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| sheer stupidity: Stupidity Avital Ronell, 2002 Avital Ronell's work studies the fading empire of cognition, modulating stupidity into idiocy, puerility, and the figure of the ridiculous philosopher instituted by Kant. Investigating ignorance, dumbfoundedness, and the limits of reason, Stupidity probes the pervasive practice of theory-bashing and related forms of paranoid aggression. A section on prolonged and debilitating illness pushes the text to an edge of a corporeal hermeneutics, at the limits of what the body knows and tells.--BOOK JACKET. |
| sheer stupidity: The Power of Stupidity Giancarlo Livraghi, 2009 |
| sheer stupidity: The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity Carlo M. Cipolla, 2021-04-06 A masterly book —Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan A classic —Simon Kuper, Financial Times An economist explains five laws that confirm our worst fears: stupid people can and do rule the world Throughout history, a powerful force has hindered the growth of human welfare and happiness. It is more powerful than the Mafia or the military. It has global catastrophic effects and can be found anywhere from the world's most powerful boardrooms to your local bar. It is human stupidity. Carlo M. Cipolla, noted professor of economic history at the UC Berkeley, created this vitally important book in order to detect and neutralize its threat. Both hilarious and dead serious, it will leave you better equipped to confront political realities, unreasonable colleagues, or your next dinner with your in-laws. The Laws: 1. Everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals among us. 2. The probability that a certain person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person. 3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person while deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses themselves. 4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. 5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person. |
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| sheer stupidity: Chicago 92: The Transcendent Function - Individual and Collective Aspects Mary Ann Mattoon, 1993 With an all encompassing theme, 'The Transcendent Function: Individual and Collective Aspects', The Twelfth International Congress for Analytical Psychology was convened in Chicago on 23 August 1992. A wide range of papers and presentations elucidated diverse approaches to the roles played by symbols in analysis, their relationships to one another and their beholders, and possibilities for transcendence. |
| sheer stupidity: Integral Yoga Haridas Chaudhuri, 2018-11-08 Originated by the great sage of modern India, Sri Aurobindo, integral yoga has been presented in this volume, first published in 1965, in the context of modern western thinking. It expounds the concept of harmonious and creative living on the basis of a fruitful reconciliation of the self-perfecting mysticism of the East and the rationalistic humanism of the West. It gives a dynamic form, an evolutionary perspective, and a creative impetus to the ancient mystic idea of union with the eternal. |
| sheer stupidity: Federal Election Practices and Procedures United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs, 2002 |
| sheer stupidity: Routledge Library Editions: Yoga Various, 2021-03-29 This nine-volume set reprints valuable early works introducing the philosophy and practices of Yoga to a Western audience, and provides key analysis by some of its leading practitioners. Indian, Taoist and Buddhist yogas are examined, and their relation to the West, including Christianity. |
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| sheer stupidity: Grimoire For The Apprentice Wizard Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, 2004-02-04 Here is the book Merlin could have given a young Arthur . . . if only it had existed. Out of the millions of Harry Potter fans worldwide, there are tens of thousands who want to really do the magical things J.K. Rowling writes about. But would-be wizards must rely on information passed down from wizard elders. Is there a Hogwarts anywhere in the real world? A real Albus Dumbledore? Where is the book these aspiring wizards need? Luckily for all those fans, Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, today’s foremost genuine wizard, has written the essential handbook. What’s more, he has gathered some of the greatest names in Wicca—including Ellen Evert Hopman, Raymond Buckland, Raven Grimassi, Patricia Telesco, Jesse Wolf Hardin, Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart, and many more into a modern-day “Grey Council” to publish for the first time everything an aspiring wizard needs to know. Lurking within the pages of Grimoire for the Apperntice Wizard are: Biographies of famous wizards of history and legend Detailed descriptions of magickal tools and regalia (with full instructions for making them) Rites and rituals for special occasions A bestiary of mythical creatures The Laws of Magick Myths and stories of gods and heroes Lore and legends of the stars and constellations Instruction for performing amazing illusions, special effects, and many other wonders of the magical multiverse Praise forGrimoire for the Apprentice Wizard “I can’t think of a better, more qualified person to write a Handbook for Apprentice Wizards. Oberon is a Wizard.” —Raymond Bucklland, author of Buckland’s Complete Book of Witchcraft “Oberon is not only extremely learned in the magickal arts but he communicates that knowledge with wit and charm.” —Fiona Horne, author of Witch: A Magickal Journey and star of Mad, Mad, Mad House |
