On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 04:52:33AM +0100, Tomasz Rola wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 11:19:09AM -0800, Heather Madrone wrote:
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> > Many people would point to money or power as being the king.
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> The way I perceive it, a success in war, or making money (or even
> "only" earning it) o
On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 11:19:09AM -0800, Heather Madrone wrote:
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> Many people would point to money or power as being the king.
The way I perceive it, a success in war, or making money (or even
"only" earning it) or gaining power - all those things increase a
chance of successful procreat
Tomasz Rola wrote on 1/19/20 12:35 PM January 19, 2020:
On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 09:32:10AM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
I guess that the thing of the year 2019 was, in my case, realisation
that reason is not a king on this planet,
Although I majored in mathematics, I took too much biology to
On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 09:32:10AM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> Like it says. What have you started or stopped believing in in 2019, and
> why?
Ooh, that is a good question. It made me realise that I actually live
like an animal, only eating and reading from the net but not much
autoreflection.
On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 3:40 PM Peter Griffin wrote:
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> On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 9:32 AM Udhay Shankar N wrote:
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> > Like it says. What have you started or stopped believing in in 2019, and
> > why?
> Kindness, and its importance. Not so much a changing of mind as a slow
> realisation over time.
On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 08:13:27PM -0800, Heather Madrone wrote:
In a similar vein, I realized that I deeply value quirky businesses
where people come together to try to fill a need in the world. Many of
these businesses provide mundane things at reasonable costs, and the
people who work there
On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 9:32 AM Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> Like it says. What have you started or stopped believing in in 2019, and
> why?
Kindness, and its importance. Not so much a changing of mind as a slow
realisation over time. It is, in a way, related to 'assume goodwill,' which
I'll always
@ John:
they don't care about religion or race or any
of that stuff; they care about money and power
I believe this is true of any politically motivated (power and money
hungry) group of people hanging their hat on religion or quasi religious
ideologies; a quest for power will feed off any belief
That through a combination of personal action and political action, we'll
be able to start doing something about climate change. Gave up on that hope.
On Thu, Jan 9, 2020, 09:32 Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> Like it says. What have you started or stopped believing in in 2019, and
> why?
>
> Udhay
>
>
> I realised that ‘good journalism’ is often bad as well because of deep
> structural issues in the industry, and that the news as we know it might
> need to die in order for something better to take its place. I also
> realised that it’s time to stop reading the news as I do. Once a week is
> prob
On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 09:43, Heather Madrone wrote:
Over the past few years, I have come to view the US Constitution less as
> a vehicle for greater freedom for all, and more as a device to protect
> the institution of slavery. This has radically changed my perspective on
> things like the 2nd a
Udhay Shankar N wrote on 1/8/20 8:02 PM January 8, 2020:
Like it says. What have you started or stopped believing in in 2019, and
why?
I realized that my local Quaker Meeting and I are no longer headed in
the same direction. Many of the people I admired and respected in the
Meeting, the ones
John,
Nice post. And not boring at all. As usual, made for a good read.
I can’t say much about Republican vs Democrats being a resident of India.
My few years in the US were pretty busy with the kids and I didn’t give a
thought to politics. Not that I do otherwise. :-)
Your points on religion ar
My experience this year was similar to Krishna's (see post below).
With the following corollaries:
A) I changed my mind about the Republican Party in the USA; in
particular about Republicans in Congress. I'm 67 years old and I first
voted when I became eligible to vote at age 18 (George McGo
On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 at 10:52, Venkatesh H R wrote:
> I realised that ‘good journalism’ is often bad as well because of deep
> structural issues in the industry, and that the news as we know it might
> need to die in order for something better to take its place. I also
> realised that it’s time to
So this may seem obvious to many, but it was a fairly big deal for me
- to realise (actually, accept) that there are individuals who cannot
be moved by reason and logic - be it on political issues or personal
issues. I suppose I'd always viewed their imperviousness as having
some limit, some breaki
Excellent point on the question of caste. We seem to be seeing some
synthesis rather than the antithesis that, I for one, was raised on.
In 2019, I've given up on free will. I tried to sustain it as an article of
faith but I'm not the faithful type.
On Thu, 9 Jan, 2020, 11:24 Alok Prasanna Kumar
In 2019 I finally recognized that the seemingly irreconcilable binary
created between Gandhi's and Ambedkar's views on caste and Indian society
was entirely false thanks to the peerless writing of DR Nagaraj in The
Flaming Feet. One talk in 2017-ish by Dr Mogalli Ganesh had initially put
this idea
I realised that ‘good journalism’ is often bad as well because of deep
structural issues in the industry, and that the news as we know it might
need to die in order for something better to take its place. I also
realised that it’s time to stop reading the news as I do. Once a week is
probably fine.
I stopped being an optimist. Why? I read the newspapers.
-- b
PS: I've also stopped reading newspapers
PPS. I'm only slightly joking.
On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 at 09:32, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
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> Like it says. What have you started or stopped believing in in 2019, and
> why?
>
> Udhay
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why?
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