Educational Mysteries vs. Indoctrinational Certainties

Posted by Buck68 on March 9th, 2010 filed in Uncategorized
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by Buck68™, March 9th 2010
©2010 by Buck68™, all rites re-served. Each use whatsoever requires prior written permission from the author [email: abuck68@yahoo.com]

What is all this fright and outrage over Texas waterBoarding of Textbooks all about? Must You/He/They/Them [YHTT] Listen to Me to No…until YHTT are frightened and outraged No Mo?

Educational Mystery: who’s God?
Indoctrinational Certainty: There is no God…Before Me! Trust…Me! I bring Hope and Change….

Educational Mystery: what’s Education?
Indoctrinational Certainty: words, things, whatever…are EXACTLY what I say they are…are.

Educational Mystery: what are reason & logic and how do they work?
Indoctrinational Certainty: I be reasonable, YHTT be unreasonable.

Educational Mystery: what is the Scientific Method, the Problem Solving process – and how do they work?
Indoctrinational Certainty: I tell YHTT what to think, how to feel.

Educational Mystery: how do we learn, think, assess, consider, compare/contrast?
Indoctrinational Certainty: Follow Me.

Educational Mystery: How do we communicate, describe, advocate?
Indoctrinational Certainty: Me telling YHTT; YHTT being stimulated and responding EXACTLY as I program and cue YHTT.

Educational Mystery: What are things greater than human beings, and how do we inquire about them?
Indoctrinational Certainty: Origin, Evolution, Progress, and Eternity are inevitably and randomly EXACTLY whatever I tell you.

Educational Mystery: How do we determine perspective and relationship?
Indoctrinational Certainty: I AM Perspective and Relationship.

Educational Mystery: What are morals and ethics and how do they work?
Indoctrinational Certainty: I am appropriate; YHTT are inappropriate unless you feel, think, and do EXACTLY what I say.

Educational Mystery: the common human search and striving for knowledge, truth, and right.
Indoctrinational Certainty: I AM the way, the truth, and the life.

Educational Mystery: Who knows, how?
Indoctrinational Certainty: I know, trust Me.

So, I asked at the beginning, what is all this fright and outrage texting about? In terms of education compared to indoctrination, what is prevailing via media? What i’ve seen ignores both to favor exciting versions of “get what I want by any means”. Are not the usual inputs about money, class size, whatevering words, and why the other guy is evil and stupid?! I’d welcome rational inputs discussing the above comparisons.

Speaking of “terror”, what is “fright and outrage” if not forms of terror? How about keeping Gitmo open…for all those American elitists busy telling and making us cowards ‘be that way”?

“Free speech” you say? Perhaps today’s ‘free’ speech is as affordable or sustainable as our exploding debts that we keep papering “In God We Trust” money to cover…up.

The Cowardly Citizen’s “I Have A Dream… “

Posted by Buck68 on March 9th, 2010 filed in Uncategorized
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by Buck68™, March 9th 2010
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…that this is how It Is for Me, Thee Natural Evolved Me of Progress, just being fair, feeling right however I wanna, whenever, about whatever. It’s MyWorld, where others always owe me more money and benefits and are there for me and it happens for me. As i drift peacefully off in MySpace…Mine Eyes hypnotically following the Celebrating noises and feelings of…zzz….

1-You, he, they, them [YHTT] – are to blame however I feel, for whatever I say, whenever.
2-I own good ideas, facts, logic, fairness, and so froth. YHTT own all the bad and wrong and evil stuff.
3-Whatever I feel is…is. Like, as I say it…it is. Like, I say ‘appropriate’, it is so. I say inappropriate…it is so. I say ‘affordable’…and lo, it is so. Me = Truth.

So, being humble, fair, and appropriate as I AM…Here Are Thee Final Solutions that YHTT must do immediately or horrifying worst ever emergencies will happen and YHTT will go to… SomewHere that Is Totally Terrifying!

