Understanding Joshua Mauldin (Man Who Microwaved Baby)

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  • angelica
    angelica Posts: 6,038
    gue_barium wrote:
    I'm not disconnected from the notion that I am connected to the Universe. Or the Spheres. Or Time. Mostly Time, for me.
    I'm not saying you are, specifically. I couldn't judge that.

    And from what I see, you are very perceptive about things that "don't exist", by most people's standards, too.
    "The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth." ~ Niels Bohr

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  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    angelica wrote:
    I'm not saying you are, specifically. I couldn't judge that.

    And from what I see, you are very perceptive about things that "don't exist", by most people's standards, too.

    Abstracts.

    I've been told that before.
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  • angelica
    angelica Posts: 6,038
    gue_barium wrote:
    Abstracts.

    I've been told that before.
    Totally. That's fairly rare, too.
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  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    angelica wrote:
    Totally. That's fairly rare, too.

    I am the creator of the new universal language of the universe.

    It's a work in progress, obviously.
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  • angelica
    angelica Posts: 6,038
    gue_barium wrote:
    I am the creator of the new universal language of the universe.

    It's a work in progress, obviously.
    Good luck with that. ;)
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  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    angelica wrote:
    Good luck with that. ;)

    Luck.

    Luck is the underdog.
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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    I like what TheModernMystic said about my video:

    "If we get 50 of the most brilliant religious people that believe in free-will, and put them in a room for a 50 year long comity meeting. They'd be no longer, no closer to working out what happened to Joshua than when they went in."

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyQ6wl6vD2o
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    richard dawkins is writing a book on joshua mauldin. it's to be called the satan delusion :D:p
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  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    gue_barium wrote:
    Luck.

    Luck is the underdog.

    Yet luck is one of the most useful gifts in the Universe. :)
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  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    angelica wrote:
    Good luck with that. ;)

    I think it makes more sense to say, Universality is Universal. :)

    but even that's kind of flowery.
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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    gue_barium wrote:
    I think it makes more sense to say, Universality is Universal. :)

    but even that's kind of flowery.

    I take issue when people butter up their words to try and make life poetic. The most I will accept is, "We are patterns in the fabric of nature" that's about as poetic as I will go.

    Recently I'm hearing that "Satanic" is synonymous with "Bad". Well it certainly is not, it's an extravagant way of saying it, if anything. It's taking a word like "Bad" and making it worse.

    sa·tan·ic /səˈtænɪk, seɪ-/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[suh-tan-ik, sey-] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
    –adjective
    1. of Satan.
    2. characteristic of or befitting Satan; extremely wicked; devillike; diabolical.

    American Psychological Association (APA):
    satanic. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Retrieved June 01, 2007, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/satanic
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    gue_barium wrote:
    Sure, universe is the root of universal, but "universe" is not what the universal is. You're saying it is.
    They are different. You equate them as the same.
    You're missing a simple law there in the english language. It sounds nice. Just as Freedom isn't Free sounds nice, but it's redundant.

    Now, if you want to come up with a new word, that would be splendid...

    I agree!


    The notion of universalism is in fact colonial-expansionist, and designed in as the root of nationalism gone large. Its mindset is flea-small and Bushite big: in terms of consciousness, it contracts. Universalism as a concept is like a crazy person's projective identification, and an insistence on absolute Law, the opposite of the relativistic principle of tolerance that maintains and stretches the universe.

    And one more point.


    Arse, feck, bollocks, wank, toss, shit, fuck and excuse me, to it all. :D


    Great post, gue!
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Ahnimus wrote:
    I take issue when people butter up their words to try and make life poetic. The most I will accept is, "We are patterns in the fabric of nature" that's about as poetic as I will go.

    Recently I'm hearing that "Satanic" is synonymous with "Bad". Well it certainly is not, it's an extravagant way of saying it, if anything. It's taking a word like "Bad" and making it worse.

    sa·tan·ic /səˈtænɪk, seɪ-/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[suh-tan-ik, sey-] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
    –adjective
    1. of Satan.
    2. characteristic of or befitting Satan; extremely wicked; devillike; diabolical.

    American Psychological Association (APA):
    satanic. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Retrieved June 01, 2007, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/satanic


    You should do a degree in English, or two. I could bore the arse off everyone on the topic of etymological variants and their known, relative sources and analogues; we'd then discuss the reception histories - plural - of signifiers in language, become exhausted by the infinity of changing contexts in words are used to denote and connote meaning, and finally decide that debate is completely pointless. We'd have progressed beyond pseudoscepticism into real scepticism, which is just a term that has no more relevance to reality than the language of mathematics has to actual physical things. Then we could talk. ;)
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    You should do a degree in English, or two. I could bore the arse off everyone on the topic of etymological variants and their known, relative sources and analogues; we'd then discuss the reception histories - plural - of signifiers in language, become exhausted by the infinity of changing contexts in words are used to denote and connote meaning, and finally decide that debate is completely pointless. We'd have progressed beyond pseudoscepticism into real scepticism, which is just a term that has no more relevance to reality than the language of mathematics has to actual physical things. Then we could talk. ;)

    Man that is rape. I wish queers wouldn't shit with the english fucker.

    Sorry, just using words any ol' way I feel like.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    justam wrote:
    Yet luck is one of the most useful gifts in the Universe. :)

    why is luck seen as a gift?
    personally i don't believe in luck. things dont just happen. there is always a cause. just because the cause can't be seen, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Ahnimus wrote:
    Man that is rape. I wish queers wouldn't shit with the english fucker.

    Sorry, just using words any ol' way I feel like.

    Interesting.
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Interesting.

    The beauty of it is, I could have said "I like eating brocolli and colliflower" you'd never know because words carry no meaning at all.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    catefrances wrote:
    why is luck seen as a gift?
    personally i don't believe in luck. things dont just happen. there is always a cause. just because the cause can't be seen, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

    Luck is not a random thing. Luck is the degree to which cause and effect work in your favor. Also known as fortune. If you get dealth a straight flush in 5-card stud, that is extremely lucky.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Ahnimus wrote:
    The beauty of it is, I could have said "I like eating brocolli and colliflower" you'd never know because words carry no meaning at all.

    and with that shitty spelling how are we to know what the heck you're talking about anyway ryan. :D:p
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Ahnimus wrote:
    The beauty of it is, I could have said "I like eating brocolli and colliflower" you'd never know because words carry no meaning at all.

    You're missing the point, aren't you? Language interacts within itself, and signifiers relate to other signifiers, which are always unstable but never a reflection of meaning, which is something extra-linguistic. There are linguistic conventions, through which the intertexture of dialogue is maintained, but are we getting close to "meaning"?

    I recommend a play to you. try Endgame by Samuel Beckett:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXKIGquILkg

    Then read some Derrida.

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