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OT The Conservative Brain
On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 20:55:14 GMT, "NOYB" wrote:
More like satisfaction with our clairvoyance. Sept 11 -- 9/11 Sept 11 -- 9/11 You knew about it? Treason! High Crimes and Misdemeanors!!! Shame on you. -- Q |
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Stolen from the internet:
A Frank Study on What Makes a Political Liberal You've probably heard about the Berkeley study done with your tax dollars on what makes a political conservative. Here are the factors they identified: * Fear and aggression * Dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity * Uncertainty avoidance * Need for cognitive closure * Terror management Funny enough, I had been doing my own study about what makes a political liberal. I think mine was much more efficient, because I traced it to a single factor: * They're f'ing morons As evidence of this finding, just listen to any liberal. Ever read anything from Noam Chomsky? What a dumbass. Ever seen an article in The Nation? You can almost imagine the drool stains on the original copy of whomever wrote it. Heard Michael Moore speak? Than man is fat and ugly! While that doesn't prove or disprove my theory, he's also a nitwit, which goes with my findings. And ever see a bunch of liberals get together for a protest? It's like a whole gaggle of retards! You almost expect, that with that much stupidity in one area, it will collapse upon itself and from a logic black hole, sucking in all sense that gets near it. And then there is liberal Hollywood where people are about as dumb as you can be without forgetting to breathe. It's like that to get into Hollywood you need to take an intelligence test, and they'll only let you in if it comes up negative. Then there are liberal congressmen and women. I've seen them argue on C-SPAN, and they're so moronic I want to hit them with rocks (there's that aggression). Well, I think my study was pretty thorough on what makes a liberal, but what I really want to find is how to cure it. Liberals seems to protect their idiocy by forming some sort of force field of pure stupidity, a force field so strong that logic can't penetrate it. What can penetrate it, though, is a large stick. Such an item is known to the scientific community as a "whomp'n stick". What I want to find out is if by whomp'n a liberal whenever he says something stupid, can I train him away from liberalism through pure pain avoidance. My theory is that it will cause conservatism as defined by the Berkeley study: * Fear and aggression - Fear of a whomp'n * Dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity - "Are you going to whomp me or not?" * Uncertainty avoidance - "I'll stay quiet so I don't get whomped." * Need for cognitive closure - "Someone patch up this head wound." * Terror management - "I'll crouch in the corner and be quiet so the scary man doesn't whomp me." So there is the study: will a group of liberal who gets whomped have more converts to conservatism than a control group with no whomp'n. Ahh... screw the control group; I'm going to whomp 'em both. Now all I need is millions in a government grant and a stick fit for whomp'n. Oh, and I'll need liberal volunteers. The Berkeley scientists from the previous study are sure free to help out in this one. WHOMP! WHOMP! |
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Hey,,
Somebody needs to fiscally responsibly run the country or other countries. I mean your socialist friends would spend their way into poverty and end up with nothing. If you dont like the way the country is running, just sit back in your arm chair, collect your welfare and go play bingo. Leave the big things to those who know how to do them better. If not for you, for the sake of the entire nation's survival. "basskisser" wrote in message om... It had the whiff of parody. Psychologists dissecting the conservative brain? A press release from UC Berkeley announced that researchers, culling 50 years of data, had identified psychological patterns common to the minds of right-wingers. Their findings, published in the American Psychological Association's Psychological Bulletin, listed these predictors of conservatism: fear, aggression, dogmatism, authoritarianism, tolerance of inequality, intolerance of ambiguity, resistance to change and lack of "integrative complexity" in thought and speech. Hardly a flattering portrait. The release pushed further, noting that "disparate conservatives" such as Hitler, Mussolini, Ronald Reagan and Rush Limbaugh each preached a return to an idealized past and condoned inequality. The research is serious scholarship, insist the authors from Stanford, U.C. Berkeley and the University of Maryland synthesized 88 previously published samples involving 22,818 participants from 12 countries into 10 "meta-analytic calculations." The study starts by assuming that people adopt a belief system such as conservatism partly to satisfy some psychological need. "This does not mean that conservatism is pathological," the authors hasten to note, "or that conservative beliefs are necessarily false, irrational or unprincipled." As Seinfeld might add, "not that there's anything wrong with that . . . ." The authors also maintain they're not judgmental. Labeling conservatives" less integratively complex," isn't precisely the same as saying they're simple- minded. It merely means conservatives aren't compelled to jump through complex, intellectual hoops to justify their relatively black-and-white view of the world. One of the researchers' methods involved analyzing political speeches and judicial opinions on the basis of structural complexity. Conservatives thought and spoke more simply -- hence President Bush's observation "Look, my job isn't to nuance." |
