Sophia (Greek: "wisdom") is a central idea in Hellenistic philosophy and religion, Platonism, Gnosticism, and Christian theology. Originally carrying a meaning of "cleverness, skill", the latter meaning of the term, close to the meaning of Phronesis ("wisdom, intelligence"), was significantly shaped by the term philosophy ("love of wisdom") as used by Plato.
Today, the temperature is low, the wind is not blowing, the humidity is actually higher than the temperature (never mind above the teens!), and there is actual locally observable evidence that the sun still exists. None of this has been the case since Monday afternoon.
I admit that I have never read anything on philosophy. I am sure it would be good if I did, but it's all so intangible that I haven't prioritized it. For those DBDers who have read/studied philosophy, what's your impression on how it helped your thinking?
there are multiple approaches to philosophy and the eastern and western approaches are very different. i think that everyone has had some exposure to it, even if you havent formally studied it.
western philosophy is mostly concerned with truth and how to discover it. that is why a good fraction of it is about reasoning and logic and there is a ton of debate about if God or free will truly exists and how and why that might be the case. it is not surprising that early scientists were philosophers and to this day you get a doctorate of philosophy for intense scientific study in one field, even if that field is history or English.
eastern philosophy on the other hand was historically concerned with how to construct harmonious societies and relationships. while it also looks for underlying truths, most of the underlying truths are concerned with human nature. as much as western philosophy intersects with religion, eastern is practically intertwined with it in a completely inseparable way, not that it is a bad thing.
in the current age, western philosophy has intersected more with economics and political systems, ie socialism vs capitalism, existentialism, realism etc. eastern philosophy has gone down the route of yoga and mindfulness that has been quite well marketed as a cure to living in the fast paced modern world.
personally what i get out of it are the answers to the "why" questions. if you think of the kid who keeps asking why, eventually you tell your kid to go away, or you dont know the answer, or you keep digging deeper until you have to question "why we know anything at all"
in the end, i end up with a very streamlined decision making process. while i am not saying i am necessarily right all the time (most of the time i am), i just dont have many doubts about the decision making process and very few regrets.
i think that others may have similar processes and attribute them to things not called philosophy, but if you read some you might find that the roots of your thoughts and teachings might have historical connections.
there are lots of ways to get started. it is usually best to start w/ something that you might have some cultural roots to. for instance, for me, most of Hindu mythology is an allegory for some of the deeper philosophical stuff. growing up i just read cartoon versions of the myths until i started to develop an interest.
I studied some philosophy at Cal, Phil 18 (Ancient Philosophy, specifically Plato's works), later the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, which I would recommend to anyone with a nascent interest in Stoicism, which is a useful way of thinking in 2020, with everything going haywire.
Kenosha militia member: Police told us they were going to herd the protestors to us and let us deal with them (https://www.ascendcounsel.co/exhibit1). If true, it's horrifying. If false, it's just another guy trying to pass blame on his involvement.
Derkach officially gets labelled Russian asset by US Treasury and gets sanctioned. Giuliani's defense of working with him ranks up there with one of the all time greats. "I didn't do a lot background check on him, but he didn't seem like a Russian agent". Perhaps only "Putin told me he's good, so I trust him over my own intelligence" is better.
Edwin, Mattijs and Victor said they did not mean any harm when they hacked Donald Trump's Twitter account in 2016. The Dutch hackers did not even think it would work, says Vrij Nederland journalist Gerard Janssen in the NOS on 3 Tech Podcast .
Janssen interviewed the three about their deed. Vrij Nederland today published a timeline of the hack and aftermath. The three hackers have provided screenshots that seem to support their story.
"These aren't people who tell a story for fun. I've seen the email exchanges and how they work," says Janssen. "And they are very highly regarded in the hacker community."
Lots of USWNT/NWSL players are playing in Europe (particularly England) this year. One of the beneficial effects is other younger players getting the opportunity in NWSL. For example, Cal alum and Thai World Cup Player Miranda Nild got promoted from practice squad to roster player for the NWSL OL Reign.
But unlike Alex Morgan's first adventure playing oversea where she did technically get a Women's Champions League title, I don't think Tottenham will be that competitive as a team. Morgan making her decision late (due to her taking the summer off after giving birth) probably limited her opportunities.
