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Onyx Stone: July 2007

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Why Are We So Easily Fooled? Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me). Courage, Stupidity or a Remarkable Example of Disc. The Problem with Religion. Contribute to Cutting Edge Astronomy. What does it take to succeed? Sunday, July 29, 2007. Why Are We So Easily Fooled? Yep there's a bit of a common theme running through the last few posts, the ease with which the mind can be fooled. Here's another one for you. Take a good look at this image. The squares marked A and B are the same shade of grey. You see it's a...

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Onyx Stone: August 2006

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Thursday, August 31, 2006. It seems the appetite for fear is as strong as ever. Obesity is high fashion fear right now. Does anyone really believe that " more than half of New Zealand adults are overweight or obese. Words like 'crisis', 'epidemic' and 'danger' are spread like five types of cheese on a triple deep pizza in these reports. In Britain they're expecting 12 million obese adults by 2010. I have a hunch that the worry itself will usher a few off this mortal coil. Wonderfully made: marvellous are.

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Onyx Stone: May 2007

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The Dutch Kidney Scramble. Birmingham Girls Too Ugly. Thought for the day. Man created gods in his own image. Ten Years of Tony Blair. And Which Are You? Wednesday, May 30, 2007. The Dutch Kidney Scramble. I suspect the reality show is closer to reality than we care to admit. While the 'best' reality shows are spectacularly contrived and ever more bizarre, it is their connection to the human condition that makes them work. Barabbus the murderer, or Jesus Christ who had committed no wrong. The mob was...

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Onyx Stone: August 2009

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Why so much friction? Saturday, August 08, 2009. Why so much friction? Why is there so much friction between people, cultures, races, nations? In the words of Jack Nicholson as the Joker, a homicidal maniac bent on killing everyone in Gotham City. Why can't we just all get along? Oh, the irony in that statement is a thing of beauty. The answer lies in the way our minds work. The book of Proverbs declares, Every man is right in his own eyes. Henry Robinson's The Mind in the Making. Dale Carengie said the ...

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Onyx Stone: Another Satisfied Microsoft Customer

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Another Satisfied Microsoft Customer. Greetings, Fellow Sagittarians. Thursday, August 30, 2007. Another Satisfied Microsoft Customer. Wow and you thought XP had problems. A ex-cop in the US recently ran into problems installing Vista and struggled to get his old programs up and running. After three hours, his patience had run out but his ammunition hadn't. The unfortunate computer took five slugs to the monitor. A sixth missed, passing through into the next apartment. I know exactly how he felt! If you ...

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Onyx Stone: Why so much friction?

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Why so much friction? Saturday, August 08, 2009. Why so much friction? Why is there so much friction between people, cultures, races, nations? In the words of Jack Nicholson as the Joker, a homicidal maniac bent on killing everyone in Gotham City. Why can't we just all get along? Oh, the irony in that statement is a thing of beauty. The answer lies in the way our minds work. The book of Proverbs declares, Every man is right in his own eyes. Henry Robinson's The Mind in the Making. Dale Carengie said the ...

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Onyx Stone: September 2009

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Blinded By The Light. Monday, September 14, 2009. Blinded By The Light. I'm probably stating something most people already know but Fundamentalist Christianity suffers from a cognitive bias known as framing. It's a form of selective interpretation which allows someone's bias to determine what one believes. Or " What does the Word say. Meaning, lets ignore everything else, particularly science). Perhaps the most pointed example of being blinded by the light. Well, what does it say? May fly above the earth...

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Onyx Stone: Loyalty or Honesty?

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Another Satisfied Microsoft Customer. Greetings, Fellow Sagittarians. Saturday, August 04, 2007. Which is the greater trait? It doesn't take most people too long to realise you can be loyal without being honest. Yet history is rife with examples of people who were loyal when, honestly, they knew better. The most sensational example of this is, of course, the Nazi's, but the concept hits a little closer to home than that. Except for the - almost trite - closing admonition. (Sorry for the honesty.). Also, ...