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Deep Thoughts...or Ramblings...before bed
Sep. 7th, 2024 07:32 pm1. Without religion would people become more, less, or be equally morally corrupt? (snagged this question from someone else).
( philosophical ramble on morality and religion )
2. I liked this post on BlueSky:
"Don't let anyone who hasn't been in your shoes, tell you how to tie your laces."
People were constantly trying to teach me how to tie my laces when I was growing up - to the point in which I was completely confused and had given up on it for a bit. (My dyslexia takes the form of - I see things as if I'm looking in a mirror? My right is always my left. So I have to do a lot of course correcting. I've gotten exceedingly good at it now. It takes less than a second or two now, when back in the day it took a lot longer. But occasionally, I'll get thrown off.) Finally someone, I forget who it was, figured out my problem and instead of saying "take the lace and cross it over the left, look copy what I'm doing..." they wisely told me a story, about a rabbit escaping through a hole, and how to make the bunny ears. They understood how I thought.
( Read more... )
3. "In a world where you can be anything? Be kind."
Me: working on it. But damn, the world makes it hard sometimes.
4. Talents
I've decided that a facility for language is possibly connected to the ability to sing or play music? The ability to hear the range of sounds and reproduce those sounds accurately upon hearing them - possibly is connected in the brain.
There's a presumption that anyone can learn another language other than the one they were taught as wee child, and listened to from birth. Or the language of their birth (the one we were immersed in from birth or before, assuming consciousness predates birth, and I do not believe nor see any evidence that it does so, and that's a completely different discussion that I really don't want to get into again - been there done that, have the battle scars - so ahem forget that bit).
There's equally a presumption that anyone can learn to sing or can sing.
This is akin to presuming anyone can draw or tell a story. Or garden. Or become an astronaut, a gymnast, or dance ballet.
No.
I know for a fact that not everyone can learn a language other than the one they were immersed in from birth - because my entire immediate family tried and couldn't. We could learn to read it, and possibly write a bit in it. But speak and understand the spoken tongue? No. Why? We couldn't hear and replicate the sounds. In order to wrap one's head around this - you have to first understand that no one thinks alike. We all think differently. We all hear and comprehend music differently. We hear differently. We hear languages differently.
And no, it doesn't have anything to do with how well we can hear. It has to do with how our brains process sounds. ( Read more... )
( philosophical ramble on morality and religion )
2. I liked this post on BlueSky:
"Don't let anyone who hasn't been in your shoes, tell you how to tie your laces."
People were constantly trying to teach me how to tie my laces when I was growing up - to the point in which I was completely confused and had given up on it for a bit. (My dyslexia takes the form of - I see things as if I'm looking in a mirror? My right is always my left. So I have to do a lot of course correcting. I've gotten exceedingly good at it now. It takes less than a second or two now, when back in the day it took a lot longer. But occasionally, I'll get thrown off.) Finally someone, I forget who it was, figured out my problem and instead of saying "take the lace and cross it over the left, look copy what I'm doing..." they wisely told me a story, about a rabbit escaping through a hole, and how to make the bunny ears. They understood how I thought.
( Read more... )
3. "In a world where you can be anything? Be kind."
Me: working on it. But damn, the world makes it hard sometimes.
4. Talents
I've decided that a facility for language is possibly connected to the ability to sing or play music? The ability to hear the range of sounds and reproduce those sounds accurately upon hearing them - possibly is connected in the brain.
There's a presumption that anyone can learn another language other than the one they were taught as wee child, and listened to from birth. Or the language of their birth (the one we were immersed in from birth or before, assuming consciousness predates birth, and I do not believe nor see any evidence that it does so, and that's a completely different discussion that I really don't want to get into again - been there done that, have the battle scars - so ahem forget that bit).
There's equally a presumption that anyone can learn to sing or can sing.
This is akin to presuming anyone can draw or tell a story. Or garden. Or become an astronaut, a gymnast, or dance ballet.
No.
I know for a fact that not everyone can learn a language other than the one they were immersed in from birth - because my entire immediate family tried and couldn't. We could learn to read it, and possibly write a bit in it. But speak and understand the spoken tongue? No. Why? We couldn't hear and replicate the sounds. In order to wrap one's head around this - you have to first understand that no one thinks alike. We all think differently. We all hear and comprehend music differently. We hear differently. We hear languages differently.
And no, it doesn't have anything to do with how well we can hear. It has to do with how our brains process sounds. ( Read more... )