I was using criticism in the current colloquial sense, i.e., pejoratively.
It's funny, as the colloquial definition of criticism has moved away from 'critique' the less critiquing actually seems to be going on. I attribute it to the masses using words that their mental abilities cannot quite grasp. I wonder if anybody has studied the disintegration of words with specific, but broad meanings, i.e., interpretable as both positive or negative, into the colloquial usage, which tends to be only negative?
I wonder though, how do you tell if someone is writing in a second language? While English is my second language, i'm pretty sure that my syntax, grammar, and punctuation mistakes can't be blamed on that:)
Oh, and believe me, we all know you stink, and therefore give your arguments no credence.;P
That's interesting. I was extremely good at spelling from reading books a lot. However, i did not know how to pronounce anything. My brothers laughed for years because i pronounced ogre as og-Ree. Granted, i was 6 years old reading Piers Anthony novels. After speech therapy (i was autistic) and learning phonics (which took me decades), my spelling went out the door.:) Thank god for spell check!
Actually, these people ARE starving in the street. Downtown eastside is a very small place. It is one area of homeless people and no businesses. It is flanked by Chinatown, where cash is king and connectivity wouldn't help the Chinese business model in the area. The other areas flanking it are stinking rich. We're talking about $300k and up for closet size condos. It's where up and coming yuppies live.
This has nothing to do with helping out poor people. The only other businesses in the area that would benefit from connectivity would be all the pot/seed dealers.
If you can afford a condo for half a million, you can pay your internet bill. Unfortunately, we have lots of entitlement b!tches here.
Only a fool is more interested in a person's spelling than in their communication. If you understand, you understand. All of us knew more words than we could spell at some point of our lives.
It's always interesting to see people criticize other's for hurdles that they've already surpassed in life. If you're already past the hurdle, why not help the person over?
maybe we don't understand 'real muscle'?
The easiest way to do a handstand is through expansion of your muscles. Contraction uses lots of energy and unbalances you very easily.
I remember when i thought (because that's the way i was taught) muscles 'worked' through contraction. I could maybe do a handstand for 5 secs. Now, through expansion, i can stand on my hands for minutes.
Check out the angle on the arms of gymnasts doing handstands.
It's just like the idea that western scientists have that walking involves falling forward. That's only the way people walk when they don't know how to walk properly:) Very energy consuming, much easier to glide your center of gravity forward *without tilting your pelvis forward*(westerners and their lordosis:P) and your feet automatically stay under your pelvis and center of gravity.
Maybe one day, you will get there as well. You see, i speak from experience, you speak with the authority of other peoples thoughts
The false promise of happiness is the carrot that leads you astray. Being happy is the realization that there is nothing to reach for, you already have the carrot.
People seem to think that knowing a word means that they understand the movement that underlies the word. This is the problem with our society. Do you really know what a penguin is if you've never experienced one?
Slashdot is the perfect example of this, people spitting out words and ideas that they've learned 'in theory', but have never understood the connection to reality.
There's a big difference between knowing a label or description and understanding the reality which is described.
Even caterpillars have to voraciously consume large quantities of resources. At a certain saturation point, when they have all the necessary resources, they mature into a beauty of nature.
It's just harder to tell where individual humans are on the evolutionary scale.
God(Truth/Beauty) is present at every level, in the most palatable form for that level.
Unfortunately, a lot of humans never distill enough truths from their consumption to evolve to the next level (True happiness:) ).
Yes, we are prosperous. With our mountains of discarded wealth. Where cheapness means poisonous plastic.
Richness is not a wood box full of plastic toys.
Which would you prefer?
Cheap mass produced utensils which can spread disease, or silver utensils which are naturally antibacterial?
A lifestyle that requires most of the population to work 8-10 hours a day instead of 1-2?
500 channels of entertainment or a true family night?
An education that leaves you with no survival skills, or learning what the land provides?
The extrinsic pleasure of 50 different gins, or the intrinsic pleasure inherent in the one you created?
I really don't see how the majority of the population participating as cogs in the machine, for the dreams of a select few, is equated with prosperity. Chasing after images of beauty instead of understanding the creation of beauty, isn't wealth. Possessing beauty will never make one beautiful.
It's much easier to blame other people for our faults(we are all human) than to blame ourselves. The current global situation is a failing of humanity in general, not individual countries. We are One in our division. Only by looking at a coin from different perspectives do we come up with the concept of heads and tails.
For all our claims of Objectivity, we fail miserably in social contexts.
