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Re35: Follow-ups to Re17, Re18, Re33
Retraice^1
Cool stuff that didn't make it into those segments.
Air date: Sunday, 30th Oct. 2022, 11:00 PM Eastern/US.
Sources and depth added to
`Re17: Hypotheses to Eleven'
We gathered sources and added to the descriptions of all the hypotheses, H1-H11. See the notes at Retraice (2022/03/07a).
The next step here is probably to do one hypothesis at a time. But we also have to consider what work needs doing.
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Out upon your guarded lips! Sew them up with packthread, do. Else, if you would be a man, speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. Ah, then, exclaim the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misunderstood. Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."^2
Getting high-minded about it here.
Betterment, simplified
We also added the promised simplification of `betterment':
* reduction of violence, cruelty, suffering;
* increase in control of environment;
* increasing transmission of culture (education);
* Now, cf. the `good model' from Re28, Retraice (2022/10/24).
All of these are fully sourced in the Re17 PDF notes.
`Objective observables' added to
`Re18: Plan of Attack'
In trying to convert our vague, English-language hypotheses into forms more tractable, specific and objective, we define a term. We realize no one is asking for this.
Objective observables: things observable to the five senses, but not the sixth (the mind's eye, i.e. our thoughts and internal experience not observable to others, i.e. `subjective observables'). See Retraice (2022/03/07b) section `Definitions'.
`An area that you can do absolutely nothing about' (Re33)
Talking about `Outsiders, Power and Waste', I vaguely remembered^3 a relevant phrase I'd read, something like `there's nothing you can do'. It was this, from a difficult-to-trust UFO book:
Walker: Yes, I know of MJ-12. I have known of them for 40 years. I believe that you're chasing after and fighting with windmills!!
Steinman: Why do you say that?
Walker: You are delving into an area that you can do absolutely nothing about. So, why get involved with it or all concerned about it? Why don't you just leave it alone and drop it? Forget about it!!^4
This is also discussed in Retraice (2022/11/02).
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References
Cameron, G., & Crain Jr., T. S. (2020). UFOs, Area 51, and Government Informants: A Report on Government Involvement in UFO Crash Retrievals. Independently published, Kindle, revised ed. ISBN: 9798556079717. Searches:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=9798556079717
https://www.google.com/search?q=isbn+9798556079717
Dolan, R. M. (2014). UFOs for the 21st Century Mind: A Fresh Guide to an Ancient Mystery. Richard Dolan Press. ISBN: 978-1495291609. Searches:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=9781495291609
https://www.google.com/search?q=isbn+9781495291609
Emerson, R. W. (1841). The Essay on Self-Reliance. Roycrofters, reprint 1908 ed. No ISBN.
https://archive.org/details/selfrelianceessay00emerrich/page/n9/mode/2up Searches:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=emerson+self+reliance
https://www.google.com/search?q=emerson+self+reliance
https://lccn.loc.gov/09000125
Retraice (2022/03/07a). Re17: Hypotheses to Eleven. retraice.com.
https://www.retraice.com/segments/re17 Retrieved 17th Mar. 2022.
Retraice (2022/03/07b). Re18: Plan of Attack. retraice.com.
https://www.retraice.com/segments/re18 Retrieved 25th Mar. 2022.
Retraice (2022/10/24). Re28: What's Good? RTFM. retraice.com.
https://www.retraice.com/segments/re28 Retrieved 25th Oct. 2022.
Retraice (2022/11/02). Re38: Follow up to `Re33: Outsiders, Power and Waste'. retraice.com.
https://www.retraice.com/segments/re38 Retrieval pending.
Footnotes
^1 https://www.retraice.com/retraice
^2 Emerson (1841) p. 23.
^3 The Jennifer Aniston neuron, aka grandmother cell.
^4 Cameron & Crain Jr. (2020) p. 30. Also quoted in Dolan (2014), pp. 185-186.
