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Funny how I've been looking into Zumba, Yoga, Mixed Martial Arts and Crossfit classes at the new gym and I come here to see this discussion! I'm currently reading Total Recall by Arnold Schwarzenegger, I really recommend it. So far I'm just a few chapters in, reading one chapter a night, and I'm hooked. It starts with Arnold as a very young kid, you get to read how it was back in Austria after the war and how he was brought up. You get to read things like what got him into training, what kept him going, and social aspects like growing up, getting to know girls and all those things. I'm maybe 10% through and I'm liking the book so far. My mustache is also coming along, not looking completely horrible. I don't think it will become full grown in time for a typical paintbrush though.

I'm in on this Movember business. My face is as smooth as silk and I'm aiming for something akin to the paintbrush but some of my friends wants me to go for the mistletoe. Both may be hard to reach in 30 days, challenge accepted! Sadly I can't join the Nerd Fitness team because I registered on the Swedish domain, it won't allow me to join... I thought more than three others would be in on this, too scared to get out of your comfort zones?

I just saw this via Ido Portal, thought it would be inspiring to you female assassins. The stuff at the end is killer.

I'm uncertain if I should join Team Nerd Fitness or a local Swedish team.

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Raikas: I agree completely with what you say Raikas. We're essentially saying similar things but circle around each other. It's 'one' thing I'm trying to get at, that single itch I can't seem to scratch. My main point has been and always is that you can't have true neutral equality as long as you keep clinging onto things that's a thing of the past, or context-based social frameworks of the present like you said, and weight things differently because of that. It's this part, that you both are elaborating on, which I've tried to argument against. By making things grayscale and relative, you will always make what appears to be a good act to one person a bad act to another.If people are met equally with no regards to any traits whatsoever, or all traits are regarded the same, no matter what happened through history, stuff like this will start to go away. If a person is mistreated, it should not be looked at in relation to subcontexts or different scales of bad. It should be just bad. As long as people stick to the notion that identical acts should be treated differently, because of contexts in society, we will never reach the point where people are treated the same no matter their origin or traits. Yes, sometimes we have to look at the context to solve the problem, like why are men more prone to hit women, but you can't use it to judge and say that someone has it worse because of their lesser privilege. This we both seem to agree on, however, this is where I see privilege abused to no end and is why I think the word is bad. It is far too easy used as a tool of positive or negative judgement in social undertones. We may argue the true meaning of the word, it doesn't change how it's used though. Victoriaoke: Maybe the word is not as mistreated in the US as it's in Sweden. Turn on the TV, read the newspaper or just log on to Facebook and the word pops up in absurdum. I lost count on the amount of hipster memes with "how privileged are you?" in my updates lately telling me I'm too privileged for my own good and I have nothing to worry about in my life. It's more or less used as a political bat here, to score easy votes from people having a hard time and who rather put the blame on others for their problems than to look at their own shortcomings. The true meaning of the word may have a noble intent but is too easily misfired. I've read similar papers before and I guess it won't hurt reading this one either. (if I haven't already, I can't remember them all) Edit* I read the paper. While I do not disagree with the things written in there I think the paper is way too subjective to US and white people instead of seeing it objectively from a cultural and geological standpoint. Take that paper and go to China, or take it to South Africa or the Mediterranean, and that bulletpoint list will be more or less flipsided. In some parts of the world it's not skin color but religion, or lack thereof, which decides your level of privilege. My point is that you can't say that all people of a specific group, for example whites, has the same level of privilege no matter where they are on the planet. The same goes for any group of people, move a stereotypical individual around with a needle on the world map and ask the same questions this paper does and you'll get different answers.

How can you even quantify that it would hurt more for one person than another? This is why privilege is a horrible word, people start putting quantity to things based on artificial means to somehow justify that it's worse to insult one person than the other by the same means. Why would it hurt less for a white person to be bullied and penalized for his skin color than it is for a black person? Just because it's less common in the west doesn't mean it hurts less. Just by bringing up the quantity argument, you've circled around your own argument and said that it's 'less ok' to insult a less privileged person. On your second point you quote one thing I said, with a point I made, and is somehow oblivious to the point that stands right there? "that a particular man is beaten by a woman does not disprove the huge numbers of women who are beaten by men." That's exactly the problem I tried to bring up. Whenever someone mentions that a privileged person or group has been abused, the counter-argument is always that it's not a big deal as there are other less privileged group whom have had it worse through history and hence the abused person or group can be ignored. Nowhere did I try to disprove the numbers of women that are beaten by men, that's a strawman logical fallacy you fall back on to not respond to the actual argument. In society it's perfectly okay to put higher privileged group through slander because a lower privileged group have had it worse, the debate always fall back to that conclusion. I'm amazed that you even countered with the "women had it worse" counter-argument right away, even when it was just an example of the higher vs lower privileged dilemma.

