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  1. Hype for the Future 167C: Cultural Blueprints of Saint James, Assumption, and Saint Martin Parishes

    Overview Within the State of Louisiana, the Parishes of Saint James, Assumption, and Saint Martin are often associated with the southern portion of the State and, of course, are disproportionately known for French heritage relative to much of the nation as a whole. The parishes are in the heart of Cajun Country, often away from the Mississippi River plantation estates, with the community at Pierre Part (Assumption Parish) home to the greatest French percentage of any municipality outside […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  2. Hype for the Future 167C: Cultural Blueprints of Saint James, Assumption, and Saint Martin Parishes

    Overview Within the State of Louisiana, the Parishes of Saint James, Assumption, and Saint Martin are often associated with the southern portion of the State and, of course, are disproportionately known for French heritage relative to much of the nation as a whole. The parishes are in the heart of Cajun Country, often away from the Mississippi River plantation estates, with the community at Pierre Part (Assumption Parish) home to the greatest French percentage of any municipality outside […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  3. Hype for the Future 167C: Cultural Blueprints of Saint James, Assumption, and Saint Martin Parishes

    Overview Within the State of Louisiana, the Parishes of Saint James, Assumption, and Saint Martin are often associated with the southern portion of the State and, of course, are disproportionately known for French heritage relative to much of the nation as a whole. The parishes are in the heart of Cajun Country, often away from the Mississippi River plantation estates, with the community at Pierre Part (Assumption Parish) home to the greatest French percentage of any municipality outside […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  4. Hype for the Future 167C: Cultural Blueprints of Saint James, Assumption, and Saint Martin Parishes

    Overview Within the State of Louisiana, the Parishes of Saint James, Assumption, and Saint Martin are often associated with the southern portion of the State and, of course, are disproportionately known for French heritage relative to much of the nation as a whole. The parishes are in the heart of Cajun Country, often away from the Mississippi River plantation estates, with the community at Pierre Part (Assumption Parish) home to the greatest French percentage of any municipality outside […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  5. Hype for the Future 167C: Cultural Blueprints of Saint James, Assumption, and Saint Martin Parishes

    Overview Within the State of Louisiana, the Parishes of Saint James, Assumption, and Saint Martin are often associated with the southern portion of the State and, of course, are disproportionately known for French heritage relative to much of the nation as a whole. The parishes are in the heart of Cajun Country, often away from the Mississippi River plantation estates, with the community at Pierre Part (Assumption Parish) home to the greatest French percentage of any municipality outside […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  6. I was raised on #hedonism and old habits die hard. Sometimes I indulge, though I know it’s a fool’s game. I have “junkie-reasoning” for that indulgence, which is that #abstinence robs us of the opportunity to parse the folly of pursuing #happiness through #pleasure.

    It’s not water-tight, this “argument”, but it’s predicated on the #assumption that we can’t transform our #attachment to what we are not in #contact with.

    Happy to discuss ~ eager, even: I could be wrong… it’s happened before!

  7. I was raised on #hedonism and old habits die hard. Sometimes I indulge, though I know it’s a fool’s game. I have “junkie-reasoning” for that indulgence, which is that #abstinence robs us of the opportunity to parse the folly of pursuing #happiness through #pleasure.

    It’s not water-tight, this “argument”, but it’s predicated on the #assumption that we can’t transform our #attachment to what we are not in #contact with.

    Happy to discuss ~ eager, even: I could be wrong… it’s happened before!

  8. I was raised on #hedonism and old habits die hard. Sometimes I indulge, though I know it’s a fool’s game. I have “junkie-reasoning” for that indulgence, which is that #abstinence robs us of the opportunity to parse the folly of pursuing #happiness through #pleasure.

    It’s not water-tight, this “argument”, but it’s predicated on the #assumption that we can’t transform our #attachment to what we are not in #contact with.

    Happy to discuss ~ eager, even: I could be wrong… it’s happened before!

  9. I was raised on #hedonism and old habits die hard. Sometimes I indulge, though I know it’s a fool’s game. I have “junkie-reasoning” for that indulgence, which is that #abstinence robs us of the opportunity to parse the folly of pursuing #happiness through #pleasure.

    It’s not water-tight, this “argument”, but it’s predicated on the #assumption that we can’t transform our #attachment to what we are not in #contact with.

    Happy to discuss ~ eager, even: I could be wrong… it’s happened before!

