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There are obviously two educations.
One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
* James Truslow Adams

Bi-polar Chair

In a more complete version of that quote, Adams says: “There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these should never be confused in the mind of any man who has the slightest inkling of what culture is. For most of us it is essential that we should make a living…In the complications of modern life and with our increased accumulation of knowledge, it doubtless helps greatly to compress some years of experience into far fewer years by studying for a particular trace or profession in an institution; but that fact should not blind us to another–namely, that in so doing we are learning a trade or a profession, but are not getting a liberal education as human beings.”

And John Steinbeck claimed that, “Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.”

Stuff that in your pipe and smoke it.

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Originally posted 2009-08-06 19:51:52. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Guten Abend Welt!
Good Evening World!
Über Musik zu reden ist wie über Architektur zu tanzen.“
–Frank Zappa

Alfred F. Simkovics lädt sie zu einer musikalischen…

Congratulations to Alfred on his 5th radio music show. His voice is delightfully smooth and substantially sexy and is recorded live from Austria! Be sure to tune in every Thursday at 11am Pacific Standard Time.  Personally speaking, I couldn’t ask for a better friend.

“Everyone had some defect, of body or of mind: he thought of all the people he had known (the whole world was like a sick house and there was no rhyme or reason in it), he saw a long procession, deformed in body, warped in mind, some with illness of the flesh, weak hearts or weak lungs, and some with illness of the spirit, languor of will, or craving for liquor. At that moment he felt a holy compassion for them all. …The words of the dying God crossed his memory: Forgive them, for they know not what they do.” * W. Somerset Maugham

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However, it is all over with but the shoutin’ as we’ll soon see. The mitigated results will unfold quickly unlike any other ever witnessed before; moreover, add a few final touches here and there and voila! It’s dead in the water.

Defamation is no joke!

“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”
*Dr. Albert Ellis

Google, search engine of choice for pretty much everyone, has announced that it will begin a separate index for blogs and remove them from the normal index, handling them instead in much the same way as their usenet archives. This will hopefully put an end to the recent difficulties locating primary source material among the mountains of blogs which are clogging the ratings system.”

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Originally posted 2006-09-26 07:30:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.”

Thanks, Pip!

Update: I still wonder if anything has changed since the time it was initially posted over 3 yrs ago? [Nahhh, 'nuff said.]

Originally posted 2006-06-14 23:28:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Men and women who abuse their partners and families are often difficult to diagnose. Dr. Liane Leedom presents four questions and the answers to help you identify when you are, in fact, involved with an abuser.

Also, keep in mind that, you can take a man to the train station but you can’t make him board the train.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
*Thomas Mann

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Bullies have low Emotional Intelligence (EQ) as they cannot empathize and relate to others’ point of view. But they often do have high Social Intelligence which is not the same as EQ and relates to the ability to read other people and consequently manipulate them.

Empathizing is viewed as the “lens through which we perceive and process emotions” (Chakrabarti & Baron-Cohen, 2006). Most people feel empathy, enabling them to feel the same emotions as that being expressed by another (Kessler & Gazzola, 2006). One popular explanation for this is that the same neural systems are activated in the empathizer as are activated in the person experiencing the emotion first hand (Abbott, 2007). For example, someone watching a film depicting a distressed father holding the hand of his dying child would activate the same neural circuitry, cognitive and emotional,  in the observer as the father and thus the observer can empathize with the father. Empathy is both a cognitive and an emotional process. (Keysers & Gazzola, 2006). People with low empathy, for example psychopaths, can calculate what another person is thinking or feeling, but they do not have the affective reaction to the other person’s emotion (Chakrabarti & Baron-Cohen, 2006). One of the key determinants of psychopathy is this strong lack of empathy (Keysers & Gazzola, 2006) raising the question are the brains of psychopaths wired differently to normal healthy individuals. Neuro Imaging techniques have been used in a variety of studies to try to answer such questions.

“Is this because they fail to simulate (mirror) the emotions of others or do they detach the emotional component when the mirroring process happens?” (Keysers & Gazzola, 2006).

Research is remains yet the evidence to date strongly suggests emotional detachment.

While experiences can never be right or wrong, opinions arising from incorrectly interpreted experiences can be. When dealing with fiction, in which opinions and interpretation come from the experience of reading, this “fine point” is more than splitting hairs. Without encroaching too much on Peg Robinson’s, “Mannerly Art of Critique,” being able to recognize that interpretation of fiction is opinion, not fact, is as essential to productive feedback as to productive debate.

Refrain absolutely from ad hominem attack. What is ad hominem attack? To criticize or belittle the one who holds a certain position rather than the position itself. Example: “How stupid can you be?” or “That just goes to show you don’t know anything.” Attacking your opponent rather than your opponent’s ideas merely indicates a weakness in your position. It wins no brownie points by observers, whatsoever. Follow the rules of engagement when in an encounter(s) previously mentioned.

If a man or woman has no sense of logic to reject the existence of god then no one with logic will ever change his belief especially with these kind of arguments. The great thing about being on the other side of said arguments is the ability to fall back on the old phrase, “The lord works in mysterious ways”.  And guess what? Logic will never beat that. Logic and faith are not friends nor will they ever will be friends. The bottom line?

Piss up a rope; it is more productive.

However, the Secular Student Alliance, as part of its 2009 conference, is sponsoring PZ Myers of the ever popular science blog titled, Pharyngula, to take a one-day, in-person tour of the museum. SSA has also asked Ken Ham, the mastermind behind the museum, to give PZ a tour of the place.  Below is what PZ has to say about the affair:

“On Friday, 7 August, a small group of godless people, including yours truly, will be at the “museum” when it opens at 10am on Friday, 7 August. Everyone is welcome to join in—we’ll pack the joint with quietly chortling science-minded people. When I get back from Lindau, I’ll also write to Ken Ham and request the pleasure of an audience, inviting him to come on out and evangelize to secular students.”

The 2009 SSA conference will be held August 7 – 9, 2009, at the Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. If you know that you will be in the area on those days, contact the Secular Students Association and let them know. They have been given special rates for all who attend, including non-students.

The conference will be extremely  interesting; however, I’ll pass on the tour.

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