For the first time, I see: Bhairitu can be spelled "Barry Two."
Are we all being played?
Edg
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote:
>
> On 07/16/2011 08:39 AM, Bob Price wrote:
> >> I'm curious what everyone thinks is
> >> the difference between cognitive
> >> dissonance ("people have a motivational
> >> drive to reduce dissonance") and what
> >> F. Scott Fitzgerald said: "the true test
> >> of a first rate mind is the ability to hold
> >> two contradictory ideas at the same time".
> >>
> >>
> >> If the theory of cognitive dissonance
> >> and Fitzgerald are both right would
> >> that mean the natural tendency
> >> of the mind is to become less
> >> intelligent?
>
> The most common use of dissonance is in music. If I play a dissonant
> chord the ear wants it resolved. Therefore it creates motion in music.
>
> Elsewhere on the Internet including YouTube I use a handle of Captain
> Bebops which is cognitively dissonant because you have Captain, a
> military rank, paired with Bebops, a jazz term or two things you
> wouldn't ordinarily put together. A handle like that sticks out a
> little more than something like frank123xy or bsmith2020. Bhairtu,
> however, is a homonym. ;-)
>
