Being an Intellectual

FOR cobert (criticalthinking.org)

You Otta Be an Intellectual!

My interest in ‘disinterested knowledge’ has led me to many of your discussions on the topic in the following sites aside from the Criticalthinking Forums: 1) James Randi Educational Forum, 2) Hypography Science Forums, 3) PhysOrgForums, and 4) ShadowsIntheCave.com. I don’t know where else you log in.

I find you are yourself a book to read. I will take time to read them all – in my already tight time. It is better than the senseless communication people today spend time in. At least I know I wouldn’t be wasting precious time.

In some of these sites, you leave some personal touch and it is easier to understand you because you leave some history of your thinking on some constructs.

Thank God for the kind of people like you.

Missing the water for the cola

FOR Sylvia Rozario
(merinews, Power to People)
Missing the water for the cola
05 August 2006, Saturday

We blame the cola companies, of course, because it is their lookout to make sure that the water they use is clean and uncontaminated. You do not point a finger on somebody assuming he is faultless so that you can be faultless. The government is quite far from the chemical pots of the cola companies. Even if they place proper norms against adulteration, the so-called chemists may not obey them. It does not need an implementor of rules to act before one does his job properly. It is not really a case of stimulus-response, you know. The cola companies are not inert bodies peopled with unthinking individuals. They have minds of their own – even without government cranking norms for them. Therefore, the cola companies take the blame – not the government, not the media.

Big Words are Useless

FOR Critical Thinkers (criticalthinkers.org)

What did either of them want to say?

1) It’s the question of how intelligence may inform action, and how action may bear the fruit of increased insight into meaning: a clear view of the values that are worthwhile and of the means by which they are to be made secure in experienced objects. Construction of ideals in general and their sentimental glorification are easy; the responsivilities both of studious thought and of action are shirked.

2)What?! Glib gibberish exuding pseudo-truths in witty yet empty metaphors, connected by abstruse references to common things, convoluted happily into a stream of pretty words bearing no relevance to previous posts. Then end the stream of twisted thought with a drive-by trite sentiment and shirk any real confrontation or exposition. Bon voyage! Look out! Don't forget to cover your mouth when you yawn!

Is critical thinking getting to be that snobbish?