#argument — Public Fediverse posts
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A hasty quarrel sparks a fire,
and hasty conflict sheds blood.
If you blow on a spark, it will flame up,
and if you spit on it, it will go out;
nonetheless, both come out
of your mouth.
[ἔρις κατασπευδομένη ἐκκαίει πῦρ,
καὶ μάχη κατασπεύδουσα ἐκχέει αἷμα.
ἐὰν φυσήσῃς εἰς σπινθῆρα, ἐκκαήσεται,
καὶ ἐὰν πτύσῃς ἐπ᾽ αὐτόν, σβεσθήσεται·
καὶ ἀμφότερα ἐκ τοῦ στόματός σου ἐκπορεύεται.]The Bible (The Old Testament) (14th - 2nd C BC) Judeo-Christian sacred scripture [Tanakh, Hebrew Bible], incl. the Apocrypha (Deuterocanonicals)
Book 22b. Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 28:11ff (Sir 28:11–12) [tr. CEB (2011)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-ot/85373/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #oldtestament #apocrypha #ecclesiasticus #sirach #antagonize #argument #calmdown #deescalation #dispute #escalation #fight #quarrel #selfrestraint #verbalabuse #violence #words #peacemaking
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A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
-- Miguel de Unamuno -
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
-- Miguel de Unamuno -
Never argue with someone who believes their own lies.
-- Anonymous -
Never argue with someone who believes their own lies.
-- Anonymous -
#argument : an exchange of diverging views
- French: argument
- German: das Argument
- Italian: argomento
- Portuguese: argumento / discussão
- Spanish: argumento
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Accountability Is Not a Presidential Favour by Lawson Akhigbe
The response by the President's Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to Cardinal John Onaiyekan's television interview reveals a troubling misunderstanding of constitutional democracy. It also exposes a growing tendency within this administration to confuse criticism with disloyalty and accountability with discourtesy.https://lawakhigbe.com/2026/08/02/accountability-is-not-a-presidential-favour-by-lawson-akhigbe/
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Accountability Is Not a Presidential Favour by Lawson Akhigbe
The response by the President's Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to Cardinal John Onaiyekan's television interview reveals a troubling misunderstanding of constitutional democracy. It also exposes a growing tendency within this administration to confuse criticism with disloyalty and accountability with discourtesy.https://lawakhigbe.com/2026/08/02/accountability-is-not-a-presidential-favour-by-lawson-akhigbe/
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
“If a thing’s worth doing, it’s worth doing badly,” said Granny, fleeing into aphorisms, the last refuge of an adult under siege.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 3, Equal Rites (1987)More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8523…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #grannyweatherwax #adage #adult #aphorism #appealtotradition #argument #debate #proverb #rhetoric #saying
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
“If a thing’s worth doing, it’s worth doing badly,” said Granny, fleeing into aphorisms, the last refuge of an adult under siege.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 3, Equal Rites (1987)More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8523…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #grannyweatherwax #adage #adult #aphorism #appealtotradition #argument #debate #proverb #rhetoric #saying
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When the President Outsources Hunger to the Churches by Lawson Akhigbe
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu recently delivered a masterclass in presidential fatalism. In his own words: -
When the President Outsources Hunger to the Churches by Lawson Akhigbe
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu recently delivered a masterclass in presidential fatalism. In his own words: -
I've long been fascinated with the notions of LOGIC and REASON, especially where they fall woefully short. I realise that not everyone is a philosopher or a trained critical thinker.
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/reasoning-with-fossils?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #language #reason #logic #argument #debate #video #podcast #blog #history #enlightenment #foundations #fossils
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I've long been fascinated with the notions of LOGIC and REASON, especially where they fall woefully short. I realise that not everyone is a philosopher or a trained critical thinker.
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/reasoning-with-fossils?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #language #reason #logic #argument #debate #video #podcast #blog #history #enlightenment #foundations #fossils
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‘Twas the saying of an ancient Sage, “That Humour was the only Test of Gravity, and Gravity of Humour. For a Subject which would not bear Raillery is suspicious; and a Jest which would not bear a serious Examination is certainly false Wit.”
