Decision Making

[kaipoh]

Take our gangster professor CSJ as eg. his off springs sure learn how to move from a S/D to HDB flat.

For some people there are less thought processes when they decide, their's are done more instinctively for better or for worse.

 

[kaipoh]

Bro, send this note to LKY, only 2 options, why he has to wait so long to decide.

Some people just need to make 1 decision - whether to jump or don't jump. CHoose jump and no more decision need to be made.

 

[ginfreely]

From the time open eyes till closes, many decisions must be made daily. What to wear, what to eat, who to makan with, where to chiong, bet on which team etc. What are the dynamics involved?

based on happiness and budget lor; go for choices that bring maximum happiness at lowest budget. Of course with no harm to people.

 

[zhihau]

True to the extent that these decisions are made for them when they are young

valid on all counts! once the kids start to develop a mind of their own, the parents only guide but not interfere with the decision making process!

 

[Froggy]

In Thai there is a word I hate, kraeng-jai. It could means be considerate, courteous, don't hurt anyone, don't embarrass anyone. Sounds good? Taking I to extreme it means running away from problem, avoid confrontation at all cost, procrastination, waiting and waiting for someone to make decision, better not be a smart alec.

Very frustrating.

 

[frenchbriefs]

In Thai there is a word I hate, kraeng-jai. It could means be considerate, courteous, don't hurt anyone, don't embarrass anyone. Sounds good? Taking I to extreme it means running away from problem, avoid confrontation at all cost, procrastination, waiting and waiting for someone to make decision, better not be a smart alec.

Very frustrating.

i see thais protesting....do u see sinkies protesting?

 

[Froggy]

i see thais protesting....do u see sinkies protesting?

Protest is about politics. This is a different dynamic.

I'm afraid to say this but the longer I live here the more kraeng-jai I become it's like being sucked in. Sad.

 

[NgEjay]

thinking more in terms of causes and effects, as individuals and collectively as a group

There is a theorem proved by Conway and Cochen, which states that under certain reasonable assumptions, if human beings have free will, then so do elementary particles like leptons and hadrons.


The link to the wikipedia extract:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will_theorem

The link to the research article:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/quantph/0604079.pdf

 

[rushifa666]

The inferior man's reasons for hating knowledge are not hard to discern. He hates it because it is complex -- because it puts an unbearable burden upon his meager capacity for taking in ideas. Thus his search is always for short cuts. All superstitions are such short cuts. Their aim is to make the unintelligible simple, and even obvious. So on what seem to be higher levels. No man who has not had a long and arduous education can understand even the most elementary concepts of modern pathology. But even a hind at the plow can grasp the theory of chiropractic in two lessons. Hence the vast popularity of chiropractic among the submerged -- and of osteopathy, Christian Science and other such quackeries with it. They are idiotic, but they are simple -- and every man prefers what he can understand to what puzzles and dismays him.

The popularity of Fundamentalism among the inferior orders of men is explicable in exactly the same way. The cosmogonies that educated men toy with are all inordinately complex. To comprehend their veriest outlines requires an immense stock of knowledge, and a habit of thought. It would be as vain to try to teach to peasants or to the city proletariat as it would be to try to teach them to streptococci. But the cosmogony of Genesis is so simple that even a yokel can grasp it. It is set forth in a few phrases. It offers, to an ignorant man, the irresistible reasonableness of the nonsensical. So he accepts it with loud hosannas, and has one more excuse for hating his betters.

That was excellent. I can accept people in those times accepting hook line and sinker. Indeed many of the traditions preached were practical. For example, women being veiled in a desert. Draining the blood of animals was a good way to prevent catching diseases. But now, wearing a veil in ,say, hawaii? Still draining blood when your meat is tested and you can cook it thoroughly? My god, did these fools even understood why such practices were started in the first place? I repeat again, education is wasted on these morons. Religion does not exist to be an obstacle to knowledge

 

[Thick Face Black Heart]

The inferior man's reasons for hating knowledge are not hard to discern. He hates it because it is complex -- because it puts an unbearable burden upon his meager capacity for taking in ideas. Thus his search is always for short cuts. All superstitions are such short cuts. Their aim is to make the unintelligible simple, and even obvious. So on what seem to be higher levels. No man who has not had a long and arduous education can understand even the most elementary concepts of modern pathology. But even a hind at the plow can grasp the theory of chiropractic in two lessons. Hence the vast popularity of chiropractic among the submerged -- and of osteopathy, Christian Science and other such quackeries with it. They are idiotic, but they are simple -- and every man prefers what he can understand to what puzzles and dismays him.

The popularity of Fundamentalism among the inferior orders of men is explicable in exactly the same way. The cosmogonies that educated men toy with are all inordinately complex. To comprehend their veriest outlines requires an immense stock of knowledge, and a habit of thought. It would be as vain to try to teach to peasants or to the city proletariat as it would be to try to teach them to streptococci. But the cosmogony of Genesis is so simple that even a yokel can grasp it. It is set forth in a few phrases. It offers, to an ignorant man, the irresistible reasonableness of the nonsensical. So he accepts it with loud hosannas, and has one more excuse for hating his betters.

Proper citation please:

H. L. Mencken on Religion


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken

http://books.google.com.sg/books?id=YgY6_ppPrCkC&pg=PA167&lpg=PA167&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

[zhihau]

There is a theorem proved by Conway and Cochen, which states that under certain reasonable assumptions, if human beings have free will, then so do elementary particles like leptons and hadrons

Good articles there! Do quantum particles exercise their free will? Appearing and disappearing at will, be at two places at once and being present yet absent at the same time?

 

[chootchiew]

Bro, send this note to LKY, only 2 options, why he has to wait so long to decide.

I will recommend him to jump to regain respect from his people