaro was recruiting Buckner and Armstead, he told them the Ducks like to rotate their defensive linemen. If they worked their way to the second string, he promised, they’d play as freshmen.
Buckner was sold.
All three of us – me, Alex (Balducci) and Arik (Armstead) – were roommates throughout college. To be here with our old coaching staff – it’s crazy.
Defensive lineman DeForest Buckner, on his Oregon reunion as a 49er
“He said if I got into a rotation with the twos, I’d be able to get at least 30-something snaps a game,” Buckner said. “And I said, ‘Oh, man, that’d be nice. Being able to play as a true freshman? It’s a great opportunity.’ ”
The duo got more than that in 2012.
After a slew of injuries on the defensive line, Oregon relied heavily on Armstead and Buckner in a game against Cal. A week later, Armstead, Buckner and fellow freshman defensive lineman Alex Balducci started for the top-ranked Ducks in a pivotal game against No. 14 Stanford.
“We were 10-0 getting ready to play Stanford,” Azzinaro said. “If we win that game, we’re going to the national championship. I think I lost five defensive linemen the week before. So we started three true freshmen: DeForest, Balducci and Arik.”
Oregon lost 17-14 in overtime, but the shared experience forged a friendship among the three defenders. After that season, they lived together in a house off campus until Armstead left for the NFL following the 2014 season.
Now the three are back together.
Balducci, a nose tackle at Oregon, wasn’t drafted in April, but the 49ers signed him as a free agent and moved him to center. He has a good shot to end up on the 49ers’ practice squad, where he would line up against his college buddies during the week.
“It’s nuts seeing how everything came full circle,” Buckner said. “Before my first NFL game (at Levi’s Stadium), I played here twice. I played against Cal, and I played in the Pac-12 championship here. All three of us – me, Alex and Arik – were roommates throughout college. To be here with our old coaching staff – it’s crazy.”
Matt Barrows: @mattbarrows, read more about the team at sacbee.com/sf49ers.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/sports/nfl/san-francisco-49ers/article99997087.html#storylink=cpy
September 4, 2016 at 9:48 am in reply to: informal poll: Goff not starting, being #3 – disaster? not concerned? #52216wvParticipantNot worried at all.
12 months from now, if Goff still looks this bad, then yes I’m worried.
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I gotta feeling 12 months from now, the Rams will have a
No.1 WR for him to throw to, which should help.One would think thats the no.1 need at this point,
anyway.w
vwvParticipantSo now Bradford has reached the point where he is switching offensive systems…in week 1. Used to be, he had to wait till the off-season to switch systems.
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So does that mean teams dont think he’s that good, coz they keep trading him…
or does that mean teams do think he’s good, coz they keep trading For him ??He’s an enigma. Or not. I dunno.
Goff or Bradford — which would yall take. Straight up.
I’d take Goff. I think he will turn out to be better.
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vwvParticipantSo can someone list the Rookies and UDFA’s who MADE the team?
Who are the new guys?w
vLook at my roster. The drafted rookies are Blue, the undrafted rookies are Purple.
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So Spruce was the only UDFA who made it ?
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vwvParticipantSo can someone list the Rookies and UDFA’s who MADE the team?
Who are the new guys?w
vSeptember 3, 2016 at 3:04 pm in reply to: informal poll: Rams record…predicti-guesses (barring injuries) #52156wvParticipantBarring injuries — Eleven wins.
Gurley, Donald, Quinn. Tavon make the all-pro team.
Keenum has a deadly efficient year. Very few INTs.
Fisher wins coach of the year.
Ram fans claim he is a figurehead
and Rob Boras is the true genius.Rams bounced in first playoff game
because they cannot stop the short pass.w
vwvParticipantA non issue.
Right. It’s nothing serious like, say, a pickle jar. THAT reflects character.
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Its an odd issue. Is it a big deal or not? A cop with a Nazi or Nazi-ish tattoo.
Lets say there is nothing ugly on his record and he’s been a cop for a while.
What, if anything, should be done?I know, in the future, they will make a new policy about tattoos.
But what to do about him?It raises all kinds of questions about what criteria should be ‘deal-breakers’ as far as getting to be a law-enforcement officer. Like, what if he was a holocaust-denier — should that matter? What if he thinks black people should move to Africa — does that matter? What if he had a confederate flag tattoo?
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vHe gets assessed on his actions like anybody else. He can believe whatever he wants, but he can’t behave however he wants.
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Well but what if he is being interviewed for a Job as a cop. Can the fact he ‘believes’ in Nazi-like ideas, be a deal-breaker?w
vSeptember 3, 2016 at 10:13 am in reply to: informal poll: Goff not starting, being #3 – disaster? not concerned? #52114wvParticipantMildly disappointed, but not concerned yet. He showed the kind of flashes you want to see in a big-talent. Looks to be just mental-processing issues at this point.
