carlson test and debunking randi

drkitten said:
It is specifically happy horse manure.
It is intellectually vacuous when not actively wrong, and has all the conceptual merit of a half cup of warm spit. I would express myself with greater strength but there is that pesky new Membership agreement and I have no wish to face a suspension for telling you just how asinine it is.
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Stop beating around the bush... tell us how you REALLY feel! :)
 
drkitten said:
It is -- specifically -- a load of fetid dingo's kidneys that is not worth addressing in any greater specificity. It is intellectually vacuous when not actively wrong, and has all the conceptual merit of a half cup of warm spit. I would express myself with greater strength but there is that pesky new Membership agreement and I have no wish to face a suspension for telling you just how asinine it is.
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"Otherwise OK?"
 
Idunno - Do you honestly think that the stuff that you advocate deserves any more of my attention?

Try a straight answer - no cuteness, no smilies.
 
drkitten said:
It is specifically happy horse manure.

The concepts of "yin" and "yang" have no observable basis in reality; they're simply lumping together several unrelated concepts. I might as well define the word "zurp" as meaning "related to football, painted green, larger than twenty stories tall, or battery-operated" and then note that the increase in the number of football teams, the increasing size of buildings, and the increasing number of battery-operated things all show a dangerous increase in the amount of zurp in the world that can only be addressed by painting green things in another color.

The "right side"/"left side" dichotomy you cite is a discredited (false) popularization of science, up there with the "10% of our brain" myth -- as is the disctinction you draw between "logic" and "intuition" (check out some of the psych research on how people actually solve "logic" puzzles; start with Wason's four-card task).

Basically, very few of the statements you make have any basis in reality. Most of it doesn't even rise to the dignity of error.

It is -- specifically -- a load of fetid dingo's kidneys that is not worth addressing in any greater specificity. It is intellectually vacuous when not actively wrong, and has all the conceptual merit of a half cup of warm spit. I would express myself with greater strength but there is that pesky new Membership agreement and I have no wish to face a suspension for telling you just how asinine it is.
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This is one of the funniest - and most truthful - things I have read this week.
 
Idunno- I've sent the PM describing the twins to two other forumites. Fire away. What personality difference (if any) can be ascribed to being born twenty minutes apart?
 
I asked about the I Ching because it was pitched to me mucho years ago as a form of astrology. Maybe akin to astrology would be more accurate?

idunno: What do you say?
 
idunno said:
funny that nobody commented on this?????:boggled: :boggled: :boggled: :boggled: :boggled: :boggled: :boggled: :jaw-dropp
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I started to, to tell you the truth. I got this far:

idunno said:
i just missed my bus so i still have some time.
CA is based on Chi and Yin-Yang.

yang- positive, masculine, man, light,logic
yin- negative, feminine, woman, darkness,intuition

the history of the west has been one of repressing the yin in favor of yang, so
- we repressed women
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As no Asian culture ever did.

idunno said:
- wevrepressed the dark races(who normally believe in Wow)
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As no Asian culture ever did.

idunno said:
- we ignore the right sideof the brain at our peril, logic is everything, things must be black or white. No greys.
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And this is about where I gave up. I'll do one more now:

idunno said:
- since we find the more yin night and sleep useless, we try to get rid of it in divese manners, by turning lights on at night, watch TV, or go to Nite clubs filled with lights(yang). And naturally we have sleeping problems cause sleeping is a waste of time.
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As you know, to this day there are no electric lights, nightclubs, or television anywhere in Asia.
 
idunno said:
drkitten

have you got the results?
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At least one member has confirmed receipt of my answer via PM.

Please let us know what difference (if any) we should expect in the personalities of these children, based on the astrological differences.
 
Madalch said:
At least one member has confirmed receipt of my answer via PM.

Please let us know what difference (if any) we should expect in the personalities of these children, based on the astrological differences.
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yep in a few hours:p
 
I think he means he has got the profiles you sent him, but hasn't yet distributed them to the participants to make their choices because he's busy.
 
does Randi sleep in a bunk bed?

if so, every morning does he debunk himself?

these are the questions that need to be asked
 
idunno said:
Wow Vernon uses the same time as East coast, but is about 40 degrees farther west!!!!
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No it doesn't- it uses Pacific standard time. Did you want to recalibrate your assessment of the twins' personalities based on this?
 
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