I’m guessing those willing to go to an NFL game during a pandemic probably have the following in common:
MAGA supporters
Anti-maskers
Back the Blue
Dislike and don’t support BLM
Sip ‘Cism with their Bid Lights
So it really isn’t surprising they would boo. Seeing how Missouri is MAGA country, I’m sure a lot of MAGA “I’m not watching the NFL this season” were actually watching last nights game and whispering “All Lives Matter” each time someone scored a touchdown.
I didn't realize until kickoff that they were allowing fans in there (official count was around 15k). Social distancing looked okay in the seats, but I'm wondering what it looked like at concessions, in the bathrooms, and during pre-game tailgates.
The AL West isn’t mathematically decided yet, but the Oakland A’s have shown who the class of the division is.
The A’s breezed past the Houston Astros on Thursday, allowing just two hits in a 3-1 victory that took barely over two hours to complete. Sean Manaea didn’t allow a baserunner until the 6th inning, and Matt Olson took care of the offense with a two-run homer
I’ve gotten used to the San Francisco Giants winning. I’m guessing you have, too.
The Giants entered Thursday night’s game having won 15 of their last 20 games, a staggering rate for an entire third of this pandemic-shortened, wacky, wild, stupid, mesmerizing, ridiculous excuse for a season.
Having 15 wins in 20 games is a helluva stretch, no matter who you are.
Friday night game cancelled just before game time. Turns out a member of the Giants org tested positive. Saturday night's game postponed as well. No decision yet about Sunday.
The Dodgers blew countless opportunities to score runs in the game, as they fell to the D-Backs 5-2.
Don’t let the two runs fool you, as the offense was all but quiet. They were able to reach base, but couldn’t do anything about it. Both of LA’s runs came courtesy of solo home runs from Corey Seager and A.J. Pollock, who went back-to-back in the third inning. That was it. On the night, the Dodgers were 0-for-6 with runners in scoring position and stranded 12 runners on base.
Their first squandered opportunity came in the second inning. After two singles, the Dodgers had runners on first and second with two outs. Austin Barnes stepped to the plate but flew out, ending the inning.
We paused all operations, and radio traffic, at 7 am to honor the losses on and following 9/11, and then to acknowledge the lives, homes, and businesses lost and still to be lost, to the largest combination of fire events in the history of the state we are currently dealing with. In the midst of the largest public health problem we have ever experienced.
I hope someday we can learn to prevent unprecedented problems instead of struggling to react to them.
A lot to remember. Besides WTC, also the Pentagon which I tend to forget even though I used to have a view of the Pentagon from my balcony. And of course Mark Bingham.
I live just a couple miles from the Pentagon and about ten or so office buildings in the nearby business district have huge flags draped on their side.
La Nina declared by NOAA through winter. Northwest wet. LA dry. South warmer/drier.
https://www.noaa.gov/news/la-nina-develops-during-peak-hurricane-season
Today, the temperature is low, the wind is not blowing, the humidity is actually higher than the temperature (never mind above the teens!), and there is actual locally observable evidence that the sun still exists. None of this has been the case since Monday afternoon.
Philosophy
I admit that I have never read anything on philosophy. I am sure it would be good if I did, but it's all so intangible that I haven't prioritized it. For those DBDers who have read/studied philosophy, what's your impression on how it helped your thinking?
there are multiple approaches to philosophy and the eastern and western approaches are very different. i think that everyone has had some exposure to it, even if you havent formally studied it.
western philosophy is mostly concerned with truth and how to discover it. that is why a good fraction of it is about reasoning and logic and there is a ton of debate about if God or free will truly exists and how and why that might be the case. it is not surprising that early scientists were philosophers and to this day you get a doctorate of philosophy for intense scientific study in one field, even if that field is history or English.
eastern philosophy on the other hand was historically concerned with how to construct harmonious societies and relationships. while it also looks for underlying truths, most of the underlying truths are concerned with human nature. as much as western philosophy intersects with religion, eastern is practically intertwined with it in a completely inseparable way, not that it is a bad thing.
in the current age, western philosophy has intersected more with economics and political systems, ie socialism vs capitalism, existentialism, realism etc. eastern philosophy has gone down the route of yoga and mindfulness that has been quite well marketed as a cure to living in the fast paced modern world.
personally what i get out of it are the answers to the "why" questions. if you think of the kid who keeps asking why, eventually you tell your kid to go away, or you dont know the answer, or you keep digging deeper until you have to question "why we know anything at all"
in the end, i end up with a very streamlined decision making process. while i am not saying i am necessarily right all the time (most of the time i am), i just dont have many doubts about the decision making process and very few regrets.
i think that others may have similar processes and attribute them to things not called philosophy, but if you read some you might find that the roots of your thoughts and teachings might have historical connections.
there are lots of ways to get started. it is usually best to start w/ something that you might have some cultural roots to. for instance, for me, most of Hindu mythology is an allegory for some of the deeper philosophical stuff. growing up i just read cartoon versions of the myths until i started to develop an interest.
