& BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2022-01-17 Mo: Martin Luther King, Jr. (December 18, 1963): Address at Western Michigan State University: ‘Now the other myth that gets around is the idea that legislation cannot really solve the problem and that it has no great role to play in this period of social change because you’ve got to change the heart and you can’t change the heart through legislation. You can’t legislate morals. The job must be done through education and religion. Well, there’s half-truth involved here. Certainly, if the problem is to be solved then in the final sense, hearts must be changed. Religion and education must play a great role in changing the heart. But we must go on to say that while it may be true that morality cannot be legislated, behavior can be regulated. It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless. It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me but it can keep him from lynching me and I think that is pretty important, also. So there is a need for executive orders. There is a need for judicial decrees. There is a need for civil rights legislation on the local scale within states and on the national scale from the federal government… LINK: <https://web.archive.org/web/20111101083523/https://wmich.edu/library/archives/mlk/transcription.html>
Thinking like an engineer. Remove the switch gear handle and use it to derail the trolly. Then go find the asshole who put the people on the tracks and use it to beat the shit out of him.
How the hell am I to get the jigsaw puzzle done or finished the dollhouse furniture project??? If you keep posting so much stuff I want to read or view!!!??
Re: Changing old folks minds
I am old.
Back in a time long forgotten, Obama, a friend, not so old, was repeating how horrible it was for Obama to bow to the Japanese PM. I went to the free university and posted back to him a link to google images of presidents bowing. I think it had an impression. Told him Fox was news for dumb shits.
listened to Yuen Yuen Ang when she talked about real estate and corruption. The Chinese RE markets have been amazing for 20 or so years. I remember reading some early blogs that commented on the RE boom back then. One stuck in my memory was a Chinese American analyst getting schooled by Chinese investors when he said the market got so irrational that it would crash. HaHaHaHa.
" if the discussion leads to agreement rather than if the discussion leads to the most people holding the correct view as to what would be the optimal decision. "
Pretty much also sums up how we run court cases, doesn't it?
Made me think of Pascal and how he got his wager a bit wrong. He did not consider that there were many glods and they would be as nasty mean as the old Jew's glod. Piss just one off and you were damned to burn forever. Makes one nervous deciding which temple to make a sacrifice.
Trolly Problem:
Thinking like an engineer. Remove the switch gear handle and use it to derail the trolly. Then go find the asshole who put the people on the tracks and use it to beat the shit out of him.
How the hell am I to get the jigsaw puzzle done or finished the dollhouse furniture project??? If you keep posting so much stuff I want to read or view!!!??
Re: Changing old folks minds
I am old.
Back in a time long forgotten, Obama, a friend, not so old, was repeating how horrible it was for Obama to bow to the Japanese PM. I went to the free university and posted back to him a link to google images of presidents bowing. I think it had an impression. Told him Fox was news for dumb shits.
listened to Yuen Yuen Ang when she talked about real estate and corruption. The Chinese RE markets have been amazing for 20 or so years. I remember reading some early blogs that commented on the RE boom back then. One stuck in my memory was a Chinese American analyst getting schooled by Chinese investors when he said the market got so irrational that it would crash. HaHaHaHa.
" if the discussion leads to agreement rather than if the discussion leads to the most people holding the correct view as to what would be the optimal decision. "
Pretty much also sums up how we run court cases, doesn't it?
Monotheistic vs Polytheistic:
Made me think of Pascal and how he got his wager a bit wrong. He did not consider that there were many glods and they would be as nasty mean as the old Jew's glod. Piss just one off and you were damned to burn forever. Makes one nervous deciding which temple to make a sacrifice.
Re: Trotsky
Milovan Djilas. got there first with his book The New Class