Sustained interest in a topic solves the problems associated with how to express ideas about it. There's a co-evolution between developing an ability and having a motivation for doing so. The flaws in writing you've…
The reason why some/many people are bad at writing is because they haven't yet discovered anything interesting to say. Therefore they weren't motivated to improve. This is the criterion: is it interesting? 'Yes' means…
Yes I agree. I'm totally in favour of married life and family life. However calling something by a name isn't necessarily the same as what the name superficially implies. At the very least it's an interesting cultural…
Apologies--I seem to have touched a nerve here. There are worse things than dates, I'm sure, e.g. hookup apps
Equally disturbing is the fact that many married men are being encouraged to participate in a permanent state of ersatz courtship known as 'date nights'. What's the point of getting married if you still have to go on…
Parents, love your children, as much as you can. Children, honour your parents, as much as you can. The alternative is resentment, a condition toxic enough to keep anyone in hell.
I've experienced frisson at great moments in music but only when fantasising about performing the music (or some part of it) myself. I did a lot of this as a teenager...
>they can even be an asset to the community and volunteer in exchange for kudos in the right circumstances Yes, and a relatively harmless source of narcissistic supply would seem to be in the performing arts.
My children would concur: they prefer digital time I think because that's what computers generally give. Also they prefer to have subtitles on but that's by the by. I enjoyed Douglas Adam's letter though I can't help…
Problem is that, as I said, the architects of globalism are using this issue. They aren't motivated by the climate or any other of several, rotating concerns. They're motivated by a lust for power/wealth/prestige. You…
The issue of climate change, among other issues, is being used to promote unity and one world government. But it doesn't follow that this approach is best to climate change or anything else. We need variation in…
Humility before the truth is vital but not necessarily humility as expressed in one's public statements. Indeed psychoticism was identified by the psychologist Hans Eysenck as one of the traits of genius, including…
I share the sentiment however the grain of truth here is that it does take a lot of effort to appear normal. The essence of being normal is trying to appear normal which is what most people are engaged in most of the…
Do you know what kinds of oil are commonly used for the frying?
Couldn't agree more. People think that humans are more intelligent because we learnt to speak, but it's really language itself that makes us smart in the sense of making us universal problem solvers. Animals are…
I think your preferences make total sense. Though I have little experience with wildfires. Would an air filter help? For my own eccentricities, I have the bedroom window open slightly while sleeping, closed when awake.…
Introverts of the world unite! Seriously, night time is great because having large chunks of unstructured time is good for creativity. There's no one to interrupt you or be offended by your (unpredictable) results. My…
Intuitively the converse seems to be true: getting into a hot bath, the muscles relax, the arteries relax and the mind goes merrily off to the races with interesting ideas. Presumably because it is freed from a certain…
>"When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist." —Barry Schwartz Quite so. And things may be worse…
Love as I understand it is not strictly an emotion but rather an absence of fear when attending to the object of love. It appears emotional because there's a change in the baseline emotional state. The results is a…
I hope we can also revive the 'northern penguin', also known as the Great Auk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJbXk7NldnM#t=18m
I'm glad somebody has referred to truth at last because the habit of truth, according to Jacob Bronowski, is perhaps the primary scientific virtue. That is, telling and acknowledging the truth about even the minutest…
As the web matures it is time now to abandon acronyms and most other forms of abbreviation, in my opinion. At best they confuse at least some people and at worst they are shibboleths. Little would be lost since those…
Especially now, jammed together as we are in the global village, I suspect criticism is something we should only use defensively. Even criticism of ideas should be restricted to ideas we don't like but can't seem to…
Start with ignorance, but then make the schleps as conscious and explicit as possible? People literally assemble jigsaws and exercise on treadmills in their spare time. Repeatedly! So it seems that even the most…
Sustained interest in a topic solves the problems associated with how to express ideas about it. There's a co-evolution between developing an ability and having a motivation for doing so. The flaws in writing you've…
The reason why some/many people are bad at writing is because they haven't yet discovered anything interesting to say. Therefore they weren't motivated to improve. This is the criterion: is it interesting? 'Yes' means…
Yes I agree. I'm totally in favour of married life and family life. However calling something by a name isn't necessarily the same as what the name superficially implies. At the very least it's an interesting cultural…
Apologies--I seem to have touched a nerve here. There are worse things than dates, I'm sure, e.g. hookup apps
Equally disturbing is the fact that many married men are being encouraged to participate in a permanent state of ersatz courtship known as 'date nights'. What's the point of getting married if you still have to go on…
Parents, love your children, as much as you can. Children, honour your parents, as much as you can. The alternative is resentment, a condition toxic enough to keep anyone in hell.
I've experienced frisson at great moments in music but only when fantasising about performing the music (or some part of it) myself. I did a lot of this as a teenager...
>they can even be an asset to the community and volunteer in exchange for kudos in the right circumstances Yes, and a relatively harmless source of narcissistic supply would seem to be in the performing arts.
My children would concur: they prefer digital time I think because that's what computers generally give. Also they prefer to have subtitles on but that's by the by. I enjoyed Douglas Adam's letter though I can't help…
Problem is that, as I said, the architects of globalism are using this issue. They aren't motivated by the climate or any other of several, rotating concerns. They're motivated by a lust for power/wealth/prestige. You…
The issue of climate change, among other issues, is being used to promote unity and one world government. But it doesn't follow that this approach is best to climate change or anything else. We need variation in…
Humility before the truth is vital but not necessarily humility as expressed in one's public statements. Indeed psychoticism was identified by the psychologist Hans Eysenck as one of the traits of genius, including…
I share the sentiment however the grain of truth here is that it does take a lot of effort to appear normal. The essence of being normal is trying to appear normal which is what most people are engaged in most of the…
Do you know what kinds of oil are commonly used for the frying?
Couldn't agree more. People think that humans are more intelligent because we learnt to speak, but it's really language itself that makes us smart in the sense of making us universal problem solvers. Animals are…
I think your preferences make total sense. Though I have little experience with wildfires. Would an air filter help? For my own eccentricities, I have the bedroom window open slightly while sleeping, closed when awake.…
Introverts of the world unite! Seriously, night time is great because having large chunks of unstructured time is good for creativity. There's no one to interrupt you or be offended by your (unpredictable) results. My…
Intuitively the converse seems to be true: getting into a hot bath, the muscles relax, the arteries relax and the mind goes merrily off to the races with interesting ideas. Presumably because it is freed from a certain…
>"When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist." —Barry Schwartz Quite so. And things may be worse…
Love as I understand it is not strictly an emotion but rather an absence of fear when attending to the object of love. It appears emotional because there's a change in the baseline emotional state. The results is a…
I hope we can also revive the 'northern penguin', also known as the Great Auk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJbXk7NldnM#t=18m
I'm glad somebody has referred to truth at last because the habit of truth, according to Jacob Bronowski, is perhaps the primary scientific virtue. That is, telling and acknowledging the truth about even the minutest…
As the web matures it is time now to abandon acronyms and most other forms of abbreviation, in my opinion. At best they confuse at least some people and at worst they are shibboleths. Little would be lost since those…
Especially now, jammed together as we are in the global village, I suspect criticism is something we should only use defensively. Even criticism of ideas should be restricted to ideas we don't like but can't seem to…
Start with ignorance, but then make the schleps as conscious and explicit as possible? People literally assemble jigsaws and exercise on treadmills in their spare time. Repeatedly! So it seems that even the most…