Anthony Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713) English politician and philosopher
Characteristics, Treatise 2 “Freedom of Wit and Humour,” Part 1, sec. 5 (1709)More about this quote: wist.info/shaftesbury-anthony-…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shaftesbury #earlofshaftesbury #argument #gravity #humor #jokes #joking #makingfun #mockery #ridicule #seriousness #test #truth #wit
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JASON: The curse of children’s blood be on you!
Avenging Justice, blast your being!
MEDEA: What god will hear your imprecation,
Oath-breaker, guest-deceiver, liar?
[ἸΆΣΩΝ: ἀλλά σ᾽ Ἐρινὺς ὀλέσειε τέκνων
φονία τε Δίκη.
ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: τίς δὲ κλύει σοῦ θεὸς ἢ δαίμων,
τοῦ ψευδόρκου καὶ ξειναπάτου;]Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 1389ff (431 BC) [tr. Vellacott (1963)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/85172/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #medea #argument #bickering #curse #deprecation #dishonesty #dishonor #divineanger #divineretribution #divinewrath #dvinepunishment #gods #hospitality #punishment #reputation #unworthiness #vengeance
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From Nuclear-Free Nonsense to Net-Zero Farce: The Loony Right Joins the Schoolyard Antics Club by Lawson Akhigbe
History doesn't repeat, but it does enjoy a good remix. The Loony Left had its turn playing council-level foreign policy. Now the Loony Right is giving it a go with environmental policy. Same schoolyard energy, different decade, fresh set of headlines. One can only wonder what the right-wing papers will call them. The Sensible Pragmatists? Or will the satire wheel turn full circle? -
From Nuclear-Free Nonsense to Net-Zero Farce: The Loony Right Joins the Schoolyard Antics Club by Lawson Akhigbe
History doesn't repeat, but it does enjoy a good remix. The Loony Left had its turn playing council-level foreign policy. Now the Loony Right is giving it a go with environmental policy. Same schoolyard energy, different decade, fresh set of headlines. One can only wonder what the right-wing papers will call them. The Sensible Pragmatists? Or will the satire wheel turn full circle? -
No, the “#Kalam #Cosmological #Argument” doesn’t prove #God’s existence : Medium
Living Fully in the #Math #World Means #Threading the #Needle : Quanta Mag
#People Used to Control #Machines. They Don’t Anymore : WIRED
Latest #KnowledgeLinks
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No, the “#Kalam #Cosmological #Argument” doesn’t prove #God’s existence : Medium
Living Fully in the #Math #World Means #Threading the #Needle : Quanta Mag
#People Used to Control #Machines. They Don’t Anymore : WIRED
Latest #KnowledgeLinks
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“You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.”
“A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting.”
“You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to be right.”Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1891-08), “The Red-Headed League,” The Strand Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 2More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #doyle #arthurconandoyle #sherlockholmes #sherlock #watson #redheadedleague #argument #coincidence #debate #doubt #facts #happenstance #imagination #oddness #reallife #reality #strangeness #unexpectedness #weirdness
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JASON: O children, what a wicked mother she was to you!
MEDEA: They died from a disease they caught from their father.
JASON: I tell you it was not my hand that destroyed them.
MEDEA: But it was your insolence, and your virgin wedding.
JASON: And just for the sake of that you chose to kill them.
MEDEA: Is love so small a pain, do you think, for a woman?
[ἸΆΣΩΝ: ὦ τέκνα, μητρὸς ὡς κακῆς ἐκύρσατε.
ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: ὦ παῖδες, ὡς ὤλεσθε πατρῴᾳ νόσῳ.
ἸΆΣΩΝ: οὔτοι νιν ἡμὴ δεξιά γ᾽ ἀπώλεσεν.
ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: ἀλλ᾽ ὕβρις οἵ τε σοὶ νεοδμῆτες γάμοι.
