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Yes, but...
Dec. 3rd, 2019 08:38 pmSometimes I think my default setting is "yes, but what about this.." I am doomed to question everything. Today, I was doing it constantly from the moment the morning started before I had gotten my first cup of tea and oatmeal. One of my managers was informing me that I had to choose a number for the solicitation, and get a contract number generated once it was solicited. This went against everything I knew, I argued until I was hoarse, then gave up and chose a number for the solicitation and played along.
1. Saw this on my correspondence list tonight and I find my brain playing with it but not quite sure what to make of it.
"that you feel hurt - even deeply, profoundly hurt - does not necessarily mean that someone else has done something wrong." That was about fandom, then.
A decade later, the pernicious assumption that if-I-feel-bad-someone-must-have-done-something-wrong seems to be becoming ever more prevalent in every corner of our society. This is very, very disturbing.
Which in turn is in regards to...
* What is to be done about the problem of creepy men
and
* Fandom kerfuffles over differing reactions to stories.
I agree and disagree with the statement.
( a long ramble on the above in which at the end, your guess is as good as mine on what I think about this topic. )
Regarding the article about creepy men? ( Read more... )
So, you see? Yes, but...and I don't know. After writing that all out...I'm still not sure what I think about the statements above.
2. Can't Part with Your DVDs? You Aren't Alone
( Read more... )
I admit it, I have three bags full of DVDs and CDS in my closet, and still more DVD's in my coffee table. But I no longer have a DVD player or a CD player. It's hilarious. I can't play the damn things, yet I still own them. At least the people in the article above can play them.
3. Latin Dictionary’s Journey: A to Zythum in 125 Years (and Counting)
Researchers in Germany have been working on the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae since the 1890s. They hope to finish in 2050, but that might be optimistic.
( excerpt )
But why Latin?
4. Religion is about emotion regulation and it's very good at it
[I don't know...maybe? I'm admittedly biased. I don't much like religion. Spirituality yes. Religion - I have on-going issues with.]
( excerpt )
5. IT's a Miracle - Helsinki's Radical Solution to Homelessness
Finland is the only EU country where homelessness is falling. Its secret? Giving people homes as soon as they need them – unconditionally.
It's probably worth keeping in mind that Finland's population is the State of New York, if that. So their homeless population to start out with was way below New York City or Istanbul or London's.
And considering how cold it is up there -- I'd hope they would put people in homes, or they'd be dead.
Sorry, I don't think it is productive to compare what a country that is so incredibly different in size, population, climate, politics, demographical makeup, and history is doing to ours or others. It's akin comparing growing apples to well grapefruit or pineapple. It has to be different, you can't grow an apple and a pineapple the same way. Or say comparing cooking steak to pork, or chicken to duck.
Yet people keep doing it. My brother once told me we should have the same political electoral system as Ireland, and I thought, eh...but Ireland has a smaller population and isn't a huge continent with 50 different state governments, and constitutions plus a Federal one.
6. The Self Help Movement That is Upending American Christianity
(Yes, but..see #1, where I talk about how human beings are inherently self-centered and selfish, this article appears to well...continue to push that thesis, albeit unintentionally. The self-help movement doesn't appear to see how selfish it truly is and why that is problematic. The problem with the self-help movement is ..it's a wee bit too centered on rediscovering the self as if the self was an actual entity that could be lost. Sorry, I've embraced Buddhism a little. Western culture focuses more finding the self and analyzing it to death, Eastern culture focuses more on letting go of the notion of self entirely through meditation and yoga.)
( Excerpt )
[So, we enter the cult of self?]
1. Saw this on my correspondence list tonight and I find my brain playing with it but not quite sure what to make of it.
"that you feel hurt - even deeply, profoundly hurt - does not necessarily mean that someone else has done something wrong." That was about fandom, then.
A decade later, the pernicious assumption that if-I-feel-bad-someone-must-have-done-something-wrong seems to be becoming ever more prevalent in every corner of our society. This is very, very disturbing.
Which in turn is in regards to...
* What is to be done about the problem of creepy men
and
* Fandom kerfuffles over differing reactions to stories.
I agree and disagree with the statement.
( a long ramble on the above in which at the end, your guess is as good as mine on what I think about this topic. )
Regarding the article about creepy men? ( Read more... )
So, you see? Yes, but...and I don't know. After writing that all out...I'm still not sure what I think about the statements above.
2. Can't Part with Your DVDs? You Aren't Alone
( Read more... )
I admit it, I have three bags full of DVDs and CDS in my closet, and still more DVD's in my coffee table. But I no longer have a DVD player or a CD player. It's hilarious. I can't play the damn things, yet I still own them. At least the people in the article above can play them.
3. Latin Dictionary’s Journey: A to Zythum in 125 Years (and Counting)
Researchers in Germany have been working on the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae since the 1890s. They hope to finish in 2050, but that might be optimistic.
( excerpt )
But why Latin?
4. Religion is about emotion regulation and it's very good at it
[I don't know...maybe? I'm admittedly biased. I don't much like religion. Spirituality yes. Religion - I have on-going issues with.]
( excerpt )
5. IT's a Miracle - Helsinki's Radical Solution to Homelessness
Finland is the only EU country where homelessness is falling. Its secret? Giving people homes as soon as they need them – unconditionally.
It's probably worth keeping in mind that Finland's population is the State of New York, if that. So their homeless population to start out with was way below New York City or Istanbul or London's.
And considering how cold it is up there -- I'd hope they would put people in homes, or they'd be dead.
Sorry, I don't think it is productive to compare what a country that is so incredibly different in size, population, climate, politics, demographical makeup, and history is doing to ours or others. It's akin comparing growing apples to well grapefruit or pineapple. It has to be different, you can't grow an apple and a pineapple the same way. Or say comparing cooking steak to pork, or chicken to duck.
Yet people keep doing it. My brother once told me we should have the same political electoral system as Ireland, and I thought, eh...but Ireland has a smaller population and isn't a huge continent with 50 different state governments, and constitutions plus a Federal one.
6. The Self Help Movement That is Upending American Christianity
(Yes, but..see #1, where I talk about how human beings are inherently self-centered and selfish, this article appears to well...continue to push that thesis, albeit unintentionally. The self-help movement doesn't appear to see how selfish it truly is and why that is problematic. The problem with the self-help movement is ..it's a wee bit too centered on rediscovering the self as if the self was an actual entity that could be lost. Sorry, I've embraced Buddhism a little. Western culture focuses more finding the self and analyzing it to death, Eastern culture focuses more on letting go of the notion of self entirely through meditation and yoga.)
( Excerpt )
[So, we enter the cult of self?]