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Started by hooplala, May 02, 2005, 07:41:03 PM

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LMNO

It's not the "rationalist", as you well know.  It's the symbolic thought circut.


...Wait, you didn't know that?

Have you been thinking 3 is purely rational?

Take a look at the "Tree of Life" chapter in "LMNO-PI".  That is pure symbol manipulation.  Does that look rational to you?






Maybe you should hold off on combining circuts until you have a firm grasp on what the circuts actually [/i]are.

hooplala

No I don't have a firm grasp on it yet, I've only just started reading about them, and so far only in Prometheus Rising . . . I have Leary's book but haven't started it yet.

Rational is not the right word, I meant analytical, but I was under the impression that it was mostly rational, yes.  I will check out the LMNO-PI, and take it into account too.

Have no fear, though, I don't intend to do any combining of circuits any time soon, I'm still mulling it all over.

But thank you for your help
"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
— Walt Whitman

Ghost In The Machine

Quote from: Christ Raw V, KSCNo I don't have a firm grasp on it yet, I've only just started reading about them, and so far only in Prometheus Rising . . . I have Leary's book but haven't started it yet.

Rational is not the right word, I meant analytical, but I was under the impression that it was mostly rational, yes.  I will check out the LMNO-PI, and take it into account too.

Have no fear, though, I don't intend to do any combining of circuits any time soon, I'm still mulling it all over.

But thank you for your help

Maybe you want to read more, ese.  That kind of stuff can be dangerous for the neophyte.  Crawling around in your own head is bad enough, but with just enough knowledge to be dangerous, you're likely to wind up in a fetal position, or even find yourself LARPing.

hooplala

I intend to read as much as I can, but ya gotta start somewhere.
"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
— Walt Whitman

Horab Fibslager

Quote from: Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy
Quote from: indelible magic marker
Quote from: gnimbleyOne of my favorites is the Big Bang. I think it is a crock of shit.
How about you?

mroe liekthe big inflaton. eris blew a balloon for th eparty and uh i said too much...

Quote from: erishorab, horab, horab... *shakes head*
http://web.mit.edu/physics/facultyandstaff/faculty/alan_guth.html

ALAN H. GUTH, Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics

This guy agrees with you.  The physicists and the mystics meet again.  It is getting harder and harder to tell them apart :shock:


eris is mad becuase i wasn't sposed to tell about how uh, yeah. i'm not allowed to say.

also you'll hear nothing out of me about lefthanded light.
Hell is other people.

gnimbley

Quote from: Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy
Quote from: indelible magic marker
Quote from: gnimbleyOne of my favorites is the Big Bang. I think it is a crock of shit.
How about you?

mroe liekthe big inflaton. eris blew a balloon for th eparty and uh i said too much...

Quote from: erishorab, horab, horab... *shakes head*
http://web.mit.edu/physics/facultyandstaff/faculty/alan_guth.html

ALAN H. GUTH, Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics

This guy agrees with you.  The physicists and the mystics meet again.  It is getting harder and harder to tell them apart :shock:

He believes in the big bang. He just inflated it.

Him: Everything started in the big bang.

Them: But some of the numbers don't work out.

Him: Well, they would work out if you assume that everything expanded
a one rate for the first few nanoseconds and then slowed way down
and expanded at a constant rate after that.

Them: oooooooo

Some other guy: But this number over here. If you are right, then it
would be different by an order of magnitude of 28 from observeable
data.

Them: Shut up, he's on a roll.

Some other guy: But that's the biggest error in the history of science!

Them: Bah! Who are you and what do you know?

Some other guy: I won the nobel prize.

Them: Over-rated. Over the hill. Besides, if we assume that there is
another kind of matter and energy that can not be seen or measured
then everything works out just fine! Hurray! We just proved ourselves
right!

East Coast Hustle

surely you're not trying to say that dark matter doesn't exist.

previously observed and quantified data already demands that it does.

our inability to see it says more about the limitations of our technology than anything else.

8)
Rabid Colostomy Hole Jammer of the Coming Apocalypse™

The Devil is in the details; God is in the nuance.


Some yahoo yelled at me, saying 'GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH', and I thought, "I'm feeling generous today.  Why not BOTH?"

Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy

Quote from: gnimbley
He believes in the big bang. He just inflated it.
-->Major snip to keep all the dooms from getting pissed about metaquotes.<--

OK, fair enough, instead of making fun of Nobel Prize winners, how about you share your story of how the world began :wink:

Zurtok Khan

I'll share mine:

There was, and then there was somemore.
Resistance is Fertile.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
-Mark Twain

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.
-Mark Twain

agent compassion


'I'll take you out for a meal with Mr. and Mrs. Pain, order up some violent quiche. Do you want some?' - ++++++ Moon


LMNO

Quote from: gnimbley
He believes in the big bang. He just inflated it.

Him: Everything started in the big bang.

Them: But some of the numbers don't work out.

Him: Well, they would work out if you assume that everything expanded
a one rate for the first few nanoseconds and then slowed way down
and expanded at a constant rate after that.

Them: oooooooo

Some other guy: But this number over here. If you are right, then it
would be different by an order of magnitude of 28 from observeable
data.

Them: Shut up, he's on a roll.

Some other guy: But that's the biggest error in the history of science!

Them: Bah! Who are you and what do you know?

Some other guy: I won the nobel prize.

Them: Over-rated. Over the hill. Besides, if we assume that there is
another kind of matter and energy that can not be seen or measured
then everything works out just fine! Hurray! We just proved ourselves
right!


Stay tuned tomorrow, where gnimbley explains Bell's theorum using toothpicks and chewing gum!

I absolutely loved this, gnimbley.  It's a perfect summation of science.

The next line i think would be something like this:

Still Another Guy:  Hey, Check it out.  I just got this machine to recognize and identify that other kind of energy y'all were talking about.

Them:  No shit?

SAG: Yeah.  Cool, huh?

Ghost In The Machine

Quote from: LMNO
Quote from: gnimbley
He believes in the big bang. He just inflated it.

Him: Everything started in the big bang.

Them: But some of the numbers don't work out.

Him: Well, they would work out if you assume that everything expanded
a one rate for the first few nanoseconds and then slowed way down
and expanded at a constant rate after that.

Them: oooooooo

Some other guy: But this number over here. If you are right, then it
would be different by an order of magnitude of 28 from observeable
data.

Them: Shut up, he's on a roll.

Some other guy: But that's the biggest error in the history of science!

Them: Bah! Who are you and what do you know?

Some other guy: I won the nobel prize.

Them: Over-rated. Over the hill. Besides, if we assume that there is
another kind of matter and energy that can not be seen or measured
then everything works out just fine! Hurray! We just proved ourselves
right!


Stay tuned tomorrow, where gnimbley explains Bell's theorum using toothpicks and chewing gum!

I absolutely loved this, gnimbley.  It's a perfect summation of science.

The next line i think would be something like this:

Still Another Guy:  Hey, Check it out.  I just got this machine to recognize and identify that other kind of energy y'all were talking about.

Them:  No shit?

SAG: Yeah.  Cool, huh?

Quite right.  We should go back to the caves, and beat on hollow logs to scare the evil spirits away.

Galileo and Copernicus didn't get half of what they had coming to them.

LMNO

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Um, what?

Have you decided to save time by not even reading the posts you're responding to anymore?

Ghost In The Machine

Quote from: LMNO...


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Um, what?

Have you decided to save time by not even reading the posts you're responding to anymore?

I read them.

LMNO

...So in what way could you interpret what I said to mean we should abandon science and go back to the caves?