Dave’s attitude that he is smarter than anyone else is one we all must at least SHARE in.
After all, the basic premise of BUGS is that the rest of the world has gone NUTS. The entire history of science is a fight against established Authority and what WORKS. Intellectual modesty has ALWAYS been on the side of evil.
If you THINK about that, it puts Ole Bob in a COMICAL position. I have a lot to teach, but I can’t GRADE you. That is what the forgotten art of SEMINAR is about.
“Education” begins with “fitting in,” learning how to respond and to give answers Mommy Teacher considers acceptable. We begin by learning to read and write the “right” way. We repeat multiplication tables. We learn socialization.
This is absolutely essential for small child. We have to teach him how to walk the way we do, because we know it WORKS. We have to teach him to deal with arithmetic as it really is. He does some arithmetic and stops believing in Santa Claus.
This is fine for small children, but it never STOPS. Universities have what they call “seminars,” but these are graded in exactly the same way the multiplication tables were, with a test.
No one GROWS UP in our educational system. This goes back to one of our themes: It is so obvious that nobody notices it. Our entire Western science is based on the fact that people learned the basics and then OUTGREW the basics at a certain level. That is the history of science.
But the area we are dealing in allows no one to grow up. In “social science” the student is supposed to begin AND END within the parameters of learn and test. We are lead to believe that any deviation from “educated thinking” leads back to some version of the Easter Bunny.
That is why blacks tell us that any deviation from the Politically Correct attitude on race means, “You Ignunt!!”
This is embarrassing to our “intellectuals” because it is EXACTLY what THEY are saying: You either agree or you are ignorant.
I teach some basics I know. I do NOT expect you to STOP with my basics. I do not expect you to spend time discussing my discussion of your discussion.
We outgrew that crap with Occam’s Law.
Well, BUGS did. Modern academia acts like Occam was never born.
I want you to practice what I preach and tell me what works. In a seminar, the rest is your business.
#1 by Dave on 12/18/2008 - 1:46 pm
Now consider this:
“You will know you have been successful when someone quotes an idea you wrote, and he has no idea where the idea came from.”
Now Robert Whitaker didn’t say that (originally), Leonard Read did.
This quote is very difficult to put into controversy. Accordingly it is “a castle made of stone”.
Robert Whitaker relies on it heavily in his approach to influencing others. .
But if it is used to manufacture a prayer wheel spinner (Pain), it is a “castle made of sand”.
Now a while back Shari and Simmons warned me about the Jehovah Witnesses being cultists. They need not have warned me. I am well aware of the JW’s technique of using “castles make of stone” to manufacture prayer wheel spinners (Pain).
I am most certainly NOT smarter than everybody else. That is why I like Robert Whitaker and put so much effort into mastering his intellect. I make it a rule to seek the company of people smarter than myself.
In contrast, I am certainly smarter than Pain. He genuinely annoys me. I know how to fight, he doesn’t and I don’t count him as useful for anything.
In a fight (and I fight a lot in fact and not in my imagination) Pain will not survive the fire zone. That is called natural selection.
The Mantra must be used to lure the capable and successful. Prayer wheel spinners (Pain) need not apply.
Now there is a big difference between Robert Whitaker and myself.
Robert Whitaker is relentlessly kind. I well understand why. It is such a waste not to be. But I have no such quality. Even though I well understand the waste involved in not being kind, I often deliberately engage in waste.
That is because I am committed to FAILING to live my life on behalf of moral objects, the very opposite of Pain’s approach. That is a personal choice and a choice I am absolutely committed to. I need not explain why.
#2 by Simmons on 12/18/2008 - 2:56 pm
That is why we live in an era of talking points, the kids literally can only pass a test if it is multiple choice. Ask a black person who would use the word “ignunt” towards you to explain themselves. This will cause a meltdown, but thankfully for them we have been trained to shreik which only adds to the Kabuki theatre aspect of our day’s polemics. The average doofus only has at best a sentence or two of political rhetoric for their status gathering talking points.
Mantra thinking grabs these rabble by the scruff and waterboards them till they give in to your dominance.
#3 by Tim on 12/18/2008 - 4:21 pm
Wow, top rated post there Bob. Good stuff. You even brought your charm with words like IGNUNT!
By the way, the type font is tiny, tiny, tiny. You must have hit something by accident.
#4 by shari on 12/18/2008 - 6:11 pm
At least, the days of “ignunts is bliss” are coming undone. Faster please faster!
#5 by Pain on 12/18/2008 - 6:23 pm
This is hilarious.
Here is a (presumably) grown man who is utterly obsessed with someone he met online (me). Everything he writes is about me. He thinks about me when he gets up in the morning, he thinks about me when he goes to bed. He writes about me in the morning, he writes about me in the evening. I am sure he even dreams about me.
