Re: faith
Posted by
Douglas Roberts-2 on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Faith-tp7580633p7580801.html
I, OTOH, was fairly certain I was going to encounter approximately the same amount as usual of, what do we call it? Pollyanna-like behavior:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollyanna_principle
No, that's not quite right.
Well no, that doesn't quite capture all of it either. Although this one sentence comes fairly close to capturing the dietary element that abounds here on FRIAM: Another criticism is that universities [substitute academics here for the purpose of my point] tend more to pseudo-intellectualism than intellectualism per se; for example, to protect their positions and prestige, academicians may over-complicate problems and express them in obscure language.
Some combination of the above, perhaps.
--Doug
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 9:53 AM, glen
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Douglas Roberts wrote at 09/26/2012 09:03 PM:
> dead gang members are far more productive members of society than
> live ones, I suspect.
And here I was worried I wouldn't get enough _hate_ in my diet today.
--
glen
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