  10. #assumption : the act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self

    - French: supposition

    - German: die Annahme

    - Italian: supposizione

    - Portuguese: Suposição

    - Spanish: suposición

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    Try our new word guessing game @ 24hippos.com

  11. A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

    Our readiness to think ill of people without sufficiently examining the matter is based on laziness and pride. We want to find people guilty, we don’t want the bother of studying their crimes.
     
    [La promptitude à croire le mal, sans l’avoir assez examiné, est un effet de l’orgueil et de la paresse: on veut trouver des coupables, et on ne veut pas se donner la peine d’examiner les crimes.]

    François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
    Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶267 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #accusation #assumption #condemnation #crime #ego #evidence #examination #guilt #indolence #investigation #laziness #offense #presumption #pride #blame

  12. A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

    Our readiness to think ill of people without sufficiently examining the matter is based on laziness and pride. We want to find people guilty, we don’t want the bother of studying their crimes.
     
    [La promptitude à croire le mal, sans l’avoir assez examiné, est un effet de l’orgueil et de la paresse: on veut trouver des coupables, et on ne veut pas se donner la peine d’examiner les crimes.]

    François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
    Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶267 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #accusation #assumption #condemnation #crime #ego #evidence #examination #guilt #indolence #investigation #laziness #offense #presumption #pride #blame

  13. A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

    Our readiness to think ill of people without sufficiently examining the matter is based on laziness and pride. We want to find people guilty, we don’t want the bother of studying their crimes.
     
    [La promptitude à croire le mal, sans l’avoir assez examiné, est un effet de l’orgueil et de la paresse: on veut trouver des coupables, et on ne veut pas se donner la peine d’examiner les crimes.]

    François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
    Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶267 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #accusation #assumption #condemnation #crime #ego #evidence #examination #guilt #indolence #investigation #laziness #offense #presumption #pride #blame

  14. A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

    Our readiness to think ill of people without sufficiently examining the matter is based on laziness and pride. We want to find people guilty, we don’t want the bother of studying their crimes.
     
    [La promptitude à croire le mal, sans l’avoir assez examiné, est un effet de l’orgueil et de la paresse: on veut trouver des coupables, et on ne veut pas se donner la peine d’examiner les crimes.]

    François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
    Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶267 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #accusation #assumption #condemnation #crime #ego #evidence #examination #guilt #indolence #investigation #laziness #offense #presumption #pride #blame

  15. A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

    Our readiness to think ill of people without sufficiently examining the matter is based on laziness and pride. We want to find people guilty, we don’t want the bother of studying their crimes.
     
    [La promptitude à croire le mal, sans l’avoir assez examiné, est un effet de l’orgueil et de la paresse: on veut trouver des coupables, et on ne veut pas se donner la peine d’examiner les crimes.]

    François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
    Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶267 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #accusation #assumption #condemnation #crime #ego #evidence #examination #guilt #indolence #investigation #laziness #offense #presumption #pride #blame

  16. So tired of #people thinking that #disabled #people are just not trying hard enough to be able to do the thing. It doesn't matter if it's not being able to work, managing pain, or using a wheelchair. The #assumption always is you, the disabled person, aren't doing enough rather than that's just how #disability works sometimes and you've tried everything possible.

  17. #assumption : the act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self

    - French: supposition

    - German: die Annahme

    - Italian: supposizione

    - Portuguese: Suposição

    - Spanish: suposición

    ------------

    Try our new word guessing game @ 24hippos.com

  18. A quotation from Aldous Huxley

    Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

    Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) English novelist, essayist and critic
    Essay (1950), “Variations on a Philosopher,” Themes and Variations

    More info about this quote: wist.info/huxley-aldous/2007/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aldoushuxley #assumption #humannature #humanity #presumption #takeforgranted

  19. @freakonometrics

    This is an odd article, based on a bizarre assumption. For some reason, the author seems to think that if someone shared a particular belief (the specific tenets of environmentalism that Thunberg touted) with her, they must obviously agree with and endorse all of her positions on other issues.

    Why? There is no logical reason. Perhaps you agree with someone's position on universal basic income, but disagree with them on regulation of political donations. Or you endorse someone's promotion of protection of endangered species, but are opposed to their protest against resource development in some particular area.

    There is no reason to say "You agree with X, therefore you must also agree with Y" here.

    #assumption #assume #bizarre #beliefs

  20. @freakonometrics

    This is an odd article, based on a bizarre assumption. For some reason, the author seems to think that if someone shared a particular belief (the specific tenets of environmentalism that Thunberg touted) with her, they must obviously agree with and endorse all of her positions on other issues.

