Dasi Moodley
Experience: Travelled to over 600 sites of ancient antiquity, answered the questions of why we are on this planet at this time. Education: B. Econ; MBA; HDip Tax Law; Adult Education = Uni. Cape Town.
Location Durban, South Africa.
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I confess that we actually know very little about everything when we consider Dark energy and matter as well as Junk DNA?
Knowing a lot of less than 5% of everything is like a PhD..
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"Now we get to the heart of what I’ve wanted to know about curiosity: what holds us back?
Why do some people retain their curiosity to solve perplexing problems, invent new technologies, or discover new worlds while others become less curious? Answering that question is my mission.
We usually recognize incurious people when we encounter them, much the...
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@JenniferC the important part of this course that I found lacking is what are the steps we take today feom thus seminal work?
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Dr. Diane Hamilton
"The fourth and final factor that impacts curiosity is our environment. Sometimes we have amazing stories of environments. Wozniak’s story is one. He said that if he had to guess, he thought 80% of who shaped us from our childhoods came from our home.
10:21Skip to 10 minutes and 21 secondsBut we know 98% of statistics are made up, so...
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I advise Learners to do this fantastic FutureLearn MOOC,
"In Week 1 we indulged in a variety of factors that impact and intertwine with curiosity including age, communication and motivation. Proceeding this in Week 2, we jumped straight into the combination of creativity, innovation and inventions in relation to curiosity.
In this last week of the...
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Dasi Moodley replied to graham hayden
Your poem is the epitome of two subjects I majored in, Physics and History
What a waste of my time. I ciukd have done Literature?
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Dasi Moodley replied to Sarah Gibson
I had a math teacher that gave weekly tests with the following formula:
- 40% if you paid attention.
- 50% if you read the texts
- 70% if you practiced
And 30% for a question that no one would get right.I immediately started with the 30% question and did it in three different ways! He eas so angry that he recommended that I was not to matriculate in...
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In a Turkish TV series, Dr. Ali, is an autistic doctor that knows all the medical books he studied. Everytime that he is faced with a new complex problem he solves it only when he listens to what someone else says. It could be a child talking abiut her drawing or the cleaner about their duties etc. This triggers Dr. Ali's brain which then literally sees the...
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The National Skills Development Act, in South Africa mentions competencies that overarch Skills. It calls these Critical Crossfield Outcomes which fit into the 12 areas of Emotional Intelligence.
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The National Skills Development Act, in South Africa mentions competencies that overarch Skills. It calls these Critical Crossfield Outcomes which fit into the 12 areas of Emotional Intelligence.
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Terrence McKenna said that the pursuit of NOVELTY was a key human condition for development. This will have to have a foundation in Curiosity.
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@JenniferC Nekayah is the hero for me. Starting with, Rasellas took 20 moons to rationalise leaving happy valley. She took 20 minutes.
Her analyses to action of all the experiences and experimentation was just sublime.
Rasellas is the best supporting actor contender for me.
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@JenniferC the International Criminal Court (ICC) took just one week to open a case against Russia!
The Palestinians have been waiting for ten years for the ICC to appoint an investigator for 70 years of widely documented Israeli oppression?
Nekayah would say...
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@JenniferC
European (blond, blue eyes and they look like me) will be welcomed more than Iraqis, Libyans, Yemenis whose countries we have destroyed. -
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“The decision to suspend Russian clubs and teams from all competitions must be accompanied by a ban on those affiliated with Israel,” Aboutrika stated, adding that “(Israel) has been killing children and women in Palestine for years. You’re using double standards.”
FIFA and UEFA have suspended Russian teams following the Russian military operation in...
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Dasi Moodley replied to Jan Taylor
European (blond, blue eyes and they look like me) will be welcomed more than Iraqis, Libyans, Yemenis whose countries we have destroyed.
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"The Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Assn. sent out a statement on Sunday condemning “the racist implications that any population or country is ‘uncivilized’ or bears economic factors that make it worthy of conflict. This type of commentary reflects the pervasive mentality in Western journalism of normalizing tragedy in parts of the world such as the...
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They are civilised and look like us, The Guardian, 2 March 2022.