ἸΆΣΩΝ: λέχους σφε κἠξίωσας οὕνεκα κτανεῖν;
ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: σμικρὸν γυναικὶ πῆμα τοῦτ᾽ εἶναι δοκεῖς;]Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 1363ff (431 BC) [tr. Warner (1944)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/85067/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #medea #accusation #argument #betrayal #blame #blamethevictim #desertion #father #injury #mother #perspective #selfjustification #suffering #women
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The Presidential Echo Chamber: From Buhari’s Attack Dogs to Tinubu’s Spin Doctors By Lawson Akhigbe
Daniel Bwala One of the easiest ways to understand a President is not to listen to his speeches. Listen to his spokesmen. A President’s spokesman is like a family portrait hanging in the living room. It may not be the President himself, but it tells you everything about the owner of the house. Spokesmen do not accidentally become spokesmen. They are selected, promoted, protected and retained. They are trusted with the most valuable commodity in politics: the President’s voice. That […] -
The Presidential Echo Chamber: From Buhari’s Attack Dogs to Tinubu’s Spin Doctors By Lawson Akhigbe
Daniel Bwala One of the easiest ways to understand a President is not to listen to his speeches. Listen to his spokesmen. A President’s spokesman is like a family portrait hanging in the living room. It may not be the President himself, but it tells you everything about the owner of the house. Spokesmen do not accidentally become spokesmen. They are selected, promoted, protected and retained. They are trusted with the most valuable commodity in politics: the President’s voice. That […] -
FROM THE NECK UP💎
For more than forty years, A Course in Miracles remained a beautiful spiritual book.
I loved it, respected it, quoted it, and returned to it again and again.
But I could not enter its deeper meaning: Atonement.
The words felt true, but they remained words.
Forgiveness.
Peace.
The body is not the Self.
I need do nothing.
It all sounded right, but I was living almost entirely in my head.
The body was something I dragged around while pursuing spiritual understanding and enlightenment.
Then fasting changed my relationship with it.
Breathwork took me inside it.
Reflective writing showed me what the mind was doing while pretending to be wise.
Gradually, I discovered I actually had a body.
Quite a surprise after decades of unconsciously owning one.
The Course had not failed me.
I had been trying to understand it from the neck up.
Once the body became lived in rather than merely discussed, the teachings settled into place.
“I need do nothing” stopped sounding like a spiritual instruction.
It became something the body recognised.
Forgiveness stopped being moral effort.
It became the release of the argument carried in the nerves, breath, muscles, and story.
Peace was no longer an idea I agreed with.
It was what remained when I stopped feeding conflict.
The body did not become more spiritually important.
It became honest.
It showed me where fear lived, resistance tightened, thought became pain, and one conscious breath could interrupt the performance.
Reflective writing helped too.
On the page, I could see when I was explaining peace rather than living it.
I could see the little spiritual expert arranging the furniture while the house was still on fire.
That was useful.
Forty years after first opening the Course, I understood why I had not been able to enter it.
I had treated ACIM as a book about escaping the body.
It became alive when I stopped escaping the body and began listening through it.
Fasting cleared some heaviness.
Breathwork quietened the argument.
Writing made the evasions visible.
Then the Course was no longer sitting on the shelf waiting to be understood.
It was happening in the breath.
In the pause before reaction.
In the refusal to make conflict real.
In the ordinary discovery that peace need not be produced.
It was already there.
The book had not changed.
The reader had finally arrived.
#Forgiveness #Miracles #beautiful #Atonement #forty #argument #furniture #conflict #peace #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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FROM THE NECK UP💎
For more than forty years, A Course in Miracles remained a beautiful spiritual book.
I loved it, respected it, quoted it, and returned to it again and again.
But I could not enter its deeper meaning: Atonement.
The words felt true, but they remained words.
Forgiveness.
Peace.
The body is not the Self.
I need do nothing.
It all sounded right, but I was living almost entirely in my head.
The body was something I dragged around while pursuing spiritual understanding and enlightenment.
Then fasting changed my relationship with it.
Breathwork took me inside it.
Reflective writing showed me what the mind was doing while pretending to be wise.
Gradually, I discovered I actually had a body.
Quite a surprise after decades of unconsciously owning one.
