You don’t really think he’s capable of ANSWERING questions, do you? Bob only ASKS questions, extremely loaded questions based on lies and misdirection. On the few occasions when he appeared to try to answer questions, he always intentionally misinterprets the question and answers something else, or just answers with a “but what about (X)”.

It’s not an unreasonable question, but it’s unreasonable to expect an answer.

One of Jordan Peterson's claims, that the left has settled into higher ed and wants to shutdown debate in favor of indoctrination, is openly on display in the video. All 3 staff from Wilfrid Laurier state it as contrary to the university environment to present a debate on use of pronouns, or to allow the subject to be debated, save that student's are FIRST taught and thoroughly prepared to know which side of the debate is right before hand.

One of them even dismisses Peterson's claim that you can be convicted for failing to use the pronouns requested by others as baseless and contrary to all evidence. Mean while the Ontario human rights tribunal clearly states that is exactly the case. link below.

If you are find with higher education abandoning reasoned debate in favor of indoctrination then you don't need to care. Of course, here in Canada we aren't facing the same risk you American's are of finding the tables turning and the indoctrination landing in the hands of tea party or trump types.

Still, keeping free speech and reasoned debate a cornerstone of education is extremely important to maintaining a free society in my opinion and the video is a window into dark corners hell bent on shutting that down.

http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/questions-and-answers-about-gender-identity-and-pronouns

Yes, chapter 5 is the "Lotus Eaters" chapter, with Bloom at the Turkish Baths at the end.

My favorite chapters are 15 "Circe" in the red-light district where Bloom and Daedalus are visited by apparitions, both euphoric and demonic.

And Chapter 17 "Ithaca" the one written entirely in a question and answer format:

What act did Bloom make on their arrival at their destination?
At the housesteps of the 4th Of the equidifferent uneven numbers, number 7
Eccles street, he inserted his hand mechanically into the back pocket of his
trousers to obtain his latchkey.

Was it there?
It was in the corresponding pocket of the trousers which he had worn on
the day but one preceding.

Why was he doubly irritated?
Because he had forgotten and because he remembered that he had reminded
himself twice not to forget.

The bits and pieces that I've seen of Greece's new list of reforms includes a measure that is strikingly similar to this.

Good stuff. Even officials from Austria went down to Zagreb to check out this system, so kudos to our Croatian comrades for this "invention" of theirs.

Hitchens.

Watch the debate on Catholicism with Hitchens and Fry on one side and a bishop and an idiot politicians on the other. The pro-catholic side are so unbelievably outclassed it's not even a contest.

To everyone else... Gay Byrne deserves a lot of credit.

He was host of the Late Late Show in Ireland for decades and during that time he presided over some incredibly contentious debates on a number of issues in Irish society (contraception, homosexuality, divorce, abortion, child abuse, the north, political corruption, etc.). Looking back it was a slightly bizarre mix of Letterman, Bill Maher and Questions and Answers on the BBC. Despite the fact that Byrne himself would be a reasonably mainstream guy, he IMO hosted the debates fairly (and frankly, considerably better than most modern debate shows).

Felt like a super awkward question and answer session, no real conversation was just....question....direct answer...awkward silence...next question

They're both kinda petty nitpicking, but there's a pretty big difference, both in substance and style.

The supposed issue behind NotOptimalGate is that Obama was showing a disregard for the lives lost. If you watched the interview, or even the actual video clip of just that question and answer, you can tell that's not the case at all.

With binders full of women, I didn't really get the sense that people were really thinking that phrase itself was a big problem, just that it was an inartful phrase that seemed to be the launching point for a whole lot of jokes made at Romney's expense.

So on the one hand, you have Republicans willfully distorting what was said in order to gravely accuse Obama of being disrespectful towards the dead in the aftermath of a national tragedy...and Democrats using Romney's inartful turn of phrase to make fun of him.

One seems really unscrupulous and hostile, the other seems like the kind of trash talk you get between sports fans when the other team fumbles the ball.
>> ^bobknight33:

Republican stupid reaction Not Optimal gate. Just as stupid as the Democrats the week before with Binder gate.

Christ that video was annoying. 2 try-hard dickheads trying to defend that piece of crap movie and that indecipherable robot voice.
When you have a movie that raises so many questions and answers none of them, relies heavily on external media and lots of tiny hints that is so easily missed to attempt to explain the story, hasn't a single likable or believable character, when it's own DVD release's marketing tagline is "Questions Will Be Answered" just to sell the POS, you simply have a bad movie and no amount of explanation will fix that.

