Just interested in hearing some mind blowing moral dilemmas. Don't fret to go into as much detail as you need to get the point across.
Also, feel free to respond to any dilemmas posted that have caught your interest.
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- Mon Sep 06, 2010 1:29 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Ethical Dilemmas
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2876
- Thu Jul 08, 2010 4:33 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: A Great Movie
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2182
Re: A Great Movie
I believe that art must in fact 'exaggerate' life and give it a personality. This is the nature of symbolic reality: refine, make cartoonish, and then return in a format so basic that even a dunce can add x and y and get z. You wouldn't want literal art... would you? that really depends. Great movi...
- Tue Jul 06, 2010 7:23 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: A Great Movie
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2182
Re: A Great Movie
screw that. Were you biased about the film before you saw it? I find it interesting that you'd give it a chance despite if that were the case.uncledote wrote:Yip - found it boring. Double, triple crossing boring.Tobitobi wrote: Have you seen "Jackie Brown"?
Have you seen "The White Ribbon"?
- Tue Jun 22, 2010 10:07 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Fun fact thread
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5298
Re: Fun fact thread
If ever you were to lick a stamp, you'd be consuming about 1/10 of a calorie.
- Sun Jun 20, 2010 10:56 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: A Great Movie
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2182
Re: A Great Movie
Can't stand Tarantino's comic book / laddish approach to making films. Have you seen "Jackie Brown"? Pulp Fiction was funny and over the top, but its not any kind of reference for how to make a great movie. Pulp Fiction is a great example [perhaps the best]. Its plot is indecipherable, and its stru...
- Sun Jun 20, 2010 3:11 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: A Great Movie
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2182
A Great Movie
I have a few questions/ideas regarding how to make the 'effective' movie. The 'respective' is amusing and structurally on par , but is there an actual 'method' in making a great movie, rather than a standard one? Take Quinton Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" for example [for argument's sake, let'...
- Thu Jun 17, 2010 1:54 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Can one study too much?
- Replies: 88
- Views: 12935
Re: Can one study too much?
Yes, one can study 'too' much. In the respect of time consumption, one can study too much to have a "life". In the respect of one's capability to perceive with coherence, one can leap beyond their ability to pay the required attention e.g. Regarding if one's brain can actually explode from studying ...
- Wed Jun 16, 2010 11:17 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Fun fact thread
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5298
Re: Fun fact thread
Don't know if this can be considered a 'little known fact' rather than just a 'fun fact', because i've actually learned about this on the internet. The forty-sixth word in the King James Version of Psalm 46 is "shake," while the word that is forty-sixth from the end is "spear." At the time Psalm 46 ...
- Wed Jun 16, 2010 10:56 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Abiogenesis
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1296
Re: Abiogenesis
I think if you have an actual point here you should just make it, because I'm not quite seeing it thus far. Evolution does not refute or disprove or what-have-you - creationism or intelligent design in the sense of their claims for life's origins . Evolutionary theory makes their claims about bio-d...
- Wed Jun 16, 2010 12:57 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Abiogenesis
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1296
Re: Abiogenesis
Well, it's not that complicated: creationism and intelligent design are (aside from the same thing in reality) attempts to explain both the origins of life and bio-diversity, so both evolutionary theory and abiogenesis have their place in the debate - such that it is. Lets assume the said arguement...
- Wed Jun 16, 2010 12:32 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Fun fact thread
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5298
Fun fact thread
Most presumptuous people constantly feel the need to compensate for their lack of proficiency. Consider this a stress reliever. Ever pondered about how much less informed the worlds around you are in comparison? Take advantage; post a fun fact. Rules: Unless you absolutely have to, do not research a...
- Wed Jun 16, 2010 12:14 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Abiogenesis
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1296
Re: Abiogenesis
Interesting! Care to refine? [btw this isn't a trap]Dan Rowden wrote:Whether they can exist in the same argument in harmony rather depends on the argument in question. It's entirely possible that they can depending on that argument. They can and do in the "argument" against creationism and intelligent design.
- Wed Jun 16, 2010 11:13 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Abiogenesis
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1296
Re: Abiogenesis
Evolution and Abiogenisis are about different things. They are related, certainly, but are ultimately different disciplines. The former is essentially about explaining diversity and changes through which this occurs; the latter is about origins. Evolution is not about the origin of life. Maybe I sh...
- Wed Jun 16, 2010 2:36 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Einstein's Riddle!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4089
Re: Einstein's Riddle!
The German owns the fish. I drew grids in paper and solved it by filling them in one by one according to the information given. I don't know if Einstein was right about the top 2% of world population being able to do it, since anyone who works with tables and stats a lot will be able to solve this ...
- Tue Jun 15, 2010 10:29 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Einstein's Riddle!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4089
Einstein's Riddle!
This was super fun, and admittingly rather hard. Here are the rules: 1. You must clearly explain your logic in how you figured it out 2. You must not under any circumstance use programs like e.g. Microsoft Word to map out a strategy 3. No spoilers [for those who have given up, or have encountered th...
- Tue Jun 15, 2010 9:25 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Abiogenesis
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1296
Abiogenesis
In the ongoing debates of human evolution, should one truly rule out the relevance of abiogenesis?