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| sheer stupidity: The UberReader Avital Ronell, 2010-10-01 Avital Ronell has put together what must be one of the most remarkable critical oeuvres of our era... Zeugmatically yoking the slang of pop culture with philosophical analysis, forcing the confrontation of high literature and technology or drug culture, Avital Ronell produces sentences that startle, irritate, illuminate. At once hilarious and refractory, her books are like no others.”--Jonathan Culler, Diacritics For twenty years Avital Ronell has stood at the forefront of the confrontation between literary study and European philosophy. She has tirelessly investigated the impact of technology on thinking and writing, with groundbreaking work on Heidegger, dependency and drug rhetoric, intelligence and artificial intelligence, and the obsession with testing. Admired for her insights and breadth of field, she has attracted a wide readership by writing with guts, candor, and wit. Coyly alluding to Nietzsche’s “gay science,” The ÜberReader presents a solid introduction to Avital Ronell’s later oeuvre. It includes at least one selection from each of her books, two classic selections from a collection of her early essays (Finitude’s Score), previously uncollected interviews and essays, and some of her most powerful published and unpublished talks. An introduction by Diane Davis surveys Ronell’s career and the critical response to it thus far. With its combination of brevity and power, this Ronell “primer” will be immensely useful to scholars, students, and teachers throughout the humanities, but particularly to graduate and undergraduate courses in contemporary theory. |
| sheer stupidity: On the Origins of Speaking Lord Walsingham, 2016-10-22 This is a serious book examining the original sounds and meanings of languages right back to the Stone Age - up until now believed to be impossible. But it can also be seen as tracing the overwhelming sexual orientation of human thinking for the last six hundred thousand years or more - when we were only hominids, squatting round the camp fires at the mouths of our caves - to keep the sabre toothed tigers out. It was here that our original bare bottomed language committees first got to grips with meanings and their audible representation. The committees were convened as a result of the taming of fire, the high tech of the day. It was a cosy environment in a cold and hostile world, and the unaccustomed warmth led to an outburst of amorous inclinations, and the need to express them in words. Ka they thought echoic of the strike of flint on flint, and so striking, and so the tenderising of raw meat for which they had already been making "e;hand axes"e; for at least half a million years. It is from ka-ka for tenderising with a hand axe that our cooking comes! The flame did it for you. Flint knapping left a lot of "e;debetage"e; or waste flakes, whence ka-ka also came to mean waste - including today human waste. Metaphor led to odd bedfellows. All this evidence is decoded from an exhaustive forty year research into over a hundred languages, many of them dead ones, where like flies in amber our original Lithic (Stone Age) language roots are still embedded. There is nothing salacious in the tale. It simply tells it as it is and was, and it is not going to go away. This short version is abstracted from a major work of over 600 pages, and there is nothing in it which the ordinary man in the street (and his sister) can not easily follow. It ranks quite highly in the order of useless information, but it has its indirect usage. If you understand how all our languages have actually come about - the product of human whimsy - you will be that much less likely to believe some of the sillier alternative views put forward by ideologically inclined placemen. Lastly, how has Lithic Language been cracked? The answer lies in "e;semantic triangulation"e;. Believe it or not, all our languages today (over 6000) bear traces of the original meanings given to the sounds as we first learned to articulate them, and it is possible to work backwards using the current meanings in numerous languages to home in on the original source meanings which are common to the current ones. Then we can see if they make sense as a first guess by our Stone Age (hominid) forebears of what they thought of as the "e;natural"e; meanings of the sounds. They didn't do thinking very much. That is how they all guessed the same, or nearly the same. So we are probably on the right track: language was all spun by human whimsy, (over a few hundred millennia), from only a baker's dozen original articulated sounds. The English language alone reached a million words last year. |
| sheer stupidity: Audun and the Polar Bear William Ian Miller, 2008 Auduna (TM)s Story tells of an Icelandic farmhand who buys a polar bear in Greenland and gives it to the Danish king. It is a subtle tale of complex social action worthy of the fine anthropological writing on gift-exchange; its treatment of face-to-face interaction a match for Erving Goffman. |
| sheer stupidity: The American Journal of Insanity , 1908 Includes section Book reviews. |
| sheer stupidity: Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Frazer Lars Albinus, Josef G. F. Rothhaupt, Aidan Seery, 2016-03-21 This volume is dedicated to Wittgenstein's remarks on Frazer's The Golden Bough and represents a collaboration of scholars within philosophy and the study of religion. For the first time, specialized investigations of the philological and philosophical aspects Wittgenstein's manuscripts are combined with the outlook of philosophical anthropology and ritual studies. In the first section of the book Wittgenstein's remarks are presented and discussed in light of his Nachlass and relevant lecture-notes by G.E. Moore, reproduced in this book as facsimiles. The second section deals with the cultural and philosophical background of the early remarks, while the third section focuses specifically on the general problem of understanding as being a main issue of these remarks. The fourth section concentrates on the philosophical development characteristic of the later remarks. Finally, the fifth section reviews Wittgenstein's opposition to Frazer, and the ramifications of his remarks, in light of ritual studies. The book is intended for scholars in philosophy and religious studies, as well as for the general reader with an academic interest in philosophy and the philosophy of religion. |
