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by Katy
Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:12 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: The enlightenment quiz
Replies: 78
Views: 17243

Re: The enlightenment quiz

Having been specifically requested to come back to answer this thread: 1. Emotions are: C. what you feel when you don't have any beer (though I confess to occasionally becoming horribly emotional when I have too much beer) 2. A "thing" is best defined as: B. an object, entity, quality, con...
by Katy
Thu Nov 22, 2007 3:17 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Is there an ideology of knowledge?
Replies: 136
Views: 38337

Re: Is there an ideology of knowledge?

Is a position of "checkmate" preferable to a random arrangement of chess pieces? What God has told you the "right" way to arrange the chess board of life? You arrange it however YOU like, whatever YOU value, but to claim that this is anything more than having it your way instead...
by Katy
Thu Nov 22, 2007 2:22 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Is there an ideology of knowledge?
Replies: 136
Views: 38337

Re: Is there an ideology of knowledge?

vicdan wrote:Yup. Neil is inventing new ethics, new game theory, new physics, new chess... anything but facing the intellectual bankruptcy of his delusion.

Wait! No, I get it. The board gets the utility from you no longer having a queen because it no longer has to support her weight.
by Katy
Thu Nov 22, 2007 1:48 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Is there an ideology of knowledge?
Replies: 136
Views: 38337

Re: Is there an ideology of knowledge?

Similarly, if I take your queen for a pawn, this is a zero-sum equation because that pawn might have become valuable to me later in the game. You don't know what utility I had for that pawn!!!
by Katy
Wed Nov 21, 2007 3:27 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Is there an ideology of knowledge?
Replies: 136
Views: 38337

Re: Is there an ideology of knowledge?

Seems like regardless of his intent, Nietzsche's been used to justify some pretty awful stuff.
by Katy
Fri Nov 09, 2007 9:31 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Missing thread
Replies: 5
Views: 2971

Re: Missing thread

Well, that's inconvenient. I had just logged on looking for the name of the geometry Victor used in his argument there.
by Katy
Thu Nov 08, 2007 3:26 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Cui Bono?
Replies: 467
Views: 55444

Re: Cui Bono?

My personal most direct encounter with what you call 'materialistic culture'? My family pushing me to get a PhD. Not to earn $$$, but to get a higher degree, even though PhD is actually associated with a drop in earning capacity vs. Master's degree. Do you have a link for that? Everything I had see...
by Katy
Thu Nov 08, 2007 1:03 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Cui Bono?
Replies: 467
Views: 55444

Re: Cui Bono?

ukraine?
by Katy
Thu Nov 08, 2007 12:55 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: The distress of rape
Replies: 93
Views: 19427

Re: The distress of rape

daybrown wrote: If you want to end rape, then look at those cultures which had rape rates of zero.
Name one.
by Katy
Thu Nov 08, 2007 4:06 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: The distress of rape
Replies: 93
Views: 19427

Re: The distress of rape

By the act of asking you to rape her, it is not rape, but role play. Big difference.
by Katy
Wed Nov 07, 2007 6:10 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: sexual aggression
Replies: 306
Views: 63465

Re: sexual aggression

So, following this logic again, if say, we were to suggest that the suffering of a rich guy who got robbed was partly his responsibility because of his own valuations, why can't we say that to women who are raped? Does a rich man invite theft because he's rich (I guess he might if he got there by t...
by Katy
Wed Nov 07, 2007 3:45 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Classic, local one-liners, and such
Replies: 10
Views: 4012

Re: Classic, local one-liners, and such

Shahrazad wrote:OK then, but up your arse.
Philosophaster wrote:Beer Enema!
by Katy
Wed Nov 07, 2007 2:20 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: The distress of rape
Replies: 93
Views: 19427

Re: The distress of rape

Unfortunately for whatever sex life you've had, you haven't learned that girls like NASTY. End of discussion. maybe the fact that you think all women like rough sex and the study Vic showed about women on the bridge/danger making people more attractive are linked? Women need danger to make you even...
by Katy
Wed Nov 07, 2007 10:54 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: sexual aggression
Replies: 306
Views: 63465

