The French?! Guess what, if I had to live in Scotland I'd become a vegetarian too!
How to tell if you are a Jerk
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Dec 16, 2017
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this is a highly philosophical question. if an answer to it is ever discovered it will probably lead to a major leap in evolution (not that this has anything to do with that ridiculously lame theory of evolution which could be more aptly titled "change for dummies").
if one is a jerk, one must know what a jerk is to recognise oneself as a jerk.
the problem there is that it may require more brain power than the jerk has!!!!
if one is not a jerk, one may have no way to understand the characteristics of a jerk since they are not within ones consciousness, thereby leaving one totally confused as to whether one is a jerk or not.
Pulpofeira wrote:
The French?! Guess what, if I had to live in Scotland I'd become a vegetarian too!
haha nothing wrong with a good old pot of wholesome sheeps head soup, you might get lucky and scoop up an eyeball!
ulfhednar1234 wrote:
i don't know. am i a jerk? i feel some times as if people are inferior, but that only happens occasionally and when i am in a sour mood.
the mere fact that you are questioning your proclivity for exhibiting jerkish tendencies in instances of being in a foul mood may cast serious doubts at least at this moment in time of any claims of being a jerk that you might harbour! After all perhaps it was the jerkism of others that put you in a foul mood when you would have been a perfectly content happy-go-lucky fellow otherwise.
Sergeant-Pepper wrote:
this is a highly philosophical question. if an answer to it is ever discovered it will probably lead to a major leap in evolution (not that this has anything to do with that ridiculously lame theory of evolution which could be more aptly titled "change for dummies").
if one is a jerk, one must know what a jerk is to recognise oneself as a jerk.
the problem there is that it may require more brain power than the jerk has!!!!
if one is not a jerk, one may have no way to understand the characteristics of a jerk since they are not within ones consciousness, thereby leaving one totally confused as to whether one is a jerk or not.
Most interesting although one is reminded of the words Steinbecks character Slim in 'Of Mice and Men',
'Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.'
Perhaps we all slip into momentary Jerkish mode when someone phases us, I dunno. I think we develop coping mechanisms to deal with it, like we tell ourselves that Karma will get them for that! then again we may be transformed into a full on Jerk by their bad behaviour when we plan vengeance in some way, thus their Jerkism has completely transformed us and we get assimilated into the Jerk consciousness. Its a tricky business for sure.
JulioVerdurous wrote:
@robbie_1969 Can you give me a summary of OP? TLDR;
Sure send me your homework and I will do that for you as well.
Its a wonderful thing knowledge for it only reveals itself to those who are prepared to put forth the effort 
Dec 16, 2017
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Well, you have to persuade me that what you've written is worth reading. If you can do that I'll take a look.
Sorry but I don't have to do anything. The article is there for anyone that wants to put forth the effort to read it.
Are you making a confession?
Have you been guilty of displaying a jerkish disposition? On occasion or perhaps even habitually?
Absolutely not, we are after all free moral agents.
robbie_1969 escribió:
I have come across this before and it does seem that reading may be a lost habit, one that has resulted because of a proclivity for alternative forms of media.
This is a very interesting point, look at this comment by Dietrich Schwanitz in "The culture":
Today, before learning how to read, kids watch TV. This fact is kind of problematic, since culture is still bound to books or at least to texts on the screen, that is, to writing. Why is this like that? Why can’t images transmit culture? Why is not posible to start educating watching TV? What’s so special about writing?
TV shows oral communication just as it is on more or less real (or simulated) situations; but the meaning of the message is inextricably bound to the way of communication: gestures, voices, body language, etc. The meaning of the message is so connected with its way of presentation that, although the meaning is immediately obvious, it’s not posible to summarise it without referring to the context. This phenomenon shows itself every time naive people or children want to tell funny situations they just lived, and to relive them they use a couple of sentences: “And he said: ‘eh, you!’, and then she said: ‘hey!’, and we all laughed!”. But those who listen to this and can’t remember the situation, because they didn’t live it, feel disconcerted, since they don’t understand what’s so funny.
Only writing separates language from the specific situation and makes it independent of its immediate context. We call meaning what remains the same during this process: therefore, the transformation of speaking language into writing is the only thing that allows us to grab the sense. Because of this, the more evolved religions (Judaism, Christianism, Islam) identified meaning and writing as the same thing (Sacred Scriptures).
On speaking, however, the most important is not the objectivity of the message, but the emotional aspect and its numerous connotations. Written texts must be structured around some themes; oral communication, on the contrary, feeds from the energetic current produced by its own dramatics, and the sense appear and disappear with it. Only writing sets language and submits it to the control of grammatic rules…
No need to go so far away, here in the capital of the empire you'd have a reasonable temperature and more than decent food, robbie.
haha Spain is not place for a vegetarian, my gawd you guys eat all kinds of squiggy things with tentacles, you make the French look downright civilised! Nay lad I need to go East!
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