tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383683834534759163.post2929074240582881713..comments2023-05-16T04:18:29.455-06:00Comments on ♪♫•*¨*Letter Out*¨*•♫♪: Current ReadingBlondi Blathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15656970490122824720noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383683834534759163.post-89979517188560033102015-08-19T08:27:18.985-06:002015-08-19T08:27:18.985-06:00Benediction is the first of his books that I'v...Benediction is the first of his books that I've read and I intend to read more of his work. Blondi Blathershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15656970490122824720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383683834534759163.post-82314020842813318152015-08-18T22:17:22.640-06:002015-08-18T22:17:22.640-06:00Hey, I read two of Kent Haruf's books lately. ...Hey, I read two of Kent Haruf's books lately. One was Benediction and the other one was, Our Souls At Night. Loved them both.Lou to Youhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17418036379869710256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383683834534759163.post-29424277713768979742015-08-18T15:21:18.972-06:002015-08-18T15:21:18.972-06:00Kate, in my opinion Facebook facilitates the pitch...Kate, in my opinion Facebook facilitates the pitchfork yielding peasant mentality. The little pictures with words are not meant to elicit consideration, but emotional reaction. I haven't researched the art of brainwashing and rabble rousing, but I suspect someone on the Facebook payroll knows a lot about it.<br /><br />Facebook is not an environment that nurtures critical thought, quite the opposite. Shouting the odds, name calling, bullying, these are not forms of communication, they are forms of control.Maggie Turnerhttp://www.maggieturner.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383683834534759163.post-74234651286153749202015-08-18T13:57:22.482-06:002015-08-18T13:57:22.482-06:00Critical thinking isn't taught in Canadian hig...Critical thinking isn't taught in Canadian high schools, more's the pity. People DO seem to think that their opinions are facts, and that their prejudices are based on facts. Some of the self-righteous garbage people share on Facebook is a clear indicator that many of us don't think too deeply or take the trouble to find out what's true and what isn't, or to consider that there may be more to a story. You do wonder where the intelligent people are, sometimes. Probably not spending a lot of their time on FB?<br />Blondi Blathershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15656970490122824720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383683834534759163.post-8318006684567663962015-08-18T13:31:59.803-06:002015-08-18T13:31:59.803-06:00No endorsement, no review, can tell you whether a ...No endorsement, no review, can tell you whether a book will speak to you or not. Eh? I too have opened up an Oprah pick with great anticipation and found it unreadable for one reason or another. Blondi Blathershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15656970490122824720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383683834534759163.post-56493938137242096862015-08-18T12:52:33.001-06:002015-08-18T12:52:33.001-06:00Your comments on Difficult Conversations reminded ...Your comments on Difficult Conversations reminded me of an article I read recently, written by a university professor. As a teacher at the university, the professor was having to "teach" students that their opinions did not represent facts. I was aghast at this. Who in their right mind thinks that their own opinions represent facts! Apparently those with a privileged education are under this misapprehension.<br />On a similar vein, I recently commented on Facebook, on a thread dealing with an specific article about the murdered bloggers in Bangladesh. To my astonishment, the responses to my comment fell into three categories (as I see it):<br />1. those who understood what I wrote and either agreed or disagreed with the point I had made, and lucidly commented on it,<br />2. those who had ABSOLUTELY NO UNDERSTANDING of the point I had made (I had to wonder if they had read the same article under discussion), and<br />3. those who were so adamant about hating the police in Bangladesh that direct quotes from the article incited them to call me names.<br /><br />Only the first group were worthy of a response, but they soon gave up, overwhelmed by the emotionally indulgent tirades of those with closed minds. I ended up deleting my comment and bowing out. There seem to be a lot of intellectually-flaccid, emotionally-undisciplined humans shouting the odds these days.Maggie Turnerhttp://www.maggieturner.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383683834534759163.post-15739869319144516482015-08-18T12:30:41.600-06:002015-08-18T12:30:41.600-06:00my salon was next to the best used book store in t...my salon was next to the best used book store in the region, a dangerous thing for me! I thought I'd be smart one day and picked out 11 of Oprah's Picks. They had to be good, right? OMG...I was so depressed by the third one I traded them all back in :)<br />SharynSharyn Mallow Woerzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17776056375534578046noreply@blogger.com