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Who the hell came up with this 50-post rule, anyway?

woot!

Cuz he's DISCORDIAN!



OMGWTFBBQLOLLAILPINEALGLAND23!

Nope.

Oh noes!  too late!


Heh.  kidding.

Boompity bump for possible pamphlet inclusion.

This reminds me of a new yorker cartoon... A sign in a busines window:



"It's the 'bitch slapped by the invisible hand' liquidation sale!"

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LMNO
-Knows he went against the 50 post suggestion, but it had to be done.

I'm with you.


A third opinion, even if it's completely wack *coughPerotcough* is always a good thing in terms of debate and understanding of issues.

Bubba makes up a tiny cogwheel in this machine, but it's not the cogwheels that decide what the machine is doing

but Bubba's letting it happen, and isn't doing anything about it.

You don't want to know.


I'll lose all my hipster cred.

Wasn't that Mr Robinsons' Neighborhood?  Or was that a different one?

Different.

You don't want to know.


I'll lose all my hipster cred.

[Maintaining a belief in enlightened behaviour is hard work. Trying to enact it is hard work. Not wanting to beat the shit out of very stupid people is hard work.]

Snippets from SSOOKN archives:

Maintaining a belief in enlightened behaviour is hard work. Trying to enact it is hard work. Not wanting to beat the shit out of very stupid people is hard work.

and:

for every 1% of enlightenment generated comes with about 20% idiocy as a waste product.

yoinked.

1.  Einstenian Relativity isn't about how "nothing is true".  It'a about making sure the equations you use are accurate regardless of the frame of reference.  I think you're referring to "moral relativity", which is more of a dodge used by dogmaticists to attack people who are open to different points of veiw.

2.  I like the idea of subjective interpretation as communication, but i also feel that this happens every day, where as accurate communication is much more difficult, as well as much more powerful when successful.

You're probably right about Einstein, he being a physicist and all.  But it is relativity that began with him, and has crept into other areas of human society.  Whether the relationship between Einsteinian relativity and moral relativity is one that the greyed out masses would accept or not, I think it's all some cosmic conspiracy to undo the way we used to think.

I'm not simply talking about subjective interpretation of communication, although from my lack of clarity in this thread I can see how you would assume such.  What I am talking about is the conveyance of abstract ideas through the use of apparent contradiction and out-of-place oddball metaphors.  I mean that constructing an abstract idea in someone's head is better achieved by fooling their brain into actually thinking that abstract thought than by trying to relate it to something they already recognize.

The subjective interpretation bit is more along the lines of, if they think the same abstract thought that you are thinking, we'll probably never know, because they will manifest that thought in some completely different way.

ok, then.  I think I see.

Get the audience to experience the concept, not just learn it.


so: cognative dissonance, paradox, juxtaposition, etc.

1.  Einstenian Relativity isn't about how "nothing is true".  It'a about making sure the equations you use are accurate regardless of the frame of reference.  I think you're referring to "moral relativity", which is more of a dodge used by dogmaticists to attack people who are open to different points of veiw.

2.  I like the idea of subjective interpretation as communication, but i also feel that this happens every day, where as accurate communication is much more difficult, as well as much more powerful when successful.