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2022-11-19 at 2:06 AM UTC in New Drug Came Out, Cheap as Fuck!Phenethylamine
Once you start the phenethylamine there is no stop till the end of the ride versus the tryptamines being more of a scenic stop and enjoy attractions along ride and stop is an option at any point. -
2022-11-19 at 2:02 AM UTC in What are you thinking about....No
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2022-11-19 at 2 AM UTC in Molina's double in just 10th potential customers Playing cards very last skidding D-backsIn various contexts in education, bullshit takes different forms and serves differ- ent functions. Cohen (2006) focused his critique on a bullshitter’s penchant for adoxography: the inflated vocabulary and obfuscating syntax employed to veil a poverty of substance in academic essays. Postman (1969) referred to this “triumph of style over substance” as the “pomposity” subset of bullshit, without which “many people . . . would be unable to function” (p. 1). While Cohen’s treatment of this variety of bullshit frames it as a product that can be judged irrespective of the intention of the author, Postman (1969) attributed intentionality. Postman argued that these bullshitters “use fancy titles, words, phrases, and sentences to obscure their own insufficiencies” Intention aside, an abstruse product places significant demands on the reader. Cohen observed that some readers find incomprehensible writing to be impressive and scholarly simply by virtue of its impenetrable prose, regardless of whether a more perspicacious reading could identify any substantive ideas or not.
Apprenticeship to a discipline appears to encourage two types of bullshit. The first is the sort scorned by Cohen (2006), the textual product that either is or is not bullshit regardless of authorial intent or situational conventions (a conception of textual quality that has been disputed by Nystrand [1986] and others who have critiqued Olson’s [1977] view of the “autonomous” text). The second concerns the process of bullshitting, when one knows enough to figure out how to approximate the conventions expected within a disciplinary community, yet has limited content knowledge and so must mask this lack of knowledge with rhetorical chutzpah. As Nystrand might argue, the degree to which an utterance constitutes bullshit is dependent on the conventions of the setting, which cue the bullshitter as to the type of product that must be created in order to make a suitable impression. Fuller (2006) contended that the extensive training within doctoral programs, for example, produces “institutionalized immunity to bullshit” because “the time required to master a body of knowledge virtually guarantees . . . loyalty to its corresponding practices and central dogmas” (). If the academic com- munity tolerates or elevates vacuous jargon, students will gravitate to this value and produce it comfortably in their speaking and writing.
The setting of text production must have a historical precedent of texts that are sincere, informative, or at least validated in order for a bullshitting opportunity to be available to the apprentice scholar. De Waal (2006) wrote that “bullshitting can flourish only in an environment that is secured by people who do more than just bullshit”.. In the absence of a body of authentically produced texts, bullshit lacks conventions to mimic and thus risks being judged on its own merits. To Fuller (2006), “the accomplished bullshitter must be a keen student of what people tend to regard as true, if only to cater to those tendencies so as to serve her own ends”.
Students spend years learning the expectations of scholarly writing in their disciplines and are taught to venerate particular styles of argument and explication. Bartholomae (1988) argued that “students have to appropriate (or be appropriated by) a specialized discourse,” and in the course of this process “they must dare to speak [our language], or to carry off the bluff, since speaking and writing will most certainly be required long before the skill is ‘learned’” . That is, in learning how to write in a discourse community, students frequently must reach beyond their current abilities to produce something that they believe will impress their teachers, based on its semblance to disciplinary standards of scholarship. They must thus employ the conventional knowledge (Smagorinsky & Smith, 1992) that helps them to establish themselves as members of academic communities, even if they do not know what they are talking about.
Bullshitting may also involve procedural knowledge related to content. De Waal (2006) argued that when stretching to meet academic goals, a student “may resort to bullshitting when trying to bridge the gap between the results he needs and the results inquiry would bring him” (). By attempting to meet the expectations of a paper, the student is able to create space for what needs to be accomplished. Perla and Carifio (2006), taking a perspective that echoes Vygotsky’s (1987) views of the fecund nature of articulated speech, argued that bullshitting is a necessary stage in the production of new ideas because it involves people experimenting with, according to Frankfurt (2005), “various thoughts and attitudes in order to see how it feels to hear themselves saying such things and in order to discover how others respond, without its being assumed that they are committed to what they say”.
