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Especially when I make an opening whose tone screams "Sit back down in your place, son." -Duxwing

*dope slap* Not cute. -Duxwing

Awww, Proxy thought that something was cute! That event is in itself cute. :) -Duxwing

Cavalier, are you OK? *concerned look* -Duxwing

He's more beautiful than his picture during his deal with the Devil; afterward, he's far, far more ugly. -Duxwing

What if Scorpiomover is the ghost of Dorian Gray?! -Duxwing

And we cannot eliminate this bias? Being unable to find facts to support your position is no excuse for not having them and then passing your opinion off as if it were something carefully researched. And I take other things not seriously enough at other times. Is knowing the truth of...

The Introvert No objective truth exists, and even if it did, then we couldn't comprehend it because of Godel's theorems, the Is-Ought rule, and the infinite regress of definition. -Duxwing

I have no problem talking face to face or on the phone; albeit, the latter is somewhat harder because I can't see the other person's face and the device itself or the misuse thereof can distort their voice. -Duxwing

Why do you keep playing the age card? :confused: Didn't you pay attention in logic class? The nature of the person making a point has no effect on the truth and validity of the point itself. And documentaries are the sum total of reality. :facepalm: And you call me a know-it-all...

--In general, being shown to be incompetent, for example: >Losing a debate in front of the whole class >Being unable to solve a logic puzzle, and then having the entire class-- and especially the teacher-- pick on me for it. >Having a theory of mine unexpectedly and mercilessly...

Non-sequitur: Most of them have never even had the choice. Data? The Amish didn't reject the Western cultural paradigm, they just arbitrarily decided to stop advancing their technology beyond a certain point. -Duxwing

*leaps from his pick-up truck, his flannel shirt flapping in the wind* Ah y'all callin' me a dumb Amurcan? *reaches into the truck-bed to produce a red white and blue double-barreled shotgun* Ah'll blast yer commie brains all over th'trees! -Duxwing

Your post contains more than one point, and furthermore, your initial argument about the psychological motivations of reductionists displayed their philosophy in a dismissve tone. Therefore, you either had a slip of the tongue and allowed your personal contempt for reductionism to seep into your...

Exponents can be negatine, too, so Architect is technically still correct; Nevertheless, 'asymptotal' is preferable. Right, but it isn't cyclical in the short term, and Architect distinguished between the long and short terms. By 'explosions,' do you mean the detonations of explosives, or...

Welcome to the respected office of Duxwing, P.M. (Public Menace). When did the problem start? -Duxwing

*Gazes through the walking throngs and out into the glowing windows of Venice's bars and shops as Cavallier pushes the gondola along. A bottle of sparkling cider fills the well-worn seat beside him, and upon his back there is neither pleated shirt nor silky jacket, only a running sweatshirt as...

A pure tone is the average of the wave, and that's what I wanted to prove. A more complicated tone is... more complicated. :) The Introvert ^^This is what you're looking for. -Duxwing

Greetings and felicitations, newcomer. *Vulcan Salute* -Duxwing

Cog, look out! Grandfather paradox! -Duxwing

Welcome to the forum, newcomer. You've inspired me to write this: High ho, high ho, the trolls abound herein. But beneath the Forum Banner, You'll be safe among your kin. O High ho, high ho, the trolls do march again. So let fly the Forum Banner And by horse the message send...

*hugs back* :) -Duxwing

If you're anti-social, then why are you a teacher? :confused: And how can someone be "too friendly," either; wouldn't being less friendly equate to being more unpleasant? Perhaps you mean that they relentlessly pry at you or participate in the exchange of inane drivel as their entertainment...

I think that you mean "mores"; social morays would be the following, but with a tuxedo and cocktail. -Duxwing

Ah, thanks! *cue ominous music* Why bring only Ti out to play here? And now I feel all warm and fuzzy inside. :) Indeed, INTP's are not the XSTJ's that society seems to want, and this feeling of uselessness could very well trigger depression, thereby lowering modal happiness in the...

We've just started the horrific torture reading the book. Given my desire to re-animate and kill Jane Austen, then, Samuel Clemens and I think alike on this matter. :) -Duxwing

I've heard that you're not an INTP but an INTX. Is this statement true? So do you, therefore, not have the right mix of luck and talent? I don't think that anyone is 'really' happy (that is, happy all the time): happiness is not the lowest state of arousal, and considering that the brain...