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"NOYB" wrote in message
thlink.net... Stolen from the internet: Feeble retort to many man years of honest work. Figures your hero's "cure" for liberals is violence. These days it seems conservatives are finding violence to be the tool they resort to most frequently. Hurts their brains to do any of that deep thinking or have any manner of patience, it's simpler to just kick some ass and figure out what happened later. Meanwhile, 250 of our kids and countless innocents have paid for it with their lives. F'ing idiots. |
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Tuuk wrote:
Hey,, Somebody needs to fiscally responsibly run the country or other countries. I mean your socialist friends would spend their way into poverty and end up with nothing. If you dont like the way the country is running, just sit back in your arm chair, collect your welfare and go play bingo. Leave the big things to those who know how to do them better. If not for you, for the sake of the entire nation's survival. "basskisser" wrote in message om... It had the whiff of parody. Psychologists dissecting the conservative brain? A press release from UC Berkeley announced that researchers, culling 50 years of data, had identified psychological patterns common to the minds of right-wingers. Their findings, published in the American Psychological Association's Psychological Bulletin, listed these predictors of conservatism: fear, aggression, dogmatism, authoritarianism, tolerance of inequality, intolerance of ambiguity, resistance to change and lack of "integrative complexity" in thought and speech. Hardly a flattering portrait. The release pushed further, noting that "disparate conservatives" such as Hitler, Mussolini, Ronald Reagan and Rush Limbaugh each preached a return to an idealized past and condoned inequality. The research is serious scholarship, insist the authors from Stanford, U.C. Berkeley and the University of Maryland synthesized 88 previously published samples involving 22,818 participants from 12 countries into 10 "meta-analytic calculations." The study starts by assuming that people adopt a belief system such as conservatism partly to satisfy some psychological need. "This does not mean that conservatism is pathological," the authors hasten to note, "or that conservative beliefs are necessarily false, irrational or unprincipled." As Seinfeld might add, "not that there's anything wrong with that . . . ." The authors also maintain they're not judgmental. Labeling conservatives" less integratively complex," isn't precisely the same as saying they're simple- minded. It merely means conservatives aren't compelled to jump through complex, intellectual hoops to justify their relatively black-and-white view of the world. One of the researchers' methods involved analyzing political speeches and judicial opinions on the basis of structural complexity. Conservatives thought and spoke more simply -- hence President Bush's observation "Look, my job isn't to nuance." Fiscally responsible? Then you surely don't want a Republican in the White House. -- * * * email sent to will *never* get to me. |
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OT The Conservative Brain
On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 17:41:07 +0000, Harry Krause wrote:
It's been fun watching Tom Ridge play "voodoo security" the last week or so. Let's see...we'll heighten the security alert to make Americans uneasy, then we'll tell them we don't need as many sky marshals as we have, then we'll tell Americans to be prepared for a skyjacking... Has there been a more incompetent administration in the last 50 years? I don't think so. They sure do bounce around. It's a little like watching a game of Three Card Monty, only not as slick. |
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On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 17:41:07 -0400, Harry Krause
wrote: snippage-my apologies It's been fun watching Tom Ridge play "voodoo security" the last week or so. Let's see...we'll heighten the security alert to make Americans uneasy, then we'll tell them we don't need as many sky marshals as we have, then we'll tell Americans to be prepared for a skyjacking... Has there been a more incompetent administration in the last 50 years? I don't think so. As you already know, these "Security Alerts" are doubly inane. Since 9/11, since Afghanistan, since Iraq, *every* day should be seen as a "high risk" day. Are we going to count on Al-Jazira to predict our security risks??? What a bunch of horse****! If Al-Qaida is going to hit us, they aren't likely to put it on the radio or TV first. "Al-Jazira stated today that you should call your mother." HAR!!! More frightening