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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Jun 16, 2023 10:02:59 GMT
In desperate times when I have no other form of entertainment, I sometimes listen to a round-up of the BBC's Today in Parliament kind of thing. We get random recordings of debates and so on. I can't help but notice these days all the debates are orientated towards feelings. We get obligatory successions of MPs standing up and giving their sympathies to the latest terror attack. We get debates on the "hearts and minds" of people. We get questions with the obligatory prefixed phase attached to anything of the world with how would so and so feel. They ask how does the gentleman (cough cough ) feel about it and so on. Does the right honourable (cough) lady feel this or does she feel that?
Surely you can't run a successful economy and country on feelings? It seems such a stitch-up to me, as if we were listening to some red herring type debate, and where in private the dictators do what the hell they damn well want, so this is just for show, as if they really care.
Conversely where I watch videos from the Far East on goings on the videos always end in asking how do you think about this, not how do you feel about it. So that's my question. I guess it presupposes that the audience is capable of thinking - lol.
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Post by Bentley on Jun 16, 2023 10:14:20 GMT
University of google .
hold an opinion.
"I felt I could make a useful contribution"
How do you feel about this ?= what is your opinion of this ?
Maybe the audience is capable of thinking this is a pointless thread .
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Post by Toreador on Jun 16, 2023 10:19:35 GMT
University of google . hold an opinion. "I felt I could make a useful contribution" How do you feel about this ?= what is your opinion of this ? Maybe the audience is capable of thinking this is a pointless thread .
In my case having read the first few words of the OP. |
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Post by Orac on Jun 16, 2023 10:28:33 GMT
Adding the word 'feel' to the question, allows your answer to be filed in the same folder as opinions about cats - it also a mild disincentive to expand rationally or explain.
The HR department now rules the western world and it is not going well
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Post by piglet on Jun 16, 2023 10:44:53 GMT
Its wokery, all of society is becoming more female. Sigh. TV is full of children suffering from all sorts of illnesses, its designed to get your bucks into charities. Im 66, cancer charities have been around since then, i wonder to what degree they drag their feet.
Emoting is big business.
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Jun 16, 2023 10:44:56 GMT
Adding the word 'feel' to the question, allows your answer to be filed in the same folder as opinions about cats - it also a mild disincentive to expand rationally or explain. The HR department now rules the western world and it is not going well This is why our economy is failing. One of the main purposes of parliament is the rational management of the country's resources, including the human type. They seem to picture themselves as feeling reps, where their jobs are to feel more professionally than the mere amateur who they work on behalf of. So to give an example, the layman feeler might wrongly feel their culture is being replaced by the culture of invading countries from a far, and they may feel unsafe due to the cultures of violence they bring with them, but MPs see themselves as having better feelings. Feelings which in their cognition are those that are "more appropriate". |
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Post by Bentley on Jun 16, 2023 12:13:56 GMT
How do you ‘ think ‘ about a subject v how do you ‘ feel’ about a subject ?
It takes a lot of mental gymnastics to make that a problem.
I suppose in a world where trans zealot demand that men can be defined as women due to linguistic theory there might be some concerns if the word feel was blatantly inappropriate.
As for China . A lot of English phrases do not directly translate into Chinese and vice versa. Unless you are very familiar with the language then you wouldn’t know .
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Jun 17, 2023 10:12:22 GMT
How do you ‘ think ‘ about a subject v how do you ‘ feel’ about a subject ? It takes a lot of mental gymnastics to make that a problem. I suppose in a world where trans zealot demand that men can be defined as women due to linguistic theory there might be some concerns if the word feel was blatantly inappropriate. As for China . A lot of English phrases do not directly translate into Chinese and vice versa. Unless you are very familiar with the language then you wouldn’t know . I'm gradually becoming accustomed to their language even by listening to the translations. I can't be sure, but it seems highly likely there is a word that means think and a separate term which means to feel. Feel relates to emotion.
I'm guessing here, but I would imagine there is a way to distinguish in Chinese. The brain of Chinese is physiologically the same as our own. One bit of the brain does emotion and a separate bit does reason.
Gordon Gekko's advice was spot on, "Never get emotional about a stock".
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Post by Bentley on Jun 17, 2023 12:14:27 GMT
How do you ‘ think ‘ about a subject v how do you ‘ feel’ about a subject ? It takes a lot of mental gymnastics to make that a problem. I suppose in a world where trans zealot demand that men can be defined as women due to linguistic theory there might be some concerns if the word feel was blatantly inappropriate. As for China . A lot of English phrases do not directly translate into Chinese and vice versa. Unless you are very familiar with the language then you wouldn’t know . I'm gradually becoming accustomed to their language even by listening to the translations. I can't be sure, but it seems highly likely there is a word that means think and a separate term which means to feel. Feel relates to emotion.
I'm guessing here, but I would imagine there is a way to distinguish in Chinese. The brain of Chinese is physiologically the same as our own. One bit of the brain does emotion and a separate bit does reason.
Gordon Gekko's advice was spot on, "Never get emotional about a stock".
You are correct ..you are guessing and haven’t a clue . |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Jun 17, 2023 12:18:49 GMT
I'm gradually becoming accustomed to their language even by listening to the translations. I can't be sure, but it seems highly likely there is a word that means think and a separate term which means to feel. Feel relates to emotion.
I'm guessing here, but I would imagine there is a way to distinguish in Chinese. The brain of Chinese is physiologically the same as our own. One bit of the brain does emotion and a separate bit does reason.
Gordon Gekko's advice was spot on, "Never get emotional about a stock".
You are correct ..you are guessing and haven’t a clue . Well tell us or fuck off. |
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Post by Bentley on Jun 17, 2023 12:57:56 GMT
You are correct ..you are guessing and haven’t a clue . Well tell us or fuck off. Tell you what ? That you are guessing and haven’t a clue ? Already done . |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Jun 17, 2023 13:05:13 GMT
Well tell us or fuck off. Tell you what ? That you are guessing and haven’t a clue ? Already done . You are just a fucking troll. Now fuck off. I have had enough. |
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Post by Bentley on Jun 17, 2023 13:09:45 GMT
Tell you what ? That you are guessing and haven’t a clue ? Already done . You are just a fucking troll. Now fuck off. I have had enough. Hang on You posted this “I’m gradually becoming accustomed to their language even by listening to the translations. I can't be sure, but it seems highly likely there is a word that means think and a separate term which means to feel. Feel relates to emotion. ( = haven’t a clue) Then … I'm guessing here, but I would imagine there is a way to distinguish in Chinese. ( = haven’t a clue ) The brain of Chinese is physiologically the same as our own. One bit of the brain does emotion and a separate bit does reason. ( So what ?) Gordon Gekko's advice was spot on, "Never get emotional about a stock". ( So what no 2) “ You post this drivel then get sniffy when it’s pointed out . |
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