Didn't you know that exportation of professionals is part of china's plan to dominate the world?
First, make other countries feeble minded by poisoning their youth and feeding their vices. Next, emigrate professionals to increase the number of chinese in decision making power in other countries.
It's a slow process, but Mao's dream is coming true. Anybody who has read and understood Mao, should be very scared as to how close to the plan the chinese are sticking, and the amazing results they are getting from sticking to their plan.
Can't blame the women. Men who desire women who are not theirs to have will try to 'buy' them.
If a woman goes away because you aren't keeping her neck deep in her vices, well, she wasn't yours to begin with was she? As long as women will prostitute their bodies for their vices and men will prostitute their minds and morals for theirs, well....
I'm currently working on a framework to 'create' a new culture. A database of sorts, with cultural information from around the world. Old world culture combined with the science of understanding. Not just a list of commands like the bible, but explanations of why, e.g., why do we boil water? Why salt meat? Why kill in a kosher manner, why am i unclean if my boyfriend jizzed on me:) haha
There are so many sustainable practices that have grown out of cultures that have lasted millenia, but nobody seems to know about them. My goal is to develop an open system, that allows anybody to plug in whatever information they know about a subject, at whatever level of detail, and have that information shared openly. Designed like a human brain, it would be a tool for us to catalog and analyze the world around us.
My only concern is how to make it independent of a computer? I know how to generate electricity, from the smelting on up to wire wrapping. However, i don't know how to construct even a simple 2.4Ghz cpu to run the program on:)
Critical mass point? Humans are very short sighted, blinded by their vices.
That thing you see coming up, that's the edge of the cliff. Rest assured, the world will scramble to do something. Of course, it'll only be after we're off the cliff in mid air.
Unsustainability is the reason why civilizations don't last. It's in the very definition of the word. As long as our civilization is unsustainable it will have an end in the near future. It's simple logic.
As long as people abdicate their responsibilities we will never be sustainable. Sustainability is something that must mature in each human, it is not something that can be imposed by governments.
I'm sure that in past civilizations, there were people with open eyes seeing the coming end. How many will see, when our western culture is dependent on the seven deadly sins for economic growth?
Um, industrializing the third world will eliminate the third world.
Our current capitalistic/consumer culture requires us to have people to walk on top to reach our current standard of living. Lifting up the downtrodden, our society's foundation, will bring our ivory tower crumbing down.
Are you sure you thought about that comment?
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Insightful? Depends if he was aware of things like eastern religions. The notions been around for thousands of years you know?
Not quite. Physically, my left side is dominant. My right hand used to be one of those contracted gimp arms. I did use it to write though, but because i had limited movement of my fingers my writing was extremely small and irregular.
My right dealt in the micro, my left in the macro.
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It's funny, as the colloquial definition of criticism has moved away from 'critique' the less critiquing actually seems to be going on. I attribute it to the masses using words that their mental abilities cannot quite grasp. I wonder if anybody has studied the disintegration of words with specific, but broad meanings, i.e., interpretable as both positive or negative, into the colloquial usage, which tends to be only negative?
I wonder though, how do you tell if someone is writing in a second language? While English is my second language, i'm pretty sure that my syntax, grammar, and punctuation mistakes can't be blamed on that :)
Oh, and believe me, we all know you stink, and therefore give your arguments no credence. ;P
Yeah, i detest it as well. Sometimes being slow is a blessing.
That's interesting. I was extremely good at spelling from reading books a lot. However, i did not know how to pronounce anything. My brothers laughed for years because i pronounced ogre as og-Ree. Granted, i was 6 years old reading Piers Anthony novels. After speech therapy (i was autistic) and learning phonics (which took me decades), my spelling went out the door. :) Thank god for spell check!
This has nothing to do with helping out poor people. The only other businesses in the area that would benefit from connectivity would be all the pot/seed dealers.
If you can afford a condo for half a million, you can pay your internet bill. Unfortunately, we have lots of entitlement b!tches here.
It's always interesting to see people criticize other's for hurdles that they've already surpassed in life. If you're already past the hurdle, why not help the person over?
Or it's all a mistranslation and she just wasn't married.
Though i guess most physicists don't study jewish and/or indian spirituality.
I remember when i thought (because that's the way i was taught) muscles 'worked' through contraction. I could maybe do a handstand for 5 secs. Now, through expansion, i can stand on my hands for minutes.
Check out the angle on the arms of gymnasts doing handstands.
