walkswithblackflies
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Oct 2, 2017 4:44:49 GMT -8
I think maybe the "Them" for a lot is the increasing complex world that they so little control. They become desperate for an us that makes order in their world and promises power of the group. They are willing to sacrifice much ideologically for that comfort. Sitting in my treestand yesterday, contemplating the world, I thought the exact same thing. |
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Post by autumnmist on Oct 2, 2017 5:38:05 GMT -8
Actually, I thought C-3PO and R2-D2 were pretty smart. We need more drones like them. |
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walkswithblackflies
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Oct 2, 2017 5:47:34 GMT -8
Now my father has been infected. Part of a conversation on Saturday:
My Dad: "Can you believe this NFL stuff? I'm done them. I'm boycotting and won't watch another game this year!"
Me: You haven't watched the NFL in years.
<silence>
SMH
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Post by atvtuner on Oct 2, 2017 7:58:14 GMT -8
Actually, I thought C-3PO and R2-D2 were pretty smart. We need more drones like them. "Drones droids are not." ---Master Yoda |
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davesenesac
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Post by davesenesac on Oct 2, 2017 9:04:12 GMT -8
A subject I could write a several pages about but herein will just toss out a few choice snippets from Wikipedia for members to ponder on:
Stupidity is a lack of intelligence, understanding, reason, wit or sense. Stupidity may be innate, assumed or reactive...
The modern English word "stupid" has a broad range of application, from being slow of mind (indicating a lack of intelligence, care or reason), dullness of feeling or sensation (torpidity, senseless, insensitivity), or lacking interest or point (vexing, exasperating). It can either imply a congenital lack of capacity for reasoning, or a temporary state of daze, or slow-mindedness...
Carlo Maria Cipolla... He viewed stupid people as a group, more powerful by far than major organizations such as the Mafia and the industrial complex, which without regulations, leaders or manifesto nonetheless manages to operate to great effect and with incredible coordination.
These are Cipolla's five fundamental laws of stupidity:
1 Always and inevitably each of us underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
2 The probability that a given person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic possessed by that person.
3 A person is stupid if they cause damage to another person or group of people without experiencing personal gain, or even worse causing damage to themselves in the process.
4 Non-stupid people always underestimate the harmful potential of stupid people; they constantly forget that at any time anywhere, and in any circumstance, dealing with or associating themselves with stupid individuals invariably constitutes a costly error.
5 A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person there is...
Otto Fenichel... Every intellect begins to show weakness when affective motives are working against it". He suggests that "people become stupid ad hoc, that is, when they do not want to understand, where understanding would cause anxiety or guilt feeling, or would endanger an existing neurotic equilibrium.
Doris Lessing argued that "there is no fool like an intellectual ... a kind of clever stupidity, bred out of a line of logic in the head, nothing to do with experience"...
Gullibility is a failure of social intelligence in which a person is easily tricked or manipulated into an ill-advised course of action. It is closely related to credulity, which is the tendency to believe unlikely propositions that are unsupported by evidence.
Greenspan writes that exploiters of the gullible "are people who understand the reluctance of others to appear untrusting and are willing to take advantage of that reluctance." Julian Rotter wrote that the two are not equivalent: rather, gullibility is a foolish application of trust despite warning signs that another is untrustworthy...
Wisdom is the ability to think and act using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense, and insight. There appears to be consensus that wisdom is associated with attributes such as compassion, experiential self-knowledge, non-attachment and virtues such as ethics and benevolence...
The Oxford English Dictionary defines wisdom as "Capacity of judging rightly in matters relating to life and conduct; soundness of judgement in the choice of means and ends; sometimes, less strictly, sound sense, esp. in practical affairs: opp. to folly;" also "Knowledge (esp. of a high or abstruse kind); enlightenment, learning, erudition." Charles Haddon Spurgeon defined wisdom as "the right use of knowledge". Robert I. Sutton and Andrew Hargadon defined the "attitude of wisdom" as "acting with knowledge while doubting what one knows".
David
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Post by autumnmist on Oct 2, 2017 15:57:28 GMT -8
"Drones droids are not." ---Master Yoda Oops! Mea culpa. Been a long time since I watched a Star Wars movie. |
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Post by atvtuner on Oct 2, 2017 16:13:32 GMT -8
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tomas
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Post by tomas on Oct 3, 2017 16:50:11 GMT -8
Sitting in my treestand yesterday, contemplating the world Isn't it amazing of the weird stuff that you think about while in a treestand? |
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Post by BigLoad on Oct 3, 2017 19:15:10 GMT -8
Sitting in my treestand yesterday, contemplating the world Isn't it amazing of the weird stuff that you think about while in a treestand? Just don't start wondering if your depth perception is really OK and whether your balance is a good as it should be. |
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