From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   On 2025-11-18, vallor  wrote:   
   >> At Mon, 17 Nov 2025 13:09:03 -0000 (UTC), oldernow    
   wrote:   
   >>    it's not that   
   >>  i'm looking down   
   >>  on you as though   
   >>     you're dumb   
   >>   
   >>   it's just that   
   >>    attempting to   
   >>  discuss anything   
   >>    with someone   
   >>   who hasn't done   
   >>  roughly the same   
   >> homework on a topic   
   >>     is painful   
   >>   
   >> so i put feelers /   
   >>   tests out there   
   >>   
   >>  which attempt to   
   >> help others reveal   
   >>  how much homework   
   >>    they've done   
   >   
   > When you speak of "homework", do you mean   
   > navel-gazing? Because my "life coach" (for want   
   > of a better term) used to be a Buddhist nun,   
   > but then decided that the middle path was better.   
      
   I mean interest-driven research.   
      
   (says the guy who believes individuals bring   
   private meanings to words)   
      
   (In other words (haha), I hope you managed to get   
   what I mean by "interest-driven research" despite   
   not having access to what I mean by those words.)   
      
   (See how funny it can get when you're no longer   
   sure individuals bring objectively same meanings   
   to the same words?)   
      
   > There's no way for you to know that unless I   
   > tell you, so I've told you, and won't speak   
   > any more about it, except to say that I view   
   > everything with skepticism -- including oracle   
   > decks, Tarot cards, and all that. To me, they are   
   > "Rorschach's for the mind".   
      
   Far be it from me to judge others' preferred   
   methods of avoiding looking at looking!   
      
   > I have been battered by "coyote Zen", and I'll   
   > talk to you about that if you'd like.   
      
   Go for it.   
      
   > But right now I smell the wife cooking onions,   
   > so I think dinner is almost ready.   
      
   Yum!   
      
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   NPC's dutifully ignored.   
      
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