I couldn’t tell you where they dug up the fellow I
was writing to in this case but he killed my desire to get my master’s. I have
no further faith in education. Education appears to be what a man does with his
time when he is honestly incapable of anything useful.
It comes to me that I often talked about education
as my backup plan but spend more time and energy on it than any other investment.
Do I want that time back? Yes, I do, I wish I had the time back to go and do
things that I wanted to do with my life instead of throwing my time away with
people like Doctor Charley here.
If a man wants to spend his life with his head tucked
firmly between his butt cheeks that’s his business but asking me to do the same
for a grade is just more than I can take.
01/21/2013
One of the things we learn in physics, Dr. Charley, is that
often the same event can be viewed and described more than one way and that
both descriptions can be rather accurate.
You are right in calling me a skeptic only if you mean it in the classic
sense. I question for the sake of questioning facts long held so that in doing
so I will understand them.
From my studies in psychology I have learned that the good
parent does not simply tell their children how to act but explains the reason
behind those actions. I have learned this to also be the case with a good
supervisor or anyone so placed to lead others. As I have worked with those who
have anger problems I have found it quite helpful to explained the biological
mechanisms for anger management and in doing so I have given my clients more
freedom with which to help themselves.
The engineer need know the how and why of his workings and so the
mechanic to do their work well.
In the world of mental health I prefer not to tell clients
what to do but rather help them come to a conclusion they can live with
comfortably. Were I to be so overbearing
as to tell clients how to live their lives there future problems would fall on
my head and not theirs. Thus we permit them to move in what way they will and
give them the skills with which to decide for themselves.
In my passing, I have worked with many true believers and
found them to be a hard to help bunch. The true believer who believes in god is
often no more of good folk than the one who is a true believer in no god.
Further, I am no Christian but have explained Christianity to good Christian
folk who hungrily wanted to know and found their faith affirmed by my words.
An examination of history, the history of science most
clearly, will yield a point that even the most ridiculous ideas often should be
discounted not off hand but by the same logic we deduce any other thing as
right and wrong. Did we not at one time think the sun revolved around the earth
and now see it differently? History is littered with fact becoming fiction and
fiction becoming fact. By looking deeper I believe I get more out of my studies,
and by reading my work you can tell me if this is true.
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