WHAT ARE YOUR ASSUMPTIONS, SCHOOLBOY?
Kim Jones B. Mus. GDTL Email: [email protected] [email protected] Mobile: 0450 963 719 Phone: 02 93894239 Web: http://www.eportfolio.kmjcommp.com "Never let your schooling get in the way of your education" - Mark Twain > On 17 Feb 2014, at 2:00 am, "Edgar L. Owen" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Kim, > > I hope you are aware that constantly harboring so much hatred, especially > such delusional unfounded hatred, is quite likely to result in serious health > problems. > > For your own sake, I'd suggest you try to lighten up and see the bright and > healthy aspects of life! > > Best, > Edgar > > > >> On Saturday, February 15, 2014 7:20:09 PM UTC-5, Kim Jones wrote: >> >> >>> On 15 Feb 2014, at 10:58 pm, David Nyman <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> On 15 February 2014 10:25, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Yes, I wonder that. I generally assume people arguing on a forum like this >>>> are rational (ish) and hence that they intend what they say and when they >>>> keep avoiding questions it's because they don't want to answer them, and >>>> when they're rude and arrogant it's intentional, and so on. But sometimes >>>> I think they can't be conscious of what they're doing, that surely no one >>>> would want to be like that deliberately, at least no one interersted in >>>> truth and science - maybe money and politics. It's a mystery, to me at >>>> least. >>> >>> Galen Strawson recently quoted some remarks of Herbert Feigl that, mutatis >>> mutandis, might well apply more generally: "Philosophers are hypersensitive >>> .. in their repressed perplexities. A puzzle which does not resolve itself >>> within a given favored philosophical frame is repressed very much in the >>> manner in which unresolved intrapersonal conflicts are repressed. I surmise >>> that psychologically the first kind may be subsumed under the second. >>> Scholars cathect certain ideas so strongly and their outlook becomes so ego >>> involved that they erect elaborate barricades of defenses, merely to >>> protect their pet ideas from the blows (or the slower corrosive effects) of >>> criticism. No one can be sure that he is not doing this sort of thing in a >>> particular case, and I claim no exception for myself." (The Mental and the >>> Physical). >>> >>> And Sam Harris, in his reply to Dan Dennett in their recent debate on free >>> will, remarks that he's ".. begun to doubt whether any smart person retains >>> the ability to change his mind". Of course one might well wonder how >>> applicable the term "smart" would be if this were indeed the case (leave >>> alone the question of how "free" or otherwise we are to change our minds!). >>> >>> David >> In the case of Edgar it is so screamingly obvious that his continued >> appearance on this list is an expression of deep personal need to be >> appreciated as the genius he indubitably considers himself to be. It's >> actually quite instructive to see how this plays out in his posts. He has >> revealed a few personal tidbits about his past that lend weight to this - no >> need to repeat them here, but his agenda is indeed ego-driven and thus >> anti-rational, although he has not the slightest intention of acknowledging >> this since people have clearly been taking exception to his arrogant >> personal style for most of his life. Which is almost certainly why he has >> landed here, where he can simply bleat-away without fear of real reprisal. >> All of his thinking is messy and derivative and shot-through with lacunae >> and selective reasoning. This boy has never truly learnt how to think. I >> repeat again that the only effective way to deal with bullies and thickheads >> is to ignore their posts. Every post by Edgar is essentially an invitation >> to cross swords with his out-of-control ego, desperate for attention. The >> continued refusal to answer questions concerning his fundamental assumptions >> would have him thrown out of any science academy worth the name. You can of >> course, get away with any shit you want over the Internet. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
