Learning
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Science can be refuted but not verified
I intend to expand upon the questions proposed by Descartes, Hume and Popper. Knowledge requires definition as to what it is and how it is used. We don’t know what we don’t know but we can speculate based upon the limitations of what we do know or can state with a degree of certainty. I… Continue reading
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The Corporation Dinner
Good Evening Sir and Madam, I Will Be Your Waiter This Evening… I get paid 19k2 a year, it is not a lot, for this 19k2 I am expected to be a technical expert, a problem solver, a specialist with the ability to analyse, research, understand and react to difficult technical problems. Just to be… Continue reading
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I like working here but it’s broken
First let me start with a statement, I like working here, it’s a good place, it has interesting people, I have an interesting job and what we all contribute to is the betterment of lives, that is a good thing that needs no further qualification. I think it is fundamental to this essay that it… Continue reading
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Pride undeserved
How do they sleep at night?, we often hear this statement, usually when describing dictators or murderers or those that have harmed a child. I wonder should we extend this measure of questioning the humanity of an individual or a group into other areas, particularly into political ideologues and the manifestations of their policies? Let… Continue reading
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That’s Fine
We witness interactions between persons all the time, every minute of every day, but we do not see them for what they are. We understand the words but conversation is about more than mere words. I find myself listening more and more to not what is said, as if it is written on paper and… Continue reading
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The Will to Stupid
I’d love to be thick, joyous it would be, and I’d fail to sit in wonder of the idiocy that surrounded me because I would be in it and of it. I sound cruel and aloof I know, call me so if you like, I don’t mind, it’s the easiest reaction. Who does this asshole… Continue reading
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On Belief
On Belief In the beginning a very astute and devious humanoid looked up to the sky in wonder at a giant ball of burning hydrogen. It occurred to this primitive man who if he could convince his fellow humanoids that the hydrogen ball was in charge, had a voice that spoke to him only and… Continue reading
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Pedagogically
On the position of Kaczynski, Pedagogically In an educational society but not of that society, the dissent of a tutor based on such paradigmatic reasoning as trying to act as if we were educationally free in a system that simply labels itself free but stands up to no scrutiny of this postulate. This is the awakened individual… Continue reading
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The Principal’s Speech
The Principal’s Speech Ok so there is a speech day every year at ******** School and in 2015 procedures were handled by the new Principal, a man who is happy to be known for his enthusiastic creation of and strict adherence to procedures. While that itself is not problematic, as procedure is necessary for a machine… Continue reading
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A defense of freedom
Who can tell me what I can read? what I may look at? what I should think about? That is the question we must ask ourselves in the light of recent events. It is attractive to entertain the notion of safety in our lives at the detriment of a few freedoms that most of us… Continue reading