The Course had not failed me.
I had been trying to understand it from the neck up.
Once the body became lived in rather than merely discussed, the teachings settled into place.
“I need do nothing” stopped sounding like a spiritual instruction.
It became something the body recognised.
Forgiveness stopped being moral effort.
It became the release of the argument carried in the nerves, breath, muscles, and story.
Peace was no longer an idea I agreed with.
It was what remained when I stopped feeding conflict.
The body did not become more spiritually important.
It became honest.
It showed me where fear lived, resistance tightened, thought became pain, and one conscious breath could interrupt the performance.
Reflective writing helped too.
On the page, I could see when I was explaining peace rather than living it.
I could see the little spiritual expert arranging the furniture while the house was still on fire.
That was useful.
Forty years after first opening the Course, I understood why I had not been able to enter it.
I had treated ACIM as a book about escaping the body.
It became alive when I stopped escaping the body and began listening through it.
Fasting cleared some heaviness.
Breathwork quietened the argument.
Writing made the evasions visible.
Then the Course was no longer sitting on the shelf waiting to be understood.
It was happening in the breath.
In the pause before reaction.
In the refusal to make conflict real.
In the ordinary discovery that peace need not be produced.
It was already there.
The book had not changed.
The reader had finally arrived.
#Forgiveness #Miracles #beautiful #Atonement #forty #argument #furniture #conflict #peace #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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A quotation from Frederick Douglass
What, am I to argue that it is wrong to make men brutes, to rob them of their liberty, to work them without wages, to keep them ignorant of their relations to their fellow men, to beat them with sticks, to flay their flesh with the lash, to load their limbs with irons, to hunt them with dogs, to sell them at auction, to sunder their families, to knock out their teeth, to burn their flesh, to starve them into obedience and submission to their masters? Must I argue that a system thus marked with blood, and stained with pollution, is wrong? No! I will not. I have better employment for my time and strength, than such arguments would imply.
Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
Speech (1852-07-05), “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New YorkMore about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #frederickdouglass #argument #brutality #debate #enslavement #injustice #obviousness #slave #slavery #wrong
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A quotation from Frederick Douglass
What, am I to argue that it is wrong to make men brutes, to rob them of their liberty, to work them without wages, to keep them ignorant of their relations to their fellow men, to beat them with sticks, to flay their flesh with the lash, to load their limbs with irons, to hunt them with dogs, to sell them at auction, to sunder their families, to knock out their teeth, to burn their flesh, to starve them into obedience and submission to their masters? Must I argue that a system thus marked with blood, and stained with pollution, is wrong? No! I will not. I have better employment for my time and strength, than such arguments would imply.
Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
Speech (1852-07-05), “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New YorkMore about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #frederickdouglass #argument #brutality #debate #enslavement #injustice #obviousness #slave #slavery #wrong
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BREATHWORK ENDS THE
ARGUMENT WITHINNot ordinary breathing.
The body already manages that without requiring a committee meeting.
Conscious breathing.
The deliberate act of bringing attention into the body and remaining with the breath long enough for the noise to lose its authority.
A slow, full in-breath.
A long, unhurried out-breath.
Then another.
Nothing mystical has to happen.
There need be no visions, revelations, sacred music, or sudden purchase of white linen.
The breath does not have to produce bliss, wisdom, or a more impressive human being.
It asks only for attention.
In that way, conscious breathing has something of I need do nothing in it.
Not passivity.
Not collapse.
Not giving up.
Simply the end of interference.
The breath is already moving.
Life is already happening.
The body is already here.
For a few moments, nothing has to be improved, solved, defended, explained, or spiritually upgraded.
When the body is cold, tight, tired, painful, or restless, there is the breath.
When the mind begins manufacturing a grievance, rehearsing an argument, predicting disaster, or reopening a case that was never going to court, there is the breath.
When nothing is wrong, there is the breath then too.
That may be the most important part.
Breathwork is not merely an emergency service called when the building is on fire.
It can become the place one lives from.
Over time, conscious breath creates a space where striving begins to look unnecessary.
No philosophy is required.