    Why? There is no logical reason. Perhaps you agree with someone's position on universal basic income, but disagree with them on regulation of political donations. Or you endorse someone's promotion of protection of endangered species, but are opposed to their protest against resource development in some particular area.

    There is no reason to say "You agree with X, therefore you must also agree with Y" here.

    #assumption #assume #bizarre #beliefs

  21. @freakonometrics

    This is an odd article, based on a bizarre assumption. For some reason, the author seems to think that if someone shared a particular belief (the specific tenets of environmentalism that Thunberg touted) with her, they must obviously agree with and endorse all of her positions on other issues.

    Why? There is no logical reason. Perhaps you agree with someone's position on universal basic income, but disagree with them on regulation of political donations. Or you endorse someone's promotion of protection of endangered species, but are opposed to their protest against resource development in some particular area.

    There is no reason to say "You agree with X, therefore you must also agree with Y" here.

    #assumption #assume #bizarre #beliefs

  22. @freakonometrics

    This is an odd article, based on a bizarre assumption. For some reason, the author seems to think that if someone shared a particular belief (the specific tenets of environmentalism that Thunberg touted) with her, they must obviously agree with and endorse all of her positions on other issues.

    Why? There is no logical reason. Perhaps you agree with someone's position on universal basic income, but disagree with them on regulation of political donations. Or you endorse someone's promotion of protection of endangered species, but are opposed to their protest against resource development in some particular area.

    There is no reason to say "You agree with X, therefore you must also agree with Y" here.

    #assumption #assume #bizarre #beliefs

  23. @freakonometrics

    This is an odd article, based on a bizarre assumption. For some reason, the author seems to think that if someone shared a particular belief (the specific tenets of environmentalism that Thunberg touted) with her, they must obviously agree with and endorse all of her positions on other issues.

    Why? There is no logical reason. Perhaps you agree with someone's position on universal basic income, but disagree with them on regulation of political donations. Or you endorse someone's promotion of protection of endangered species, but are opposed to their protest against resource development in some particular area.

    There is no reason to say "You agree with X, therefore you must also agree with Y" here.

    #assumption #assume #bizarre #beliefs

  24. The Sun Is Slowly Waking Up NASA Warns That There May Be More Extreme Space Weather For Decades To Come 

    NASA Goddard A new NASA study suggests that solar activity will remain high or rise further in the coming decades, contradicting previous assumptions that the sun was quieting down and scientists "don't completely understand" why. NASA scientists are warning that the sun may be "waking up" from a brief period of relative inactivity, contradicting past assumptions about our home star. If true, this could mean that decades of potentially dangerous space weather are in store......Continue […]

    onlinemarketingscoops.com/2025

  25. The Sun Is Slowly Waking Up NASA Warns That There May Be More Extreme Space Weather For Decades To Come 

    NASA Goddard A new NASA study suggests that solar activity will remain high or rise further in the coming decades, contradicting previous assumptions that the sun was quieting down and scientists "don't completely understand" why. NASA scientists are warning that the sun may be "waking up" from a brief period of relative inactivity, contradicting past assumptions about our home star. If true, this could mean that decades of potentially dangerous space weather are in store......Continue […]

    onlinemarketingscoops.com/2025

  26. A quotation from Erica Jong

    Jealousy is all the fun you think they had ….

    Erica Jong (b. 1942) American writer, poet
    How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/jong-erica/78894/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ericajong #assumption #envy #fun #jealousy #perspective

  27. @DharmaDog

    Good for you. Very nice.

    I meant, of course, that original posters should put their videos where they are best seen.

    Some may like putting their videos on several platforms.

    I'd start putting them on Mastodon, which accepts very large videos, or Peertube.

    Research yourself which platforms to use for your vids.

    #assumption #mutualRespect

  28. A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

    Do not suppose that if you personally find that something is hard to achieve, it is therefore beyond human capacity; rather, if something is possible and appropriate for human beings, assume that it must also be within your own reach.
     
    [Μή, εἴ τι αὐτῷ σοὶ δυσκαταπόνητον, τοῦτο ἀνθρώπῳ ἀδύνατον ὑπολαμβάνειν, ἀλλ̓ εἴ τι ἀνθρώπῳ δυνατὸν καὶ οἰκεῖον, τοῦτο καὶ σεαυτῷ ἐφικτὸν νόμιζε.]

    Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
    Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 6, ch. 19 (6.19) (AD 161-180) [tr. Hard (2011 ed.)]

    Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/2667…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #marcusaureliusmeditations #ability #assumption #capacity #confidence #difficulty #human #limitations #possibility #potential #capability

  29. In the Way of Inquiry • Objections to Reflexive Inquiry 5
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/02

    Our agent of inquiry is brought to the threshold of two questions:

    • What actions are available to achieve the aims of the present activity?

    • What assumptions already accepted are advisable to amend or abandon?

    #Peirce #Inquiry #InquiryIntoInquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems
    #Activity #Aim #Assumption #Advice #Amendment #Abandonment
    #Interruption #Obstruction #Reconstruction #Reconstitution

  30. 🧵 1/9 #Assomption (#Assumption of Mary) today, is a holiday here in France. In German we have the name "Kräuterweihe" that reminds much better to the #pagan history behind that date. Indeed, it was one of the most important days of agricultural calendars. Here, I talk about the #CulturalHeritage especially in #Alsace, its connection to #nature and even #climateChange - not about the Catholic idea. For #ClimateDiary it's a day which should change the date: weather #traditions don't work anymore.

  31. 2/2 If you prefer reading a blog article: cronenburg.net/magic/ (It is not a transcript, it's just using a small thought of the podcast episode above), showing some photos of this "Catholic magic" from an exhibition in our museum.

    #culturalHeritage #15August #Assumption #myths #rituals #shiftingBaseline #knowledge #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary

  32. 1/2 #15August or #Assumption was a magic time long before Christianism.
    #Myths and #rituals talk about #nature and #biodiversity of ancient times. But with the #climateCrisis, we are confronted with phenomena of shifting #baselines and "planetary amnesia".

    How can we live with change when even traditions of the annual cycle no longer work? Can we redefine our #storytelling connections?
    podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/

    #NatureMatchCuts #culturalHeritage #shift #Himmelfahrt #extinction #ShiftingBaseline

  33. #assumption : the act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self

    - French: supposition

    - German: die Annahme

    - Italian: supposizione

    - Portuguese: Suposição

    - Spanish: suposición

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    Word of The Hour's Annual Survey @ wordofthehour.org/r/form

  34. #assumption : the act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self

    - French: supposition

    - German: die Annahme

    - Italian: supposizione

    - Portuguese: Suposição

    - Spanish: suposición

    ------------

    Word of The Hour's Annual Survey @ wordofthehour.org/r/form

  35. A quotation from Russell, Bertrand:

    «««««
    In all affairs — love, religion, politics or business — it’s a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
    »»»»»

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/russell-bertrand/338

    #quote #quotes #quotation #acceptance #assumption #axiom #doubt #premise #questioning #reevaluation #reexamination #reexamine #revalidation #skepticism #takingforgranted

  36. A quotation from Nassim Taleb

    Because our minds need to reduce information, we are more likely to try to squeeze a phenomenon into the Procrustean bed of a crisp and known category (amputating the unknown), rather than suspend categorization, and make it tangible. Thanks to our detections of false patterns, along with real ones, what is random will appear less random and more certain — our overactive brains are more likely to impose the wrong, simplistic, narrative than no narrative at all.

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b. 1960) Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, risk analyst, aphorist.
    The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms, “Postface” (2010)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/taleb-nassim-nichola…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #assumption #categorization #cognition #explanation #information #mind #model #narrative #oversimplification #patterns #thought #understanding

  37. 1️⃣ #Hypotheses
    Hypotheses are #empirically testable #propositions in #theories. Empirically testable means that we can decide whether the proposition is true or false based on #observations. Thus, a hypothesis is an #assumption or conjecture about a relationship.

    2️⃣ Types
    #Difference hypotheses:
    - Children eat more ice cream scoops than adults.
    #Correlation hypotheses:
    - The warmer it is, the more ice cream is sold.
    - When it is warmer outside, more people eat ice cream.

  38. “But synthetical reasoning, setting up as its goal some unattainable abstraction, like an imaginary quantity in algebra, and commencing its course with taking for granted some two assertions which cannot be proved, from the union of these two assumed truths produces a third assumption, and so on in infinite series, to the unspeakable benefit of the human intellect.”

    https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/08/13/but-synthetical-reasoning-setting-up-as-its-goal-some-unattainable-abstraction-like-an-imaginary-quantity-in-algebra-and-commencing-its-course-with-taking-for-granted-some-two-assertions-which-ca/