Slope of Hope Blog Posts

Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.

As Normal as Apple Pie

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Time for me to piss ‘n’ moan a bit, and as is so often the case, this is drawn for just everyday life. Specifically, the most recent Saturday.

Let’s dial back the clock a number of decades and consider young Tim. I was strange in a lot of ways. Most kids like sports. I had absolutely zero interest in either playing them or watching them. Most kids liked guns and hunting. Precisely zero interest from me. I’d prefer to hold any animal than shoot it. Most kids like listening to hard rock. I was more of a Gilbert & Sullivan young lad. So, yeah, not at all normal, which I guess is why the moniker “fag” was proffered on more than one occasion.

Things have changed, however, and I’d like to push it back to the present to examine this.

My mission was a simple one: get my wife’s iPhone upgraded. We use AT&T, so normally we go to the AT&T store to do this kind of thing. We drove over there together, got out of the car, and headed into the store.

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False Dilemma Fallacy

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Time to learn something new this morning, folks, and it’ll be especially germane during the fifteen days ahead of us. I was prompted to write this post based on a comment left by one of you yesterday.

There is a common logical fallacy known as the False Dilemma. You can read all about it with the hyperlink provided but allow me a simple example I just made up: let’s say the good people of the U.S. Government required that every citizen declare whether they were a Catholic or an Atheist.

Obedient citizen that I am, I would come before the bureaucrat, and he would ask, “So, Mr. Knight, are you a Catholic?” to which my honest answer would be “No.” He may then reply, “Ah, got it. So, you’re a damned atheist. Thank you for your time.

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