Meh. I volunteered for many years with a rape crisis/domestic violence agency. The advocates’ ideas of what to do with perps was only slightly less “interesting” than the therapists’.
Fun fact: During that time I knew every business in town that was open 24 hours, well-lighted, and populated enough to be a safe meeting place.
I can imagine… My daughter is a current LEO trainee after 9 years in the Army Reserve as an E-6, 68 Whiskey/Combat Medic AND 8 years as an EMT/Paramedic/Paramedic OPs supervisor.
She’s saved lives from ODs to stopping shooting victims from bleeding out. And if the opposite action is necessary, she can outshoot all but the best and, gives them competition.
There have been a few times when she’s had ‘friends from work’ over and sitting on the back porch for some downtime. I’ve heard things.
And… around 40-45 years ago, I was dating a girl who also shared an apartment with my future wife and her sister. The three of them, plus a fourth girl, were sitting around the kitchen table while I was in the living room. I guess they forgot I was there… That was an educational experience. I had thought guys were ‘pigs’ when discussing their ‘conquests’. They didn’t have anything on those girls. They take notes, discuss and compare, it was interesting.
Empathy. Feelings. The trump cards of post-modern “thought”.
Their mother might have a somewhat different view. Such as when she’s overhauling a transmission on an ex-Federal vehicle.
All the Feds I ever worked with thought vehicle maintenance was for lesser beings. They were constantly gobsmacked when their Tahoes and etc. ended up in the shop due to them not having them oil-changed and lubed when the owner’s manual said they should.
But rest assured that they had all the correct “feelings” about, you know, “things”.
Too many people equate ‘feelings’ with ‘thought’ as in “I feel we should do this, that, and the other thing…”
As I have mentioned here and there, I have a friend who would use that phrase and I would interrupt her and say “I don’t care what you feel about X, Y, or Z. I want to know what you think about them.”
More often that not the response was “What’s the difference?”
Perhaps she is unfamiliar with the equivalence of thinking and reasoning.
Many have never been taught that reasoning has a specific meaning.
Or perhaps they don’t _want_ to acknowledge that “feeling” and “reasoning” are two entirely different animals because the self-reflection involved is just too horrid to contemplate.
April 21, 2026 at 7:57 am
PaulS-MEGA-ANGRY
Mari, no need to deny it, it’s a virtue, not a liability. 🙂
Carry on!
Maybe for libtards, thinking is a problem because they may actually realize the conflicting feelings they are having. Or maybe it really hurts for them.
On a local chat site some old guy was whining about this or that constantly and finally was told to man up and shut up. A female jumped in and called me some kind of thing and said I need to get some empathy. I told her the overuse and misuse of “empathy” was a big part of the reason this nation is so fucked up right now. Yes I used that word, and no she did not respond, however I got quite a few “likes” from those I assume know what I was talking a bout.
“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.”
“The organizers first job is to create the issues or problems, and organizations must be based on many issues. The organizer must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression. He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them, for unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act… An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent.”
And Obama started out as a “community organizer.”
From his performance, he would have been Saul’s #1 student.
We hadn’t had such resentment and division in the USA since the Civil War.
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Yet another conversation Zed is glad to not be part of.
Formerly, men did not withdraw as a group after dinner for a nightcap to be exclusive. They did it to protect their own tender sensibilities.
Ever overhear the conversation a group of women who are nurses?
Meh. I volunteered for many years with a rape crisis/domestic violence agency. The advocates’ ideas of what to do with perps was only slightly less “interesting” than the therapists’.
Fun fact: During that time I knew every business in town that was open 24 hours, well-lighted, and populated enough to be a safe meeting place.
That’s super easy where I live: the cop shop, the fire station, the hospital, five of the eight gas stations, and Denny’s… and that’s all she wrote.
Even better….ever listen to a bunch of women who are nurses in a limo on a bachelorette party?
I was an armed chauffeur/bodyguard for 20+ years before retiring…..the stories I could tell……
I can imagine… My daughter is a current LEO trainee after 9 years in the Army Reserve as an E-6, 68 Whiskey/Combat Medic AND 8 years as an EMT/Paramedic/Paramedic OPs supervisor.
She’s saved lives from ODs to stopping shooting victims from bleeding out. And if the opposite action is necessary, she can outshoot all but the best and, gives them competition.
There have been a few times when she’s had ‘friends from work’ over and sitting on the back porch for some downtime. I’ve heard things.
And… around 40-45 years ago, I was dating a girl who also shared an apartment with my future wife and her sister. The three of them, plus a fourth girl, were sitting around the kitchen table while I was in the living room. I guess they forgot I was there… That was an educational experience. I had thought guys were ‘pigs’ when discussing their ‘conquests’. They didn’t have anything on those girls. They take notes, discuss and compare, it was interesting.
Empathy. Feelings. The trump cards of post-modern “thought”.
Their mother might have a somewhat different view. Such as when she’s overhauling a transmission on an ex-Federal vehicle.
All the Feds I ever worked with thought vehicle maintenance was for lesser beings. They were constantly gobsmacked when their Tahoes and etc. ended up in the shop due to them not having them oil-changed and lubed when the owner’s manual said they should.
But rest assured that they had all the correct “feelings” about, you know, “things”.
clear ether
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Too many people equate ‘feelings’ with ‘thought’ as in “I feel we should do this, that, and the other thing…”
As I have mentioned here and there, I have a friend who would use that phrase and I would interrupt her and say “I don’t care what you feel about X, Y, or Z. I want to know what you think about them.”
More often that not the response was “What’s the difference?”
I rest my case…
Perhaps she is unfamiliar with the equivalence of thinking and reasoning.
Many have never been taught that reasoning has a specific meaning.
Or perhaps they don’t _want_ to acknowledge that “feeling” and “reasoning” are two entirely different animals because the self-reflection involved is just too horrid to contemplate.
Mari, no need to deny it, it’s a virtue, not a liability. 🙂
Carry on!
Maybe for libtards, thinking is a problem because they may actually realize the conflicting feelings they are having. Or maybe it really hurts for them.
On a local chat site some old guy was whining about this or that constantly and finally was told to man up and shut up. A female jumped in and called me some kind of thing and said I need to get some empathy. I told her the overuse and misuse of “empathy” was a big part of the reason this nation is so fucked up right now. Yes I used that word, and no she did not respond, however I got quite a few “likes” from those I assume know what I was talking a bout.
“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.”
“The organizers first job is to create the issues or problems, and organizations must be based on many issues. The organizer must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression. He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them, for unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act… An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent.”
Saul Alinsky
And Obama started out as a “community organizer.”
From his performance, he would have been Saul’s #1 student.
We hadn’t had such resentment and division in the USA since the Civil War.
Nothing wrong with virginity! My mom was until she got married
Hmm. So Mari, nothing happened with the mysterious Ian then?