Risky click of the day.
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Itâs the title of a book, which came from something printed on a T-shirt that Richard Hell wore in NYC. You think the link is risky - itâs not, trust me - try wearing the T-shirt anywhere nowadays!
Ever hear of Legs McNeil?
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I know; I already clicked through. But that URL was enough to make me hesitant, like, âWhat is going to be on the other side of this link? Is this a euthanasia site?â
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Iâm putting this here because it falls under the âHmmmâŚthis is inTEResTINGâ subhead if one actually existed, lol.
Iâm being sued for CC debt by the collection agency for Citi, and their attorney is asking for a continuance to for additional time to file a motion for summary judgement. And heâs doing it because I asked the judge for an extension. HowâŚunlawyerly? Hah?
Anyhow, I donât have to go to court until September 23rd, instead of August 26th; and hopefully, Iâll be working and they can garnish my wages or whatever - ugh.
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OK, so this dude is not to be admired, but hand building and living in an off grid bunker for four years is pretty impressive.
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Maybe this will publicise the viability of solar powered housing at last.
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Might get the preppers to worry less about collecting ammunition and more about contemplating their past crimes.
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Past crimes wonât matter in a World Gone Mad
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Kind of surprised not to see Train on the list of collaborating artists, after Hoff showed up in one of their music videos.
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Poor Conan Doyle. Heâs still my favourite Victorian author.
Iâm not sure syllogisms are the best way to check for people being rational, though. The two given in the article are logically constructed â theyâre just also not true. Logical != true.
Some very absurd and unrealistic things are perfectly rational.
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This paragraph didnât ring true to me:
Meeting these two men for the first time, you would have been forgiven for expecting Conan Doyle to be the more critical thinker. Yet it was the professional illusionist, a Hungarian immigrant whose education had ended at the age of twelve, who could see through the fraud.
Physicians arenât necessarily scientists (Conan Doyle had a number of scientific bloopers in his Sherlock Holmes stories), while a magician is the perfect person to see through the fraud of mediums (e.g., the Amazing Randi).
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This. Houdini was skeptical simply because he knew how easy it is to fake. He wanted desperately to believe, but wanted to know it was real before putting his faith in it. And he was very good at his craft in ways that most mediums werenât. So it was disappointing to him on a professional level. Part of why we see him as the great skeptic is the juxtaposition with Conan Doyle, but we forget that this was right in his wheelhouse.
His blindspot was in thinking that because it could be faked, it must be fake. Which served him well studying the supernatural, but it doesnât translate across into everything. A skilled forger can fake the Mona Lisa. That doesnât mean da Vinci didnât paint the original.
ETA: Houdini was good at spotting fake mediums. It doesnât necessarily follow that he might not be duped by a counterfeiting scheme. It often does come down to areas of expertise.
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Some very absurd and unrealistic things are perfectly rational.
Like Rationalism, which sought to reconcile natural philosophy and religion. Itâs the whole reason we use the word the way we do today, its propaganda has become the common meaning. Donât question the existence of gods, rationalize it. Be ratonal, itâs not like gods donât exist, amirite?
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maybe you should read some Bertrand Russell.
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To quote Frasier Crane,
âYou donât understand! I have a degree from Harvard!
When Iâm right the world just makes more sense.â
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He controls the vertical. He controls the horizontal.
Be sure to watch it to the end.
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maybe you should read some Bertrand Russell.
Should I? My impression from school was he was trying to be the Lord Kelvin of yappering.