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    Ginger573  68, Female, New Mexico, USA - 25 entries
25
Mar 2012
9:00 PM
   

Love it!

"If you want happiness for an hour - take a nap. If you want happiness for a day - go fishing. If you want happiness for a year - inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime - help someone else." - Chinese Proverb Love it! So true. I've been so shy and withdrawn most of my life it's kept me too much in my own head. Just realizing how great it feels to lift my head up, smile, look people in their eyes and be present to life. Wow!
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    PapaFoote  81, Male, Michigan, USA - 193 entries
25
Mar 2012
8:23 AM EDT
   

Fallacy

Fallacy From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Logical fallacy) Jump to: navigation, search This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. It needs additional citations for verification. Tagged since August 2010. It may need to be rewritten entirely to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards. Tagged since August 2010. It may contain original research. Tagged since August 2010. In logic and rhetoric, a fallacy is usually an improper argumentation in reasoning often resulting in a misconception or presumption. Literally, a fallacy is "an error in reasoning that renders an argument logically invalid".[1] By accident or design, fallacies may exploit emotional triggers in the listener or participant (appeal to emotion), or take advantage of social relationships between people (e.g. argument from authority). Fallacious arguments are often structured using rhetorical patterns that obscure any logical argument. Though an argument is not "logically valid", it is not necessarily the case that the conclusion is incorrect. It simply means that the conclusion cannot be arrived at using that argument. *Though often used unintentionally, fallacies can be used purposefully to win arguments regardless of the merits. Among such devices, discussed in more detail below, are: "ignoring the question" to divert argument to unrelated issues using a red herring, making the argument personal (argumentum ad hominem) and discrediting the opposition's character, "begging the question" (petitio principi), the use of the non-sequitur, false cause and effect (post hoc ergo propter hoc), bandwagoning (everyone says so), the "false dilemma" or "either-or fallacy" in which the situation is oversimplified, "card-stacking" or selective use of facts, and "false analogy". Another favorite device is the "false generalization", an abstraction of the argument that shifts discussion to platitudes where the facts of the matter are lost. There are many, many more tricks to divert attention from careful exploration of a subject.[2] Fallacies can generally be classified as informal (premises fail to support the proposed conclusion, but the argument is structured properly) or formal (logical structure is flawed).

*From The Old Goat
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    Ranilyn  31, Female, Canada - 26 entries
22
Mar 2012
2:12 AM MDT
   

Here, once again.

Look who's back again.

Guess who's once again feeling stressed...and down...and misunderstood...and wanting to cry...and sick of everything...and worried...and upset...and wishing that it will all go away...would it be entirely terrible of me to just not go to school? Sometimes I wished I had the guts to fake sick like so many of my friends do. But I'm too 'good'. aren't I? I know I wouldn't be able to deal with disappointing my group members, or deal with the guilty conscience of lying to everyone.

But sometimes, in instances like this, I just want to say� "Screw it all, I don't care!". Ohhhh yeah, that would go so well.

I really thought I'd be over this. This semester was supposed to change everything, �this year was supposed to be different. Then I reread one of my previous teenage angst-y entries, and I find myself in the same mood as the time when I wrote that. In fact, I had more to add on to the�sorry list of miseries.

Look at me waste time on a school night, the day before the last day of spring break where EVERYTHING is due. Seriously teachers, are you just trying to torment us on purpose? All this "I don't want you to have to do work over spring break, it's for relaxation!" crap just means you choke all of us the week before -with an exception to Ms. Coleman because she was genuine in her wish to help us but at the same time allowing us to choose.

Italian Unification project, L.A reflection for the Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Extended Essay proposal due AND we need to talk to our EE teacher, freaking Chemistry Test tomorrow that's apparently weighted more than our final (what the heck?!) - which also apparently contains a decent amount of defnitions when our teacher had said not to worry about them, and Oma and Opa's anniversary thingy tomorrow after school which may require me to socialise while I'm cranky. Oh yeah...there's also IB math morning class.

Actually all this probably stemmed from chemistry, and I don't want to talk about it. I've never been terrified of school before.

Sometimes my family doesn't get it - especially my sister. Well actually, I think only my mother is making an effort to understand...I truly appreciate the amount of love and flexibility she's poured on me despite not actually understanding the situation. Dad's just stubborn and compares me to himself. My sister? It feels like she doesn't even bother.

Must I physically place a frown on my face, talk in a flat and upset tone, ignore her, stare anti social-y while my body language is stiff and screams stop bother me - all of which irritates and hurt her - in order for her to understand that I am� freaking serious, that i actually have to get the stuff done, and I'm not just finding an excuse to ignore her and be petty. argh.

I really should get to work...even if I'm already resigned on staying up late.

Ugh. This really sucks.

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    PapaFoote  81, Male, Michigan, USA - 193 entries
21
Mar 2012
7:17 PM EDT
   

Its Time

Tonight,
If "we" have enough "good" thinking in our Earth Planet - "we" could get started with "real" civilization, WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THAT?
The Old Goat
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    dali87  39, Female, Florida, USA - 9 entries
21
Mar 2012
4:22 PM CDT
   

Ugh freaking pissed off. My fiancee just woke up from his nap and he's like I'm in pain. So of course he is in a freakin pissed off� mood. It is still no reason to be taking it out on me. Every single day there is a problem, either its my fiancee or my parents. I just want it to stop. Oh i finally got a job and its like its still not good enough for either sides. With my fiancee, doesn't work with his schedule (whatever that is) and my parents now want money from me. As of the moment, I owe my parents 165.00 for my car because my dad had it fixed at the dealer even though all i wanted fixed was just the stuff under the warranty. I hope I get more clients so I can make more money and become more independent and not depend on anyone including my fiancee. I am fucken pissed and they can't understand why. It's like its because you come at me every single day and I'm sick of it so I'm attacking back.
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    PapaFoote  81, Male, Michigan, USA - 193 entries
20
Mar 2012
7:23 AM EDT
   

War Games(???)!

This Morning, I'm thinking about "War Games" and wondering about the "subtle" thoughts that other minds wander in and out of! - The Old Goat
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    PapaFoote  81, Male, Michigan, USA - 193 entries
20
Mar 2012
7:00 AM
   

About Happiness

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." - Abraham Lincoln
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    PrettyGirl25  31, Female, North Carolina, USA - 12 entries
20
Mar 2012
1:40 PM
   

Having soo much fun right now... And i thought that today would be a badd day....
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    PapaFoote  81, Male, Michigan, USA - 193 entries
19
Mar 2012
8:38 AM EDT
   

Cycles

Dear Reader,

Today, we have a good "thinking" article - about "cycles"! But, it isn't� just economics, it's about many other parts of our Earth Planet that have still not worked through the "problems" and the "solutions"! Most folks want "short" answers, so they can go back to their own, narrow, "slice" of the "pie"!

Well, they are not about "short", they are about "long" answer(s) to solutions that "cut" the "cycles" - so we can really get forward towards the better future that everyone wants!

Let's TRY, again - perhaps "we" just need to "scan" further to get where we need to get!

The Old Goat


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    PapaFoote  81, Male, Michigan, USA - 193 entries
18
Mar 2012
8:31 AM EDT
   

"Long-range goals keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures." - James Cash Penney
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