08-07-2024, 05:51 PM
(08-07-2024, 07:20 AM)TomK Wrote: Agreed, it's weird behavior..
The thing is Tom, you’re the one that doesn’t understand what’s happening around you. And yet, you are the one that tells others if they don't act like you, if they don't think like you, they are somehow wrong. When in fact nobody is wrong, just different, and your need to suggest they are wrong makes you the one that has no idea what’s happening around you. Makes you the class clown, the village idiot, the babbling fool. You and your citadels to your god desecrating the sacred, telling others to go f*ck themselves when they don’t bow to your self proclaimed superiority.. yep Tom, you’re the one that brings disgrace and shame…
And you want someone to ‘tell’ you? To meet your expectations, to behave according to your ideas? What about their ideas? What about their ways? Why aren’t you willing to allow others the curtesy you demand of them when you insist they bend to you? I have pointed this out, ad nauseam, and still you insist that every peg whether round or square, or otherwise, fit in your hole.. and I am sorry, it don't work that way.
You know, the guy/gal that wrote my third book is the one that single handedly wrote, who created the digital tools we use in modern day seismology. He wrote CUSP, and before that CEDAR. Literally Tom, he was genius far beyond anything you’ve ever encountered. And still when after coming to Hawaii to initially test and implement CUSP, he took a job at UH Hilo, and was a teacher for a number of years in the geology department there. During those years, and while we were working on the book we created together, we’d spend a lot of time in my hot tub, and one evening he observed that several of his students were not doing well and it concerned him greatly.
When I asked, what people, what group was having this difficulty he said it was the Hawaiians. They didn’t ask questions, they weren’t engaged, and were falling behind. But when I pointed out that culturally Hawaiians don't learn to ask questions, but rather are taught when they want to know something to offer to help those that already know. If they want to know how to build a canoe they wouldn't go to classes and ask questions they go to a canoe builder and offer to help them build a canoe. Now, of course you could say whatever, today it's done blah blah blah, but this was then and this is the problem he encountered. And when I offered that to teach Hawaiians it is better to create hands on experiences than expect them to sit in a class and engage in question and answer sessions, he changed the way he taught his classes, created more field trips, brought in more physical examples and created other engagements, and years later observed that with this new modality the Hawaiians excelled far more than their white counterparts.
And, btw, she went on to write more seismic processing scripts, and writes about their evolution in her Evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as applied to Seismic Event Associators.
The point is Tom, you’re in a world that don't think like you, that doesn’t feel like you, that processes data differently than you. And as long as you expect that we all are just like you, you miss the point entirely. You are Mr Jones.. and you have no idea what’s happening here.
So shut the f*ck up and listen once in a while, observe. And maybe, given time, you might get an inkling, a morsel of the richness that is Hawaii. Otherwise, no I don't feel like answering your make believe questions. In fact I find your passive aggressive tactics to be just more of you stunting around demanding the heathen bow to you nonsense. And, besides, stringing you along is fun. That’s how I see the world.. I am sorry you don’t. Oh well.