fristechill

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by fristechill 4y ago
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 mentioned are
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by fristechill 4y ago
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' mea
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by fristechill 4y ago
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 phenome
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by fristechill 4y ago
Apologies--I seem to have touched a nerve here. There are worse things than dates, I'm sure, e.g. hookup apps
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by fristechill 4y ago
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 dates?
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by fristechill 4y ago
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.
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by fristechill 4y ago
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...
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by fristechill 4y ago
>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.
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by fristechill 4y ago
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 thi
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by fristechill 4y ago
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
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by fristechill 4y ago
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 policies and techno
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by fristechill 4y ago
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 scientific genius.
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by fristechill 4y ago
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 time. The hidden moti
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by fristechill 5y ago
Do you know what kinds of oil are commonly used for the frying?
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by fristechill 5y ago
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 conscious creature
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by fristechill 5y ago
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. During the winter, wh
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by fristechill 5y ago
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 waking hours are
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by fristechill 5y ago
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 amount of its bodily
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by fristechill 5y ago
>"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 than t
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by fristechill 5y ago
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 whole-hearted engage
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by fristechill 5y ago
I hope we can also revive the 'northern penguin', also known as the Great Auk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJbXk7NldnM#t=18m
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by fristechill 5y ago
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 facts relating t
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by fristechill 5y ago
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 rare abbreviations whic
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by fristechill 5y ago
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 avoid. Beari
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by fristechill 5y ago
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 apparently mechanical tasks
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by fristechill 5y ago
>One way of subtly enforcing cultural norms is a [...] a kind of playful teasing. This has also been observed in other indigenous circumpolar peoples, such as the Inuit, but not in mainstream Scandinavian cultures [...] ensure they nev
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by fristechill 5y ago
Yes, we can honour him for his achievements at the same time as acknowledging that he's been very lucky. Otherwise we have to ask whether we're being inspired by envy and not merely by a desire for justice.
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by fristechill 5y ago
I interpret that Lebowski quote as, "You're not wrong, Walter. You're just undermining the conditions which enable future non-wrongness to prevail."
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by fristechill 5y ago
By all means call it a habit if you wish but do distinguish it from a bad habit which I would define as something which makes you feel good without actually being good for you.
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by fristechill 5y ago
I think a major problem with the self-improvement books I've read is their emphasis on habits. Depending on where you are, a positive habit may be useful for getting you out of a hole but ultimately consciousness is not about acting

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