From: x@x.org   
      
   On 11/17/25 18:28, oldernow wrote:   
   > On 2025-11-18, vallor  wrote:   
   >>> At Mon, 17 Nov 2025 13:09:03 -0000 (UTC), oldernow    
   wrote:   
   >>>     it's not that   
   >>>   i'm looking down   
   >>>   on you as though   
   >>>      you're dumb   
   >>>   
   >>>    it's just that   
   >>>     attempting to   
   >>>   discuss anything   
   >>>     with someone   
   >>>    who hasn't done   
   >>>   roughly the same   
   >>> homework on a topic   
   >>>      is painful   
   >>>   
   >>> so i put feelers /   
   >>>    tests out there   
   >>>   
   >>>   which attempt to   
   >>> help others reveal   
   >>>   how much homework   
   >>>     they've done   
   >>   
   >> When you speak of "homework", do you mean   
   >> navel-gazing? Because my "life coach" (for want   
   >> of a better term) used to be a Buddhist nun,   
   >> but then decided that the middle path was better.   
   >   
   > I mean interest-driven research.   
   >   
   > (says the guy who believes individuals bring   
   > private meanings to words)   
   >   
   > (In other words (haha), I hope you managed to get   
   > what I mean by "interest-driven research" despite   
   > not having access to what I mean by those words.)   
   >   
   > (See how funny it can get when you're no longer   
   > sure individuals bring objectively same meanings   
   > to the same words?)   
   >   
   >> There's no way for you to know that unless I   
   >> tell you, so I've told you, and won't speak   
   >> any more about it, except to say that I view   
   >> everything with skepticism -- including oracle   
   >> decks, Tarot cards, and all that. To me, they are   
   >> "Rorschach's for the mind".   
   >   
   > Far be it from me to judge others' preferred   
   > methods of avoiding looking at looking!   
   >   
   >> I have been battered by "coyote Zen", and I'll   
   >> talk to you about that if you'd like.   
   >   
   > Go for it.   
   >   
   >> But right now I smell the wife cooking onions,   
   >> so I think dinner is almost ready.   
   >   
   > Yum!   
      
   The people who create the homework tests also   
   have biases.   
      
   Those who create the homework may not have a   
   personal bias, but a wise student spits back   
   exactly what the test maker wants.  It doesn't   
   \matter what the garbage in, garbage out is in   
   terms of false or true.  The reality is that   
   education exists for one purpose, to deny entry   
   into money making economic professions, and   
   so the tests are made to be less and less true   
   every year.   
      
   They know that the course contents are totally   
   false, but they will be selling trinkets at   
   truck stops if they do not repeat the lies   
   anyway. So what is 'smart' or 'intelligent'?   
   The tests are made to pass lies, so the   
   answer is meaningless.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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