"And writing in the Telegraph, Daniel Hannan explained: “They seem so like us. That is what makes it so shocking. Ukraine is a European country. Its people watch Netflix and have Instagram accounts, vote in free elections and read uncensored newspapers. War is no longer something visited upon...
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Part III: Curiosity
"William James
The founder of modern psychology, William James, explained that curiosity is an impulse toward better cognition [2], one that leads us to how we acquire knowledge through experience. When we are curious, our brain anticipates a reward, dopamine is released, and we gain a sense of well-being. Just as we gain a sense of... -
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Part II: Curiosity:
"Jean Piaget
Psychologist Jean Piaget [1] says that we come into this world as tiny amateur scientists. From the first time we discover our own hands, we embark on a nonstop experiment to discover everything. This natural phenomenon aids in our survival in the searching of food and fending off threats and this perpetual search not only... -
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Part I: Curiosity:
Raselas and Nekayah were motivated by Curiosity. Here is the science of Curiosity:
"Curiosity, part of our DNA, is no different from our pursuit of food, water, or sex.Our bodies are programmed to be curious and reward us when we exercise that curiosity. It is our body’s way of encouraging us to find new sources of food, new means of...
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@HamishMorrison I was one of countless in my cohort. Sick of our parents' accomodation of the staus quo. We revolted. We changed. We brought down and hounded. We proposed and made processes change!
And Greta, old enough to be my child I never had says we were the first generation in human history to ensure our children will not live a better life than us?...
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"This pro-fascist left seems blind to any form of imperialism that is non-western in origin. It combines identity politics with egoism. Everything that happens is viewed through the prism of what it means for westerners – only white men have the power to make history."
Author; Human Rights Activist
Leila Al-Shami
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I almost died treates for liver collapse/jaundice (in Cape Town) after a five month trip in South East Asia.
I was in the best tropical disease clinic in Africa. Students would come around my yellow bed to guess my condition. They were all wrong. My doctor, after two weeks of steady deterioration, said that I must wind up my affairs, whilst I was alive. I...
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I broke my leg climbing a mountain in Tibet. The hospital said that I could not have the operation until my Diabetes was brought under control!?
First time I heard that I was a diabetic! Managed this chronic condition since then. And tested for everything else I might have. To the eye jolting prostate examination...
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@JenniferC Wow! I look forward to your findings.
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I am going to blow comments wide open with the following observations I made in last 48 hours! I would have loved to hear comment from Rasselas and more importantly from Nekayah, were they here today:
1. At the Carabo Cup final, the standing message beamed around the stadium was, The people of Ukraine, we support you against Russian invasion!, and,
2. A...
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Dasi Moodley replied to Dasi Moodley
@JenniferC I am going to blow this section wide open with the following observations I made in last 48 hours! I would have loved to hear comment from Rasselas and more importantly from Nekayah, were they here today:
1. At the Carabo Cup final, the standing message beamed around the stadium was, The people of Ukraine, we support you against Russian invasion!,...
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@johnwakenshaw you must see Blake's drawings. No wonder Mary eloped?
Anyway, you learned new knowledge! Life Long Learning
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@LodewijkJanNauta no response from me...
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There is another way/option/choice:
"In a famous example, a researcher is training a small wheeled robot to avoid objects based on sensors on the front. The requirements for success? Reduce collisions. After training the control system, they upload it to the machine and wait expectantly. Nothing happens. They check the batteries and everything seems fine....
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@JenniferSmart learning happens with experiences! Not just good experiences?
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@johnwakenshaw not romantic but at that time, I would say a devout Christian! What Blake gave me was a daughter called Mary Wollstonecraft. She eloped with PB Shelly as a teenager. When he was expelled from Oxford for writing a pamphlet calling for the abolishment of the monarchy.
She wrote Frankenstein.
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@JenniferSmart what are you going to do with the information that someone is good or evil?
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"If you are neutral (lets hear both sides) in a situation of injustice, you side with the oppresser (and have to be confronted, BDS, hounded, until you know the cost of your position, to yourself).
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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Part II - Feminism
It is impossible for me to share this!!!??? Please go to FutureLearn course:
Design a Feminist Chatbot
UAL
Creative Computing InstituteTo FutureLearn Tech. Staff:
Please put a word count per paragraph on articles and transcripts.
