December 2011
galileogst replied to your post: See someone who follows you reblog something you…
Speaking for myself, I sometimes come across it from them first, in my feed. If it speaks to me, I post it the moment I see it. There is no love denied you, they just appeared in my feed first, as I scrolled down. :)
I think I was referring to someone reblogging the Glassworks rendition by Whitwell, dunno...
Earth Must Have Another Moon, Say Astronomers →
deus—ex-machina:
Scientists studying satellites orbiting the planet have come to an astounding conclusion: Earth has multiple moons at any given time, the MIT Technology Review reported.
Mikael Granvik, along with colleagues at the University of Hawaii, first discovered a mysterious body orbiting the Earth in 2006. The object — or RH120 as it was known — turned out to be a tiny...
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ontologicalterrorist:
randomly interject “oh, you’re one of those” in conversations to make everyone feel self-conscious.
if only they laughed or questioned me when I say this—they’re too busy feeling judged.
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“When I came through Yellowstone park with this bus I saw a sign that said,...”
– Ken Kesey, Magic Trip (film)
“But it felt like the more facts that were revealed, the more the truth receded....”
– Haruki Murakami; 1Q84
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“You can’t really be strong until you see a funny side to things.”
– Ken Kesey (via prometheanreach)
“Philosophers want to flee from scholarship: they are pursued by it. We see what...”
– Nietzsche, U II 3. Autumn 1873-Winter 1873-74 (via bbcity)
Notes from Two Scientific Psychologists: How... →
If someone asked you to describe the psychological aspects of personhood, what would you say? Chances are, you’d describe things like thought, memory, problem-solving, reasoning, maybe emotion. In other words, you probably list the major headings of a cognitive psychology text-book. In cognitive psychology, we seem to take it for granted that these are, objectively, the primary components of...
phredosophy replied to your post: Being a personality hoodwinks the vaguely-minded…
I’d say the non-personalities are the cameras monitoring your output!
>.>
And how I do love them! Very stimulating, more often than not.
I’m a defusing person, though, so I may not be the most stimulating in turn.
juuuuuliet replied to your post: Being a personality hoodwinks the vaguely-minded…
what are you even talking about
why’d you like if you dun get it ughhh no one understands ;;;;
Being a personality hoodwinks the vaguely-minded into monitoring your output!
Hooray.
(Wonder what that says of the non-personalities. I imagine they’re simply the ones reserved in absolute proclamations or testaments. Impunity from insolence, benighted in boredom.)
ontologicalterrorist:
so what part of the great chain of being are you from?
See someone who follows you reblog something you recently posted, but from someone else.
Didn’t like it comin’ out of my mouth but outta theirs? I see what’s good there.
The Dunning–Kruger Effect →
erikfox:
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to recognize their mistakes.[1] The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their...
“Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a...”
– Terence McKenna (via psychedelic-trips)
“The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of...”
– ‘Invisible’ Adam ‘Division of Labour’ Smith-Libertarian-Smith Hand - in Wealth of Nations (not men)