rattus rattus’ blog

Can someone tell me how to read the words of someone who betrays him- or herself? — Because I do.

I love libraries. They make me rethink more than twice what I am writing and whether I want to publish it.

According to a recent report by Technorati they alone are tracking “about 1.2 million new blog posts each day”, that’s 50’000 postings per hour. More so, Technorati “currently tracks over 75’000 new weblogs created every day, which means that on average, a new weblog is created every second of every day”. That was in February 2006, but the blogosphere grows at a “quickening pace”.

Counterexamples are readily available.

“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
— Buddha, founder of Buddhism

That’s a difficult one.

Don’t trust blogs!

Following my own advice, I bought a bag of Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee beans. Today, a friend visited me and, of course, we had to taste some cups of espresso. My friend said she likes the Jamaica Blue Mountain whereas I found it to taste sour.

Thinking about it there is no way I could ever know what she tasted nor what made her say she liked it. Once I start asking it’s different.

Knowledge

modifes

knowledge.

Make knowledge increase choice.

Here is one more proof of the fact that I am a liar simply because I am asking for feedback.

If I ask someone for feedback and if I do so honestly, that means I am asking, and I am taking the received feedback for what it is, namely others opinion, their true opinion, then someone could say: No, you are not asking for feedback. Or, one could even say: You are a liar. And, brave as I am, sticking to my promises, I will have to accept it.

This, of course, once more leads straight into a paradox which we all know as the The Liar’s Paradox.

A WYRIWYG questionnaire

If you think that this is a little far-fetched, well, I agree. (You see, I still prefer to ask honestly for feedback.) And then, just recently, I have received a questionnaire which I, for a change, was eager to fill out because I liked the people who had given it to me. But I couldn’t. Many questions were phrased in a way so that it was impossible for me to answer reasonably. And if I did I was sure my answers were to be misunderstood.