Oh, thanks! :) -Duxwing

I couldn't bring myself to read any more than a few pages because I didn't know that it was intended as a critique. Also, thanks for ruining whatever was left of that sack of wine. -Duxwing

We can't understand those complicated tones until we understand pure tones. To analogize, one cannot understand chemistry without understanding atomic theory. I have no real opinion on this matter, and I apologize if I appeared to express one. -Duxwing

Oh! It's a critique? I sincerely thought that the book espoused such flagrantly disgusting behavior. You're right. I overstated my point: I don't read books in order to experience nothing but the inner angsts of jerks in agonizing detail. -Duxwing

Does the psychological state of the person making a claim affect the truth and validity of the claim? No, so, although some people, including myself to a degree, attempt to use their intellect as a coping mechanism for anxiety, let's not distract ourselves with useless psychoanalysis while...

Learn to cope, sir, learn to cope. :) Indeed. -Duxwing

SpaceYeti's logic was not, as you claim, "Old, therefore bad"; instead, it was "Old fiction, therefore designed to be long, therefore full of text unrelated to the themes, therefore bad". And "it takes effort" to cut my legs off with a spoon, too, but I wouldn't do that. Yes, perhaps I...

The sine wave that you've mentioned actually represents the pressure oscillation that produces the sound, not the sound itself. The tone that you hear is the midline of the wave, and if only a single wave is present, then, in theory, you should hear only one tone. -Duxwing

Hahaha. :) Join in! -Duxwing

You can't understand others, eh? Try understanding this: *hug* EDIT: D'oh, :D -Duxwing

Dear Forum, I HATE THIS BOOK! It's just a bunch of British people talking about gossip, romance, and feelings, and it makes me want to take a chainsaw to its author's heart and an ice pick to my own head. I can't believe that I actually have to read this drek for my English class! Euagh...

You're right, he could be in danger there. I'd give the kid a pocketknife and tell him to shove the thing up the priest's butt if the old fart tried any funny business. -Duxwing

Everyone I think that we can all agree that INTP's are tenacious little philosophers even when armed only with the mental faculties of a small child. If I ever had an INTP kid, then I'd teach him logic, make him swear to disavow my assistance, and send him into a church to argue with the...

I love a good victory. Quite right, all things in moderation. Never forget the seriousness of a child at play. So what? I can still imagine things like that, and I still do. I love my imagination, though it tortures and terrorizes me sometimes. And no, I'm 16, not 9. Why? I enjoy...

Surely you speak in jest. A boy's life hangs in the balance. -Duxwing

Sheldrake doesn't really have a clue about science or scientists, and his ignorance is salient. For example, his definition of "the materialist, reductionist dogma" is a manifesto of stupidity that is and should be shunned by almost every intelligent scientist. The rest of his argument is...

For all we know, this is the only life that each of us has. Let us not shuffle off this mortal coil too soon lest we find out-- too late-- that nothing else comes after. -Duxwing

Re: ! The debate isn't over yet, so don't get too high on victory. Why are memories and abstractions necessarily wrong? When I was little, I was outraged by the injustice that I found around me: the caprice of schoolyard authority, the cruelty of my schoolmates unto each other and...

Wow, you put my words in your signature. Cool! -Duxwing

I think what you're going for here is "Hakuna Matata": don't let yourself become trapped in unhealthy thought patterns, and, if not using your mind to explore vast abstract worlds or heartwarming memories, focus on enjoying the present moment in whatever way suits you. I, for example, often...

And how do you know that life will be bad? And furthermore, what "problems" are you worrying about, exactly? I'm not trying to say that they aren't real, I just don't know what they are. This is late stage, pre-suicidal depression talking. You should call that hotline soon before your...

Seconded. Why not burn the world? :twisteddevil: -Duxwing

You may feel like you're fine, but these two statements are mutually exclusive: Hating life "every single day," and believing that you will do so in the future-- in other words, feeling hopeless-- is a hallmark of depression, and your suicidal thoughts, regardless of their origin, pose a real...