Comments on Profile Post by OJneg

  1. Huxleigh
    Huxleigh
    Dismaying how few in the current year recognize that that "strength" is best understood an aspirational concept. A virtue to inspire and be emulated.
    Jan 10, 2017
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  2. Kunlun
    Kunlun
    You mean like the strength of a woman in spin class, or the strength of a woman pushing for a promotion at work and breaking the glass ceiling?
    Jan 10, 2017
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  3. Huxleigh
    Huxleigh
    Why not both? Broad concept, as I understand it. Provided she's a suitably competent employee in the latter case, obviously.
    Jan 10, 2017
  4. OJneg
    OJneg
    Stength in a spiritual sense. Physical strength is just a manifestation of how well you're operating on the next level up.
    Jan 10, 2017
  5. Huxleigh
    Huxleigh
    The "woman in spin class" is presumably exercising in the interest of improving her health and well being, as opposed to crude superficiality. It's the willingness to do so that constitutes strength, rather than the menial act itself.
    Jan 10, 2017
  6. Kunlun
    Kunlun
    Could we get some examples of people who have this spiritual strength?
    Jan 10, 2017
  7. Huxleigh
    Huxleigh
    Purely in the interest of being more helpful, I'd not classify self-interested shitposting as an act of strength, @Kunlun. Different strokes, perhaps? I'll leave that to your wisdom.
    Jan 10, 2017
  8. Kunlun
    Kunlun
    Asking for examples is shitposting?

    You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means

    Feeling threatened and trying to discourage discussion is not Being Strong, friend Huxleigh.
    Jan 10, 2017
  9. Deep Funk
    Deep Funk
    Often we find true strength in our frailty. It is then that a person faces his or her self and has to decide. Something you learn as you live...
    Jan 10, 2017
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  10. Kunlun
    Kunlun
    I think being able to be vulnerable takes strength, for sure
    Jan 10, 2017
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  11. Case
    Case
    Living and coping with schizophrenia takes strength
    Jan 10, 2017
  12. OJneg
    OJneg
    Coping is not living.
    Jan 10, 2017
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  13. Kunlun
    Kunlun
    I really was interested in who you would name as examples of having strength, even if asking triggered huxleigh (sorry bro!)


    And I would say that facing an incurable condition and still enduring, is indeed an example of strength
    Jan 10, 2017
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  14. OJneg
    OJneg
    Anyone who takes control of their life and builds the habit of self-actuation.
    Jan 10, 2017
  15. OJneg
    OJneg
    I'm not a big believer in mental illness as an actual barrier unless there's a hard problem (brain tumor, etc.)
    Jan 10, 2017
  16. Kunlun
    Kunlun
    Self-actualization is cool, I guess.

    You know that there is a biological basis to mental illness, right? Having reduced 5-HT receptor sites is not a character flaw.
    Jan 10, 2017
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  17. Kunlun
    Kunlun
    In fact, as an engineer, I'm surprised you haven't gone hardcore neuroscience.
    Jan 10, 2017
  18. OJneg
    OJneg
    Stuff like that is a hard problem, I'm sure. Most people who are self-diagnosed on the internet do not have hard problems. They just like the pity party.
    Jan 10, 2017
  19. Kunlun
    Kunlun
    You could troll people by saying their entire conscious self-awareness is a mere epiphenomenon of neuronal activity...and you'd be pulling a scientifically valid dick move.
    Jan 10, 2017
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  20. OJneg
    OJneg
    For some people that statement is more true than others.
    Jan 10, 2017
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  21. Kunlun
    Kunlun
    Are we talking about someone in particular?

    "Self-diagnosed on the internet" sounds like someone who does not have access to proper health care.
    Jan 10, 2017
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  22. Case
    Case
    Self-actualized behavior, Ojneg? Is that what you call the way you treated MoatsArt?
    Jan 10, 2017
  23. Huxleigh
    Huxleigh
    So... much... virtue signaling!
    Jan 10, 2017
  24. Case
    Case
    So much empty irreverence
    Jan 10, 2017
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  26. Case
    Case
    Didn't see that movie.
    Jan 10, 2017
  27. OJneg
    OJneg
    Nope, that's what I recommended for MoatsArt. Can only bring a horse to water though.

