FALLACIES
AD
HOMINEM ATTACKING THE PERSON Appealing
to prejudice rather than intellect.
I decided to write
about this ignorant piece of shit, Donald Trump. As I am sure you have all
heard of this idiots stupid comments about Mexicans, his exact words and I
quote “They are bringing drugs, and bringing crime, and their rapists,” Trump
declared. The man is so stupid, that earlier today a very powerful Mexican drug
lord escaped by the name of El CHAPO GUZMAN, so of course Donald Trump tweets
right after this news was released, that this proves his claims about Mexicans.
I find this asshole to be so absurd with his ignorant views. Mexicans are hardworking
people, and should not be categorized as the filth Trump said. Since then
Univision, NBC and the pics of the 3 celebrities you see in the picture above
have cut all ties with him. So that is my example of AD HOMINEM.
SLIPPERY
SLOPE In logic and critical thinking, a slippery slope is a logical device, but it is usually known
under its fallacious form,
in which a person asserts that some event must inevitably follow from another
without any rational argument or demonstrable mechanism for the inevitability
of the event in question.
PHYSICIAN
ASSISTED SUICIDE
The
slippery slope argument claims that the acceptance of certain practices, such
as physician assisted or voluntary euthanasia will eventually lead to
the acceptance or practice of concepts which are currently deemed unacceptable,
such as voluntary or involuntary euthanasia. This is why so many
protesters are against this. It is currently legal in 4 states, MONTANA,VERMONT,
OREGON, and WASHINGTON .
Voluntary
Euthanasia conducted with consent of a
patient is termed voluntary euthanasia.
Involuntary
euthanasia it occurs when euthanasia is performed on a person who is able to
provide informed consent,but does not, either because they do not choose to die
or because they were not asked.
Have a good day Everyone.
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MEMORY BIASES
Memories - Something remembered from the past, a recollection, remembrance, reminiscence impression.
Egocentric bias in my experience with people, I find that a
lot of us tend to exaggerate things when telling a past event, or story. It can
start as young as a toddler, take for example my three year old son, when my
older kids are around he will do everything in his power to get rid of them. If
he is playing with one of them he will scream bloody murder as if they are
killing him, and then tell me to hit them. Now I know they are not really
hurting him, he is just the baby and wants all the attention on him. I call him
Mr. Fibs because he tends to exaggerate everything.
Hindsight bias effect
this is something that I think
most people develop with age and their own personal experiences. When you’re
young per say, you want to do things the way you want to do them, and all
though you may have your parents tell you to do it in a different matter you
still do it your way and then something goes wrong. That’s when you hear your
parent say I told you that was going to happen. Sometimes we see patterns
repeat themselves and usually know the outcomes of certain situations. Example;
my oldest son had purchased a 4wheeler a couple of years ago, although I loved
bikes and 4wheelers, I knew the dangers that come along with it. Also I know
the blood that runs through me , runs through him as well, what I mean by that
is I was kind of wild when I was younger ,and liked speed an living on the
edge. So I go to California for a couple of weeks, and I tell him don’t take
out the raptor cause the cops are going to take it from you, wait till I get
back and we will go somewhere you can ride, Of course he didn’t listen, so he
goes with a group of friends switches with a friends dirt bike while they ride
his and scraped his leg really bad on the curb, he almost needed a skin graft,
but thank God he didn’t. Since then he sold the 4wheeler, and I am very happy
for that, I thank God for not letting the situation being a lot worse.
DEVELOPMENT: NATURE VS NURTURE
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through observing the behavior of others.
This form of learning does not need reinforcement to occur,
but instead, requires a model.
A social model can be a parent, sibling, friend, or teacher,
but—particularly in childhood—
a model is someone of authority or higher status.
A social model is significantly important in observational learning
because it facilitates cognitive process behavior.
It helps the learner encode what they observe
and store it in memory for later imitation.
This form of learning does not need reinforcement to occur,
but instead, requires a model.
A social model can be a parent, sibling, friend, or teacher,
but—particularly in childhood—
a model is someone of authority or higher status.