1-Always do EXACTLY as I feel, whenever I say, so YHTT will never be wrong!
2-Fix “unsustainable” by printing more paper money, raising the Debt Ceiling [aka "lower the bar so it does not rise to the level"] and redistributing whatever from those that I say have it, to those I want to have more.
3-Whenever you hear “frightened and outraged” immediately salivate and Be That Way!
4-Whenever you hear “so …it …will …never …happen …again,” feel ‘closure’ and GoTo Celebrate until you hear #3 again.
5-Morals, ethics, math, logic, reasoning…these are wrong and evil for YHTT. I will tell you by Hope and Change EXACTLY whatever you need.
6-YHTT must Celebrate Diversity and Respect All Lifestyles and Cultures [CD RALAC] …except one. That One you must not feel, think, or say anything about, but IMMEDIATELY ALWAYS keep sayin’ “Separation of Church and State” whenever you hear, see, touch ANYTHING about it…until it goes away in your mind and YHTT once again Hear Only My Voice.

[SNAP]!

Now, YHTT feel fully awake, refreshed…good about yourself…and most of all, THAR grateful to Me! YHTT just know it’s all about the Reality Fantasy of …the content of MY character….

Three Brilliant Missing Links to Education Reveal Themselves: liberals, evangelicals, and media

Posted by Buck68 on March 7th, 2010 filed in Uncategorized
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by Buck68™, March 7th 2010
©2010 by Buck68™, all rites re-served. Each use whatsoever requires prior written permission from the author [email: abuck68@yahoo.com]

It is a sobering illustration of the power of human nature that any of us, via any topic or label, can convert our continuing need for education into a pissing contest. Yet we rarely tire of di-verting from our common need, into the same old games of blaming and impositional maneuver. For illustrations, please first read Dylan Lovan’s article carefully, then put it side by side with the questions about Dylan’s first 12 paragraphs, below.

URL for Dylan Lovan’s AP article, “Top home-school texts dismiss Darwin, evolution”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100306/ap_on_re/us_rel_home_school_evolution

Questions about each of Dylan’s paragraphs, in his order:

Do we educate or discuss education by “wishing”? Do we “take a friend’s advice”; or, to learn, consider the CONTENT of any input? Is education valued by “popularity”?

Is education based on “excitement”; or, does that more accurately describe emotional attraction? If a person responds to a new or different concept, thing, or object with “confusion”, what does this suggest about their understanding of education? Human limitations? Things greater than our selves? If a “dispute” produces “confusion”, what does this rationally suggest about that person’s use of reason?

What does a Mother’s emotional hyperbole response to her perception of her daughter’s response, suggest about their method of learning? What kind of reasoning is “she’s like, this is not true”?

Do “materials”…”dominate”? What assumptions are necessary for the statement “for most home-school parents, this is [materials]… exactly what ‘they’ want” to be accurate? What do “Federal statistics show”? What is the educational relationship between 83%, religious or moral instruction, and…learning?

What does “most …will definitely …have a sort of” mean?

What does an “often feeling” response to “doesn’t have” something, suggest about how that person responds to inputs? What are we defining when we “try to find a textbook that fits my beliefs”?

How does “best-selling” value education? What debating term[s], describe the phrase “stack the deck against”? What quality of attribution is “some science educators said”?

What does the strength of a “feeling”, and applying that emotional strength to education…produce? What does a person have to know, on what authority, to know for a fact that a book is “promulgating lies to kids”?

Would you expect a publisher to “defend their book”? What educational and rational issue does this illustrate? Does any person know what a “book doesn’t attempt to mask”?

Does a text premise here [Bible is the inspired, inerrant Word of God] rationally and necessarily cause “many puzzling points” in a text? Does an author control who can read his book by whether or not he “wrote it for them”?

Is an assertion in a book an “ultimatum”? Is just saying a source, providing specific attribution for a statement from that source? Does one person, or a book, control what another person understands…sees…believes?

Does a “sentence make it into a book”…or do people decide and choose? Does “an editing error” cause an inclusion or omission…or do people? Would a person who “truly sees the world as it is” …make an irrational or fallacious statement… or one that the Inerrant Word of God contradicts?

OK, enough is enough…or do you see these kinds of silliness and much more daily, across the political, social, religious spectrum? A few thoughts – seeds for future discussion about education.

