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Cognisant And thus Darwin strikes again. Humanity, regardless of its sophistication can never escape natural law, and the technology he invents to fight it only accelerate the process. We shall replace ourselves.

walfin perhaps I shall make a yahoo account and take you up on that later:)

Funny on both counts, but I think that would fail. :D

I have been stricken by an entj, and I don't know how to read her, because i am an idiot. We shall see if this enterprise will fail or succeed. :confused:

True, Go originated in ancient China, but it came into its own in Japan. The rules to chinese and japanese go are ever so slightly different. The modern, internationally accepted version, is the japanese variant. It is also worth noting, that the modern chinese play with the japanese style.

I wouldn't mint that. But I do not know any servers, and the one I keep getting lead back to does not seem to work. If you or somebody else could suggest one, I would be more than willing.

Yeah, the chess programs I have played have always given me a better challenge than their Go counterparts. Real people are always fun though, and I find Go to be the better game. My game board is a $20 travel set, but I wish I had the money to buy a big Go-ban and some good stones, and other...

ha ha, yeti that hails from space, ha ha. you is a funny one

The japanese strategy game based on area denial and resource distribution. It is really quite wonderful.

Well, while I must admit, meeting Cthulhu would be kind a cool, he is also Cthulhu. And I need the A. :rolleyes:

quite so :D

What is the point? If it doesn't work, then its fracking stupid. If it ever did work, which it wont, then it would be dangerous. Either way it seems counter productive.

Does a set of all sets contain itself? :confused:

Yes, that is the answer. Also the other way to figure it out is that Einstein is German, so he made german the answer. It isn't using the logic, but it is anecdotally true.

The fish is owned by one of them, but you have to deduce who has it based on the use of all of the provided hints. There are five houses, each occupant has a pet, a drink, a preferred form of smoking, and a nationality. There are four pets given+ the fish

The scandinavian european states... The american education system... modern day culture... :D:D:D

anyone solved the riddle yet?

Duxwing, there IS an answer. And yes, process of elimination, and yes someone owns the fish. Good luck I suggest making a chart or table of some kind

Well natural selection seems to be correct, and it is a principle you can see wherever you look, even in economics. One adapts to best meet a certain situation and then thrives, if the situation changes again, one must then adapt again, or die. It is a principle that is utterly pervasive in...

Here is a famous riddle by Einstein! It should be challenging and interesting... And no googling the answer :aufsmaul: There are no tricks, just pure logic, so good luck and don't give up. 1. In a street there are five houses, painted five different colours. 2. In each house lives a person...

Adaire Actually, we cal the romantic era (as in literary/ artistic/ musical) romantic because prior to the industrial revolution, marriage was done for primarily business purposes. Marriage was largely arranged. The reasons differed with class. Kings would marry their children to forge...

Duxwing, I will always admire your talent for prose, and your rather romantic way of putting things. Every time I read what you write, I feel like I am about to ride into battle with my saber drawn. ;)

Yes, Duxwing, I shall be executed by the university. :D Nah, my academic integrity would be questioned. I might be sanctioned or even expelled if accused of something like plagiarism, which is an accusation that can be levied if one does not cite properly. :segen:

Sad but true. I don't see me changing the established way of doing things, I only wish we could devise a better system. But the current one's are too entrenched, and if I turned a paper using my own system, I would automatically fail, and probably get dragged before the honor council.

As a student, I am well versed in MLA and Chicago style citation, and I find them clunky. Yes, I see their necessity, we can't have unsubstantiated claims or theft of intellectual property, but the way in which we cite things is so unwieldy. I also recognize the need for a standardized way of...

I am blind as a bat on both counts, but I like my glasses and take them as a point of style.

SpaceYeti Yes, the first cause would technically be the first moment in time, but the first moment in time is not, nor could it be, a cause in and of itself, it requires a means to actualize. This means would be the thing worth finding. Why do I call this thing god? Well what exactly defines...

Am I to argue epistemology now? Surely you take some theory to heart, though you have no reason to believe in it yourself objectively, as you were not there to verify it. After a certain point reasoning must become rather subjective, because the most one can do at a certain level is theorize...

Well, there is obviously nothing I could produce to objectively say that this is the case. That is physically impossible. But back to what I said initially, it would seem that something so well designed must be designed. It is a brick wall as compared to a pile of rubble. This is not to say...

