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by ExpectantlyIronic
Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:24 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: How Women Ought to Dress
Replies: 19
Views: 4986

Re: How Women Ought to Dress

Between Muremaker and Monster Cock, I have to say that Genius has been attracting some hilarious trolls recently. By the way, I've got a bridge to sell anyone who takes Muremaker seriously. PM me for the offer.
by ExpectantlyIronic
Sat Sep 01, 2007 11:22 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Bare Bones of Reality.
Replies: 27
Views: 6777

Re: Bare Bones of Reality.

Matt, Anything made intelligible is going to have to be done so through interpretation, and if an experience hasn't been made intelligible then it hasn't really been experienced. There would be no memory of it or anything. I was using the term 'interpretation' to mean conscious interpretation exclu...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Sat Sep 01, 2007 3:50 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Bare Bones of Reality.
Replies: 27
Views: 6777

Re: Bare Bones of Reality.

What are the bare bones of reality? Whatever we might want to give that label to. I'd say it's whatever I experience without interpretation. As, really, isn't "interpretation" just another label for a seemingly related group of experience anyways? (I'd appreciate it if someone would tell ...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Fri Aug 31, 2007 2:37 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Hitler's gas chambers mere fiction?
Replies: 227
Views: 44492

Re: Hitler's gas chambers mere fiction?

Faust, actually it does matter, for people who want to see the absurdity of it. Life, the universe, and everything is absurd. Pointing out particular absurdities is about as hard and productive as shooting cattle at point blank with a .50 cal. You being the raving lunatic that you are, in so far th...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:19 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Posts here are way too long!!!!!
Replies: 5
Views: 2990

Re: Posts here are way too long!!!!!

Pen15, You people must imagine that you are in grade school, trying to reach your word minimum. I have news for you, I am not your teacher trying to make sure you write more and more meaningless bullsh*t. In fact, I won't even read most of the forum here because the first post in every thread seems...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Thu Aug 30, 2007 2:17 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Hitler's gas chambers mere fiction?
Replies: 227
Views: 44492

Re: Hitler's gas chambers mere fiction?

Dan,

That really depends on what you mean.
by ExpectantlyIronic
Thu Aug 30, 2007 2:01 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Hitler's gas chambers mere fiction?
Replies: 227
Views: 44492

Re: Hitler's gas chambers mere fiction?

Wow. Who would think that people could be so passionate about how the word "Jew" is to be used? So what if it describes both someone who is a descendant of people who hold the Jewish faith, and someone who themselves holds such a faith. Insofar as we recognize both uses, and what context i...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:20 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Cremation, My Sweet
Replies: 0
Views: 4597

Cremation, My Sweet

(This post is visiting from my MySpace blog, but it deals with the philosophy of death and all that good stuff, so maybe it'll spark some discussion here.) It has become popular to incinerate inanimate bodies as opposed to putting them underground in fancy boxes. This is hardly surprising, as fancy...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Thu Aug 16, 2007 5:51 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Questions about Enlightenment, comments about Sex
Replies: 143
Views: 43691

Re: Questions about Enlightenment, comments about Sex

skipair, How do you reconcile cause and effect (that everything happens for specific, yet innumerable reasons) with taking personal responsibility by acts of will? A man is not omniscient, and cannot see all that may conspire to guide his actions. It is actually incomprehensible to think that a thi...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Wed Aug 15, 2007 7:09 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: I just broke your toys :(
Replies: 87
Views: 15536

Re: I just broke your toys :(

faust,
has Expectantly given up?
Speaking to you? Yes. You aren't civil enough to bother with. I may reply to David when I get some time.
by ExpectantlyIronic
Sun Aug 12, 2007 10:15 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: The root of the worlds problems
Replies: 12
Views: 3426

Re: The root of the worlds problems

I still don't see why everyone gets so worked up over the federal reserve system. An innate distrust of banks? It isn't as if you can't trade your paper money out for other assets like gold or land. That everyone can't do that at once without an economic collapse is somewhat worrisome, but it isn't ...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Sun Aug 12, 2007 11:40 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: the 'magical' properties of consciousness
Replies: 46
Views: 7114

Re: the 'magical' properties of consciousness

Discussing consciousness is like playing charades. Except that everyone is waving about like a damned fool at once, and nobody ever gets to reveal if someone else guesses right. You win if you can get everyone else to wave about in the same way you are. The fact that your word was 'duck' just doesn'...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Sat Aug 11, 2007 12:26 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: The Most Important Philosophical Question
Replies: 47
Views: 11535