is the thought that the Bush Administration needs every diversion that they can get, because the pacification of Iraq gets more deadly, and more uncontrollable, every day. The absolute certainty of WMD's has become "murky intelligence". Saddam's certain nuclear- sorry, noocular program has become an "intelligence error". The only saving grace at this point is some sort of "liberation" for the Iraqi people, although loyalty will temporarily lie with whoever gives them food, electricity, and water. A hungry man does not care about Democracy, he wants to eat, and to feed his family, and he does not care who is running the show. Are we delusional (just a question) in thinking that a society that has been fuedal for 3,000 years will suddenly embrace Democracy? The jubilation at the toppling of Saddam's statue has been replaced by demonstrations and RPG's. For those that remember, and for those that don't, it is becoming like Vietnam. Daily death counts in a country that we do not, and cannot, control, populated by people that we do not understand. My utmost respect and appreciation goes to the members of our various armed forces, who place their lives on the line every day, to defend their country. I also pray daily that our leadership is worthy of such sacrifice. My respectful condolences go to those who have lost loved ones in this war. noah Courtesy of Lee Yeaton, See the boats of rec.boats www.TheBayGuide.com/rec.boats |
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OT The Conservative Brain
noah wrote:
On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 17:41:07 -0400, Harry Krause wrote: snippage-my apologies It's been fun watching Tom Ridge play "voodoo security" the last week or so. Let's see...we'll heighten the security alert to make Americans uneasy, then we'll tell them we don't need as many sky marshals as we have, then we'll tell Americans to be prepared for a skyjacking... Has there been a more incompetent administration in the last 50 years? I don't think so. As you already know, these "Security Alerts" are doubly inane. Since 9/11, since Afghanistan, since Iraq, *every* day should be seen as a "high risk" day. Are we going to count on Al-Jazira to predict our security risks??? What a bunch of horse****! If Al-Qaida is going to hit us, they aren't likely to put it on the radio or TV first. "Al-Jazira stated today that you should call your mother." HAR!!! More frightening is the thought that the Bush Administration needs every diversion that they can get, because the pacification of Iraq gets more deadly, and more uncontrollable, every day. The absolute certainty of WMD's has become "murky intelligence". Saddam's certain nuclear- sorry, noocular program has become an "intelligence error". The only saving grace at this point is some sort of "liberation" for the Iraqi people, although loyalty will temporarily lie with whoever gives them food, electricity, and water. A hungry man does not care about Democracy, he wants to eat, and to feed his family, and he does not care who is running the show. Are we delusional (just a question) in thinking that a society that has been fuedal for 3,000 years will suddenly embrace Democracy? The jubilation at the toppling of Saddam's statue has been replaced by demonstrations and RPG's. For those that remember, and for those that don't, it is becoming like Vietnam. Daily death counts in a country that we do not, and cannot, control, populated by people that we do not understand. My utmost respect and appreciation goes to the members of our various armed forces, who place their lives on the line every day, to defend their country. I also pray daily that our leadership is worthy of such sacrifice. My respectful condolences go to those who have lost loved ones in this war. noah I'm afraid it is going to take a significantly larger number of body bags to force the Bush Administration to come to some sort of sense. Today's news reports were full of features about ultra-conservative mullahs from Iran returning to Iraq to take up where they left before Saddam, to establish a theocracy in Iraq. Now *that* should be interesting. You really have to wonder how stupid Bush really is to go down the path he is following. He is creating a world in which those who oppose us are solidifying in ways never imagined in the "good" old days of the Kremlin. We're going to take a big hit from the terrorists, and when we do, it will be because of Bush. That has to be made crystal clear to Americans. -- * * * email sent to will *never* get to me. |
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Jamce1 wrote:
harry, i think what is being lost here is that another attack would be good for bush, ie simple minded people will always revert back to basic instincts when attacked. he makes people feel good and safe with his soundbites, wargames, and religeous good vs evil bull****. 911 was the best thing that ever happened to this administration, and he would surely be one term if it wasnt for that. I'm sure there are Bush-ites who are praying to Allah for another attack so that their "fearful leader" can try, once again, to look "presidential," instead of lookling like an idiot. -- * * * email sent to will *never* get to me. |
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