almightywood

Actually, I truly am looking at this as only a possibility. The only reason I am finding fault with other's arguments, is because they are not.

I am kind of against the removal of possibilities in general, so I argue against things being improperly disproven when they are still on my list of maybes.

No, I'd probably just smile politely at you and walk away. (well, I might ask you what else you were seeing first)

Human Rasengan

You responded just how I said you would..don't believe me go back n read

sorry not used to muti posting .. I just try to separate my responses from your text

IF you didn't find it entertaining or feel some sort of way about it you wouldn't post.. .. I'm getting what I need form the dialog and that's all that matters

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Demi-God

But you have to understand that you can't expect people to just chase up every possibility, especially highly implausible ones. They are on YOUR list of maybes, and you should at least have some basis on why it's there and be able to back it up.

For it to be a possibility there needs to be some reason for you to assume that it has a chance of being true. If someone says that you're wrong most of the time the reason is because of the lack of evidence to support your claim or because they have other data that contradict your possible theory.

But if you were to ask (you know, it's a possibility), wouldn't you expect me to offer the evidence? Or would you be content with me telling you that it's all down to you to disprove it.

almightywood

As far as I'm concerned, when it comes to possibilities, the whole point is that there is no proof. If there is proof, it isn't possible, it either is or isn't.
Which scenario is right has nothing to do with likelihood in my opinion.
While probability is pretty accurate when spread over a large enough sample, when applied to only a one or a few, they pretty much mean jack. Since when it comes down to it, there's only one truth (though many correct ways to perceive it) we might as well just discount probability when it comes to determination of right and wrong in any sense.

Well, I kind of already answered this but, if it's a possibility that means it's an unknown, and since probability isn't foolproof, it isn't proof either.




If you were to make such a claim I wouldn't proclaim it wrong. I might ask you how you came to the conclusion, but if you chose not to disclose, then I would respect that. If I were to call you wrong, then I absolutely would feel burdened with the proving, since I would be changing it from an unknown to a known and removing it once and for all as a possibility one way or another (if I could back up my claim).

ACt

Shit. C'mon, can we stop this? AW literally said possibilities are things with no proof or an unknown (don't bother defining the word "possible") and that probabilities can't act as proof because they are 100% truth.

The guy doesn't believe anything is true by those very standards, except his own truth I suppose, which I think he's claming are possibilities and thus not subject to proof because he doesn't think possibilities have evidence, and anything we bring up can't be true because few things have 100% proof for them.

Can you get any more ambiguous, vague, pseudo-intellectual bullshit in there? I suppose you don't believe in matter because subatomic particles are all measure in probabilities, huh?

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ACt

I mean, seriously, how did you pass high school math?

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manta

It is scientifically proven that the less you know the more you think you know. As we can see AW and HR are proven subjects of this research.

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kael03

I'm wondering how he managed to pass high school period.

Miburo

You want a gold star or some shit? Who cares? It's not a difficult task to predict that I prefer to man up and not be a pussy about shit. I only tell people to man up and not be a pussy all the time in pretty much every single situation, even if it doesn't really make sense.

So man up and stop being a pussy, Nostradamus.

Mal

Specifies political knowledge, but still applicable here:



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almightywood

I guess so.

Everybody BUT me in this thread claims to know everything about everything.

I never claimed to be claiming anything, In fact I claimed to not be claiming anything more than once.
I merely called everyone else morons for speaking with authority on the things they do.


By your statement, you all must know less than me.
(you really should pay attention to what someone's views are if you are going to attempt to make light of them)


If you are actually addressing me, I excelled at math (and I mean I was leaps and bounds above the majority of kids) and still do. When I was in college I took extra math classes so I'd have some easy courses that I could breeze through.
What I'm saying is that I think it is purely egotistical to try to disprove a possibility with a probability, such a thing isn't possible. If you were to operate under the premises that probability tells you were to occur, then there's nothing wrong with that. When you try and say that it absolutely is this way because everything seems to point that way, then I call BS. If you want to say it absolutely is this way, prove it absolutely couldn't be any other way.

Proving something wrong is harder to do than just about anything else, hence why if you tell someone that they are wrong, you better be prepared to prove it. The burden of proof then falling on the person who created the conflict, and the person who claimed to have knowledge: ie. the person who said the other was wrong.

Otherwise you are just a bunch of morons claiming to know more than you do.

After all something that is possible is quite simply something that COULD BE.
If it is (dis)proven, there is no could about it, it is(n't).

I have always maintained that the only thing that any man can ever know with certainty is that he will be with himself his whole life.

kael03

Bullshit. I never once claimed to know everything about everything. Every one of us has specialized knowledge. Mine happens to be in behavioral psychology and astrophysics. I'll be the first to admit I know little about anatomy (ACt), or genetics (Num). But I know a lot about certain things because, unlike you, I have an inquisitive mind about topics that interest me (psychology and astrophysics, for example).

YOU, on the other hand, arbitrarily dismiss anything anyone posts that follows logic and science to fulfill this obscene notion that follows the Assassin's Creed "there is no truth, everything is permitted" or some stupid bullshit that eliminates the likelihood of you ever being wrong.

almightywood

Whatever, you just like to read and repeat shit from all I've seen. You basically claim that you know what everyone else knows since you never put up anything original.

It has nothing to do with me ever being wrong, it has to do with your concept of wrong being egotistical.

I dismiss nothing as a possibility and love to discuss what possibilities entail, I only dismiss improper dismissal of possibilities, and put as much faith in probability as I do in winning the lottery.

Kind of funny how you are accusing me of the very behavior you all exhibit that makes me not want to discuss with you at all.

Mal

Bullshit. If you "[didn't] want to discuss with [us]" you wouldn't fucking be discussing with us. You're an idiot, you do not understand probability in the least and you have no idea what it means to properly dismiss a claim; anyone who has even a shred of sense would tell you that.

Dismissing possibilities is exactly how the world progresses. Do you think we could have gone to the moon is we had not rejected the geocentric model? Do you think we would have modern medicine if we just chose a remedy at random because we believed any cure was a possibility?

Human Rasengan

Gonna sit back and see where this is going now.. this last lil exchange here was pretty fun but looks liek you uys are gonan try n give a character lesson so I'll be back when it gets interesting

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for those of you who don't understand.. I'm coming from an illogical perspective so your logic won't fit my argument .. it'll only give you a headache.. remember ..belief doesn't require a co-signer There Is A Fine Line Between Genius And Insanity , I Have Erased This Line ! If I were you I'd hate me too.. I am the HUMAN RASENGAN!!!

The power of despair is great in you.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlzx4...&feature=share

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3qkz4WfOto

LOL I'M DYING BACK HERE