Woulda been nice if he coulda had an RG3-type first year. Ah well.
We will rally behind Case Keenum — and Donald and Quinn — and the Rams will play
good football.w
vwvParticipantA non issue.
Right. It’s nothing serious like, say, a pickle jar. THAT reflects character.
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Its an odd issue. Is it a big deal or not? A cop with a Nazi or Nazi-ish tattoo.
Lets say there is nothing ugly on his record and he’s been a cop for a while.
What, if anything, should be done?I know, in the future, they will make a new policy about tattoos.
But what to do about him?It raises all kinds of questions about what criteria should be ‘deal-breakers’ as far as getting to be a law-enforcement officer. Like, what if he was a holocaust-denier — should that matter? What if he thinks black people should move to Africa — does that matter? What if he had a confederate flag tattoo?
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vwvParticipantYeah, I agree with you. I think the Green Party ought to represent the far right in this country.
We should be laughing at the crazy ravings of fascists like Sanders and Stein.
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Hey you extremists just cant deal with the real world. Pragmatic centrists like Stein and Sanders live in the ‘real world.’
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vwvParticipantspeaking of hate – whigs, Lincoln, immigrants, secret society’s – good stuff.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-nativist-speech-follows-dark-us-pattern-755626563851
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Maddow acts like a ‘two party system’ is a good thing. Why?Why is ‘two’ a magic number?
(not that the Replicants and Duplicats are
that much different, but for the sake of argument…)…btw, in wv-world there would be several parties. And they would ALL
be leftwing-progressive parties. No rightwing parties needed. Just the Progressicans. And the Progressocrats. And the leftwingicans. And the Leftwingicrats. And the Holy-shit-Infinitely-Left-party.w
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vSeptember 2, 2016 at 12:52 pm in reply to: Fisher: Goff likely to open season as No. 3 quarterback #52034wvParticipantWhile I have to admit that I’m disappointed that it came to this, I think that it’s the right decision. It would be nice if Keenum develops into the ultimate game manager in the meantime. Maybe the Rams can break .500 if all the cards fall into place, or if all the Cards fall on their face. Get it?
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Ditto. I’m a little disappointed.
…It’s like getting a birthday present of a
baseball glove in December, and knowing you wont be able to
do anything with it until Spring.I want Goff to be ready NOW,
dammit.…Now watch that little shit Case Keenum become the league MVP 🙂
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vwvParticipantNo major injuries.
That’s all I wanted.
Bring on the 49ers and lets see what
we got here.w
vwvParticipantDumb.
Why? Goff has to learn. He needs reps. They cant protect him forever.
Might as well put him in now, and get him experience.w
vSeptember 1, 2016 at 7:29 pm in reply to: This really happened: Jimmy Kimmel, Alex Jones & pickles. #52004wvParticipantI don’t know that “mentally ill” is the correct term. I have not read a lot about psychology. I always wanted to take a class in college, but never got around to it. But I think mental illness as a category is likely to cover medical issues rather than “craziness.” Stuff like depression, bi-polar disorders, chemical imbalances, and the like.
In reading about narcissism, I came across “schema therapy,” an approach to “maladaptive” schemas. These are ways of interpreting the world in a defective and unhealthy way. Dr. Jeffrey Young has identified 18 of these, and I think these are a better explanation for these world views than the concept of mental illness.
Here they are…
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Well Z, when i use the term ‘mental illness’ I don’t have a fuckin clue what i really mean 🙂
Its more of a ‘know it when i see it’ type thing.
I dont think we know much about what “it” is and what “it” isn’t. Not yet anyway.
There are so many models and theories.Allz I know is that here in WV, whatever “it” is, its is much much much worse
than “it” used to be. And one of the main symptoms I am seeing on a daily basis
is “conspiracy ideas” and “paranoia”. Along with a huge dose of ignorance about corporate power, and the politics of class in general.The questions of “What is mental illness?” and “what is mental health?”
are very interesting to me. Been thinkin about em since i was old enough to think.w
vSeptember 1, 2016 at 7:17 pm in reply to: This really happened: Jimmy Kimmel, Alex Jones & pickles. #52003wvParticipantwhen it comes to the rise of mental illness. And the likely culprit, IMO, is pollution of all kinds. We are awash in air, water and land pollution, and the things we eat all too often are filled with serious hazards — known and unknown to those who make and sell them.
……That, and the usual PTSD of living in dangerous environments . . . . The human animal wasn’t meant for that. It was meant to leave those areas for greener pastures. We just don’t have the internal defenses for daily, toxic levels of stress and pollution.
