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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on May 08, 2011, 07:17:00 AM
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Yesterday (Saturday), I had lunch with a Ph.D. in educational psychology, who now lives out here, having taught at the University of Nebraska for.....decades.
As she has frankly admitted, she's no spring chicken; a couple of years too young to have voted for Henry Wallace in 1948, but old enough to have voted for Adlai Stevenson three times (1952, 1956, and the Democrat presidential primary in Nebraska in 1960), and was on a first-name basis with Eleanor Roosevelt.
(In 1980, 1984, and 2004, she does admit however to have voted for the (R) candidate for president, especially in 1980.)
Drawing on her expertise at observation of people who at first aren't aware they're being observed, but then at some point become aware, I inquired of her for suggestions about dealing with the primitives who, now that they know they're being observed, stubbornly refuse to be their natural selves.
"You know, it's really stupid," I commented; "we're watching the primitives from a distance, and from the other side of a glass wall through which real life can't penetrate, yet the primitives seem to fear us, and adjust their behavior accordingly, usually by receding from posting.
"Even though we can do the primitives no harm, they act as if we can.
"It's really stupid, really paranoid."
After which she recited several anecdotes from her professional experience, the bottom line being that people and primitives, once they know they're being observed, even if by harmless observers, change their behavior, and there isn't a damned thing one can do about it.
"It's a pity," she said, "but even Margaret Mead, as you know, had that problem."
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You know we bother them because of the cryptic (and sometimes not-so-cryptic) messages they send us in their postings. That is how I know that we bug the heck out of the DUmmies.
From reading some of the idiocy they post, it seems some of them forget that are watching them. And, we aren't the only ones watching them, either.
In my opinion, liberals for the most part are paranoid about everything. It's enjoyable watching them reveal that part of their psyche on a daily basis.
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That is how I know that we bug the heck out of the DUmmies.
You know, madam, a few weeks ago, there was a discussion among supermoles on Skins's island, about playing a prank on the primitives; manipulating the primitives.
I was against it, because I don't like the idea of interfering with the primitives' thought-processes, such as they are; best to just let the primitives be primitives, their natural selves.
But franksolich was a minority of one, and lost.
The prank was played, and while it never made it to the DUmpster, it was a subject of one of P-J Comix's most-excellent DUmmie FUnnies.
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You know we bother them because of the cryptic (and sometimes not-so-cryptic) messages they send us in their postings. That is how I know that we bug the heck out of the DUmmies.
From reading some of the idiocy they post, it seems some of them forget that are watching them. And, we aren't the only ones watching them, either.
In my opinion, liberals for the most part are paranoid about everything. It's enjoyable watching them reveal that part of their psyche on a daily basis.
No they aren't.
We really are, out to get them. :-)
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It makes you wonder how sincere they were originally since they've obviously become so self-conscious.
They're plainly ashamed and embarrassed by who they really are.
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It makes you wonder how sincere they were originally since they've obviously become so self-conscious.
They're plainly ashamed and embarrassed by who they really are.
Well, you know how the primitives are always alleging that decent and civilized people "don't count."
If we don't count, what do the primitives care about what we think?
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Well, you know how the primitives are always alleging that decent and civilized people "don't count."
If we don't count, what do the primitives care about what we think?
Too self-absorbed to change their appearance.
Too vainglorious to shatter their own reflections.
It's easier to swat at the hand holding the mirror up to their faces.
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The prank was played, and while it never made it to the DUmpster, it was a subject of one of P-J Comix's most-excellent DUmmie FUnnies.
The primitives being easily manipulated so as to make asses of themselves:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2713151/posts
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Their opinions are way out there, even they know it, and they're holding back because they don't want normal people to see how far out in the fringe they are.
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Their opinions are way out there, even they know it, and they're holding back because they don't want normal people to see how far out in the fringe they are.
They'd have to hike for 3 days over rugged terrain to make it back to the fringe.
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When they think no one is watching they post their innermost hatreds.
At the moment a light shines on they scurry for their hiding places.
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They'd have to hike for 3 days over rugged terrain to make it back to the fringe.
:lmao:
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It makes you wonder how sincere they were originally since they've obviously become so self-conscious.
They're plainly ashamed and embarrassed by who they really are.
As well they should be.
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The DUmp is all stocked up on crazy.