Lumifer comments on Rationality Quotes December 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: 27chaos 01 December 2014 08:30:07PM 54 points [-]

If the real radical finds that having long hair sets up psychological barriers to communication and organization, he cuts his hair.

Saul Alinsky, in his Rules for Radicals.

This one hit home for me. Got a haircut yesterday. :P

Comment author: Lumifer 01 December 2014 08:36:25PM 10 points [-]

And you end up like this.

Comment author: faul_sname 04 December 2014 09:28:37AM 14 points [-]

Seems to have worked for them.

Comment author: Lumifer 04 December 2014 03:36:33PM 0 points [-]

For whom? For the Mormon Church or for the specific individuals? :-/

Comment author: Wes_W 04 December 2014 07:18:43PM 3 points [-]

As far as achieving "communication and organization", probably both?

Comment author: faul_sname 04 December 2014 07:10:50PM *  -1 points [-]

I̶t̶ ̶a̶p̶p̶e̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶m̶o̶s̶t̶l̶y̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶c̶h̶u̶r̶c̶h̶,̶ ̶a̶p̶p̶a̶r̶e̶n̶t̶l̶y̶.̶ ̶W̶o̶w̶.̶

Edit -- missionary.lds.org is latter day saints. One of their quotes was by a Jehovah's Witness, so I thought this was a guide for Jehovah's Witnesses. If the question is "Does it work for the specific individuals in the Mormon Church?" the answer is yes.

Comment author: Nornagest 04 December 2014 07:25:15PM *  3 points [-]

Jehovah's Witnesses != Mormons, even though both are known for door-to-door solicitation. Reliable statistics are thin on the ground, but the Mormons seem to be doing a little better than average in terms of personal socioeconomic status. (BYU is not, however, an unbiased source.)

Comment author: faul_sname 04 December 2014 11:37:47PM 1 point [-]

You are correct. I'm not sure where I got the idea that LDS was Jehovah's Witnesses.

Comment author: Lumifer 04 December 2014 08:32:50PM 0 points [-]

I don't think it's money we're talking about here.

Comment author: Nornagest 04 December 2014 08:53:27PM 0 points [-]

Money is what the link I was replying to was talking about.

Comment author: Nornagest 08 December 2014 05:31:29PM 1 point [-]

How'd you manage to strikethrough part of your post? I thought the markup for that had been disabled.

Comment author: faul_sname 08 December 2014 06:56:22PM 3 points [-]
"hello, world".replace(/(.)/g, '\u0336$1') == "h̶e̶l̶l̶o̶,̶ ̶w̶o̶r̶l̶d̶"