This will enable us to know if we are copying more than 1200 words when sharing knowledge...
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Part I - History of Feminism
Nekhaya's feminism required me to do more research on where is feminism today? The following is a lecture from another FutureLearn course:
References
First-wave Feminism – Nasrullah Mambrol, 2017
A Brief Summary of the Second Wave of Feminism – Tara Anand, 2018
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The Feminism of Nekhaya has really turned me on to looking at Feminism starting with the latest. A reference list fir anyone interested:
References
First-wave Feminism – Nasrullah Mambrol, 2017
A Brief Summary of the Second Wave of Feminism – Tara Anand, 2018
Definition of third-wave feminism – Encyclopaedia Britannica
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This reminds me of two movements:
1. Life Long Learning. Imagine if that was THE objective of being a human on this planet?
2. Karl Marx's Communism where the end point is that we (humans) go fishing in the morning and debate (dialectical materialism) in the evening. This begs the question: who is working/producing/adding surplus value? A friend of mine,...
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@LodewijkJanNauta in my experience, who cares whether one is good or evil, unless they affect other people.
The South African constitution is regarded as the best in the world, simply because we experienced the horror of apartheid (please do not state we have to examine both "sides") and because we looked at every free democratic constitution and rewrote...
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@johnwakenshaw life on Earth is "brutish and short" (Charles Dickens) since we fell from heaven. Is this not the Christian teaching reflecting Samuel Johnson' devoutness?
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Part IV - Bias
"Amazon Prime same-day delivery
In 2016, Bloomberg magazine published a report showing that Amazon excluded minority neighbourhoods in Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, New York City, and Washington, D.C., from its Prime Free Same-Day Delivery service while extending the service to white neighbourhoods (4). The neighbourhoods had large... -
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Part II - Bias
"What kinds of harm does AI bias cause?
Kate Crawford is a leading researcher and professor who has spent the last decade studying the social implications of data systems, machine learning and artificial intelligence. She is the co-director and co-founder of the AI Now Institute at New York University.
In her 2017 presentation at the...
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Part III - Bias
"Representational harms occur when systems reinforce discrimination against some groups because of identity markers such as race, class, gender, age, belief or ability. These harms can take place regardless of whether resources are being allocated. For example, in 2015, a black software developer exposed Google by tweeting that the company’s...
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Part I - Bias.
I would add BIAS as a cause. While natural, bias can have devastating effects. I found this definition of bias on an artificial intelligence FutureLearn course I'm busy with:"There are multiple definitions, because bias has different and overlapping meanings depending on where it is being used, such as in law, statistics or common...
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@PhilBuckley frightening! Thanks for sharing this.
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@johnwakenshaw shew! Interesting questions that I don't have the answer to.
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Dasi Moodley replied to Dasi Moodley
@johnwakenshaw interesting questions demanding further study.
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Tay is a wonderful experiment that could be the source of new knowledge in academic study.
But to realise this, Tay would have to be alive, learn from design mistakes and improved, not cancelled? -
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Dasi Moodley replied to Vivienne C
@JenniferC agreed!
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@juliamansell
I answered her question (the first time she asked it and refused to answer a hack thereafter) in detail. Boycott of Israeli is the simple understanding.I said clearly that an artist's work is a mirror for YOURSELF, not the artist's!
White South Africans hold in high regard people who were connected to Apartheid South Africa. I say this...
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@JenniferC
Part II
apples from Elgin and oranges from Outspan were the best in the world but the racists were not allowed to ship it!This Barend du Plessis told me was an attack on the soul. They had no certainty. They did not sleep comfortably.
We never ask a leader to give us both sides of the Holocaust? If they do, we recind their visas! We lable...
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Dasi Moodley replied to Vivienne C
@JenniferC Hacks; Apologists; Sympathisers are some of the names defining those who use this argument in genocide, Holocasts, pograms, seriel mass crimes against humanity and human rights.
Like we hounded out J.M. Coetzee from UCT (after he was asked to justify his words, acts and deeds) we must call out and lable them. Not answer their questions and respond...
