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The Empty Locker
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Finally, today it's done. "I did it", but it wasn't just me, I had a lot of help from the daughter. It would have been easy had it been anyone else's shit, mine own, it stinks.
I'll say it again. She's a trooper.
That said - Empty Locker, VERY FULL APARTMENT - and only a couple of days to downsize it all. It won't all go, I'm sure, but I have to take the photos, try, at least, always, try...
A lot of shit sold and I don't have the merchant heart I thought I did, in the end it just wore me down, but it persuaded me, for sure, not to go buying any more shit. Not that it would fit...
A boot filled with buttons
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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The only casualty in the moving stuff from the locker, a drawer filled with buttons dumped onto the road, buttons, glass, everywhere. So the daughter and I cleaned up as best we could, we had nothing to put them in and so filled a rubber boot I had in the back of the car, a few evenings spent sorting and rinsing, picking out the broken shards of glass, broken buttons, a surprising number survived.
Daryl Bem Proved ESP Is Real. Which means science is broken.
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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An interesting long read on the consequences of "proving" the existence of ESP: https://slate.com/health-and-science/2017/06/daryl-bem-proved-esp-is-real-showed-science-is-broken.html
A lot there to digest.
The Value in Being Wrong
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This is undervalued in education today. I mean, in areas of rote memorization it's important that you understand the "facts" as stated, somewhat, or merely be able to repeat them as required, although perhaps not as much as we think.
But for all the rest - and by this I mean "reasoning" and "skill" - wrong is every step on the stairway to being right. The fact that our education system penalizes wrong - well - perhaps the word itself is "wrong". Maybe instead of wrong we should assign a label of "persist" or "persist and correct" the orientation or direction of reasoning. We should be praising wrong as another step on the way to right.
In reasoning, and in everything involving effort, trial and error, experimentation, what-have-you -
...is that if you persist, and know that you are wrong, eventually you will be right. Eventually you'll paint better, etc etc - that we throw it out, but our mistakes are for learning - and for others as well,
too long discouraged by painting, writing shit, panning for....wrong, wrong, wrong, but - if the fool would but persist in his folly he would become wise -
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