tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post5823465346695423266..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Grow with the Flow vs. Upplication of the WillGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-36366331632893742512012-07-12T18:51:59.194-07:002012-07-12T18:51:59.194-07:00Pseudo-science strikes again.
Using a new person...<a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-07/uom-act071212.php" rel="nofollow">Pseudo-science strikes again.</a><br /><br /><i><br />Using a new personality scale, researchers determine how people with certain personality types use social media websites. Heather Shoenberger, a doctoral student in the MU School of Journalism, found that those individuals who liked high-risk activity tended to update their status, upload photos and interact with friends frequently. Simultaneously, those individuals who were more reserved tended to merely scroll through Facebook's "news feed", and did not upload photos or actively engage with their friends frequently.<br /><br />"The scale that we used is called the Mini-Motivation Activation Measure, or Mini-MAM, scale," Shoenberger said. "Using this scale, we were able to find a trend in the patterns of how people with certain personality types use social media. I believe this could really help advertisers and certain types of media groups target potential customers with particular ads on social media sites. For example, if a company wants to target a population for a high-risk activity, they should try to determine who is active on Facebook posting pictures and updating their status frequently."</i><br /><br />This is not the most embarrassed I've ever been to be an alum. That would be the nationally televised "Harpo's Incident" during the Mizzou-'Bama game in '75. But it is in definitely top five.<br /><br />A PhD in Journalism has to be right up there with a PhD in Education. <br /><br />The Mini-MAMmary.<br /><br />Why not just market to the pathetic, needy people and save yourself some time?mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-72952113399189176512012-07-12T11:33:04.857-07:002012-07-12T11:33:04.857-07:00Julie said "Come to think of it, "dehuma...Julie said "Come to think of it, "dehumanizing" pretty much describes the nature of virtually every liberal policy I can think of, as well."<br /><br />Yep, that's about what I was thinking.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-30098918487843736222012-07-12T11:22:10.216-07:002012-07-12T11:22:10.216-07:00... And only material of raw stimulation or politi...... And only material of raw stimulation or political power can make the reading list. Homer? Simpson, maybe... everything else is just 50 shades of gray.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-63014238289068476282012-07-12T11:17:57.566-07:002012-07-12T11:17:57.566-07:00"... the absence of a proper Popperdigm is an..."... the absence of a proper Popperdigm is an invitation to deconstruction, since there is no stable "construction" to begin with. The less coherent the paradigm, the more leftists are able to take over the discipline with "feelings" instead of proper thought. Hence their successful transformation of the humanities into the subhumanities...“<br /><br />Yep. Which is exactly how we've wound up with the sub humanities being the outer of our educational system. Unless you ' activate truth' in your life, if that is not the center, how can anything else be of value or interest?<br /><br />If it doesn't gain you some tangible gain, or some raw stimulation... then it is and can be of no value to that particular sub humanity.<br /><br />Ugh.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-8490020776648587112012-07-12T10:47:34.367-07:002012-07-12T10:47:34.367-07:00Come to think of it, "dehumanizing" pret...Come to think of it, "dehumanizing" pretty much describes the nature of virtually every liberal policy I can think of, as well. I'm sure that's in no small part due to the fact that they start by refusing to see the humanity of the other. All in the name of empathy, of course.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41586092453237334322012-07-12T10:41:35.698-07:002012-07-12T10:41:35.698-07:00Magister - thanks for the Zombie link. I didn'...Magister - thanks for the Zombie link. I didn't have a chance to read it yesterday.<br /><br />One thing that stands out to me re. <i>The Little Blue Book</i> is the assertion that Democrats are by nature more empathetic... followed by instructions to literally not hear nor acknowledge arguments made by one's ideological opponents, which is one of the least empathetic means of interacting with another human that I can think of. In fact, it is literally de-humanizing.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-56821296868235040162012-07-12T08:52:05.988-07:002012-07-12T08:52:05.988-07:00Anna - I was wondering how things were going, but ...Anna - I was wondering how things were going, but didn't want to pry. Sounds - and looks - like slow is good :)juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-80148989110745058152012-07-12T07:25:12.244-07:002012-07-12T07:25:12.244-07:00Speaking of which, there is more eternal psycholog...Speaking of which, there is more eternal psychological wisdom packed into Genesis than there is in the totality of leftist subhumanitarian drivel.