Playing Reality like a Video Game?

[Endo]

You did NOT just go there. Mental illnesses of various types have no detected correlation to relativity. Please shut the fuck up.

Well, considering there is little understanding of what causes schizophrenia, to me (as a psychotherapist) it's worth exploring. It may not be for you, but I'm assuming you're not treating schizophrenics.

And I will not "shut the fuck up". I have just as much right to express my opinion as you do. Don't like it, leave the thread.

You may "express" whatever you like, but your "interesting thoughts" just make you a hack doctor.

[sswhateverlove]

Well, considering there is little understanding of what causes schizophrenia, to me (as a psychotherapist) it's worth exploring. It may not be for you, but I'm assuming you're not treating schizophrenics.

And I will not "shut the fuck up". I have just as much right to express my opinion as you do. Don't like it, leave the thread.

You may "express" whatever you like, but your "interesting thoughts" just make you a hack doctor.

It would if I was basing my treatment approaches off an unfounded assumption. I do nothing of the sort. Simply because I contemplate potential explanations doesn't mean I act unethically with regard to my clients.

[Cato]

Read it again. I said he's agnostic. You asked whether there are scientists that believe in ID, I referenced Tyson's claim that 15% of the NAS scientists do.

Belief in god is not the same as belief in intelligent design so stop claiming that NDT says that 15% of NAS scientists believe in ID. Also, you are taking the 15% figure from an older NDT presentation that did not accurately represent the NAS survey. NDT updated to the 7% figure from the actual study in later presentations.

You are quote mining NDT and drawing your own conclusion that contradicts what NDT's actual message is. NDT is making the claim that event brilliant scientists quit searching and succumb to a god of the gaps argument for ideas outside the boundaries of their scientific pursuit.

NDT:

Even if you are as brilliant as Newton, you reach a point where you start basking in the majesty of God, and then your discovery stops. It just stops. Your kinda no good any more for advancing that frontier, waiting for somebody else to come behind you who does not have God on the brain, and who says, ‘That’s a really cool problem. I want to solve it.’ They come in and solve it.

But look at the time delay. This was a hundred year time delay.
And the math that is in perturbation theory is like crumbs for Newton. He could have come up with that. The guy invented calculus just on a dare practically. When somebody asked him, ‘Ike, how come planets orbit in ellipses and not in some other shape?’ and he couldn’t answer that, he goes home for two months, comes back, out comes integral differential calculus because he needed that to answer that question. So, this is the kind of mind we are dealing with Newton. He could have gone there, but he didn’t.

He didn’t. His religiosity stopped him.

Your assertion on this matter is simply unfounded.

[sswhateverlove]

You are quote mining NDT and drawing your own conclusion that contradicts what NDT's actual message is. NDT is making the claim that event brilliant scientists quit searching and succumb to a god of the gaps argument for ideas outside the boundaries of their scientific pursuit.

I was not intending to misrepresent NDT's message, only to point to the only place where I was aware of a statistic regarding NAS scientist's philosophical beliefs regarding a divine entity.

NDT:

Even if you are as brilliant as Newton, you reach a point where you start basking in the majesty of God, and then your discovery stops. It just stops. Your kinda no good any more for advancing that frontier, waiting for somebody else to come behind you who does not have God on the brain, and who says, ‘That’s a really cool problem. I want to solve it.’ They come in and solve it.

But look at the time delay. This was a hundred year time delay.
And the math that is in perturbation theory is like crumbs for Newton. He could have come up with that. The guy invented calculus just on a dare practically. When somebody asked him, ‘Ike, how come planets orbit in ellipses and not in some other shape?’ and he couldn’t answer that, he goes home for two months, comes back, out comes integral differential calculus because he needed that to answer that question. So, this is the kind of mind we are dealing with Newton. He could have gone there, but he didn’t.

He didn’t. His religiosity stopped him.

Your assertion on this matter is simply unfounded.
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That's not my quote... Am I supposed to respond to this? Did I miss something?

Ok friends

It's been fun, but I have other things to do. Maybe I'll be back after the weekend is over (if you're lucky). I know I've probably been quite entertaining- boredom sucks. Don't miss me too much...

[LastPoet]

Watch out for the door, it might hit your ass on the way out.

[Cyberman]

Yeah, we don't tolerate donkey abuse round these parts.

[LostLocke]

If I'm going to even start to entertain the notion of life as a video game, a couple things have to happen first.

Firstly, I want a re-roll. I didn't distribute my points properly the first time around.

Second, I want to be a ranged class this time. That way I can deal with all my problems from afar, and just bolt when the action gets a little too tough.

[Cyberman]

Reminds me of the time a woman stopped me in the street and asked me if I was saved. I told her I'd saved at the last save point so I could respawn from there if I died.

[LostLocke]

Reminds me of the time a woman stopped me in the street and asked me if I was saved. I told her I'd saved at the last save point so I could respawn from there if I died.

OMG... that is brilliant!

I'm going to use that if I get a chance.

[Little lunch]

If anything, all of this shows that social skills are just as important as textbook knowledge.