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Yeah, I dunno, but that is what i suspect. At least those are significant factors
in the big complex ball of factors.But like i say, I dunno. I do know that in West, by god, Virginia, mental illness and serious drug addiction are just going through the roof. Its exploded here in this Red-state.
There are damn few West Virginians here, who are not-crazy, and/or not-addicted.
I talked to four indigent-defendants today who were diagnosed with this, btw, fwiw:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermittent_explosive_disorderw
vSeptember 1, 2016 at 9:55 am in reply to: A cross between Huey Long, Pinochet, David Hasselhoff"? #51976wvParticipantIf I had to choose to be someone else, I think it would be Taibbi.
I need to read him religiously.
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Yeah, i think Taibbi is who Hunter Thompson would have been,
had he not ingested a gazillion tons of booze and drugs.w
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“Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.”
― Matt Taibbi, The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire
——“We paid for this instead of a generation of health insurance, or an alternative energy grid, or a brand-new system of roads and highways. With the $13-plus trillion we are estimated to ultimately spend on the bailouts, we could not only have bought and paid off every single sub-prime mortgage in the country (that would only have cost $1.4 trillion), we could have paid off every remaining mortgage of any kind in this country – and still have had enough money left over to buy a new house for every American who does not already have one.”
― Matt Taibbi, Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
—–“Most people, when they imagine New England, think about old colonial homes, white houses with black shutters, whales, and sexually morbid WASPs with sensible vehicles and polite political opinions. This is incorrect. If you want to get New England right, just imagine a giant mullet in paint-stained pants and a Red Sox hat being pushed into the back of a cruiser after a bar fight.”
― Matt Taibbi, Spanking the Donkey: Dispatches from the Dumb Seasonhttp://www.goodreads.com/quotes/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=Taibbi&commit=Search
September 1, 2016 at 9:44 am in reply to: This really happened: Jimmy Kimmel, Alex Jones & pickles. #51974wvParticipantWow. It was a joke on a late night TV show. Nobody cares anything about it except right-wing conspiracy theorists.
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Yes, but I’m interested in who these rightwing-conspiracy types are,
and how they got that way. I think many are mildly to moderately to extremely
mentally ill. Not all, but many. I suspect that because i work with many
mentally ill defendants and many of them have ‘those views’.Mental illness in all kinds of forms is on the rise in America. Google
the numbers. At least it seems to be. Especially among the poverty-stricken. If it is…why?Sometimes i think the ‘system’ causes mental illness (not on purpose of course)
and then the system blames the mentally ill for their wacko-views. Sometimes.At any rate, Alex is mentally ill in my view. Having said that I would ‘assume’
Kimmel’s people and Hillary’s people made damn sure she would succeed at opening the jar.
I mean if YOU were on Hillary’s staff wouldn’t you make damn sure she was
gonna be able to open that jar? Maybe they picked the jar or picked the type of jar
or loosened it or had Hillary practice with similar jars…somethin like that.
Cause they would not take a chance. No way they would take a chance on that.Granted, it aint the least bit important to the Non-brain-dead
whether she can open jars or not. But then how many Americans
really vote on ‘policy’ issues ? I dunno.PS — I know Alex’s views are dangerous-memes. Quite dangerous.
I dont mind people criticizing him at all. I just dont think
he’s mentally healthy. I am not convinced he’s a ‘con man’. I think
he believes this stuff. But who knows.w
vwvParticipantWell, If I were a GM, I’m not sure I could bet on Sam staying healthy
and I dunno that I trust him to make ‘enough’ big plays under pressure.The Thing i most liked about Goff’s college history (as opposed to sam, who was not under pressure in college) was that he made lots of big plays under pressure.
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vwvParticipantI totally disagree. I think it does help things, and will contribute to the much-needed
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vHate to be skeptical. But, if there is a lot of evidence of that, I would be happy to see it.
Lefties putting out blog stuff about the anthem’s lyrics won’t cover that, in my mind. That’s just the same pre-ordained percentage talking to itself again.
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Well I dont think it will help much at all. But i think every little iota of leaning-toward-the-light helps. You didn’t just write it wouldnt help, but you wrote it would hurt. “divisive” etc.Yeah, it’ll cause divisiveness, but it’ll cause other things too. All in all, I think its a ‘positive’ thing, despite the divisiveness.
Do you think the Carlos/Smith act was meaningless or divisive?
I like the fact it was aimed at Grid-iron fans. Gridiron fans get HEAVY dose after dose after dose of the usual pro-authority, pro-system crap. I am in favor of them seeing another point of view on that.
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