User talk:Jon Awbrey
τα δε μοι παθήματα μαθήματα γέγονε.
My sufferings have been my lessons.
Herodotus, in Liddell & Scott.



Guide for the Perplexed
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Poems
Coriolanus Banished at birth, The wings of your soul torn off, You are but a block of wood To be carved by the makers of chessmen and marionettes To be placed on boards and stages That cannot be won with the pieces that are left. Jon Awbrey Stratford, Ontario July 25, 2006
A Well-Known Rock On Tour Suppose you come to a rock on the moor: That may or may not have fallen there as a meteorite burrows out of the sky, or lava drops cool in a vanished lake. That may or may not have rolled there on the impulse of a rough-hewn hermit, or the reverence of a primitive tribe. That may or may not have been crafted as an architrave, a bourne, a caltrop, a dolmen, an epistyle, a fenestration? That is the sort of ambiguity that I have been wrestling with, the type of uncertainty of type that arises in trying to read the "Book Of Nature" (BON), the unsettling noise that will at turns shock, surprise, and surround us as we strain to pursue this "Dialogue Involving Nature" (DIN) as one of its partners. This is not the brand of sort of type of ambiguity that will be extinguished by our impoverished attempts to control the speech of our neighbors, nor would it serve us well even if we succeed. Jon Awbrey October 25, 2000
Sunset At Hawk's Nest Platinum pupil and golden orange iris, Pure rose and turquoise the lids of the eye, Lashes of evergreen and the gliding hawk's wing, Dark umber brows of the rustling oak bough. Plato's puppet dances without strings, Tracing the shade of the fair plane tree, Yet under his gaze nothing is new But shadows cast from high platitudes. The eye of Horus gleams in the hours of twilight, A thousand eyes dreaming now wake to the sight: A crescent smile, mother-of-pearl and silvery bright, Beaming with warmth on the face of the night. Jon Awbrey Glen Arbor, Michigan August 25, 1990
Current Projects
Incidental Musements
Presentations and Publications
- Awbrey, S.M., and Awbrey, J.L. (May 2001), "Conceptual Barriers to Creating Integrative Universities", Organization: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Organization, Theory, and Society 8(2), Sage Publications, London, UK, pp. 269–284. Abstract.
- Awbrey, S.M., and Awbrey, J.L. (September 18, 1999), "Organizations of Learning or Learning Organizations: The Challenge of Creating Integrative Universities for the Next Century", Second International Conference of the Journal Organization , Re-Organizing Knowledge, Trans-Forming Institutions: Knowing, Knowledge, and the University in the 21st Century, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. Eprint.
- Awbrey, J.L., and Awbrey, S.M. (Autumn 1995), "Interpretation as Action: The Risk of Inquiry", Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 15(1), pp. 40–52. Eprint.
- Awbrey, J.L., and Awbrey, S.M. (June 1992), "Interpretation as Action: The Risk of Inquiry", The Eleventh International Human Science Research Conference, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan.
- Awbrey, S.M., and Awbrey, J.L. (May 1991), "An Architecture for Inquiry: Building Computer Platforms for Discovery", Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Technology and Education, Toronto, Canada, pp. 874–875.
- Awbrey, J.L., and Awbrey, S.M. (January 1991), "Exploring Research Data Interactively: Developing a Computer Architecture for Inquiry", Poster presented at the Annual Sigma Xi Research Forum, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX.
- Awbrey, J.L., and Awbrey, S.M. (August 1990), "Exploring Research Data Interactively; Theme One: A Program of Inquiry", Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Conference on Applications of Artificial Intelligence and CD-ROM in Education and Training, Society for Applied Learning Technology, Washington, DC, pp. 9–15.
Education
- 1993–2003. Graduate Study, Systems Engineering, Oakland University.
- 1989. M.A., Psychology, Michigan State University.
- 1980. M.A., Mathematics, Michgan State University.
- 1976. B.A., Mathematical and Philosophical Method,
Justin Morrill College, Michgan State University.
Edit History
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Humour Me — What Does WP Stand For?