    The guy was an emotional manipulator, the fact that the rest of you are taken in by his tactics is just proof of the magic. I don't care what sort of issue he actually had, he used manipulative tactics to dictate his wants and bend people to his will.

    Absolutely deplorable behavior.
    Jan 10, 2017
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  28. OJneg
    OJneg
    That's why I will continue to salute strength rather than feed the endless pit of weakness.
    Jan 10, 2017
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  29. Case
    Case
    You are right about his manipulative behavior, but you handled it without tact or compassion. You could have called him out in a different way. That's not strength.
    Jan 10, 2017
  30. OJneg
    OJneg
    You seem to be missing the first 90% of this story where we did try to treat him with tact. You are obviously uninformed of the scope of the running problem, so why do you feel that you can jump in and make your grand moral judgements of who was right and wrong here?

    At a certain point, the weak will use your good will against you. Allowing this is a losing propostion.
    Jan 11, 2017
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  31. Case
    Case
    No grand moral judgements. You were cruel to Nate. But the whole "the strong vs. the weak" philosophy, in your hands, reads like a license to attack vulnerability under the guise of "telling it like it is."
    Jan 11, 2017
  32. Case
    Case
    You go out of your way to inflame and provoke. "The Most Deplorable" What message are you sending with that?
    Jan 11, 2017
  33. Case
    Case
    Strength and weaknesses are contextual and relational. In the context of SBAF, your way of interaction is weakness. We are supposed to be celebrating music and technology. Is this what you think you are doing with homophobic slurs and public attacks on vulnerable people. And yes, I totally agree- Nate was harmful and needed to go.
    Jan 11, 2017
  34. Case
    Case
    Just to be clear, Nate does not have schizophrenia. I was thinking of my clients when I wrote that. But to @Kunlun's point, what Nate doesn't have is access to good care.
    Jan 11, 2017
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  35. OJneg
    OJneg
    Feel free to call it cruel. I honestly think I've done more good for him than any of you enablers have.
    Jan 11, 2017
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  36. OJneg
    OJneg
    More fake accusstions of homophobia and "public attacks". Keep them coming, just as meaningless the first 10 times.
    Jan 11, 2017
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  37. Huxleigh
    Huxleigh
    Still splurging out? Strange to indulge in such behavior when it seems to yield no catharthis. But then maybe it was never about that.
    Jan 11, 2017
  38. Case
    Case
    You ripped into Nate on a thread that was visible to anyone who cared to read it. You can set boundaries without being cruell. Inever said you are homophobic. But you have have used the words faggot and fag. It's a turnoff and gets in the way, Your listeniing skills and knowledge are top notch. Again, what is to gain by provacation? Why were you banned?
    Jan 11, 2017
  39. Case
    Case
    Look, I now understand my role in enabling Nate and I understand how much noise I have posted here (word to Steel Cannon and the NYC crew). I'm trying to change. But if the goal is attracting folks who have the skills to critique equipment, you are letting SBAF down.
    Jan 11, 2017
  40. Case
    Case
    @Huxleigh, I'm not catching your drift. PM me?
    Jan 11, 2017
  41. shipsupt
    shipsupt
    Gentlemen, Enough. Move on please. Thanks.
    Jan 11, 2017
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  42. Case
    Case
    Jan 11, 2017
  43. dark_energy
    dark_energy
    Read through most of the comments. IMO, being a friend to someone does not only consist of compassion and acceptance. This seems to me like trying to be in the 'safe zone' always. It is like really never doing anything because something might come of it.
    Jan 12, 2017
  44. Deep Funk
    Deep Funk
    Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
    Jan 13, 2017
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