Will the internet survive energy contraction?

[excaza]

Can we get back to the post where TFian said the average IQ of a black person is on par with an institutionalized retard?

 

[TubbaBlubba]

But, what's the point? Can't the same feeling be achieved with narcotics? (not that I dabble in that mind you..)

Probably. But someone has to make the narcotics. And people on narcotics are generally not very productive. And they do not provide the intellectual satisfaction of having achieved something.

Well, isn't that a bit star trek fantasyish?

Not really. We've got a lot of fundamental laws on the way of being worked out. We've come a long way when it comes to physics and cosmology.

Yes, why do you ask?

Would you want your loved one to die, or do you think your loved one would want you to die? Would you care if it happened?

 

[TubbaBlubba]

Can we get back to the post where TFian said the average IQ of a black person is on par with an institutionalized retard?

Yes, I'd like to see the citations for that as well.

 

[TFian]

Not really. We've got a lot of fundamental laws on the way of being worked out.

But isn't to the ends of the solar system a bit out of reach?

Would you want your loved one to die, or do you think your loved one would want you to die? Would you care if it happened?

I'm not sure why it should. Death has never really troubled me, it happens to everyone and everything after all. It's just a natural process.

 

[TubbaBlubba]

But isn't to the ends of the solar system a bit out of reach?

For humans, at the moment? Yeah. In a few decades? I don't know.

I'm not sure why it should. Death has never really troubled me, it happens to everyone and everything after all. It's just a natural process.

So you would say, not feel a sadness over the fact that you would never love that person again? Would you care if that person felt sadness over the fact that you were gone?

 

[TFian]

For humans, at the moment? Yeah. In a few decades? I don't know.

Few decades we'll be at the end of the solar system? Weren't we supposed to be at Mars already?

So you would say, not feel a sadness over the fact that you would never love that person again?

No, why would I? We'll all be dust one day.

Would you care if that person felt sadness over the fact that you were gone?

Well they can choose to feel how they see fit. If I'm dead, I'm not sure what it would matter to me?

 

[excaza]

Can we get back to the post where TFian said the average IQ of a black person is on par with an institutionalized retard?

Hello? Citations please, TFian.

 

[PixyMisa]

But isn't to the ends of the solar system a bit out of reach?

Nope.

I'm not sure why it should. Death has never really troubled me, it happens to everyone and everything after all. It's just a natural process.

That's your choice. But this:

Actually, I want humankind to go extinct.

Is not.

As I said earlier, you want to lie down in the mud and die; more than that, you want and expect everyone else to lie down in the mud and die with you. Indeed, you've indicated that you are willing to use force against anyone who resists such a fate.

Once again, I suggest you read something other than the apocalyptic rantings of the certifiably insane. Something. Anything. Your entire worldview is based upon a set of fractal delusions. None of what you appear to believe is actually true.

And so it turns out that I am not, after all, interested in what you have to say about Kerala. I certainly couldn't trust it to have even the remotest connection to reality, and I can't trust your opinions to be rational even in light of what you believe.

In short, welcome to my ignore list.

 

[TubbaBlubba]

As I said earlier, you want to lie down in the mud and die; more than that, you want and expect everyone else to lie down in the mud and die with you. Indeed, you've indicated that you are willing to use force against anyone who resists such a fate.

Once again, I suggest you read something other than the apocalyptic rantings of the certifiably insane. Something. Anything. Your entire worldview is based upon a set of fractal delusions. None of what you appear to believe is actually true.

And so it turns out that I am not, after all, interested in what you have to say about Kerala. I certainly couldn't trust it to have even the remotest connection to reality, and I can't trust your opinions to be rational even in light of what you believe.

In short, welcome to my ignore list.

I haven't posted much, but I've read this entire thread, and it seems more like TF turning to the likes of the Grand ArchDruid to support his nihilistic and fatalist views, rather than getting them from there. It's a kind of apologism.

 

[excaza]

I haven't posted much, but I've read this entire thread, and it seems more like TF turning to the likes of the Grand ArchDruid to support his nihilistic and fatalist views, rather than getting them from there. It's a kind of apologism.

The wonders of google.

 

[drkitten]

Few decades we'll be at the end of the solar system? Weren't we supposed to be at Mars already?



No, why would I? We'll all be dust one day.



Well they can choose to feel how they see fit. If I'm dead, I'm not sure what it would matter to me?

I must say,.... if you're trying to convince us that you're not clinically psychopathic, showing off your complete lack of empathy isn't the best tactic to use.

 

[TFian]

I haven't posted much, but I've read this entire thread, and it seems more like TF turning to the likes of the Grand ArchDruid to support his nihilistic and fatalist views, rather than getting them from there. It's a kind of apologism.

I didn't get it from him no.

 

[TFian]

I must say,.... if you're trying to convince us that you're not clinically psychopathic, showing off your complete lack of empathy isn't the best tactic to use.

I'm not though. I couldn't care less if I was considered "clinically psychopathic".

 

[TFian]

In short, welcome to my ignore list.

*shrugs*

 

[Dancing David]

Child mortality rates fudged the numbers. The low life expectancy in earlier times was largely due to very high infant mortality. However most mature people died in their 40s or 50s, and some people died in their 80s or 90s. The average life expectancy in many African countries today is lower than life expectancy the Middle Ages or in Antiquity.

Excuse me is 60% die before age eight, then that is not fudging. Let me guess, you don't like math either.

And you just made another baseless assertion about life expectancy.

 

[Dancing David]

But isn't that the job of a psychologist/psychiatrist? To change the way you think to fit the norm?

No, it is to improve functioning in the chosen areas.

 

[TFian]

No, it is to improve functioning in the chosen areas.

By what means? How does one become more "functional"? Sounds like "normal" to me.

 

[drkitten]

By what means? How does one become more "functional"?

By being able to function better.

Sounds like "normal" to me.

No. You can be abnormal but still functional -- blind people can still read using Braille, for a rather extreme example. As a matter of fact, almost no one is "normal," but nearly everyone is functional.

 

[TFian]

By being able to function better.

Sounds like mind control to me.

No. You can be abnormal but still functional -- blind people can still read using Braille, for a rather extreme example. As a matter of fact, almost no one is "normal," but nearly everyone is functional.

Ah well ok. I still don't want their drugs in me.

 

[TFian]

Also, empathy is a luxury good, one I couldn't afford anyway.