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<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>I call my house "Teenage Wasteland" because the place is crawling with the retards.<hr><br/> <br/> My house is not crawling with teenagers. At present, the boy is 13 and the girl just turned 20, so is not quite a teenager anymore. <br/> <br/> Still, it's interesting to have them a...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>At every opportunity, whether it be in real life or in the media, men are constantly being pillored and mocked as a sex - ranging from crude remarks about men's sexual inabilities to downright abuse about masculine nature in general. <hr> <br/> This is a true story from, I don't k...

Quote:Quote:<hr>I think square root of 1 is a much more interesting irrational number.<hr>
You are perhaps thinking of the square root of minus one, which is not an irrational number, but is imaginary.

The square root of one is one.

If that's not what you mean by power, then what do you mean?

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>have you ever personally experimented with the idea that your mind is a reality effecting tool (other than the obvious uses...planning, talking, writing, etc.)?<hr> <br/> Sit quietly with a small object, such as a paper clip, in front of you. Try to levitate it using only the powe...

Quote:Quote:<hr>The enlightened person is beyond all dualities, including that of truth and falseness.<hr>
Thanks for that thought, David. I will meditate on it today.

There is still some value in this forum.

<r>I don't see how homosexual marriage is any worse than heterosexual marriage.<br/> <br/> Not that heterosexual marriage is so great. The whole point of heterosexual marriage is making children, and with six billion people on the planet, we've got enough already. <br/> <br/> <a href="<URL url="http...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>Just awful. So sickenly sweet. Cute robots and the Yoda thing and Wookies and all the cute creatures in the cute bar scene. <br/> <br/> God sucking cute. <br/> <br/> Any more cute and I would have thrown up.<hr><br/> <br/> Even that was nothing compared to, what was it, the second...

Interesting. I've seen maybe five of Akiro Kurosawa's films, but I haven't seen The Hidden Fortress. I'll have to check it out some time.

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>To be clear, I was attempting to assign meaning to the idea of Pi and its forms - the golden spiral, the circle, the infinite sequence with no pattern. Do e, phi, and the square root of two hold such an enigmatic place in nature?<hr> <br/> Well, yeah, they do. That was my point. <...

<t><br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>Stephen Hawking says:<br/> <br/> Information about the quantum states in a region of spacetime may be somehow coded on the boundary of the region, which has two dimensions less.<hr><br/> Eh? <br/> It sounds like he's talking about Green's Theorem. <br/> But that would give O...

<r>Quote:Quote:<hr>Numerology? If you must.<hr> Just to be clear on this point: Mathematics is a useful tool, a symbolic language. As David Quinn pointed out, it has (very) limited application within philosophy.<br/> <br/> Numerology, on the other hand, is assigning meaning to digits. Numerology is ...

What sevens is talking about is not mathematics. It is numerology.

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>There are ways to test for truth and falsity. One way to begin testing is by explicitly assuming that the conditionals in question are contingently true, assuming absolute truth is a contradiction in the empirical case. Then one postulates a true conditional metalogic statement ab...

<r>That wasn't a very good link to what I had in mind. Maybe <a href="<URL url="http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:NBEQmcamMzsJ:www.colorado.edu/philosophy/vstenger/Nothing/Law.ppt"><LINK_TEXT text="http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:NB ... ng/Law.ppt">http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:NBEQmc...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>A computer simulation which is programmed to create the illusion of an "I" is not the same thing as the computer really having an "I". Surely, you must know that.<hr> <br/> <br/> David, this is one of those things that may seem intuitively obvious - but when you dig into it, there...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>The philosopher Immanuel Kant posited that Reality has a dual identity, which is the "nouminal and phenomenal".<hr> <br/> Yeah, he did say that, didn't he? <br/> <br/> The noumenal - the thing-in-itself - is an idea that just leads in the wrong direction. It reifies the thing as h...

<r>I take it from the <a href="<URL url="http://p079.ezboard.com/fezboardimportantannouncements.showMessage?topicID=523.topic%22%3Elatest"><LINK_TEXT text="http://p079.ezboard.com/fezboardimporta ... ic">latest">http://p079.ezboard.com/fezboardimportantannouncements.showMessage?topicID=523.topi...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>Can someone volunteer to me what you mean by this 'I' attachment you're referring to?<br/> <br/> How would me speak if me left out me i?<hr><br/> It can be an excellent exercise - both in speech and in writing - to avoid using "me" and "I". In the course of a day, you will see how...

<r>Quote:Quote:<hr>4. If the physical laws are time independent then the physical laws, by definition, did not arise "randomly".<hr> <br/> Are you aware of the idea of <a href="<URL url="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/symmetry-breaking/">http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/symmetry-breaking/</URL>"...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>Everything has a dual static and dynamic nature.<hr><br/> It seems that you are saying that "static" (or "dynamic") is not a property of a thing, but rather a property of how you look at it (perspective). In other words, nothing is inherently static (or dynamic). <br/> <br/> Mathe...

Quote:Quote:<hr>That could be true if "time" does not exist and reality is actually changeless.<hr>

Like all things that exist, time does not have inherent existence.

<r>DH: I guess we’re lucky they’ve given up on the flat-earth thing.<br/> <br/> Faizi: Only because it's not in The Bible. <br/> <br/> <br/> I thought it must have been in there somewhere, or why would Copernicus have gotten in so much trouble with the Church over it? <br/> <br/> Naturally, I ha...

<r>Yo Mookie, what are you, in Logic 101? <br/> <br/> Anyway, I disagree with your premises: <br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>[1] God, by definition, exists.<br/> [2] The definition is really explicit, right at the start of the Bible, written so simplistically that even a child could understand it. (He i...

<t>Since I ams an American citizen, I went and saw the new Star Wars movie, as required. (I will try to discuss it without giving away any plot points, for those who care about such things.) Star Wars is, of course, the official American mythology.<br/> <br/> The most interesting part of the movie, ...