David phoned me at work this morning. I'd rather he call me when I am not busy and have plenty of time to chat, but I've learned to just take what I can get from him. He has picked up a habit from his older brother--"phone mom while I'm walking from A to B, since I have nothing else to do." Andrew used to often do this while hiking across Harvard. David phoned me as he was on his way to the Metro station. He was off work today, it being a holiday for government employees. He was going to the National Archives to see the
Emancipation Proclamation which was on its last day of being exhibited to the public.
I passed on to him that one of his old girlfriends was wondering why he hadn't answered an email she wrote three weeks ago. "Oh, yeah, I was going to." Then I told him, "Rachel says, 'boys are stupid.'" "No, she's got it wrong--girls are stupid" he replied. Well, which is it?
I talked to Rachel last night which is when she told me that she had been IMming with David's old girlfriend and they had come to the conclusion that boys are stupid. But she wasn't crying when she said it, so it must have been an intellectual assessment, not an emotional one:-)
I'm still praying for her and her student teaching and I know others are too. Her student teaching is going pretty well, but at times it is overwhelming. It is making her rethink if she really wants to be a teacher. Tonight she also has a big exam in her Monday night class. I don't know if she'll have time to talk to me tonight as she will probably be exhausted.
Andrew made it back safely to Ethiopia. While in Kenya he bought some kind of Kenyan chip for his cell phone so he could use it there, then switched back to the Ethiopian one when he got back home. He asked for prayer for some decisions that Samaritan's Purse must make about working in the country.
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You are employing what is known as the either/or logical fallacy. The answer is that both are.
- Eeyore
Is that something like the both/and postulate?
I'm not sure what you mean by the both/and postulate.
-Eeyore
I made it up, silly. Isn't both/and the oppposite of either/or?
Well it you're talking about different approaches to logic you're right. The either/or is the traditional Western logic approach - which hold to the principle of non-contradiction. The both/and approach is associated with Eastern logic which does not hold to the principle of non-contradiction.
- Eeyore
But the either/or logical fallacy is something else (and actually I might not have used it exactly right). The either/or fallacy is when you try to force somebody to take one option or the other, but there is in fact other options available.
Oops. You like getting lots of comments, right?
- Eeyore
Eeyore, you might be an oaf.
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