Comments on: Some Heresies in the Unfolding of Modern Thought: Passages from Toulmin’s COSMOPOLIS http://www.nonesoblind.org/blog/?p=5933 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:37:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Jim Z. http://www.nonesoblind.org/blog/?p=5933&cpage=1#comment-394119 Jim Z. Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:17:47 +0000 http://www.nonesoblind.org/blog/?p=5933#comment-394119 I agree, Andy, and this only reinforces the importance (the seriousness) of people evaluating those "who would be king," to borrow from Kipling, those who pretend to power in our nation. We've obviously done a terrible job of this of late if we enabled a GW Bush in the highest office, and a S. Palin to come perilously close to door #2. I agree, Andy, and this only reinforces the importance (the seriousness) of people evaluating those “who would be king,” to borrow from Kipling, those who pretend to power in our nation. We’ve obviously done a terrible job of this of late if we enabled a GW Bush in the highest office, and a S. Palin to come perilously close to door #2.

]]> By: Andrew Bard Schmookler http://www.nonesoblind.org/blog/?p=5933&cpage=1#comment-393719 Andrew Bard Schmookler Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:47:02 +0000 http://www.nonesoblind.org/blog/?p=5933#comment-393719 The problem of course is, Jim Z., that the kinds of people who are "incapable of operating amid uncertainty" are also highly represented among those who are willing to sacrifice anything for power. (The link is, the power is another way --besides a posture of certainty-- about the anxiety these people experience if they don't feel that they feel in CONTROL.) So it isn't so easy to keep them away from "positions of significant responsibility," since they're among the most motivated and most adept at accruing power. The problem of course is, Jim Z., that the kinds of people who are “incapable of operating amid uncertainty” are also highly represented among those who are willing to sacrifice anything for power. (The link is, the power is another way –besides a posture of certainty– about the anxiety these people experience if they don’t feel that they feel in CONTROL.)

So it isn’t so easy to keep them away from “positions of significant responsibility,” since they’re among the most motivated and most adept at accruing power.

]]> By: Jim Z. http://www.nonesoblind.org/blog/?p=5933&cpage=1#comment-393713 Jim Z. Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:28:21 +0000 http://www.nonesoblind.org/blog/?p=5933#comment-393713 It is true that there are many people who are incapable of functioning amid uncertainty. We simply shouldn't place such persons in positions of significant responsibility or authority. It is true that there are many people who are incapable of functioning amid uncertainty. We simply shouldn’t place such persons in positions of significant responsibility or authority.

]]> By: David R http://www.nonesoblind.org/blog/?p=5933&cpage=1#comment-393598 David R Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:12:27 +0000 http://www.nonesoblind.org/blog/?p=5933#comment-393598 The important thing in 'our' explorations of the seemingly apparent (or even obvious) is to keep foremost in mind our heritage also of demonstrable and demonstrated TRUTH of our own human connections to "THE SOURCE' and so then, we look carefully to see how new (to us, ie, the current understandings) observations fit or illuminate rather than contradict. It is important to remember that the God of our fathers is always known to be ETERNAL with whom a thousand years is but a day and a day as a thousand years. Indeed, what is 'time' when we think of 'eternity'?! A sense of certainty (or structure) is necessary for an reasonably orderly society and absolutely for successful enterprise, PERIOD ! So, it is foolish to fly in the face of an ongoing social order and system of 'understanding' (or belief) with a contradictory interpretation of supposed 'new' light. The key expression here is ' contradictory interpretation'. That, I observe, is the greatest error of so called 'science' which I see as somewhat divorced from the whole of reality. A-men The important thing in ‘our’ explorations of the seemingly apparent (or even obvious) is to keep foremost in mind our heritage also of demonstrable and demonstrated TRUTH of our own human connections to “THE SOURCE’
and so then, we look carefully to see how new (to us, ie, the current understandings) observations fit or illuminate rather than contradict.

It is important to remember that the God of our fathers is always known to be ETERNAL with whom a thousand years is but a day and a day as a thousand years. Indeed, what is ‘time’ when we think of ‘eternity’?!

A sense of certainty (or structure) is necessary for an reasonably orderly society and absolutely for successful enterprise, PERIOD !

So, it is foolish to fly in the face of an ongoing social order and system of ‘understanding’ (or belief) with a contradictory interpretation of supposed ‘new’ light.

The key expression here is ‘ contradictory interpretation’.

That, I observe, is the greatest error of so called ‘science’ which I see as somewhat divorced from the whole of reality.

A-men

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