This is a bit of rambling, stream of consciousness stuff that all seemed to crash together in the last few days. <\/p>\n
Pigweed and I have been playing trivia recently, and our team isn’t that bad. Some of the other teams are wicked smart. Except when it comes to the Bible. <\/p>\n
“Name the five books attributed to the major prophets in the Protestant Bible” should be an easy one, but … nobody else got it. <\/p>\n
It seems that when people know a lot about something, either (1) they assume other people know it too, or (2) they think people are stupid if they don’t also know it. The first is ridiculous, and the second is unfair. There are simply too many things to know about in the world. <\/p>\n
Anyway, I had a strong feeling that we should study the Maryland counties before trivia on Monday, and — what do you know — there was a question about Maryland counties. <\/p>\n
That sort of thing has happened to me a lot in my life, and it’s not all self-reported. When I played Dungeons and Dragons as a teenager, my friends said I had an uncanny ability to guess what was coming. I know perfectly well that this is all some combination of confirmation bias and\/or accidentally picking up clues I wasn’t consciously aware of. But it’s easy to see how somebody with similar experiences could be misled into believing they were very lucky, or had a gift. <\/p>\n
With all this in mind, a professional colleague discovered that I’d written some books, and for some odd reason was drawn to Awkward Ollie and the Stolen Banana,<\/a> which touches on similar themes. <\/p>\n Again, confirmation bias. <\/p>\n We experience so many things in a day, we can’t pay attention to all of them. But one thing draws your attention, for whatever reason, and then your mind is primed to watch for similar occurrences. What a surprise, you see the similar occurrence, and if you’re the superstitious sort, you believe it’s a sign. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is a bit of rambling, stream of consciousness stuff that all seemed to crash together in the last few days. Pigweed and I have been playing trivia recently, and our team isn’t that bad. Some of the other teams are wicked smart. Except when it comes to the Bible. “Name the five books attributed … Continue reading “The minor prophets”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1966,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions\/1966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}