GENIUS FORUMS

dejavu wrote:Did any of my Australian brothers and sisters.....

and

dejavu wrote:My fellow countrymen....

and yet:

dejavu wrote:With any luck, Sue'll be along in her pick-up to dump her guts on Woman too!

Beingof1 wrote:Are you still trying to push my buttons?

Those were buttons!!!?????

But you told me they were......and I thought you were........fuuuuuccccckkkkk!!!!! ;)

Beingof1 wrote:There is a vast difference between innocence and holiness.

Innocence has no choice.

Ooooooh so pithy! You must be very proud!

Science is founded on skepticism, "Correlation does NOT imply causation" is the motto of science. Its not slapping together fanciful ideas and calling it a day. Its founded on testing everything to the n-th possible degree. Science is founded on the fact that you can't make simple inferen...

Yes it is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlatio ... _causation

Animus wrote:This is very important IJC: Correlation does NOT imply causation.

Science is built on correlation implying causation.

Howdy Jason, When you just disappear , where do you go? What do you mean? When do I "disappear"? You mean when I don't post for a while? The 'conversation' (more a monologue I realize, except for some tepid observations from Diebert which serve more to derail than anything else) has helpe...

For centuries it has been known that human eyes, like the teeth of some rodents, continue to grow up until death. And, just like rodent's teeth, the ever-growing eyes must be regularly trimmed back to a manageable size to prevent them from interfering with everyday tasks. Until recently ophthalmolo...

prince wrote:Breathing is suicide

Not if you're breathing the right gases(or possibly even some liquids.)

My stance on killing animals and plants is that we can either do it now, or we can wait until nature does it. Why is letting a cow, chicken or fish die naturally any less terrible the cutting it's life short? Animals are going to die anyway, so it doesn't matter if we kill them, they are going to s...

Alex T. Jacob wrote:I don't think I have anything more to contribute so will now retire back into the deep night of ignorance and there sleeeeeeeep.

It was fun and interesting.

Don't go yet! I haven't finished with ya! :)

I assume you believe that what you've written above is also the product of reasoning. Reasoning which has itself been justified by reason. Q: Why choose reason? A: Because my reasoning tells me to choose reason. Don't you see any problem with this circular justification? ^##$*& $$#$#@# $#$*!@#@...

Essentially, as I understand it, the anthropic principle argument is that: the universe must have the particular order/laws/characteristics that it has, or else we humans would not exist as we do, and thus we would not be able to ask the question of why the universe has the particular order/laws/ch...

Nick, can you give me some concrete examples of employment positions/professions, from the real world, that fall within these "capitalist" and "worker" categories. E.g. CEO, manager, subcontractor, small business owner, public servant, factory worker etc, and tell me which catego...

I do not use the word philistine , but rather uneducated and preliterate . There is a solution: gaining education and literacy. One does that through wide reading. Beginning to become familiar with the bases that the Occidental structure is built on. As people fall further and further away from suc...

OK, that was a bit of an over-exaggeration, but your post was jam packed full of rapid jumps between multiple unexplained streams of thought. Or maybe it's just that I'm a poor little philistine who is incapable of deciphering and recognizing the grand historical narratives and discourses to which y...

Why do you refuse to deal with possibility of the world being a dream/hallucination/illusion?" What makes you think that I don't see things that way? Existence, the fact that things exist, the weird contrast (an impossible contrast) between existence and non-existence, is just too strange of a...

It comes down to what we mean by "truth". If we define truth to be "the objective view of the way things really are", then it becomes immediately apparent that reason is far more suited to the task than the emotions. Emotion is biased by definition. Emotion springs out of people...

If reasoning justifies the use of reason, then why is it any less valid for emotions to justify the use of emotion?

"My reasoning tells me that reason is the path to truth."

"My emotions tell me that emotion is the path to truth."

David Quinn wrote:

Jason wrote:

David Quinn wrote:You should never accept something as being true based on your feelings. You need to have far higher standards than that.

Is it reasoning that tells you this?

Absolutely.

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So would it be correct to say then, that your reasoning is telling you that reasoning is the correct method to use?

David Quinn wrote:You should never accept something as being true based on your feelings. You need to have far higher standards than that.

Is it reasoning that tells you this?

Do you believe an intelligent designer would also be capable of creating such unstructured, lawless chaos? I'm imagining some of the "splatter" abstract paintings... I don't see why not, given sufficient creative powers. No one would be around to ponder the seeming lack of order, though. ...

I've been considering the relationship between creative talent and motivation, and it seems to me that some of the greatest inventions have emerged from the human mind with very unwhole motivations. For instance: Much of our modern technology has been invented by the great militarys of the world, w...

Alex T. Jacob wrote:Wait, can't I become an atheist apparatchik if I want to? A servant of the Machine? "A brat in a vat" as Jason would have it? ;-)

Why do you refuse to deal with possibility of the world being a dream/hallucination/illusion?

Alex, how do you know that you're right, and the "snotty brats" are wrong? Maybe you're the one with the mental illness, and speaking from a state of self-delusion? Maybe you're a brain in a vat. Maybe you're dreaming. Maybe you're hallucinating. Maybe you're just plain old conventional wr...