On 7 Jun 2014, at 12:58 pm, LizR <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 6 June 2014 23:46, Kim Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Why do you feel I am being sarcastic? I thought what you wrote was amazing
>>> so I said so. Is it actually possible to deliver someone an honest
>>> compliment around here or is having a siege mentality mandatory?
>
>
> I may have a bit of a siege mentality. As someone without any suitable
> academic qualifications to discuss physics, I always feel that I am probably
> about to shoot myself in the foot every time I open my mouth.
>
> (I also have a morbid fear of coming out with mixed metaphors... :-)
Think nothing of it, Ma'am. The one who truly has the siege mentality is
currently cooling his heels after attacking the nicest guy on the planet,
Bruno, for having a different notion of falsification to him. This sort of
thing furthermore illustrates what I meant when I said there can be as many
sides to a story as there are heads in the room to advance a rational
perspective or point of view.
Sorry to mix up the threads momentarily, but why MUST there be only one
definition of falsification? That to me is as ridiculous as saying there is
only one side to a building. It simply depends on which side of the building
you are standing in front of as to what you report. To think otherwise is like
saying with confidence that all buldings are like those flats they use in
hollywood to simulate a wild western town - a facade only and nothing behind
that one face. What properly trained thinkers always do is seek the common
ground in the presentation of their ideas. This involves the complete
suspension of judgement; at least till all the pieces of the jigsaw are on the
table. Every person carries a unique perspective, their 1p perception of
"reality". This is the main reason I go with comp; it's a vaccine as Bruno
says, agsinst the elimination of the person. Indeed, if comp is true, persons
are the only things that are the really real part of reality. Let's have more
respect for persons and their clearly diverging points of view. But, in order
to have the same point of view we would all have to be standing in the exact
same spot. Now that's my definition of impossible.
K
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