Posts by OrphanCrow

cofty: The earth is not flat - that is not a political statement.
Women bear children, men do not - that is also not a political statement.
The sun rises in the East and sets in the west - this is not political.
Appealing to the perspective of worms, Japanese myths and dancing hyenas is bullshit.

Well...technically...the sun doesn't rise. The earth moves, not the sun. That is semantics. Exactly what the structuralists are credited with giving to postmodernism - language as the signifier of political positioning.

If you want to talk about the ethical implications of science then that is an interesting conversation.

No. Not ethics. Not at all. Political positioning isn't about ethics...not really.

I am surprised that you are using Gaad as a proponent for your position, Cofty. I did a quick look at his bio and I wouldn't use him as a spokesperson for hard science. His discipline is soft science at best - soft science with a heavy dose of cultural bias worked into it.

Gaad studied under Russo at Concordia University in Montreal. It took me a while to pull that name out of my memory but I remember critiquing his studies in research methodology class when I took my psychology degree. His studies did not hold up to the rigorous examinations that my professor put them through. Russo's studies were incredibly culturally biased.

Not only that, but there was a graduate student doing his masters in social psych at the time too (he did his undergrad at Concordia). He was always getting his proposals rejected by the faculty because he refused to give up Russo's theories. Russo was not respected in the psych department I attended. It was generally thought that he gave science a bad name. But...I did have some hard core professors who were unforgiving and idealistically motivated.

*nicely done, cofty...edit function is marvelous, isn't it? :)

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The Greatest Intellectual Scam of All-Time: French Postmodernism

by cofty in

sbf you annoyed me enough to deserve this.. gad saad's comments on the nonsensical gibberish of jacques derrida, michel foucault, and jacques lacan.

charlatanism of the highest order.

.... the first quote from derrida starts as 2:50.

OrphanCrow

cofty: Pomo might have something interesting to say about literature or politics. It has no place in the natural sciences.

Where post modernism has a place in natural sciences is in the position of critiquing it. The premise of pomo is that a discipline, such as Gaad follows, neglects to consider the cultural bias of the one proposing the behavioral theory. The hypotheses, used by evolutionary behaviorists such as Gaad, come from the position of advancing the modernist narrative - the "Grand Narrative" - as opposed to considering the actual fragmented nature of the human experience.

Science is political.

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The Greatest Intellectual Scam of All-Time: French Postmodernism

by cofty in

sbf you annoyed me enough to deserve this.. gad saad's comments on the nonsensical gibberish of jacques derrida, michel foucault, and jacques lacan.

charlatanism of the highest order.

.... the first quote from derrida starts as 2:50.

OrphanCrow

cofty: Orphan Crow - Gad Saad is an intellectual. He is not some internet jockey poking fun at things he can't understand. He has read lots of postmodern literature and isn't afraid to point out the Emperor's dangling genitalia.

Gaad is an evolutionary behavioral psychologist. Educated at Concordia University in Montreal. I am familiar with what that means. And, I highly doubt if he has embarked on an in depth study of post modernist political theory. I could be wrong, mind you...but his video speaks for itself

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The Greatest Intellectual Scam of All-Time: French Postmodernism

by cofty in

sbf you annoyed me enough to deserve this.. gad saad's comments on the nonsensical gibberish of jacques derrida, michel foucault, and jacques lacan.

charlatanism of the highest order.

.... the first quote from derrida starts as 2:50.

OrphanCrow

Lol! that was entertaining.

Listening to Gaad deride the French post-modernists was like listening to a 10 year old child make fun of algebra equations because he has no comprehension about what it means. Typically, people make fun of what they cannot understand and will be sarcastic about that which is beyond their comprehension. It is their way of trying to bring things down to a level that they can participate in it or feel superior to that which is beyond them.

Gaad is infantile. The video operates at the level of an evangelical minister taking pot shots at Satan.

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Will Bro. Rogers be DF'd posthumously for drug addiction?

by ShirleyW in

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some have been df'd for suspicion of smoking cigarettes, yet bro.

rogers death is because of an addiction, fentanyl is what they are saying is the drug that did him in which was reported on the news as being more potent than heroine.

why is it that some nosy sister can report you because someone who looked like you was in the parking lot the same time as she was, yet bro.