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Dasi Moodley replied to Vivienne C
Artists like authors are the only ones allowed to offend in this bleak society, you speak. Society expects them to offend. In fact that in itself pushes the envelope of homogeneity; of progress; of thought leadership.
What society might consider as its apex is truthfully crushed by its creates outcomes: idiots as political leaders; institutions...
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Dasi Moodley replied to Vivienne C
@JanB true! I still find the development of character in Dickens much more appealing than genres set in my time
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Dasi Moodley replied to Vivienne C
Ohoooo! Difficult terrain for me. South Africa is the world's No.1 in violence against women and children! I found Nabakov barely stomachable. I can hardly view Egon Sheile's paintings.
Art by definition is experimental and as my late Dad said, they are only mirrors held up for one to rationalise one's own experience.
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Dasi Moodley replied to Vivienne C
@JenniferC these comments have irked me to change my position from "loss" to justified loss.
When applying criteria to measure whether something will be justifiably excluded, you always end up with the neoliberal position that by excluding, you are hampering your ability to realise value?
When one says I will not invest in companies in arms, oil,...
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Dasi Moodley replied to Vivienne C
@JanB in a universe of not knowing, prizes and prize short lists offer a guide for the reader who has a budget of five novels a year, which to choose? I found really unbearable novels in the Booker and James Tait short lists (a minority of my purchase decisions). But I also discovered A.S. Byatt in a Booker shortlist. A novelist that none within my circle of...
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Dasi Moodley replied to Vivienne C
@JenniferC In the dying stages of Apartheid there were a majority (and now a minority) of people who were clear apologists. I suspect that those in public view, like J.M. Coetzee had to have a semblance if justification of their position/stand points in history. Similarly to comments here justify Israel's human rights oppression.
He did not take kindly to...
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Dasi Moodley replied to Vivienne C
@JenniferC I want to give you a counter story. Professor J.M. Coetzee was a a Literature dean at my university (UCT - University of Cape Town). Some of his students complained that he was an Apartheid sympathiser evidenced in his lectures, papers, novels and grading of student work. As the student leadership, we sent our people into his lectures and reported,...
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Dasi Moodley replied to Vivienne C
@JenniferC I agree with you wholeheartedly! BDS is a non-violent campaign started by Mahatma Gandhi's experience of Apartheid South Africa.. It brought Apartheid to its knees.
We must do similar to Israel. Remembering that Anti-Israel and Anti-Zionisim is NOT Anti-semitism!
Like in Israel, we (South Africa( have prominent Jewish leaders at the forefront of...
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Grootboom vs Republic of South Africa
Constitutional Court ruled that housing is a human right but that the Republic of South Africa has to show its ability to provide Grootboom with a house. Effectively saying that government can provide housing when and if it can.
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Blair is a war criminal!.
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As a revolutionary against Apartheid South Africa in the 1980s, I came across Ethics. I wanted to create a trade union controlled fund to invest into our stock exchange.
Exclusion was the basis of my fund: We will not invest in your company if you refused trade union negotiation; had Black and white toilets, etc, etc. We created an ethical investment...
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Dasi Moodley replied to Nguyen Pham Minh Quang
@NguyenPhamMinhQuang I so love your city. Especially the tours offered by travel companies.
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Hello Learners
I am from Durban, South Africa.
Durban has uneven development. The rich along the coastline and the poor inland far from job opportunities. No mixed development.
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1. Sports fields for hire, soccer, beach volleyball, basketball.
2. Schools with no or degraded facilities.
3. Sell sporting experiences. Supply and they will come.
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My social enterprise has no competition.
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Hello Learners
I am from Durban, South Africa and I have a social enterprise that puts privately funded aports facilities in poor communities' government schools.
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@CherryDrake-Brockman probably. A South African charity, "Gift of the Givers" took a plane load of aid to Somalia and reported the scale of devastation in all those coastal countries. The waves went more than a kilometre from the shore taking communities by surprise.
Volunteers, food, tents, doctors and medical supplies filled many more plane loads. Yet the...
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NASA spent $10 million to develop a pen that works in space (the Pilot pressure ball point pen. The Russians used a pencil!
China developed a glove si that workers could manually hand pollinate crops, ten years ago, when they realised that insect pollinator species were naturally diminishing.
