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Logan
Forum & Site Admin Group Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 33095 |
Posted: April 05 2017 at 05:51 | ||
I have known people who were engineers who I thought to be great managers (say as COOs). I'm biased of course, but my wife, who is a chemical engineer, I thought was an excellent manager/director, but I can't infer too much based on my limited experience and inherent biases. A good manager should be widely respected and respectable, and a lot of that has to do with being seen to be fair. It depends on the person. CEOs often require salesmanship because sales is an important part, and to appeal to shareholders. There are good salespeople and those who are bullsh*t artists.
Politicians tend to be salespeople, despite what they formally studied, but I harbor some disdain for salespeople including politicians. There is no one type of academic background that makes one great for office, though I would think that someone who has a great deal of general knowledge and a general love of learning including re-evaluating and scrutinising their opinions as well as those of the party is more likely to do good for the country, I think. I would like a so-called Renaissance man or woman in office, and someone with integrity and compassion who is not just self-serving. It is indeed important for the leader to be surrounded by knowledgeable people, and the person should be receptive to a wide range of opinions. It requires a pretty open-minded politician who is interested in the pursuit of truth, for one thing. Someone like Trump is not. He seems anti-science for one thing, and doesn't try to appeal to the most rational of people, and chooses people based on his own biases, agenda, personality traits etc. Trump is an egotistical bullsh*t artist. As for my philosophical interests, the people who I find that I tend to turn to most to satisfy those interests of mine are often primarily psychologists. Philosophy is a very wide "non-discipline" and intersects with many planes of studies. |
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Just a music fan passing through trying to fill some void. Various music I am into now: a youtube playlist
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The T
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 16 2006 Location: FL, USA Status: Offline Points: 17493 |
Posted: April 05 2017 at 07:33 | ||
Alas, and per actual surveys, in the US people would first elect an actual murderer before an atheist. |
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Triceratopsoil
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 03 2010 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 17995 |
Posted: April 22 2017 at 12:46 | ||
Atheism is why the west is in such a mess right now
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infocat
Forum Senior Member VIP Member Joined: June 10 2011 Location: Colorado, USA Status: Offline Points: 4671 |
Posted: April 23 2017 at 01:08 | ||
^How so?
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Frank Swarbrick Belief is not Truth. |
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Dean
Special Collaborator Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
Posted: April 23 2017 at 02:00 | ||
^ by not being muslims & xtians probably.
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What?
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Vompatti
Forum Senior Member VIP Member Joined: October 22 2005 Location: elsewhere Status: Offline Points: 67382 |
Posted: April 23 2017 at 02:04 | ||
^^ Do you even have to ask? The Saracen are invading Europe and atheists aren't going to stop them.
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Tom Ozric
Prog Reviewer Joined: September 03 2005 Location: Olympus Mons Status: Offline Points: 15916 |
Posted: April 23 2017 at 02:15 | ||
........no bother........
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micky
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Posted: April 23 2017 at 06:22 | ||
if you weren't known as a troll... that might beg for an explanation... I'd tend to say runaway materialism and Capitalism has done far more to create the mess and economic and social decline here than a bunch of bible beaters taking their religion and trying to legislate their beliefs and their morality on others has. |
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The T
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 16 2006 Location: FL, USA Status: Offline Points: 17493 |
Posted: April 24 2017 at 12:57 | ||
1. What 2. Why do you say it's a "mess"? As compared to, what, the 1800s? The 1900s? The 60s? 3. What
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