TL:VB - Just watch The Good Place.
the limited amount of straight up philosophy that I have read, reads a bit like people have too much time on their hands.
I studied some philosophy at Cal, Phil 18 (Ancient Philosophy, specifically Plato's works), later the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, which I would recommend to anyone with a nascent interest in Stoicism, which is a useful way of thinking in 2020, with everything going haywire.
http://classics.mit.edu/Antoninus/meditations.html [online free text]
Sophia
Great photo, SG
Hagia Sophia - a nice place to visit but recently it became a mosque once again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagia_Sophia
Today in CV19
Elsewhere in college
Tim Tebow says get back to school and play football!! God will protect you.
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Molalla Oregon group evacuating due to fire has to go through an armed militia checkpoint thinking that Antifa set the fires
https://twitter.com/R3volutionDaddy/status/1304148135288221696
Oh. It's QAnon. Fucking great.
https://www.facebook.com/DouglasCoSO/posts/3294100377341103
Never miss an opportunity to turn an incident that government mismanaged into a disaster into a political statement on the evening news.
Kenosha militia member: Police told us they were going to herd the protestors to us and let us deal with them (https://www.ascendcounsel.co/exhibit1). If true, it's horrifying. If false, it's just another guy trying to pass blame on his involvement.
https://www.minnpost.com/other-nonprofit-media/2020/09/militia-member-says-kenosha-police-sought-to-push-protesters-toward-them-on-night-of-deadly-shootings/
I really doubt that's true.
Not entirely shocking if true.
Derkach officially gets labelled Russian asset by US Treasury and gets sanctioned. Giuliani's defense of working with him ranks up there with one of the all time greats. "I didn't do a lot background check on him, but he didn't seem like a Russian agent". Perhaps only "Putin told me he's good, so I trust him over my own intelligence" is better.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/rudy-giuliani-admits-he-may-have-been-suckered-by-russia-agent-he-didnt-do-much-investigation/
"Parscale, who compared the campaign he built to the “Star Wars” Death Star"
Do these clowns not remember what happened to the Death Star?
The right wing is getting more and more nutty; "American Announcement" - will Trump face a military coup attempt?
'Dutch hackers were shocked when they entered Trump's Twitter account'
https://nos.nl/artikel/2347694-nederlandse-hackers-schrokken-toen-ze-trumps-twitteraccount-binnendrongen.html
Edwin, Mattijs and Victor said they did not mean any harm when they hacked Donald Trump's Twitter account in 2016. The Dutch hackers did not even think it would work, says Vrij Nederland journalist Gerard Janssen in the NOS on 3 Tech Podcast .
Janssen interviewed the three about their deed. Vrij Nederland today published a timeline of the hack and aftermath. The three hackers have provided screenshots that seem to support their story.
"These aren't people who tell a story for fun. I've seen the email exchanges and how they work," says Janssen. "And they are very highly regarded in the hacker community."
The password was "Yourefired". Who wants to try "Yourefired1" on his account?
edit: it was "yourefired"
Poll: What do you think Trump changed his password to?
covfefe
"password" or maybe 123456789
yourefired1 or yourfired (which I'm honestly surprised wasn't the original one)
ivankasboobs
pqtm
obamabadtrumpgood
Orangemangood
PRO
Alex Morgan to sign with Tottenham WSL
https://twitter.com/guardian_sport/status/1304495147779067908
Lots of USWNT/NWSL players are playing in Europe (particularly England) this year. One of the beneficial effects is other younger players getting the opportunity in NWSL. For example, Cal alum and Thai World Cup Player Miranda Nild got promoted from practice squad to roster player for the NWSL OL Reign.
But unlike Alex Morgan's first adventure playing oversea where she did technically get a Women's Champions League title, I don't think Tottenham will be that competitive as a team. Morgan making her decision late (due to her taking the summer off after giving birth) probably limited her opportunities.
