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On 14 Aug 2015, at 23:21, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote
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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 15:27:29 +0200
On 13 Aug 2015, at 13:15, Kim Jones wrote:
OK - so the inability to be sure if someone is an idiot is just as
fraught as trying to be sure that they are intelligent, I
On 14 Aug 2015, at 23:21, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote:
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Idiocy only ever applies to other people
explained by
Chaotic Inflation. Easy peasy.
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I am curious you
I am curious you seem to speak of idiots exclusively in terms of them
of some other group of individuals. Do you consider yourself to be
potentially an idiot or have you managed to achieve existential certainty
that idiocy is something that only ever applies to other people? If you have
Inflation. Easy peasy.
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I am curious you seem to speak of idiots
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Chris, when you can think of politicians and actors of your political
preference, who behave idiotically
From: Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au
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Idiocy only ever applies to other people, yes. It's like sexual perversion and
corruption; these things
On 8/14/2015 2:11 PM, Kim Jones wrote:
Idiocy only ever applies to other people, yes. It's like sexual perversion and
corruption; these things are done only by others, never by me! Why I speak of the need
for some fabled 'test' - a bit like Alice drinking from the bottle marked 'drink me'.
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I simply feel it is hard to identify idiocy when it hits closer to home. In
fact, as I stated, holding a certain position or opinion may not, in fact be
idiotic at all. I sometimes feel
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OK - so the inability to be sure if someone is an idiot is just as fraught as
trying to be sure that they are intelligent, I hear you say. Sounds like the
ideal situation doesn't it! Tends to suggest that people rise only to the
heights of their incompetence at understanding whether they or
directions, and the most intelligent *can* soon make or assert the
biggest stupidity, all the time.
Bruno
Are you sure you weren't just chewing mint?
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Subject: Re: Idiot Test
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 17:21:19 +0200
On 12 Aug
On 12 Aug 2015, at 01:42, meekerdb wrote:
If you think you have a sure fire way to identify an idiot...it's you.
It might be easy, for some class of beings. Perhaps, for the human, a
simple criteria is simply being adult, and for a computer, being not
yet programmed.
Idiocy reveals
On 13 Aug 2015, at 13:15, Kim Jones wrote:
OK - so the inability to be sure if someone is an idiot is just as
fraught as trying to be sure that they are intelligent, I hear you
say.
I was saying that idiocy is easy to judge, but you can also deduce
impossible to assert (of oneself or
missed the message
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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 15:27:29 +0200
On 13 Aug 2015, at 13:15, Kim Jones wrote:
OK - so the inability to be sure if someone is an idiot is just as fraught as
trying to be sure
On 14 Aug 2015, at 8:21 am, chris peck chris_peck...@hotmail.com wrote:
So, to cut to the chase, when a thread appears claiming the benefit of a
psychedelic is to work out who the idiots are, when it is suggested that the
substance be used in such a miserly way, I can't help but feel
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On 12 Aug 2015, at 01:06, Kim Jones wrote:
On 11 Aug 2015, at 10:26 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:No doubt
that it would be interesting to look at. Salvia has been called a cure
can't use!!!
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On 12 Aug 2015, at 01:06, Kim Jones wrote:
On 11 Aug 2015, at 10:26 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
No doubt that it would be interesting to look at. Salvia has been
called a cure of ... atheism (the non agnostic one 'course). Not
that it makes you believe in anything new, it
On 11 Aug 2015, at 10:26 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
No doubt that it would be interesting to look at. Salvia has been called a
cure of ... atheism (the non agnostic one 'course). Not that it makes you
believe in anything new, it just shows reasons to doubt more, and to
Oh I'd enjoy that test! :) But I'd enjoy even more administering it to John
Clarke. I suspect I already know the result however.
On Tuesday, August 11, 2015 at 10:09:42 AM UTC+10, Kim Jones wrote:
OK - perhaps this post is not entirely serious. I don't actually know.
There appears to be no
On 11 Aug 2015, at 02:09, Kim Jones wrote:
OK - perhaps this post is not entirely serious. I don't actually know.
There appears to be no reliable test of idiocy. Even people who
invite others to participate in games of running along a lawn while
a drone fires rockets at them may not
On 11 Aug 2015, at 10:55, Pierz wrote:
Oh I'd enjoy that test! :) But I'd enjoy even more administering it
to John Clarke. I suspect I already know the result however.
I agree, but it is not entirely obvious, as I think John C does not
lie to himself, only to us.
Sometimes, I am not sure
On 12 Aug 2015, at 9:42 am, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote:
If you think you have a sure fire way to identify an idiot...it's you.
Brent
You, sir - are no one’s idiot.
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On 8/11/2015 4:06 PM, Kim Jones wrote:
On 11 Aug 2015, at 10:26 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be
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No doubt that it would be interesting to look at. Salvia has been called a cure
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 4:55 AM, Pierz pier...@gmail.com wrote:
Oh I'd enjoy that test! :) But I'd enjoy even more administering it to
John Clarke. I suspect I already know the result however.
Idiot or not at least John Clark knows how to spell his last name.
John K Clark
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Oh I'd enjoy that test! :) But I'd enjoy even more administering it to
John Clarke. I suspect I already know the result however.
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