God Speaks Daily http://www.godspeaksdaily.com God Speaks To Everyone Everyday, But Only Those Who Listen Hear. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:15:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 When a psychiatrist rewards rats for finishing a maze http://www.godspeaksdaily.com/2012/01/17/when-a-psychiatrist-rewards-rats-for-finishing-a-maze/ http://www.godspeaksdaily.com/2012/01/17/when-a-psychiatrist-rewards-rats-for-finishing-a-maze/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:46:00 +0000 admin http://www.godspeaksdaily.com/?p=288 When a psychiatrist rewards rats for finishing a maze, is it the psychiatrist who is training the rats to finish mazes, or the rats who are training him to give them cheese. The answer to that question hinges on who controls the experiment.

Daniel Greenfield in Three Fundamental Mistakes in Dealing with Islam

]]> http://www.godspeaksdaily.com/2012/01/17/when-a-psychiatrist-rewards-rats-for-finishing-a-maze/feed/ 0 He does not like you http://www.godspeaksdaily.com/2011/12/19/he-does-not-like-you/ http://www.godspeaksdaily.com/2011/12/19/he-does-not-like-you/#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:23:19 +0000 admin http://www.godspeaksdaily.com/?p=286 At a recent train club event someone came up to me and said, “Dick doesn’t like you.”

I replied, “That doesn’t concern me.”

The helpful gossip then tried to start telling me why Dick doesn’t like me. I interrupted, and again said, “That doesn’t concern me.”

Yet again he started explaining Dick’s reasons for disliking me.

I stopped him and said, “Think about this. . .

There are about 200 members of this club. About 10 of those members are close friends. 189 members get along with me well. They are either indifferent or just haven’t got to know me well. 1 member – Dick – doesn’t like me.

Which group of people should I spend my time thinking about?

Note: to those of you who belong to the train club. I changed the names here. I don’t think there is anyone named Dick in the club since Dick G. moved away years ago.

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]]> http://www.godspeaksdaily.com/2011/12/12/when-you-want/feed/ 0 When a true genius appears in the world http://www.godspeaksdaily.com/2011/12/07/when-a-true-genius-appears-in-the-world/ http://www.godspeaksdaily.com/2011/12/07/when-a-true-genius-appears-in-the-world/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:47:59 +0000 admin http://www.godspeaksdaily.com/?p=282 When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. – Jonathan Swift.

]]> http://www.godspeaksdaily.com/2011/12/07/when-a-true-genius-appears-in-the-world/feed/ 0 Knowledge is reached by http://www.godspeaksdaily.com/2011/12/02/knowledge-is-reached-by/ http://www.godspeaksdaily.com/2011/12/02/knowledge-is-reached-by/#comments Sat, 03 Dec 2011 06:09:31 +0000 admin http://www.godspeaksdaily.com/?p=279 Knowledge is reached (mostly) by removing junk from people’s heads.

Nicholas Taleb in the book “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”

Another great line from the same book is, “Today, we mostly face the choice between those who write clearly about a subject they don’t understand and those who write poorly about a subject they don’t understand.”

]]> http://www.godspeaksdaily.com/2011/12/02/knowledge-is-reached-by/feed/ 0 There are but two powers in the world http://www.godspeaksdaily.com/2011/11/28/there-are-but-two-powers-in-the-world/ http://www.godspeaksdaily.com/2011/11/28/there-are-but-two-powers-in-the-world/#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 05:42:24 +0000 admin http://www.godspeaksdaily.com/?p=277 There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind.

Napoleon Bonaparte

]]> http://www.godspeaksdaily.com/2011/11/28/there-are-but-two-powers-in-the-world/feed/ 0 If you cannot profit from adversity http://www.godspeaksdaily.com/2011/11/18/if-you-cannot-profit-from-adversity/ http://www.godspeaksdaily.com/2011/11/18/if-you-cannot-profit-from-adversity/#comments Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:17:15 +0000 admin http://www.godspeaksdaily.com/?p=275 “If you can’t profit from adversity, then you damn well deserve to suffer”

From Randy Striker’s “Assassin’s Shadow.”

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]]> http://www.godspeaksdaily.com/2011/10/06/dream-of-a-better-tomorrow/feed/ 0 If women ran the world http://www.godspeaksdaily.com/2011/10/02/if-women-ran-the-world/ http://www.godspeaksdaily.com/2011/10/02/if-women-ran-the-world/#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2011 07:49:55 +0000 admin http://www.godspeaksdaily.com/?p=272 If women ran the world, mankind would still be living in caves, albeit with really, really fancy curtains. Kate McMillan

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