Friday Ephemeraren’t

I denounce myself for commenting “First”. (Screams are heard as dragged off by henchlesbians)

Need white English teacher.
In all fairness, native English speakers to tutor children and business people are in high demand over there, and Southeast Asia in general is a lot less squeamish about race.

. . . and Southeast Asia in general. . .
. . . and then again, in general, when having a more detailed look at that picture entry, . . . Found in Hong Kong.?????
I have read that since the British pulled out, there have been some interesting occurrences, but Hong Kong????

Omnicopter.
https://laughingsquid.com/omnicopter-omni-directional-drone/

“Black Man Super Bikini”
It is a nice taste. 🙂

Winter sport: https://twitter.com/sarm0161/status/948830597899747328

Omnicopter.
Original omnicopter.

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Your license fee at work.
Indeed, on top of that are the questions of whether people who speak like that a) actually read the BBC website, or b) (he said denouncing himself, though it is a serious question) whether they can read at all.
Meanwhile, a day without the Clown Quarter is like a day without sunshine. Actually it is like a day without a root canal done with a hand drill and no novocaine, but I digress.
Today’s mess, actually from a year ago, so if this has already been discussed I apologize, but I don’t recall it, we have some friendly fire action, or more like an ouroboros, as one leftist faction takes out another as it appears faction A didn’t like faction B using typical leftist tactics.

Other times it was from students confessing, purging and revealing themselves in response to a radical new way of being — something that the pedagogy required in the most unhealthy ways. The workload was also demanding and often pushed students beyond their means. I witnessed many deaths and rebirths while in that program, including my own…Terms from very important postcolonialist, anti-racist, socialist and feminist discourses were used as jargon to control, abuse and manipulate a group of idealistic and passionate change-makers who really cared. [italics original]…A climate of fear pervaded the program. Students policed each other, turning in anyone who betrayed the core doctrine or said anything even mildly critical about the professors. Dissent was not tolerated. The most loyal were rewarded with social status and unethical academic reward by the professors. The most disloyal would be subject to public interventions in class, yelling and shame from fellow students.

The whole thing is a minestrone hoagy of epic proportions and of equally overwrought prose. You may read all about the plucky author here, brave lad that he is, what with his work on decolonizing yoga (yeah, we have already done those jokes), and having, “…done graduate coursework in Postcolonial Anthropology and holds a Master of Divinity from Starr King School for the Ministry in the Unitarian Universalist tradition with emphases in women’s studies in religion, sacred dance, African-American religion and Buddhism.”
Yes, the Starr King School for The Ministry. You may apply through this chap.

I wonder if sending Pallets of Cash to sociology professors would help.

Oh, and a reminder that snow makes people stupid.
People are stupid to begin with. Snow just makes it a little more obvious to the rest of us.

Sociology professor tries to do basic economics…
This is the professor and her book:
http://www.thelondoneconomic.com/tle-pick/magic-money-tree-fact-two/26/06/

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Indeed, on top of that are the questions of whether people who speak like that a) actually read the BBC website, or b) (he said denouncing himself, though it is a serious question) whether they can read at all.
Overall, apparently, quite genuinely yes to all—especially the reading and writing bit . . .
—My first thought was a pidgin filter, but apparently that is indeed the actual page.

How do you go about writing down a language that is almost entirely oral? For the staff of the BBC World Service’s new Pidgin news site, it all started with listening. Lots of listening.
Despite being spoken by an estimated 75 million people in Nigeria alone – and as a first language for five million people – Pidgin has, until this week, been marginalised online. “In terms of its text life it lives pretty much on social media,” says Miriam Quansah, BBC’s digital lead for Africa.

“Only” social media—sort of like blogs ‘n’ stuff.
“Only” 75 million speakers.
A few years back, the US population size hit a threshold. Saturday Night Live commented.

On Tuesday, the U.S. population hit 300 million. “Oh, that’s so cute!” said China.

. . . as one leftist faction takes out another . . .
Oh, yes, CIIS.
Went there for a variety of mini conference about a year ago or so. Quite however, rather unlike the article description, the conference was one day of wall to wall discussions run by Loch Kelly, so everything was entirely benign and went very well.
I have little or no idea of the rest of CIIS, aside from very intermittently noting someone nearby taking classes or having taken classes . . . .

I’m easing into the new year much as one might lower one’s buttocks into an overly warm bath.

…the conference was one day of wall to wall discussions run by Loch Kelly, so everything was entirely benign and went very well.

..Loch teaches in a non-sectarian human being lineage using an adult education style based in the earliest non-dual wisdom traditions, modern science and psychotherapy…Loch’s work is to help people access awakening as the next natural stage of human development.

“Benign”, is an odd way to spell, “stark raving bonkers and nuttier than the annual Georgia pecan harvest”.