To Perla and Carifio (2006), then, bullshit “is often a highly dynamic and nec- essary matrix for the development of expressive, creative, critical and higher order thinking and representation that gives birth to the truth or/and new truths”. In this conception, bullshit is an important developmental stage in the articulation of new ideas, a dynamic experience “that is highly generative (and allows for the thinking and expression of ideas in a less inhibited manner that may not consider the truth or falsity of the expression)” and often leads “to more precise ideas and conceptions that may (or may not be) weeded out by some form of reason, experience, formal testing procedure or logic” -
2022-11-19 at 1:54 AM UTC in My 2 Cents: It's Extremely CorrectThe 100-year plus history of psychologists attempting to establish boredom as a quantifiable construct provides insight into the problems associated with how psychology adopts its subject matter. By borrowing terms from the public and assuming they represent universal aspects of human nature, the discipline has spurred critical inquiry regarding the practices hidden assumptions and theory. In particular, boredom, with its associations with both existential and trivial concerns, exposes the limitations of the practice of scientific psychology and reflects the disciplines own conflicted identity. In order to facilitate an examination of these theoretical issues, this historical examination focuses on the failed attempts by 1970s personality psychology and 1990s positive psychology to domesticate the concept. With the inclusion of the publics boredom discourse during these decades, the cultural influence on these disciplines theorizing is excavated. These influences complicate attempts by psychologists to practice as a science and provide a reason to take pause amid repeated calls to unify the discipline.
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2022-11-19 at 1:51 AM UTC in what's the last thing you bought?a gallon is 3.785 liters
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2022-11-19 at 1:48 AM UTC in Deal upgrades upon present-day UCLA baseball drafteesOrbelin Pineda?
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2022-11-19 at 1:44 AM UTC in What are you thinking about....
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2022-11-18 at 2:17 AM UTC in Who is uglier, ratface or mmq?
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2022-11-18 at 1:57 AM UTC in How are you feeling at the moment..I’m feeling like time and space are illusions. Everything exists at the same time. We only see what we are tuned to the vibration of to see.
Or maybe this weed is just really good. -
2022-11-18 at 1:50 AM UTC in Do you believe in aliens? Discussion thread.Apparitions aren’t aliens, they are, so to speak, shreds and fragments of other worlds, actually the first beginnings of them.
There is, of course, no reason why a well adjusted healthy man should see them, because a well adjusted healthy man is mainly a being of this earth, and therefore for completeness and order he must live only this earthly life.
But as soon as he falls ill, mentally or physically, as soon as the normal earthly state of the organism is disturbed, the possibility of another world begins to appear, and as the illness increases, so do the contacts with the other world, so that at the moment of a man's death he enters fully into that world. -
2022-11-18 at 1:41 AM UTC in What are you thinking about....reality is simply a primitive method of crowd control that got out of hand
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2022-11-18 at 1:35 AM UTC in What are you doing at the momentGouging my eyes out
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2022-11-18 at 1:33 AM UTC in 🍬🍬Candy~Land🍬🍬I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it becomes exposed.
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2022-11-17 at 7:18 PM UTC in I'm locked out of Facebonk
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2022-11-17 at 7:14 PM UTC in Found out I actually have friends.Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
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2022-11-17 at 7:09 PM UTC in I'm locked out of Facebonk
Originally posted by Ghost wow you're so cool and edgy that you have no friends and family and nobody gives a shit taht you exist and if they do they are so backwards old and irrelevant that they don't use computers
Am I cool and edgy?…why yes, of course.
Or did you mean tense, irritable, 'on edge?’
Then no…I’m pretty chill & intellectually superior.
But you follow me everywhere so I wonder ARE you butthurt? If you are then you might want to consider a suppository. If you feel like 'Yep. I'm getting constipated. Hella mad and bothered by this edgelord — smoke some spice. Drink a fifth try to chillax before your head explodes.
If you're not.. OR were you saying it as some kind of a put down..
..then… I don't care.
When simple people try to get under my skin with butthurt rants……..then it's nothing.
It's hot air. Just like a dog fart.
What do you feel when a dog farts?
Nothing. It stinks. Walk away.
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Did you mean edgy like cool, badass attitude, fearless, provocative, bold, tough?
If that's the case .. then I guess I feel like 'Yep you’re right I’m pretty cool & edgy!’ and I just keep being a badass : ) livin rent free in your cranial cavity.
Thanks for the round of applause dolt -
2022-11-17 at 6:50 PM UTC in damm this girl is very popular
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2022-11-17 at 6:47 PM UTC in Moons is Fake and Gay
Singin‟ whack fol toora lady toora lee, There is no one who can tell a lie like me; You may search until you tire,
You won‟t find a bigger liar,
I‟ve been lyin‟ since the dawn of history.
I was born about ten thousand years ago, In Belmullet in the county of Mayo;
It was me that chased the vermin,
While St. Patrick preached a sermon;
And I‟ll whup the man that says it isn‟t so. -
2022-11-17 at 6:42 PM UTC in Moons is Fake and Gay
Originally posted by Bradley
Naval Officer Stalin wanted to distance himself with before having purged and summarily executed.
The political purge was primarily an effort by Stalin to eliminate challenges from past and potential opposition groups by photoshopping them out of historical records and documents. -
2022-11-17 at 2:37 AM UTC in Idk what this meansOk Buh-Bye then 👋🏼👋🏼