Education is the continual pursuit of knowledge by applying reason, empiricism, and spiritual means of “how to learn”. A philosophical term for this process is “epistemology”.

No imperfect person possesses knowledge, education, ideas, facts, or how to think. OK, a few other things too…but how easily we forget!

Must any person who would “learn”, first become as a student of life and begin his search about first things? For example, who am I and why am I here? We can answer reasonably in the negative: the continuing consequences of avoiding basic questions, is a lack of perspective, and that lack degrades our ability to put things in reasonable relationship. Rationally, it degrades our ability to compare and contrast – the basics of building on prior learning.

Are our animal selves naturally selfish and competitive? Why are animals ‘not responsible’… but human beings are? If human beings are ‘responsible’, then why do we avoid/deny/project our responsibility?

Finally, what is greater than us and how do we approach and search that question?

Our common, definable means of learning is by applying logic or reason. Mathematics is a basic example. This suggests that ‘how to think’ is universal to education. And its opposite, ‘what to think’, or “indoctrination” …is the chief means of abusing reason for purposes of deception and manipulation. For example, consider the very popular saying, “celebrate diversity”. Literally, the English meaning defines these rational opposites: Uni-versity is the common pursuit of knowledge; Di-versity is dissembling for selfish advantage. One unites in accepting responsibility for common purpose and pursuit; the other divides and conquers by inherent conflicts and blame.

For some time now, it’s been increasingly popular to celebrate whatever while we murder our selves and our posterity … “educationally.” And EVERYBODY has been doing it. So, to address ‘education’, a person must first, and ever, look first into his own mirror.

Whenever you feel right in your own mind…you are feeding your animal. Animals don’t need education.

“I Hate What America Has Become” [REPOST]

Posted by Daniel Yerelian on March 5th, 2010 filed in Domestic Issues, Politics
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Reposted from http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/pdx/1442403975.html

Hope the author is cool with this.

This really gets me thinking about what drives American politics, but does not offer any solutions to the problems.

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There are so many reasons that frankly, it’s hard to pick a place to start:

First of all…..when 28% of you brain dead fucking morons give a blithering IDIOT like Sarah Palin positive approval ratings and think she ought to run for president in 2012, it really makes me sick to know I am lumbered with that many mouth-breathing Cro-Magnons I unfortunately have to consider as my fellow countrymen….trust me…..I don’t. You motherfuckers are beyond help.

And before you go thinking this is a “liberal” based rant…..that brings me to one more item on an ever-lengthening list.

This “Liberal” versus “Conservative” paradigm that so many of you simple dunces buy into…..as BOTH parties sell you out to the multinational corporations, banks and special interests that actually run Washington D.C.)…..you do this STUPID dance every day, blithely detatched from the reality that YOU YOURSELF are helping to DIVIDE AND CONQUER the nation, as you myopically beat your little Hannity/Olberman drum of FUTILE self -righteous indignation. PATHETIC.

THIS is a nation of PUSSIES AND FUCKING COWARDS. If this nation had any BALLS WHATSOEVER, there would be a trail of DEAD MEN SWINGING FROM THE ENDS OF ROPES leading from AIG, thru WALL STREET, the not-so “Federal” reserve, the 9/11 commission, and right through every other set-up con-job you people just buy into like a bunch of CATTLE BEING LED TO SLAUGHTER.

It’s not that Americans don’t give a fuck…..
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From a Fax, to where’s the Facts, to First Factor in Our Great Arithmetic Problem

Posted by Buck68 on March 5th, 2010 filed in Uncategorized
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by Buck68™, March 5th 2010
©2010 by Buck68™, all rites re-served. Each use whatsoever requires prior written permission from the author [email: abuck68@yahoo.com]

Good morning, fellow cowards, co-dependents, and fatuous salivators for your fair share of Hope & Change! First, our obligatory blaming, outraging, and whatevering before we once again courageously ‘THAR*she blows’ to today’s whale of an issue.