WP // Brick Thrower 09:37, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
More Or Less Transient Messages
Less Transient "Art Is Not Eternal"
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For your hard work regarding Charles Peirce related articles. WAS 4.250 14:45, 11 August 2006 (UTC) |
More Transient Sic Transit Gloria Mundaniti
Request
Jon, I have to caution you that there's a likelihood the dispute resolution process will be started against you if the frequent posts to policy and guideline talk pages continue. There comes a point that the signal-to-noise ratio is such that people switch off and the pages become practically unusable for other editors. The recent situation on NOR led to page protection and a very long and pointless discussion (involving 446 edits in just one week) that, it transpires, was about nothing at all, because most if not all of the main editors agree on the current version.
As part of the dispute resolution process, which requires editors to make efforts to resolve disputes, I asked you to take a few days away from posting to policy pages, and I'm writing this to make the same request again; or at least to reduce the frequency of your posts and tone down the intensity of them. If you feel that's unreasonable, do you have any suggestion as to how the situation can best be dealt with? The aim is to get the talk pages back up and running, as it were, with lots of editors discussing different issues, and no single issue or editor holding sway. It may surprise you to learn that you've become the third most frequent poster overall to the NOR talk page, even though you only started posting there on March 17 this year. SlimVirgin (talk) 02:53, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
- Do not keep trolling that talk page. Keep your personal opinions and sarcastic comments away from it. Keep posts made to your talk page away from it. You are now sailing very close to the wind. I have moved your recent post here. It is about you, not about NOR. Please show some courtesy toward your fellow editors. SlimVirgin (talk) 04:01, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
Dear SV, here is the situation as I see it.
- I thought that we were engaged in a dispute resolution process.
- I was participating in that discussion for the purpose of resolving the issues at hand.
- Your judgment about signal-to-noise ratio is your opinion, and strikes me as biased by the usual effects of regarding opinions that diverge from your own to be "noise".
- Your judgment of the discussion as being "pointless" seems to be biased in a similar manner by your own interests and POV.
- Much of the material that I was discussing with the other editors was posted in response to your own explicit and repeated requests to provide concrete examples, for instance: "For the third time, would anyone who objects please give a concrete example of an edit that would have been allowed before Slrubenstein's edit, but which would not have been allowed after it? SlimVirgin (talk) 22:17, 23 August 2006 (UTC)".
- This is the first time you have mentioned your interest in an external dispute resolution process.
- For one of the participants in a debate to ask other participants to cease participation is inappropriate.
- Many of your above statements seem factually incorrect to me, most especially your assertion that "most if not all of the main editors agree on the current version".
- I do not appreciate people who resort to high-handed tactics of intimidation and manipulation of the media of communication when they see that they are beginning to lose the rational argument.
- There is no need to argue with people who resort to the these kinds of tactics, as argument proper has come to an end. They have already conceded defeat by resorting to brute force.
- I suggest that a good way for productive discussion to begin again is for you to cease making statemants that you cannot provide any evidence for, and for you to accept defeat gracefully when superior argument and evidence have prevailed.
- This is not a personal matter, and does not belong on my talk page, but properly belongs to the community concern and the dispute resolution process already in progress, so I will relocate it to the appropriate forum. I consider your action to make it a personal matter to be extremely ill-advised. Please return to the customary practices of reasoned discussion in matters of common import. Thanks in advance, Jon Awbrey 03:52, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
NOR talk page
I have to assume what that last editor means is that you should remove personal attacks from the above post, and it should not go on NOR as its about SlimVirgin specifically apparently. Wjhonson 04:28, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
JA: I think it just means that some pieces on the board have a greater freedom of attack than others. Jon Awbrey 04:48, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
WikiPettifoggery
Jon, moving that page against WP:CONSENSUS was blatant trolling. I have blocked you for 24 hours as suggested on WP:ANI. Please take the time away from Wikipedia to calm down and reflect on the futility of tilting at windmills. Thanks, Gwernol 19:28, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the vacation. I will put it to good use. Jon Awbrey 19:30, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Penitentiary Pensées
