WeirdGoesPro
@WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Lying can be so complicated 3 days ago:
For what it’s worth, I interpreted your original comment as a joke, but then the doubling and tripling down made me think you were serious. Sometimes you should just let the original lol stand alone.
- Comment on The reason women cover their drinks 4 days ago:
He is the grinch who mandated Christmas.
- Comment on Trump to pardon ex-Honduras leader serving drug trafficking sentence in US 5 days ago:
Unless they’re on a boat.
- Comment on Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking 5 days ago:
You won’t be out when your rent is a million per month and groceries are 100k.
- Comment on Potentially life-changing if you're eligible 5 days ago:
GOTS GOUT
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
There are a lot of ways to look at this ranging from the more dismissive options that other users have proposed to more philosophical, sociological, and psychological ones. I’m going to focus on the latter.
Carl Jung had a theory of synchronicity where repeat coincidences with no obvious connection to each other seemed to be a common experience in human lives. Nobody really knows why this is the case—maybe it’s some sort of data saving aspect of the universe, predestined fate, or just a pattern recognition quirk in our brains. Regardless, he collected a lot of data over his career of many people, including himself, experiencing the effect in various ways.
A potential sociological explanation would be found in the personalities of people who choose to wear track suits and gold—that outfit is typically associated with “alpha” personality types, athletes, and hooligans. I would imagine that someone in those personality categories would have the necessary qualities to make the somewhat brazen choice to interact with a stranger and take control of a situation, and in the case of the athlete, potentially be more likely to recognize a health problem. 10 people around you might have noticed something was off with you, but the person with the more dominant personality in the room might be more likely to take action first.
There is also the woo woo explanation that some kind of destiny awaits you and those people were there at that time to save you specifically. If you were a time traveler aiming for a time between 1960 and 2060, a track suit would be a comfortable choice of clothing that wasn’t trying to fit into any particular fad, and it would be hard to track that person down later because a lot of people wear that.
The interpretation is up to you to decide, but it sure is an interesting thing to think about. Unlike some other users, I don’t immediately think you’re crazy, I just think you just noticed a very unusual set of circumstances that have multiple possible explanations.
- Comment on FACTS 1 week ago:
I’m amazed—it seems to be real. I thought this was satire, for sure, but your comment made me google it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
How do we keep the party of “family values” from co-opting “decent people” next?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Ok, I’m willing to follow along that line and say we’ll drop the word patriotism as it may have been too corrupted to be aligned with its original meaning.
In lieu of that term, what shall we call people who love their country and criticize its faults while working for positive change so it can be a better place for all people to live?
- Comment on Moisturize me 1 week ago:
The nips are saying Caius Cosades, but the underwear is saying Sims 3.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Missing a term does not necessarily make the underlying concept invalid. For instance, ICE is subjecting people to rendition in the name of “national security”.
National security, in reality, is a good thing if it is used justly and wisely to prevent loss of life and real threats against the people. When it is co-opted and misused to target minority groups, it becomes a verbal cloak to disguise injustice, but that doesn’t mean that the original need for protection has been invalidated.
Likewise, patriots who love their country enough to criticize it and change it towards becoming a decent and fair place for all people to live both exist and are an asset to the nation. When the word is co-opted by nationalists and jingoists, it is used as a cloak, but the role of the true patriot still remains vital.
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” - Thomas Jefferson
- Comment on Why does a community called no stupid questions allow comments that say the question is stupid? 1 week ago:
Veganism is a religion now?
- Comment on Does anyone know what's inside this building? 3 weeks ago:
Interesting, thanks for the info. I’d always wondered what was causing that.
- Comment on I said, LOOK at it! 3 weeks ago:
The “Nobody:” means nobody asked for it, but they do it anyway.
- Comment on I said, LOOK at it! 3 weeks ago:
Girls on instagram all pose butt first for no reason other than clout bait.
- Comment on Actually I'm not impressed enough to bother starring 3 weeks ago:
Narrow urethra.
- Comment on Does anyone know what's inside this building? 3 weeks ago:
Sadly, I didn’t take one and I don’t live in NYC anymore.
- Comment on Encountering those who go through life clueless 3 weeks ago:
I’ll take your example and elaborate:
Someone who is destroying the planet is probably the kind of person who views all others as their adversary and feels entitled to take the earths resources for their own.
By setting the rules of the game that way, they have opened the door to the other people on earth viewing them as an adversary and taking their resources for our own.
- Comment on What a lucky woman 3 weeks ago:
Idk, my girlfriend tells me stuff like this. If I repeat her quotes verbatim, am I full of myself?
- Comment on Encountering those who go through life clueless 3 weeks ago:
Treat people as they want to be treated. The needs of the masochist are not the needs of the sadist, to frame it in extremes.
- Comment on Does anyone know what's inside this building? 3 weeks ago:
Fun fact: there are some big magnets in there. I have a compass on my backpack and it had a lot of trouble when I passed that building.
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 4 weeks ago:
The Wikipedia article that talks about the Clinton thumb theorizes it is from JFK.
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 4 weeks ago:
These gestures aren’t exclusive to any particular group—part of the reason they last is that they are easy to discover multiple times and use in multiple ways, plus they seem somewhat natural. It’s similar to how the “devil horns” gesture can also be seen as an owl, a longhorn, or an I Love You. They’re multi-purpose, which is part of why they end up being commonly used.
I’m not suggesting that everyone who uses the sign of the fig is using it in a Masonic or occult way, but rather that some politicians probably picked it up from that background and began using it, and then it was copied by other politicians who liked their style. Eventually, it just becomes a standard political gesture, and only some politicians would be aware of its roots.
It’s possible that they just came up with it independently and copied each other, but if that were the case, I’d expect to see more closed fists with the thumb around the fingers mixed in rather than them synchronizing to the thumb on top (the “fishing reel” as described in this post). This is just my theory—I never had the chance to ask Bill Clinton where his thumb gesture came from, but it aligns with what we know about the connections between American politics and Masonry.
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 5 weeks ago:
I’m a practicing occultist, so my knowledge of the gesture is from that angle. I’m at work right now, so I can’t drag up the best sources at the moment, but here’s a Wikipedia article about it:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fig_sign
And here is a Wikipedia article about hand gestures that mentions the “Clinton Thumb” under the single handed gestures section:
I believe I first heard the Masonic political connection from Lon Milo DuQuette, who I believe is a Mason as well as a practicing occultist like myself. He has over 1000 videos on occultism on YouTube, and I think I probably heard it from there as well as other sources about occult hand gestures.
For the record, I’m not saying it is an occult gesture to imply any conspiracy—just that the history of Masonry and other occult interests in politicians over history have led to certain themes and gestures blending in to the common political vernacular.
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 5 weeks ago:
Esoterically speaking, it is a modification of the sign of the fig—a vaginal hand symbol indicating that you are creating with your words. The traditional sign of the fig has the thumb placed between the index and middle finger, which you see Bill Clinton do a lot. Others put the thumb on top, I imagine for plausible deniability of being satanic or something. The gesture is very old, going back to Ancient Greece or earlier.
Historically, politicians have been influenced by groups such as the Masons and the Rosicrucians who would have been aware of the meaning of these gestures, and then it filters down over time to become standard political gestures for people who aren’t aware of their origin.
- Comment on It's a sad state of affairs... 5 weeks ago:
I could be wrong, but I feel like this comment is ironic.
- Comment on It's a sad state of affairs... 5 weeks ago:
I could be wrong, but I feel like this post is ironic.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Jape culture is everywhere. /s
- Comment on English moment 1 month ago:
Which witch went which way?
- Comment on A roundabout 1 month ago:
