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WCDT 25-29 Apr 2011 (1911-1915)

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Method of Madness:
Something being common makes it normal...but not necessarily correct.

Modifier: Also, what bothers me about the "states rights" argument is that they make the argument that states rights not only trump the right of the federal government to make national laws, but also the right of individuals to not be owned by someone else.

DSL:
One brown couch in the Reed/Whitaker/(Bianchi) apartment in happier days. There is source support for that. Good eye, AkronNick.
How many gray couches? There appear to be two, though you only see one at a time. One against the wall, one standing off from another wall. And there are windows along two walls of the living room (real estate agent said it was a corner unit, and we've seen the windows).
Where does everything go?
Reminds me of the Brady Bunch house, for which one TV fan tried to draw plans based on the set seen on screen. He even made a book out of it. Buildable, but improbable.
Is this living room like that? Or the Enterprise? Or The Doctor's time-space-traveling phone booth? You want to apply logic, but there are all these little talking robots running around. Things ain't normal.

John_Knee:

--- Quote from: Odin on 27 Apr 2011, 12:16 ---^^^Faye is the one whose hair got longer, then got cut. There was a thread about it and everything.



--- Quote from: John_Knee on 27 Apr 2011, 12:02 ---It is quite a common exercise that people without confidence are sometimes advised to do is to look in the mirror and say out loud lines such as "I am strong, I am capable and I can X" where X is whatever task is that the person has to do that day. I've known people who have counted down vocally with the intention of acting once they hit zero if they are nervous about what they have to do.

People giving themselves an audiable peptalk before doing something is surprisingly common.

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So something being common means it should be considered correct/normal? Here is a more extreme example: Should the 52% of Americans that believe the Civil War was not entirely due to the racist Confederacy's stance on Slavery (completely ignoring obvious evidence to the contrary like the Cornerstone Speech the VP of the Confederate States gave) not be derided for their stupidity?

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Statistically, a person is more likely to be hetrosexual rather than homosexuality. Are you implying that because homosexuality is not the most common type of sexuality that people who are gay are abnormal and acting wrongly? People giving themselves a verbal peptalk is common enough that other people don't immediately assume they are suffering from schizofenia (spelling?) and locked up under the mental health act for doing so. Since the idea of people giving themsleves a verbial peptalk is something that psychologists sometimes advise their patients to do, we'll assume that in their professional expert opinion is that talking to oneself can be an acceptably correct and normal behaviour.

In terms of your extreme example, since I am not american and therefore not fully knowledgable on the finer points of the American Civil War then I cannot answer the question. I am assuming on the basis of the tone of the question that the answer you seek is "yes".

Carl-E:
Which means it wasn't a question at all, but rather a rhetorical device.  The only thing Odin likes more than making a point is being right... to the point that he'll defend himself into ridicularity, talking circles around everyone (and often himself). 

At this juncture, I'd like to remind everyone that despite appearances, Odin is not actually a troll.  True, it often seems as though he says things only to evoke an emotional response, but his life experiences are sufficiently different from the majority's that he just looks at things from a very different point of view.  Absolutism is part of his personality, as is abrasiveness.  So, like a troll, responding in kind will rarely have an effect except to ramp things up. 

Let cooler heads prevail.  Don't feed the Odin. 

 :police:

Is it cold in here?:
Discussion should be about the comic and not about particular posters. That kind of thing just spirals out of control and obstructs the regular conversation.

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