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...
I see from this item at Cassy’s place, that we have finally reached the Rubicon of lazy, impractical thinking: “Facts” are being used to suppress other facts. People who acknowledge reality are being castigated for avoiding reality, and people who shun and poison reality are being extolled for the merit of somehow fortifying it.
In logic, the Law of Identity states that an object is the same as itself: A ≡ A. Any reflexive relation upholds the law of identity. When discussing equality, the fact that “A is A” is a tautology.
“That everything is necessarily the same with itself and different from another” is the self-evident first principle of linguistics, for it governs the designation or ‘identification’ of individual concepts within any symbolic language, so as to avoid ambiguity in the communicating of concepts between the users of that language. Such a principle is necessary because a ‘symbolic designator’ has no inherent meaning of its own, but derives its meaning from a cognizant agent who correlates the given designator with a conventionally prescribed concept that has been previously learned and stored in their memory.
— Wikipedia entry for Law of Identity (sentence-case & bold mine).
This is the essential building block of all statements that purport to comment on real things. It is the common unified ancestor. Without the capability of recognizing a thing as what it really is, no truth can be recognized, and if truth cannot be recognized then falsehood can’t be recognized either. Nor can you graduate to more complex thoughts about cause-and-effect; you cannot make a statement that A causes B, if you cannot first come to some understanding that A is A.
But you can’t recognize things as what they really are, that’s hateful!
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This … is serious?
- philmon | 10/03/2010 @ 21:34Yeah, it seems to be. Once people get it in their heads they’re crusading for something noble, they become capable of new things…like dictating to others what to think. This clip is just unusual in that it is dropping all pretenses, and it seems the people responsible can’t even see anything wrong with telling complete strangers what words to stop using. Words that are accurate in every conceivable, pertinent way.
- mkfreeberg | 10/04/2010 @ 07:38