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by Tobitobi
Mon Sep 06, 2010 1:29 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Ethical Dilemmas
Replies: 0
Views: 2876

Ethical Dilemmas

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.
by Tobitobi
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...
by Tobitobi
Tue Jul 06, 2010 7:23 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: A Great Movie
Replies: 7
Views: 2182

Re: A Great Movie

uncledote wrote:
Tobitobi wrote: Have you seen "Jackie Brown"?
Yip - found it boring. Double, triple crossing boring.
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.

Have you seen "The White Ribbon"?
by Tobitobi
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.
by Tobitobi
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...
by Tobitobi
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'...
by Tobitobi
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 ...
by Tobitobi
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 ...
by Tobitobi
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...
by Tobitobi
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...
by Tobitobi
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...
by Tobitobi
Wed Jun 16, 2010 12:14 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Abiogenesis
Replies: 13
Views: 1296

Re: Abiogenesis

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.
Interesting! Care to refine? [btw this isn't a trap]
by Tobitobi
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...
by Tobitobi
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 ...
by Tobitobi
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...
by Tobitobi
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?