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| sheer stupidity: Notes and Quotes - Steps to Spiritual Awakening - Volume I Steven Payeur, 2011-06-15 Notes and Quotes: Steps to Spiritual Awakening portrays the ancient wisdom, the underlying truths of all great religions, in plain language that Everyman can understand without difficulty. With no sectarian bias, the simple truths by which the manifested universe operates are explained, and how, by living in accord with these laws-natural laws-one can greatly enhance the quality of one's current life, and even more so one's future life. The author draws on twenty years of extensive studies of over 150 books of Wisdom teachings from the world's major religions and philosophies, with a life of exploring the teachings of the wise of all times and cultures. With an open mind and only after going within, the author followed the common thread underlying these great wisdom teachings to discover the commonalities. Based on this discovery, with much trial and error in the process due to lack of a book like this one, the author found spiritual awakening: the Light within. |
| sheer stupidity: Congressional Record United States. Congress, 1955 |
| sheer stupidity: The New Monthly Magazine , 1854 |
| sheer stupidity: A brief relation of the mercies of the Lord, in providence and grace, to William Westhorp [written by himself. Ed. by T.C. Westhorp]. William Westhorp, 1870 |
| sheer stupidity: Confessions of a Flying Instructor Tug Wilson, 2023-04-16 After surviving three years flying the RAF’s greatest and scariest fighter (the mighty Phantom), Tug Wilson tried his hand at teaching some of the flying skills he probably should have known when he was on the Cold War front-line. Despite being slightly more mature and having the responsibility of teaching, and looking after, trainee pilots and navigators in the cockpit of a Hawk fast-jet trainer, Wilson manages to almost kill himself (again) and at least one of his students. This book build on the insecurities, amazement, and pure unadulterated joy that the author felt while flying aircraft in his beloved RAF. It is an open and honest account of his professional and personal life, much in the style of his first book―'Confessions of a Phantom Pilot’ (which has been described as a “Cracking good read” by Tug, his family, and all his mates from the Phantom that were happy to be mentioned in it. Ever wondered what a fast-jet pilot goes through while learning the intricacies of air-defence and low-level flying? Or even how to cheat in air combat? ‘Confessions of a Flying Instructor’ is a personal examination of an often overlooked aspect of the RAF. |
| sheer stupidity: A Blameless Woman John Strange Winter, 1894 |
| sheer stupidity: Interpreting Keynes for the 21st Century P. Davidson, 2007-07-12 The 4th volume of Davidson's major contributions to the economics and policy debates of our times, this book contains articles, newspaper columns and papers that explain why Keynes's General Theory , as developed by Post Keynesian theorists, provides important policy implications for the economic problems of the 21st century global economy. |
| sheer stupidity: Swamp Rats Exposed Armond Muscat, 2020-04-01 About, Swamps are nature’s way to remove waste and clean our waterways. When swamps get bogged down with waste, they become stagnated and turn into bogs. Just like the House of Congress and Senate designed to protect Americans. They are Americas bog with greed, corruption, lies, and the most of all selfishness. Today’s Democratic leadership refuses to work with the President and the American people who elected him. The only reason for this insanity is just pure selfishness. Just like a two-year-old child, that cries and schemes to get their way. |
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| sheer stupidity: The Poetics of Jacobean Drama Coburn Freer, 2019-12-01 Originally published in 1982. The Poetics of Jacobean Drama argues for a rediscovered approach to the study of Renaissance drama. Coburn Freer observes that most modern criticism of this drama treats the plays as if they were written in prose, thus overlooking whole areas of dramatic meaning that were understood in the past. Such an understanding, he asserts, was common among writers, actors, audiences, and readers of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, and a knowledge of it is essential to a full appreciation of the characterization and dramatic structures in these plays. Freer explores the evolution of the modern reluctance to approach Renaissance drama as one would dramatic poetry—from the standpoint of a listener. Blank verse, the author shows, provided Jacobean dramatists with a poetic form against which they could work the pressures of experience within their characters. The writers' ability to work with and against this form provided infinite resources for delineating character and creating significant coherences in the structure of a play. The Poetics of Jacobean Drama offers insights into what the Renaissance writer, actor, and playgoer would have regarded as the domain of poetry in drama. Topics discussed include the conditions of stage performance and the style of acting, Elizabethan education, the rise of printed texts and collected editions, and the comments of Elizabethan audiences and readers. Freer's commentary and theoretical explanations suggest both why and how we should pay closer attention to the poetry of Renaissance drama. |