OrphanCrow

Rubadub: And if after a JC meeting and the person was actually disfellowshipped, how would they handle it if the person appealed the decision?

Eh...Jehobah will sort it out. It is all up to the big guy now. Prince has received the "go directly to paradise" card

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Banned Publications in Russia

by Maryo in

does anyone know exactly what publications are on the "list" as banned in russia and what the objectionable language is?.

OrphanCrow

eyeuse: The Russian government probably objects to any publication that talks glowingly about abolishing their government, even if it is a book of fairy tales!
just saying!

Yeah, for all the JWs' spouting off about being anti-everything, it would be the anti-government stand that would be a big no-no.

The Russians are a little touchy about the blood ban, too. The link that Melchisedek linked to contains the WTS' anti-blood propaganda. And I have read several accounts of the blood issue being raised in the Russian courts. In Russia, the anti-blood stance is considered extreme and dangerous.

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Has any of the GB members ever had a job?

by Crazyguy in

just wonder since that video about a child giving up his dreams of being a great musician do to competition .

i had to give up all my dreams and now work in a very competitive industry just to get by.

how many people not work in a competitive job?

OrphanCrow

Jackson quit school at 14 to become a mi-shun-ary

hoser: Anthony Morris father is/was rich. Maybe daddy paid the bills

Is Tony connected to the Phillip Morris family/empire?

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The last video in the 2016 convention...

by problemaddict 2 in

...is an epic triumph is emotional manipulation.

bringing together all of the stories they told thus far and placing them int he "new world" complete with the little boy who was killed in a car accident coming back from the dead.. i have a good friend who is stuck in with family and plays the role.

he said everyone was crying, and the people next to him rated the videos by how many tissues they needed to dry their eyes.

OrphanCrow

I think they should have had this audiomachine song playing for the end of the bunker video when the authorities are coming to arrest the elders on child abuse charges:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uB-e9qzUjE

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JW NBA player arrested for domestic violence

by OrphanCrow in

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let the case against the kings’ darren collison play out.

darren collison's lawyer is quoted as saying:.

“this is a warm and loving family, and there is no doubt that they will get past this together,” said portanova, one of sacramento’s highest-profile defense lawyers and one who is not known to speak too glowingly to reporters about the people he represents, except in the occasional case where he actually believes they are innocent.so what happened out there, bill, in the rancher amid the blue oak where the foothills of the sierra just begin to take shape?“it’s really a misunderstanding, and we’re working to straighten it out,” portanova said.

OrphanCrow

Let the case against the Kings’ Darren Collison play out

Darren Collison's lawyer is quoted as saying:

“This is a warm and loving family, and there is no doubt that they will get past this together,” said Portanova, one of Sacramento’s highest-profile defense lawyers and one who is not known to speak too glowingly to reporters about the people he represents, except in the occasional case where he actually believes they are innocent.
So what happened out there, Bill, in the rancher amid the blue oak where the foothills of the Sierra just begin to take shape?
“It’s really a misunderstanding, and we’re working to straighten it out,” Portanova said. “This is genuinely one of the nicest guys I’ve ever met, and we will be working closely with the family.”

Quite the misunderstanding. From this article Kings point guard Darren Collison charged with domestic violence :

Police received a call from a woman — Collison's wife, per CBS13 — who said she was being assaulted, and when they arrived on scene around 1 a.m. on Wednesday morning, they witnessed visible injuries on the woman...

From the first article we learn about Collison's JW affiliation:

One fact that would register as a surprise would be if alcohol was involved.
Collision, 28, is a Jehovah’s Witness, a faith that frowns strongly on overindulgence, and he and his family live around the corner from the Kingdom Hall on Berg Street.
An elder at the Granite Bay hall who only gave his name as Larry vouched for Collison as a practicing member of the congregation.
“Very friendly,” Larry said of Collison. “Cordial, and so forth. He seemed to be respected by everyone.”

And what did Larry have to say about the woman who called the police to help her at 1 am?

Collison’s wife did not attend the meetings with the same frequency of her husband, but, “I’ve seen her a few times,” Larry said.