epistemology

Post Originally From: March 15, 2008, 7:45 pm |

Ass is something we all like.

That is, the female ass. No matter who we are, pretty much, male or female, a girls ass is one of the most desirable aspects about her body.

Post Originally From: April 10, 2008, 6:00 pm |

Customer Service is the Alice In Wonderland of the economy.

You look down to see the ceiling, up to see the floor, right is left, left is right, left is sideways, and right is down.

It IS however a PERFECT example of where human communication goes WRONG, and goes wrong all the time.

Post Originally From: April 20, 2008, 11:01 pm |

I have been in a quandary over what selfishness means and as to its moral value. More than several years ago now, I converted into the thinking that there is no such thing as selflessness, since every act, is and must be an act for the self, since everything anyone does benefits themselves in some way.

Post Originally From:April 25, 2008, 3:28 pm |

The commonly regarded definition of an intellectual runs along the lines of not much beyond a vague notion of someone who thinks deeply about ideas and/or concentrates a certain amount of effort to learning an area of intellectual expertise.

Post Originally From:May 3, 2008, 12:31 am |

“Why do you always have to label everything, can’t you just let something just be as it is?”

“Not everything can be categorized, why are you always trying to categorize everything, not everything makes sense.”

I’m writing this post to clarify the error in the branch of the of politically correct culture which seems to be against ‘labels.’

Post Originally From: September 19, 2008, 1:58 am |

–Note: Keep in mind that this is the recollection of personally experienced things about friends and much of it is just that: personal.

Post Originally From: September 22, 2008, 7:25 pm |

This is a continuation of the original blog, go back to Part I to read the one previous:

I also know the pattern with this friend being drunk, and can think of no instance in a period of 13 years, where he has done anything reprehensible in the face of women.

Post Originally From: September 23, 2008, 2:04 pm |

This is a continuation of the original blog, go back to Parts I & II to understand anything whatsoever:

These excuses however much they ranged, had one thing in common: they tended to be things that could never quite be acknowledged or confirmed as blatant contradictions.

Post From: September 23, 2008, 3:03 pm |

It is no longer merely the vogue to ignore common sense, but now only sufficient to jettison the concept altogether.

I don’t know, there must be some other world that people are talking about when they make certain claims about things which fly in the face of the most commonly repeatable observations.

If someone said to you that it is virtually impossible to know the probability of how many car-to-pedestrian related deaths there are in a given city, you might be inclined to think that such a problem would be far too vast and complex to ever ‘solve.’

This might seem reasonable, since, after all, how could we ever corner such a huge number of variables to end up with one figure?

Time Magazine just presented the 10 top ideas that will likely dominate the world for the next 10 years, and made predictions of what would dominate society even up to the year 2050.

The views of the 10 writers of these 10 articles, seem to reflect a recurrent theme that is the carrier of the current vogue of conventionalism that so dominates mainstream opinion.

“They say a good thing never lasts and that it has to fall. Those are the people that did not amount to much at all.”

--Madonna

I am an individual with a great deal of experience with introspection in relation to emotions, which seems to have very repeatable results for me.

So here is the method of what I do when I confront emotions and want to know what significance they have.

In order to control, manage, or deal with emotions successfully, we must know what they mean.

You might ask: "What do you mean--what do emotions mean? Isn't that self-evident?"

Definition: The Two Types of Emotionalism

Emotionalism as an action, is the mental translation or interpretation of information by means and/or in terms of emotions as opposed to conscious reason or thought.

To break that down a little, there are two types of emotionalist thinking: interpreting, (1) in terms of, and (2) by means of--emotions.

Interpreting in terms of emotions consists of a rationalization: logic or reason that is based on emotions or for emotional reasons, where the logic is the subject, and emotion the real motivator.

What is listening?

What does it mean when someone actually listens to another person?

How often does this actually happen?

In order to answer the last two questions, obviously you have answer the first one, first.

So what is listening?
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“You know why I come here?

“Why?”

“Cause when people think your dying man, they really, really listen to you.”

“Instead—“

“—Instead of waiting for their turn to speak.”

--Flight Club