October 8th, 2018 11:45 AM
[U]m. No. Let me help you: Literature, even fictional literature, (artificial history) is subjectively testable when operationally stated. Literature is not the problem. Using the fictionalisms of the the magical (pseudoscientific), Ideal (sophomoric, pseudo-rational), and occult (supernatural) is the problem. All such attempts are merely frauds to compensate for one’s incompetence or dishonesty.
October 8th, 2018 11:45 AM
[U]m. No. Let me help you: Literature, even fictional literature, (artificial history) is subjectively testable when operationally stated. Literature is not the problem. Using the fictionalisms of the the magical (pseudoscientific), Ideal (sophomoric, pseudo-rational), and occult (supernatural) is the problem. All such attempts are merely frauds to compensate for one’s incompetence or dishonesty.
October 7th, 2018 8:05 PM [Y]eah. Yeah. I know the china thing. It’s like old news. The problem is, Like, I thought it would correct no later than 2010 or 2012. Now is 2018. So why isn’t it correcting? I mean, I don’t care about another ‘warning’ or ‘opinion’ or ‘woo wooo’ column on the Chinese economy. The answer is SO WHAT? If they don’t have a correction then why? If they are going to have a correction then why? I mean, what ‘limit’ will be hit that that causes the cascade? Because ‘well it usually happens this way’ is not a very good answer in economics. High causal density and all that kinda thing. OK? sigh….
October 7th, 2018 8:05 PM [Y]eah. Yeah. I know the china thing. It’s like old news. The problem is, Like, I thought it would correct no later than 2010 or 2012. Now is 2018. So why isn’t it correcting? I mean, I don’t care about another ‘warning’ or ‘opinion’ or ‘woo wooo’ column on the Chinese economy. The answer is SO WHAT? If they don’t have a correction then why? If they are going to have a correction then why? I mean, what ‘limit’ will be hit that that causes the cascade? Because ‘well it usually happens this way’ is not a very good answer in economics. High causal density and all that kinda thing. OK? sigh….
October 7th, 2018 3:39 PM Via Brandon Hayes FROM TEXT: Interpretation # 1 Intercultural differences in neuroticism reflect slight differences in culture-specific components of neuroticism. All cultures share similar personality dimension of neuroticism, but this trait does not mean completely the same thing in various cultures. Interpretation # 2 The mainstream religion influences the level of neuroticism in a given culture. Interpretation # 3 Geographically close cultures show similar levels of neuroticism in comparison with geographically distant cultures. Interpretation # 4 Intercultural differences in neuroticism are caused by the nonidentical response styles of people from different cultures. Interpretation # 5 Intercultural differences in neuroticism reflect genetic differences between cultural groups. Neuroticism is thus a universal personality trait and is fully comparable between members of different cultures. Interpretation # 6 Intercultural differences in neuroticism may be caused by adaptations of psychometric personality questionnaires to other languages. ABSTRACT? —“Independence of Neuroticism? Finally, we would like to pay attention to the question of âindependence of neuroticism.â Neuroticism has been found to be positively correlated with cultural dimensions of masculinity and uncertainty avoidance (Hofstede model, see Hofstede & McCrae, 2004; Allik, & McCrae, 2004), power distance (Hofstede model, Ãzkan & Lajunen, 2007) and harmony value (Schwartz model, Schwartz, 2006) and negatively correlated with the interpersonal trust dimension from the Inglehart model (Allik & McCrae, 2004). Thus, it is not likely that neuroticism is an independent personality trait that is not related with any other construct measured on the cultural level of analysis.”—
October 7th, 2018 11:46 PM
Um. Lots of people get some of it. Very few people get most of it. And internalizing it fully is non trivial. Just how it’s got to be. If you have economics, science, philosophy, history, then it’s easier. Otherwise, the layers of the onion take a while to get thru.
October 7th, 2018 11:46 PM
Um. Lots of people get some of it. Very few people get most of it. And internalizing it fully is non trivial. Just how it’s got to be. If you have economics, science, philosophy, history, then it’s easier. Otherwise, the layers of the onion take a while to get thru.
October 7th, 2018 11:03 PM
—“US experts say that the Russians are not capable of taking a direct clash with an army of equal manpower sounds weird indeed.”—
[T]his is not a question of Russian bravery (which no one doubts) or Russian skill (which no one doubts) or Russian technology (which fell behind but is catching up), but a question of Economics. America has a vast number of combat experienced troops, and can put men and equipment in the field anywhere faster and with more operational coordination. Americans have spent a great deal of time with current combined arms and technology. And the men are well trained in large numbers to use it. No one questions Russians militarily. But Russia has not had enough time to recover population, skills, diverse economy, technological manufacturing capacity, and rule of law, to fight among the great powers. What Russia has is missiles. These missiles can be used precisely once. If they are used, there may be no USA, or no world, but there will be no Russia either. Americans will not do that. Particularly to “Our own people in Christendom”. No one thinks Russians are that stupid. 😉 Just Proud. And we like it that Russians are Strong and Proud.
