It's a pity that there aren't any skeptics here

[Boojatta]

You are all devout members of the Church of Ideas.

When you pretend that there are witches, life is an adventure. You get to look for witches. After pretending to have found a witch, you get to classify her as a good witch or a bad witch.

Similarly, when you pretend that there are ideas, life is an adventure. You get to talk about "understanding" an idea. You get to say that an OP are "unclear." You get to say that some conclusion is "not supported" by the premises. I can see the attraction.

However, this is a world of space, time, matter, energy, alphanumeric symbols, and an occasional punctuation mark. We can detect radiation, but we cannot detect ideas. A solution can be cloudy or clear, but an OP is neither. Columns may fail to support some architectural structure and the structure may crash to the ground, but conclusions do not crash to the ground.

I can help you face reality, but only if you want to face reality. The first step is to learn to give legitimate, evidence-based responses to an OP. For example, if you point out that the letter "x" occurs exactly three times in this OP, then you are off to a good start.

(The original got archived. Should I have revised it before posting it again?)

[cosmik debris]

1. I don't believe you

And you have presented no evidence to support your claims.

It is just a broad brush smear and a brief ride on your ego trip.

[Boojatta]

2. Did you count more than three occurrences of the letter "x" in the Original Post?

[cosmik debris]

3. It is not up to me to prove your claims. n/t

[Az]

6. Dude were the drugs really worth the damage?

Really?

[TZ]

7. Hey now, I have a better explanation

Hallucination brought on by the overconsumption of holy pickles!:D

[awoke_in_2003]

36. Do not eat the holy pickles...

they make your penis grow, and that might be hard for you to explain at your next doctor visit :)

[ixion]

4. You've really let your mind get the best of you...

You have it entirely backwards. There are only ideas. The rest is nothing more than our mind's interpretation of the sensory apparatus through which we experience the physical world.

That is, a chair is only a chair because we interpret it as such.

:toast: Cheers.

[On the Road]

5. So You are Saying That

the letter 'x' is not an idea?

[Boojatta]

8. Ventris' contribution wasn't identifying the x's in an ancient Linear B inscription.

However, if Searle identified which symbols were x's, then at least we would know that Searle made a genuine contribution to human knowledge.

[Az]

9. Just to be technical... there are four 'x's not three in the post

Just saying. :shrug:

[cosmik debris]

10. And just to be technical,

My first post disproved his initial allegation.

Just saying. :shrug:

[Boojatta]

15. You're counting my signature line, which has probably changed since

the original thread was posted. Or perhaps signature lines were simply turned off due to high traffic at the time that I created the original thread.

Edited to provide link.

[Az]

16. Does it really make any difference?

:shrug:

[edhopper]

11. You shouldn't use terms

like "skeptic" unless you have a vague clue what it is.
Your post shows you to not have an understanding of what a skeptic is.

[Silent3]

12. 78.433

Mark.

[cosmik debris]

13. Close, but no cigar.

You missed by 0.002

[Silent3]

14. Even Freud said...

...sometimes a 0.002 is just a 0.002.

[Evoman]

17. For someone going on and on about ideas, you seem addicted to them.

The only problem is that your ideas are not very good.

[Boojatta]

18. My ideas aren't very good?

Are they excellent? Just "plain good" rather than "very good"?

[Evoman]

19. If ideas were flowers, yours would be Titan arum.

[Boojatta]

20. A picture would help.

[Evoman]

21. Google it....very pretty flower *smile*

[Donald Ian Rankin]

22. I found google images, but my computer doesn't facilitate google scents.

NT

[Boojatta]

23. If you put me on ignore, then I won't need to Google it.

[Evoman]

24. why would I want to ignore you? I quite like you.

[Boojatta]

25. You like me, but you don't like my ideas.

Shouldn't you be pursuing Paris Hilton?

[Evoman]

26. Paris Hilton doesn't post enough polls.

I'm totally into poll dancers.

[Boojatta]

27. What do you like about Boojatta polls? Presumably not the ideas.

[Evoman]

28. They often get great responses.

Some of them even have great pictures of bunnies with pancakes on their heads.

[edhopper]

29. Now that's an idea

I can appreciate!

[Evoman]

30. Now if someone could get a picture of a praying mantis with a pancake on his head, that would make

my day.

[Boojatta]

31. Why not go straight to the source of the bunny pictures

and leave out the Boojatta middleperson?

[Az]

32. Better question

Why do you think it is?

[Evoman]

33. Yeah, I could make my own candy apples, but it's more fun when you buy them at the fair.

[ZombieHorde]

34. It's a pity that there aren't any skeptics here

What is a skeptic?

"You are all devout members of the Church of Ideas."

What time is mass again?

"When you pretend that there are witches, life is an adventure. You get to look for witches. After pretending to have found a witch, you get to classify her as a good witch or a bad witch."

I guess that witches and pot have something in common.

"Similarly, when you pretend that there are ideas, life is an adventure. You get to talk about "understanding" an idea. You get to say that an OP are "unclear." You get to say that some conclusion is "not supported" by the premises. I can see the attraction."

Can you see the attraction in this? I bet you can.



We can detect radiation, but we cannot detect ideas.

I can detect my own ideas.

A solution can be cloudy or clear, but an OP is neither.

If by 'OP', you mean 'original post', then I disagree. I have seen OPs that I would attribute those attributes to.

Columns may fail to support some architectural structure and the structure may crash to the ground, but conclusions do not crash to the ground.

Some of my conclusions have crashed to the ground. When I was a teenager, I built a CD shelf and concluded that is was strong enough to hold all of my CDs. I was wrong.

I can help you face reality, but only if you want to face reality.

This is very generous of you.

The first step is to learn to give legitimate, evidence-based responses to an OP.

The title of your OP is, "It's a pity that there aren't any skeptics here".

(The original got archived. Should I have revised it before posting it again?)

I don't know, what did you have in mind?

[EvolveOrConvolve]

35. The definition of insanity

Is repeating the same thing over again and expecting different results. But of course Einstein was just one of those stupid "idea" guys that you hate so much.

:shrug: Jes' sayin'.

[ZombieHorde]

37. Is repeating the same thing over again and expecting different results.

Not even close to true. Many people practice the same thing over and over again and DO get different results, they get better.

The definition of insanity is:

1. the condition of being insane; a derangement of the mind.
2. Law. such unsoundness of mind as affects legal responsibility or capacity.
3. Psychiatry. (formerly) psychosis.
4. extreme folly; senselessness; foolhardiness.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/insanity
Congratulations, you have found the hidden text!

[Random_Australian]

41. What self-referential bullshit.

Dictionary.com is such a piece of crap.

Urgh.

Note: None of the above was aimed at you. However, that "dictionary" proffers only four repetitions of the same meaningless assumption.

[cosmik debris]

43. Hmmm. The definition of "practice" is

doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results (improvement).

So therefore, learning to play the piano is insanity.

:)

[tama]

38. There are witches

and I do know a few (without any pretending), but classifications of chaotic, neutral and lawfull don't equal "good" or "bad"... ;-)

What you are hubristically claiming is that you have allready PWNED! reality: any and all "reality" is just what is limited to what your measurement stick (of classical mechanics) can measure, or what can be formally proven inside a finite set of axioms.

Your hubris has nothing to do with reality or even best scientific and mathematical knowledge of available.

[joshcryer]

39. Could someone explain to me what this post is trying to say?

I swear to goodness I read it 10 times in a row and still cannot make heads or tails of it. It just ... is incomprehensible.

[edhopper]

40. Welcome

to the strange world that is Boojatta.

[Random_Australian]

42. You make too many assumptions.

That is all.