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  1. Posted

    David Johnson is essentially a big CMC. He's better if he stays healthy.

    Barkley, Zeke, Gurley, Kamara--they're all better. If Bell is the same, he's better.

    And yes, if Dalvin Cook stays healthy moving forward, he too will be better. 

  5. Posted

    Questions after last night:

    1. Does Cam Newton scare anyone anymore?

    2. How good is Christian McCaffrey, really? If I have a good defense with LBs that can cover, he's pretty much neutralized.

    3. Is a controlled, patient Jameis Winston good enough to win more games like this or do the Bucs need a balance between last night's game manager and a gunslinger?

    4. What's the ceiling of this Bucs defense?

  6. Posted

    38 run, 10 pass. We must have whipped somebody's ass yesterday 

    Cook and Mattison? Niiiiice. Now, don't get me wrong, Atlanta is a soft finesse defense and therefore not a good litmus test for Minnesota's running game, but it was nice to see some great runs on the highlight reel (harvest--can only listen to games on the radio).

    :lol:

  9. Posted · Edited by BwareDWare94

    Bears tonight. I will edit my post with my remaining picks before Sunday's games

     

    Whoops lol. Give me all losses for Sunday or something below the mean score. Whatever is fair.

    Saints

    Broncos

  10. Posted

    20 hours ago, Thanatos said:

    Crenshaw is an idiot, war hero or no. "If we have universal background checks, I can't loan my friends my gun!" No, d'oh, you shouldn't be able to.

    Dan Crenshaw is wrong in this particular moment but the dude is awesome. He's the right kind of conservative. Check out the Joe Rogan podcast with him

  11. Posted

    I find that family businesses tend to unravel fast, so unless you're quite certain this place you're currently working will be there 10 years from now, I'm thinking you should consider moving on simply because you can't be positive that they won't mismanage money and fold at a moment's notice.

    Quite honestly, Zack, you have all these options but your gut instinct is telling you something and you should listen to it. If you can have these kinds of options now, you can have these kinds of options later if what you choose now doesn't pan out. 

    I've got more to add but have to go for the moment.

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  13. Posted

    17 hours ago, seanbrock said:

    @BwareDWare94It's by design but I do think you're right that technology and social media in particular plays a role. If you get a chance look up a guy named Horace Mann. He brought us the factory model of public education from Prussia. He sold it to the rich by saying it was a way to control the working class and he sold it to the working class by saying it was the great equalizer. Basically it's larger function is selecting for obedience more so than it is to teach independent/critical thought. (No @Thanatos it isn't a conspiracy theory. It's historical fact that I read partially from newspapers the man published himself in the 1800's)

    Maybe I'm being naive, but I don't truly believe there's some grand conspiracy by the wealthy to keep us all in line. I think there are some wealthy people who take advantage of their influence, but are we really going to move forward believing in an Us vs. Them mentality? There's no fruit to be had with that perspective. 

  14. Posted

    3 hours ago, seanbrock said:

    @BwareDWare94 I created this thread to challenge the notion that social hierarchies can only be based on having more money and more material possessions than the next guy. Like for me, even if I'm not getting paid a lot of money, I like to be good at what I do and have the respect and trust of my co-workers.

    The thing about social hierarchies is that they're mostly natural reactions to the current environment. In this Instagram environment, everybody displays their high points constantly, which gives lazy scroll-the-internet types the idea that a constantly happy life is possible, and that some people have it while they don't. 

    That being said, the real question is how we've become such a gullible collection of sheeple. I personally recommend at the very least blocking social media on personal phones. This allows the individual to focus directly on life. 

  15. Posted

    When someone needs help beyond what they can do for themselves, you can either say it to them or stay silent and regret it. And staying silent is pretty much enabling them to continue doing what isn't working. 

    Anybody else sick of this current movement saying it's everybosy else's responsibility to reach out to hurting people? We've been reaching out for years...

