I don’t get people comfortable being naked with others. Most people aren’t nudists but I don’t think that makes them neurotic puritans.
Just because it’s a “locker room” doesn’t mean it’s comfortable. The naked people need to change, not me.
What makes people think it’s a good idea to be naked in the gym locker room at work? Seeing people you know, especially coworkers, naked is especially uncomfortable. I really can’t wrap my mind around it.
Maybe because they’re changing? Do you work at a gym or something? I don’t know. I haven’t been in a locker room since I was about 14 so I have no idea.
Yep, changing. I don’t work at a gym. I don’t get the mindset of being comfortable being naked in front of people, especially people that you work with. At least put underwear on before leaving the shower stall…rather than standing there naked and talking to me about work while I admire the ceiling.
What makes people think it’s a good idea to be naked in the gym locker room at work? Seeing people you know, especially coworkers, naked is especially uncomfortable. I really can’t wrap my mind around it.
Growing beards is a tradition that has had a resurgence lately. I prefer the tradition of shaving.
About time. Humans are racist, sexist, and otherwise irredeemably horrible. That last bit might be hyperbolic, if only in this context, or maybe objective truth (if that were a real thing), depending on who you talk to.
I won’t miss this place like I would have a few years ago.
We’ve heard this from people on the other end of discussions with you before.
Glad you don’t intend to leave but Jay’s not wrong. I don’t think it’s too much to ask for more than “curt one-liners without substantive commentary or support” when it “gets closer to people’s political/personal beliefs.” Time and again that stirs up clashes.
Slaves were a tradition. Just saying.
My name was changed so as to avoid that, sounds like it was the right call.
Beat me to it, DE!
As they say, you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink.
(For Frink’s ocular sensors only: We all have our ways of rubbing others the wrong way. When you don’t have the appetite to engage in deep debate, I don’t let it bother me much. I have my indirect and non-explicit posts, like this one calling you a horse.)
I expect that in an increasingly egalitarian society diversity occurs naturally.
Let me know when it happens.
I think it’s happening all the time.
Ah, problem solved then.
Spoiler - it’s not even close.
How will you know when we’ve gotten there?
I may be a weightless philosopher, but I believe in objective truth. We perceive that truth imperfectly and incompletely.
Someone I went to grad school with died this week, I happened to see post by his wife on Facebook. Didn’t know he was sick.
Well, if that nightmare scenario came true, I’d tell him or her to realize that nothing in life has any real objective meaning
Arguable.
There actually is no objective truth or meaning to anything. No philosopher worth his weight would tell you otherwise. Meaning is what we attribute to things, not something that things have and we discover.
That’s only the gap between objective reality and our ability to know and describe it.
Well, if that nightmare scenario came true, I’d tell him or her to realize that nothing in life has any real objective meaning and no one really has your best interests at heart and that you should pursue only what you find interesting or exciting and not waste a second of your life doing what society claims is good for you or attempting to live based on what other people want or think. What he or she would do is based on his or her interests so I can’t predict anything specific.
Would you help identify and encourage their interests?
I have no idea. One thing I did leave out is that I would raise them to appreciate knowledge and learning and to shun stupidity. So many people these days are incredibly stupid and actively oppose learning anything and that more than anything is what really sickens me about society. So that’s a principle that I would instill in these fictional kids of mine.
What kind of stuff do you think is worth learning?
Everything.
What books do you enjoy the most? Those Russian novels you referenced have tempted me but then I think they might be too dense and boring and so haven’t taken the plunge.
Well, if that nightmare scenario came true, I’d tell him or her to realize that nothing in life has any real objective meaning and no one really has your best interests at heart and that you should pursue only what you find interesting or exciting and not waste a second of your life doing what society claims is good for you or attempting to live based on what other people want or think. What he or she would do is based on his or her interests so I can’t predict anything specific.
Would you help identify and encourage their interests?
I have no idea. One thing I did leave out is that I would raise them to appreciate knowledge and learning and to shun stupidity. So many people these days are incredibly stupid and actively oppose learning anything and that more than anything is what really sickens me about society. So that’s a principle that I would instill in these fictional kids of mine.
What kind of stuff do you think is worth learning?
Amazing, I can’t believe it 😉
Well, if that nightmare scenario came true, I’d tell him or her to realize that nothing in life has any real objective meaning and no one really has your best interests at heart and that you should pursue only what you find interesting or exciting and not waste a second of your life doing what society claims is good for you or attempting to live based on what other people want or think. What he or she would do is based on his or her interests so I can’t predict anything specific.
Would you help identify and encourage their interests?
Stop misusing the word energy! Energy doesn’t refer to mystical shrouds that surround people.
It can
Indeed, although I don’t think there’s anything mystic about it.
I would certainly call off an engagement or file for divorce over a hyphenated name. Now I’m not married and never will be, and I don’t have kids that I know of and hopefully never will, but a hyphenated name is not something I’d be able to tolerate. Like I said, you simply have to draw the line somewhere.
Ok this is flat out crazy and frankly I don’t believe you. You don’t get to the point where you marry someone and commit to kids and then back out of everything because of a hyphenated name.
Unless you’re a deadbeat I guess.
“Mommy, where is daddy going?”
“Daddy is leaving and you’ll never see him again.”
“(sobbing) Whyyyyyyyy?”
“Because you have two last names.”Give me a break.
Oh wait you love hyperbole. Ok.
LOL the kids will hate hyphenated names too after that.
If you were having a child, despite your best efforts, what would you want for that child’s life?
I’ve had a lot of freaky experiences with seemingly haunted buildings or rooms. I know that it’s not true, and it was probably all just imagination, but it struck me as so unsettling that I can’t help but believe it.
Negative energy invites that sort of thing.
I liked history, I guess, and math. I just had a little anti-social job that I kind of enjoyed. I actually really hated college for the most part, but I did finish a four-year degree. I’ve not been unemployed since I was fourteen or fifteen and I can afford to do nothing so why not? It’s my life, I can waste it however I see fit. And I see working as a waste of time too.
Be nice if you wasted it in a more enjoyable way. Travel. Sitting at home counting the hours is definitely a waste of time.
I don’t like traveling. The least unpleasant waste of time for me is to hide indoors. Honestly, giving up feels pretty liberating. It’s nice to know that I’ll never try and fail to fit in with my fellow man again.
What was the happiest moment in your life?