Thursday, April 17, 2008
Something to ponder
I am taking a Doctorate class called Seminar in Persuasion and last week, the following question brought about a lot of discussion. The question: Is it possible to be absolutely neutral and not have feeling toward an object or a thing? If so, how? And what is the object or thing?
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Yes.
A stick.
liquid...that's funny. A "stick" is the exact object that someone brought up but we figure if it was thought of as a suggestion, then there was some "value" or "meaning" assigned to the stick. Then we asked ourselves, "what kind of stick is it?" "What color?" "What's the shape?"
It is a small limb from one of the many pine trees surrounding my home. Not special, whatsoever. It is brown and slender. I can't even be exactly sure which pine tree it fell from.
Struke, dad gummit! Now I feel bad for the stick, so there goes that theory for me.
lol
liquid...it frustrates me too. At first, I tried to come up with something that I have no feeling toward but it's impossible.
OK.......
Here goes another try.......
The soup I made from scratch last night. It was bland. No one ate it. It now sits in a tuperware bowl in my fridge. I have absolutely no feelings for it. No thoughts about how to improve it.
No hard feelings that it wasn't eaten. It was not good. The end.
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liquid...your soup challenge is a good one. I'm sorry your guests didn't care for it. However, you wrote that it "was not good." So that leads me to believe there was some feeling to it.
I'll write more later...but I have to go visit the flea market, you know, it's like a MINI...........MALL!
OK.....I threw it out into the yard this morning. The birds are eating parts of it, which means, to them, it is good.
Doesn't that take away the fact that it was not good to humans, therefore making it "neutral".
You've got me on a mission now, you realize that, don't you?
lol
Have a super day!
I now have to drop in.
Lint
My curiosity wants to know. What kind of lint? Where did it come from? Describe it.
I think the hardest part of this is that we can think of a word that is meant to be the name of an object but when we describe the object or fill in the missing meaning, that's when we attach a feeling to it.
For example, if I said "dryer lint" like the stuff you have to scrape off the lint screen, it's a nuisance to me. I have a feeling attached to lint.
Okay, how about the lint that is in a washer that is ground up and washed down the drain(I speak as a former appliance salesman.)It's there, but you do not handle it so you don't think about it, therefore you have no feelings about it.
WIXY...let me put your thoughts to my fellow Doctorate students. You make a good case.
Good one, WIXY!
{{{{tapping my foot, waiting to hear the results on this one}}}}
I just got e-mailed from one of my classmates and she said that there's no way she could have a neutral attitude towards lint. She didn't even want to check the post by Cliff. She was biased or you could say had a pre-existing attitude toward lint. So, I don't think she could be an impartial observer.
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