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user 858770
Aug 13, 2023 13:02
I should've given honorable mention to McCloud and McMillan and Wife :P
user 858770
Aug 13, 2023 12:35
:-)
user 858770
Aug 13, 2023 12:23
For the proof refer to the popularity of the re-runs.
user 858770
Aug 13, 2023 12:21
Come on, Columbo blows them out of the water.
user 858770
Aug 9, 2023 06:56
Thnx
user 858770
Aug 9, 2023 06:55
How do you pronounce "Townes" @leslietownes? Like Tow/ness or Towns
user 858770
Aug 9, 2023 06:49
professor Townes for the win
user 858770
Aug 5, 2023 22:48
Stay in the mainstream or be prepared to work alone.
user 858770
Aug 5, 2023 22:36
Truly old school.
user 858770
Aug 5, 2023 22:34
Like Professor Wiles did for 7 years :P
user 858770
Aug 5, 2023 22:25
Requires mathjax.
user 858770
Aug 2, 2023 16:03
Btw, thanks for your link :-)
user 858770
Aug 2, 2023 16:01
in English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room, 7 hours ago, by user223626865
“All of us want to be completely alive, to live one hundred percent in the present moment. What prevents us? More urgently, how can we bring about such a state of mind?
The great American psychologist [William James] gives us a clue in a quotation I found in a most unexpected place, Vogue magazine. This is a direct quotation: ‘The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will. An education which should include this faculty would be the education par excellence.’
user 858770
Aug 2, 2023 15:59
@GratefulDisciple the quote has many implications for mindfulness meditation
user 858770
Jul 29, 2023 16:34
Have you ever read this quotation before @copper.hat? "The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will."
 

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Aug 13, 2023 12:32
1.999..., 2.999..., 3.999..., or 4.999...
 

 English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…

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user 858770
Aug 5, 2023 22:19
(1974)
user 858770
Aug 5, 2023 22:18
Crazy Talk
user 858770
Aug 5, 2023 22:16
9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣9️⃣
user 858770
Aug 5, 2023 22:11
Chilliwack - Crazy Talk (1974)
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user 858770
Aug 2, 2023 15:55
runs through Nevada
user 858770
Aug 2, 2023 15:55
a famous hiway back in the day
user 858770
Jul 29, 2023 17:20
The brain is not a muscle, it is an organ.
user 858770
Jul 29, 2023 17:18
But each time you pay attention it takes effort.
user 858770
Jul 29, 2023 17:12
All with reference to the faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again.
user 858770
Jul 29, 2023 17:10
Having the good judgement of knowing when to do it, the character to do it, and the will power to see it through to the end.
user 858770
Jul 29, 2023 16:51
The horror, the horror.
user 858770
Jul 29, 2023 16:47
More importantly is that a one-way ticket to hell.
user 858770
Jul 29, 2023 16:45
Has anyone turned down sainthood?
user 858770
Jul 29, 2023 16:44
Same goes for the Nobel prize.
user 858770
Jul 29, 2023 16:43
There are a few notable exceptions who have declined the award.
user 858770
Jul 29, 2023 16:40
Saint Satan.
user 858770
Jul 29, 2023 16:40
Saint God.
user 858770
Jul 29, 2023 16:39
Saint Jesus.
user 858770
Jul 29, 2023 16:38
Yup.
user 858770
Jul 29, 2023 16:37
Really?
user 858770
Jul 29, 2023 16:26
The internet shortens attention.
user 858770
Jul 29, 2023 16:23
> The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will.
user 858770
Jul 29, 2023 16:22
William James' quote:
user 858770
Jul 29, 2023 16:21
The very root of judgment, character, and will is the faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again.
user 858770
Jul 29, 2023 16:16
It is a feed back loop, actually.
user 858770
Jul 29, 2023 16:14
From these three roots attention grows.
user 858770
Jul 29, 2023 16:12
Character and will.
user 858770
Jul 29, 2023 16:11
You have to use your judgement.
user 858770
Jul 29, 2023 16:10
We pay attention with effort.
user 858770
Jul 29, 2023 16:09
The cost of attention is energy.
user 858770
Jul 29, 2023 16:02
🙉🙈🙊
 

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user 858770
Aug 5, 2023 04:11
A society that fixates on the internet is bound to be polarized.
user 858770
Aug 5, 2023 04:00
(oops, perhaps not so much emphasis on "chooses" :-)
user 858770
Aug 5, 2023 03:57
Aren't social posts suppose to be available to a society who chooses to read it.