The way I see it, WP:Consensus applies only to questions that you think might be controversial among people of good will — people who are able to view matters in the natural light of reason. The use of the term WikiLawyering clearly exploits a derogatory stereotype. No good can come to Wikpedia or anybody else by tolerating its use on official Wikipedia pages. Among adult members of civil society — WP:CIVIL or just plain civil — this question would have been what the people who are now adults used to call a "no-brainer", and a simple word to the wise would have been sufficient. I mentioned the problem on the talk page and got what I took to be a lame but not really serious bit of grousing. So I changed the name, "to protect the innocent", as they say. Jon Awbrey 21:46, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Since you have chosen to bring this up here, I have copied what I wrote at Wikipedia talk:WikiLawyering to below to keep you company in your virtual world prison:
We should AGF that Jon is simply trying out IAR (you can do anything once) except that his comment "You people disgust me" and a previous indication that he was leaving Wikipedia make it seem more like POINT or simply anger - perhaps enough anger his judgement is distorted. In any case, I would like to take this oportunity to suggest that that wikilawyering is actually more correct because it is in fact English/American lawyer behavior that is uncalled for at wikipedia. While applicable in an adversarial system, wikipedia is not an adversarial system and thus lawyering on this wiki ("wikilaywering") is not appropriate. Consensus building is appropriate and adversarial approaches are not consensus building but instead are divisive. It would have been nice if arguments had been used against Jon's ill advised attempt at IAR, but the fact is that his apparent anger has resulted in snide comments on other talk pages that have made people fed up with him and unwilling to further engage. As we are a volunteer society and I myself give up rather quickly with people I find trollish, I understand and do not condemn anyone who has given up on Jon. I haven't given up on him just yet, but his comment that "You people disgust me" needs to be apologized for at the very least if he is not intent on burning all his bridges behind him as he leaves. WAS 4.250 23:49, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
D'oh! Tanx for da note, Dawg. But I didn't really pick the spot, y'now. I guess it's da WikiPen idea of a phone call. And wot was I gonna do — call a lawyer? — Hah! Next time, dough, howsabout ya smuggle in a croissant with a file — not that kinda file, ya wiseguy, d' kind with some temper steel teeth tuit. Jon Awbrey 01:33, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
While I have no plans to spring anyone from a 24 hour sentence in an imaginary jail, I do have an idea for how you can be happier. Stop pissing people off. Say nice things. Did you hear about the guy who went to a guru in a cave in Tibet at great expense to learn the secret of happiness? The guru said "The secret of happiness is to not argue." The man said "I spent a million dollars to find out who was the best hapiness guru in the world and where he was and in coming here and THAT'S the best you got!!!! That can't be it!!!" The guru said "You're right, it's not." WAS 4.250 04:56, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
Well, long as were swapping stories through the bars, here's a true one torn from the pages of my so-called life. Got sent to a military school in another State my Junior year of High School. The argot de corps was positively rife with ethnic and racial slurs that I was too naive to even recognize as such, on account of the fact that the part of the country where I came from before gave me very little acquaintance with the segments of population in question. I picked up their cadet patois all quiet reflexively and quite unreflectively, as an automatic "learning" process, in the same unconscious way that I picked up their regional accents. Time passes. Two years later I'm off to college in a wholly different State. I'm sitting in the cafeteria with a gang of dormies and friends'o'friends, and something that I had never even known was an ethnic slur comes spewing out of my mouth right in front of the whole gang, who stares at me aghast but I don't know why. You will find it hard to believe that anybody could be so naive, but that's the way I was back then, and I didn't even know what I'd said until my roommate explained it to me later on. Forty years later, and I still curse the education in stupidity that I got at that school. Do try to learn from other's suffering. Jon Awbrey 06:00, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
"I've never let my school interfere with my education." - Mark Twain [1] Schools are designed to domesticate humans so that their learned incompetances make them more manageable. WAS 4.250 07:55, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
Disgustibus Non Disputandum Est
So what I got larned me — and I sure didn't learn it here, this box, this cell, this oubliette — is this:
- There is no shame in being disgusted with tastelessness.
- There is no shame in being ashamed of shameful things.
- There is no shame in turning away from shamelessness.
- The shame lies in trying to ignore the ignorance.
- The shame lies in trying to ennoble the ignoble.
- The shame lies in trying to embolden the lies.
Now that, that's a hue'n'cry'n shame.
Château d'If And Only d'If
Any Man Tilt'n' a WikiMill Spins a Night in d' SandBox
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