| sheer stupidity: Radio Frontera! James O'Keeffe, 2021-09-30 It first set the airwaves afire in 1928: 100,000 megawatts of raw, unregulated flamethrower power from south of the Rio Grande. Founded by a quack surgeon, it endured assaults by the Mexican army, launched the careers of evangelists and movie stars, and helped a cultural menace called rock’n’roll seduce the teenagers of North America. But in the summer of 1985, XAMO 1530 AM radio is a ramshackle, low-voltage shadow of its “border blaster” heyday. That is, until an enigmatic runaway variously dubbing himself Mark Knopfler, Charlie Sexton, “Strummer,” and Asher Rede arrives in Anapra, Mexico, with clandestine plans for righting an old wrong, and falls for an XAMO disc jockey whose own haunted past is about to collide memorably—and musically—with the present. |
| sheer stupidity: Identity Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa Ishmael D. Norman, 2024-10-21 In the recent spate of military takeovers in Guinea, Mali, Chad, Niger and Guinea Bissau in West Africa, identity politics has been named as one of the motivations behind the military coups. The concern surrounding the elimination or minimization of discrimination in governance and the distribution of national wealth is of particular importance. This book promotes a sane approach to the sharing of the national ‘cake’: to adopt pragmatism and the principles of the Rule of Law, which are already enshrined in the respective constitutions of these nations. This book fills a gap in the literature and promotes equal participation and distribution of opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa. It will educate politicians, ministries, agencies and departments, policy makers, non-governmental organizations engaged in development at the grass-roots levels, and academics and students of politics, security, religious studies and development. |
| sheer stupidity: The Complete Works of Shakspere William Shakespeare, 1857 |
| sheer stupidity: A Grammar of Late Modern English, for the Use of Continental, Especially Dutch, Students: The sentence. Section I. The elements of the sentence. Section II. The composite sentence Hendrik Poutsma, 1928 |
| sheer stupidity: A Grammar of Late Modern English: The sentence. 1st half. the elements of the sentence. 2nd half. The composite sentence Hendrik Poutsma, 1928 |
| sheer stupidity: Key to the Questions Contained in West's Elements of English Grammar and English Grammar for Beginners Alfred Slater West, 1901 |
| sheer stupidity: A Grammar of Late Modern English Hendrik Poutsma, 1928 |
| sheer stupidity: ThirdWay , 2008-11 Monthly current affairs magazine from a Christian perspective with a focus on politics, society, economics and culture. |
| sheer stupidity: Country Lovers Rebecca Shaw, 2007-04-24 The lively Barleybridge Veterinary Hospital is bustling with energy. Everyone is working hard to make sure that disruptive and sick animals in the surgery and on the farms are treated. But at the same time some of them are coping with crises in their personal lives. |
| sheer stupidity: Inside China's Cold War Christian F. Ostermann, 2008 Featuring new evidence on: Mao, Stalin, and the road to the 1950 Summit; The 1954 Geneva Conference; Sino-Albanian summits 1961-67; Mongolia and the Cold War; North Korea in 1956; Romania and the Sino-US opening.--Cover |
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| sheer stupidity: Holocaust Testimonies Lawrence L. Langer, 1993-01-27 Annotation This important and original book is the first sustained analysis of the unique ways in which oral testimony of survivors contributes to our understanding of the Holocaust. Langer argues that it is necessary to deromanticize the survival experience and that to burden it with accolades about the indomitable human spirit is to slight its painful complexity and ambivalence. |
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SHEER Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of SHEER is unqualified, utter. How to use sheer in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Sheer.
SHEER | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
SHEER definition: 1. used to emphasize how very great, important, or powerful a quality or feeling is; nothing…. Learn more.
SHEER Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com
Sheer definition: transparently thin; diaphanous, as some fabrics.. See examples of SHEER used in a sentence.
SHEER definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
You can use sheer to emphasize that a state or situation is complete and does not involve or is not mixed with anything else. His music is sheer delight. Sheer chance quite often plays an …
sheer adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage …
Definition of sheer adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. [only before noun] used to emphasize the size, degree or amount of something. The area is under threat from the …
Shear vs. Sheer: What's the Difference? - Grammarly
Shear refers to the act of cutting something, especially wool from sheep, or to the stress in structural elements causing layers to slide against each other. Sheer, on the other hand, …
Sheer - definition of sheer by The Free Dictionary
sheer - very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front; "a bluff headland"; "where the bold chalk cliffs of England rise"; "a sheer descent of rock"
Shear vs. Sheer – What’s the Difference? - twominenglish.com
Sep 19, 2024 · Understanding the difference between ‘Shear’ and ‘Sheer’ is crucial to avoid common English language errors. Shear is often used as a verb, and it refers to cutting or …
What does Sheer mean? - Definitions.net
Sheer is an adjective that can generally refer to something extremely or utmost in degree, amount or intensity. It can also describe something complete and pure. In context, sheer is often used …
743 Synonyms & Antonyms for SHEER - Thesaurus.com
Find 743 different ways to say SHEER, along with antonyms, related words, and example sentences at Thesaurus.com.
