Posts by mustang

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thinking vs. feeling.. must we choose just one ?

by caliber in

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thinkingthinkers decide based primarily on logic, and when they do so, they consider a decision to be made.

they tend to see the world in black and white and dislike fuzziness.

feelingfeelers decide based primarily through social considerations, listening to their heart and considering the feelings of others.

mustang

thinking vs. feeling.. must we choose just one ?

I really like this title. Dr. Gene Scott mentioned in one of his lectures that 'Aristotelian logic doesn't handle paradoxes very well'.

The simple, geometry class type reasoning driven logic that we are so used to is this Aristotelian if a, then b type of thoughts.

It is this type of 'Mr. Spock' logic that is emulated and sought by many. Even WTS tries to use it, although they fill their variety with logical fallacies. (My favorite WTS logical fallacy is what I call 'proof by analogy'.)

These logical processes exclude contradictory statements and try to resolve things by selecting one argument over another.

What if BOTH seemingly mutually exclusive arguments could still be held?

Mustang

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..The Meal in your Key Board..

by OUTLAW in

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we`ve all done it..your busy on the computer....pretty soon you realize..you`ve been on the computer longer than you thought............your hungry!........so what do you do?..you go into the kitchen grab some food and get back on the computer..you go to take a bite..and..food falls onto your key board and in between the keys..........god what a mess!..same thing with beverages..sip a beer....and..some of it gets on your key board........how many meals are in your key board?!..lol!

!.......what have food or beverages,have you dropped on your keyboard?...............................outlaw

mustang

Oh, hell, yes. Being an Electrical Engineer and having started as repairman, I have some tricks for that.

One day I was in a restroom of a major Electronics Manufacturing firm. I was brushing down my keyboard in the sink; the VP of Engineering walks by and says 'what are you doing'?

"Oh, I spilled cofee in it."

"Does that work?'"

"If you're careful, know how to do it, have a spare and don't use it for about a day, yes!!"

"When you're done with that one, come by my office..."

I got a real kick out of cleaning the one I spilled wine in

Tektronix, the Oscilloscope Manufacturer, has an "apps note" on how to wash Oscilloscopes. We had a spray booth for that purpose in the Calibration Lab when I worked in aerospace.

Lately I find myself holding the keyboards upside down and brushing them with a drafting foxtail.

Mustang

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Recent Literature Letter Sent out -Bound Volumes

by stillajwexelder in

briefly it stated that all those who make extensive use of the cd-rom should seriously consider whether or not they need bound volumes.

these have to be next on the hit list of things cut imho

mustang

so if you dont have a computer, then you better keep your print copies.

Do they still sell those "do it yourself" binders? They were blue, empty and had wires to hold the loose mgazines.

Mustang

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IMO ~ The Great Tribulation and Armageddon

by Flash in

imo - the great tribulation:.

occurs when religion is attacked.

it appears to be a destructive power apart from god but without his intervention 'no flesh would be saved' on earth (matthew 24: 21 and 22).

mustang

UN with the wound healed? League of Nations dead to UN resurrected?

Well, the UN is still hurting; if it survived the wound that is because lobotomies can be survived.

The top 5 in the UN will veto anything they don't like. Any more expansion of that veto power and you can really count the UN out.

Bush Jr. said once that the UN was 'just a debating society'; that's about right. The only effective thing the UN has ever done is bully the smaller countries by using the dole of the IMF; but the smaller countries are getting more affluent and smarter.

If the UN wound is healed, it is still on life support.

Mustang

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Did You Get To "Handle The Microphones"???

by minimus in

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were you one of those deemed "qualifed for this privilege":??

?

mustang

Big time.

Mustang

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safe place KH?!?!?!!?

by loosie in

can anyone point me in the directions where i would stats on how many deaths have occurred at kingdom halls?

i just got back from the bathroom barfing after reading this email.

i wanted to respond to it with some stats.

mustang

I knew a "brother" that had more than one Bible study commit suicide

Mustang

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My son is visiting this weekend and he wants to go back to college

by troubled mind in

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when my son was in high school he received a scholarship for two yrs at our community college .

we were all witnesses at that time , but we encouraged him to go for the education .

he would have to attend night classes two nights during the week that interfered with meetings.

mustang

The bad news here is that Astronomy is tough to get a real paying gig in. I've seen Physicists do Electronics, Mechanics, Nuclear and they can generally spread theirselves around. But Astronomy is pure tough as hell to find openings in; and its politics in a lot of cases. Teaching and an academic life may be only route.

Mustang

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New Orleans is a lost cause...

by Gregor in

i was thinking the same thing gregor.

i think it will soon be a ghost town.

mustang

The Netherlands (and to a lesser extent, Singapore) knows what they are doing with this technology. Somebody didn't do their homework.

My friend in NOLA just got her house back. She used to hold the phone to the window for me to hear the Lake P. waves lapping at her back porch.

I grew up on the East Coast hurricane alley. We never left: 20 feet of sealevel and 10 miles makes a difference. Even a friend that had a house within sight of the Sound (water) was OK: they had the same 20 feet. When we used to study with them in the 60's she mentioned that the house had stood for over 200 years.

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