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Guidepost Two: The Power of Definition and Belief

Your Whackadoodle Weekly Nudge: How Beliefs Bend the World That Is
Each week this summer, we’ll offer a gentle nudge to reflect on one of the fourteen Guideposts. This week, we continue with our second Guidepost…
Navigating a Whackadoodle World: Episode 59, or What's up with emotional intelligence anyway?
A Whackadoodle lesson in which I help my student with her paper on emotional intelligence and lean quite a lot myself, along with a small reminder of…
A Whackadoodle History: Pope Gregory IX, Vox in Rama, Cats, and the Black Death
How one man's decree in 1233 led to the widespread persecution and vilification of cats throughout Christendom. If this story is not an example of the…
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Lynn Marie Sager
A Whackadoodle History? Or an April Fools joke? Or Maybe a bit of both.
Were Cats Really Killed En Masse During the Middle Ages?
Guidepost Two: The Power of Definition and Belief (Aka Episode 45)
“Democracy is an idea that requires trust to flourish,” I added. “If people don’t trust their fellow citizens, then why would they trust the idea of…
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Navigating a Whackadoodle World: Guidepost Two, or the Power of Definition and Belief
Past and present links to our episodes on Guidepost Two: The Power of Definition and Belief.
Navigating a Whackadoodle World: Episode 31, or Why do some beliefs lead to violence?
A Whackadoodle discussion with my student about how beliefs can effect violence, along with a fun movie recommendation.
A Whackadoodle Riddle: What makes a life worth living?
If Plato was accurate when he wrote that Socrates said at his trial, "The unexamined life is not worth living." Then what makes a life worth living?
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Lynn Marie Sager
Navigating A Whackadoodle World: Episode 16, or How to Wake Someone Out of Their Assumptions
A Whackadoodle lesson in which my student and I tackle her assignment on the Socratic Method, only to discover how appropriate our discussion is for…
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Lynn Marie Sager
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Whackadoodle Definitions: Dysgraphia, dyscalculia, and dyslexia.
A brief discussion with my Whackadoodle student about why I'll never find all my typos without help; along with a special reminder as to why my readers…
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Lynn Marie Sager
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Whackadoodle Definitions: Is Sorry the sorriest word, or not?
A few thoughts about why sorry is one of the worst, and best, words in the English language, depending on how we use it.
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Lynn Marie Sager
A Whackadoodle Definition: What do they mean by Gaslighting?
I wasn't surprised by her question. After all, Merriam-Webster had named it word of the year because "lookups" for it on merriam-webster.com had…
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Lynn Marie Sager
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