My friend is to blame! His fax to his Congressman ‘forced me’ to inquire about the facts of immigration, which led me to some factors in what I …in my totally humble brilliance … “discovered”! Wee bee having a Great Arithmetic Problem! Now just to be archaic and out of touch, please for this article suspend our appropriate ways of feeling, and adopt the silly inferior stupid way of rationally using words in their literal meaning, in active voice style [S-V-O], to achieve mutual understanding of the content of this article. IOW, I mean what I say in this article.

First, is a person either employed, or unemployed? Why…no! A person can be unqualified to be employed [e.g. disabled]. A person can be multiply employed [more than 1 job]. A person can be partially employed [not 'full time'…according to a standard definition of full-time]. A person can be several kinds of ‘employed’ but still eligible for benefits as if he were ‘underemployed’ or ‘unemployed’. A person can be ‘too young’ to count but have or not have several kinds of jobs…and in the middle of the counting, his ages changes, and presto, she shoulda been counted! Whew…OK, we’re done!?

Oops…what about all the people our several layers of government have not yet counted…or double counted, as our governments use more than one standard for categories and counting…and many feelings about counting itself. For example, our federal government is counting ‘jobs saved’ by commanding hypothetical extrapolations in the pattern of ‘if this hadn’t happened a job would have been lost’. This counting is getting complicated! So, let’s just count as “unemployed” those who have applied for …unemployment benefits!? And let’s just say that those who have NOT applied, are…quitting, leaving, don’t care about a job, and so forth. I mean…let’s just ignore or estimate them. You know…treat them equally.

So, we’ve counted the number of unemployment benefit applicants and estimated or ignored all “others” to get a total number. How accurate is this number? Well, if you add up people on unemployment benefits, then add X people, what total do you get, and how accurate is that total?

Well, as any nice fair person can see, this is so confusing that we need to find someone to blame because it’s way past time to just move on! It’s the cowardly way…so we, being a nation of cowards…must feel and do as we’re told by better people. You know – be free and have liberty while Celebrating Diversity?

But no, instead my Friend to Blame for Fax Forcing…outrageously imposes yet another large number! He says there are “more than 8 million illegal aliens” holding jobs in the US!

My Friend had the Audacity of Hope to suggest the extremist notion that a non-citizen with a job in the US, has a job that legally belongs in the American job market. Now I’ve heard that Americans don’t want lower or dirty jobs so we need…to continually break laws otherwise Nobody will fill those jobs …except lesser and/or lawbreaking people. Somehow, while just trying to figure out how to add up the unemployed, a whole bunch of people became ‘less’ than American citizens, only fit for ‘lesser’ jobs, and millions of Americans can get unemployment benefits instead of work whenever they feel a job is… beneath them. I feel bad and Somebody must Fix this because all people are created equal!

Well, I just haven’t got the time to go into all the hundreds of thousands of laws and policies and directives and litigation we always make more of to solve our ‘discriminations’ …that just keep growing because [ X ] is to blame and I’ve been kept down and forced. I’m just trying to count…so I have a solution for all us cowardly followers who feel they ‘have a life’.

The Constitution requires a census every 10 years, and 2010 is ten years after our last census in 2000. [applause] I suggest the solution to counting who should not be counted is already available and funded on paper [no small irony these are called 'jobs created']. So, to show our expert and created job counters can count BEFORE they go to the more complex questions about every detail of each citizen’s life…

FIRST, count who should not be counted, then MAINTAIN an accurate count by subtracting those who leave and adding those who enter illegally. AFTER our government demonstrates it can accurately add and subtract ONE SINGLE FACTOR, THEN…perhaps we could teach the algebra of counting using more factors than “is he or isn’t he”?

Wouldn’t it be exciting, to SEE progress by arithmetic…instead of hoping and changing and redistributing and rebranding…just sayings? Just imagine if we could graduate past 3rd grade arithmetic to…such interesting factors as a neighborhood kid asked me last week: “are all jobs the same”? But FIRST, dear elites in government – show us you can come to our sense-us.
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*THAR is my acronym for the Fab Four Feelings of Appropriate Just Sayin these days: Totally, Honestly, Actually, Really. Like, when you say them, it is…is. Thus, every sayer can be more brilliant than our most brilliant President ever and most ethical Administration ever!