Did the KC crowd boo a moment of unity?
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1304393899272810496
It's kinda hard to disguise the racism when you can't blame it on "disrespecting the troops" or "not protesting the right way"...
I’m guessing those willing to go to an NFL game during a pandemic probably have the following in common:
MAGA supporters
Anti-maskers
Back the Blue
Dislike and don’t support BLM
Sip ‘Cism with their Bid Lights
So it really isn’t surprising they would boo. Seeing how Missouri is MAGA country, I’m sure a lot of MAGA “I’m not watching the NFL this season” were actually watching last nights game and whispering “All Lives Matter” each time someone scored a touchdown.
I didn't realize until kickoff that they were allowing fans in there (official count was around 15k). Social distancing looked okay in the seats, but I'm wondering what it looked like at concessions, in the bathrooms, and during pre-game tailgates.
Social distancing in the stands was probably even better than it looked on TV because KC put cutouts of celebrities and other people in the stands.
I just saw the clip. I wonder if either the NFL or NBC muted he onfield mics to mute the booing.
I heard it very clearly on the broadcast.
Oakland A’s Game #42: A’s 2-hit Astros in 3-1 victory, extend AL West lead
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2020/9/10/21431444/oakland-as-game-42-houston-astros-score-result
The AL West isn’t mathematically decided yet, but the Oakland A’s have shown who the class of the division is.
The A’s breezed past the Houston Astros on Thursday, allowing just two hits in a 3-1 victory that took barely over two hours to complete. Sean Manaea didn’t allow a baserunner until the 6th inning, and Matt Olson took care of the offense with a two-run homer
former Bear Daulton Jefferies will be making his MLB debut tomorrow for the A's.
Laureano makes a great sliding catch for the third out in the top of the ninth.
Giants granted a rude reality check by Padres
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2020/9/10/21431722/san-francisco-giants-padres-final-score
I’ve gotten used to the San Francisco Giants winning. I’m guessing you have, too.
The Giants entered Thursday night’s game having won 15 of their last 20 games, a staggering rate for an entire third of this pandemic-shortened, wacky, wild, stupid, mesmerizing, ridiculous excuse for a season.
Having 15 wins in 20 games is a helluva stretch, no matter who you are.
Friday night game cancelled just before game time. Turns out a member of the Giants org tested positive. Saturday night's game postponed as well. No decision yet about Sunday.
Dodgers offense sloppy as they fall to D-Backs
https://www.truebluela.com/2020/9/10/21431887/los-angeles-dodgers-recap-dbacks-mookie-betts-corey-seager-aj-pollock
The Dodgers blew countless opportunities to score runs in the game, as they fell to the D-Backs 5-2.
Don’t let the two runs fool you, as the offense was all but quiet. They were able to reach base, but couldn’t do anything about it. Both of LA’s runs came courtesy of solo home runs from Corey Seager and A.J. Pollock, who went back-to-back in the third inning. That was it. On the night, the Dodgers were 0-for-6 with runners in scoring position and stranded 12 runners on base.
Their first squandered opportunity came in the second inning. After two singles, the Dodgers had runners on first and second with two outs. Austin Barnes stepped to the plate but flew out, ending the inning.
Bellinger continues to be an out
He's regressed again. Back to bailing to hit the inside pitches so he pops those up and can't hit the middle-out pitches.
CAL
GO Bears!
SOFIA NASA flying observatory: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/SOFIA/overview/index.html
We paused all operations, and radio traffic, at 7 am to honor the losses on and following 9/11, and then to acknowledge the lives, homes, and businesses lost and still to be lost, to the largest combination of fire events in the history of the state we are currently dealing with. In the midst of the largest public health problem we have ever experienced.
I hope someday we can learn to prevent unprecedented problems instead of struggling to react to them.
Government: having low flying aircraft over Manhattan as a commemoration is a good idea to do today. 'MURICA!
https://twitter.com/NotifyNYC/status/1304132876531896320
Conservatives:
9/11-3000 dead: never forget
Covid-200,000 dead and counting: it is what it is...
A lot to remember. Besides WTC, also the Pentagon which I tend to forget even though I used to have a view of the Pentagon from my balcony. And of course Mark Bingham.
I live just a couple miles from the Pentagon and about ten or so office buildings in the nearby business district have huge flags draped on their side.