PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Becky (My pronouns are Assigned/By/God) on May 18, 2020, 01:08:23 PM
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Change my mind.
“Beating gammas like dead horses can be entertaining if done with a view to educate those they try to fool with their assumed “superior intellect and knowledge”.
More importantly, it teaches people to think clearly and see through their never-changing methods, which can be listed as follows:
Conflation – mixing two or more topics together in an erroneous fashion in order to come to some new fake “conclusion” that pushes their narrative.
Sophistry – the endless arguing about the exact meaning of a word or phrase with a view to twisting it into some abomination if not its exact opposite. The general conflation of words and meanings to try and produce a new and false narrative that supports their lies.
Appeal to false authority – “I have a PhD in physics (or nose picking) therefore my ideas on physics (or nose picking) are correct” – No. No they are not. Correct ideas are correct. Wrong ones are wrong.
Appeal to authority falsely – “Jesus said homosexuality/raping children/sexual slavery by Saracens/whatever perversion suits me personally is just fine” – No. No He did not. Not even hinted it might be ok. And specifically stated the opposite.
False Charity – “Well, we can’t PROVE the man who raped that child to death meant harm. It’s an accident, we must be charitable” – No. Burn him at the stake.
Outright lying – This one is hard for normal people to actually believe because the lies can be so outrageous and in your face that it’s hard to believe anyone sane would even say such things. But they range the full gamut and can be subtle but insidious or blatant. And very often are based on the conflations and sophistry they laid down to begin with.
Gamma Forever – The general endless arguing without ever settling anything in order to frustrate as well as give the impression that the topic is too complex for normal people to care about or alternatively be able to follow. This activity can’t actually be helped by the gamma. They NEED to get the last word in no matter how obviously and thoroughly they have been shown to be wrong, liars and fakes, so that in their own minds (and nowhere else) they “won” and can continue being the secret king!”
http://www.gfilotto.com/beating-gammas-like-dead-horses
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How do you differeniate a gamma from someone with an unjustified high opinion of their own intelligence?
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Don't even know what a gamma is. I thought you meant this guy:
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71en3bkckoL._AC_SX425_.jpg)
You seem to thrive on others changing your mind, rather than doing your own research and changing it yourself. Some sort of passive/aggressive thing I guess.
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I never heard of gamma either but I suspected what it was, and after following Becky’s link and clicking a time or two found I was right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhTFkUpB8zc
Edit: interesting video! It does say gammas are actually more intelligent than average. There is a lot of intersection between gammas and “nerds”. My husband was a nerd when young, and had many of these gamma characteristics but as he matured it became apparent that he’s an alpha male. He rises to leadership at his jobs and he is always “the leader” with his male friends and relatives. For example, they take on his hobbies, not the other way around, and look to him for advice and help, not the other way around, and so on.
I don’t know if I agree with the video entirely. Picturing the debate between Trump and Rubio; is he trying to say Trump is a gamma? Trump is an alpha among alphas. Somebody explain that to me.
Anyway, he says at the end you can graduate out of gamma to be a ... delta. Hahaha! Well I doubt my husband was actually ever a gamma and then grew his way to alpha hood. In fact if the defining characteristic is deception, my husband was never that part. So I’m not sure the video is a good thing; a bunch of shy nerds will see it and think they are “gamma”.
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The simple truth is almost always the correct conclusion.
steingar is an asshole. His ego makes it impossible for him to relate to ‘little people,’ and his bigotry makes it impossible for him to see himself as others see him.
Giving him credibility such as the gamma argument, is offering far more than his contributions to this space earned.