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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2020 21:56:33 GMT
Look what you can accomplish when you apply yourself, foolly. A-The day I care about your assessment is the day that my faculties are severely diminished, my feathered friend. Anyway, how about this for 13 minutes of fun, a scammer getting locked out of his own computer Children, do not try this at home!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2020 22:08:52 GMT
This will worry you even more, I like Sagan, a lot. Very much 'of his time' and the presentation doesn't age at all well, but the way in which things are kept at a level where they can be understood without having to stop constantly and research what to the presenter is just part of his daily dialogue is excellent. I would like to cite Lawrence Krauss also, and for his academic work I will, but until the suggestions of inappropriate behaviour are dealt with I'll stop short of recommending that anybody go out of their way to buy anything by him. If you want a laugh, don't mind watching him whilst those accusations still stand, and have an hour free, find his debate with William Lane Craig. It's an absolute bloodbath, that's how you prepare for and deliver your argument in a debate. Ref Kerauoc. Anybody who claims to be a Catholic has a lot to answer for. And before people get their knickers in a twist, I didn't say that Catholics are, by default, bad people, it's the institution that's rotten to the core. Kerauoc pretty much Buddhist at the end, I think. I’ll accept science and presentation can date. The Corduroy jacket may come back into fashion if global warming gives us dry springs and autumns to match California’s. As a fine illustration what I mean as difference between between (sometimes heavy) real science and the creative stuff bordering fiction (easier to read), all clearer when the same person jumps between both examples. Richard Feynman. Amazing scientist, yet all the wives who divorced him said trying to have conversation with him at breakfast, his heads somewhere else, calculating calculation, like Organ Morgan playing his favourite Bach. But His Feynman caltech lectures on physics in the early 60s are timeless faultless introduction to building up the basics to thinking in the world of physics. Making the clever stuff easier to learn. And not just in my opinion. I used to keep a copy in the closet, never waste five minute sit down when you can multitask. However when he attempts to blend the science with social commentary in The Meaning of It All, discusses everything from the church and education to war, from flying saucers to faith healing, it’s nothing short of embarrassing. Rather than inspire any lead from it, he comes across as a blundering third way Blairite (Blair/Bush war in the Middle East for example has still arguably killed more people than COVID-19). Sure there are questions of ethics in all science, Feynman himself worked on the bomb. And when science contradicted church orthodoxy not all the history is good. But it may be the scientists themselves are not best to turn to untangle the ethical questions, more like they are the playful kittens making a mess, others need to do the tidying up. What manual do you suggest for tidying up the ethical mess science brings us? Which writer is master/mistress of this field? Science creates no ethical dilemma, it's the application that's the problem. But I do take your point. If Oldie reads this he'll probably have one of his mini meltdowns, again, but Jordan Peterson is a fine orator and very well read in his field, I can't remember all of his academic qualifications, but you can easily look them up; something like advisor to the UN, fellow of Harvard, hundreds of published peer reviewed papers, many millions of books sold in multiple languages, he's quick witted and has an impressive vocabulary, however, he insists on trying to shoehorn his theological beliefs in occasionally, and it dilutes everything, because he's smart enough to know that he can't demonstrate that any of it is true, so has to set a different standard to that which he insists on for everything else he discusses. If you don't know him and want to see him in action, just go to YouTube and stick his name in and add 'Cathy Newman'. That's a belter.
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Post by eppinggas on Nov 9, 2020 22:37:19 GMT
Look what you can accomplish when you apply yourself, foolly. A-For some time duck, I assumed you worked in education. The recent 'marking' of posts would appear to back up this assumption.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2020 0:38:02 GMT
I only mark foolly's posts (both handles).
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2020 10:33:50 GMT
I only mark foolly's posts (both handles). If you are suggesting that I have, or have ever had 2 usernames at the same time then you are wrong.
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Post by harrybuckle on Nov 10, 2020 13:04:43 GMT
Soccer at War Jack Rollin
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