There, too, is a word for self creation I can't remember (only
apotheosis comes to mind, not right). Science has a lesson for us about
error, as successive approximation goes, the method of refining and
controlling error. Perhaps the only choice we get is to fall with grace.
Desiderata was a welcome find last night
(http://www.halexandria.org/dward017.htm).
I can't remember the word for emotional deluge either. /Mnemosyne, have
mercy!/
Slip, if you are around I'm not ignoring our conversation. It triggered
a hell of a ride, I am still picking out the pieces.
On 6/10/2010 7:44 AM, Pat wrote:
On 5 June, 02:18, kenny<[email protected]> wrote:
it is crazy when you think of all the possibilities. sometimes i
fantasize about all the options i have, to become something. though my
prudence keeps me on the mainstream. i dream much of living wild in
the woods like H.D.T. just one of many. what is the study of learning
from ones mistakes? and of learning of things we not yet know of? some
kind of scientoligist i'd think... and combine that with such
creativity to bring to the people, and teach them something more than
entertainment. enlightenment!
As English is a Germanic language, it's good for inventing new words.
If you want a new word for 'the study of learning from one's
mistakes', I suggest "Errorology". If you want a new word for "the
study of learning of things we do not yet know", how about
"Ignostology"? Usually, though, we just refer to both processes as
'learning' and let it go at that. I'm not sure I'd want a PhD in
Errorology anyway, as it might be given to me by mistake and, by
definition, may well have to be. ;-)
On Jun 4, 11:48 am, Pat<[email protected]> wrote:
On 3 June, 03:30, kenny<[email protected]> wrote:
if someone were to ask me to sum up the best thought i could to
explain what i call living i would say... it is trying to treat people
as who they are in situations. to try and have people see the other
side that they are blind to. we, i think, are all blind somewhere.
some people have issues...many different kinds. i think it is fun to
explore, challange, and dominate others. guess it is in my nature. and
when someone gets the best of me then i have learned something about
myself.
Yes, perhaps the best thing about losing an argument is that it
affords you the certain knowledge that you, obviously, didn't have
that would have won you the argument. Perhaps then, living is for
learning. And, of course, there are two main opportunities for
learning:
1) learning from a standpoint of ignorance
and
2) learning from having made a 'mistake'
Learning from a standpoint of ignorance is addressed, these days,
through education, by teaching our children certain basic facts in an
orderly fashion so that they can take that knowledge with them into
their later years. Any additional 'education' we do also falls into
this category.
The only other opportunity that life presents us with is when we make
a 'mistake'. By 'mistake', I mean, the kind of things where our
expectations of a result were different from the actual result. It
may be that our 'means of achieving the result' was not correct or it
may be that our expectations could have been different. Either way,
we are afforded a chance to learn and a chance to correct either our
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