Red Pill or Blue Pill?

[iblive]

Just in case you weren't aware...."White Rabbit' is also one of @iblive favorite songs.

That’s because it’s like 2 1/2 minutes long. I actually have it memorized.

 

[iblive]

And now I have an earworm. Dangit.

There are worse song to get an earworm from. I won’t share them as you’d all have me banned from the forum.

 

[iblive]

Go ask Alice.

Sorry. Can’t help myself.

 

[Geeze]

I agree that there's a bit of a trend to point to things as 'privilege'. I'm curious to what is implied or meant by the term in this context.

It's a debate tactic to put you on your verbal / emotional back foot. So now you have to waste time to explain / defend yourself and thus are deflected from the main point. Best to be ignored and focus on the point. To my shame I felt compelled to swing at the flying turd.

Conversation is not debate. We waste too much time trying to win.

"White Rabbit' is also one of @iblive favorite songs.

I heard it at the ripe old and wise age of nine and REALLY wanted to be ten feet tall... It took a few years for that goal to be achieved.

Russ

 

[Frodebro]

There are worse song to get an earworm from. I won’t share them as you’d all have me banned from the forum.

I could probably pace you until we were both voted off the island.

 

[Timo V]

My privilege is my wife chose me forty years ago. In all other parallel universes I'm dead now. She picked the pill for me.

Timo

 

[iblive]

My privilege is my wife chose me forty years ago. In all other parallel universes I'm dead now. She picked the pill for me.

Timo

Nuthin’ wrong with that.

 

[Don O]

I somehow managed to survive a stream of bad choices myself, but all of the bad stuff (including alcoholism and recovery) have given me a perspective that I never would have had if I hadn’t have followed the path of poor choices. And part of that perspective is that I will not be shamed into feeling guilty about having some kind of ‘privilege’ because of where I was born or how I was raised.

I’m a retired Engineering Director. A lot of my young engineers would ask how I made decisions. I’d say:

I use my good judgement.
My good judgement is based on my experience.
My experience is based on my bad judgement.

I would tell them never feel guilty about failing, it teaches you life lessons.

 

[Sargeant Preston]

I’m a retired Engineering Director. A lot of my young engineers would ask how I made decisions. I’d say:

I use my good judgement.
My good judgement is based on my experience.
My experience is based on my bad judgement.

I would tell them never feel guilty about failing, it teaches you life lessons.

I can relate to that.
When I was forced into the position of Engineering Manager at a company I worked at years ago I struggled to maintain good relationships with people within my department. There were times that I made decisions that would upset their apple cart, often.
A year later, one of the guys who worked for me said, "Randy, there are times you mansge to make decisions that piss people off, but at the end of every work day everyone still wants to go out and have a beer with you. How do you do that?"

Respect towards one another is a two way street.

 

[Ghostman]

Spoken from a position of privilege. One cannot actually pull one’s self up by one’s bootstraps.

That's Levitation. But that would be cool. Not gonna lie. David Blayne style floating around?

 

[Thatbastarddon]

That's Levitation. But that would be cool. Not gonna lie. David Blayne style floating around?

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!! Chris Angel style!!!! Can’t. Stop. Rolling……..

 

[Thatbastarddon]

Wait! Chris Angel is kinda….
David Blayne it is!!!
Hhhrrrmmmphhhhhhhhhh…

 

[RedGuitar]

I'll take one of each , red & blue, and be well balanced, until they wear off. Throw in a white pill and I'll be all-American patriotic.

 

[PelliX]

I'll take one of each , red & blue, and be well balanced, until they wear off. Throw in a white pill and I'll be all-American patriotic.

Presumably that would result in a light purple-ish sort of cocktail....