  16. Posted

    13 hours ago, Thanatos said:

    I'm not even necessarily disagreeing with you. I'm just saying you can't approach the problem that way because that's not what those people need to hear. The cure is absolutely started with medication for a lot of people, though. THEN they need to work at it, and its hard, and a lot of people don't want to put in the effort. But if you don't help them out and give them the needed stuff to get to a level starting point, they will never get there.

    One of the hardest things in life might be a family member or friend's refusal to seek needed treatment for trauma-induced mental health issues or personality disorders. One of my good friends was abandoned by a parent and severely abused by the present parent as a child and that trauma is destroying this person's ability to have a normal life whatsoever. Many of their friends are shady manipulators. They never pick good partners (in their defense, there, they do stay single for the most part. Just fails terribly at picking partners when they do). They're making progress toward healing on their own (this person is kinder every time we reconnect after periods of doing our own thing) but stays in a pattern of severe drop, then mania as they come back up, and then they spend time somewhat level. Rinse and repeat

    It is the most difficult thing to observe in any friend I've ever had. I've seen other cases but never so severe. 

    So I consistently push treatment and therapy. But this person is 100% responsible for their refusal to seek further treatment. There are mental health things that human beings simply need therapy and medication for. Period. End of story.

    So on the topic of motivation--why are we not motivated by feeling better at younger ages? I've begun to think that true maturity begins when one realizes that they absolutely have to take care of themselves first and foremost.

  17. Posted

    On the topic of personal responsibility for mental health--I think it ties in more with their everyday actions. Sometimes poor mental health is paired with really destructive decision-making. The individual is still responsible for making better decisions. Mental health is not an excuse and shouldn't be looked at as one. They still know right and wrong.

    I agree with sean, real mental illness is generally caused by some form of trauma.

  18. Posted

    7 hours ago, Thanatos said:

    This is a bunch of vague statements here bud. 

    What life choices do we celebrate that lead to individual misery?

    What are "traditional family values?" 

    Why do you think we're moving away from living with a moral compass?

    Do you have any research or evidence at all to back up these statements? That they are more true now than 50 years ago? You sound like a boomer on a Fox News show lamenting the good old days, tbh.

     

    1. We literally push people to a) think in partisan terms politically=never happy b) run away from the idea of healthy, committed relationships= never happy c) choose to feel like a victim for our misfortunes when they're brought on by our own personal failings= never happy.  Essentially, we no longer push personal accountability.

    2. Traditional family values are the nuclear family. Mother and father married, raising the children. Nearly every single mass shooter was fatherless. That's caused by 2 things--shitty men, and women who choose shitty partners. Raise your sons to be good men, raise your daughters to desire good men. It's really that simple. It shouldn't take til after 25 or 30 for a woman to realize she probably shouldn't fuck somebody who wouldn't make a good father or partner, and it shouldn't take til 25 or 30 for a man to grow the fuck up and realize that there's more to life than having as much meaningless sex as possible.

    3. Do I really have to explain how we're moving away from living with a moral compass? Look around. Listen to the news. 

    I'm much, much more well-spoken than some overweight slob on Fox News blabbing on about the good old days. I don't care about reverting back to anything other than teaching young people what really leads to happiness, and that is purpose. And the simplest way to have purpose is to have a family. Most people won't get to work in a field that they love, so they should worry more about a healthy, stable home life than anything. 

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  19. Posted

    8 hours ago, Thanatos said:

    What do you mean by "continued descent into depravity?" Japan is into some depraved shit, they have basically zero gun violence. 

     

    We continue to move further and further away from living with any kind of moral compass. We celebrate life choices that lead directly to individual misery. We push people further and further away from traditional family values, resulting in many lonely people. Without a moral compass, without a direct greater purpose, anger and bitterness and other bad things fester and evolve and then monsters are born. 

    In the United States, we've lost sight of the true causes of individual freedom, which are things that develop emotional stability. Committed healthy relationships, genuine friendships, selfless kindness. Etc.

    Without these things, most individuals begin a descent into bitterness. 

