And all of a sudden, now, I was thrust into the universe. almost belligerent in his willingness to sacrifice himself for his people and what he believes to be right, and also his willingness to sacrifice himself as a cost
across the both literal and cyber body. Or you can be bicost belligerent . You can be a bully. You can use a platform to intimidate to reinforce biases. Technology cannot eviscerate the traumas and the moral limitations with which people are either born or most
scriptures and I was interested in figuring out why that is in other words what circumstances gave rise to the belligerent scriptures as opposed to the tolerant scriptures and what might that tell us about how you
And so we were racing. So having established that Blob is belligerently slothful, then we know what might have to happen to him.
the changing moods of God in all of the Abrahamic scriptures the kind of moral tone varies quite a bit between belligerents and intolerance to take just the Hebrew Bible as one example one point you've got god assist insisting
but first I want to emphasize that it is the circumstances in my view that ultimately determine whether you see tolerance or belligerents emerging from a religion or any any any given group within a religion I don't believe that any any religions are inherently good or inherently bad so when people say is you
that underlies the basic this basic pattern in in in all of the scriptures I mean least a perception of zero something that's led to the belligerents the non zero some situations or the perception thereof tends to lead to tolerance now I'm going to run you through one example I could have chosen any of the three Abrahamic religions I'm going to going to run you through
Yeah. Well, so you guys know Bill, right? He's just cantankerous, belligerent , defiant, almost, in his pushing of the fans. So Rocky told me that Arthur made Bill look like a pussycat.
an off-the-record conversation. Can you agree to that?" Portia considered. "Sean Erinson had an academic rating of 2 and a non-ac, 3," smack in the middle of the pool. He wasn't a legacy which vastly decreased the likelihood of a belligerent phone call if he was rejected. She could probably terminate the application without consulting Clarence. "Well, let's do this. Let's have a conversation. And if we come into something I think my boss needs
think that their that one of them that for them to win the other group has to lose that tends to bring out the the intolerance and people are likely to focus on the the belligerent parts of their scripture there's one kind of exception to this which is uh if you're in a zero-sum situation but you are hopelessly outgunned you have no hope of
exception to this which is uh if you're in a zero-sum situation but you are hopelessly outgunned you have no hope of winning then you're probably not going to be very belligerent and you see that sometimes but it's not the same mindset as being in a nonzero-sum relationship
is not the final chapter in the history of monotheism in ancient Israel and it is it is I don't think monotheism is intrinsically belligerent and in fact what happens next is Israel finds itself in a situation where its relations with
In December 2006, then-Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki briskly rejected characterization of the conflict as a civil war and accused Kofi Annan among others of burnishing the image of Saddam Hussein as a viable belligerent . Various other commentators, indeed using the social scientific definitions of civil war, went back and forth about whether it really applied
any aggressor and canceling out his anticipated gain. That can quiet everyone down because not only are you deterred from aggression but you know that your neighbors are deterred from aggressing against you so you don't have to maintain a belligerent stance. You don't have to contemplate preemptive attack to do it to them before they do it to you. You don't have to have a hair trigger for retaliation to deter others. And it circumvents self-serving biases by which both sides always believe that their opponent's attacks are unprovoked
And so we were racing. And suddenly now it's about Bob is now a little bit slovenly-- almost belligerently slovenly.
And all of a sudden, now, I was thrust into the universe. her son, right? And just like this utter-- again, to use your word, almost like belligerent tenacity of just like, whatever it takes, a mother's undying love, right?
Remember, for those of you all that are unaware or never knew, his mother was dead. He's at a Kenny Chesney concert, and he's arguing with somebody, a little belligerent , and he says, "I'll jump over this fence,
And I told him, I can tell the story, or your story, or these people can tell your story, or you can. His grandfather was a tough SOB, but he wasn't like Bill, sort of just belligerent to be belligerent
Now, folks, what makes us different than your average run of the mill, stick up your ass Shakespeare company is that we have found that Shakespeare, his poetry was for everybody, not just the well-to-do academics watching from above, but also these inebriated groundlings, these belligerent folk who gave their day's wage to laugh at a well-penned dick joke.
That's an admirable trait. I watched some documentaries and read some books about Silicon Valley, but I think of it as a family where Erlich's kind of the belligerent dad, Jared's
edited their own sketches. Over the next three years, I ended up playing a gay vampire, a Scottish immigrant-owner of an Olive Garden, a Pakistani student living with belligerent Italian immigrants, a well-endowed Italian-American liquor store owner-- don't ask-- and a Ukrainian weight lifter, among many