I guess I will take a break from ET too, these discussions are just no fun anymore.
That's a shame. Just when we've got them on the run.... ;-)
Jake is a Defender of the Faith, just the same as any other. Except his Faith is in "Science" and the "scientific method".
He is a priest in what Pirsig called the "Church of Reason". "Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky
I've taken breaks too, and they are good for peace of mind. But I always return because I have such good friends here to share with. You can't be me, I'm taken
Not so very long ago, people remarked on this blog that philosophical disagreements would be used (and have been used) to drive in wedges between natural allies. It would be a sad irony if we were to drive in such wedges ourselves.
In other words, please consider this an apology for any insinuations of 'quackery' or somesuch in your practice.
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
And I do admit I am currently extra touchy - unfortunately I have been confronted over the last weeks, lets say with the shadow side of conventional medicine, and have been able to see some of the good stuff from the woo woo side. :-)
This disingenious, intellectual dishonesty/_ and exceptionalism are the ET equivalent of the eco-no-mist. Self-locked into quadrant 17, level B, having an ´on-my-terms-only´, puerile tantrum and refusing to come out. Newborn ´scientists´, as dangerous, authoritarian and myopic as newborn christians. Yet, you meet them and they are pretty full people! It´s an amazingly woowoo paradox, to use their terminology.
I will try to read below this and control myself, but if the ignorant and HURTFUL contempt continues, I´ll figure something else out.
Hope you give yourself credit and a good treat, then, come back soon. Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.
I'm not entirely sure what has provoked it, or how much of it is a defensiveness-projection thing, but if we had a smug-o-meter handy right now, the needle would be off the charts. At this point I've become too annoyed with everyone to care what their original stance was. See, now I am being smug... This diary is a smug-magnet. I suggest everyone slowly back away from it. "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
metavision:
a higher-level gnome
I do have quite a bit of weaknesses and shadows. And the other FP's are great people, and I really appreciate being in the same team with them. (okay, they might have some weaknesses too! At least I hope so.)
I would appreciate if we all could just take a deep breath, exhale and take a step back and start all over with each other. Let's stop this he did, she did - lets let it be.
Isn't Christmas supposed to be the time of love and forgiveness. Let's practice that! :-D
the pseudo-science hammers
gnome gang
disingenious, intellectual dishonesty/_ and exceptionalism
Newborn ´scientists´, as dangerous, authoritarian and myopic as newborn christians
I'm just sorry you've been wasting so much time reading us. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
