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Your Liberal Media At Work | 26 comments (26 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Your Liberal Media At Work (4.00 / 2)

Enjoy the way you express yourself Boston Joe.

I suppose if I had to pick an anti-christ, it would be the corporate structure that has been given human rights. An intelligent and amoral structure in which individual humans are subsumed.

The whole religious angle is being brought to us by those who focus on the bottom line - measured in financial quarters. More "circus" than anything, imo. Rejecting the current "circus," without commenting on the structure that is presenting the circus just touches the surface.

You want to touch the third rail? Challenge the corporate structure and capitalism (corporatism) - whooeee - now that is challenging the culture's real religion!

"As rational beings..." - this often strikes me as funny cause I don't see a whole lot of evidence that humans are "rational beings," individually or in groups. Even in those without an imaginary friend ;)

Consider money. It is nothing yet it becomes something because all who come into contact with it agree it has value. An illusion. How rational is that?

Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music. (George Carlin)

by tampopo on Sat Aug 16th, 2008 at 10:03:08 PM EST
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Re: Your Liberal Media At Work (none / 0)

I don't see a whole lot of evidence that humans are "rational beings"...

That strikes me as funny since the essence of a rational being is to demand evidence before believing (and acting).

So what are you, anyway? The Flying Soba Monster?

by no3reed on Sat Aug 16th, 2008 at 10:14:25 PM EST
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Re: Your Liberal Media At Work (none / 1)

Maybe it is the word "evidence" that is confusing.

Humans work to make sense of the world. It has fascinated me to watch little children work to understand words, concepts... Think about trying to explain the difference between a cat and a dog. Yet 3 year olds are able to do this if they are in environments with cats and dogs and older humans saying things like, "See the cat!" Or, "No, that's a dog."

The whole process follows the "scientific method" of hypothesizing (guessing or predicting) then confirming or correcting. We do this with many things. So "evidence" doesn't need to be attached only to "rational."

What is "The Flying Soba Monster?"

Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music. (George Carlin)

by tampopo on Sat Aug 16th, 2008 at 10:50:08 PM EST
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Re: Your Liberal Media At Work (none / 1)

"Evidence" = "reason to believe". (Not necessarily conclusive reason; conclusive evidence = conclusive reason to believe.)

"Rational" = "guided by reason".

These equations are not my invention.

The process you describe, involving the three-year-olds, is what I would call part of the cultivation of rationality (as well as the acquisition, both from the adults and from sensory perception, of reasons to believe this or that).

I suspect their may be some confusion between us that results from your regarding "rational" as meaning something other than (and perhaps more grandiose than) "guided by reason". What do you take the word to mean?

by no3reed on Sat Aug 16th, 2008 at 11:12:13 PM EST
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Correction (none / 0)

"I suspect there," not "I suspect their," obviously.

by no3reed on Sat Aug 16th, 2008 at 11:14:14 PM EST
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Re: Your Liberal Media At Work (none / 1)

I associate "rational" with "logical." And "logical" leads to: "systematic, orderly, coherent." So when someone suggests humans are "rational" I interpret it as, "Humans are systematic, orderly, coherent." Then I consider behaviors of most humans I know, including myself, and it makes me laugh.

Now I know it is possible to learn to think "rationally" and "logically," to be able to "reason." But so often we have "wants" and "needs" that drive us, then we work to cover them or justify them with "reasons," so we can do what we want to do.

I consider "beliefs" much more powerful than "reasons." And we acquire those beliefs, form them from birth onward. Beliefs about self, others, good, bad, right, wrong... well before the frontal lobe of the brain has developed. I'm really talking more about psychology than religion.

Thanks for engaging.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music. (George Carlin)

by tampopo on Sun Aug 17th, 2008 at 12:18:40 AM EST
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