Posts by Riddley Walker
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now i've left my notes to myself on this elsewhere.
but in the meantime m, you may be interested in the similarities between Jung's characterization of Mary and the Hindu tradition regarding Shakti, and more specifically Kali (which in turn relates to Artemis IMHO, who btw is sometimes emobodied as my shamanic totem, shaved guinea pigs, aside of course). -
start crocheting that rug Simon
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One Surrealist to Rule Them!
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I seriously think some people are wired to believe conspiracy theories. I can't explain it any other way
I think Dissonance Reduction theory with an overlay of Confirmation bias goes a long way to explaining it. Of course other intellectual shortcomings and psychological maladies help too ;)
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may well represent the neocon media's final jumping of the shark
oh how i wish that were true.
Daily Mail columnist Melanie Phillips. (You may recall her as the journalist plagiarised by the Maxim Institute's Bruce Logan)
perhaps that explains why John Key is now trying to do a flip-flop on the s59 stuff despite 'conclusive and overwhelming clinical [Maximesque] evidence that thrashing your kids with whips and lumps of wood is good for them'. obviously the grand uberconspiracy is that both the left and right know this is true but it's too embrassing for them to say.
I don't know what "neocon" means
neocons are not really Conservatives, who seek to conserve the status-quo under the Burkian premise that 'traditions get to be traditions because they work'. the neocon program is very un-conservatively radical dismantling of the State to make way for total corporate hegemony. so it's hardly surprising that suggesting they are remotely conservative is a bit confusing.
What really annoys me is that there's more than enough reality-based angst to be had
exactly Craig
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i think the '[56 is] elderly' gaff is just a perfectly clear illustration of what happens when you have a news policy that only wants to pay new graduate salaries and avoid all the 'unnecessary' costs associated with 'ancient' 50+ers who might, not only have a corporate memory and understand the target audience, but who might also have the annoying capacity to talk back to management and argue a bad call.
i think the appropriate old folks' phrase to describe this strategy is penny-wise, pound-foolish*.
*for you youngin's out there, pennies and pounds were things we used to use to pay for goods and services before EFTPOS.
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fresh fish is priceless my precious
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interesting material m.
been called in for reprogramming, need to consider reply.
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hehe, nice one. terroirism. those danmed french sophists. terrists, tourists, they're all the same!
Ikea about freedom. -
oh the taste of a nice cup of cold sick.