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This just in: Confirmation of the Golden Secret

Started by Lies, May 15, 2011, 12:52:48 PM

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Lies

May 15, 2011, 12:52:48 PM
According to this article, it's scientifically official: Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/health/06mind.html
- So the New World Order does not actually exist?
- Oh it exists, and how!
Ask the slaves whose labour built the White House;
Ask the slaves of today tied down to sweatshops and brothels to escape hunger;
Ask most women, second class citizens, in a pervasive rape culture;
Ask the non-human creatures who inhabit the planet:
whales, bears, frogs, tuna, bees, slaughtered farm animals;
Ask the natives of the Americas and Australia on whose land
you live today, on whose graves your factories, farms and neighbourhoods stand;
ask any of them this, ask them if the New World Order is true;
they'll tell you plainly: the New World Order... is you!

Triple Zero

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May 15, 2011, 03:56:45 PM
Cool research.

TLDR: Students were given a story to read, and then an implicit learning task. Students that read the nonsensical Kafka story performed 30% better than students that got a coherent story to read.


very interesting, but it sounds like they only tested it with two stories?

how do they know that "nonsense" is the distinctive attribute between the two stories?

the 30% performance difference seems quite significant. VERY significant, even.
Ex-Soviet Bloc Sexual Attack Swede of Tomorrow™
e-prime disclaimer: let it seem fairly unclear I understand the apparent subjectivity of the above statements. maybe.

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Lies

#2
May 15, 2011, 04:15:34 PM
It's official- We ARE a slightly more evolved species. By about 30%.
- So the New World Order does not actually exist?
- Oh it exists, and how!
Ask the slaves whose labour built the White House;
Ask the slaves of today tied down to sweatshops and brothels to escape hunger;
Ask most women, second class citizens, in a pervasive rape culture;
Ask the non-human creatures who inhabit the planet:
whales, bears, frogs, tuna, bees, slaughtered farm animals;
Ask the natives of the Americas and Australia on whose land
you live today, on whose graves your factories, farms and neighbourhoods stand;
ask any of them this, ask them if the New World Order is true;
they'll tell you plainly: the New World Order... is you!

AFK

#3
May 15, 2011, 04:18:20 PM
Imma send this to my boss and demand a raise. 
Cynicism is a blank check for failure.

Cain

#4
May 15, 2011, 04:27:14 PM
So this is why the NYT readership have such a high opinion of themselves, despite the paper continually running nonsense stories.
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