No spiritual costume.
No certificate.
No audience.
No carefully arranged photograph beside a candle with a caption about surrender.
Just the body as it is.
Just the breath as it moves.
Just the next slow in-breath and the next long out-breath.
The mind may continue talking for a while.
It usually does.
It has concerns.
It has evidence.
It has brought supporting documents.
But conscious breathing does not argue with the mind.
It simply stops giving it the whole room.
Thought becomes background weather.
The body softens where it can.
Time becomes less urgent.
The need to control the moment begins to loosen.
This is where breathwork and forgiveness begin to resemble one another.
Neither changes what is real.
Neither fights the appearance.
Neither demands that the world behave properly before peace is allowed.
They remove some of the interference.
The cold remains.
The ageing body remains.
The noise remains.
The ordinary morning remains.
Nothing needs to be excluded.
Sanctuary does not mean hiding from experience.
It means finding the place within experience where the fight can stop.
The world can keep shouting.
The door has been found.
It opens inward.
https://www.reconnectbreath.com/
#ARGUMENT #Conscious #breathing #committee #meeting #interference #revelations #Sanctuary #noise #forgiveness #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Meditation #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #AI
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BREATHWORK ENDS THE
ARGUMENT WITHINNot ordinary breathing.
The body already manages that without requiring a committee meeting.
Conscious breathing.
The deliberate act of bringing attention into the body and remaining with the breath long enough for the noise to lose its authority.
A slow, full in-breath.
A long, unhurried out-breath.
Then another.
Nothing mystical has to happen.
There need be no visions, revelations, sacred music, or sudden purchase of white linen.
The breath does not have to produce bliss, wisdom, or a more impressive human being.
It asks only for attention.
In that way, conscious breathing has something of I need do nothing in it.
Not passivity.
Not collapse.
Not giving up.
Simply the end of interference.
The breath is already moving.
Life is already happening.
The body is already here.
For a few moments, nothing has to be improved, solved, defended, explained, or spiritually upgraded.
When the body is cold, tight, tired, painful, or restless, there is the breath.
When the mind begins manufacturing a grievance, rehearsing an argument, predicting disaster, or reopening a case that was never going to court, there is the breath.
When nothing is wrong, there is the breath then too.
That may be the most important part.
Breathwork is not merely an emergency service called when the building is on fire.
It can become the place one lives from.
Over time, conscious breath creates a space where striving begins to look unnecessary.
No philosophy is required.
No spiritual costume.
No certificate.
No audience.
No carefully arranged photograph beside a candle with a caption about surrender.
Just the body as it is.
Just the breath as it moves.
Just the next slow in-breath and the next long out-breath.
The mind may continue talking for a while.
It usually does.
It has concerns.
It has evidence.
It has brought supporting documents.
But conscious breathing does not argue with the mind.
It simply stops giving it the whole room.
Thought becomes background weather.
The body softens where it can.
Time becomes less urgent.
The need to control the moment begins to loosen.
This is where breathwork and forgiveness begin to resemble one another.
Neither changes what is real.
Neither fights the appearance.
Neither demands that the world behave properly before peace is allowed.
They remove some of the interference.
The cold remains.
The ageing body remains.
The noise remains.
The ordinary morning remains.
Nothing needs to be excluded.
Sanctuary does not mean hiding from experience.
It means finding the place within experience where the fight can stop.
The world can keep shouting.
The door has been found.
It opens inward.