A social model is significantly important in observational learning
because it facilitates cognitive process behavior.
It helps the learner encode what they observe
and store it in memory for later imitation.
As a child growing up in a
Puerto Rican house hold with my Grandparents, there was always fresh home
cooked food. I grew up with my Grandparents and my uncle and aunt, whom I
thought for a while, were my parents, brother and sister. I was the baby of the
house; My Grand Mother was blind, so life restricted her from doing a lot of
thing. So I was always my Grandfathers tail. Everywhere he went I went.
This old man loved to cook; he worked in PROGRESSO for many, many years. He used to make everything so delicious. Varying from rice n beans to sopa de salchichon, sancocho, escabeche, bacalaitos, dulce de coco, you name it he made it. I never helped him because I was so little but I did help when it was time to gather around the table to make pasteles.
My Grandfather always fed everyone, even if he did not know them he would always offer a plate of food to someone. His heart was big. When I was around 6 yrs of age I was told that my sister and my brother in law were really my parents. They lived from state to state, did not visit much, so I did not know much about them. When I was 9 and a half, my parents came to visit and asked to take me to Disney World. My Grandparents were very reluctant in letting me go but they did. They never took me back to my grandparents, but that is a whole other story.
While living with my mother, she would always have breakfast, lunch and dinner served for my Father, brother and I. My mother would ask me to pass her all type of vegetables and ingredients while she prepared the meals. One day, I must have been around 10, my parents were sleeping in and my father yelled for me to get dinner ready. I didn’t know what the hell I was doing but I got in that kitchen and made a delicious cow foot soup that they were both very amazed at.
So I must say that this falls in the observational learning form of learning because now - after growing up my Grandfather and Mother - I always go out of my way to be a good host and cook and make sure everyone is fed just like my Grandfather and Mother did. Although I wasn’t taught how to cook, I basically picked it up from always being around family that cooked and observing them. And - btw -my Mother is an excellent cook, but specializes more in Ecuadorian cuisine.
This old man loved to cook; he worked in PROGRESSO for many, many years. He used to make everything so delicious. Varying from rice n beans to sopa de salchichon, sancocho, escabeche, bacalaitos, dulce de coco, you name it he made it. I never helped him because I was so little but I did help when it was time to gather around the table to make pasteles.
My Grandfather always fed everyone, even if he did not know them he would always offer a plate of food to someone. His heart was big. When I was around 6 yrs of age I was told that my sister and my brother in law were really my parents. They lived from state to state, did not visit much, so I did not know much about them. When I was 9 and a half, my parents came to visit and asked to take me to Disney World. My Grandparents were very reluctant in letting me go but they did. They never took me back to my grandparents, but that is a whole other story.
While living with my mother, she would always have breakfast, lunch and dinner served for my Father, brother and I. My mother would ask me to pass her all type of vegetables and ingredients while she prepared the meals. One day, I must have been around 10, my parents were sleeping in and my father yelled for me to get dinner ready. I didn’t know what the hell I was doing but I got in that kitchen and made a delicious cow foot soup that they were both very amazed at.
So I must say that this falls in the observational learning form of learning because now - after growing up my Grandfather and Mother - I always go out of my way to be a good host and cook and make sure everyone is fed just like my Grandfather and Mother did. Although I wasn’t taught how to cook, I basically picked it up from always being around family that cooked and observing them. And - btw -my Mother is an excellent cook, but specializes more in Ecuadorian cuisine.
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CONSCIOUSNESS:
Analyzing Dreams
I CLOSE MY EYES TO
SLEEP,
SOMETIMES I CRY,
SOMETIMES I WEEP
I VISIT MYSTERIOUS
PLACES I EVEN SOLVE MURDER CASES
THERE ARE TIMES I DON’T
BELIEVE MY OWN MIND
I VISIT PLACES THAT ARE MYSTICAL AND DIVINE
I VISIT PLACES THAT ARE MYSTICAL AND DIVINE
SOMETIMES I HEAR SHOTS
RIGHT BY MY HEAD
“OH NO, IM DYING! … AM
I DEAD?”
