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Silky The Pimp
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 Posted - 10/05/2002 : 9:32:46 PM
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I am starting to outline what's looking to become a fairly tough paper on realism and idealism as a quasi-false dichotomy in field of epistemology, and one of the topics that I'm going to cover is the way that determinism can be thought of as a contribution to realism.
In the outline I'm writing for the paper, under determinism I put: "everything is the result of antecedent states of affairs."
But to help me to remember it in less abstract terms I put:
"--think-- Homer accidentally builds a time machine out of a toaster and travels back in time... steps on an insect... and the future is forever changed. What are doughnuts?" :)
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pcbTIM
Alien Abductee
USA
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Posted - 10/05/2002 : 10:41:19 PM
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Ahhhhhhhhh.......my pupil is learning! Hehe. But seriously, it sounds like this paper is basically about how history repeats itself (I could be wrong, as I have a tendency to miss the point on matters like this). I'd throw in something about how Hitler did the same thing as Napolean when dealing with the Russians.
"Well you know boys, a nuclear reactor's a lot like a woman: you just have to read the manual and push the right button." - Homer |
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Alien Abductee
USA
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Posted - 10/05/2002 : 10:59:31 PM
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But to help me to remember it in less abstract terms I put:
"--think-- Homer accidentally builds a time machine out of a toaster and travels back in time... steps on an insect... and the future is forever changed. What are doughnuts?" :)
Man that has to be one of the funnest episodes I've seen. "I wish I wish I hadnt killed that fish" Lol, when he goes to sit and squashes that little fish. Or when he gets really upset, and starts killing everything with a bat, and he punches that big mosquito down out of the air, hahahaha.
"Oh come on boy think-what would Jesus do? He'd shake his head like an angry mother Smoke the boy and said I did what I could do." DMB-Raven |
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Silky The Pimp
Alien Abductee
3321 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2002 : 03:32:24 AM
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Ahhhhhhhhh.......my pupil is learning! Hehe. But seriously, it sounds like this paper is basically about how history repeats itself (I could be wrong, as I have a tendency to miss the point on matters like this). I'd throw in something about how Hitler did the same thing as Napolean when dealing with the Russians.
Bah! I wish it were that easy. I'd take a simple history paper over this jargon any day. This stuff deals more with the different schools of thought of what reality is and how we relate to it, and how it relates to science. It's interesting, yet excruciatingly boring at the same time.
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pcbTIM
Alien Abductee
USA
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Posted - 10/06/2002 : 06:17:32 AM
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I hear ya! But I'm sure you'd rather be writing that paper than taking my classes........a little calculus III here.....some electromagnetism there........and a bunch of statics to top it all off. Good clean fun.
"Well you know boys, a nuclear reactor's a lot like a woman: you just have to read the manual and push the right button." - Homer |
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Silky The Pimp
Alien Abductee
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Posted - 10/06/2002 : 11:16:31 AM
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a little calculus III here.....some electromagnetism there........and a bunch of statics to top it all off.
Ahhhhhh! Kill it kill it! Math makes my stomach turn. More power to ya if you, by some freakish natural curse from god, actually manage to take those classes and ENJOY them to any degree! After all... SOMEBODY has to do all that there engineering... uhh, stuff. :)
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pcbTIM
Alien Abductee
USA
6501 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2002 : 3:07:41 PM
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The funny thing is.......I HATE physics with a passion! I really hate it! But I enjoy calculus. I've always found that strange.
Also, I've often wanted to take at least one psycology class. I've found it interesting since my best friend is working on his master's right now. However, as an engineer, pyscology doesn't seem to be important enough to make it a core class. Maybe I'll take it over the summer......hmmmmmmm
"Well you know boys, a nuclear reactor's a lot like a woman: you just have to read the manual and push the right button." - Homer |
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Silky The Pimp
Alien Abductee
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Posted - 10/06/2002 : 3:24:01 PM
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If you have an interest in taking one, just try and take a broad survey course. Every university has one, and they're all the same. It just goes over a little bit of everything. If you are just taking one class for the hell of it, that's definitely the way to go. It's one of the only classes I've ever actually ENJOYED... and is by far my favorite class I've taken here. Just about every other psych course I've taken since then has just been a more in-depth look at the material we learned in the intro to psych course.
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pcbTIM
Alien Abductee
USA
6501 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2002 : 3:46:02 PM
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I'll look into that. Thanks.
"Well you know boys, a nuclear reactor's a lot like a woman: you just have to read the manual and push the right button." - Homer |
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enthuTIMsiast
Alien Abductee
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Posted - 10/20/2002 : 02:17:30 AM
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take a broad survey course.
I tried to take that, but I got slapped so many times... |
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Silky The Pimp
Alien Abductee
3321 Posts |
Posted - 10/20/2002 : 1:03:18 PM
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| That... was.......... aweful... |
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KevinLesko
Alien Abductee
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Posted - 10/20/2002 : 1:06:58 PM
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| haha, that remind me of my STUDY ABROAD joke. If a girl ever asks you if you are interested in studying abroad, just start looking her up an down and see how long it takes her to get it. |
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enthuTIMsiast
Alien Abductee
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Posted - 10/20/2002 : 1:21:26 PM
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That... was.......... aweful...
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I am not the albatross of love, I am the human ellipsis. I am dot dot dot. - Leo Kottke
I hate beating people over the head with anything. We can all make up our own minds. What we don’t have is enough music. More music please. - Leo Kottke |
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Captain Petersburgh
Yak Addict
Canada
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Posted - 10/26/2002 : 7:33:31 PM
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Ahhhhhhhhh
mind was in the gutter there for a while. lol |
A nice word and a gun will get you alot farther than just a nice word |
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pcbTIM
Alien Abductee
USA
6501 Posts |
Posted - 10/26/2002 : 10:27:20 PM
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Gay marriage killed the dinosaurs. |
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Ahh Patrick would be proud...
