Samuel Scoville: Critical Thinking Strategies

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Critical Thinking Strategies

CRITICAL THINKING STRATEGIES

Criticize the BAD GUYS
No problem. Good & Plenty.
Bad Guys might object but
plenty of like-minded goodies
stand by you in support:
cheer you on.

Criticize the GOOD GUYS
Course of another collar.
Who do you think you are?
Ggot to be nuts.
Forget about it.

Criticize your OWN SELF:
Big display mea pulpa: what a
fool this mortal be. Myn in the
mirror, my biases & beliefs,
prejudices & convictions, my
ignorances, reductions, over-
statementalism, rip-off sampling
& specimen-izing, moving
violations & crimes against the
whole, damaged & damaging if
do or don’t do: go ahead, nail me
for it —wish you would. Make an
example of me : I’m bad.

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MeronNovember 24, 2011 at 8:03 AM
This is amazing! Very true! Criticize yourself...there can't be a fight if it is only one person! You had to also be part of the problem.
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I choose, as a determining POINT in my life, to acknowledge a bullet fired into the armpit of my grandfather, Samuel Scoville, Jr. by a thief in the night sometime in the late 19^thc.

The thief escaped, my grandfather having pulled his own pistol from beneath the pillow, squeezing off a couple of rounds and sending the burglar scurrying into the Connecticut night...

For reasons of family notoriety, the incident was reported in both New York and Philadelphia papers. A former roommate in Philly called up Young Goodman Sam, inviting him down for a weekend gala: The Yale-Penn Football game. “You can take my sister Katherine, and chaperone me and my fiancé, he said.

In those days couples were not advised to be alone. Unaccompanied.

Sam took a steam-driven locomotive train down to Philadelphia, escorted Katherine to the leather-helmet contest, fell in love, asked her to marry him. She did & they lived more or less HAP-ily ever after, generating a tribe of offspring who like wise generated in kind so that if it hadn’t of been for that bullet, well, it’s impossible to begin to consider how unimaginably different life-as-we-know-it would have been. No one can say.

For one thing: YOU, dear Reader, wouldn’t be reading THIS HERE right now, resurrecting these words to walk around in your skull-haus this very be-here-now moment. So even you are impacted forever by that bullet.

(I could drive up to Connecticut right now, retrieve the small bite of lead, drop it in your hand and remind you how co-incidental our life is—how inexplicable, how arbitrary & selective our accounts, how much we omit which is also absolutely necessary, how inadequate our because & affects.)

The bullet is a NECESSARY but INSUFFICIENT cause of who-I-am, without which any explanation would be incomplete. Sam Scoville

Samuel Scoville

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Critical Thinking Strategies

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