Hagoth wrote: ↑Thu Jun 15, 2023 6:18 am
I started. First line was "truth claims hold up to critical thinking?"
That's as far as I got.
wiki wasn't the best link - here is a simpler example:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... =692291702
The engineering method:
1. define the problem. This is where we are.
2. State your goals. This is where we want to be. (column of working criteria, first column and how important each item is)
3. research.
4. Brainstorm solutions - could do this, or could do that - rules of brainstorming, the wilder the ideas better the better - no criticism allowed, quantity NOT quality stage of the game.
5. Analyze ideas, combine similar ideas
6. test a few ideas
7. Decide. → decision table. rate and rank each idea for each goal - good with this, not good with that, but how important was that goal anyways?
8. communicate your decision
9. commercialize - implement - actually build the thing (engineering), make it happen.
10. review - start building version 2.0
Sitting here drinking coffee... in comfy undies... looking forward to a nice weekend?
Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river. The current of the river swept silently over them all - young and old, rich and poor, good and evil, the current going its own way, knowing only its own crystal self.
Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks at the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had learned from birth.
But one creature said at last, 'I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.'
The other creatures laughed and said, 'Fool! Let go, and that current you worship will throw you tumbled and smashed across the rocks, and you shall die quicker than boredom!'
But the one heeded them not, and taking a breath did let go, and at once was tumbled and smashed by the current across the rocks.
Yet in time, as the creature refused to cling again, the current lifted him free from the bottom, and he was bruised and hurt no more.
And the creatures downstream, to whom he was a stranger, cried, 'See a miracle! A creature like ourselves, yet he flies! See the Messiah, come to save us all!'
And the one carried in the current said, 'I am no more Messiah than you. The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go. Our true work is this voyage, this adventure.'
But they cried the more, 'Saviour!' all the while clinging to the rocks, and when they looked again he was gone, and they were left alone making legends of a Saviour.
-- Richard Bach, from "Illusions"
“You have learned something...That always feels at first as if you have lost something.” George Bernard Shaw
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