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-30823410355751619442012-07-12T07:20:00.430-07:002012-07-12T07:20:00.430-07:00Ben: Like everything else, psychology has simulta...Ben: Like everything else, psychology has simultaneously advanced and regressed. It has advanced where science has a free hand to explore and innovate, but has regressed where leftists control the agenda of what it is permissible to perceive and discuss. Various interest groups -- e.g., homosexual, feminist, African American -- produce loads of bad scholarship while forbidding the good. Curiously, creationists have had nothing to do with wrecking science.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-15907301168956020222012-07-12T06:42:23.970-07:002012-07-12T06:42:23.970-07:00Zombie's review of Chairman Lakoff's littl...Zombie's review of Chairman Lakoff's little book is solid stuff:<br /><br />http://pjmedia.com/zombie/2012/07/09/the-little-blue-book-quotations-from-chairman-lakoff/?singlepage=true<br /><br />In the comments, there's some good occasional verse by "Winslow." Excerpt:<br /><br />I’ll be obscenely generous <br />With subsidy and stimulus; <br />To fund my drunken spending sprees, <br />The fat cats’ profits I will seize! <br />For those who fail, my heart will bleed, <br />But woe to those who dare succeed. <br />I vow to vanquish human greed – <br />To each according to his need!Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-70186151260198749192012-07-12T01:43:57.762-07:002012-07-12T01:43:57.762-07:00From Bob's Taranto link:
""Don'...From Bob's Taranto link:<br /><br />""Don't repeat conservative language or ideas, even when arguing against them."<br /><br />That bit of advice, No. 1 on a list titled "The 10 Most Important Things Democrats Should Know," comes from the promotional material for "The Little Blue Book: The Essential Guide to Thinking and Talking Democratic" by George Lakoff and Elisabeth Wehling."<br /><br />Yet more proof that democrats must be told what think and say to remain willfully ignorant.<br /><br />No mention of metaphysic truth's like our Constitution.<br /><br />Just an instruction guide that essentially says: "insert your left index finger in your left ear. Insert your remaining index finger (on your other left hand) in your other ear and say "la la la la la" as long and as loud as you need to, in order to drown out whatever conservatives say."<br /><br />They go out of their way not to repeat anything that might bring reality within sight.<br /><br />That way they don't hafta think about it, which is literally terrifying to them. <br />Illusion appears to be safer and more comfortable to them, although it is definitely not.<br /><br />Besides, rethuglicans are evil, ergo, anything they say must also be evil.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3734485786940253822012-07-11T23:39:36.841-07:002012-07-11T23:39:36.841-07:00Anonymous said...
"I'm afraid most athei...Anonymous said... <br />"I'm afraid most atheists "get" religion perfectly well."<br /><br />Your brilliance is like a candle in the wind.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-4004462331635347432012-07-11T23:26:57.260-07:002012-07-11T23:26:57.260-07:00Of course, irt my question above, the advances in ...Of course, irt my question above, the advances in psychology made so far would'nt be erased for those who have ayes to sea.<br /><br />However, actual breakthroughs have slowed down to a crawl from the looks of it, just like breakthroughs healthcare will slow to a crawl or stop if Obamascare ain't repealed.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1199757407868260682012-07-11T23:22:13.745-07:002012-07-11T23:22:13.745-07:00This is where the Raccoon project comes in, as we ...This is where the Raccoon project comes in, as we can mischievously scamper across disciplines under cover of darkness (our "gnocturnal O-mission"), unlike the tenured, who work only by day, and who have no nightvision giggles with which to get the pundamentals right."<br /><br />Aye, they're only concerned with sinbology. Seen with frightvision boggles. Such as Obamascare.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-50028613184320255062012-07-11T23:15:26.253-07:002012-07-11T23:15:26.253-07:00Back when I was in graduate school in the 1980s, o...Back when I was in graduate school in the 1980s, one of the first things I gnosissed about psychology was that, unlike, say, biology or physics, there is no organizing paradigm to make sense of it all. And to say that there is no organizing paradigm amounts to the same thing as saying that the science is in a primitive state."<br /><br />Hi Bob- would you say that psychology is regressing to a more primitive state today, because most psychologists are leftists?USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-6487817825303231322012-07-11T23:10:40.911-07:002012-07-11T23:10:40.911-07:00Thanks, Julie! The ring is actually on my left ha...Thanks, Julie! The ring is actually on my left hand (the picture is backwards). It is an Irish friendship ring with the heart facing inward... We'll see what happens... a slow-paced brew.