Random Musings
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When writing, failing to question your fundamental thesis means you've gone completely wrong.
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Comparing social networking sites, it seems that only Facebook can successfully impose order on the chaos of social relations.
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Kiyosaki gets a broad principle of financial freedom right, but his criticism of education should not deter people from taking up learning.
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A reader has listed this as one of five blogs which make him think, placing a netiquette obligation on me to list five blogs which make me think.
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Facts may be solid, but interpretations of facts aren't. Propagandists play on fanciful interpretations of fact that make sense at first glance to pull the wool over people's eyes, so it's prudent to think carefully about a hypothesis before blindly taking it as the truth.
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When it comes to communicating their thoughts, many people simply aren't able to think aloud. Yet thinking aloud is the key to presenting an argument in a cogent and natural-sounding manner. Substituting a memorised script for an actual understanding of the problem is a poor solution.
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One of my favourite phrases is "I don't know ". I've never thought much about it to date, but perhaps my frequent usage of the phrase reflects my penchant for musing aloud.
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The farce of elections for my college's Pre-University Student Council led to ruminations about the total fallacy that effort counts for something. Effort is a route to success, but it is not a form of success in itself.
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One is a land of liberty; the other a land of gluttony.
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Several months ago, I visited the United States, but conveniently put off jotting down some ramblings about them. At least, until now.
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I was sorely disappointed that the Territorial Army couldn't even come close to convincing me to join, even though I was interested. If they're serious about recruiting, they ought to make best use of their recruiters.
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Man has an irritating habit of applying irrational logic to all sorts of situations. In some cases, such as in voting, this logic appears to be justified (at least in the moral, if not mathematical sense). But in some cases, such as in public policy, such logic is confoundably d***able.
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I got tagged by a blogger, so netiquette obliges me to tell you six of my deepest darkest secrets.
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I haven't blogged in ages. I might not blog for ages. But till then, a rare update.
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Things which piss me off, and ought to piss off any thinking person too. For the umpteenth time, correlation does not imply causation, tu qouque is not a valid rebuttal, and stop reading things into what I say!
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