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  1. What forms, or: Friction

    A Sijo

    what must stay pure is kept so
    white stays unchanged behind glass;
    sealed off from all contact
    no entry, no exit allowed;
    but life requires some friction
    or else it never becomes itself

    What Do You See 338

    For WDYS, Sadje offers us a photo taken by Jay Sadangi (Unsplash). The image shows a bouquet of white roses seen through a dusty window.

    As always, Sadje is eagerly awaiting our responses!

    Sijo?

    A Korean verse form related to haiku and tanka and comprised of three lines of 14-16 syllables each, for a total of 44-46 syllables. Each line contains a pause near the middle, similar to a caesura, though the break need not be metrical. The first half of the line contains six to nine syllables; the second half should contain no fewer than five. Originally intended as songs, sijo can treat romantic, metaphysical, or spiritual themes. Whatever the subject, the first line introduces an idea or story, the second supplies a “turn,” and the third provides closure. Modern sijo are sometimes printed in six lines.

    Let’s write poetry together!

    When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.

    Ben Harper (b. 1969)

    Would you like to create poetry with me and have a completed poem of yours featured here at the Skeptic’s Kaddish? I am very excited to have launched the ‘Poetry Partners’ initiative and am looking forward to meeting and creating with you… Check it out!

    #Afterlife #Belief #Death #Poem #Poetry #Proof #Reality #Religion #Sijo #Skepticism #Space
  2. Given the amount of online scams, if you ever need to verify that a message truly came from me, feel free to ask for a signed response. My public keys are available here:

    https://sami-lehtinen.net/public-keys

    #identity #proof #authentication #digitalsignature

  3. theconversation.com/there-is-s. "Proving to the #HomeOffice that someone is #LGBTQ isn’t an easy feat. The #BBC #investigation repeats an adviser’s claim that 'there is no check-up'. In #reality, the Home Office conducts an intensive #refugee #status #determination #process. This involves 2 #interviews, & places the #burden of #proof on the claimant to show that they require #protection from #persecution." So this was slipshod #Panorama BS, at the expense of genuine LGBTQ #asylum #seekers!

  4. A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle

       “You don’t seem to give much thought to the matter in hand,” I said at last, interrupting Holmes’s musical disquisition.
       “No data yet,” he answered. “It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgement.”

    Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
    Story (1886-04), “A Study in Scarlet,” Part 1, ch. 3, Beeton’s Christmas Annual, Vol. 28 (1887-11-21)

    More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/8…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arthurconandoyle #sherlockholmes #holmes #sherlock #conclusion #consideration #data #evidence #hypothesis #insufficientdata #theory #thought #proof #confirmationbias #prematureconclusion

  5. A quotation from Claude Bernard

    But it happens further quite naturally that men who believe too firmly in their theories, do not believe enough in the theories of others. So the dominant idea of these despisers of their fellows is to find others’ theories faulty and to try to contradict them. […] They make experiments only to destroy a theory, instead of to seek the truth. At the same time, they make poor observations, because they choose among the results of their experiments only what suits their object, neglecting whatever is unrelated to it, and carefully setting aside everything which might tend toward they idea they wish to combat.
     
    [Mais il arrive encore tout naturellement que ceux qui croient trop à leurs théories ne croient pas assez à celles des autres. Alors l’idée dominante de ces contempteurs d’autrui est de trouver les théories des autres en défaut et de chercher à les contredire. […] Ils ne font des expériences que pour détruire une théorie, au lieu de les faire pour chercher la vérité. Ils font également de mauvaises observations, parce qu’ils ne prennent dans les résultats de leurs expériences que ce qui convient à leur but, en négligeant ce qui ne s’y rapporte pas, et en écartant bien soigneusement tout ce qui pourrait aller dans le sens de l’idée qu’ils veulent combattre.]

    Claude Bernard (1813-1878) French physiologist, scientist
    An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine [Introduction à l’Étude de la Médecine Expérimentale], ch. 3 (1865) [tr. Greene (1957)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bernard-claude/81484…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #claudebernard #bias #confirmationbias #disproof #experimentation #hypothesis #proof #science #scientificmethod #theory

  6. A quotation from Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    The same past data can confirm a theory and its exact opposite! If you survive until tomorrow, it could mean that either a) you are more likely to be immortal or b) that you are closer to death. Both conclusions rely on the exact same data.

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b. 1960) Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, risk analyst, aphorist
    The Black Swan, Part 2, ch. 11 “How to Look for Bird Poop” (2007)

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

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #blackswan #conclusion #data #deduction #past #precedent #proof #surmise #theory

  7. Flag down on the play, B&H Photo-Video! Was repeatedly assured in-store that buying items & having them shipped would not incur any charges (I bought $200 of stuff!). So when it shipped & I saw a shipping charge, I called right away. Not like them, they're usually more honest.
    #B&H #Photo #Video #Store #free #shipping #not #really #called for #credit #back #filter #holder #effects #photography #pictures #instant #color #black& #white #negatives #proof #sheet #roll #film #bellows #camera #shoot