Re: sexual aggression

The herd behavior of Nat, Philo and...... Victor? Yep, I can see that group getting together and deciding to go lynch someone who didn't completely deserve it. I think this thread wins for most disturbing Genius thread ever. Somewhere along the lines, I think you've lost the line between fantasy and...
by Katy
Wed Nov 07, 2007 6:17 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: sexual aggression
Replies: 306
Views: 63465

Re: sexual aggression

*crickets*





Though Dan can't get all the blame. How many men do we have reading this thread and only Philo and Laird (neither of whom "fit in" with the philosophy preached here) have commented on it?
by Katy
Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:50 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Is this possible?
Replies: 98
Views: 22327

Re: Is this possible?

Sorry, what? Who was "shunning having a bit of fun?" I wish I could avoid being "the ass" here, but why solving such a problem would be important escapes me. While you have every right to determine the criteria by which one might earn your intellectual respect, I guess I'd have ...
by Katy
Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:35 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Is this possible?
Replies: 98
Views: 22327

Re: Is this possible?

Certainly the former administrators of the board where this fine thread is found can't be shunning having a bit of fun on a message board? This thread was originally in the science and math forum, until Kevin dumped all those threads into here, so it did make a bit more sense in that context. But, n...
by Katy
Wed Oct 31, 2007 6:50 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Is this possible?
Replies: 98
Views: 22327

Re: Is this possible?

They serve the same purpose as sudoku puzzles and crosswords. Things to do to pass time that aren't "watch TV" or "sit on internet" There's nothing wrong with them anymore than there's something wrong with watching a movie.

It's called amusement.
by Katy
Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:25 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: The Psychopath Test
Replies: 69
Views: 21401

Re: The Psychopath Test

But you see, it's not about giving humanity knowledge. It's about knowledge itself, atomically. It just so happens that both Prometheus and Lucifer gave it to people, but that's not the pattern, that's purely incidental. Wait, I think I just had two half-thoughts that combined in a weird way to not...
by Katy
Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:09 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: The Psychopath Test
Replies: 69
Views: 21401

Re: The Psychopath Test

Whether you count it as wisdom or knowledge is secondary. IMO it's all related -- just different aspects of the same thing; I see wisdom as being able to apply knowledge with honesty (intellectual honesty), which itself is a form of knowledge, i.e. knowledge of one's self. Furthermore, Odin sacrifi...
by Katy
Mon Oct 29, 2007 12:50 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: The Psychopath Test
Replies: 69
Views: 21401

Re: The Psychopath Test

yeah, Katy had come the closest to getting it on her own. And you didn't miss Forethought, you go that. You missed Venus. Actually, my biggest problem was since I'd always learned Odin received wisdom, rather than knowledge (the ability to use runes as opposed to just the knowledge of them) the con...
by Katy
Sat Oct 27, 2007 2:52 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: The Psychopath Test
Replies: 69
Views: 21401

Re: The Psychopath Test

Nice Nat. Except that I distinctly remember telling you the answer when I figured it out... (well I got Venus and Wednesday and got help with Forethought)
by Katy
Sun Oct 21, 2007 6:02 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: The Psychopath Test
Replies: 69
Views: 21401

Re: The Psychopath Test

Jamesh wrote: His missus only allows him sex on Wednesday, or perhaps he is thinking of some fella he fancies who works at his Uni on wednesdays.
that would be the brick wall striking again...
by Katy
Sat Oct 20, 2007 4:40 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: The Psychopath Test
Replies: 69
Views: 21401

Re: The Psychopath Test

Dan, I don't understand how you missed it, given that I'd told you the answer last time I brought it up. Sher, you have heard it before. About a year ago or so I posted it at FP. You didn't get it that time.
by Katy
Sat Oct 20, 2007 7:28 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Race, gender, sexual orientation, intelligence, what else?
Replies: 58
Views: 17412

Re: Race, gender, sexual orientation, intelligence, what else?

One could. one would then still have to contend with the fact that we picked a fairly arbitrary groupings of characteristics in order to delineate races. We picked geographical and cultural differences, then started identifying physical characteristics that showed the differences between these area...