> On Aug 5, 3:18 pm, Robert Cohen msn.com> wrote:
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>> On Aug 4, 2:58 pm, "curmudgeon" bresnan.net> wrote:

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>>> Way back when in my high school and college days, I had a teacher who just
>>> loved to use clichés and platitudes to get the class talking about
>>> philosophy.
>>> His idea was very simple he would quote what I now call a bumper sticker
>>> idiom and then ask the following questions.

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>>> Do you understand it, if so then why so ?
>>> If you do not understand it, then why so ?
>>> Do you agree with it, if so then why so ?
>>> If you disagree with it, then why so ?

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>>> This approach meant that there were no wrong answers as such,
>>> anything and everything was up for debate, both pro and con.

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>>> A couple of examples for your intellect, imagination or entertainment.

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>>> *Murphy's Law*
>>> If anything can go wrong it will.

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>>> *The Peter Principle*
>>> In any hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to their level of
>>> incompetence.

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>>> *The Dilbert Principle*
>>> The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where
>>> they can do the least damage - Management.

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>>> *The Chaos Theory*
>>> Any complex interactive model is no better than a wild guess, even if the
>>> logic is perfect.

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>>> "There are no enemies in science just anomalies, but science has many
>>> enemies"
>>> *CUR*

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>> the ideal major part of the teacher's job is of course somehow
>> motivating the student to think, and a teacher is surely memorable
>> because he actually manages to cooly do so w/o putting an average
>> student to sleep

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>> chaz has certainly responded intelligently

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>> while another student may respond imaginatively-creatively, though not
>> as the rational chaz

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>> now, i have to imagine and create sumthin to try to demonstrate this
>> quasi-terrific wis-dumb here

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>> uh...helle, and thinking ain't like eating plums, nectarines, and
>> monosodium glutimated chinese food, but almost as fun nevertheless to
>> the contrary me

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>> this nonsense takes thought, insight, pswado-cleverness, mocking
>> importance, and, beyond everything in short attn span reality, non-
>> boredom, altho some boorishness

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>> teacher: what example of murphy's colorful legalistic foolishness
>> happened on an interstate highway in minneapolis a couple days ago?

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>> any presidents of the u.s. that are prime examples of the peter
>> principle in you political biasness?

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>> how can management treat an incompetent worker w/o incurring
>> expensive lawsuit, stupid strike, nasty reaction, possible revenge?

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>> what happened to normal order when there was a devastating hurricanre
>> on the usa's southern gulf coast?

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> "normal" - what the hell is THAT?
> Why is it that humans seem to have to cosy view that there is such a
> thing as a normal earth? Why is it do you think that they are so
> arrogant as to assume that nature was designed just for them and that
> if somthing is going wrong with it, it must be their fault?
> Can the last glacial maximum (18kbp) be explained this way?
> WHy should the Florida tragedy be seen as a surprise?
> Has the absence of China style flooding in the USA something to do
> with the US being "god's country"?
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>> what are "anomalies" and what is their significance in re- formulting
>> science theory?
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