October 7th, 2018 11:03 PM
—“US experts say that the Russians are not capable of taking a direct clash with an army of equal manpower sounds weird indeed.”—
[T]his is not a question of Russian bravery (which no one doubts) or Russian skill (which no one doubts) or Russian technology (which fell behind but is catching up), but a question of Economics. America has a vast number of combat experienced troops, and can put men and equipment in the field anywhere faster and with more operational coordination. Americans have spent a great deal of time with current combined arms and technology. And the men are well trained in large numbers to use it. No one questions Russians militarily. But Russia has not had enough time to recover population, skills, diverse economy, technological manufacturing capacity, and rule of law, to fight among the great powers. What Russia has is missiles. These missiles can be used precisely once. If they are used, there may be no USA, or no world, but there will be no Russia either. Americans will not do that. Particularly to “Our own people in Christendom”. No one thinks Russians are that stupid. 😉 Just Proud. And we like it that Russians are Strong and Proud.
October 7th, 2018 7:46 PM NO. THERE IS NO CONFLICT BETWEEN RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN PEOPLE. Posted by DmitryPravda, Journalist I am Dmitry Sudakov, editor of Russia’s leading newspaper Pravda Hello everyone, (UPDATE:) I just wrote an article about my AMA experience yesterday. Here it is: http://www.pravdareport.com/opinion/04-10-2018/141722-pravda_reddit_ama-0/
Dmitry; Russian people and American People are the most similar in the world. Russian Political Class and American political class are opposites. It is inconceivable to a russian that americans can be so naive (we are). It is inconceivable to americans that russians can be so dishonest (they consider it, as do the arabs and jews, honorable). Everyone knows that the ambition of the Russian Political Class is to prevent the infection of the russian people with western ‘progressivism’ (hedonism). They are RIGHT TO DO THIS. Unfortunately, like every mistake russians have made in a century they simply don’t state the truth: (a) we cannot allow the decline of the west to spread to the rest of the world. All you americans and europeans do is create chaos because you think others are like you and CAN be like you. The are not. And they Can’t be. They don’t want to be. And even if they could be they would consider it evil. And they are right. Consumption is not of greater value than harmony. We are surrounded by dangerous people on all sides. We need harmony. (b) Yes we punish revolutionaries because we are not willing to fall in to the chaos that America is falling into today. We had our collapse and we will never let it happen again. So we do what slowly improves our people so that we never have ‘the chaos’ again. (America is very close to collapse). (c) We had our “200 Years Together” and learned that the [—-Content redacted for FB—–] . After our collapse and their abuse of our people, we make sure that they are always under our control, and useful but not powerful. You have not learned from our lesson. And this is why you lack harmony, and why you will collapse. (d) We cannot allow our only warm water port to fall into NATO hands. Therefore we are going to take control of it. We cannot allow the Don Basin military manufacturing to fall into Nato Hands. Therefore we are going to go take it and bring it home. (e) Our ambition is to restore Orthodox Civilization and we cannot do so without clear passage through ukraine. We made the mistake of ruining and impoverishing ukraine so that it would fall into our dependence again. Unfortunately we did not eliminate the oligarchs, and we did not work to make the Ukrainian people trust us. This is because we did not think we had the money to do so. This mistake has been very costly for us. It will take a century to repair our panic over the spread of Maidan to Russia. (f) When We Russians asked to join NATO so that we could achieve the goal of uniting Christendom again, we did not understand that this process must be done by ‘selling the american people’ not ‘agreements between diplomats’. We did not learn from the Jews. And it is against our nature to ‘teach as if beggars’. Because of this we lost the great opportunity to unite all of europe and eliminate the need for american military power. Etc., Etc., Etc., —“Я люблю русских. Но иногда лиса и медведь действуют как мул, и охотник возвращается домой с пустым мешком.”— Американцы – дети с оптимизмом, но они понимают истинные слова, когда они их слышат. Путин был самым уважаемым политиком в мире. Если бы он сделал телефонный звонок, а не панику, он все равно был бы самым могущественным человеком в мире. И Россия снова обретет демографический паритет. ИСПОЛЬЗУЙТЕ АМЕРИКАНСКИХ ЛЮДЕЙ, ЧТО ХОТЯТ, ЧТО У НАС БУДЕТ ВМЕСТЕ. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine