ASelf-referencing Sentenceis a sentence that describes itself. For example, "This sentence has five words," or "This sentence contains nine syllables." A more interesting example is, "In this sentence the word ‘and’ occurs twice, the word ‘eight’ occurs twice, the word ‘four’ occurs ...
When somebody’s behavior puts you in a tizzy, ask yourself what it has to do with you. If someone is actively harming you, then by all means stick up for yourself and do what you can to avoid people like that. But remember: If you’re constantly getting in a huff about other peopl...
That was interesting, because my teacher said that while learning hojojutsu was not considered a very spiritually “pure” endeavor, there may be times when necessity called for it, such as when holding an enemy samurai prisoner rather than killing him. You therefore spare his life. Or when h...
In summary, the Twins Paradox is often explained by the asymmetry between the points of view of each twin due to acceleration and changes in direction. However, there is another important factor that is rarely mentioned, which is the distance between Earth and a distant star used in the ...
It is an interesting observation to note how seemingly unknown personalities, magically appear on the scene as presidential candidates. Then, before you know it, somehow you are left to choose from a small group of extremely wealthy people, who suspiciously have the same broad social view....
In my teaching, can I address my tendency to fill in too much detail? To leave explanations for my co-participants? It feels that not to do this is disrespectful to the learner. (And here’s another paradox – the first principle of good teaching is clarity! So be clear about what ne...
The interesting findings recently in psychology, first discovered in 2001 by Costa and McRae, is that the difference in average values between men and women for numerous personality variables become bigger, not smaller, in more gender equal societies. This is the reverse of what most of us (...
Yet even here, in this statement of one person’s certain love for another, the first word we read, not once leading a line but thrice, is “if.” It’s an interesting way to phrase it. Perhaps it’s the true way, the only way. * The words most of us want to hear when in ...
All three are women, which I think is “interesting,” given the Muslim repression of women. All three are Democrats, which is not surprising, but another reason I have rejected the Demos. What I don’t get is why the other cultures in the Middle East have given the Palestinians less su...
paradox- YOU HAVE TO CARE because you live in the world and are forced to deal with whatever state of affairs you are presented with, BUT the society you are supposed to care about offers little to nothing of value, especially as a single white man, and so you tend to withdraw for ...