RE: Idiot Test

2015-08-15 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2015 8:07 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Idiot Test On 14 Aug 2015, at 23:21, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote

Re: Idiot Test

2015-08-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
From: marc...@ulb.ac.be To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Idiot Test 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

Re: Idiot Test

2015-08-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Aug 2015, at 23:21, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: From: Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au To: everything-list@googlegroups.com everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 2:11 PM Subject: Re: Idiot Test Idiocy only ever applies to other people

Re: Idiot Test

2015-08-14 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
explained by Chaotic Inflation. Easy peasy. -Original Message- From: 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Fri, Aug 14, 2015 1:42 pm Subject: Re: Idiot Test I am curious you

Re: Idiot Test

2015-08-14 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
point in the enterprise of exploring the terrain of consciousness. The Idiot Test is a cynical exercise, you seemed to have missed that. It's a cartoon in words designed to focus on something sinister; either a lie or a form of stupidity. A thought bubble as we say nowadays. Just one grade better

Re: Idiot Test

2015-08-14 Thread Kim Jones
Inflation. Easy peasy. -Original Message- From: 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Fri, Aug 14, 2015 1:42 pm Subject: Re: Idiot Test I am curious you seem to speak of idiots

Re: Idiot Test

2015-08-14 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 12:39 PM Subject: Re: Idiot Test Chris, when you can think of politicians and actors of your political preference, who behave idiotically

Re: Idiot Test

2015-08-14 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au To: everything-list@googlegroups.com everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 2:11 PM Subject: Re: Idiot Test Idiocy only ever applies to other people, yes. It's like sexual perversion and corruption; these things

Re: Idiot Test

2015-08-14 Thread meekerdb
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'.

RE: Idiot Test

2015-08-14 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
@googlegroups.com] Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 6:12 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Idiot Test 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

Re: Idiot Test

2015-08-14 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Fri, Aug 14, 2015 5:17 pm Subject: Re: Idiot Test From: spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 12:39 PM Subject: Re

Re: Idiot Test

2015-08-13 Thread Kim Jones
ignorant that we would have been able to conceive before. Bruno Well, that’s it, surely. The Idiot Test administered in this way has as a basic assumption that only what might be called The True Public Idiot is by nature incapable of changing or modifying his stated beliefs. A hallmark

Re: Idiot Test

2015-08-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Aug 2015, at 01:06, chris peck wrote: Here's a thread with all the list's alpha-male geniuses mocking someone. Here's me, the village idiot, convinced they all pass their own idiot test with flying colours. lol. Looks you are the one mocking others, ... lol. I mean if the test

Re: Idiot Test

2015-08-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
more, and to recognize we are more ignorant that we would have been able to conceive before. Bruno Well, that’s it, surely. The Idiot Test administered in this way has as a basic assumption that only what might be called The True Public Idiot is by nature incapable of changing

Re: Idiot Test

2015-08-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
new, it just shows reasons to doubt more, and to recognize we are more ignorant that we would have been able to conceive before. Bruno Well, that’s it, surely. The Idiot Test administered in this way has as a basic assumption that only what might be called The True Public Idiot

RE: Idiot Test

2015-08-13 Thread chris peck
missed the message From: marc...@ulb.ac.be To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Idiot Test 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

Re: Idiot Test

2015-08-13 Thread Kim Jones
to this as 'baseline consciousness'. It is merely a starting point in the enterprise of exploring the terrain of consciousness. The Idiot Test is a cynical exercise, you seemed to have missed that. It's a cartoon in words designed to focus on something sinister; either a lie or a form of stupidity

RE: Idiot Test

2015-08-12 Thread chris peck
Here's a thread with all the list's alpha-male geniuses mocking someone. Here's me, the village idiot, convinced they all pass their own idiot test with flying colours. lol. I mean if the test involves understanding the implications of psychedelic drugs then you all just failed to do

Re: Idiot Test

2015-08-12 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
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Re: Idiot Test

2015-08-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
, it just shows reasons to doubt more, and to recognize we are more ignorant that we would have been able to conceive before. Bruno Well, that’s it, surely. The Idiot Test administered in this way has as a basic assumption that only what might be called The True Public Idiot is by nature

Re: Idiot Test

2015-08-11 Thread Kim Jones
, and to recognize we are more ignorant that we would have been able to conceive before. Bruno Well, that’s it, surely. The Idiot Test administered in this way has as a basic assumption that only what might be called The True Public Idiot is by nature incapable of changing or modifying his stated

Re: Idiot Test

2015-08-11 Thread Pierz
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

Re: Idiot Test

2015-08-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
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

Re: Idiot Test

2015-08-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
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

Re: Idiot Test

2015-08-11 Thread Kim Jones
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. Kim -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To

Re: Idiot Test

2015-08-11 Thread meekerdb
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 recognize we are more ignorant that we would have been able to conceive before. Bruno Well, that’s it, surely. The Idiot Test administered in this way has

Re: Idiot Test

2015-08-11 Thread John Clark
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 --

Re: Idiot Test

2015-08-11 Thread Pierz
On Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at 10:51:37 AM UTC+10, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 4:55 AM, Pierz pie...@gmail.com javascript: 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 Test

2015-08-10 Thread Kim Jones
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 actually qualify, ultimately, as idiots. It may be