Quote of the day...the sequel
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So I rang up my local swimming baths. I said 'Is that the local swimming baths?' He said 'It depends where you're calling from.'
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Rupert SheldrakeIn practice, the goal of skepticism is not the discovery of truth, but the exposure of other people's errors. It plays a useful role in science, religion, scholarship, and common sense. But we need to remember that it is a weapon serving belief or self-interest; we need to be skeptical of skeptics. The more militant the skeptic, the stronger the belief.
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Okay, but to paraphrase John Lennon...Walker wrote: ↑Sat Oct 29, 2022 10:30 amQuestion: How is Rhino like a quotation?iambiguous wrote: ↑Tue Oct 18, 2022 5:21 pm Since some have been complaining that I have "fouled" the other "Quote of the day" thread ...
Answer: You can hide a Rhino in plain sight by putting it in a herd of Rhinos, and you can hide a good Quote by hiding it in a herd of Quotes, however, a Quote is a much stranger animal than a Rhino, but you have to give it to Rhinos. Even though we know that Rhinos do conjugate, do they even congregate?
"Keep you doped with religion and sports on TV
And you think you're so clever and classless and free
But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see"
Let's call it, say, The Super Bowl Syndrome. Where the commercials themselves are actually worshipped and adored!!
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That Syndrome goes right back to the caves because the essence of what's going on there, with the sports mania, is pitting skill against skill. Men have always done that with one another. Women do it too, in their own way since they can't possibly compete with men in sports, can they.iambiguous wrote: ↑Sat Oct 29, 2022 6:22 pm
Let's call it, say, The Super Bowl Syndrome. Where the commercials themselves are actually worshipped and adored!!
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Commentary:Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Sat Oct 29, 2022 3:58 pmRupert SheldrakeIn practice, the goal of skepticism is not the discovery of truth, but the exposure of other people's errors. It plays a useful role in science, religion, scholarship, and common sense. But we need to remember that it is a weapon serving belief or self-interest; we need to be skeptical of skeptics. The more militant the skeptic, the stronger the belief.
Rupert ... Rupert. What EXACTLY do you mean? Do you mean militancy expressed with the sword, or with the word? Certainly not with the unexpressed thought. I only ask because your preference just may reveal the one you think is most effective.
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Commentary:
"That there looks like Halloween talk, Clem," he said like a TV cowboy.
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Interesting. We recently traveled to a seaside resort for an event welcoming a new extension to our ever-expanding family. In the late afternoon after the official event some folks had lounged in the hot sun by the main pool complex. When the sun went down all the generations packed in close around the in-ground hot tubs and some still swimming, but this was after they and others had gathered at the connected multi-plex of sports monitors situated over the giant Tiki Bar, all talking their talks at varying volumes including silence because of so many, while down at the hot tubs and pools later so many, so many but not nearly all of the family engrossed in one another within their family relationships, old and budding ... I saw this while fetching things now and then* when anyone said yes, and I looked and realized, out of so many, I was third in line and so close to the oldest one there out of dozens, and so connected to the guests of honor who to me still look children but not as connected as my children, all of whom are wise in their specialities.
* with so many directly connected, one can never rest, you know.
And to this, skeptic that you are, you may ask what is the relevance? The relevance is: philosophy is to always, choicelessly practice, which brings to mind a joke.
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I think he means it mainly, but not only in the more metaphorical sense.Walker wrote: ↑Sun Oct 30, 2022 11:17 amCommentary:Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Sat Oct 29, 2022 3:58 pmRupert SheldrakeIn practice, the goal of skepticism is not the discovery of truth, but the exposure of other people's errors. It plays a useful role in science, religion, scholarship, and common sense. But we need to remember that it is a weapon serving belief or self-interest; we need to be skeptical of skeptics. The more militant the skeptic, the stronger the belief.
Rupert ... Rupert. What EXACTLY do you mean? Do you mean militancy expressed with the sword, or with the word? Certainly not with the unexpressed thought. I only ask because your preference just may reveal the one you think is most effective.
So, not necessarily with weapons.adjective
aggressively active or combative in support of a cause:
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Mainly, purposefully, maybe even so fervently he might have a stroke ... but effectively?Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Sun Oct 30, 2022 11:47 amI think he means it mainly, but not only in the more metaphorical sense.So, not necessarily with weapons.adjective
aggressively active or combative in support of a cause:
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THis bring nothing to mind because it is garbled nonsense.Walker wrote: ↑Sun Oct 30, 2022 11:45 amCommentary:
Interesting. We recently traveled to a seaside resort for an event welcoming a new extension to our ever-expanding family. In the late afternoon after the official event some folks had lounged in the hot sun by the main pool complex. When the sun went down all the generations packed in close around the in-ground hot tubs and some still swimming, but this was after they and others had gathered at the connected multi-plex of sports monitors situated over the giant Tiki Bar, all talking their talks at varying volumes including silence because of so many, while down at the hot tubs and pools later so many, so many but not nearly all of the family engrossed in one another within their family relationships, old and budding ... I saw this while fetching things now and then* when anyone said yes, and I looked and realized, out of so many, I was third in line and so close to the oldest one there out of dozens, and so connected to the guests of honor who to me still look children but not as connected as my children, all of whom are wise in their specialities.
* with so many directly connected, one can never rest, you know.
And to this, skeptic that you are, you may ask what is the relevance? The relevance is: philosophy is to always, choicelessly practice, which brings to mind a joke.
Are you on drugs?
If you do not believe me...
Come back to it a week hence, to re-read. Or get someone, like an English teacher, to run over it with you.
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I predict that in one week, you will understand what it says, and if you're a man you'll admit it when you do.
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Denisse Lisseth“Like arsenic, toxic people will slowly kill you. They kill your positive spirit and play with your mind and emotions. The only cure is to let them go.” –
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“Ladies and gentlemen may I present, for your intellectual and philosophical pleasure … The Creature!”Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Sun Oct 30, 2022 12:01 pmDenisse Lisseth“Like arsenic, toxic people will slowly kill you. They kill your positive spirit and play with your mind and emotions. The only cure is to let them go.” –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkTCRWihPNo
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Man up, and in a week you will understand, confess to understanding, and be a man.