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Impressionism / Joaquín Sorolla/ Boy in Sea Foam

Place ain’t quite tidy, gonna spend some time getting it that way.  Gotta go a-searching for some “Immediate” CBD for a friend and then go in search of some flower that will let me extract and make some gummies.  

Actually got a smallish start on the book yesterday.  Simple things like the ideas for the characters and the locale and the general plotline are now in my head.  Getting them down into pixels on a screen is now the task that needs to get done.  So I’ll be bouncing around today, going to try to get home in time to make some dinner and to write for an hour before snoozing.

Going to be another Michael piece today.   I am getting close to having this sorted out in my head, at which time I will post it and hopefully folks will teach me of the error of my ways.  More and more though, I am coming to the conclusion that we have gone down the rabbit hole and are now seeing the bottom and  realizing that we gotta climb back out.

Michael

Here is one regarding the value of self-evidence. A proof always has presuppositions. This is the bugaboo with proofs. Why do humans and animals fear strangers? Because a stranger is a possible source of pain. What do people and animals do about possible sources of pain? They stay away from them. This is all somebody needs to know to see that behaviorists misapply science. There are many books written covering the details of how to do this particular misapplication, and they are all referred to as scientific in their approach.

 A fundamental goal related to survival that is shared by humans and animals is to avoid pain. What is self-evident about the way that humans and animals avoid pain? The answer is distance – they stay away from potential sources of pain. I trained dogs to hunt humans and to be aware of the fact that the human they are hunting will try to hurt/kill them. Everything that animals do is about distance. Almost everything they do is related to this simple explanation and can therefore be explained by desire to maintain distance. When you see how behaviorism (scientific theory) is misapplied with dogs, you will see that the theory completely disregards the most self-evident explanations and proposes a theory that must be right because it is scientific.