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by ExpectantlyIronic
Wed Apr 11, 2007 4:00 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Zionist feminisation of society
Replies: 72
Views: 11759

Firstly, prior to 9/11 NORAD had all eyes at things coming in from outside the country. The idea that passenger jets might be hijacked and used as missiles by terrorists occurred to very few people, and I doubt even they would have put money on such a thing actually happening. Secondly, there was a ...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:17 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Nietszsche on Principle of Non-Contradiction
Replies: 18
Views: 2485

Diebert, If you'd read back you'll see I wasn't just talking about language really (sentences, as languages, are an expression of an evolved consciousness doing its 'thing). Fair enough. I think it's time you define 'sensible world' to me. It doesn't make any sense to me. Do you mean a material wor...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Mon Apr 09, 2007 4:14 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Nietszsche on Principle of Non-Contradiction
Replies: 18
Views: 2485

Diebert, Language, or the whole field of linguistics is just a part of semiotics, which has to do with 'how meaning occurs' in anything that is expressed. Which would be fantastic if we were talking about semiotics. We weren't. I think the term "language" was being used quite clearly. Isn't it obvi...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Mon Apr 09, 2007 2:44 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: September 11, 2001
Replies: 177
Views: 40618

Richard, The NIST photo you allude to was faked. So now the National Institute of Standards and Technology was in on the conspiracy as well? The implausibility of the conspiracy theories comes primarily from the fact that too many people would have to be in on it. People with nothing to gain from s...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Mon Apr 09, 2007 2:16 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: September 11, 2001
Replies: 177
Views: 40618

I tend to think it more likely that small fires took down a skyscraper then the alternative of a massive conspiracy taking place. Incidentally, I don't think it was small fires that took down WTC 7, given that the south side of the building looks pretty f**ked given the amount of smoke billowing fro...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Sun Apr 08, 2007 5:34 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Emotional experts
Replies: 14
Views: 1849

Shah,
(1) Understanding your own emotions (even as they unfold)
I've never understood what is meant by this sort of thing. How would one go about understanding their emotions?
by ExpectantlyIronic
Sun Apr 08, 2007 5:20 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Skepticism
Replies: 20
Views: 3089

Is it possible to doubt the existence of a square circle? What exactly would we be doubting in such a circumstance? If we can't say what it is that we're calling impossible, then it stands to reason that we aren't talking about anything at all.
by ExpectantlyIronic
Sat Apr 07, 2007 5:06 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: sense, senseless, and nonsense (understanding Wittgenstein)
Replies: 71
Views: 9328

Leyla, What particular assumptions without sufficient evidence concern you in Freud? Almost everything he said really. On what grounds did he claim that the Oedipus complex was universal? To demonstrate that such a theory has scientific merit, you'd have to perform a rather large sociological study...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Wed Apr 04, 2007 6:48 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Pink Elephants and Coke
Replies: 4
Views: 829

Katy, OK but say you’re in this situation, except person 2 never shows up. Were you engaged in coke drinking if you never find out you weren’t engaged in coke drinking and continue to live your life believing you were engaged in coke drinking? In the situation I described, it was stated quite c...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Wed Apr 04, 2007 3:36 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: meaning to...
Replies: 11
Views: 2154

I think ICGA is attempting to use the Socratic method (as someone suggested to him that he should). That would explain his sudden love of asking questions. It's apparent that he isn't doing it effectively (how can you on a message board?), and that using it makes you annoying enough that people will...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Wed Apr 04, 2007 2:34 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Question for the intellectually mature.
Replies: 95
Views: 10421

Carl, You're stunned because you jumped to the wrong conclusion, then had an emotional reaction based on your false definition, which clouded your reason. I didn't have a false definition of anything (whatever that means). I took your usage of "then being" to be applicable to "those in real life wh...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:51 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Nietszsche on Principle of Non-Contradiction
Replies: 18
Views: 2485

Diebert, Perhaps your assumption here is worthy of examining more closely. It's not an "assumption" per se, but rather an abductive inference from the available data. Sentences, as languages, are an expression of an evolved consciousness doing its 'thing'. We experience 'life' through same consciou...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:04 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: eccentric?
Replies: 34
Views: 3816

