The Truth (As I see it)

Yeah; you'd think that after thirteen pages, there'd at least be a cure for world hunger or some shit!

 

The way I see it, the purpose of this thread is to keep us crazies off the streets, in which it succeeds perfectly.

Hmm, much like most religions really. They count as logical when you think of the alternative: That these kinds of people would be free of any constraints whatsoever.

Also, speaking of unconstrained crazy talk... the cure to world hunger is cannabalism... dur!

 

Or good ol' genocide. Wouldn't removing Africa from the face of the Earth at least half-solve the problem?

I'm the god in that context, not the scientist, right?

More futile than practising it myself and letting my faulty brain play tricks on me? I trust my reasoning more than my senses.

 

BAHAHAHA!

Sounds to me that, just like Wayne, you only believe your brain when it tells you what is currently fashionable and politik to believe and dismiss it whenever it tells you what is not.

Nevermind, no matter. I don't mind what you believe and I'm happy to admit that you're right and I'm wrong.

Please excuse my capital letters, but I do get a belly laugh out of that.

 

Yeah! That's it exactly! I get all the latest magazines and everything! Unfortunately, when I read them, it's my brain telling me what's in them, and since I can't go to something else without having that same problem of determining if what I think's in them is fashionable or not, I just don't know what the latest fad is!

 

Okay okay okay, I withdraw the accusation.

Jeez, sorry. You guys have it all worked out, dontcha?

 

That's my cold, hard religious mysticism talking!

 

I think that accusation is unfound. When my senses tell me something that is currently fashionable and politik (?) to believe while my reasoning tells me something that is not, I'm more inclined to believe the latter. I simply have greater trust for the player which has proven to be less unreliable.

I don't think my outlook is overly fashionable to begin with, too.

EDIT: Damn do you people post fast.

 

That's no merit on your part, though: that was always going to happen!

Yeah, if you look at my post above ytzk's, it says that I edited it at about 11.28 or something, which was before ytzk's next post, because I originally edited while your original post was up!

 

It would be a boring world if we were all the same, wouldn't it?

It was an unfair generalisation, I don't really know either of you.

I'm mainly arguing pro-religion because I'm always the devil's advocate. I was picking on Xyle for a while, but it was like kicking a retarded puppy - uncool - so I decided to speak up for the losing team.

However, I live for the day when everyone has enough education and intellectual courage to dismiss the stone-age fairy tales of religions.

On that day, though, I hope humans will build a working spirituality that concords with scientific knowledge and learning.

Captain Kirk needs Bones on his left as well as Spock on his right: Neither hemisphere of the brain is worth sacrificing the other for.

 

What if one was killing you and you needed it removed? If your brain gives you consciousness, you'd be sacrificing one hemisphere for the other!

 

Metaphorically, mister Spock. In cases where on half is excised, the remaining hemisphere adapts to fulfil both functions, albeit at a reduced capacity.

Balancing both seems like the art of living to me.

 

That is correct. As is the fact that a well-working machine is still a well-working machine, even if it had no choice than to be one. You can deny the merit but you can't deny the value. Value is good enough for me.

Usually, I quickly delete my posts and repost them in their edited form rather than just silently edit them, because my edits are too damn important to go unnoticed.

 

I wonder what would happen if you removed just a llittle of one hemisphere...

Determinism is fallacious, pal!

 

It is?

 

God help us if precise brain surgery replaces therapy to get people functioning again in a society growing out of control.

The invention of lobotomies is one of the darkest and most disturbing examples of "scientists" gaining unreasonable authority and therefore getting a carte blanc from society to ice-pick any mofo behind the eyes.

It's important to scrutinise why white-coats are the new priesthood, and to keep an eye on them, which I think is a valid point Xyle made, albeit badly.

 

Weak induction, buddy!

Man, I'm loving this whole free-for-all-thread vibe!

 

Man, you crazy!

 

How?

 

Well, what makes you think it's true/makes sense?