Thursday, November 29, 2018

Which Group do I fit with

There are the skeptics. These are a negative bunch, always taking every statement apart, and demanding references, then taring up those references as being not good enough or false, unless it agrees with their opinions. And some of their favorite concepts are just wrong.

People are not uniform. Any actual characteristic or physical value we study has a standard distribution, more or less. Social need is one such, and I fall well below one standard deviation below the norm, Oh well, but I do need some interaction. As Eide found in his dyslexia study, all dyslexics have long column spacing and fewer neuron connections, but not all long and few's are dyslexics. Likewise all autistic are short and many's but not all short and many's are autistic. So what does it mean, our genes, and development combine to give us variation, some get more, some get less. Oh well. 

Then there are the humanists that cannot make a decision, nor organize meetings or gatherings without a consistence... so nothing ever happens, unless someone make a free choice, and free choice is Riverside Lounge, if it is open and if not, Garneau Lounge, but parking is too expensive, and there is never a preset topic, so we go off the rails.

There is the Society of Edmonton Atheists, who like to hold meetings in the north and west ends of the city... the next city, along way from home, and frequently in ale houses. If I lived closer... oh well. These are a bunch of activists, that happen to be all atheists, but most are activists in other areas...mostly. I just do not care about gays, abortions, some Alberta political parties, nor peoples. They just do not matter. I struggle with understanding the people and their motives.

There is the no authority (no god) ethics group, who love to talk and hear themselves explore... but after I took the time to read two textbooks on ethics and several other books, perhaps ten, I realize that much is just beating of gums, not real but just noise. Existential philosophy as MacQuarrie preaches is ok for those who made a conscious decision to "keep on living", but we are responsible without that decision. His revelation was just that; a point in time that the revelation occurred; we were always responsible, even if we never realized we were, even if we never got so low as to contemplate suicide. But ethics has value, and need to be studied. We as a people can draw an arbitrary line in the sand on any subject. 

So I shoot archery at a club, and coach a few on Saturdays, well actually I do the "introduction to  archery," traditional archery that is, for try out first timers. If they come back a couple of time, they become potential members.  But that is two days a week, and I still need more. This has nothing to do with philosophy, eating/not eating, and is just a bit of exercise. 


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