  20. Posted

    1. Obviously no. There's no need to expand on this answer.

    2. It's more nuanced because it clearly wouldn't end at assault weapons. It'd just be a starting point, especially when mass shootings continued to happen.

    3. Obviously yes. There's no need to expand on this answer.

    4. Unequivocally yes. And for that matter, family should be able to place grown adults in mental health facilities without their consent, too.

    5. Obviously no. There's no need to expand on this answer.

    6. It's more nuanced because it clearly wouldn't end at high-capacity magazines. It'd just be a starting point, especially when mass shootings continued to happen.

    7. It's a factor, but not a major factor. I believe there are truly bad people in this world, and I refuse to associate henious violence with the vast majority of non-violent mental illness sufferers.

    8. Violent media is a factor, but not a major factor. It's more to do with clickbait media, reliance on social media and technology, and forgetting what reality actually is.

    9. It's a factor, but not a major factor. Unless part of ease-of-access is the failure to enforce already existing laws

    10. It's a factor, but not a major factor. The cause of violence is our continued descent into depravity.

  21. Posted · Edited by BwareDWare94

    34 minutes ago, Thanatos said:

    Might wanna see an actual licensed psychiatrist instead of a priest. Would help you a lot more with those situations. This is not a shot at you all, I am currently seeing one for other reasons. It's a great relief to be able to just vent sometimes, lol. And it's wrong for a priest- or anyone else- to act like he can help someone's mental state unless he has been trained in that field. Sorry, the idea that religion can actually fix something that's mentally wrong is a pet peeve of mine. Most of the time, its just a way to cover it up and it comes back later because the underlying issue was not dealt with.

    You wouldn't go to a priest instead of a doctor if your leg is broken, for example.

    Starting to see a counselor regularly, which the priest knows about. Also, I asked for a prayer suggestion for horrific anxiety/overthinking onset and that's what he suggested.

    Don't be so quick to say religion can't provide that kind of help. It's worked to pray in desperation for me. I did it regularly 6-8 times a day for 2 to 3 weeks and it provided several hours of relief each time and those periods grew longer. In the last week I've mostly prayed that vulnerable prayer waking up and before bed.

    I'm going into counseling due to emotional fragility caused by extreme verbal/emotional abuse growing up. I had some counseling while at UND, so I'm going back to the well.

  22. Posted

    I think motivation is tied very strongly to mental health. I go through differing motivations. 85% of the year, my motivation is strictly to "be grateful because I'm a blessed, lucky man." The other 15%, I'm just trying to get my head back above water because one of my triggers has surfaced and I'm miserable. For the record, I've recently turned a corner on that 15%--I was instructed by my priest to be more vulnerable in prayer. Instantaneous relief, and onset became less frequent by the week. Simply incredible.

    Now that's me, personally. As far as we as a collective society is concerned, we're not motivated by any one specific thing. We're motivated by selfishness, and that's a different thing from individual to individual. It's also the cause of many of our societal problems.

  23. Posted

    There's just no chance Joe Biden beats Trump. Literally zero. How he can perform so underwhelmingly in the debates and still be the frontrunner is beyond me. The problem is, I won't even consider voting Democrat unless one of these underdogs has a seriously uprising and steals the nomination. I'd have said that I'd vote for Tulsi or Yang a month ago, but now that Yang is spouting of panic mode climate nonsense just to try gain some steam, I'm not sure I'd vote for him any longer.

    I won't vote Trump, but I won't vote for any establishment Democrat or radical SJW.  Not gonna happen, and neither of those types of opponents will beat Trump. We need a wild card for a close election.

  25. Posted

    36 minutes ago, Omerta said:

    Fuck yes tell them that. God damn I am so tired of seeing this shit. Two dumbasses fuck and either the kid or the taxpayer suffer. It is such bullshit. Dont have kids if you cant afford them on your own. How is this not common fucking sense?

     

    Fucking without contraception should be a damn crime at this point. It's no longer just a pregnancy risk between two people.

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