Steve3007 wrote:I guess the most valuable thing in the life of an ATM is deep inside itself. But it's willing to share some of it with you if you know how to communicate with it properly. Maybe there's a lesson for us all there?
You're right. ATMs are willing and ready to enrich your life with what's most valued by them and about them, and this they do, like you said, when you entice them to do so with proper communication.
Much like dogs, cats, women/men, children.
Greta... you're alive. QED.
Some would call extraction of money via efficient sweet-talk a manipulation... that's just a bitter term for "motivating" something to act. It's one of the irregular verbs: I motivate; you make; he / she /it manipulates.
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-1- wrote:I contest, however, that the word "independent" is the correct word to use by its original and prevalent meaning.
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Pelegrin_1 wrote:
I'm curious as to whether there is an unintended error in the part of bolded.
Wow. You can't take the bolded part without the unbolded part, because the unbolded part negates the entire bolded part.
So I am completely at odds in trying to decipher, what your curiosity is about: that the word "independent" is correct, or that the word "independent" is incorrect. I have no clue what you consider to be a typo or else uninended error. I meant error-free the entire sentence, including the "I contest" part.
Pelegrin_1 wrote:
But now I'd like to ask if you can give me an example of something related to an individual human existence that could rightly be described with the word "independent", in your opinion.
Good question!! Ultimately, no person and no thing is independent of anything else. V.o. the butterfly-effect.
However, when the word "independent" is used with thinking, then it usually means "opposing", "different", "counter". For instance, the first atheists were considered independent thinkers of the church. But they were not independent; they were very much dependent on the church for their thoughts. This is a stronger bond than mere "everything connects with everything." There was defiance, opposition, in-your-face heresy. THIS is not independent in my view.
An independent thinker is one who develops his thoughts on his own, without ANY influences form other thought-provokers. This may happen on a deserted island. The bloke grows up there, alone, without any human contact he can remember consciously or subconsciously. All his thought will be independent, EVEN IF THEY ARE IDENTICAL TO THE THOUGHTS OF OTHER HUMANS.
However, if a guy lives in an environment where every woman is veiled, but he insists the veils be removed, he is not independent; his thoughts have been developed and his reasons developed due EXACTLY and very CLOSELY to the societal influences. This you'd call independent (that he wants to remove the veils, while nobody else thought of it or suggested it); I say that's not independent, it's different.
I think the entire culture has taken on this anomaly of bastardizing the meaning of the word "independent". They could have said "uninstructed", "different", "new", and all those would have been a better match to what people call "independent" when they speak of thought.
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