Real life? Who's real life?

Post #29,932 by screamer 2/26/02 11:21:33 PM Reply	Real life? Who's real life? No wonder khasim has been reaming you so hard. Your "real life" is as meaningless to the other 5.9999 billion other folks as my "real life" is. Clue. Life is an illusion. Just because the sun appears to "rise" in the east every morning and has done so for quite a long time, doesn't mean that it's a "fact" that it will happen again tomorrow. It's probable, but no guaranteed. I don't know you personally, but if you are one that is prone to "dismiss the outlayers", watch out! Chaos exists and is waiting to blow away your childish notions about truth and facts... Some even suggest that the only truly meaningful observations are the outlayers (such as evolution - mutations). FWIW, I understand what you are trying to say, but you are not helping yourself by not admitting that you are just another poor dumb human being with all the handicaps that are associated with being a member of such a limited and ignorant life form... :-) Just a few thoughts, Screamer "I'll tip my hat to the new constitution, take a bow for the new revolution, smile and grin at the change all around, pick up my guitar and play, just like yesterday..." P. Townshend "Nietzsche has an S in it" Celina Jones
Post #29,937 by marlowe 2/27/02 12:48:43 AM Reply	The sun'll come up tomorrow... Betch yer bottom dollar that tomorrow There'll be sun. Diurnal cycles are conspicuously indifferent to your desperate pedantry. I suppose you'd like us all to ignore Newtonian physics just because Einstein came along, and then ignore Einstein in exchange for some New Age beebling, because you're done with him now that he's helped you prove yourself more clever than Newton. There are a lot of well informed engineers who will tell you to go step off a cliff and accelerate toward the Earth's center at 9.8 meters per second squared, give or take a bit. Whether you plummet because of Newton or because of General Relativity will be all the same to them. But if you think you're gonna levitate buoyed by your superior intellect, you're in for a shock. The universe doesn't think you're so smart, and neither do I. Now as for me, I might just levitate because of my superior intellect. But only indirectly. The fact that I come to terms with gravity by mounting a hang glider would be the gating factor. And the great thing about this way of dealing with things is it works, regardless of whether you follow Einstein, Newton, or Ptolemy. Either you accept that reality is what works, or what doesn't work dominates your "reality." Things that don't work are for losers. You can keep them. And after you've chosen what doesn't work, don't expect me to pay homage. It ain't gonna happen. [link\|http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/marlowe/index.html\|http://www.angelfir...e/index.html] Truth is that which is the case. Accept no substitutes. If competence is considered "hubris" then may I and my country always be as "arrogant" as we can possibly manage.
Post #29,966 by screamer 2/27/02 10:59:03 AM Reply	When I think of a day that grey and lonely... I just pick up my chin and grin and say... Have a happy day... And by the way... I'm a loser... And you're a winner... You're the best... You have science... Just remember the flat earth, there, pup... Just a few thoughts, Screamer "I'll tip my hat to the new constitution, take a bow for the new revolution, smile and grin at the change all around, pick up my guitar and play, just like yesterday..." P. Townshend "Nietzsche has an S in it" Celina Jones

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