Leadership

[Whiskey]

Yep, you missed the point. You are talking to yourself and for your own pleasure. I invite you to read what I said, not to spray out your monologue for your readership of two.

We all read what you wrote. Is that what you meant?

You said assertiveness was empty. There is no monologue. But if there is, who are the two? You and me?

[Kishkumen]

who are the two? You and me?

Yeah, you left out my explanation. So predictable. I would be surprised if more than the two of us were reading this tedious exchange.

[¥akaSteelhead]

Hard to note Trump's alpha maleness as I can't hear him over Putin's cock in Trump's mouth.

but, sure.

[Kishkumen]

Hard to note Trump's alpha maleness as I can't hear him over Putin's cock in Trump's mouth.

but, sure.

And here I thought Trump was in love with Kim Jong-un! Did those love letters mean nothing?

[Some Schmo]

Hard to note Trump's alpha maleness as I can't hear him over Putin's cock in Trump's mouth.

but, sure.

And here I thought Trump was in love with Kim Jong-un! Did those love letters mean nothing?

He wants to claim his love letter to Epstein meant nothing, but we know the truth.

[Kishkumen]

He wants to claim his love letter to Epstein meant nothing, but we know the truth.

Indeed, a couple of creeps winking at each other.

[Whiskey]

Hard to note Trump's alpha maleness as I can't hear him over Putin's cock in Trump's mouth.

but, sure.

That's your best shot? How would you rate your best shot here for credibility and creativity?

For future conversations, shall we just assume that this comment reveals your max intellect and the fandom you got from it is a pretty, pretty, pretty good representation of your audience? Seems reasonable, yes?

[canpakes]

An Alpha leader, contrary to popular belief, is …

… not Trump.

I don’t see that the thin-skinned Bone Spurs guy who ditched out of military service, is routinely manipulated with simple flattery, possibly felt up underaged girls and who keeps getting publicly humiliated by a shorter, balding ex-FSB Russian fellow, is an ‘alpha male’.

Besides, most folks won’t confuse making obsequious sycophants do things so that they can have some of your money with actual leadership or whatever you think an ‘alpha male’ is.
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[Doctor Steuss]

I apologize for my ignorance here, but I'm having difficulty processing this line:

“He [Aeschylus] once wrote: ‘Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.’”

I've never seen God's (or gods' as the Greek tragedians may require) grace expressed as being "awful." Has there been some linguistic transformation or translation funk with the word? This makes more sense from a "full of awe" etymology rather than the negative context of awful (at least to me).

[Chap]

I apologize for my ignorance here, but I'm having difficulty processing this line:

“He [Aeschylus] once wrote: ‘Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.’”

I've never seen God's (or gods' as the Greek tragedians may require) grace expressed as being "awful." Has there been some linguistic transformation or translation funk with the word? This makes more sense from a "full of awe" etymology rather than the negative context of awful (at least to me).

We need to look at the Greek word, not the English translation. Professor Kishkumen?