What's wrong with being eccentric? Unless, of course, you marry a dolphin. That's just nuts. Eccentricity usually comes about due to creativity, and creativity is the prime ingredient of intelligence. I say that folks should embrace those harmless quirks that make them unique.
by ExpectantlyIronic
Wed Apr 04, 2007 9:29 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: simple...
Replies: 59
Views: 8134

Why do we form beliefs if we're limited in knowledge and understanding? What is knowledge beyond a justified belief that we happen to think is true (the Gettier problem aside)? There's more out there to know then we could ever learn in our lifetime. I think it's actually quite rare for people to ha...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:52 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Question for the intellectually mature.
Replies: 95
Views: 10421

MindExpansion, If the problems haven't changed then....? Science has definitely progressed. Seems to me, philosophers just exercise their thoughts without really acquiring anything but more Questions. Meanwhile Scientists do and cure....You must know what I mean. Sure I do. Science has two things g...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Wed Apr 04, 2007 1:38 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: the weather
Replies: 26
Views: 2864

Carl, No. There is nothing incorrect in saying that generally, day to day, the weather probably affects me more than I know. That's not what you said though. Sure, I incorrectly guessed at what you meant to say, but that only demonstrates my point further. If you aren't prepared to make logically c...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:46 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Point of no return?
Replies: 30
Views: 3899

Katy, If it can affect reality, it must be a part of reality. What isn't necessarily a part of reality? The actualization of an imagined scenario. It is necessarily a part of reality that I am currently typing on my keyboard (for me at the moment), but it isn't necessarily part of reality that I wi...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:53 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Question for the intellectually mature.
Replies: 95
Views: 10421

Katy, If you (like I) find Descartes to be a patronizing asshole who is making you hate what you're doing move on to something else. That's actually great advice (expecially as it applies to Descartes). Really? I've heard "fake it 'till you make it" repeatedly... mostly out of the church who keep t...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Tue Apr 03, 2007 5:29 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Question for the intellectually mature.
Replies: 95
Views: 10421

Carl, Seek those in real life who are more astute than you in the ways you wish to be, and learn from them. Learn by watching, then emulating, then being. ... You just suggested that people be poseurs. I didn't know that anyone in real life actually thought like that. I'm stunned. That's about the ...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Tue Apr 03, 2007 4:35 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: the weather
Replies: 26
Views: 2864

Carl, What's clever about it? It was relevant, true, and amusing (to me). No, but it might be honest. Especially, if worded thusly: the weather probably has more impact on my life than I realize. Realized. You mean "the weather probably had more impact on my life than I realized." What, you change ...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Tue Apr 03, 2007 2:15 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Nietszsche on Principle of Non-Contradiction
Replies: 18
Views: 2485

I'm not a big fan of Nietzsche, but the principle of non-contradiction is rather interesting. What does it mean to violate it? "There is a hamster there, and there isn't a hamster there" seems to be an incoherent statement, but it is so obviously incoherent that we should suspect that anyone saying ...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Tue Apr 03, 2007 1:54 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Point of no return?
Replies: 30
Views: 3899

Katy, I don't think you can say anyone's reality is false. I tend to disagree. I think you can say that someones take on what is real is indeed mistaken, and furthermore that you ought to do so if you happen to think as much (without ignoring basic etiquette of course). If I see pink elephants, and...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Tue Apr 03, 2007 1:27 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: the weather
Replies: 26
Views: 2864

Carl, That's rather circular, isn't it. How would you actually know how much impact it is having? What he said was just a clever tautology. It would make no sense for someone to say "As far as I can tell, the weather has more impact on my life then I realize" from a logical standpoint. What you rea...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Tue Apr 03, 2007 1:02 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Question for the intellectually mature.
Replies: 95
Views: 10421

If you're interested in philosophy, then there are a great deal of works on its history that are well worth reading. The problems that philosophy is concerned with haven't changed much since the time of Plato, and to understand a lot of modern thought on the subject, you really do have to have some ...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Sun Apr 01, 2007 5:17 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: the weather
Replies: 26
Views: 2864

You are using the word "say" to mean "communication." I don't think anyone here is thinking Nature talks to us (although it is possible, as many Native Americans would attest). I'm totally down with the idea that clouds have rich inner lives, and a deep desire to chat it up with us ground walkers. ...