This is gonna be crazy..
Hey
What psychedelics have you done so far?
DXM, mushrooms, and lots of salvia. Thankfully, I have gone from being a fanatic to being interested in moderation, perhaps to partake once every few months.
You equate Individualism/free market capitalism with the right side of the political spectrum.
Why not the Left?
What is the relationship between Individualism, free market capitalism and the purpose of government that should be upheld?
Not sure I understand.
4. What is your opinion on the song "Teenage Dream" by Katy Perry? Why?
It makes me all fuzzy inside.
Yay
I hope that this isn't controversial as I think it will be, but I think that left wing = More power to the people, while right wing = More power to powerful people. That's why communism is at one end and Fascism is at the other.
From what history has shown, communism and socialism only
claim to empower the people, but especially with communism, we see iron fisted authoritarian rule.
(Goes on wikipedia to see something about the subject)... Ok, My thoughts are just not right. Take a
read on it, yourself. They have a cool picture with the spectrum. But my ideas are not too far-fetched, anyway.
I'll bone up. I suspect, though, that the important factor is not the morality of the left and the right, but merely the amount of control the government exerts. I doesn't matter,
at all, what they are controlling--only
that they control. Plus, the idea falls apart altogether when the government isn't really controlling anything. How can you have a "left" or "right" form of libertarianism if libertarianism doesn't even seek to use government as a means of enforcing morality?
1. What is critical thinking, and can it be taught? If so, how?
Reasoning with an analytic approach, obviously teachable, but better when transparently presented as a universal learning appliance to encourage it's autonomous use. I disagree with your rationale re: "Why is a child's favorite..." and get the impression from your vague comments that you're promoting some absurd notion related to 'Passive students equate to better schooling'. The irony of this is that it's true if you're a teacher or administrator, but the contemporary approach of standardized curriculum universally applied is more along the lines of indoctrination than education.
When I say a child's favorite question is "why?" I mean that they are specifically
not passive in what they are exposed to. They demand sufficient justification for doing what doesn't immediately appear to be worth doing. I admire that. Then again, I think that we should have every right to kick them out if they are disruptive.
Simplify or elaborate this question...it is currently unapproachable within the context of this forum.
I'll explain what I think in terms of the INTP.
All functions seem to be equally a part of conscious thought, but our skill at using them diminishes as you go from dominant to inferior. INTPs crave social-network belonging as much as anyone, but have backwards ideas about how to achieve it.
The tertiary and inferior function thus form the "shadow," the area of consciousness that tends to get us in trouble. Si, the tertiary function, makes us aware of expectations and traditions -- another set of areas we wish to succeed in, but have little ability to do directly because to do so directly would seem irrational to us. Traditions, expectations, and social success, at face, are not particularly rational, but what we fail to see is that they aren't particularly
irrational either. To try to approach these things directly, for the INTP, requires dishonesty--a 'fake' self. Furthermore, feeling an obligation towards these things forces the INTP to examine their rationality, if he is to invest the effort to 'fake' them.
Falling back on the dominant and auxiliary functions feels like a major risk because it means giving up these 2 realms which are also important to the INTP, but having done that, he relies on his strengths and the weaker areas fall into an acceptable level fulfillment, so the latter 2 functions don't
need to constantly be nagging him because they are fulfilled via the dominant and auxiliary.
For example, perhaps an INTP hates clubs, but this seems to be how everyone goes out an socializes. Attempting to fulfill his expectations and gain social success he may go to clubs sometimes, but he never has a good time and doesn't seem to make connections he finds valuable. Better not to go to the clubs. But what will I
do, he may think. Who knows? Do whatever you want, take the risk. The clubs were a definitely dead end, but doing what you want could lead to anything - probably good things, eventually.
I remember you from INTPc. You're the guy that soaks his political threads in gasoline and then complains about being mistreated after they predictably burst into flames and scorch him.
I sense passive aggression in your tone (of the whole post). Just saying, I may not be above inciting conflict, but neither are many other people, and I'm a bit less subtle about it. Furthermore, I was usually arguing alone against a veritable
team of dissenters, because my views were fairly different than most others' at that place. If you look back, and I'm sure you won't (and neither would I), you'll see that I did put a lot of effort into responding carefully (as I am now) to my dissenters unless they were especially disrespectful, like madrigal, hustler, or qualia, for instance. Even then, I took special care to explain to them why I felt they were being immature, as I am with you now. As far as I know, we have never interacted before, at least in a meaningful way - you don't know me - and I have been harmless here - you have no specific reason to come to this thread and disseminate ill-will toward me, other than to appear
above it all. If that's how it's gonna be, I recommend you take the simple step of ignoring me.
Yes if my health holds up. The more time the better, but it should be "quality time."
Depends on the rate of decline and its prospects I think.
I agree. Living to 100 doesn't mean you get to 80 and then live your last 20 years in misery. Live to 100, and you'll probably be healthy through your 80s and maybe have problems in the 90s. Most people Are healthy through their 60s and have problems in their 70s. Gotta have problems some time, eh? People who live to a hundred simply had a longer time to enjoy good health - it is not as if they spend all those extra years in misery.
Real good questions, zago. Hope you will enjoy this forum. If you don't and say why, will you allow a chance for reform?
Thanks. I thought it was a good way to come in, just to ask some random shit on my mind and see what people thought.
Welcome. I haven't inclination to tackle each point; but:
Thanks, and that was a nice post. Impressive.
On that note, Welcome to the forum!
Thanks
1. Critical thinking is the ability to examen an idea from multiple angles. It can be taught from an early age by encouraging thinking and artistic abilities.
I hadn't thought of that, but I suppose it could be included in a definition of critical thinking. I tend to emphasize the 'critical' part, as in explaining why something is negative or, literally, unbelievable.