https://www.reconnectbreath.com/
#ARGUMENT #Conscious #breathing #committee #meeting #interference #revelations #Sanctuary #noise #forgiveness #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Meditation #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #AI
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When the Court Said “No” and the Military Said “Watch Me”: The Landmark Case of Emmanuel Olatunde Lakanmi v. Attorney-General (West) [1971] By Lawson Akhigbe
Lakanmi & Kikelomo Ola v. Attorney-General (West) & Others [1971] 1 UILR 201 is that story. It is a case about constitutional limits, corporate accountability, the rule of law -
When the Court Said “No” and the Military Said “Watch Me”: The Landmark Case of Emmanuel Olatunde Lakanmi v. Attorney-General (West) [1971] By Lawson Akhigbe
Lakanmi & Kikelomo Ola v. Attorney-General (West) & Others [1971] 1 UILR 201 is that story. It is a case about constitutional limits, corporate accountability, the rule of law -
"Das Ruhrgebiet spricht" will Menschen mit unterschiedlichen Meinungen zusammenbringen. Hat das Projekt in Dortmund geklappt?#WDR #Ruhrgebiet #Dialog #Meinung #Argument #Austausch #Vielfalt #Demokratie #Dortmund #Essen #Bochum #Duisburg #NRW
"Das Ruhrgebiet spricht": Projekt will Menschen mit unterschiedlichen Meinungen zusammenbringen -
"Das Ruhrgebiet spricht" will Menschen mit unterschiedlichen Meinungen zusammenbringen. Hat das Projekt in Dortmund geklappt?#WDR #Ruhrgebiet #Dialog #Meinung #Argument #Austausch #Vielfalt #Demokratie #Dortmund #Essen #Bochum #Duisburg #NRW
"Das Ruhrgebiet spricht": Projekt will Menschen mit unterschiedlichen Meinungen zusammenbringen -
THE MIND GOT THE MESSAGE
It took about a year to train the mind with two simple words:
No comment.
At first, the mind would introduce a grievance, a fear, or an argument, and I would answer:
No comment.
Again and again.
Not because it stopped working.
Because it worked.
Now the brain seems to understand that conflict is a waste of time.
It does not get fed.
It does not get a hearing.
It does not get to turn one passing thought into a whole emotional weather system.
Breathwork and fasting have helped change the conditions beneath all this.
The body is quieter.
The mind is less interested in drama.
And “No comment” has moved into the background.
I hardly use it anymore.
The brain already knows there is nowhere for conflict to go.
#MESSAGE #MIND #train #brain #fed #NoComment #argument #body #drama #background #conflict #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #MindTraining
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THE MIND GOT THE MESSAGE
It took about a year to train the mind with two simple words:
No comment.
At first, the mind would introduce a grievance, a fear, or an argument, and I would answer:
No comment.
Again and again.
Not because it stopped working.
Because it worked.
Now the brain seems to understand that conflict is a waste of time.
It does not get fed.
It does not get a hearing.
It does not get to turn one passing thought into a whole emotional weather system.
Breathwork and fasting have helped change the conditions beneath all this.
The body is quieter.
The mind is less interested in drama.
And “No comment” has moved into the background.
I hardly use it anymore.
The brain already knows there is nowhere for conflict to go.
#MESSAGE #MIND #train #brain #fed #NoComment #argument #body #drama #background #conflict #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #MindTraining
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1882-08), “Talk and Talkers (A Sequel),” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 46More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #relationship #argument #talking #communication #coexistence #conversation #disagreement #discussion #dispute #engagement #husband #marriage #partnership #spouse #wife
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Informal Logic issue 2/2026 is now available, https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic
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Informal Logic issue 2/2026 is now available, https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic
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I’VE GOT NOTHING
Good morning.
Breathwork done.
Fires on.
Coffee in hand.
Nothing in the head.
The system is running beautifully.
No clutter.
No argument.
No little foreman barking instructions from behind the eyes.
No plan trying to improve the morning.
No spiritual project sneaking in through the side door.
Just the body warm.
The breath is steady.
The coffee is dark.
The fire is doing its ancient work.
And the day is arriving without needing to be managed.
Nothing in the head is not a problem.
There is enough space for this new morning to come all the way in.
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I’VE GOT NOTHING
Good morning.
Breathwork done.
Fires on.
Coffee in hand.
Nothing in the head.
The system is running beautifully.
No clutter.
No argument.
No little foreman barking instructions from behind the eyes.
No plan trying to improve the morning.
No spiritual project sneaking in through the side door.
Just the body warm.
The breath is steady.
The coffee is dark.
The fire is doing its ancient work.
And the day is arriving without needing to be managed.
Nothing in the head is not a problem.