Market vs Planned economy for you!?
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25% of marine environment species are found within 0.1% of that environment is unbelievably important to study?
"The limits of what damaged ecosystems, including coral reefs, can take before they can no longer recover is unknown."
Donald Rumpsfeld gave a ridiculous speech (understanding the US war on terrorism) where he stated known, knowns; known...
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I have no context to analyse this so here is a quote:
"The Unbearable Lightness of Being Opaque to Ourselves: Milan Kundera on Writing and the Key to Great Storytelling
A torch for traversing “the territory where no one possesses the truth… but where everyone has the right to be understood.”
BY MARIA POPOVA
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Dasi Moodley replied to Vivienne C
@VivienneC I cannot debate with a hack. I am sorry
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Bees
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Why did your important questions were not answered before implementation???
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Data driven approaches are globally accepted. Until the approach generates new data on why it's a problem!
I wish I knew how a problem conception could use data effectively but require new data gathering where there are blind spots?
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This is another tragic example of Problem; Solution; Action? If the Biologists were brought in at the problem conception stage, the outcome might be sustainable!
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Dasi Moodley replied to Eleanor Ness
@EleanorNess perhaps? I had the feeling that you were not in a complimentary mood.
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Dasi Moodley replied to Vivienne C
@VivienneC your are describing Apartheid, and specifically Apartheid Israel (read Amnesty International's report - the last to agree on Apartheid Israel when Archbishop Tutu first stated this in 2014.
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Biological organisation is the "bottom up" approach to what impacts human exploitation causes/affects? If not factored into our Cost Benefit analysis, would be disastrous! As it has been for two centuries?
But for decisive action a "top down" approach is required, ala Greta Thurnberg (isn't it amazing that with all the advances of science, academia, civil...
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Dasi Moodley replied to Eleanor Ness
@EleanorNess OK that Harry! Your substantiating quote might actually support Harry's actions? Don't get me wrong, I love Megan and Harry. They have a very deep connection with South Africa. They are much loved to the disdain of our royalists.
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EXPLOITATION simply the act of extraction of surplus value from resources. One has to believe that one is at the apex of a pyramid of resources. This is supported by religion which tells mankind that God created the resources for you to exploit. Accounting further reinforces this with a simple Cost Benefit analysis. Progress; Modernity; Technology Advanced...
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Dasi Moodley replied to Eleanor Ness
I do not understand this comment and I suspected it is contextual? Please elaborate.
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Great Expectations, Charles Dickens.
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The Diaries of Anais Nin, Vol 5.
Quote contained below:
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Educators do all in their power to prepare you to enjoy reading after college. It is right that you should read according to your temperament, occupations, hobbies, and vocations. But it is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar, unwilling to explore the unfamiliar. In science, we respect the research worker. In literature, we should...
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Part I Here Anais Nin brings the topic into our lives:
Anaïs Nin on Embracing the Unfamiliar
“It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.”
BY MARIA POPOVA
We’ve already seen that life is about living the questions, that the unknown is what drives science, and that the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.... -
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Part Ii Here Anais Nin brings the topic into our lives:
"People’s conventional structure is often a façade. Under the most rigid conventionality there is often an individual, a human being with original thoughts or inventive fantasy, which he does not dare expose for fear of ridicule, and this is what the writer and artist are willing to do for us. They are...
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I think that a new hypothesis which would have made many scientists' established in their conclusions, wrong! They, therefore, reject the new, hound the proponent, and effectively attempt to kill the new knowledge.
This is destructive science and actually destructive to the accumulation of knowledge that makes us human.
What if the establishment...
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Yes! The East Coast of Africa was hits badly but because no reporting took place, thus history has been largely ignored/forgotten!
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@FeliciaDea typical Dickens but with Pip he outdone himself! Pip starts with nothing; grows into excellence and falls cathartically.
To realise his nothing had everything. The surrounding characters that moulded him are so complex too.
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Part II continued from Part I:
It’s tempting to dismiss the complaining as the usual internet nerd rage. Similar disputes played out when actors of color started taking new major roles in Star Wars products. But the conflict is also about the rise of two kinds of media empire, not just one: there is Amazon, the crown jewel in the vast business empire of...
