Posts by Jehalapeno

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Do You Believe Hunger Strikes Truly Accomplish Anything?

by minimus in

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i see that stars are protesting something and to make a point, they go on a hunger strike.

prisoners sometimes are angry over their treatment and decide to stop eating.

some feel laws should be changed and make their point by refusing to eat.. do hunger strikes give you pause?

Jehalapeno

While I support people's right to protest in this manner if they choose to, I think it's dumb.

Who are they hurting? Themselves.

Do you think the people they're protesting against actually care if they go hungry or not? Nope.

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Does anyone know of this guy, or agree with his statements on racial differences in IQ?

by Sugar Shane in

here are some quotes by the guy, from his youtube channel.

his name is stefan molyneux, and he’s apparently popular among the alt-right crowd.

he’s also widely quoted on these discussion boards, by certain ex-jws, who use him to help promote their political views.

Jehalapeno

There are racial differences in IQ. Fact. Uncomfortable fact, but it's a fact.

This isn't a bad thing, though. This doesn't mean one race is superior to another.

I technically have a much higher IQ than my wife, but she's still the smart one, in my opinion. I've made a lot of poor decisions in my life, but I wouldn't say that about her. She handles the finances and is more responsible with adulting than I am.

I was evaluated when I was 22 by a psychiatrist and told I had a 142 IQ.

People tell me that's high and that it's low-end genius level. But I don't see it. I don't feel like a genius. Like I said, I've made some very dumb decisions in my life. Bad financial decisions, bad career decisions, and bad education decisions.

However, I have always been good at taking tests. Especially tests that contain a good portion of multiple choice questions.

Just because someone is good at taking tests doesn't make them superior at anything but taking tests.

So, I don't put a lot of stock into IQ when it comes to success. It's just a number and isn't a good measure on whether a person is good at life, a good person, or not.

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Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Baker Who Refused to Bake Cake for Gay Couple

by Simon in

seems like such an obviously correct decision to overturn the previous overreach - it should never have been necessary to go to the supreme court but happened because the rights of the religious were being ignored.. as the fundamental level, no one should be able to compel you to work for them or to provide services that go against your beliefs, and certainly not have the government be able to force you to comply.. if this was allowed there would be so many unreconcilable situations that would clog up courts over nonsense.. i also have little patience for these activists that intentionally look to be offended.

it really doesn't do their cause any good to go round looking to make trouble for people.

it's also misguided because it ends up strengthening religious rights over effectively stupid issues.. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/04/us/politics/supreme-court-sides-with-baker-who-turned-away-gay-couple.html.

Jehalapeno

Hateful messages aren’t against the law in the US.

Only if they specifically incite violence.

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Are we losing our way a bit at JWN?

by nicolaou in

firstly, i want to be crystal clear how grateful i am for jwn.

it's been my place of support for over seventeen years and it's the first online space i direct anyone to if they are taking steps out of the cult.

i am not bashing jwn - i love this place and appreciate the hard work and expense simon puts in to keep it going.

Jehalapeno

No one can fix it, but God.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

I still upvoted your comment because it was mostly reasonable. But that just made me laugh.

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Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Baker Who Refused to Bake Cake for Gay Couple

by Simon in

seems like such an obviously correct decision to overturn the previous overreach - it should never have been necessary to go to the supreme court but happened because the rights of the religious were being ignored.. as the fundamental level, no one should be able to compel you to work for them or to provide services that go against your beliefs, and certainly not have the government be able to force you to comply.. if this was allowed there would be so many unreconcilable situations that would clog up courts over nonsense.. i also have little patience for these activists that intentionally look to be offended.

it really doesn't do their cause any good to go round looking to make trouble for people.

it's also misguided because it ends up strengthening religious rights over effectively stupid issues.. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/04/us/politics/supreme-court-sides-with-baker-who-turned-away-gay-couple.html.

Jehalapeno

There’s a difference between ordering a product that has already been produced and forcing someone by law to produce a custom product on demand.

Islamic Web Designers who offer services to the general public are not under obligation to design a custom site for a Christian Church, are they?

A Gay Web Designer is not under obligation to design a custom site for the Westboro Baptist Church, are they?

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Are we losing our way a bit at JWN?

by nicolaou in

firstly, i want to be crystal clear how grateful i am for jwn.

it's been my place of support for over seventeen years and it's the first online space i direct anyone to if they are taking steps out of the cult.

i am not bashing jwn - i love this place and appreciate the hard work and expense simon puts in to keep it going.

Jehalapeno

This forum has always fluctuated politically over the years.

Theres a reason there’s an actual politics category on here. That category has existed for at least as long as I’ve lurked on this forum. (Over 5 years.) Edit: the earliest post in the politics section is 16 years old!

I think it seems different to you perhaps because instead of people discussing things rationally, one side pulls out the card of race, Hitler, Nazi, Orange Cheeto in order to shame the side they disagree with. That, of course, fosters more discussion and causes it to devolve into destroying one straw man argument after another.

Theres an epidemic of putting emotions over rationality in politics lately. Emotions were always a factor, but people used to be able to put their emotions aside and make judgements based off of reason and logic.

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I saw The Last Jedi yesterday ... spoilers!

by LoveUniHateExams in

yeah i saw ep 8 tlj yesterday.. first off, the special effects - a combination of cgi and practical - are fantastic, although with a budget of $200 million i expect them to be.. there are many issues i have with this movie and here's one: leia flying through space, i mean, wtf?!.

yes, we know leia is luke's brother and so has some force-sensitivity - she talked telepathically to luke in the empire strikes back.. apart from that, she's never really used any abilities she may have or been taught the ways of the force ... and now she's flying through space!

xd.

Jehalapeno

The SJW aspects for me had nothing to do with race. That wasn’t an issue.

Star Wars was always a pretty diverse place.

It had more to do with the perceived tokenism and forced aspect of it. It didn’t feel organic to the story.

I think that says more about the current political climate than it does Disney.

In my opinion, the SJW stuff stands out only because our current society is looking for it and because lefty blogs want to make a character Pansexual or point out how “OMG STAR WARS HAS STRONG WIMMEN!” (When it always did have strong women) Then cue the inevitable reactions of the rightie blogs reacting to the leftie blogs.

The over the top social analysis of everything pop culture stirs up the controversy. It really is a post-modernist attitude and the consequential push back against the post modernism by classical liberalism.

Objectively, Solo was a decent sci-fi flick. If I didn’t know the character of Han Solo from IV and V, I would have felt good about the film. But as a film about the early days of a character we already knew so well, it failed. Not because of SJW agenda, but because it was a poor portrayal of a beloved character of cinema.

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