What objectivity and the study of philosophy require is not an “open mind”, but an active mind - a mind able and eagerly willing to examine ideas, but to examine them critically.
~Ayn Rand


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In my last entry, I was pleading with parents to use tact in discussing stories about their children that they may find cute and/or funny but by which others might be disgusted. While I in no way meant to limit this to on-line behavior, it is probably more prevalent of an occurrence on-line these days, with social networking sites becoming the norm ( Read more... )

thefaeway provided an answer to the pink lemonade question I posed yesterday. (Thanks!) However, I didn't trust Wikipedia on the answer -- which is rather common for me -- so I did a little more research ( Read more... )

I admit it; I have emotions. Generally, I try to ignore them, but sometimes I pay more attention to them then I would like.

Today, I finally caught up with methodically going through all of my LJ Friend's entries and reading all the ones I missed during my last absence. For some of you (e.g. jeltzz, essius, etc.), this is screenpages and screenpages of ( Read more... )

jeltzz having brought up small talk in a recent post in which he suggested bringing up controversial issues as an alternative in social settings and in which I responded about not enjoying that alternative either due to people's tendencies to debate unfairly and emotionally at the expense of reasonable arguments, I was pondering this on my walk home from ( Read more... )

So, as my last voice post stated, I went shopping last night at the Towson Mall, mostly for my fiancée. I had such a wonderful time.

(I can talk rather freely on this public entry, because she does not have Internet access currently....)

( On Newer Relationships and the Difficulty of Shopping )

Something about Wikipedia really bothers me.

I was there recently looking up some information about the Hebrew word Elohim. I was appalled by the load of crap that I read there. The linguistical information was so wrong, it was laughable. It read like it was written by a twelve-year-old. The transliterations were whacked out. The inconsistency of ( Read more... )