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1. Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 04:12:23 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

   There’s something to appreciate in a sterile mental field. There are times I’m glad I avoided getting into internet politics for so long, because I’ve been able to winnow out my own ideas and build my philosophy in-house as I go.

   Not necessary, but there is something cool about it, and I may attempt the same with my kids. I’d rather they formulate their own mental “sword style” and then cultivate quality takes and info that they like, instead of building their ideology on a foundation of someone else’s manufacture

   • Clown_Syndrome (clown@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 04:36:40 JST Clown_Syndrome

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot I didn't even know people still use /pol/, that place is literally just bots and slide threads. Last good time was when people thought a festivals lemonade stand was being used as a CIA cover to blow up the festival. Maybe also the last /sig/ thread I used almost a year ago but apparently they janny all of them, they even remove the ones over on /fit/
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 04:37:35 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @Clown Sometimes I’ll still go because it’s like the thunderdome of shills. WE aren’t on there, yeah, but it’s the one sight on the radar of every boomer intel agency and influence operation. If you want to know what the glowniggers WANT you to think, head to pol, chances are you’ll see plenty of their threads needling and shaming you into passivity

   • merchantHelios (merchanthelios@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 04:44:23 JST merchantHelios

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot the goal is to set a foundation of truth in your mental library, sterility can be useful.... if your mental space is infected with sophistry
     (I should clarify, not meaning as a poke towards you specifically)
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   • Riamu (riamu@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 04:44:29 JST Riamu

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot TAKE A LOOK IT'S IN BOOK
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   • The Merry Jooz :verified: :njp:🥚 (themoodyjooz@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 04:44:32 JST The Merry Jooz :verified: :njp:🥚

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot finally, someone else was able to put into words for me why I pretend to read books
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   • Frondeur (frondeur@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 07:53:02 JST Frondeur

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     • circuSphere
     @circuSphere @WashedOutGundamPilot since he told me this while we were at an elite university...i was deeply bemused...now though...i think he was on to something...still i like books...but i also mostly feel immune to them...
   • circuSphere (circusphere@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 07:53:02 JST circuSphere

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     • Frondeur
     @Frondeur @WashedOutGundamPilot I dunno even when I have "pristine knowledge" (as opposed to outright ignorance) it's incredibly (to borrow a phrase from the danger hairs) validating and empowering to learn about it in a book later. Little things like my technique for recovering or some of my lines in Forza being described by Skip Barber in his racing book (that I read on the toilet). It didn't ruin my pristine knowledge of late apex turns, it taught me a name for them, helped me make sense of why they work where they do and where I might employ them elsewhere... and then it taught me about off camber turns and why I get understeer at Silverstone.
     
     The 'pristine knowledge' helped me assimilate the theoretical knowledge quicker and was not erased in the process.
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   • Frondeur (frondeur@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 07:53:03 JST Frondeur

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot doctor (surgeon) friend of mine: "books ruin pristine knowledge"
   • circuSphere (circusphere@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 07:53:03 JST circuSphere

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     • Frondeur
     @Frondeur @WashedOutGundamPilot Surgeons are stereotyped as the chudliest of all doctors, a diagnostician would be the book worm academic type. Surgeons min max into dexterity, constitution and concentration. You might as well be getting the opinion from a race car driver or a master woodworker. I'm sure he's smart and that he had to do plenty of intellectual stuff in school that he hated though.
     
     Not that I'm at all impressed with modern academia or against practical learning/craftsmanship at all. I just think books are useful even if they can very easily be used for propaganda and the same is true for every medium from sculpture to music to VR simulations.
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 07:54:14 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @circuSphere @Frondeur That’s been my track on a lot of this stuff. For the longest time I thought I was alone in my belief set, then as I venture out into these kinds of spaces I find out I hit close to the mark where it counts more often than not.

     It’s just easier to be sure in where you stand when it comes from within, you have a deeper understanding of it.

   • Nick (nou@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 09:32:58 JST Nick

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     • :mein_kampf: :edelweiss_flower: :lazer_d::lazer_w::lazer_i::lazer_g::lazer_h::lazer_t: :edelweiss_flower: :poast_hat: :njp:
     @Dwight88 @WashedOutGundamPilot My guess is because like most niggers he lacks the IQ to really be capable of introspection. So he ends up asserting the dumb shit he says extremely confidently. And since zoomers are... well... zoomers, they're completely taken in by his self-assuredness.
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   • Nick (nou@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 09:32:59 JST Nick

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot In general, if you agree with Andrew Tate on anything you should seriously reconsider your life choices.
     
     youtu.be/qzpgqrzZ-KE
   • :mein_kampf: :edelweiss_flower: :lazer_d::lazer_w::lazer_i::lazer_g::lazer_h::lazer_t: :edelweiss_flower: :poast_hat: :njp: (dwight88@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 09:32:59 JST :mein_kampf: :edelweiss_flower: :lazer_d::lazer_w::lazer_i::lazer_g::lazer_h::lazer_t: :edelweiss_flower: :poast_hat: :njp:

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     • Nick
     @Nou @WashedOutGundamPilot guy is such a loser. Why anyone would think he's cool is beyond me