Re: The Most Important Philosophical Question

Jehu, You think that ontology is the most important aspect of philosophy, yet you immediately start in with epistemology and logic? Or--it seems from what you've said--you think that classical logic is the whole of epistemology. From Aristotle follows the single true take on ontological matters. Wh...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Sat Aug 11, 2007 10:22 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: great YouTube video
Replies: 12
Views: 3429

great YouTube video

WORDS

I've never seen the philosophy of Wittgenstein put so succinctly. Great stuff.
by ExpectantlyIronic
Sat Aug 11, 2007 7:08 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Natural Selection
Replies: 19
Views: 6723

Re: Natural Selection

Trevor, I would claim that living things only exist in the same sense that games exist. To say that something is 'alive' is indeed as arbitrary as saying that it is 'red'. Yet, saying that either doesn't exist seems to fly too far in the face of practical language for my tastes. All proof is comple...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Sat Aug 11, 2007 6:44 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: I just broke your toys :(
Replies: 87
Views: 15536

Re: I just broke your toys :(

David, I would say that an apple fills or occupies space. Space is something different from it. That's why we have different labels, "apple" and "space". How is the space an apple occupies different from the apple though? We can inspect every aspect of the apple and only find em...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Sat Aug 11, 2007 5:33 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Natural Selection
Replies: 19
Views: 6723

Re: Natural Selection

Living things clearly exist. I really don't know what else to say. On what grounds could someone claim otherwise?
by ExpectantlyIronic
Wed Aug 08, 2007 6:04 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: The meaning of True
Replies: 13
Views: 4401

Re: The meaning of True

Sapius, Sorry I missed that one. Of course, you do have a choice based on your own reasoning. Huh. You just made me think of something that I had forgotten concerning this subject. Solipsism, insofar as anyone has ever believed in it, arises out of a particular way of speaking of matters. The solip...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Wed Aug 08, 2007 2:58 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: I just broke your toys :(
Replies: 87
Views: 15536

Re: I just broke your toys :(

Quinn, And yet we constantly see apples come into existence within time and space and a waiting universe, and then disappear again. The universe and time and space all exist prior to the apple coming into existence, they are necessary to its existence, and thus they are part of the prior contributi...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Tue Aug 07, 2007 8:09 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: I just broke your toys :(
Replies: 87
Views: 15536

Re: I just broke your toys :(

Faust, ever since the later part of the dawn of man, we have realized that we die due to physical causes. It has been like this for centuries, and if it were possible that we could die randomly, then we would have by now, but it has not happened. That's hardly logical. It makes some sense: common s...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Tue Aug 07, 2007 2:35 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: The meaning of True
Replies: 13
Views: 4401

Re: The meaning of True

Diebert, Now you equal reality with whatever is observed? Happy dreams! Observation and a priori inference from observation is all we've got to determine things about the world. If such methods aren't entirely reliable (and they're not) then we simply have to accept a degree of uncertainty. Nihilis...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Mon Aug 06, 2007 2:44 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: I just broke your toys :(
Replies: 87
Views: 15536

Re: I just broke your toys :(

Faust, What??? You can easily see it, the train crushes vital organs and the dude dies. How do you know that people die when their organs get crushed? You inductively infer it from the fact that things have always worked like that as far as you know. WTF??? This is a religious statement. Superman d...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Mon Aug 06, 2007 1:58 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: The meaning of True
Replies: 13
Views: 4401

Re: The meaning of True

Sapius, But isn’t it possible that we might be making a mistake in assuming that reality must be something other than what we experience, to begin with? It's possible, but I don't know many who are skeptical enough to hold to such a position. Solipsism isn't a theory that a fella can disprove, bu...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Sun Aug 05, 2007 3:37 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: The meaning of True
Replies: 13
Views: 4401

Re: The meaning of True

I'm more-or-less a fan of good ol' correspondence theory. It's true that 'snow is white' if snow is indeed white. A proposition is true when it corresponds with reality. Edit: I should add that any theory of truth is going to be somewhat wacky on the face of it, as explanations come to an end somewh...
by ExpectantlyIronic
Sat Aug 04, 2007 9:16 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: abortion and morals
Replies: 34
Views: 6912

Re: abortion and morals

Laird, You're focusing on pain and ignoring pleasure. A head-shot death deprives you of the continuation of your "natural" life, during which you might have experienced much joy and satisfaction, not to mention possibly contributing much that is of value to the rest of humanity. I have tr...