Jan-Anders, That was soooo hilarious. Time to move on to writing screenplays and directing your own films! - It's all storying-telling (I cannot help it.) and yours was perfect.
Marsha On Oct 19, 2012, at 12:21 PM, Jan Anders Andersson <[email protected]> wrote: > <Hitler refuses WIlliam James_s pragmatism.3gp> > > 19 okt 2012 kl. 18.08 skrev MarshaV: > >> >> Hi Jan-Anders, >> >> "This video contains content from geotv, who has blocked it in your country >> on copyright grounds." >> >> You have a happy weekend too. >> >> >> Marsha >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Oct 19, 2012, at 11:56 AM, Jan Anders Andersson wrote: >> >>> [email protected]>, <507F13EC.609090, [email protected]>, >>> , <[email protected]>, >>> <[email protected]> >>> <[email protected]> >>> To: [email protected] >>> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) >>> >>> Hi all >>> >>> Wish you a happy weekend. >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW8ul1kuook >>> >>> Jan Anders >>> >>> 18 okt 2012 kl. 03.07 skrev david buchanan: >>> >>>> >>>> "Harry Truman, of all people, comes to mind, when he said, concerning his >>>> administration's programs, 'We'll just try them -- and if theydon't work >>>> -- why then we'll just try something else.' That may not be an exact >>>> quote, but it's close. The reality of the American government isn't >>>> static, he said, it's dynamic. If we don't like it, we'll get something >>>> better. The American government isn't going to get stuck on any fancy >>>> doctrinaire ideas. The key word is 'better' - Quality. ...The point is >>>> that the President and everyone else, from the wildest radical to the >>>> wildest reactionary, agrees that the government SHOULD change in response >>>> to Quality, even if it doesn't. ...And what Harry Truman said, really, >>>> was nothing different from the practical, pragmatic attitude of any >>>> laboratory scientist or any engineer or any mechanic when he's not >>>> thinking 'objectively' in the course of his daily work." (ZAMM 284-5) >>>> >>>> >>>>> From: [email protected] >>>>> To: [email protected] >>>>> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:49:14 -0600 >>>>> Subject: Re: [MD] The Art of Philosophy >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> MRB said: >>>>> Centralized government systems only work for defense and >>>>> justice-administration - at best. This is because government is >>>>> inertial. >>>>> >>>>> Mark said: >>>>> Yes, and the smallest government possible to administer these things. >>>>> This is because of the expense of government. >>>>> >>>>> dmb says: >>>>> I'll bet a hundred bucks that neither one of you bothered to read the >>>>> article. If you had, you'd realize how un-pragmatic you're being. >>>>> >>>>> "Still, while James did want us to believe, he also wanted us to give up >>>>> “ideologies.” He called pragmatism “[t]he attitude of looking away from >>>>> first things, principles, ‘categories,’ supposed necessities; and of >>>>> looking towards last things, fruits, consequences, facts.” Pragmatists >>>>> can have principles but not self-verifying ones; they renounce any >>>>> certainties that are based on claims of universal necessity. In our >>>>> world of chance and change, things may not go the way we want either >>>>> intellectually or practically, so we have to look to the developing world >>>>> of actions and results for support of, and challenges to, our most >>>>> cherished faiths. The final test of even our logic is how well it leads >>>>> us to act and live. Pragmatists therefore think, and act, provisionally, >>>>> or subject to later changes in course." >>>>> >>>>> "In 2006, Obama, then the junior senator from Illinois wrote in his >>>>> memoir “The Audacity of Hope”, that the Constitution, rather than being a >>>>> dead document based on settled principles, is “designed to force us into >>>>> a conversation” and offers “a way by which we argue about our future.” >>>>> And he criticized his own Democratic party for failing to bring new ideas >>>>> to this argument, having become “the party of reaction”: “In reaction to >>>>> a war that is ill-conceived, we appear suspicious of all military action. >>>>> In reaction to those who proclaim the market can cure all ills, we resist >>>>> efforts to use market principles to tackle pressing problems. In reaction >>>>> to religious overreach, we equate tolerance with secularism and forfeit >>>>> the moral language that would help infuse our policies with a larger >>>>> meaning.” Obama challenged both parties to leave behind their ideological >>>>> boilerplate and develop something new, something that all Americans can >>>>> come to believe in." >>>>> >>>>> And how do you guys respond? In knee-jerk fashion with the same old >>>>> ideological boilerplate we've all heard a thousand times, that's how. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Sigh. >>>>> >>>>> Troll, troll, troll away... >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Moq_Discuss mailing list >>>>> Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. >>>>> http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org >>>>> Archives: >>>>> http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ >>>>> http://moq.org/md/archives.html >>>> >>>> Moq_Discuss mailing list >>>> Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. >>>> http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org >>>> Archives: >>>> http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ >>>> http://moq.org/md/archives.html >>> >>> Moq_Discuss mailing list >>> Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. >>> http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org >>> Archives: >>> http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ >>> http://moq.org/md/archives.html >> >> >> >> ___ >> >> >> Moq_Discuss mailing list >> Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org >> Archives: >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ >> http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
