Friday, November 6, 2009
The 123rd Skeptics' Circle
Colin channels Galileo in the 123rd edition of the Skeptics' Circle at Blue Genes, with a list of links that is simply huge. Highly recommended.
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Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us reason together
HRG, on CARM (paraphrased with his approval)
With formal systems, such as mathematics, you can have certainty and demonstrability, but not reality.
With science, such as physics, you can have reality and demonstrability, but not certainty.
With belief systems, such as Christianity, you can have reality and certainty, but not demonstrability.
G. K. Chesterton, in St. Thomas Aquinas
After the great example of St. Thomas, the principle stands, or ought always to have stood established; that we must either not argue with a man at all, or we must argue on his grounds and not ours. We may do other things instead of arguing, according to our views of what actions are morally permissible; but if we argue we must argue "On the reasons and statements of the philosophers themselves."
Bertrand Russell, in The Analysis of Mind
Any habitual action, such as eating or dressing, may be performed on the appropriate occasion, without any need of thought, and the same seems to be true of a painfully large proportion of our talk.
8 comments:
Vinny to CJ at Jazzfanz: " It still amazes me you love sticking around a place that has so many people that hate you."
I wonder if he amazes himself, eh?
Humans generally tend to blind themselves that way.
Heh, Blood at Jazzfanz, talkin about Write: "Wait. You're asking the same guy who is convinced that One Brow, aintnuthin, and NUTJOB_2814 are the same guy to think rationally."
Vinny in response to Blood: "In all due respect, the similarities between OB and Taint are striking. Im pretty sure they were the same person."
I spect this here goes a long way toward explainin the whole thang, eh?: Write: "One thing I can tell you that Viny and I have in common, we're both about the size of Dudley Moore."
They're both pretty odd, in their own ways.
Vinny at Jazzfanz: "Do you have a *beep* problem with me?"
I done been banned, yet again, from that joint, but at least I got a different reason this time.
Hey, Eric, if ya feel like it sometime, let Vinny know that I don't have a problem with him, ya know?
The way I see it there is a problem with him, but it's not sumthin I have.
Also, just so you know:
1. by AintNoThang on Sat Nov 14, 2009 10:46 pm: "OK, Vinny, Imma tellya, so don't never go round sayin I never done nuthin for ya, kay?"
2.by VINYLONE on Sat Nov 14, 2009 10:51 pm; "One Brow?"
3. by AintNoThang on Sat Nov 14, 2009 10:53 pm: "How did you know? Have you been hackin into the Jazzfanz data-base, or sumthin?"
As you can see, I am turning your recurring "skeptics circle" announcements into my own (well, our) little Jazzfanz board, eh, Eric?:
Re: The last two games...
by write4u on Sun Nov 15, 2009 8:11 am
"I think Deron needs to manage the offense more like Maynor. Try to create for other people, and NOT HIMSELF, as he has been doing."
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Maynor has done a great job filling in for Williams, especially for a rookie. But it seems he's doin just that--fillin in, and doin what Deron would do, more or less.
In the Cleveland game (great game for Maynor) nobody, and I do mean NOBODY, on the team took more shots than Maynor (16). About what Deron would do, although probably with more assists (Maynor had only 4, with 3 turnovers).
Of course such facts never even occur to the likes of Write, and wouldn't alter his claims in the least if they did.
That's why I kinda miss good ole Jazzfanz, ya know?
I don't mind if other posters have fun at write4u's/VINYLONE's expense for saying we are the same person, though I need to stay out of that.
If you really miss JazzFanz, you know who to talk to. I will tell you this: at least one moderator has said that if a worthless poster like Troutbum is allowed back, you should be too. No not me, because while I support your return, TroutBum doesn't particularly annoy me. :)
Of course, other moderators oppose the idea. At any rate, none of us have a real say in it.
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