tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post7380486782229104210..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: On Being Your Own Best EnemyGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-86553588469373872042015-08-24T10:41:20.042-07:002015-08-24T10:41:20.042-07:00;)
My husband once used "The Flounder Princi...;)<br /><br />My husband once used "The Flounder Principle" in a federal court. It didn't work - they didn't win their case - but did get some laughs from the judge.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-60538876769487076382015-08-24T10:34:43.806-07:002015-08-24T10:34:43.806-07:00It's not really misunderstanding, but preempti...<i>It's not really misunderstanding, but preemptive dis-understanding.</i><br /><br />In other words, if I bothered to understand you, I might have to agree with you, and that would make my feelz have a sad. <br /><br />At least with Bill, you kind of understood that he had a motive, even if it was just to get more chicks. Maybe it's the same with Hillary. Still, I get the impression she doesn't even know why she's an intellectually dishonest, moral retard. She has to prove she can F America harder than Bill or Obama. <br /><br /><i>Full Otter.</i> I laughed.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-17380872422507867492015-08-24T10:15:32.281-07:002015-08-24T10:15:32.281-07:00"One who is seeking the strongest possible ar...<i>"One who is seeking the strongest possible arguments against any idea of St. Thomas will rarely find any stronger ones, any more strongly argued, than those in St. Thomas himself." He "aimed only for light, not heat."</i><br /><br />And thus his luminosity. If we don't test ourselves, others - or simply reality in general - will do it for us. Sadly, there are plenty of people who are constantly tested by both others and reality, and yet manage to learn nothing from the experiences.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-80535494426684388942015-08-24T10:08:59.785-07:002015-08-24T10:08:59.785-07:00"When they attack women’s health, they attack...<i>"When they attack women’s health, they attack America’s health and it’s wrong and we’re not going to let them get away with it.”</i><br /><br />Wow - he went full Otter? You should never go full Otter.<br /><br />Tangentially, come to think of it, there are plenty of SJWs out there who are perfectly happy to apply Otter's argument - namely, indicting the entire fraternity system for the (imaginary) abuses of a few frat boys - right here and now, and if they end up taking down America in the process they'd probably be thrilled.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-37296792711311330512015-08-24T09:34:54.971-07:002015-08-24T09:34:54.971-07:00"Reducing another's thought to its suppos..."Reducing another's thought to its supposed motives prevents us from understanding it. --Don Colacho<br /><br />Which is why they do it. It's not really misunderstanding, but preemptive dis-understanding."<br /><br />Preemptive dis-understanding - Oh that's a keeper. Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-88252716479840520542015-08-24T09:32:20.795-07:002015-08-24T09:32:20.795-07:00"Thus, an intellectually honest person will a..."Thus, an intellectually honest person will always seek out the strongest possible objections to his own opinions -- not just to win the argument, but much more fundamentally, to be secure in one's own groundedness in truth. In a way, it is totally self-interested, since the last thing we want to do is found our lives on a Lie."<br /><br />SoOo True. And yet, I've found it to be one of the things people are least likely to believe, believe of you, or attempt to practice, or even to acknowledge as being the ideal. <br /><br />Scary. Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.com