What's on your mind?

[MehGuy]

Actually, it doesn't get too bad here in Southeast Michigan. We are too far east to get much of the lake effect snow bands. We just deal with the relentless clouds for a bit. Because the Great Lakes are warmer, they actually help moderate any cold mass that comes over the area, so we can be 10 degrees warmer than what you guys would get in Minnesota and Wisconsin. We do get the occasional storms though. I don't mind the snow at times or cold air, but the clouds really get to me. I get SAD disorder every year from it.

Interesting. I know little about weather.

I need to move somewhere south. Just sick of it all really. Especially the long commute I take to get to work. Highways are usually fine... but this morning they weren't. Scary driving 50+ miles in snow and ice between two large semi-trucks. My car starts slipping and I could easily die. This morning saw some cars that spun out. A few were like a couple hundred feet into a ditch.

 

[Saucy]

Interesting. I know little about weather.

I need to move somewhere south. Just sick of it all really. Especially the long commute I take to get to work. Highways are usually fine... but this morning they weren't. Scary driving 50+ miles in snow and ice between two large semi-trucks. My car starts slipping and I could easily die. This morning saw some cars that spun out. A few were like a couple hundred feet into a ditch.

I'm a bit of a weather nerd haha. That is scary. I would never drive in the winter between two semis.

 

[MehGuy]

I'm a bit of a weather nerd haha. That is scary. I would never drive in the winter between two semis.

I don't want too, it just happens. Usually, it's the big trucks that drive the fastest. I guess they can break more easily... but it's just nerve wracking.

 

[Saucy]

I don't want too, it just happens. Usually, it's the big trucks that drive the fastest. I guess they can break more easily... but it's just nerve wracking.

As a former truck driver, it's much worse. It takes big trucks longer to stop and it's easier for them to fishtail and lose control. They shouldn't be going faster, but too many drivers have deadlines and put money over the lives of others.

 

[MehGuy]

As a former truck driver, it's much worse. It takes big trucks longer to stop and it's easier for them to fishtail and lose control. They shouldn't be going faster, but too many drivers have deadlines and put money over the lives of others.

That makes me feel better.. lol.

 

[Niels]

Based on what I've read online, all men and women in my family are apparently sigmas. In fact, most of my friends also fit the sigma profile. As in "sigma male" and "sigma female". Although it's an arbitrary construct, one that some suggest doesn't even exist, the term communicates more about my reality than alpha or beta does.

When I meet somebody I like (probably a fellow sigma), the feeling is one of relief rather than one of fear. We get each other. It was that way for my parents, siblings, and extended family as far as I'm aware. Being on a similar wavelength, along with feeling basic chemistry, is more important to people like us than social hierarchy or hypergamy. Picking a quality partner who is personally relatable to share life with rather than insulting each others' intelligence or wasting each others' time.

Sigma may not be any more or less real than alpha or beta, but it's a potentially useful descriptor. I wonder how much of this is cultural or a matter of how we are raised vs. innate temperament.


Edit: For what it's worth, I think it's kind of silly to describe people in terms like this but it was on my mind.

 

[Saucy]

Uh oh. @linux.poet is a trainee moderator! Everyone hide all the booze under the sofa!

 

[Saucy]

It's been snowing for days on CF with no accumulation.

 

[mojoboy31]

It's been snowing for days on CF with no accumulation.

Yeah sorry, I've been melting it all, because I'm just so hotttt

 

[linux.poet]

Uh oh. @linux.poet is a trainee moderator! Everyone hide all the booze under the sofa!

What, no champagne? I thought you would be celebrating my rise to power, rather than hiding alcohol in cowardice.

 

[Saucy]

What, no champagne? I thought you would be celebrating my rise to power, rather than hiding alcohol in cowardice.

As the reigning King of CF, I see your rise in power as treasonous and a threat to my crown.

 

[GodDoesListen55]

So not looking forward to traveling in bad weather tomorrow.

 

[linux.poet]

As the reigning King of CF, I see your rise in power as treasonous and a threat to my crown.

Eh, take a good look at your chessboard again. The king is weak and has to be protected. The queen has all of the real power.

 

[Saucy]

Eh, take a good look at your chessboard again. The king is weak and has to be protected. The queen has all of the real power.

 

[Citanul]

What, no champagne? I thought you would be celebrating my rise to power, rather than hiding alcohol in cowardice.

Just remember that with great power there must also come great responsibility...

 

[bèlla]

I read about this a couple of years ago and here we are. Days like this I understand Joshua.

 

[bèlla]

Sigma may not be any more or less real than alpha or beta, but it's a potentially useful descriptor. I wonder how much of this is cultural or a matter of how we are raised vs. innate temperament.

Edit: For what it's worth, I think it's kind of silly to describe people in terms like this but it was on my mind.

Segmentation is polarizing and creates an us versus them society. By the time they’re done everyone will be with their respective groups and incapable of togetherness. Which is the goal. A kingdom divided cannot stand.

All the labels are psy ops in one form or another.

 

[Niels]

Segmentation is polarizing and creates an us versus them society. By the time they’re done everyone will be with their respective groups and incapable of togetherness. Which is the goal. A kingdom divided cannot stand.

All the labels are psy ops in one form or another.

It's harder for the powers of this dark world to gain a foothold when people freely collaborate of their own volition. Cooperation through thoughtfully combined individual strengths makes it more difficult for them to hold sway.

 

[linux.poet]

It’s easier to combine individual strengths when we know what they are. I think what the label-makers are trying to do is identify strengths to allow people to collaborate. These systems can be for or against Christ - they are meant to analyze people in terms of what goal they are trying to achieve to foster said collaboration.

For example, I have a collection of abilities that may be defined as the spiritual gift of mercy. That is how the Bible defines it, that is its function in the church. Other systems have defined it as “pragmatic creativity” or “design” because they are focused on making money.

I do think that there is some correlation between identity and labeling systems, and I do think that Christians’ abilities are best defined by understanding their role in the Church and their spiritual gifts, but that can take years to learn. Other labeling systems can give useful information for a part of the puzzle, but not the whole thing.

 

[DragonFox91]

I'm doing okay but I feel like I've run out of time.