Comments on: Tough Guys Versus Reality

By: Pain

Pain — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:11:22 +0000

“The Though Guy approach is to learn “both sides,’ to aggressively Question. But he is already into step two. His big concern is LOOKING doubtful, not in analyzing reality.”

I always thought that meant he knew who was wrong and was protecting him. So when he puts on the tough image, I’m thinking “What a wuss,” and he can tell he’s not fooling me, so he gets pissed.

By: shari

shari — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:46:04 +0000

Too often, I have no idea WHY some information is produced. I just try to get enough together to have some discernment about what to accept, or think on, and what to reject. That much is not easy.

By: mderpelding

mderpelding — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:04:31 +0000

If I may…

“keep asking you to consider WHY any information is PRODUCED.”

Quotes are mine.
Can any of you tell the difference between information, as in empirical data, and what would define “PRODUCED”?
Note the caps here.
A million empirical scientists can publish endless reams of data. But guess what, NOBODY wants to think about all that information.
Instead, they rely on “experts” to make that data sensible.
So, a narrative is created to explain the data.
In Hollywood, a man who takes an idea to fruition is called a “producer.”
Bob says we must think for ourselves.
Become our own “producers”.

By: Simmons

Simmons — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:09:10 +0000

So we can now assume that the “respectables” the Faithful Consrvative Companions to liberals are the capos of the PC concentration camps? They tell us how tough they are and they tell us how hopeless it is to fight the “reality” of the day. Sounds like AR and the CofCC and numerous other orgs that peddle “reality.”

By: shari

shari — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:27:43 +0000

It makes sense that men who are genuinely self confident, do not spend much time swaggering, or despising women.

By: Simmons

Simmons — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:16:22 +0000

Reality and Authority being interchangeable to some degree since the tough guy banks on his view of reality to garner authority (think ww11 vet sitting in the VFW telling us why we cannot fight authority). I basically work in a cult of personality and most of my co-workers repeat the reality they are told exists by the authority, and of course it really doesn’t exist. To bore everyone stiff I’ll relate a work experience. A tough guy supervisor told a co-worker of mine to never say “Merry Christmas” it being un-pc. Co-worker actually believing the toughness and realistic view of the super came crying to me about this injustice (chirstians crave martyrdom) My advice to co-worker go back to super and get all of this in writing in exacting detail so the worker could comply to strictest sense of what this man said was “reality.” Tough guys craving authority for their views of reality cannot handle responsibility, Merry Christmas restored. Next I want a channel to a respectable conservative asking them to explain in writing how intergration has worked.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:11:04 +0000

In personal conversations when I am getting to know people, I always look for who is not mentioned in the family to find out who the real family influence is.

This gets hilarious, for example, with Arabs (affluent Arabs in the US). I’ve discovered in these Arab families from the so-called “male dominated” societies that there is a real issue going on regarding females (mother’s and aunts) standing between boys and their fathers. Male effeminacy is big time in the Arab world, but opps, I’ve drifted off into political incorrectness, big time!

We are supposed to pretend that the macho façade of Arabs is real and presto everybody follows along and pretends. Isn’t it great? Sounds like life to me.

Anybody “up to snuff” in the world of street violence knows that there is no correlation between how somebody acts and looks and how tough he or she really is. Cops know this and that is why they are so damn careful regarding anyone they are dealing with.

You never know when you are going to get seriously conked by that old grandma.