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iambiguous wrote: ↑Wed Oct 26, 2022 5:25 am
Also this:
The thread was started at the end of 2019. That was, what, about 150 weeks ago? So, at about a thousand views a week, it should have about 150,000 views. It has half that many. Since I started posting here, the views have in fact risen significantly. Go ahead, keep track of the weekly tally.
On the other hand, if, in fact, many members here rally to your own point of view and "logically" stop clicking on the thread, the view count should plummet. And, boy, will I be embarrassed then!!!
What you're missing in your statistical "analysis" is the fact that this thread would sit dormant where nobody would post for over a week. When someone posts like a farmer putting up a fence on his Ozzy property that is as large as France, curious people like to see what f**k is going on - hence your thread count. Quantity certainly does not correlate to quality in your case..
Hey, not to worry. Once others here join you in embracing the logic that posting 6 quotes at a time from the great minds past and present instead of one of your own is ruining the thread, they will stop clicking on the thread altogether. The views will then plummet from a 1,000 plus a week to a mere handful a day.
Don't be daft. What part of curious people will click into a thread whenever there is a post, it's like opening a Christmas present..they can't help themselves. To be honest when I have looked at your own comments relating to the quotes I did think it rather clever, and if I get bored enough, I may jump in to your posts and have my own take..
Just REALLY pissed of that you have commandered this thread, whereas it was interesting when someone would find a single quote worthy of a post - it's like Christmas once a year rather than a splurge of Christmass every friggin day - would render Christmas rather boring.
Clearly you are being rather vain and wanting the huge "viewership" to correlate to your own splurge of posts, otherwise you would have done the right thing and created a thread of your own with an apt title. Oh well, such is the level of narcissism in some people.
What you're missing in your statistical "analysis" is the fact that this thread would sit dormant where nobody would post for over a week. When someone posts like a farmer putting up a fence on his Ozzy property that is as large as France, curious people like to see what f**k is going on - hence your thread count. Quantity certainly does not correlate to quality in your case..
Hey, not to worry. Once others here join you in embracing the logic that posting 6 quotes at a time from the great minds past and present instead of one of your own is ruining the thread, they will stop clicking on the thread altogether. The views will then plummet from a 1,000 plus a week to a mere handful a day.
Don't be daft. What part of curious people will click into a thread whenever there is a post, it's like opening a Christmas present..they can't help themselves. To be honest when I have looked at your own comments relating to the quotes I did think it rather clever, and if I get bored enough, I may jump in to your posts and have my own take..
Just REALLY pissed of that you have commandered this thread, whereas it was interesting when someone would find a single quote worthy of a post - it's like Christmas once a year rather than a splurge of Christmass every friggin day - would render Christmas rather boring.
Clearly you are being rather vain and wanting the huge "viewership" to correlate to your own splurge of posts, otherwise you would have done the right thing and created a thread of your own with an apt title. Oh well, such is the level of narcissism in some people.
Where to even begin regarding how illogical this is!!!
Humane people don't start revolutions, they start libraries. And cemeteries.
Though there are exceptions.
All you need for a movie is a gun and a cat.
Though there are exceptions.
Communism existed once, during two 45 minute half-times, when Honved, from Budapest, won over England by 6-3. The English played individually, and the Hungarians, collectively.
You know, if you want to count that.
One can enjoy existence, not life.
Anyone here manage to enjoy both...loathe both?
One might almost say that to live in society today is something like living inside an enormous comic strip.
And, no, not just Doonesbury.
There is only one way to be an intellectual revolutionary, and that is to give up being an intellectual.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Don't get me started, right?
It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millenia.
For example, from the cradle to the grave.
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a God or not.
Well, that too perhaps.
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
Not counting what I don't need here, of course.
The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.
MAGA!!!
For starters.
To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.
Suppose we concede that if I had been born of Muslim parents in Morocco rather than Christian parents in Michigan, my beliefs would be quite different.
Nope, let's not go there, right?
The mere fact that a belief is unpopular at present...is interesting from a sociological point of view but evidentially irrelevant.
What I believe for example.
...there is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism.
Please. This is begging for a context.
In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees; the religious life is a venture; foolish and debilitating error is a permanent possibility.
A leap of faith, let's call it. And, for most, the blinder the better.
The Christian philosopher has a perfect right to the point of view and prephilosophical assumptions he brings to philosophic work; the fact that these are not widely shared outside the Christian or theistic community is interesting but fundamentally irrelevant.
Well, that is fundamentally bullshit.
Faith is not to be contrasted with knowledge: faith (at least in paradigmatic instances) is knowledge, knowledge of a certain special kind.
Where misunderstanding dwells, misuse will not be far behind. No theory in the history of science has been more misused and abused by cranks and charlatans—and misunderstood by people struggling in good faith with difficult ideas—than quantum mechanics.
Next up: quantum ethics.
Carl Sagan faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. I don’t ever expect to be reunited with Carl. But, the great thing is that when we were together, for nearly twenty years, we lived with a vivid appreciation of how brief and precious life is. We never trivialized the meaning of death by pretending it was anything other than a final parting.
How comforting is that?
This is not a universe that is advancing toward a goal; it is one that is caught in the grip of an unbreakable pattern.
Right, like he can possibly knew this beyond all doubt.
If everything in the universe evolves toward increasing disorder, it must have started out in an exquisitely ordered arrangement. This whole chain of logic, purporting to explain why you can't turn an omelet into an egg, apparently rests on a deep assumption about the very beginning of the universe. It was in a state of very low entropy, very high order. Why did our part of the universe pass though a period of such low entropy?
God knows?
Way back in 1831, Michael Faraday, one of the founders of our modern understanding of electromagnetism, was asked by an inquiring politician about the usefulness of this newfangled "electricity" stuff. His apocryphal reply: "I know not, but I wager that one day your government will tax it"
Apocryphal indeed.
When we want something to be true, when a belief makes us happy—that’s precisely when we should be questioning. Illusions can be pleasant, but the rewards of truth are enormously greater.
After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.
I wondered if I was peculiar.
One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.
Worse [here]: about what they think they know.
For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.
Any large crowds here?
At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.
You? Pick one:
1] this goes too far
2] this doesn't go far enough
I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy. Then I fired four more times at the motionless body where the bullets lodged without leaving a trace. And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
The pivotal moment let's call it.
I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else.
