I’m sitting here between calls thinking about critical thought. The process of starting my little web book (now called “The Book of Jade Mirrors”) and a post on LifeHacker got me thinking.
We all know (and often accept) that we have to drink 8 glasses of water per day, a number of health magazines parrot this figure as if it’s gospel truth.
Now, I found this link courtesy of Life Hacker: 10 Reasons to drink more water.
Ok, so far so good, now try this link at snopes.com, which is from the comments on that post.
It looks like the old 8 glasses of water figure isn’t a much of a sure thing as we’ve been told, it’s amazing how much information we accept without questioning.
Now to come full circle, I was looking at things to write about in my book and was thinking a lot of this is simply faith, critical thought doesn’t come into it. Look at the existance of Chi, an awful lot of things talk about it but it’s existance has never been proved, I know a Tai Chi instructor who doesn’t believe in it’s existance!
I think my book will look fairly secular compared to some, but I don’t know any other way of doing it that I consider to be doing it properly.
Riding the wind says:
Goodbyes, Friends, Blogs & Water
Today is somewhat of a sad day for me, because it is the day we all say goodbye to one of my best friends. Ryan is leaving here to go back to the US and find a job, etc. I’m very happy for him because he’ll be free from the military, but I&…
23 March 2007, 9:09 am