Greetings.
Since today is Bastille Day, I searched my hard drive for "Bastille Day", and the only things sharable which mentioned it were the works of Samuel Clemens, AKA Mark Twain, an historic weird author. I therefore declare today’s weird things to be the works of Samuel Clemens. Enjoy.
Aaron
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I glanced at the Christian Science thing and it was a bit weird. The bit I looked at had Twain talking to someone who denied private events (things that only one person can observe, such as thoughts and feelings) as being important or real, and thus not to be talked about. Twain did his usual shtik making this person look foolish. (I couldn't help but notice a parallel between this notion and the difference between the more methodological forms of behaviorism and the radical kind. The former only deals with public events, while the latter admits private events as real and lawful. Current behaviorism derives largely from this radical behaviorism created by B. F. Skinner, who tended to treat private events as essentially the same as public ones, though aspects of this have been disputed. Mainstream cognitive psychology generally avoids the issue by focussing on events going on inside people's heads, either private events or things allegedly going on up there but not actually demonstrated to occur, and avoids focussing on public events. I am probably the only one here who cares about this or even understands half of what I am saying, so I will end this verborrhea now.)
Are there any Christian Scientists (as opposed to scientists who are Christians) out there who would care to comment on this?
Tangent: By the way, Barry, what does “BCABA” stand for?
Board Certified Associate Behavior Analyst. It means they feel comfortable letting me work with cute little kids with interesting problems.
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