In genuine patriotic spirit, I tuned into four AM talk shows today, but in banal conservative rhetoric, I heard the same Obamacare paranoia script from each show.  The order of memorization by repetition was:

• Glenn Beck
• Rush Limbaugh
• Mark Levin
• Janet Parshall

By the time Mark's show aired, there were odd 'deja vu' phrases coming out of the radio.  Now ( Read more... )

Evidently people like one-liners.  My lack of brevity and unending ambiguity irritates them ... , it seems subtle nuances aren't in vogue anymore; so I've succumb to the Will of the Masses and started blurting imperative or terse responses.  Examples:

JockSalesman:[we don't have your shoe size, but we do have these ...]
Me: Cancel the order.  (End of ( Read more... )

That's what we used to call it: the World Wide Web.  The acronym must have been too much to digest.  It included global concepts like "world" instead of "me".  We're talking about systems that are not complex yet totally interconnected (and interdependent), and equally dependent on every piece fitting correctly into the puzzle.

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"The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish."  Terence McKenna

Now ... in my defense I'm skeptical of someone who uses hallucinogens, but this McKenna has caught my attention a few times.  I think most math-minded, right-brained people ( Read more... )

I was making a list of fictional AI machines (for my on-going interest in mind-mapping) and bumped into an awesome, vintage program: SHRDLU. The program's resurrected description verifies my insistence that language is inexorably related to the construction of reality.  We place immutable, metaphysical limitations on our world, as is evident by ( Read more... )

Things seem to be moving faster ... but not fast enough.  I'm averaging ~7hrs of sleep ever since being rejected by App and switching to job hunting yet I still run out of time.  There's a mighty long ToDo list on my laptop and things are backlogging, so its time to reflect.

• BuyMyLibrary: upload spreadsheet to Amazon
• buy, Buy! BUY!!
• JobHunt
• submitted ( Read more... )

I wrote a blurb about cults in the context of SGI and, since I speak with equal authority on that subject as did the arrogant OP (when he said "I know cults") yet the blurb was overlooked, I decided to keep it here in my memory banks because the words just flowed in the original response.  So here it goes:

I think one must be careful with labels ( Read more... )

Context:

"Those grand lines of perrenial wisdom that you gave, these bullshit 'do unto others as you would have them do unto you' lines are nothing but ego-driven nonsense. ... As you can see, those tidbits of "grand advice" simply don't work. Do another 3000 years of stupidity and violence need to pass before you will admit they don't work?"
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An introduction in epistemological justification is best served by inquiry based on basic assumptions about knowledge.  The first question should be explanatory: 1) What is the problem of the criterion?  I will systematize this problem with a sequence of statements below but the criterion can be provisionally answered in two parts: 1.a) The ( Read more... )