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by Hype
Fri Dec 30, 2011 5:09 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: hey!
Replies: 14
Views: 6592

Re: hey!

University ain't supposed to be 'useful'. Being useful is overrated. Tools are useful. Are you a tool? :essence:
by Hype
Fri Dec 30, 2011 11:16 am
Forum: Music And Art
Topic: Artists on Artists
Replies: 3
Views: 2776

Re: Artists on Artists

Matz wrote:
Salvador Dalí on Pablo Picasso:
“He finished modern art at one blow by outuglying, alone, in a single day, the ugly that all others combined turned out in several years.”
that's pretty evil! Big fan of Dali though, I would really love to see an exhibition of his works once
Dali's right though.
by Hype
Thu Dec 29, 2011 8:09 am
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: hey!
Replies: 14
Views: 6592

Re: hey!

To be perfectly honest, I can't remember the difference between farrellgirl and pillargirl. Are they different? Anyway, 'hello'. :neutral:
by Hype
Wed Dec 28, 2011 10:12 am
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: Resolutions
Replies: 22
Views: 8431

Re: Resolutions

No. You're wrong. Where is the thread?
by Hype
Tue Dec 27, 2011 11:07 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: Resolutions
Replies: 22
Views: 8431

Re: Resolutions

No, you start the thread. :drink: :lol: I resolve to continue posting less and starting less threads in the New Year. It's been easy what with being so insanely busy. I should be marking 50 papers at the moment. In the thread Larry starts I will explain that what I said had absolutely nothing to do ...
by Hype
Tue Dec 27, 2011 11:04 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: Resolutions
Replies: 22
Views: 8431

Re: Resolutions

Larry B. wrote:
Adurentibus Spina wrote: I also think rocks have thoughts (that's not a joke... can talk about it in another thread maybe)
Ahhh, you're approaching the truth of the universe. One step at a time.
Start another thread. I'll explain why you've misunderstood me. :lol:
by Hype
Tue Dec 27, 2011 10:56 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: Resolutions
Replies: 22
Views: 8431

Re: Resolutions

Yeah I just wanted to say something about this because I've been arguing with fellow academics about it for years, and Will Kymlicka (big-name philosopher in my dept.) is publishing (or has already published, I forget) a book on animal rights, so everyone's talking about it. I don't have a problem w...
by Hype
Tue Dec 27, 2011 2:31 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: Resolutions
Replies: 22
Views: 8431

Re: Resolutions

I don't think even that argument was in favour of factory farming. No sane person thinks factory farming is good. My reason for posting it was mostly just that I think it's a mistake to think pescetarian or vegetarian eating is somehow harming less animals. A good reason for not eating factory farme...
by Hype
Tue Dec 27, 2011 1:40 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: Resolutions
Replies: 22
Views: 8431

Re: Resolutions

I'm going pescetarian after the new year so I'll be basically eating vegetarian+seafood. Mostly for health reasons and to try and lose some poundage but also because more and more I've been feeling bad about eating animals. I just don't think I could ever give up seafood cause I love it so. Plus yo...
by Hype
Tue Dec 27, 2011 12:09 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: Resolutions
Replies: 22
Views: 8431

Re: Resolutions

Less beer, more sleep.
by Hype
Sun Dec 25, 2011 11:20 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: People to immolate
Replies: 4
Views: 2793

Re: People to immolate

blackcoffee wrote:Hmmmm
The Pope.
The Ayatollahs.
Andy Dick.
William Lane Craig and all loudmouth Creationists (Behe, Dembski, et al.)

Basically most men. :noclue:
by Hype
Sun Dec 25, 2011 10:45 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: People to emulate
Replies: 15
Views: 5571

Re: People to emulate

Do you get paid for disagreeing with me?
Yes, in the case of our bet. :hehe:
by Hype
Sun Dec 25, 2011 9:05 am
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: People to emulate
Replies: 15
Views: 5571

Re: People to emulate

Larry, the problem is that sentences are not ideas, they're the symbolization of ideas, just like Jesus isn't Good itself, but a symbol of it (and not an overly ambitious one, anyway). I think the problem with admiring and emulating character in others is that to get it right, you'd have to see the ...
by Hype
Sun Dec 25, 2011 7:48 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Remember our bet, Hype?
Replies: 52
Views: 15982

Re: Remember our bet, Hype?

If Venezuela attacks Chile, it doesn't count either, because those countries are both pointless. :wiggle:
by Hype
Sat Dec 24, 2011 11:42 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Remember our bet, Hype?
Replies: 52
Views: 15982

Re: Remember our bet, Hype?

Jasper I'm a philosopher who specializes in systematicity and explanatory rationalism. I OBSESS about clarity. I was just being silly because in this case Larry has already lost, and he knows it. :lol:
by Hype
Sat Dec 24, 2011 8:45 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: People to emulate
Replies: 15
Views: 5571

Re: People to emulate

I would say not that I believe in sentences, but rather I believe that some things expressed by some sentences are true, and that this truth can be discerned through careful reasoning. Moral truths are often most easily expressed by actually being good (i.e., setting a good example), but care must b...
by Hype
Sat Dec 24, 2011 8:36 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Remember our bet, Hype?
Replies: 52
Views: 15982

Re: Remember our bet, Hype?

Jasper, we don't need to clarify anything! It's already clear. Larry's gonna buy me a couple of books in a year :) :lol:
by Hype
Fri Dec 23, 2011 10:40 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: People to emulate
Replies: 15
Views: 5571

Re: People to emulate

Don't emulate people. Emulate ideas. Exemplars are useful for packaging some group of ideas together, but the problem is that it's too easy to confused irrelevant features of people for what is causally important to what is valuable about them. This is the source of a lot of confusion in religion, ...
by Hype
Fri Dec 23, 2011 10:04 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Remember our bet, Hype?
Replies: 52
Views: 15982

Re: Remember our bet, Hype?

:confused: Larry you really ought to learn to think clearly and carefully.
by Hype
Thu Dec 22, 2011 7:47 pm
Forum: Jane's Addiction News
Topic: Warning: Music Composition nerdery inside
Replies: 32
Views: 14551

Re: Warning: Music Composition nerdery inside

I once asked my German Lit. prof if she thought great poets counted syllables. :lol:
by Hype
Thu Dec 22, 2011 6:01 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: People to emulate
Replies: 15
Views: 5571

Re: People to emulate

Don't emulate people. Emulate ideas. Exemplars are useful for packaging some group of ideas together, but the problem is that it's too easy to confused irrelevant features of people for what is causally important to what is valuable about them. This is the source of a lot of confusion in religion, a...
by Hype
Thu Dec 22, 2011 5:51 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: The sad song thread
Replies: 37
Views: 13070

Re: The sad song thread

by Hype
Thu Dec 22, 2011 11:08 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: The dark side of Dubai
Replies: 39
Views: 15464

Re: The dark side of Dubai

by Hype
Wed Dec 21, 2011 11:00 am
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
Topic: What's annoying you today?
Replies: 5380
Views: 1480409

Re: What's annoying you today?

I'm glad that Bob's on risperidone. You probably also need, or are on, lamotrigine (Lamictal).