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http://dilbert.com/dyn_file/str_strip/130662/gif/strip.print/ Modern philosophers need a new learning method....

http://www.happyplace.com/3080/the-7-most-brilliantly-pointless-street-fliers/page/1

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/parachute/Parachute%20Games%20-%20Risk%20Assessment.pdf How Not To Maim Kids While Playing Parachute Games - For Morons.

""How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?" (Albert Einstein allegedly) - because it isnt. If it was independent of experience, it would not be a science but arbitrary speculation with no [meaningful] connection to reality.

"3,000,000 gamers cant be wrong" - by that logic no dictator with popular support has even been evil.

"Capitalism is built on Reality, Government is built on Lies. " completely absurd over-generalisation. Ugh. It implies anarchy, which makes capitalism impossible.

"Cheers to the man who dug into the meat of an Apple. A fellow who once slept on a couch, and died on top of an empire. To an innovator, a creator, and a true genius...cheers to Steve Jobs." - Brittney Fay Rivera I like this way of putting it, it is a nifty little testament.

"Contrary to what most beleive, science is not about determining the truth ; strictly speaking there is no such thing as truth in science" Keith Devlin "There is no quantum world, only an abstract quantum description" - Neils Bohr. These are the voices of "science" in the modern world. Yet "physics" is nearly complete? Obviously this is an absurd assertion that makes as much sense as me claiming that I am a penquin with roller skates for feet.

"Courageous Restraint" - what a joke :/ Nobody that wants to win a war / understands how to win one would be able to utter those words together in such a context. Might as well send a memo to the enemy reading "Hey, not really trying to kill ya, just taking pot shots. No hard feelings?" ( quoting myself here from another FB thread).

"Existence contains everything, so since it is finite, it cannot contain infinity in any way." see my previous post about infinity. Qua valid concept, it does not claim infinity exists qua infinity, it refers to a potential / a mathematical tool.

"Hey guys! I killed a Stormtrooper! Its their leader too!" "Oh yeah? They all look like interchangeable people to me. Got any evidence it was this leader guy?" Surely the US government realizes that we cannot simply take them at their word.

"I adore brilliant villains almost as much as I adore ingenious heroes." - Seems to me like you value nothing Mr [Name Removed].

"I am a warrior! Not a murderer!" - Worf. Strange thing for a military officer to say. Especially one that reveres a savage Viking warrior culture that eroticizes hunting, brutal blood-sports, fights to the death and even glorious death in battle ( Star Treks Klingons as of later TNG). Yes , you might point out that he is saying he will not kill someone in a way that is *unlawful*. But it is unclear if military opertions, or Starfleet operations particulary are covered by standard laws or s...

"In cases of temporal distortions, effect often precedes cause" - idiot Star Trek writers. That is a blatant statement of the fact that time travel ( at last time travel back in time) contradicts the Law of Causality. Sci-fi writers should not try to explain time travel if they are to use it in their stories , any "explanation" by its nature impossible. Better yet - don't use time travel in plots.

"Is the requirement of "falsifiability" a valid criteria for scientific truth?" is the current topic (until I say otherwise) for his Reasons Domain Chat. You can find that here at : http://www.reasonsdomain.com/chat/

"It's a national orgasm! A nationgasm, a 9/11, our 9/11, a good 9/11!" ( in reference to the Rugby World Cup, which "kicks off" during the 9th month of 2011 ) - this is the sort of offensively stupid comment that reminds me why I do not usually listen to anything radio DJs have to say on popular radio. Is this the sort of stupid crap people really want to hear? If it is, the general public are idiots.....

"It's true that science gives an approximation of reality, or a best fit with given data, and is not in fact an absolute description of reality." "That's indisputable. So how is it that someone who has a reverence for the knowledge of reality can say that it is not necessary to study science? " [ the context is that this person thinks Ayn Rand and others should have felt morally obligated to have a solid grasp of the 'hard" sciences such as physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology and so for...

"Kane, supporting the views of another is always a second hand activity. Making them your own, and then sanctioning them in another is the correct method." - another lowlight from the mouth of the same clueless person. By this logic, it is "second hand activity" to agree with anything anyone else says. It is "second hand activity" to accept what they say, EVEN IF one understands their arguments and the basis in reality for those arguments themselves. Extremely bad reasoning there.

"Lakoff and Núñez make a great deal of the fact that different areas in mathematics define the natural numbers in different ways. For instance, in axiomatic set theory all natural numbers (and in fact, ultimately all mathematical entities) are defined as sets. One defines the number 0 to be the empty set, 1 to be the set whose only element is the empty set (so that 1 itself is not the empty set, but a little like a closet which contains only an empty box; the box is empty but the closet is no...

"Les Miserables is not about the policeman, it is about Jean Valjean : The victim of a monstrous injustice, a man that helps people, makes enormous sacrifices." *rolls eyes*

"Making arguments ain't very smart or good, but a nice debate is. " - I will be honest and admit I got this from a SW forum ( Im a SW geek, I admit it)...but at least I am not that guy. Strange how it is always the stupid person that says this kind of stuff..

"That's unfortunate that you never progressed beyond destructive nihilism." - what other kind is there?

"The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous. " - Carl Sagan Some people do not like exercising though

"The difference between the good guys and the bad guys is whether they use human shields or they make themselves the human shields" [ this is in the context of war apparently ] So apparently the differentiating factor between a good person and a bad person is which of the following alternatives one chooses : Acting like some sort of cartoon villain that sacrifices everyone to yourself or acting like a martyr and killing yourself instead. Thanks for providing us with a third alternative,...

"The most dangerous part of a gecko is its mind!" - Martin Crane. Hehe. I am sure that is what its prey think as the gecko lures it into traps using stuff it ordered from Acme.