June 2012
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May 2012
24 posts
“I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.”
– Rumi (via ozlemhaluk)
“There are so many questions, and one must make peace with the fact that the time...”
– S.
“I have no fear of losing you, for you aren’t an object of my property, or anyone...”
– Anthony de Mello (via nearerthemoon)
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April 2012
30 posts
“To be or not to be. That’s not really a question.”
– Jean-Luc Godard.
and the week begins. (via bbook)
Pluralistic Ignorance
In social psychology, pluralistic ignorance, a term coined by Daniel Katz and Floyd H. Allport in 1931, describes “a situation where a majority of group members privately reject a norm, but assume (incorrectly) that most others accept it…It is, in Krech and Crutchfield’s (1948, pp. 388–89) words, the situation where ‘no one believes, but everyone thinks that everyone believes.’”. This, in turn,...
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“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with...”
– Galileo