EDIT: I actually believe there could have been a good movie there, and an interesting and mysterious story. However, it was so poorly executed, it's just pretentious wankerey

See the link in the first comment.>> ^bobknight33:

I wounder what were the questions? and answers.
It would make a good survey for the sift community to see where we stand

I wounder what were the questions? and answers.

It would make a good survey for the sift community to see where we stand

What I believe is that children, especially around the age of 10-12 are smarter than 90% of all the adults in the world put together they aren't confined by adult rules and restraints yet, they take things at face value and aren't scared to put forth ideas others might think are "crazy" or to embarrass themselves trying to share those ideas. Most ancient cultures believe that humans peak at 10-12 not 18-21 like you would think. It's because only when we look at things with a fresh point of view unencumbered by societies stereotypes are we truly at out finest. That's what I believe.

>> ^Ryjkyj:

>> ^Auger8:
@Deadrisenmortal and @dystopianfuturetoday you guys can't seriously be that cynical. Surely you were bright kids too. I remember wanting to solve the worlds problems when I was 12. Good for her that she actually found a solution and got people to listen despite her age. Far too many kids are shot down from being greater than their adult peers simply based on age discrimination. Don't help those people out. They get enough help as it is.
>> ^Deadrisenmortal:
Although I am 100% behind the message I am with DFT on the delivery system. There is no evidence that this is anything more than a little bird singing a song she has been taught to sing. If there was a question and answer period or a challenge presented by an audience member that she was able to take on intelligently I might change my mind. Until that happens my advice is to stop using your kid to sell your message.
>> ^schlub:
Ahh, the old "kids are too stupid to have minds of their own" approach...
>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
but I find it creepy when parents use their kids as a political mouthpiece.




No one is saying that this girl isn't bright, or that she doesn't want to change the world. But if you seriously can't see or hear the influence of her parents behind what she's reading, then I've got a painting I'd like to sell you.

>> ^Auger8:

@Deadrisenmortal and @dystopianfuturetoday you guys can't seriously be that cynical. Surely you were bright kids too. I remember wanting to solve the worlds problems when I was 12. Good for her that she actually found a solution and got people to listen despite her age. Far too many kids are shot down from being greater than their adult peers simply based on age discrimination. Don't help those people out. They get enough help as it is.
>> ^Deadrisenmortal:
Although I am 100% behind the message I am with DFT on the delivery system. There is no evidence that this is anything more than a little bird singing a song she has been taught to sing. If there was a question and answer period or a challenge presented by an audience member that she was able to take on intelligently I might change my mind. Until that happens my advice is to stop using your kid to sell your message.
>> ^schlub:
Ahh, the old "kids are too stupid to have minds of their own" approach...
>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
but I find it creepy when parents use their kids as a political mouthpiece.





No one is saying that this girl isn't bright, or that she doesn't want to change the world. But if you seriously can't see or hear the influence of her parents behind what she's reading, then I've got a painting I'd like to sell you.

@Deadrisenmortal and @dystopianfuturetoday you guys can't seriously be that cynical. Surely you were bright kids too. I remember wanting to solve the worlds problems when I was 12. Good for her that she actually found a solution and got people to listen despite her age. Far too many kids are shot down from being greater than their adult peers simply based on age discrimination. Don't help those people out. They get enough help as it is.

>> ^Deadrisenmortal:

Although I am 100% behind the message I am with DFT on the delivery system. There is no evidence that this is anything more than a little bird singing a song she has been taught to sing. If there was a question and answer period or a challenge presented by an audience member that she was able to take on intelligently I might change my mind. Until that happens my advice is to stop using your kid to sell your message.
>> ^schlub:
Ahh, the old "kids are too stupid to have minds of their own" approach...
>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
but I find it creepy when parents use their kids as a political mouthpiece.

Although I am 100% behind the message I am with DFT on the delivery system. There is no evidence that this is anything more than a little bird singing a song she has been taught to sing. If there was a question and answer period or a challenge presented by an audience member that she was able to take on intelligently I might change my mind. Until that happens my advice is to stop using your kid to sell your message.

>> ^schlub:

Ahh, the old "kids are too stupid to have minds of their own" approach...
>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
but I find it creepy when parents use their kids as a political mouthpiece.