I guess I am supposed to be flattered, since I will certainly dominate his life for years to come. (Did someone send him my picture or what?)
I think a man can take criticism without taking offense and a man gives it without meaning any.
But what kind of person takes offense when a man refuses to fight with him – and in a blog online? Talk about thin-skinned!
#6 by shari on 12/18/2008 - 6:58 pm
I am reminded of a little dachshound we used to have. If you went off and left him alone in the house,he would find a coat or backpack left laying and hose it down. In other words SPITEFUL!
#7 by Pain on 12/18/2008 - 8:58 pm
Ha ha, that’s hilarious, Shari. Thanks.
#8 by BoardAd on 12/19/2008 - 12:06 am
Tim,
The tiny font size is something that I correct from time to time. It results from Bob using MS Word or its equivalent and copy and pasting the article into the wordpress write screen. It carries the code from Word right into the blog.
Sorry for not getting to it quick enough.
#9 by AFKANNow on 12/19/2008 - 1:34 am
Just as there are “known knowns” and “known unknowns,” so, too, is there BUGS, and being “IGNANT.”
The problem is, we have to overcome a tremendous handicap in accepting the fact of being “ignant,” and the painful price we have to pay to develop knowledge – by seeing clearly – and wisdom, by putting the knowledge to the test of painfully gained experience.
Bob said, some time back, that ther is not a man alive who has not looked at his life from the perspective of being forty, and saying, “I have been a fool.”
“True dat,” as the FCC’s would say.
This is the foundation for the spiritual Gift of the Mid-Life Opportunity; disguised as a crisis, it crystallizes the many mistakes we have made by accepting, without question, the Terms, Definitions, and Analytical Frameworks, of Others.
It is such a damn challenge to See Clearly, particularly when you are dealing with the issue of Race as the Living Bridge between Family and Culture. We lack the Hoffman Lenses – the sunglasses used by Roddy Piper in the wonderful Movement movie, “They Live.”
So, we work, and get to the point that watching television is painful, and listening to the radio is little better, because we are at the point of Adult Individuation, the beginning of what I call the Patriarch State of Consciousness.
Our Perspective MUST, if we seek the best interests of the Race – our Family, writ large – see the cultural moment as only being a moment, and all of our Institutions little more than Tools which we have Created, and must transform, or replace, when the need is upon us to Do More, an achieve a transcendent purpose which is unique to our Race.
Essential to this is the recapturing of the Positive Masculine Dynamic; we have become Judeo-American, and have adopted the Feminine values of Judaism, across all social orders.
The Transformation of Christianity into what it SHOULD have been requires stripping away the Old Testament, and most of the New Testament, and working in a Masculine Framework to build a new social order from the Remnant of what will be left.
To those in my Family back in the Hills, I make the Mantra – they can’t really handle the entire Mantra whole – into one concept they CAN understand:
Every other Race wants to do what only we can do, and every other Race intends to kill us.
THAT should be motivation enough, for one and all.
#10 by Bob on 12/19/2008 - 9:42 am
Let’s not forget that Pain called Dave names,too.
I am not upset for either one of them. By the time you get to BUGS you have long since been called every name in the book.
I am the only one who has a right to be offended. Dave and Pain have something infinitely more important to concentrate on and there is nobody ELSE to do it FOR them.
#11 by shari on 12/19/2008 - 1:41 pm
I was actually trying to be neutral. I thought that things were headed to just becoming, what my husband calls a pissing match. Those don’t give anyone somethings to think about.
#12 by Pain on 12/19/2008 - 2:04 pm
Actually, Bob, no. You have no reason to be offended.
What happened was that somebody was behaving badly and bizarre, and kept itching for a dispute because he feels stupid. He was already acting like a particular kind of person, so he was asked if he were that kind of person. He became angry when he did not get the fight he wanted.
Bob, when you see extremely bad behavior – every time – you look the other way in order to avoid conflict. Then when somebody says “Houston, we have a problem,” you jump all over them.
You worry more that a spiteful person might be called “spiteful,” than you worry over his spiteful behavior. You deny the obvious, make excuses for the spiteful, and let them do whatever they want.
You do not understand that narcissists and spiteful people drive others away. Then from time to time you get persnickety here when you see that nobody comments and your lifelong friends have left you, too. Nobody likes to be around a narcissist or spiteful person. I was hoping you could make amends with Lake, Clyde, et al…, but I don’t think you are able to admit what is obvious to everyone else.
What this means for you is that if your ideas die with you it is because you drove away everyone that was listening and kept close those who could not care less about what you have to say.