God has not spoken to me recently, but I have had some wonderful conversations
with the Universe.
There are alternatives to Pragmatism other than despair or obscurantism.
BTW — Pragmat "ISM!" Mon "ISM!" Just more fictional stories?
My interpretation of the Hermeneutics (lineage as described
Hi, russ, again,
I just discovered that my new computer comes up in my directory for my old one.
So I guess I COULD just transfer EVERYTHING on my old computer onto my new
computer.
But surely this is a sheep-dip moment, and I should transfer only data, emails,
and other stuff in the
Thanks, Russ,
Are things sane down there?
Is it to Australia that we FRIAMMERS can retreat when the madness becomes
terminal?
When Putin strolls upon the otherwise empty Northern Hemisphere stage and gives
is triumphant soliloquy?
The situation in Britain seems beyond crazy. Did you
On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 01:20:31PM -0700, Nick Thompson wrote:
> Kindly FRIAMers,
>
>
>
> Do you have any advice to give, or a website to suggest, that will help me
> decide how to set up the computer I just bought. I back up the old computer
> to
> a hard drive every night, and I had always
Well, I agree that there are some obscurantist Pragmatists. Rorty drives me
bonkers.
But is there an Obscurantist movement? For that matter, are their
Despair-ists?
Watching Boris Johnson manoeuver is a wonderful lesson concerning the degree
to which people and power can (and
Kindly FRIAMers,
Do you have any advice to give, or a website to suggest, that will help me
decide how to set up the computer I just bought. I back up the old computer
to a hard drive every night, and I had always thought to transfer the data
to the new one by restoring the backup file to the
Be fair Nick, what about capital O, Obscurantism?
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Please note the capital P.
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Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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>
> The answer to “everything is interpretation” is not obscurantism or
> despair. It’s Pragmatism.
>
Well said Nick.
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All,
“Everything is interpretation.”
Yey-AH! Duh! What else could it possibly be? Does God speak to you?
Presumably not. Hopefully, not.
Welcome to monism. So now what?
You only get five seconds to be amazed at the wisdom of monism before you have
to start making
Glen writes:
< As much as I'd love to see a constitutional convention, my guess is too few
people care enough about others (other countries, the earth, other life forms)
to work authentically toward a solution. Every player would be trying to game
the system for themselves (or their "tribe",
On 11/8/19 7:44 AM, Prof David West wrote:
> This would be fine, except for the fact, that by doing so, they are almost
> guaranteeing a political outcome that is antithetical to their expressed
> intent.
Well, my political intent is to actualize the checks and balances on which the
system was
Steve,
On the back of my Hermeneutic Card is the pedigree: Hermes Trismegistus,
Dilthey, Heidegger, Gadamer, Derrida, and Foucault with infusions from Hesse
and Jung (the alchemist more than the psychologist). This lineage is quite
distinct from the "interpretation of sacred texts, e.g. the
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