Forest

McClandia Doge 2 wrote:

Sorry I keep on forgetting to do riddle of da week. I keep getting wrapped up in school work. But here is this weeks riddle.
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?

My mind went immediately down the toilet.

I'm doing some digging through my university library resources looking for secondary sources, and I somehow managed to find a peer reviewed article about how mother nature is a man. I guess someone was under the impression that "mother nature" was something more than a common phrase, and was so against that premise that they wrote an entire properly-cited academic article about how that's incorrect. And then a whole panel of supposed experts on the subject read said article and decided it had a point. Then, it somehow found it's way into my university's database, and popped up while I was searching for articles on 15th century religious influence on fiction. Academia is weird.

4 hours ago: Areulder ceased to exist.

30 minutes earlier, one of my puppets found the last Areulder card that was found before the CTEing.

Canaltia wrote:

Click to show...

I'm doing some digging through my university library resources looking for secondary sources, and I somehow managed to find a peer reviewed article about how mother nature is a man. I guess someone was under the impression that "mother nature" was something more than a common phrase, and was so against that premise that they wrote an entire properly-cited academic article about how that's incorrect. And then a whole panel of supposed experts on the subject read said article and decided it had a point. Then, it somehow found it's way into my university's database, and popped up while I was searching for articles on 15th century religious influence on fiction. Academia is weird.

While there are numerous valid criticisms and analyses that can be performed under the auspices of gender theory, it does also sometimes seem to be a field that draws some... eccentric perspectives, shall we say.

When I was in grad school, we read a number of articles for a particular class related to the influence of identity and gender in our field. Most were quite solid, but one author in particular launched into a multi-page rant about how something represented the male ego in cogito ego sum, and how that ego was the source of all the problems we faced.

For those who don't know, the correct word is ergo - it's cogito ergo sum. The whole class rolled their eyes at that one.

The Ascendant Hive is ranked 242nd in the world and 1st in Forest for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 50,487.6 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.