easy-digital-downloads domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/erikphillip/public_html/conflictresearchgroupintl.com/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6121Okay bad news here folks. More than guns, the media causes mass shootings.From a pure numbers standpoint, mass shootings are statistically meaningless. If you look at the FBI Uniform Crime Report there were 12,765 non-negligent homicides (manslaughters/murders, non-LEOs and accidental). Of them ALL kinds of firearms were used in 8,855. http://www.fbi.gov/…/expanded_homicide_data_table_8 … Now if you … [Read more…]
Don’t just do your homework, but to put on the BS sensors too. Start by having a basic understanding of statistics and how important it is to look at ANY categorization and understand the parameters and standards that go into that category; much less how they came up with that number. There’s an old adage … [Read more…]
As much as many people may dislike bankers, financial systems have enabled civilizations to develop and prosper. The availability and flow of capital has facilitated the creation of modern societies. There is another commodity that also central to civilization and individual prosperity, it is the “supply” or “amount” of Trust in society. Trust is defined … [Read more…]
“The thing that strikes me in this whole class is that you think about time very differently than anyone I’ve ever known.”— Student in a class for writers. From memory, not an exact quote. Humans don’t think about what we think about. And even more rarely think about how we think. I was told long … [Read more…]
Innsbruck Airport. It is a beautiful sunny day sat facing the mountains, sugar coated with a remainder of snow in the steep vertical gullies that snake down their sides. Lovely to look at, deadly to walk on. It is now Saturday and we are sat waiting for a delayed arrival, hopefully not departure, of our … [Read more…]
There are three distinct categories of learning: Vertical Learning, Horizontal Learning, and Connective Learning. Vertical Learning is the process of learning in a step by step linear fashion. You begin with the basics and build on the basics with successively more complicated concepts, skills, tasks, etc. Learning math is an example of this process. Additional … [Read more…]
Planning the section on defense for “InFighting.” And there’s a snag. Not a big one, probably easily solved, but it is part of the schism between learning and doing. Or talking and doing. Or, obviously, writing and doing. Infighting is close work. And fast. You have to do most of it by touch. And defense … [Read more…]
I have a love-hate relationship with teaching. I love teaching, or I’d make my living another way. Watching people grow stronger is one of the coolest things to watch, right up there with desert sunsets and ocean storms. And feeling even a tiny bit of responsibility for that growth is a huge ego stroke. No … [Read more…]
In my psych class it was argued that anger is not a primary emotion, but rather a reaction. Decades later I read “The Anger Workbook” by Dr Les Carter.* He postulates that there are three primary sources of anger 1) preservation of essential needs 2) preservation of self esteem 3) preservation of core beliefs Essential … [Read more…]
That is the UK version of the same scenario done last year here in the US. Complete with the same reactions. One unique US spin was the woman who — when interviewed later about why she didn’t intervene — responded “He did something to deserve it.”You encounter right here (in a nutshell) the hypocrisy … [Read more…]