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The Case Against Pariah:

Very aggressive.
Does not support reasoned investigation.
Inflammatory.
Accuses without substantiating claims.

Did I miss anything?

Yes.

I want to see Pariah swing.  Just because.

I'd love to, Dok, but the street's filthy and rutted, and all the houses are beaten to shit. What can I say, it's an ugly neighborhood. I don't know if I can live on that street every day, the Truth gazing at me out of those broken glass eyes across the street. I mean, some of them are boarded up, but you know it's still peeking out the gaps in the boards. Those holes in the glass are pretty big, too. I recon if you stayed out in the open over there for too long, those little black imps with their Truthful claws would pick you up and carry you somewhere else. Maybe somewhere dark and wet, maybe somewhere under warped floorboards and yellowed plastic siding. Imagine the property value. Those creatures could tie me to a chair, Dok. They'd tie me up and they'd whisper in my ears. I don't know what they'd whisper, but I do know what happens to you after they've whispered for long enough. I've seen the autopsy reports. And I don't know who put those nails in the victims' ears, but I know I don't want to find out for myself.

But maybe you're right. If I won't get off my ass and move down to the hellhole you're living in, who will? And we all know some of us have to live down there. Monsters breed in that neighborhood. Imagine where we'd all be without exterminators.

What is there to be said about a city whose monsters are more real than the normal citizens?

Because we've got monsters, Capn', here in the high desert where everything is true and nothing is permitted.  Don't leave the main road, and for God's sake stay out of the thousands of abandoned mines that dot the surrounding landscape.  But those are the monsters that are easy to deal with.  A shotgun full of silver dimes, and you're gonna be okay.

But some of our monsters, well, they look just like you and I.  They smile, and they're professional, and they beat the mortal shit out of their wives 6 times a year.  They teach school, they sell insurance, and nobody ever saw Little Billy again, ya dig?

So I'm not suggesting that you be my neighbor, Captain.  I'm begging you.

My nemesis, Doc Howl, is probably the werewolf. Infected himself during one of his experiments.

No, sir, I've been drinking belladonna and wolfsbane since the horror began, just to be sure.

I learned that my second high school has already started this process. Two Fridays a month are "Furlough Days".

I think I'm gonna barf.

*sploosh*

Wikipedia also has the problems iwth how they got literacy figures in the census.

The Census Bureau reported literacy rates of 99% based on personal interviews of a relatively small portion of the population and on

written responses

to Census Bureau mailings. They also considered individuals literate if they simply stated that they could read and write

I've now seen two different definitions for literacy, too.  One is whether or not you can read or write, and the other is whether or not you can write a clear sentence and find basic information in written text.  From a pragmatic point of view, the second definition is more relevant.

Well, if they're into THAT, then you've just won the probability lottery.

This is also my next project.  "Cultivating meatgrinder psychosis for people who I think could on occasion use it."

Please to post notes.

I'm not certain it'd be general access stuff.  Will PM gladly though.

Sounds like a plan.

Dude.  Has no one seen what literacy rates do for countries like Afghanistan?

Really?

Literacy isn't the same thing, our kids are (supposed) to be literate before they get to junior high.  If there is a problem with illiterate kids showing up at higher levels, or dropping out in the first grade, I'm not aware of it.

I don't agree with Enki, education and crime are correlated, but the cause of the crime is A) The things that lead to poor education
and

B) The poverty resulting from poor education.

I'm not sure I follow, as it pertains to this thread.  Education is not limited to junior high, right?  It encompasses all standardized learning up to a certain point.  The question of when a child is taught to read is certainly relevant.

My point is that the literacy rate in the United States is 99%.  Lack of literacy is not one of our existing problems.

Wikipedia gives a 99% value.  However, it also states that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States

A five-year, $14 million study of U.S. adult literacy involving lengthy interviews of U.S. adults, the most comprehensive study of literacy ever commissioned by the U.S. government,[2] was released in September 1993. It involved lengthy interviews of over 26,700 adults statistically balanced for age, gender, ethnicity, education level, and location (urban, suburban, or rural) in 12 states across the U.S. and was designed to represent the U.S. population as a whole. This government study showed that 21% to 23% of adult Americans were not "able to locate information in text", could not "make low-level inferences using printed materials", and were unable to "integrate easily identifiable pieces of information."[2]

Sources, as always, at the bottom.

It was announced today that 50 school districts nation-wide, including two in Arizona will be going to a four-day school week.  Days will not be lengthened, nor will the school year be extended.  The long, slow slide into the slime continues.

you made me shit myself! i had to look up if SLC school district was going to pull that, thank god they're not. We have this asshat trying to take away the 12th grade here.

i have everyone. 

Illinois is considering removing the junior and senior year both.

WHAT
What the hell are these kids going to do? Getting into college is going to be such a bitch for these kids.

There's always the cannonfodder option.

Well, then, how do we figure out how to lynch someone if we go for the "OMG YUO R SPREDING RUMORS YUO ARE WEREWOLF!"

I'm all about the peacefulness, but we can't be hippies about this.

PEACEFULNESS, MY ASS!  WE'RE ALL GOING TO BE KILLED IN OUR BEDS!

Well, if they're into THAT, then you've just won the probability lottery.

This is also my next project.  "Cultivating meatgrinder psychosis for people who I think could on occasion use it."

Please to post notes.

Dude.  Has no one seen what literacy rates do for countries like Afghanistan?

Really?

Literacy isn't the same thing, our kids are (supposed) to be literate before they get to junior high.  If there is a problem with illiterate kids showing up at higher levels, or dropping out in the first grade, I'm not aware of it.

I don't agree with Enki, education and crime are correlated, but the cause of the crime is A) The things that lead to poor education
and

B) The poverty resulting from poor education.

O good god.

Again, Requia?  You're talking from YOUR ASS.

Nonsense, Jenne.  Critical thinking skills and the ability to do a risk/reward scenario have nothing to do with crime.

You mean "avant GRADE," amirite?

YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

You know, thinking about it, I'm confused on top of being perturbed. Am I not allowed to own myself?

You are.  Clyde needs to be educated.  Preferrably, with a boot.

Done already.  With the side of a Bisley.

Well, Jenne, it was a nice conversation we were having about the state of education in America.

Perhaps some other time.

I think the point is, Rog, that we both know some awesome people who've ended up in shitpiles because they don't have any education.  And could've benefitted greatly by it.

By "some people" I think I mean most everyone we know and have met.

Yep.  But I was kind of enjoying talking about what's happening to the schools, before Enki was driven to prove what a genius he is.

Maybe I'll start a thread tomorrow.

Since he got two people to agree with him, I predict ssdd.

Yeah, you're right, it's fucking useless.  All I wanted to do was talk about what just happened to the schools, and this shit happens.  And it will happen tomorrow, too.

Fuck it.

Dude.  Has no one seen what literacy rates do for countries like Afghanistan?

Really?

You're wasting your time, Jenne.

This thread is now about proving how smart and avante garde everyone is.