I AM TERRIFIED, SO PETRIFIED
I AM YOUR WORSE
NIGHTMARE, TELL ME ARE YOU SCARED
I THEN LET OUT A LOUD
SCREAM …
“CALM DOWN, I’M JUST A DREAM.”
“CALM DOWN, I’M JUST A DREAM.”
Manifest content
The other night I’m dreaming about my brother and his baby
son. In the dream his son is messing with his eye and pulls something out of it
like a piece of a pineapple and then starts eating it; mind you he is only 2
years old! It was so weird! Then my little sister’s boyfriend is in my house,
but my house was different, he slept on top of a bunk bed. From there my dream
takes a jump to a whole different scenario. I’m driving an old Ford Taurus
under some train tracks. I don’t know exactly where I’m at in my dream, but the
car is a piece of shit, so it shuts off and I manage to park it on a side where
I’m not blocking the street. In the dream the car was my son’s car. I tell him
where to pick it up and his response is “I’m not worried about that piece of
shit. I’m going to leave it there.” Then I woke up.
Latent content
In this dream my subconscious was trying to tell me that my son could have car
problems. Which he most certainly did have, but he was able to resolve them
quickly and at no cost to him because I stressed him about taking it back from
where he bought it before the warranty ran out. This is what I can associate
the dream with. Now the part with my brother and his son, I’m truly clueless
what it meant.
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SENSATION and PERCEPTION
EVERYTHING YOU SEE IS NOT ALWAYS WHAT IT
SEEMS
EVERY HOLY FACE IS SOMETIMES A DISGRACE
EVERY ROUGH MEAN FACE IS SOMETIMES FULL OF
GRACE
EVERY HAPPY FACE IS SOMETIMES LOST AND OUT
OF PLACE
EVERY SMILING FACE SOMETIMES HIDES BEHIND
LIES
AND FINDS A QUIET LONELY PLACE TO RELEASE THEIR CRIES
AND FINDS A QUIET LONELY PLACE TO RELEASE THEIR CRIES
TAKE FOR EXAMPLE A PRIEST BY THE NAME OF ROBERT VAN
HANDLE.A WELL RESPECTED HOLY MAN WHO TAUGHT THE PARISH CHOIR FOR BOYS IN A
CATHOLIC CHURCH. AS A CATHOLIC MYSELF, I WOULD SEND MY CHILD TO THIS MAN WITH
MY EYES CLOSED, THINKING TO MYSELF HE IS IN GOOD HANDS RIGHT….WRONG, SO
TERRIBLY WRONG.A MISTAKE THAT MANY PEOPLE DO TIME AND TIME AGAIN.JUDGE A BOOK
BY ITS COVER.THIS MAN WAS Charged with the molestation of 17 boys in his choir,
whom he would have one on one meetings with. A monster in disguise.
This photo right here shows the man in the middle with the
piercings performing a random act of kindness. While in the supermarket on line
waiting to pay for his groceries, he notices the man in front of him (which is
the man to your left) was a Vietnam vet, and decides to pay for his groceries.
While the woman captures the photo of the them describing the biker in the
middle who is her husband, a man with a huge heart. Who believes that all
though they may not be rich, they have a roof over their heads and food on the
table. So in return he believes in paying it forward. Now tell me if you didn’t
know this man, how would you have perceived him….as a crazed law breaking
biker. Unfortunately this is how most people think.
HERE WE HAVE A BISEXUAL AND HOMOSEXUAL COUPLE WHO ARE SLANDERED
BY THE CATHOLIC RELIGION. ARE THEY THESE HORRIBLE PEOPLE WHO WILL BURN IN HELL BECAUSE
THEY ARE COMMITTING A SIN IN THE EYES OF THE CHURCH? IN MY EYES THEY ARE GOOD SAMARITANS WHOM ARE GIVING A CHILD WHO NEEDS A HOME LOVE AND STABILITY, SO THEY
ARE ACTUALLY HEROES. UNLIKE THE CATHOLIC RELIGION, WHO HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH
PEDOPHILES AMONG PRIEST AND ALTAR BOYS FROM THE BEGINNING OF TIME.
