<div dir="ltr">Good Freud quote, Glen.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 12:57 PM <<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Ok. Well said. I am sending Cranky Nick to the medicine cabinet right now. Give a few hours for the medication to take. <br>
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Well, my guess is that Feynman would admit that everything has context, including both an original utterance and subsequent repetitions of all or part of that utterance. [†] And it's also important to note that ALL pithy aphorisms are abominations because they all deny the context. We see this most clearly in "pseudo-profound bullshit": <a href="http://sebpearce.com/bullshit/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://sebpearce.com/bullshit/</a><br>
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And, as Marcus points out with "complexity club", we see it right here in this forum. So, when we read something like that, it's more important to try to understand, e.g., what _Steve_ meant in his use of the aphorism, rather than asserting that he's a member of a cult ... which he probably is, but since I'm a member of the Church of Set, the Satanic Temple, a Discordian Episkopos, and a member/owner of a brewing cooperative, his cult membership is not the point.<br>
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[†] One of the lessons of postmodernism is that one can read a text without reading *through* the text. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.<br>
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On 4/16/20 11:35 AM, <a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com" target="_blank">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br>
> I think the repetition of the Feynman Quote, which is just misguided, and which I hear all the time, and which I cannot believe Feynman would not have repudiated if he were set down with a good philosopher, is Cultish. <br>
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