It's just like the idea that western scientists have that walking involves falling forward. That's only the way people walk when they don't know how to walk properly :) Very energy consuming, much easier to glide your center of gravity forward *without tilting your pelvis forward*(westerners and their lordosis :P) and your feet automatically stay under your pelvis and center of gravity.
I'm truly happy. :)
Maybe one day, you will get there as well. You see, i speak from experience, you speak with the authority of other peoples thoughts
The false promise of happiness is the carrot that leads you astray. Being happy is the realization that there is nothing to reach for, you already have the carrot.
People seem to think that knowing a word means that they understand the movement that underlies the word. This is the problem with our society. Do you really know what a penguin is if you've never experienced one?
Slashdot is the perfect example of this, people spitting out words and ideas that they've learned 'in theory', but have never understood the connection to reality.
There's a big difference between knowing a label or description and understanding the reality which is described.
It's just harder to tell where individual humans are on the evolutionary scale.
God(Truth/Beauty) is present at every level, in the most palatable form for that level.
Unfortunately, a lot of humans never distill enough truths from their consumption to evolve to the next level (True happiness :) ).
ah, so basically for those sub-humans who can't stand to be alone with their selves for even two seconds.
The above applies only if your ugly.
Usually, animals develop the same problems that humans around them exhibit.
Strong must be the might which turns the dragons advance.
Considering i was talking about Mao's plan's in his writing, then, logically, that's the source.
However, if that is the extent of your reading/comprehension skills, perhaps you should skip it, eh? :)
Richness is not a wood box full of plastic toys.
Which would you prefer?
Cheap mass produced utensils which can spread disease, or silver utensils which are naturally antibacterial? A lifestyle that requires most of the population to work 8-10 hours a day instead of 1-2? 500 channels of entertainment or a true family night? An education that leaves you with no survival skills, or learning what the land provides? The extrinsic pleasure of 50 different gins, or the intrinsic pleasure inherent in the one you created?
I really don't see how the majority of the population participating as cogs in the machine, for the dreams of a select few, is equated with prosperity. Chasing after images of beauty instead of understanding the creation of beauty, isn't wealth. Possessing beauty will never make one beautiful.
Don't you like how tangentially that is?
It's much easier to blame other people for our faults(we are all human) than to blame ourselves. The current global situation is a failing of humanity in general, not individual countries. We are One in our division. Only by looking at a coin from different perspectives do we come up with the concept of heads and tails.
For all our claims of Objectivity, we fail miserably in social contexts.
Only divisive people see enemies around them. As long as one part of humanity tries to chop of another part of humanity, humanity is doomed.
First, make other countries feeble minded by poisoning their youth and feeding their vices. Next, emigrate professionals to increase the number of chinese in decision making power in other countries.
It's a slow process, but Mao's dream is coming true. Anybody who has read and understood Mao, should be very scared as to how close to the plan the chinese are sticking, and the amazing results they are getting from sticking to their plan.
If a woman goes away because you aren't keeping her neck deep in her vices, well, she wasn't yours to begin with was she? As long as women will prostitute their bodies for their vices and men will prostitute their minds and morals for theirs, well....
There are so many sustainable practices that have grown out of cultures that have lasted millenia, but nobody seems to know about them. My goal is to develop an open system, that allows anybody to plug in whatever information they know about a subject, at whatever level of detail, and have that information shared openly. Designed like a human brain, it would be a tool for us to catalog and analyze the world around us.
My only concern is how to make it independent of a computer? I know how to generate electricity, from the smelting on up to wire wrapping. However, i don't know how to construct even a simple 2.4Ghz cpu to run the program on :)
Printed is nice, but gets stale quickly.
That thing you see coming up, that's the edge of the cliff. Rest assured, the world will scramble to do something. Of course, it'll only be after we're off the cliff in mid air.
Unsustainability is the reason why civilizations don't last. It's in the very definition of the word. As long as our civilization is unsustainable it will have an end in the near future. It's simple logic.
As long as people abdicate their responsibilities we will never be sustainable. Sustainability is something that must mature in each human, it is not something that can be imposed by governments.
I'm sure that in past civilizations, there were people with open eyes seeing the coming end. How many will see, when our western culture is dependent on the seven deadly sins for economic growth?
Our current capitalistic/consumer culture requires us to have people to walk on top to reach our current standard of living. Lifting up the downtrodden, our society's foundation, will bring our ivory tower crumbing down.
Are you sure you thought about that comment?
Insightful? Depends if he was aware of things like eastern religions. The notions been around for thousands of years you know?
My right dealt in the micro, my left in the macro.