11-25-2017, 12:00 AM
Julio Juliopolis wrote:
serloco wrote:I will give an example of a common intent we are taught to intend. The intent of illness and death. The child is taught that, lets say, 1 out of 7 people get cancer int heir lifetime. Now the child believes this, and knows he is a human subject to the same fate. The child learns over time to not only intend his death, but to not intend his death as well. The child intends that he is a common human, intends that he could get cancer and intends not to as well. The child's intent gets split. Same with catching a cold. When people say a cold is going around the average man intends the possibility that he catch one. He subjects himself to the same blueprint of his fellow man. Never intending his choice in the matter. Never examining the other possibilities to intend.
I like this example. It not only shows the workings of intent but also the importance of language. Some socery-inclined people treat it as trivial to say things like "1 out of 7 people will get cancer in their lifetime". Those who are more careful with their words will find something else to say. Often I like to break it down to the very exacting truth. Do I know that "1 in 7 people will get cancer"? No. The only thing I know is that I thought I heard the guy on the news say that. That's all. If I want to break it down further I could say that "according to the teleprompter the news reporter was reading aloud, some report, (which was chosen on the basis of trying to get the most viewership), that may or may not have been reviewed by someone trained in statistics indicate that if long-range illness forecasting wasn't a psuedo-science, (due to the number of rather grandiose assumptions one must make to predict the cancer rate in say 2050), 1 in 7 people getting cancer might have been a good estimate". Getting to that level can be helpful sometimes although in normal conversation something shorter is usually sufficient.
Yes for sure, you can not trust the news. You can not trust nor follow the ways of your fellow man, or you will be intending the same outcomes as them. Very weak.
serloco wrote:I will give an example of a common intent we are taught to intend. The intent of illness and death. The child is taught that, lets say, 1 out of 7 people get cancer int heir lifetime. Now the child believes this, and knows he is a human subject to the same fate. The child learns over time to not only intend his death, but to not intend his death as well. The child intends that he is a common human, intends that he could get cancer and intends not to as well. The child's intent gets split. Same with catching a cold. When people say a cold is going around the average man intends the possibility that he catch one. He subjects himself to the same blueprint of his fellow man. Never intending his choice in the matter. Never examining the other possibilities to intend.
I like this example. It not only shows the workings of intent but also the importance of language. Some socery-inclined people treat it as trivial to say things like "1 out of 7 people will get cancer in their lifetime". Those who are more careful with their words will find something else to say. Often I like to break it down to the very exacting truth. Do I know that "1 in 7 people will get cancer"? No. The only thing I know is that I thought I heard the guy on the news say that. That's all. If I want to break it down further I could say that "according to the teleprompter the news reporter was reading aloud, some report, (which was chosen on the basis of trying to get the most viewership), that may or may not have been reviewed by someone trained in statistics indicate that if long-range illness forecasting wasn't a psuedo-science, (due to the number of rather grandiose assumptions one must make to predict the cancer rate in say 2050), 1 in 7 people getting cancer might have been a good estimate". Getting to that level can be helpful sometimes although in normal conversation something shorter is usually sufficient.
Yes for sure, you can not trust the news. You can not trust nor follow the ways of your fellow man, or you will be intending the same outcomes as them. Very weak.