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Which is the first indication of him making a rational choice that I've seen yet- HomelessInLaJolla is now off my foes list as with my number of friends I really can't afford to waste 1/400th of my alloted space on slashdot to a foe.

Hopefully, this also means that I've lost the one most recent troll I've had. I wish I could have done more for him, but since he labeled any attempt at constructive criticism to be "belittlement" I don't think anybody CAN do anything for him. He'll just starve to death- yet another person let down by our capitalist system merely for being "different", physically and mentally.

A sane system would have given him his own lab by now. A sane system may not have been able to create friends for him, but most certainly would have figured out a way to let him live in relative luxury in return for the great research he had already done and might do in the future. A sane system would have created a bubble around him where he could live his life in peace.
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  • A sane system would have given him his own lab by now. A sane system may not have been able to create friends for him, but most certainly would have figured out a way to let him live in relative luxury in return for the great research he had already done and might do in the future. A sane system would have created a bubble around him where he could live his life in peace.

    Yeah, we really ought to start that revolution before we all run out of bubbles.
  • yeah, i had some run ins with him, too. I just don't see how any culture can accommodate every type of weirdness there is. In terms of numbers of cultures that have existed, most of them would not have afforded him and just killed him. At least here he can choose homelessness and bitch and still live. I just don't feel that sorry for him. he wouldn't have to change much to make it work.

    • You state this as fact based on a strong background in Comparative Cultural Athropology, or is it just an unsubstantiated muse?

      Although any specific contemporary example used as allegory in all cultures is itself a futile exercise, often biased with a belief in the personal world view's predominance, a different case could be made. This is especially germane when considering cultures which view(ed) the supernatural through a polytheistic lens. In many cultures, individuals whose personalities were contra

      • You state this as fact based on a strong background in Comparative Cultural Athropology, or is it just an unsubstantiated muse?

        It's more of a hobby. But Wait! I'm about to morph it into something both a hell of a lot more scary than genocide: the idea that the time for genocide has now passed, based on reporting from Ted Koppel on The Discovery Channel (Our Children's Children's War) and certain thing I'm hearing through the anti-immigration community, as well as rhetoric from Nation of Islam Mosques.

        • You answer a question for mschuyler as if it was addressed to you, and your response is far afield from this present inquiry. If you've noticed, I've largely stayed away from your anti-immigrant and anti-muslim diatribes. My propositions remain the same: 1) a just society must strenuously enforce an equal application of their laws without exceptuion; 2) you cannot truly be a Christian and support the death of any group of humans, 3) it is contrary to the very foundations of our Republic to be opposed to i

  • I only recently friended both of you (just in time for the fireworks, apparently;-) but I did have a question. In some of the back and forths the phrase "neurotypical" got tossed about, and I'm not familiar with it. Do you mind elaborating?
    • Another word for "normals".
      • More community mythology behind it (ha! Take that "you don't have any theory of mind" folks! Autistics are forming their own mythology!) but essentially yes.
        • Just to clarify: I put the word "normals" in quotes because I've long believed there is no such thing. We are all, to some extent or another, gifted, damaged, diseased and crazy. Or, to put it another way, you've got to be way out there for me to consider you not normal.

          • To be sane in this modern world, is to be inhuman.

            • The lunatic is on the grass
              The lunatic is on the grass
              Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs
              Got to keep the loonies on the path
              The lunatic is in the hall
              The lunatics are in my hall
              The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
              And every day the paper boy brings more
              And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
              And if there is no room upon the hill
              And if your head explodes with dark forbodings too
              I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
              The lunatic is in my head
              The lunatic is in my head
              You raise the b
    • Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] has a short description.
      • Three new words to aid shortening descriptions of common mediawiki codebase related events:
        • wikipediculus - from pediculus: the genus name of human lice -- pronunciation - rhymes with ridiculous -- adjective - an expression ascribing a derisive attribute for anything related to mediawiki - synonym: lousy
        • wikipedantry - from pedantry - ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning -- noun - expressing self-worth as a function of the number of verifiable edits on a website which operates on a mediawik
    • Since I was the one tossing it about, I'm a good one to ask. It's a phrase common in the autistic world as a slang for "normal". It's origin was with the psychologists- in labeling "autistic and cousins" spectrum people as "not neurotypical". In the online autistic community, we use it as a sharp distinction between ourselves and normal people, and it's often abreviated to simply NT. AC is also used, for anybody who has a DSM-IV diagnosis on the autistic spectrum.

      Some higher functioning autistics, who
      • Interesting. Have you ever heard of locus of control [wikipedia.org]? After reading more and more of HiLJ's entries I came tot he conclusion that he is definitely external, which could explain some of his difficulties. I've been so ingrained as an internal, I had a hard time believing externals existed. Some things are harder to wrap the brain around than others;-)
        • Interesting. I'm enough of a mixture of the two myself that I have a hard time believing the extremes exist- but this certainly does describe HILJ's behavior. I believe in both to some extent; my decisions are my own and affect my life but also external systems that I have no control over affect my life. This became clear in my third grade report card- A's in everything other than handwriting which was an F no matter how hard I worked on it (due to nerve damage, that I'd finally find out in my 30's was a
          • Its probably the strongest indication that I'm an internal that I can see all sorts of problems with an external extreme, but only good things for an internal one;-) The joy of finding your own biases.

            I could see how the guilt thing would add up. That plus wondering how your decisions affected the actions of others, especially if they are hurting. The intersting thing is that by and large teenagers tend to be wholly external, so its part of the maturation process to own your own decisions and become an

            • I could see how the guilt thing would add up. That plus wondering how your decisions affected the actions of others, especially if they are hurting. The intersting thing is that by and large teenagers tend to be wholly external, so its part of the maturation process to own your own decisions and become an internal.

              I was the reverse- I started out with a high internal locus of control and guilt, and had to have the external beaten into me (most recently by my 2001 layoff and 2.5 year job search). I starte
              • That's one of the more curious things about this locus of control thing to me. The very people who have the most unearned entitlements (the rich who inherit their wealth) by and large have an internal locus of control (due in part to having actual control over their own lives in reality). Conversely those who have nearly *no* unearned entitlements currently (the poor) by and large have an external locus of control (and thus demand more entitlements, though they rarely get them in real life) because they hav
                • I was actually aiming at the middle ground. The kids who take an Xbox, PC, and cell phone for granted. As if they have earned it, and its the World's fault if they are denied it. More that type of thing than rich versus poor. Though what you say about those does make a lot of sense.

                  One of my standard parental philosophies is that kids should have control over their own lives. Christopher can have a linux PC when he can rummage through my office and build one (the parts are all there- the skill isn't).
        • Great link, thanks for the read. On that note, I'm obviously hugely external with a strong streak of internal thrown in. Though, if you ask me, I don't see how anybody cannot be at least a little external. No man is an island, and all that.
          • Some people have significant enough unearned entitlements in the form of inheritance to imagine themselves to be untouchable islands. In reality, only a very small subset actually are.

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