( I wear a baseball cap a lot because it cuts down on my visual field, and therefore visual noise, and makes my aspie brain happier. And yes, I am aware, thanks to Jim Beebe, that it reduces my IQ by twenty points. )
Source date (UTC): 2016-12-17 19:57:00 UTC
There is a difference between being skilled at confrontation, and disliking it. I dislike it intensely which is why I am good at it.
Source date (UTC): 2016-12-17 19:15:00 UTC
(humor of the day)
—“My food shits on your food”— Joseph Creamer
(to vegetarians)
Source date (UTC): 2016-12-17 18:51:00 UTC
Curt Doolittle shared a photo.
Source date (UTC): 2016-12-17 18:43:00 UTC
—“Fear of confrontation is also an important factor in innovations. Confrontations are risky, doing what every else is doing, but a little better might be a more successful individual reproduction strategy, at the expense of the groups development.
Innovation requires confronting uncomfortable truths and risking social ostracism or even violence. Cultures that tolerate the optimum levels of confrontation and are good at rationally resolving confrontations have more innovation. We can’t be good at resolving confrontations unless we value truth over harmony and stability.
It might also be why women, who generally are not good at confrontations, are responsible for far fewer innovations than men.”— @Noah J Revoy
Source date (UTC): 2016-12-17 18:13:00 UTC
Most people who tell me that they have some great political strategy have neither.
There is no cunning in politics. It’s just war by lower cost means.
Source date (UTC): 2016-12-17 13:49:00 UTC
Westerners are unique in our deconflation of subjects – separation of the scientific/factual, legal/testimonial, moral/philosophical, festival, literary/emotional, religious/spiritual into separate disciplines most of which possess their own disciplinary languages.
The most likely reason for the chinese failure to advance as rapidly as the west despite their much longer history and opportunity, is (a) harmony over resolution (b) lying in every possible context to prevent disruption of harmony (c) shift from empirical to ‘moral’ (rational) government.
I’ve worked pretty hard and I think successfully at this curious western phenomenon we call ‘truth’, and I think I’ve successfully translated all the disciplines into a single scientific language.
But I can’t even imagine any other civilization getting close to this state. Their concepts and languages and cultures are such a significant barrier that even among europeans the anglos are the only people to preserve deconflation.
Source date (UTC): 2016-12-17 13:47:00 UTC
I can see us turning into The Inquisition.
Source date (UTC): 2016-12-16 21:42:00 UTC
love your postings….. some fun here, maybe…. enjoy!
feel free to quote or use any way y’like, Cheers! nonistJohn
Source date (UTC): 2016-12-16 16:20:00 UTC
TRUTH PROPOSITION
If you cannot eliminate the verb to-be from a statement or question you are not engaging in philosophy but deception – a victorian parlor game for the educated but unintelligent.
If you cannot make a moral argument using the costs to each party that are involved, you are not engaging in philosophy but deception – an ancient means of political fraud.
If you cannot state the meaning you wish to attribute to a term in the context of problem solving, and instead seek to discover its normative ‘meaning’ you are simply seeking confirmation bias – self and other deception.
If you cannot define truth as you intend it yet make a truth claim you are engaged in self and other deception.
Source date (UTC): 2016-12-16 13:03:00 UTC