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- Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:02 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Spiro
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3013
In that case, I must basically be left-brained: good at languages and at math, and not good at philosophical thought. Most people are---females far more often. You're not hopeless though. Some old spiritual Hindu guys used to meditate and practice breathing exercises to get deeper into their right ...
- Tue Mar 27, 2007 1:09 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Spiro
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3013
Just to be clear, would you say that the former are better with their left brain, and the latter with their right brain? Yes, that's right (correct). As a side note, I read a study decades ago that showed that math processing is done with the left brain, as if math symbols are decoded by the brain ...
- Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:09 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Spiro
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3013
Wisdom falls under another IQ. Since our definition of IQ provides an unchanging idea, then we must look at wisdom as if there is another intellegence: experience. Many of us refer to common sense. If someone has an adept skill at mathematics and someone else has an equal amount of skill in their c...
- Sat Mar 24, 2007 9:15 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MALES AND FEMALES
- Replies: 151
- Views: 18180
All of the above. + The trouble is this stuff tends to decend into a petty gender war squabble when it's not about that. It's about consciousness and the degree to which behaviours reflect that. Most of the criticisms you cited in this post are the stuff of petty gender disputes rather than consciou...
- Sat Mar 24, 2007 9:01 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Global Warming
- Replies: 182
- Views: 112076
1. I just know. This is the second time you've tried to use this as an argument in this forum. I'm begining to think you don't know the definition of science since "just know" is what fundamentalists say, not what scientists say. Here, let me help you with that definition a bit I put 5 points there...
- Sat Mar 24, 2007 8:42 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Do you hate life as much as I do?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 725
Re: Do you hate life as much as I do?
I am interested in knowing how many people out there hate their fuckin lives. Through out the years of studing theologies I have never been so surrendered to the idea of death. What could possibly be more satifying than wanting to have death at your door? Please, give me a break, I don't need a lec...
- Sat Mar 24, 2007 8:16 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Hypothetical Science Fiction Scenario
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3876
*Ryan returns with his Spock mask back in order* There has always been mental illness. How do you know this? You don't, you're guessing, you haven't even looked into that. I can say, "There's always been people," and while that's somewhat true, it doesn't rationally defend any position if I were tr...
- Fri Mar 23, 2007 10:42 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MALES AND FEMALES
- Replies: 151
- Views: 18180
Yes, young men today need good role models. Someone of the ilk of Oscar Wilde would definitely help begin the forming of true masculine minded men. Yunno, I've been meaning to read some of his stuff for a year, just haven't gotten round to it yet. Anything you could recommend? Sadly, men like him a...
- Fri Mar 23, 2007 8:39 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MALES AND FEMALES
- Replies: 151
- Views: 18180
Elizabeth, not bad. You caught a couple tactics there---but I really don't know where the hell you got half of the others. As I suspected, you do tend to think everyone's out to get you, hey? Male vipers in every shadow... Logical fallacy? We were supposed to be discussing things logically here? Sin...
- Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:01 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Global Warming
- Replies: 182
- Views: 112076
Why do you have such great faith in that if we leave nature alone, everything will be alright? 1. I just know. 2. Nature is but a franchise for Life on this planet---untold eons of experience perfected its checks and balances, far beyond our comprehension. It knows what it's doing. Left alone it wo...
- Fri Mar 23, 2007 6:12 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: After Death
- Replies: 96
- Views: 10519
Re: After Death
Maggots devour my flesh, returning my atoms to Nature, and whatever energy is there goes, returns...somewhere.Steve1114 wrote: What are your views of the afterlife?
The quest for permanence is folly; it is feminine.
- Fri Mar 23, 2007 6:06 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Esoterix - the Romantic
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2821
- Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:56 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: BC Health Pays to Restore Man's Foreskin
- Replies: 54
- Views: 8034
Esoterix, I think you're viewing circumcision as a natural thing humans have always done, like cutting the umbilical cords, a necessary act of birthing. Nothing could be further from the truth. In this thread, I got into a bit of where this originated. It's a series of residual cultural practices br...
- Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:29 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Esoterix - the Romantic
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2821
Well, he has stated that romance is something he despises, so it's likely an interest the same way that some are interested in things they despise (like I've been with trying to understand why people pursue money and possessions; corporate whores are an interest of mine, but that doesn't mean I dig ...
- Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:14 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Global Warming
- Replies: 182
- Views: 112076
i mean, there's water coming in from the icecaps, yes, but... that's ice melting. Think about it. Take a glass and fill it with ice. Fill it with water. Watch it sit there. Let the ice melt. Look at the water level. Water level went down, not up. Why is it different on earth? Under normal circumsta...
- Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:49 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MALES AND FEMALES
- Replies: 151
- Views: 18180
Dad was a bit more of a preacher than a doer. A lot of that had to do with the fact that he worked away from home, (*) busting his ass for the social status quo that said he had to earn enough money so his kids could keep up with the Jones's. When he came home for the weekend, usually every other, ...
- Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:21 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MALES AND FEMALES
- Replies: 151
- Views: 18180
Elizabeth, responding to yours in both threads... You're right: this is becoming tedious, and quite petty---and obviously it sounds like whining (as you say, "playing the role of the poor put-upon male"), which is another point I just made regarding another thread: A man cannot speak up about anythi...
- Wed Mar 21, 2007 3:11 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: explicit nudes in art
- Replies: 73
- Views: 10747
Wolf Boy, Your diatribes bore me, so that's just fine. Sure they do---that's why you hung around with the fucking browser open for so long and had been checking endlessly, hour after hour, while posting here and there your little sniffs and pouts and snide remarks; you either wanted revenge for the...
- Wed Mar 21, 2007 2:44 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Hypothetical Science Fiction Scenario
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3876
That doesn’t mean definitely. It was a necessary stage, but I suspect our way of life will keep on advancing. It wasn't a stage, it was a gradual adaptation to climatic change---it's what happens when humans directly and intimately connected to the natural order of life on this planet undergo pro...
- Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:36 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Global Warming
- Replies: 182
- Views: 112076
hahah you're kidding me. Global warming's a phony hype, all those scientists are getting new nice jobs and they want to keep it that way. You're obviously young or from a hot climate, or both; it has been warming and it's continuing. Those in northern regions feel it the most because winters have s...
- Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:47 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MALES AND FEMALES
- Replies: 151
- Views: 18180
Esoterix, some great (and at times amusing) points there; I'm not replying point by point because I don't disagree with you. Except to say that it sounds like your dad was a clever fellow---with some of that good ol wisdom that modern man has given up on in favour of skin cream, double lattes, and t...
- Tue Mar 20, 2007 8:52 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: explicit nudes in art
- Replies: 73
- Views: 10747
No, not generally. There are some, but unless it is very out of the norm, it doesn't matter. By "very out of the norm" I mean 2 inches (or 5 cm) or something so big that she's going to be afraid that he's going to hurt her with that. How do you know this? No, the reason is primarily because guys ta...
- Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:22 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: explicit nudes in art
- Replies: 73
- Views: 10747
No, I don't blame. It's an irrational thing to do. Sounds good. I wouldn't skim over 'the joking' too lightly. Human laughter is generally rooted in malice, directed at an object that deviates from what instinctively feels normal. True. It's sometimes exactly that---most sarcasm is just polite mali...
- Tue Mar 20, 2007 5:41 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: explicit nudes in art
- Replies: 73
- Views: 10747
What does "tl;dr" mean? "Too long, didn't read." Bingo. I was making a point. Carl, I doubt you're seriously interested in discussing things intelligently, which is why I'm here. If you want to go to some other forum so we can poke each other in the eye, post a link or I could suggest one. (I'm not...
- Tue Mar 20, 2007 4:28 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Hypothetical Science Fiction Scenario
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3876
Nordicvs, This hypothetical scenario rests on the following possibilities: 1. It is possible that technology will continue to be a significant and vital part of our economy as it is now. And based on current trends, it will continue to become cheaper, more efficient, easier to manufacture to the po...