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Is a good idea.

Just want to say I appreciate this post. And mistersloane's.

Dick-wise I think The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is his best novel. Also prefer The Divine Invasion and The Tranmigration of Timothy Archer to Valis as books, although Valis probably contains the most explicit account of his weltanschauung. Some great recommendations here no doubt but I...

So, you altered your behaviour in view of circumstances, which is precisely what I've been talking about, and I believe what Shonx has been talking about as well. Your point about the circumstances of most rapes and relationship to alcohol consumption is taken and has been acknowledged several...

Perhaps you refer to those occasions when you have misconstrued the tone of people's posts? It's one thing for a little gentle humour or sarcasm to be misread but it's another when subsequent explanations are repeatedly discounted.

If you are then you mistook what I was saying there in a big way. I'm sure I explained that at the time. But yes, let's not go back to that.

Thanks for the paralax(ative) poetix. For the record I didn't read this post as a criticism of abstraction or language, I read it as a gentle reminder that different abstractions may coexist and be simultaneously valid.

Sure, OK, indeed. But what is it about 'far right' ideology that engenders this, so to speak? Or rather, what is the correlation? Is it simply that 'conservative' politics at this time equates with conserving patriarchal institutional structures, or is it something more fundamental that...

I asked the question because I wanted to be sure of your meaning. I can make an educated guess based on what I know of your general position but why should I assume I know what you're saying when I am not sure? That would be presumptuous, surely. Why take so much exception to people asking...

Was replying to waffle's questions, to me. That was my answer, you agree or you don't but you were looking to have a go basically. And I disagree, it's not obvious what you or waff are saying here. It's the usual nudge-nudge, oh yes dahling isn't it just like so-and-so says? You are for the...

I love that The Residents got in there. Billy Jean bassline on that one.

A good helping of self mythologising no doubt. But if you are driven and involved in projects you can fit together it can happen. A monomaniacal obsessive undertaking but I reckon it just might have produced a revealing dissection of hidden structures and patterns in the language. There is...

Yes, a perceived binary in other words. So these 'extremely bright women who worked very hard' were 'Usually...of average or below-average looks' because nobody (men in positions of power?) could conceive of a 'pretty' female being smart? 'Only makes sense' how? What is it about the 'far...

What I am asking is, how in your view does line 4 follow from line 2? What is the (presumed) mechanism? Do you see? Helpfully we've established that 'a binary in contemporary society' means here 'a perception of a binary'. So that's a start.

No, it's not unambiguous because there are assumptions in this statement. It might seem clear to you, but that's because they are your assumptions. I could of course take a guess, or several, at what you are assuming here but I choose instead to ask a question. Only idiots always assume they...

I don't want the conversation to go in this direction, and I'm not interested in pointless bickering, but if you insist on just being abusive and dismissive and basically an idiot.

So a 'good one' is a singular word you can pick on and miss the wider question and the spirit in which it is asked so you can just be an argumentative time waster.

Well, you seemed to be implying that 'extremely bright women' couldn't also be pretty. You know, it's just about politely asking you for clarification. And yet again you are being a cunt. And I use that in the cross gender sense.

This is the substance of waffle's thesis / question so far. Maybe the point is 'rather obvious' as you say but I had some questions to ask about that and some suggestions. I haven't been rude to anyone and I am genuinely interested because I think waffle might have something interesting to say...

I'm not saying you need to get a sense of humour but at least try and recognise it once in a while.