tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post4456758816355880008..comments2024-03-28T13:17:41.599+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Racing driver or Sunday Afternoon driver? Avoidance versus coping skills in dealing with the ethical hazards of Western secular modernity Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-9422628331723215702019-11-08T03:28:06.784+00:002019-11-08T03:28:06.784+00:00FX. As I said some combination is required. But ou...FX. As I said some combination is required. But our culture disdains avoidance and encourages training to cope with deliberate high exposure to immorality. This is encouraged by our demon serving leaders, precisely because it does not work.Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-15711791786255670132019-11-07T22:36:44.596+00:002019-11-07T22:36:44.596+00:00General agreement though the details are vexing.
...General agreement though the details are vexing.<br /><br />If the general principle is avoidance when does one move forward?<br /><br />From a spiritual perspective if you wait and practice great avoidance you are a monk. <br /><br />However life can call too.<br /><br />Do you think it is possible when we have little information before a big decision that would involve such matters of being in the world to make better choices? <br /><br />I would like to think the Most High would guide us in these types of decisions but I have no experience of such guidance being reliable or even perceivable.<br /><br />Faculty Xnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-52223332625736087092019-11-07T19:25:43.412+00:002019-11-07T19:25:43.412+00:00Which is why most white people cope with diversity...Which is why most white people cope with diversity by moving out into rural areas. In a low-trust society where minor disputes often turn deadly, it helps to minimize contact with other people.<br /><br />Because martial-arts training is no guarantee you'll survive a real street fight, and the training itself takes a toll on your body.Davenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-82049522797689510922019-11-07T09:15:54.414+00:002019-11-07T09:15:54.414+00:00LOL is US doctor's slang that was popularised ...LOL is US doctor's slang that was popularised from 1978 by The House of God - a novel about being a medical intern - it is part of LOL in NAD - Little Old Lady in No Apparent Distress; a code, written by the admitting doctor on the patient's notes/ chart. <br /><br />(I once wrote about this in a piece concerned with medical slang for an article in The Times (of London) back in the day when I did paid journalism, and when freelance journalism was well paid...)Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.com