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SilentScope001

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Posted in: Climate change issue not as clean as we thought?
  SilentScope001
03-13-2007, 11:41 PM
#6
I think the two "experts" are looking for a little attention. :dozey: Gotta love sensationalist journalism :) Er..."attack on the man", not on the issue? Big logical fallacy? We don't care about their positions. They have the...  [Read More]
Posted in: Climate change issue not as clean as we thought?
  SilentScope001
03-13-2007, 11:23 PM
#4
Neither the web site that linked to the article nor the Telegraph had an answer to that one, but I think the onus is that the blame lies with the doomsayers on climate change. Probrarly ELF, the Earth Liberation Front. I wouldn't be suprised if they...  [Read More]
Posted in: Zork online
  SilentScope001
03-12-2007, 11:42 PM
#10
I heard of zork, and immeadily started the game up. But I'm stuck...on what to do. I mean, if you don't want to be attacked by the grues, don't go into the House. But if you don't go into the House, all you do is sightsee on the mountains...Not fun...  [Read More]
Posted in: What are you?
  SilentScope001
03-12-2007, 1:57 AM
#4
Fine. Here's my profile: -> Nationality: American Citizen -> Basic political tenants: Sophism. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophism) Truth is an utter construct of the audience, and if you sawy the audience, you can change the Truth. (I thin...  [Read More]
Posted in: Help me Prove the Irrational is Wrong...
  SilentScope001
03-12-2007, 8:12 PM
#35
The idea that someone could believe in something they consider irrational is contradictory - obviously something irrational is incorrect, and you believe is not. To say you believe in the irrational is saying "The incorrect is correct." Obv...  [Read More]
Posted in: Help me Prove the Irrational is Wrong...
  SilentScope001
03-12-2007, 6:52 PM
#33
Is being angry a rational response if the guy behind you rear-ends your car? Is reacting to the guy hitting your car a rational response? Is being in love a rational response when you have an attractive partner that you have a lot in common with?...  [Read More]
Posted in: Help me Prove the Irrational is Wrong...
  SilentScope001
03-12-2007, 5:04 PM
#28
I think anyone that advocates the elimination of emotion is putting themselves in a very difficult position indeed. Rather than view emotion as the opponent of rationality, I would submit that emotion can act as a catalyst for either rational or irra...  [Read More]
Posted in: Help me Prove the Irrational is Wrong...
  SilentScope001
03-12-2007, 4:26 PM
#23
Yes, I agree. Both rationality and irrationality have their place in human nature and there's a time and place for each. Guess that sort-of stops my crusade to destroy the irrational once and for all. Oh well...hopefully others will listen. Guess it...  [Read More]
Posted in: Help me Prove the Irrational is Wrong...
  SilentScope001
03-12-2007, 4:03 PM
#19
My kids, while playing in the house, break a lamp. Of course I am going to be upset because I am a human being and I have emotions. I can opt to respond rationally by asking them to help clean up the mess and replace the lamp out of their allowance....  [Read More]
Posted in: Help me Prove the Irrational is Wrong...
  SilentScope001
03-12-2007, 2:52 PM
#17
If art is used as documentation of beauty, it should be called "documentation". :) Hm...wonder if that would be the first thing the rational person would say? :) Irrationality is what allows us to express individualism. If we eliminate ir...  [Read More]
Posted in: Help me Prove the Irrational is Wrong...
  SilentScope001
03-12-2007, 2:44 PM
#15
My assertions are: Emotions are irrational. Reason is rational. I concur. Very good definitions. - On beauty: If beauty is defined as mathematical elegance, then there is room for beauty in a purely rational society. Okay. - On art: If art is do...  [Read More]
Posted in: Help me Prove the Irrational is Wrong...
  SilentScope001
03-12-2007, 2:30 PM
#13
I want to be happy because it's more pleasing to me than any other condition I've experienced. Why do I consider it pleasant? I don't know, that's just the way I am. Ah, okay. I know there are limits, but we should always try to exceed them, I gues...  [Read More]
Posted in: Help me Prove the Irrational is Wrong...
