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.