Comments on: Disengaging the auto-pilot

By: Carnival of the Godless #128 – Not Quite Halloween Edition – State of Protest

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:15:51 +0000

[...] presents Disengaging the auto-pilot at You Made Me Say It!. I feel that the answers for such things as intuition lie under the hood of [...]

By: Humanist Symposium #44 « Cubik’s Rube

Humanist Symposium #44 « Cubik’s Rube — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:25:46 +0000

[...] I think the interruptions are over for now, so tell everyone what you’ve got to say about Disengaging the auto-pilot. I think that for most of us, there’s a great deal of what we do which we’ve simply [...]

By: _cl

_cl — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:41:04 +0000

They're receptive to new ideas, eager to test and evaluate them for applicable value, participate well in discussions and in general don't engage in any behavior whose only purpose would be to undermine the class.

Oh, so you mean they're not rigid materialist-dogmatists who wave away anything which doesn't resonate with their pre-conceived worldviews, and they don't resort to cussing and name-calling when they can't get their point across?? You're right; sounds like it is pretty good over there, ChiefyBoy.

In other words, I'm not surrounded by douchebags, which is such a fantastic departure from interactions online that it makes me less inclined to come back to this environment.

I know, Evo and SI and those guys can be pretty tiring at times...

The internet is a cesspool of douchebags who either take great delight in shitting on others or are so fucking delusional that they actually think they're intelligent, knowledgeable, rational, and contribute worthy content when in fact they're simply clueless douchebags.

Sounds bitter.

By: PhillyChief

PhillyChief — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:55:44 +0000

I'm very fortunate to have intelligent, industrious and in most cases very talented students. They're receptive to new ideas, eager to test and evaluate them for applicable value, participate well in discussions and in general don't engage in any behavior whose only purpose would be to undermine the class. Fellow faculty and other staff are also rational, intelligent, jovial, witty and intense. In other words, I'm not surrounded by douchebags, which is such a fantastic departure from interactions online that it makes me less inclined to come back to this environment.

The internet is a cesspool of douchebags who either take great delight in shitting on others or are so fucking delusional that they actually think they're intelligent, knowledgeable, rational, and contribute worthy content when in fact they're simply clueless douchebags.

Yup, once you get a taste of the good life, it's hard to come back.

By: _cl

_cl — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:50:57 +0000

Good piece of writing, there, Chief. Controlled breathing works wonders. I like to reject auto-pilot by taking different routes around the city.

I find myself struggling a great deal having to teach raw students.

I imagine you would. No offense, but if blogging is any sound indication of your real-world persona, you have the patience of tweeker at the end of a nine-day meth binge. I could see it now: "Teacher, how do you do X again?"

"You douchery douchey douche douche douche douchebag! I've already explained a thousand times! You made me say it!"

Word on the cool job and I say stick with the raw students. Lots of times they can teach experts, because experts are prone to thinking they already know everything.