What's going on...

[Richard Zane Smith]

Rudy
 that is interesting!... and maybe its the best we can do to come up with a
universal app.
Whoever has the highest stack of "facts" wins. No wonder there are so many
poor in prison.
Professional "fact stackers" are expensive to rent.

off topic?...hmm well..maybe throw in something about the latest NDN XPod
we'll be fine
I enjoy this silly computer for its wizardry - but I'm still a die hard
stone age techie
After all, This IS the season to be careful selecting and cutting arrow
shaft shoots...wild rose,hazel,and dogwood.

-Richard
Wyandotte Oklahoma




On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Rudy Troike <rtroike at email.arizona.edu>wrote:

> Richard,
>
>  Thanks for this comment -- we're getting a bit off-topic for this list,
> but your remarks made me recall the instructions of the judge the last
> time I was on a jury. We were instructed to "determine the truth from the
> facts". The 'truth' was not given, but was to be determined on the basis
> of the 'facts'. That's a quite different orientation, but interesting
> nonetheless.
>
>   Rudy
>
>
> Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 10:15:50 -0600
> Subject: Re: What's going on...
> From: Richard Zane Smith <rzs at WILDBLUE.NET>
>
>  a real philosophical study thats been wrestled with for eons and worth
> pursuing
> still, the various cultural differences between given "truth" its relation
> to
> the newer concept - "fact" where they intersect, and when they seem to be
> such
> opposite forces,people feel like they must choose between the two.
> Love this kind of wrestling because it keeps stretching the cellophane
> covering
> our hardened definitions. "reality" is much more illusive and slippery
> than we
> often want. noun obsessed languages really do present their own term
> problems.
>
> if "everything" includes "everything" ...how could "everything" exclude
> "nothing?"
>
> Richard
> Wyandotte Oklahoma
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Rudy Troike <rtroike at email.arizona.edu>
> wrote:
>
>    Howdy,
>
>     I agree with Resa that the message is more important that the
> biographical
>    accuracy, and people who want to focus on the latter are trying to
> subvert
>    the message. But it was hard to look at Jonah's face and not believe
> that
>    this was real. The tears certainly don't seem manufactured.
>
>     Rudy
>
>
> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 11:43:15 -0500
> Subject: Re: What's going on....
> From: Resa C Bizzaro <resa.bizzaro at IUP.EDU>
>
> Hi, everyone. Thanks, Rolland, for sending this link along. I saw it
> yesterday,
> and I read through some of the comments. That was where I found out that
> there
> is quite a bit of controvery over whether the video is actually true. Some
> postings indicate that Jonah Mowry lied. I did not continue to look into
> the
> videos (due to time constraints) to see if the video was a hoax or not.
>
> Whether the video is true or false, I still believe it's important for us
> to be
> vigilant with regard to bullying. It has become apparent to me (through my
> own
> experience with my son being bullied) that the bullying cessation programs
> in
> our public schools are not working.
>
>    Resa
>



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