There is enough space for this new morning to come all the way in.
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Arguments can be made more persuasive if they are rephrased and intensified. Intensifying adverbs is most effective, followed by intensifying verbs, followed by repetition.
https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/10250
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Arguments can be made more persuasive if they are rephrased and intensified. Intensifying adverbs is most effective, followed by intensifying verbs, followed by repetition.
https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/10250
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The fact is, very few men are right in everything. Great virtues may draw attention from defects, but they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem. No one should attempt to refute an argument by pronouncing the name of some man, unless he is willing to adopt all the ideas and beliefs of that man. It is better to give reasons and facts than names. An argument should not depend for its force upon the name of its author. Facts need no pedigree, logic has no heraldry, and the living should not awed by the mistakes of the dead.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Lecture (1881-05-01) “The Great Infidels,” Booth’s Theater, New YorkMore about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…
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The fact is, very few men are right in everything. Great virtues may draw attention from defects, but they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem. No one should attempt to refute an argument by pronouncing the name of some man, unless he is willing to adopt all the ideas and beliefs of that man. It is better to give reasons and facts than names. An argument should not depend for its force upon the name of its author. Facts need no pedigree, logic has no heraldry, and the living should not awed by the mistakes of the dead.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Lecture (1881-05-01) “The Great Infidels,” Booth’s Theater, New YorkMore about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…
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For ridicule shall frequently prevail,
And cut the knot, when graver reasons fail.
[Ridiculum acri
Fortius et melius magnas plerumque secat res.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 10 “Nempe incomposito,” l. 14ff (1.10.14-15) (35 BC) [tr. Francis (1747)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/1955/
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Sattumalta lukeille osunut Bradley Dowdenin ikääntynyt IEP-entry Fallacies sai muistelemaan muita opastuksia argumentoinnin karikoiden väistelemiseen sosiaalisenkin median Juhannus-aallokoissa, https://iep.utm.edu/fallacy/
Wikipedian päivittyneempi lista "päättelyvirheistä" sisältää lyhyiden luonnehdintojen lisäksi linkit perusteellisempiin selostuksiin, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies
WayBack-masiina löytää edelleen myös Stephen Downesin mainion esityksen, jota hyödynsin omassa opetuksessani kolme vuosikymmentä sitten, https://web.archive.org/web/20110411024958/http:/onegoodmove.org/fallacy/toc.htm . Mukana oli jopa "listan" käyttöohje, jossa varoiteltiin nimikkeillä hutkimisesta, https://web.archive.org/web/20110514190427/http:/onegoodmove.org/fallacy/howto.htm
Tällaisten kertaaminen aina silloin tällöin voi auttaa purjehtimaan nykyajassa vastuullisena episteemisenä agenttina.
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順番を守れ！ Дотримуйся порядку!
https://www.deviantart.com/poison-raika/art/Djunban-wo-Mamore-1254854044
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It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
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順番を守れ！ Дотримуйся порядку!
汝、順序と云う名の社会摂理を巡視せよ。
Ви повинні дотримуватися соціального
порядку, відомого як порядок.https://note.com/poison_raika/n/n3bba1b3061e0
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I'm still amazed at how some people with extreme religious or political views online get so carried away.
They rarely make any valid arguments and just end up insulting others, thinking that counts as "winning" the debate. -
Custom is custom; it is built of brass, boiler iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Essay (1906), “The Gorky Incident,” Letters from the Earth (c. 1909; pub. 1962) [ed. DeVoto (1939)]More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/84429/
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Ad hominem attacks are so lame.
They are a last ditch, I-got-nothin-in-the-way-of-actual-argument kind of thing and actually provide insights into the attacker (such as their insecurities, for example).
And if they are straight out of the "Incel handbook," as the third link claims, then the Incel handbook is lame.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/texas-republicans-mock-james-talarico-152038145.html
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https://www.npr.org/2026/05/30/nx-s1-5839468/texas-senate-talarico-paxton-gender-masculinity
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https://www.wired.com/story/gop-attacks-on-james-talarico-incel-handbook/