<br /><br />Re Voegelin - The little book I came upon (which was also discussed here a bit ago... which posts, I still hope to read) is tops! Take Ezra Levant and the commissioner and replace the scene with a contemporary philosophy professor and Voegelin. "Actually, no. It's not as you say. You just did violence to a section of reality (omitting it) to achieve that position." Those Ezra Levant videos of the Danish cartoon interrogation remain a permanent favorite for me.Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16900344453710081874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-23272382673172458592012-07-11T16:35:59.149-07:002012-07-11T16:35:59.149-07:00"...it is impossible to communicate or conver..."...it is impossible to communicate or converse with liberals in an intelligible way, since they deny the only object of intelligibility."<br /><br />Heh - yes, just as today's Anonymous put it: they do "get" religion. One only has to look at the greens or the Obama worshipers to know how true that is. But they don't get O; if they did, they could not cling to their ideolatry.<br /><br />Anna - I like the new pic. Your hair is so long!juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-19327978634213352182012-07-11T15:22:43.500-07:002012-07-11T15:22:43.500-07:00Taranto (first story) really nails the dynamics of...<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303740704577520890454878330.html?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb_h" rel="nofollow">Taranto</a> (first story) really nails the dynamics of why liberals are so out of touch with reality. His analysis is in accord with this book of essays by Voegelin I'm reading, in that the totalitarian mindset only recognizes their second reality, and refuses to acknowledge first reality. Which is why it is impossible to communicate or converse with liberals in an intelligible way, since they deny the only object of intelligibility.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-21082734737282111772012-07-11T14:58:10.034-07:002012-07-11T14:58:10.034-07:00"Please note that when one is in the grip of ..."Please note that when one is in the grip of a Feeling, that is indeed a kind of oneness, at least while the feeling lasts. For example, how long did the Obama-feeling last? I can't say, because I never had it."<br /><br />The Obama-feeling is like a dull buzz. <br /><br />Similar to static.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-2288797024006097762012-07-11T14:50:02.576-07:002012-07-11T14:50:02.576-07:00Communism is Christianity without Christ. Both th...Communism is Christianity without Christ. Both the Christian and the Communist believe in evolution with a direction, i.e., genuine evolution. We are moving to the Kingdom and the One New Man. <br /><br />Like us, the Communists have an omega point. Unfortunately it appears to be more like a black hole or maybe a rectum.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-85337451302124872142012-07-11T14:45:01.979-07:002012-07-11T14:45:01.979-07:00an amigo's reminiscence of
Nick Drakean amigo's reminiscence of <br /><a href="http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/category/on-music/" rel="nofollow">Nick Drake</a>gehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-10107272157327309702012-07-11T14:29:18.823-07:002012-07-11T14:29:18.823-07:00I'm afraid most atheists "get" relig...I'm afraid most atheists "get" religion perfectly well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-73100154123147127832012-07-11T14:13:29.968-07:002012-07-11T14:13:29.968-07:00Magister, No offense to your Brother but it remind...Magister, No offense to your Brother but it reminds me of something I read in Tomberg this morning regarding Commie Pinkos.<br /><br />"Thus, the evolution of humanity brings forth technicians and engineers, not saints and sages. Human beings with technicial abilty are able to accomplish more in the fight for exsistence." <br /><br />"Communists are believers in evolution and for this reason have no sense of creating truth, goodness and beauty as ends in themselves. Consequently, "truth" for them is what is useful; "good" is what is functional; "beautiful," what functionality allows to appear attractive."John Lienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02302615225311776021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3401857458315784822012-07-11T12:39:45.338-07:002012-07-11T12:39:45.338-07:00Will not, I'd say.
My brother (atheist) think...Will not, I'd say.<br /><br />My brother (atheist) thinks religion is simply a waste of time. The proper business of life is to solve the practical problems of physical existence and propel technological innovation forward. That is all. Anything "spiritual" is error and distraction.<br /><br />He's not terribly reflective. In his terms, his CPU is entirely occupied with practical computation. <br /><br />So he insists. Totally, willfully horizontal. <br /><br />I've come to realize that this is a function of his concept of himself as essentially a being a "role," instead of being an actual person.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-24322813748183770542012-07-11T11:26:27.995-07:002012-07-11T11:26:27.995-07:00or will knot.or will knot.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.com