“Benign”, is an odd way to spell, “stark raving bonkers and nuttier than the annual Georgia pecan harvest”.
Ah, so you know nothing whatsoever of ‘im.
—The reason he’s been getting rather a bit of attention from people who ostensibly would be his “competition” is that the most they’ve been able to manage is knowledgeable hand waving. What he‘s managed is to treat the topic as a tech manual, basically stating to a roomful of people to note This, note That, note—Yes, that concept, and now metaphorically push that button . . . . and then feedback from the room is requested—not demanded, just requested, being an additional layer of Let us now actually test, instead of merely hope this works, let us now see if this experiment did actually work . . .
Certainly, as contrasted with the struggle session article, absolutely the opposite of screaming and rather suspicious coercion . . .
—There is one talk by Kelly—out of masses of similar material—that recently reminded me of someone I was working with awhile back. The coworker’s comment one time was to the effect of I drink to make my brain shut up.
So, with that statement, my coworker is noting that he just is, and that there is thinking that goes on, but also that he is not the thinking, he is not the same thing as the brain. And then in parallel what Kelly is commenting on is to note that thinking occurs—yes, thinking is very, very useful and having it on hand is a really good idea, but thinking—also known as the chattering monkey mind—is different from what you are.
—Part of the concept is also to note that there is sound, smell, touch, sight, flavor . . . and thinking being considered as a sixth sense . . . where the ongoing issue is that you can close your eyes, plug your ears, pinch your nose, put that candy bar down . . . and then as you’re doing it, the chattering keeps going, Oooh, I get it, I get it, the sight is blocked all the others are blocked, here I am with the other senses not doing anything, golly this is boring, I wonder what’s online to look at, oh wait I’m doing this exercise . . .
So—as Kelly is commenting in that video—what happens if you just sit for a moment, where, yes, the mentally chattering monkey is chattering, but you are not the mental chattering, you are simply being aware of it, and so what happens if you, the one being aware, just sit for a moment?

Ah, so you know nothing whatsoever of ‘im.
I can read his website, and I know woo when I see it.

What he’s managed is to treat the topic as a tech manual, basically stating to a roomful of people to note This, note That, note—Yes, that concept, and now metaphorically push that button . . . . and then feedback from the room is requested—not demanded, just requested, being an additional layer of Let us now actually test, instead of merely hope this works, let us now see if this experiment did actually work…—Part of the concept is also to note that there is sound, smell, touch, sight, flavor . . . and thinking being considered as a sixth sense . . . where the ongoing issue is that you can close your eyes, plug your ears, pinch your nose, put that candy bar down . . . and then as you’re doing it, the chattering keeps going, Oooh, I get it, I get it, the sight is blocked all the others are blocked, here I am with the other senses not doing anything, golly this is boring, I wonder what’s online to look at, oh wait I’m doing this exercise…

Nuttier than all the fruitcakes in Claxton.
QED

Now, when you actually go through Kelly’s exercise, let us know what you have awareness of.
Much the same thing as I would have awareness of were I to go spelunking in the sewers of Cairo.

For what it’s worth, the snow did not make people stupid. The lake effect snow comes in whiteout bands. When you drive into a snow band, visibility is instantly lost. When one tries to slow down, the black ice underneath the snow becomes apparent. Everything seems fine right up to the moment when you discover that you have no control at all.
The people who got out of their cars were taking a huge risk.

I’ve got the “ all-weather” tires, which seem to work fine in these parts, where a big snow is 6-8 inches, but if I lived in, say, Chicago or Cleveland I’d probably get honest-to-God snow tires.

Now, when you actually go through Kelly’s exercise, let us know what you have awareness of.
Much the same thing as I would have awareness of were I to go spelunking in the sewers of Cairo.
Oh, dear—I haven’t been in the sewers of Cairo m’self, but you do have my sympathies.
I have found the best way to deal with the monkey mind is to ignore it.
And that actually is the practice . . .
Kelly’s commentary is that the human attention span is indeed really short, where pretty much an “experienced” awareness practitioner simply has a lot of experience dragging the awareness back away from the monkey. One of the relative catchphrases of his is marinate, marinate, marinate—do the basic awareness, go back to the awareness, go back to the awareness. Of course thinking is perfectly fine, when it’s needed . . . .
Overall, or underall, as the case may be, drop into awareness—can you feel your feet at the moment?—and note just being aware instead of listening to the monkey. Then when the monkey inevitably announces Oh, Look! Squirrel!!!, uh huh, fine, what do the feet feel like at the moment, which the monkey can’t comment on, drag the attention back, marinate, marinate, marinate.
What’s entertaining is hearing an entire room of people going Nod, nod, nod—Oooooooohhhhhhh . . . ‘k, you keep chattering, I’m going to stare at the ceiling for a bit,
—And then the more or less hands on practice is that yes, the ceiling will be fine without you staring at it, what you now need to test out is doing the awareness while also doing something like writing an email, tying your shoelaces, brushing your teeth . . . .

In his free time, he . . .
He has free time??!?!!??

Herr Sherman – I’ve nothing against 4X4s and they are handy in foul weather – depending on the tires – I have one in the driveway, and the stock tires were rubbish in the wet, let alone snow or ice. Years ago, OTOH, I found myself against my will way north of the Line of Mason and Dixon, but with a sports car with real snow and ice rated tires (no studs) on all four corners my rate limiting step was ground clearance, but other than that, got around better than a 4X4 with block tread tires.
The thing is with ice (and packed snow) it is not the ice that is slippery so much as the thin layer of water between the tire and the ice. The sipes on a proper snow and ice tire essentially squeegee that away, a block tread won’t. The compound of proper snow and ice tires also remains more pliable and grippy at low temperatures than ordinary tires. The snow and ice rated tires were so good that when our slightly deranged club did autocrosses on frozen lakes, some of us put summer tires back on so we could get sideways when we wanted.
Kelly’s commentary is that the human attention span is indeed really short…
That may be true for navel gazers taken in by make believe swamis and other new age snake oil salesmen, but he should probably stick to speaking for himself and the like minded.

Exactly.
Yes, exactly; “like minded” referring to Kelly, apparently you, and the rest of the followers of fake swamis and assorted new age flummery. In the future I will be more blatant so you will not keep missing the points.