How many times have you gotten into an argument with a friend, colleague or family member—or, even worse, with a stranger on social media—and stated what you thought was a clear-cut fact, only to hear the response, “Well, that’s your view”, or “That’s one way of looking at it”? These responses—often polite, sometimes aggressive—are examples of the insidious and disturbingly common phenomenon of ‘post-truth’. Defined by the Oxford Dictionary as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief,” post-truth has become so prevalent that the term was ‘word of the year’ in 2016. Have we moved too far away from objective truth, to the extent that even proven facts about the world can be conveniently dismissed if we don’t like them?
Sensorium / Epica
"Sensorium"
Chance doesn't exist
But the path of life is not totally so predestined
And time and chronology show us how all should be
In the ways of existence
To find out why we are here
Tears, unrestrained, fell from my brother's eyes; a sense of mortal agony crept over my frame. Before, I had only imagined the wretchedness of my desolated home; the reality came on me as a new, and a not less terrible, disaster.
Sayfa 65
"You should love your job, whatever it is, and be excited about going to work, and you shouldn’t settle for anything less. If you don’t feel that way about your current job, or if it’s not your dream job, the way to receive your dream job is by first being grateful for the job you have."
I would make her regret ever challenging me—regret ever making me feel less than worthy because I couldn’t match her powers or beauty.
I was no Smoke Slayer, but I wouldn’t let that stop me from ruining her whole life and everything she ever cared about. I would make certain of it.
This wasn’t just about Thanes anymore.
Her realm was mine.
I was the better woman, and I would watch as he killed both his wife and son for me.
I could be powerful too.
My own room was less overtly deficient—over the years I’d insulated myself from the rest of the house (the rest of the neighborhood, the rest of Ohio) with layers of ink and paper and poetry, like a squirrel lining a nest. James followed me in and stood looking around with obvious curiosity as I shut the door. The room seemed, for the first time, small.
Act 3, Scene 9Kitabı okuyor
How could we explain that standing on a stage and speaking someone else’s words as if they are your own is less an act of bravery than a desperate lunge at mutual understanding? An attempt to forge that tenuous link between speaker and listener and communicate something, anything, of substance. Unable to articulate it, we simply accepted their compliments and congratulations with the appropriate (and, in some cases, entirely contrived) humility.
Act 2, Scene 7Kitabı okuyor
Although in the early Zhou tian(heaven) was conceived as an anthropomorphic, all-powerful deity, in later references tian is often no longer personalized. In this sense, tian can be likened to nature or to fate. In many cases, it is unclear which meaning of tian is being used. This ambiguity can be explained by the fact that Chinese philosophy was concerned less with defining the character of tian than with defining its relationship to humanity. Scholars generally agreed that tian was the source of moral law, but for centuries they debated whether tian responded to human pleas and rewarded and punished human actions or whether events merely followed the order and principles established by tian .
Bir insan gerçekte ne kadar güçlüyse bunun reklamını yapma ihtiyacını da o kadar az duyar. Ve bir lider ne kadar güçlüyse gücünü gösterme ihtiyacını o kadar az hisseder.
The more powerful a person actually is the less he feels the need to advertise it. And the stronger a leader is the less he feels the need to show off his power.
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The founders thought boys were less trustworthy than girls.
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