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Post by Chromeo on Sept 1, 2013 21:45:47 GMT -5
"Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for that rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge."
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Post by Pyro ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ✔ on Sept 2, 2013 0:18:22 GMT -5
"don't you have school work to do instead of posting on the internet?"
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Post by Tails82 on Sept 3, 2013 1:52:11 GMT -5
"What is standing in the way of further scientific discovery is not our ignorance but the illusion of knowledge." -Laura Nader
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2013 2:41:53 GMT -5
"Humanity is not yet sufficiently advanced to be willingly led by the discover's keen searching sense. But who knows? Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted, be hampered and ill-treated in its adolescence—by want of means, by selfish interest, pedantry, stupidity and ignorance; that it be attacked and stifled; that it pass through bitter trials and tribulations, through the heartless strife of commercial existence. So do we get our light. So all that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed—only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle." - Nicola Tesla
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Post by Tails82 on Sept 4, 2013 0:02:04 GMT -5
"The past is never dead. It's not even past." -William Faulkner
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Post by Tails82 on Sept 6, 2013 16:00:26 GMT -5
"If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking." -Patton
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Post by Chromeo on Sept 8, 2013 22:53:08 GMT -5
"261 doesn't determine who's right -- only who's left." - Bertrand Russell
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2013 9:26:46 GMT -5
Arthur C. Clarke does. If by 'conscious thoughts', you mean memories. Not entirely sure what you're trying to argue here.
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Post by Jordan Ω on Sept 9, 2013 11:24:45 GMT -5
Arthur C. Clarke does. If by 'conscious thoughts', you mean memories. Not entirely sure what you're trying to argue here. Who's arguing? I'm just saying that even in 2001, way back then people didn't have real conscious thoughts, they were basically semi-bipedal animals.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2013 11:54:05 GMT -5
I can't tell if you're horribly misinterpreting 2001: A Space Odyssey or just entirely forgetting we were talking about religion at the time. >_>
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Post by Jordan Ω on Sept 9, 2013 13:42:18 GMT -5
It was the latter, sorry. I forget what's going on sometimes oh look a bunny
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Post by Tails82 on Sept 9, 2013 23:54:16 GMT -5
More like now watching or politics but whatever
"the Earl Warren–led Court, in its drive to oust inequality and racial discrimination from the core of the American experience, had done more wrong than right...for other conservative critics there was much more to complain about. Specifically, by the summer of 1968, the Court's recent rulings had aided Communist forces, abetted criminals intent on causing harm, threatened to dislodge schoolchildren from the security of their neighborhoods, unleashed a wave of pornographic smut, released murderers from death row, forced prayer out of the schools, and loosened society's constraints on sexual promiscuity. In the next few years, the Court would provide more fuel for these fiery critics by—in their eyes—sanctioning the spilling of the nation's military secrets, allowing antiwar messages—like "Fuck the Draft"—into the nation's courthouses and classrooms, giving free rein to those denouncing the authority of the badge, encouraging women to devalue their traditional role in American life, beginning the process of guaranteeing those unwilling to work a monthly check, and unleashing a massacre on the nation's unborn. It did it all, moreover, in the name of the Constitution, a document nearly two centuries old but interpreted by the Court's nine unelected wise men to keep up with the times, to live even though its drafters had died long ago." -Kevin McMahon
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Post by Chromeo on Sept 14, 2013 9:53:04 GMT -5
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Post by Jordan Ω on Sept 16, 2013 21:55:49 GMT -5
/When we look at others we see personality traits that explain their behaviour, but when we look at ourselves we see circumstances that explain our behaviour. People’s stories make internal sense to them, from the inside, but we don’t see people’s histories trailing behind them in the air. We only see them in one situation, and we don’t see what they would be like in a different situation. So the fundamental attribution error is that we explain by permanent, enduring traits what would be better explained by circumstance and context./ — Eliezer Yudkowsky
I think my favorite thing about this quote — other than it’s verisimilitude — is the fact that it’s from a fan fiction work based on Harry Potter. And I never read fan-fics, and especially Harry Potter. But this one... this one is great. As are the authors other essays.
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Post by Chromeo on Sept 16, 2013 21:59:06 GMT -5
Yudkowsky is a creep. Though he's right on that one I spose (though I read it in that great source of wisdom Cracked first, and with less pointless 20 dollar words)
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