  SilentScope001
03-12-2007, 1:44 AM
#7
Yet it did. "Choices" made in a dream have no (lasting) consequences, and what consequences they do have are determined entirely by your mind. In the real world, other people would be affected by it as well. I'm sure they'd tell you if it w...  [Read More]
Posted in: Help me Prove the Irrational is Wrong...
  SilentScope001
03-11-2007, 11:28 PM
#5
And those choices don't mean anything. I guess I meant by choice is the real effect the decision has. If the environment changes to your will, then the "choice" had no actual meaning, denying free will. And if you don't have free will, then...  [Read More]
Posted in: Help me Prove the Irrational is Wrong...
  SilentScope001
03-11-2007, 3:01 AM
#3
Choices only matter in an unchanging, external environment. Obviously if you're saying you make "choices" then you assume the objective world, because if it were not objective then "choice" could not exist. I did make choices whe...  [Read More]
Posted in: Help me Prove the Irrational is Wrong...
  SilentScope001
03-11-2007, 12:14 AM
#1
A note: I know there are a lot of people that pride rationality, like Achilles, ED, Jae, etc. I'm one of them. So, I think you can help me out on this project. I am writing my philosphy book upon Ideas, and I have made a (hopefully) stable proof tha...  [Read More]
Posted in: A question on Atheism
  SilentScope001
03-10-2007, 9:06 PM
#11
Ad hominem, and yes I'm well aware of making personal attacks on people. I think the issue lies however in Bush using religion to justify Iraq, whatever action he takes, or if he's even as mad as people say he is and is trying to bring about the end...  [Read More]
Posted in: A question on Atheism
  SilentScope001
03-10-2007, 8:50 PM
#9
Er... Do any of you know something called the "ad homien" logical fallacy? It ties into this question very well. Basically, instead of attacking the issue, you attack the person. Instead of attacking Bush's conduct on the War in Iraq, or...  [Read More]
Posted in: Progress Quest
  SilentScope001
03-09-2007, 9:43 PM
#1
After stating that I hate MMORPGs, I finally found one that fit my busy schudle, with a good storyline, awesome weaponary and races, and enough assistance. It's called Progress Quest, where you create a character through a list of classes and races....  [Read More]
Posted in: Who would you want as President first (Democratic Candidates).
  SilentScope001
03-10-2007, 8:29 PM
#23
RE-Race Card: If you accept the hypothesis that the first humans was born on the contient of Africa... Then we already got the first African American President (George Washigniton). And the second...and the third...etc.:) Hm. Maybe Hilary should pl...  [Read More]
Posted in: Who would you want as President first (Democratic Candidates).
  SilentScope001
03-09-2007, 9:24 PM
#16
If women were on average were better than men at politics, you arguments would have some merit... However, I have seen no evidence that is so. The best politicians of past and present were men, IMO. That's because MOST politicans of the past and pre...  [Read More]
Posted in: Who would you want as President first (Democratic Candidates).
  SilentScope001
03-08-2007, 9:53 PM
#7
Obama's not getting in the door in his wildest dreams. A mulatto Democrat from Hawaii via Chicago whose last name is one letter away from "Osama". Yeah, the Red States will vote for him. Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure. The goal is not to get the R...  [Read More]
Posted in: Why Democrats are Ineffective.
  SilentScope001
03-09-2007, 11:45 PM
#6
Oh, it turns out the Democrats has just read MacCorp's post and took his advice. They're doing SOMETHING. http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/135113.html Though it looks like they will be ineffective anyway. Horray for the Seperation of the Three Branc...  [Read More]
Posted in: Documentary shows possible Jesus tomb
  SilentScope001
03-12-2007, 3:26 PM
#33
It's a gross analogy, but think of the movie The Matrix. Neo's discovery of the truth is very difficult for him at first, but freeing his mind has some pretty nifty advantages that he has some good times with later. It's pretty much exactly like that...  [Read More]
Posted in: Documentary shows possible Jesus tomb
  SilentScope001
03-12-2007, 1:17 PM
#31
What I really want to see: A doctumentary showing the life of this middle-class family who is not Jesus, the holy man, but Haunun, a rich, middle-class Jew who is torn between supporting the Zealost terrorists and helping the Romans. A historical do...  [Read More]
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