Free will;
some of us will get a little,
some of us will get a lot!!!
Determinism;
some of us will strive to shine,
while some of us will settle for whatever and be just fine.
some of us will strive to shine,
while some of us will settle for whatever and be just fine.
I believe Free will has a lot to do with who we come from,
and of course what type of money Mom and Dad have played a role in how
selective we can be. Well I guess this type of free will falls under the
category of choosing better materialistic \ things, for example one child is
born to a filthy rich family, and the other is born to a low income family.
Both children are graduating and are expecting graduation gifts. The child from
the rich family may have the free will to choose a certain type of car, as
where the other child from the low income family may only have a choice between
Apple Bees and Red Lobster. That would be from a materialistic perspective, but
we all actually have the chance to
practice our Free will, even those who might have had their freedom taken from
them ,and are confined in some way always have the choice to eat or no to eat,
maybe not what you want to eat, but you do have a choice.
So there is a perfect
example of how we are able to use our free will, we all have choices in life
whether to do right or do wrong. It is my free will to want to help a lady with
her stroller up a flight of stairs, or walk an elderly person across the street,
I feel good when I’m able to make someone’s life just a little easier.
Determinism also
takes place in everyone’s life, just to get up in the morning and brush your
teeth is takes determinism. Some people are stricken to a life of poverty and
very dysfunctional families. It is there drive and determinism that will
determine if they are going to strive to get out of their situation, or if they
are perfectly fine with their current situation. In life you are going to come
across three different type of people, over achievers, unambitious, and leeches
you determine what category you fall in. (Overachiever’s go the extra
mile)unambitious people stay where there at because there comfortable, and
choose to stay in a lower paying job
because of fear of change or just laziness, leeches always are around to see
what they can get, those who receive public assistance, and don’t even try to
make a better life for themselves I consider leeches. I’m not knocking anyone
for receiving public assistance, because only God knows that person’s situation;
it is what you will be determined to do to get out of that situation that
defines you. With that being said, have
a good day all.
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EXPERIMENTAL PROPOSAL
Question of interest: Can using corporal punishment on a
child affect them as they get older?
Hypothesis: Hitting your kids can cause a lot of problems
in the future, which includes mental illness, such as depression, bipolar disorder,
anxiety, etc., and also can lead to a life of abusing drugs.
Operational definition: Corporal punishment is action taken
against someone using forceful physical punishment. It can vary anywhere from a
whipping with a belt a paddling with wooden board, or just a light slap on the
hand. It is all considered corporal punishment. There is a very wide range of
what is considered Corporal or physical punishment.
Experimental group: Gershoff (2002) carried
out a meta-analysis of 92 studies on corporal punishment. Gershoff's research
excluded studies that were specifically to be abusive or potentially abusive
techniques in their definition of corporal punishment. His studies found
corporal punishment to only be favorable in one thing,
and that was immediate compliance. I must say that for most parents a complying
child is what they want, including me.
Control group: Ten of 11
meta-analysis indicate parental corporal punishment associated with the
following undesirable behaviors, decreased quality of relationship between
parent and child, decreased adult mental health ,decreased child mental health,
decreased moral internalization, increased child aggression ,increased child
delinquent, increased anti -social behavior, increased adult criminal and anti
–social behavior, increased risk of becoming a victim to physical abuse, and
increase of abusing own child or spouse. There is definitely good reason for us
to try and find better ways of us trying to discipline our kids, although we may
just give them a quick smack DON’T DO THAT kind of tap, remember there is
studies that now prove all these harmful type of behaviors being linked to
physical and corporal punishment.
So I ask of you all my parents out there
When your child’s gone wild and you’re
full of despair,
Don’t grab a stick, a broom or a whip
For what you might break may not be his
bare derriere
But far worse than that, you may be creating
an empty soul, a blank stare,
That may have no hope for the future, no
kind of repair.
