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Dr. Harry Frank, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Princeton, in a video interview, offers some keen insights into the philosophical meaning, social construction, and dynamics, of b*s*t which may be invaluable in assisting you ... if you are in the difficult transition from being a skilled liar to apprentice b*s*tter: [^].
In a future world where economists suggest that ... in only twenty years, or so ... half of "traditional" white-collar jobs will simply disappear, replaced by robotic technology, and automation: increasing, refining, honing to a dialectical razor's edge, your skills in ... even the art of ... b*s*tting may be a very valuable investment ... if not for you, for your children.
After all, haven't you observed how skill in b*s*tting appears to be essential in your workplace to rise through the ranks of management ? Haven't you seen, or experienced, social situations in which some one person, through clever b*s, somehow manages to "hog the limelight," to get credit for work, or behavior, or ideas, that, really, they contributed little too ?
I must caution you that Dr. Frank is, obviously, an enemy of b*st, and that he clearly lacks appreciation for the role of b*s in entertainment, in providing a psychic safety valve for creating an alternative interpretation of events, or realities, useful in surviving difficult times in the lives of individuals or groups. Even more damning is the incredible fact that nowhere in the interview does Dr. Frank use the words gemeinschaft and/or geschellschaft !
But, if there is one thing essential to the skill/craft/art/science of b*s*tting, I'm sure you will agree, it is the ability to continually learn from the strategems and rhetorical devices of those who seek to reduce social communication to a joyless un-spontaneous search for some mythical "truth."
In the spirit of the ancient maxim, "know your enemy," I believe you will profit, as well as laugh, from studying Dr. Frank's analysis.
But ... another caution ... beware of that seductive temptation offered when you see someone who is clearly driven by a suppressed desire to know the joys of b*s*tting, an invidious inner lust to "let it all hang out," so to speak: you may fall into the trap, out of your own inner weakness in the form of pity/compassion/empathy, of catering to such a deprived person by "toning down" your own flights of hyper-real fantastic embroidering of who, and what, you are !
Let the "realists" carry their own wounded off the field, and ... well ... party-on, dude.
« I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do » HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) in "2001, A Space Odyssey"
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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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BillWoodruff wrote: b*s*t
Besat? Beset? Besht? Besit? Besot?
Can't make sense of it. Why would any of those things be an advantage?
BillWoodruff wrote: Dr. Frank is, obviously, an enemy of b*st
Bast? Best? Bist? Bust?
I c*'t m*e h* n*r t*l *f th* st*y.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I would really like to help you Mark; why, just the other day, here on the Lounge, you showed what I thought was a most promising sign of b*s*tting potential in that paragraph I praised you for.
But ... and I am sorry if this is kind of hard-hearted of me ... your failure to grasp the gestalt of this post, and your obvious floundering in a dysthymic revel in alphabet substitution ...
Well, you may be just not cut out for b*st; and, while this may come as a blow, I am sure that in the long run your obviously strong and healthy ego will bounce-back from any temporary megrim, or pity-wallow, and you will be filled again with the wholesome exuberance of your wondrous self !
And ... think about it: if there were no "straight men," could there be any comedians ?
with sympathy, Bill
« I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do » HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) in "2001, A Space Odyssey"
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H*y, t* pr*b*m w*t* *h* G*t*t w*s t*t *t w*s *ll ov*ri*fl*t*d b*ll*cks, m*d* w*se b* *h* inc*si*te*t ell*s*s!
D*'t g* b*m*ng y*r p*r l*n*ag* *se o* m*!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I understand, Brother Mark, you are going through the dark place, the veil of shadows; you have come to that turning point in your life where, like Dante, you can say that you are lost in a dark forest without any sense of the true direction:
"Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,
ché la diritta via era smarrita."
Well, I just want you to know that I am here for you pending approval of your credit card, and you are not alone. If it is necessary for you, like Dante, to visit Hell, you won't be the first to take the tour, and return enlightened.
cheers, Bill
« I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do » HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) in "2001, A Space Odyssey"
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I'm not sure what it is that you're sniffing, Bill, but I'm concerned that it might be young students' knickers.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I smell the Gomboc's inevitable self-righting [^] through my artificial tears shed for your suffering the assaults of projective illusions, arising from your attachments to artha and kama, as you pass through this Bardo state to emerge from the chrysalis of mid-life enantidromia into Vanaprastha ashrama.
cheers, Bill
« I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do » HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) in "2001, A Space Odyssey"
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N'anks, Mate, I'll just have a beer.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You can't possibly figure out my reaction at a Dante Alighieri quote - in my own language! 
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den2k88 wrote: You can't possibly figure out my reaction at a Dante Alighieri quote - in my own language
You are so right ! I wonder if anyone who is not living in pre-Renaissance early 14th. century Italy can really know the original power of those words, their challenge ... by being written in a synthesis of Tuscan, Latin, and other dialects, rather than the "high culture" academic/religious Latin ... to the rigid definition of poetry, and literature, maintained by the Medieval "spiritually valorised" itestatus quo.
And, the problem of translation: well, in Dante's own words: "Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness."
Here are the translations of the opening tercet of Purgatorio by three of the most noted English translators of Dante:
Sayers' translation :
"Midway this way of Life we're bound upon,
I woke to find myself in a dark wood,
Where the right road was wholly lost and gone"
Longfellow translation :
"Midway upon the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark,
For the straightforward pathway had been lost."
Mandelbaum translation :
"When I had journeyed half of our life's way,
I found myself within a shadowed forest,
for I had lost the path that does not stray."
« I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do » HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) in "2001, A Space Odyssey"
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Babysitter.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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That was precisely how I read it.
That combined with the other problems in the essay, I can't mark it higher than 4/10.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Sounds like b*s*t!
My blog[ ^]
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ConvertCase.net[^]
From the site:
Quote: Accidentally left the caps lock on and typed something, but can't be bothered to start again and retype it all?
Simply enter your text and choose the case you want to convert it to.
Useful, I must say.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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That would be handy for SHOUTING Q/A questions.
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Ooh, nice. I always have Notepad++ open, but I will still have to revert to Word for conversion to Title Case.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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I normally have Word open for some reason or another, and that does the job nicely as well.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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Cute, but Shift+F3 is easier than picking a button, and Word already has shortcuts in convenient places on most machines.
If it worked like the Google Translate button in Maxthon, where you just select text in a web page (whether you've typed it or not) and click the button, that might come in handy, but the process is too clunky for what it delivers.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I must have died and gone to heaven. Wife and I have checked into Harrison Resort and Spa[^]. Last night we had dinner in the copper room restaurant with friends then a relaxing dip in the hot spring mineral pools. Totally awesome.
Today we went for a couples massage in the spa. Oh man, was that the best thing ever. One hour of pure pleasure. Now a bit of afternoon tea and then to the Lake Side Terrace restaurant for dinner followed by another dip in the hot pools.
So how is your weekend going?
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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I bought a bottle of tequila.
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lol 
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Well, I started re-tiling the bathroom.
Before I carry on with that in the morning, though, I think I'll make a little effigy of you to stick pins into.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Then we can douse it in tequila and set it aflame.
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