tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post1313147107675550669..comments2024-03-28T16:58:17.705-04:00Comments on Grim's Hall: When Ideologies TackleGrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-33766528779751802552011-11-25T07:03:18.537-05:002011-11-25T07:03:18.537-05:00I tend toward the position that we would be better...I tend toward the position that we would be better off telling some kids the truth as we see it- that they might not be cut out for college and might be better off studying a trade or clerical skill for instance. Those are perfectly reasonable and honorable paths to travel, why should we be averse to it? I'm rather against telling every kid to 'chase your dreams, whatever they are- anything is possible'. Sure, anything is possible, but some things are a lot more likely that others. Why swim against the current? If you choose that, you'd better be as driven as a sockeye salmon.douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17261739259295914188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-39827585044566281962011-11-21T18:26:50.081-05:002011-11-21T18:26:50.081-05:00Now you're talking like a Buddhist instead of ...Now you're talking like a Buddhist instead of a Confucian.Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-27518331137675021062011-11-21T14:11:38.053-05:002011-11-21T14:11:38.053-05:00You're making my head hurt.You're making my head hurt.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02521739006999750126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-42509705468722365072011-11-20T22:52:34.499-05:002011-11-20T22:52:34.499-05:00That it might just be. Our overlords seem entranc...That it might just be. Our overlords seem entranced with China, these days.<br /><br />But say it's right; even then, there are only very few of us who will ever write poetry, or take to war for love instead of accident, or know a vision of God. Maimonides said that prophecy was so certain, for those who did the work of purification, that the absence of prophecy was miraculous in itself: it could come about, that is, only because God got involved and stopped it for His own purposes.<br /><br />Consciousness is emergent, we've agreed; but what, exactly, does that mean? What precisely is emerging, and where was it hiding?Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-8012005374658430862011-11-20T18:42:33.421-05:002011-11-20T18:42:33.421-05:00How Confucian.How Confucian.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02521739006999750126noreply@blogger.com