You using the word privilege proves Zima's point. Privilege is an abused word to somehow justify that some groups are allowed to take more slander because they relate to a better social status, or the other way around that some groups should be cuddled with because they are less privileged. That's essentially what you're saying with: which in response to somehow justifies the black person but not the white person. I will take for granted that you meant the white person had higher privilege by default, people generally do. Either both or none of those options above should be okay from an equal standpoint, but that will never be because every time this debate is brought up someone always comes in and throws the word privilege on the table. Yes, I have a huge problem with the word privilege because it's one of the most biased and prejudicious words used today. It categorizes people just as bad as racism. Are you highly privileged? Then expect any slander coming you're way because, well, you're privileged and shouldn't whine about it because there are less privileged people than you. Are you not privileged at all? Aww, go ahead and abuse and slander any person coming your way if you're having a bad day. It's okay, you're not privileged after all and are allowed to be an asshole. People will only judge the person you attack anyway, we all know that the higher privileged person you're attacking is evil by default and whom is abusing his/her position to make use of you! Just think in terms of rich versus poor, 'the people' versus politicians, leaders versus followers and the topics of men versus women and white versus black. It's always ok to attack someone whom is highly privileged in society and that's why I hate the word privilege and it's logical fallacies, even when the attack from an objective standpoint is wrong. How many of you can even think about the possibility of a woman beating a man in the home or a white person being exposed to racism without bringing up the defense that "it's not as bad as men beating women" or "it's not as bad as what black people go through every day"? Essentially coming to the faulty conclusion that because a person is from a higher privileged standpoint, he or she can not be hurt or discriminated in any way or form and should be ignored.

Despite this being a marketing video for the latest GoPro camera I can't help but feel the awesomeness behind it. Go fullscreen, turn up the volume and be amazed!

I have decided to stop following challenges here on NerdFitness. Maybe I'll make a battle log instead.

Thanks for dropping by livingroovy, it's always appreciated to see a friendly face. I have been inactive on the forums lately, not being able to join the latest challenge has been a bummer and I've been focusing on other things. I'm currently doing some planning and structuring on several fronts.

Thanks man! -- Today I both learned some Excel code and also finished step 1 in DirectX programming, which is spawning the Win32 window. Not a huge step, have covered 45 pages of the book so far, but it's the necessary basics. Next step will be actual DirectX initialization and some triangle rendering.

Aw man, another calf intense exercise? I need to check with my physiotherapist if I can even think about this one.

Photoshop, fills and some layer effects.

I'm finally sitting down with DirectX, nothing to show yet. I have however made myself a new avatar!

5/5 done Did that arm/shoulder stretch where you grab your hands behind your back and some ball/foam rolling.

Calf raises (rehab) and fourth day of mobility work. Same routine as yesterday. Foam and ball rolling shins, feet, calves, thighs, hamstrings, buttocks, lats/armpit, neck, back Shoulder dislocates

4/5 done I did the same routine as yesterday, my imagination for this is pretty low at the moment. Foam and ball rolling shins, feet, calves, thighs, hamstrings, buttocks, lats/armpit, neck, back Shoulder dislocates

Isn't as bad as it sounds.

3/5 Mobility work Foam and ball rolling shins, feet, calves, thighs, hamstrings, buttocks, lats/armpit, neck, back Shoulder dislocates I also signed up for MyFitnessPal today to start counting calories and nutrients. I have no clue what my calorie count is at but I believe it's too much of the wrong stuff. I also linked Runkeeper and Fitocracy together so I might get back to logging those two when I get the chance.

3/5 done Foam and ball rolling shins, feet, calves, thighs, hamstrings, buttocks, lats/armpit, neck, back Shoulder dislocates

How do you capoeristas get such funky names?

Good music suggestion! Added to my spotify playlists.

^ Indeed! Another mobility workout for the guild frenzy. 10 min deep squat 5 minutes ball rolling feet 5 minutes ball rolling shins/calf I also did my rehab session for the Achilles today, no pain at all but I felt some stiff parts. I'm hopefully on the right track. Last but not least, my books arrived today! I can finally start messing around with DirectX, will be fun!

2/5 done 10 min deep squat 5 minutes ball rolling feet 5 minutes ball rolling shins/calf