Now that most of the lurkers have gone away due to their disgust at being lectured by an insane person, I'll get back to the question : "My epistemological question is this - what do we know about knowing they don't? What is our procedural epistemology - if we don't have one, are we just smug not-quite so lackwits?"
1) Before you do ANYTHING else, exercise your sense of caution and your ability to detect warning signs from others. If you fail to complete this step properly, then you WILL find yourself either in jail or an insane asylum, or worse yet in a hospital or dead. Due to a peculiarity of American law, I chose the label of insane so that I would always in a court of law be found "not guilty due to insanity." 2) Now exercise your senses of humor, deception, and egotism. Strongly RESIST your impulse to "tell it like it is" and "set the record straight". Both of those just lead to trouble. "Keep it to yourself" because "loose lips sink ships". While you are at it, completely sever the ingrained conditioning which you received as a child which reveals your thoughts through body language. You will be needing a dead-pan or false expression a great deal in the future, otherwise your PAN will be dead and piping no more. Keep your ego under control. Adopt a supercilious inner self who says "Who cares WHAT you think! I know better!" Boost your ego by keeping silent regarding the myriad flaws of those around you, scoring points for observations, and giving yourself extra credit for not trying to run roughshod over dimwits. Learn to laugh at yourself as well as others, for being so afraid that you keep thoughts pinioned like a rat in a steel trap. Congratulations! You are now (if instructions were followed) certified Paranoid! Possibly with a bonus of Megalomaniac... time to post again... Lonnie Courtney Clay -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/epistemology/-/MTQ1Um1DdTVVQ29K. To post to this group, send email to epistemology@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to epistemology+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en.
