Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
A former colleague from work snags the one hundred and third Best Sentence I’ve Heard Or Read Lately (BSIHORL) award.
Doing the wrong thing is still wrong even if everyone else is doing it. And doing the right thing is still right even if no one else is doing it.
And Yours Truly waxes Aristotelian in response:
[T]he very first step in figuring out the right answer is committing to a belief that there is one.
There is one. One and only one. An absolute answer that remains constant, now until the end of time, lacking any change in variables that are relevant to the question. There is a right answer, and any other answer that is proposed evaluating to a different value, has to be wrong.
To favor your sense of judgment over the consensus, and still know what you are doing, you have to have some confidence in it. To have confidence in your own judgment you need to have some way at arriving at the one true correct answer, with an accuracy potential greater than would be offered by random chance. And the first step in erecting such a system is to recognize the answer sought is an absolutely right answer, not a relatively right answer.
The tragedy of the times in which we live is that there are far too many people with opinions they want to guard jealously, who don’t want to take that initial step. And so they have to define “right” and “wrong” according to what everybody else is doing. When you think about it, once you sustain such a handicap, that’s about the most logical thing you can do.
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I would recommend this line of reasoning to you in your search for the “right” answer to many, many questions. The entire lecture series is available if you look for it. I have it, but don’t ask.
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/5022651/13359460
- BillW. | 11/23/2010 @ 15:40Love this, MK. 🙂
Just as in math, 2+2=4. 4 is the only, absolute right answer, all other answers are wrong.
It’s pretty simple.
- DarcsFalcon | 11/23/2010 @ 16:06I agree that there often is “one right answer”, but not always. If there were “one right answer”, communism would work; it fails precisely because different people place different values on different resources and results.
Show me the one right answer to the question of “How do we bridge this river?”
Show me the one right answer to “How do I portray the Madonna and Child?”
Show me the one right answer to “What’s the best career?”
Show me the one right answer to “How do I raise my child?”
DarcsFalcon:
- djmoore | 11/23/2010 @ 17:30As to math: Please show me the one right answer to “How do I prove the Pythagorean Theorem?”
Didn’t everyone read Marcus Aurelius?
- OregonGuy | 11/24/2010 @ 15:03.