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WBraun
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Mar 22, 2019 - 07:23pm PT
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Yes, Ghost you are st00pid also/too .....
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Mar 22, 2019 - 07:38pm PT
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Yes, Ghost you are st00pid also/too .....
Maybe I am, but that still leaves you dodging the question:
What are you good for on this forum, Werner, besides posting the same two or three chunks of meaningless drivel over and over and over again. Almost 30,000 posts now, and about 29,000 of them are garbage.
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WBraun
climber
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Mar 22, 2019 - 07:59pm PT
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At least all my posts are garbage, I like that, sounds good.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Mar 22, 2019 - 08:27pm PT
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At least all my posts are garbage, I like that, sounds good.
Well then we're on the same team. I post lots of garbage, too (see below), just like a lot of folks here. But I just try to make it different garbage each time instead of the same thing over and over, and I also try not to stalk people on ST, and also try to keep my garbage from being mean-spirited.
Post some dumb climbing sh#t, or some new garbage. You'll feel better.
And here's today's garbage post from me:
Did you know that cows look terrifying at night? Well, they do...
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WBraun
climber
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Mar 22, 2019 - 08:27pm PT
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With this subject matter, it's not my stuff.
I don't make it up and it's not mine or from me.
If I make it up and call it mine it's pure horseshIt and garbage for sure .....
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EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
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Mar 23, 2019 - 12:39am PT
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lbgqtxyz religion has 64 plus genders.
science is XY or XX sperm cells are a complete list of two, and after the egg is fertilized by one or the other, the cell builds an impenetrable wall keeping all others out.
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Minerals
Social climber
The Deli
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Mar 24, 2019 - 09:41am PT
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Mirror, mirror, on the wall
Why does Werner have the gall
Mirror, mirror, tell us all
Why I feel like just saying LOL...
Those cows are possessed by Satan! SATAN, I tell you!!!
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Mar 24, 2019 - 09:52am PT
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Trump
climber
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Mar 24, 2019 - 10:23am PT
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Thanks Ed. It’s almost like humans are animals. Who’d a thunk? Mostly I think we don’t thunk it, we just act it. And then think that our thinking isn’t just part of our acting like an animal.
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MikeL
Social climber
Southern Arizona
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Mar 31, 2019 - 09:01am PT
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Ed,
Yeah, you're right. Sorry for the mis-attribution of Kuhn's first name. My error.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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So I watched The Invisible Man (1933) over the weekend. I was really surprised how well done it was, and on pretty much every level - story to acting to filming and formatting. 1933, after all, pre-dating even Gone with the Wind. I'd probably seen it before as a kid, but at least not in the last 45 years, so it was quite a treat.
It's my new favorite pre-dating 1940.
"I meddled in things that man must leave alone." -The Mad Scientist Jack Griffin
Highly recommend. Notes: Gloria Stewart (Old Rose in Titanic), lived to 100 (died 2010). Based on the novel by H.G. Wells.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invisible_Man_(1933_film);
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Re: pre-code hollywood
"Beginning in late 1933 and escalating throughout the first half of 1934, American Roman Catholics launched a campaign against what they deemed the immorality of American cinema."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Code_Hollywood
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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^^^ A wonderful film. I've watched it several times. The modern version with Kevin Bacon is not nearly as rewarding, although I like the actor. "Things to Come" (1936) is another classic IMO.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Apr 10, 2019 - 11:50am PT
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Science, yay!
[Click to View YouTube Video]
https://youtu.be/KedrdpwOSkU
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So I really enjoyed this. Re: Synchronicity in lightning bugs, crickets and neurons, small-world networks, etc. A few math and science types might enjoy...
Steven Strogatz on Synchronization, Networks, and the Emergence of Complex Behavior...
https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2019/04/08/episode-41-steven-strogatz-on-synchronization-networks-and-the-emergence-of-complex-behavior/
https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/the-language-of-calculus/
https://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/1328879984/sciencefriday/
This episode reminded me how much I loved learning calculus in high school. Also how simple and fun the learning and learning times were... before later encountering all the heavy electronics, computers, engineering, military contractors, business and politics. Those were the days.
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Grade A conversation here, too, between Shermer and Nicholas Christakis...
[Click to View YouTube Video]
https://youtu.be/3Vgx7E16_qk
Extended phenotypes (aka exo phenotypes) in beaver, ants, humans; multi-level selection; the benefits (upsides) of settling mars and becoming spacefaring are some of the topics.
A breath of fresh air: Christakis is an evolutionary sociologist - firmly grounded in the hard sciences.
Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0316230030/?tag=skepticcom20-20
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WBraun
climber
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Apr 10, 2019 - 12:00pm PT
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Just see the gross materialists staring into a black hole all while life itself completely eludes them ....
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WBraun
climber
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Apr 13, 2019 - 07:33am PT
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Means nothing at all.
Most sectarian religions are already basically heavily materialistic to begin with.
Sterilize the planet is the end result of the st00pid brainwashed gross materialists zombies which they masquerade as advancement ....
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Apr 16, 2019 - 09:29am PT
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I know you don't really mean to "Sterilize the planet." To do so is to fail utterly as a spiritual being.
The goal of both Science and Religion is to understand and fix the planet, or rather the human race and the beings who are the human race.
Valid objections to Science (where it is not science but authoritative aggradizement) and Religion (especially where is is oppressive dogma used to punish and control popluations) muddy the fact that both are attempts to find truth.
Where good people succeed in these fields our civiliation moves forward. Where toxic personalities grab these subjects and rise, it makes you want to sterilize the planet, which is in fact, their whole goal.
You can only succeed with a positive attitude. A negative attitude leads to failure.
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WBraun
climber
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Apr 16, 2019 - 09:43am PT
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The goal of both Science and Religion is to understand and fix the planet
LOL ... the planet has always been perfect, to begin with.
The so-called fixers are the ones always breaking it.
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Apr 16, 2019 - 10:06am PT
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I agree that the balance of nature is a perfect thing. It is much larger than mankind.
But we are talking about humans. Fixing them requires a positive attitude even when the rug has been pulled out from under you and you are bleeding from a knife in the back. It requires relentless compassion (religion) and relentless observation (science).
And here we are, two guys who most frequently agree with each other on this thread, in an arguement over what we do disagree about. Haw!
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