During my last semester of college where in four years I had made no less than
a "B" and only two of those, the truth of the statement above hit me like a rock thrown at my head.
I almost had a nervous breakdown, but I wrote some of my most brilliant papers during that time frame.
I also was almost kicked out of my ethics class, and made a "C" and a"D"(in Marketing and Ethics)
I made an "A" in my religion class that last semester. Religion has a language that seemed easier to adapt
when trying to express myself through a badly shaken worldview.
Has anyone else had an experience like this?
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> >>By repeating, like a parrot, what you heard....
> >
> >which means that you've heard about the meme, and therefore "knew about
> >it". Or am I being facetious ? (is that how to spell facetious ?)
>
> Yes, that is how it is spelled. Please define 'heard about the meme'....
> Because, even the Grand PooBah, R. Brodie will tell you, you don't 'hear'
> about memes. (Although you can read about them in his book....) You
> 'hear' about concepts and ideas and maybe some behaviors, you hear about
> what it means to answer questions with precisely the words they gave you
> to answer them with.
>
> 2 + 2 = 4 is not a meme, and if I ask you what 2 + 2 is, and you answer
> 4, you do not necessarily hold the meme of <addition> resident in your
> behavioral set, but you necessarily hold the response of '4' to '2 + 2'.
> I hope you see the difference here. Do you hold the meme of <expected
> response>? Maybe. How do we test for this difference? That's my question.
>
> Are memes the 'fuzzy' in fuzzy logic? Maybe.
>
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