Do not worry, I am not offended, nor do I intend to offend. I am not being intentionally derisive, it is just my nature I suppose. So here is a kitty to make up for it. :cat::o

I will concede on this point, that perhaps it is wrong to point to the order alone, but consider again my game analogy. God is the game, the rules are the order, but the game is defined by its rules. So god is defined by the order. So while it may be inappropriate to say directly that god is...

To this Duxwing, my good friend, all I can say is that I don't care. Conversely consider the fact that I would consider god as order, and realize that by your logic, you would offend me greatly when you call my "god" something utterly meaningless. Consider the things said against me, which I...

No, I am not a pantheist, though arguably you could call em a pandeist (it is a thing), for a very simple reason. There is a degree of separation between what I call god and the universe. The order can exist by itself, but it is not in and of itself, the universe. The universe exists within and...

Consider HOW I have defined my god, and it all makes sense. My god, for all intents and purposes is that order. To me god is, as I have said, perfect, eternal, and omnipresent, and not interfering. Universal order satisfies this definition and so to me it is god. Take the order away, and you get...

SpaceYeti What is the purpose of order, and why does it imply intent? Consider the universe a game, consider what I call order as the rules of the game. The individual movements of the pieces are not the games purpose, rather the game is its own purpose. So while the rules of the game, and the...

Cognisant Sorry, I went to bed last night. Now it is time to respond. My definition of God is something that is eternal, perfect, ordered, and unified. What meets this definition you ask, the laws of nature. So I see no problem with this being referred to as god. And, no I do not believe in...

Well, physics is constant, that is all that matters. A dice has six sides, so when I roll it, I know I wont get seven, hence order. How things move within in this order does not effect the argument, the important thing is there is a limited number of possibilities. Also, on the point of...

Duxwing Well, on this I would say that order implies intent, and I see order. It is like observing the difference between a randomly arranged pile of rocks and a brick wall. It is only my opinion, he asked how I cam to the conclusion. But because that argument seems interesting, let us...

Who would win in a war between the Borg, the Flood (Halo), and the USSR?

By reason, I mean the use of reason and rationality to objectively explore my universe. It is the only tenet of Deism, and while it is common to may philosophies, to be a deist, your use of reason must lead you naturally to the belief in some kind of god, and this is done without doctrine or...

I laugh at this thread, because I am appalled to think he is of my ilk. I am, myself, a deist, but the deist philosophy is based on the use of reason, this troll had none. Still, it makes me chuckle. :facepalm:

I once questioned my humanity after first reading plato's concept of the tripartition of the soul. I understood that I had spirit and rationality, but I really seemed at the time to lack appetite, I still do. For a while the concept made me very depressed. But now I realize my ambitions are just...

I want to thank you for your posts on my thread. Your arguments seem to come with more force than most people's. You have my respect. On another note, you have passed my social litmus test, and you can be my friend. :D

I too declare myself a deist, but I do not think of a conscious god who abandoned his creation, but rather a god who is physical law, and thus is a pervasive order, and that everything in the universe acts by itself within the confines of this order. Thus from the perspective of humanity...

Nope, not at all. Why do you ask? If you mean where do I go to school, I am actually going to school out of state, but my home residence is in WV.

Well, language ideally strives to be both utilitarian and varied and complex enough to be fully descriptive. In early attempts at conlanging, many people tend to do things which are too overly complex, confusing, or arbitrary to actually work. This can most often be seen in these people's...

I'll give you a few simple things, though I warn you some of my words are frightfully derivative, and others are out right stolen from one of the aforementioned languages. Picture the syntax as something like a jewish Yoda (sorry if that's offensive). Grammar wise I have three genders...

A conlang is an abbreviation for an artificially constructed language. The purposes for designing one's own conlang are various. Some people may wish to enhance the atmosphere of a fictional universe they are creating, some may wish to encrypt private writing, such as a journal, and some may be...

Would we want such a thing? At that point it seems we become more like children or slaves than men. And if it never provides a straight answer, what use will it be anyway? I seems as though men would be bound to inevitably misinterpret the class 0's advice, and make things worse for...

I like it, but the class 0 confuses me. Shouldn't it be below class one? After all it has no will of its own. So though it is of higher intelligence, it is presumably, once again, just a tool. Whereas a class 1 AI would be considered at least a human equal, and perhaps, considering the nature of...