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InvisibleCracka_X
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    #7802875 - 12/27/07 03:34 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

am an intelligent fluke.


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Re: I... [Re: Cracka_X]
    #7803214 - 12/27/07 08:36 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

What is a fluke?


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I will not fear my passions like a coward.
My body I will give to pleasures,
to diversions that I’ve dreamed of,
to the most daring erotic desires,
to the lustful impulses of my blood, without
any fear at all, for whenever I will—
and I will have the will, strengthened
as I’ll be with contemplation and study—
at the crucial moments I’ll recover
my spirit as was before: ascetic.”


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Re: I... [Re: Lion]
    #7803243 - 12/27/07 08:47 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

Lion said:
What is a fluke?




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And never known your face
All this time I've missed you
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Re: I... [Re: MushroomTrip]
    #7803365 - 12/27/07 09:57 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

It's a multimeter


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Re: I... [Re: Cracka_X]
    #7803444 - 12/27/07 10:30 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

intelligent by who's standards?


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

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Re: I... [Re: Icelander]
    #7805101 - 12/27/07 07:03 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

fluke, as in sheer luck/coincidence

intelligent by umm.... on a scale measuring how well I process and organize information from the writers/creators of psychological tests. I guess.


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It provides for all people
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Re: I... [Re: Cracka_X]
    #7805765 - 12/27/07 10:11 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

at least someone is guessing, I haven't learned such a feature of consciousness yet


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Re: I... [Re: Cracka_X]
    #7805798 - 12/27/07 10:20 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

Cracka_X said:
intelligent by umm.... on a scale measuring how well I process and organize information from the writers/creators of psychological tests. I guess.



I thought they determined you were retarded. Or was that thread a joke?


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Re: I... [Re: Silversoul]
    #7805898 - 12/27/07 10:42 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

haha, yeah well, in seriousness, the test showed that my short-term memory and mental arithmetic are well below average, which is what prompted me to make the post claiming my retardation. Everything else was above avg. but the working memory super pathetic terrible.

The psychologist told me to work on reinforcing my memory and staying away from things that could impair it like smoking pot. Then we both started laughing and fell on the floor with joy.


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The best way to live
is to be like water
For water benefits all things
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It provides for all people
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a man is loath to go
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Re: I... [Re: Cracka_X]
    #7806862 - 12/28/07 09:19 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

Cracka_X said:
fluke, as in sheer luck/coincidence

intelligent by umm.... on a scale measuring how well I process and organize information from the writers/creators of psychological tests. I guess.




Well IMO if you was really intelligent then you wouldn't be making your first statement here. As there is no way to know whether you is a fluke or by design.


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

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Re: I... [Re: Icelander]
    #7807241 - 12/28/07 12:00 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

well if you have the slightest belief in evolution then I think you'd agree that we're all intelligent flukes. If not then I'd love to hear an explanation deeper than something like "To say you know means you really don't."


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The best way to live
is to be like water
For water benefits all things
and goes against none of them
It provides for all people
and even cleanses those places
a man is loath to go
In this way it is just like Tao        ~Daodejing


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Re: I... [Re: Cracka_X]
    #7807293 - 12/28/07 12:34 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

If our intelligence is a result of evolution then it is not a fluke but an adaptation due to stresses incurred within the environment.


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
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Re: I... [Re: Icelander]
    #7807353 - 12/28/07 01:00 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

but those adaptations aren't due to our bodies making intelligent decisions as opposed to random mutations, which are encouraged by stresses in the environment, which leads to the dominant of these random mutations or flukes to be dominant.

The giraffe didn't grow its neck bc it couldn't reach the food as opposed to the giraffe with the longer neck being able to reaching the food and surviving by the chance being born like that.


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The best way to live
is to be like water
For water benefits all things
and goes against none of them
It provides for all people
and even cleanses those places
a man is loath to go
In this way it is just like Tao        ~Daodejing


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Re: I... [Re: Cracka_X]
    #7807377 - 12/28/07 01:07 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

As I said the intelligent person can lean toward evolution but in no way can state that they know that there isn't some conscious design behind it. We just cannot know that. So again you can only guess that your intelligence is a fluke.


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
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Re: I... [Re: Icelander]
    #7807430 - 12/28/07 01:26 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

You could make this argument agree or disagree depending on how one wants to look at it. So let me give my bias example.

Say there's a population that lives on a peninsula and they range from a variety of heights. An earthquake makes it a peninsula with food that only certain people can reach by either their natural height or cleverness. blablabla, people watch out for #1 and the people that can't figure it out or are insignificant to the environment die out. survival of the fittest and then those genes are more dominant and so on.

sorry about the redundancy, and to answer you...

You're right it's all just a bunch of guessing. To me, though, the guessing is like a picture sequence with a few pictures missing in between here and there. There is a correlation but not quite the correlation where everyone would say "that's it!" So it's only a theory, just like intelligent design is a theory.


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The best way to live
is to be like water
For water benefits all things
and goes against none of them
It provides for all people
and even cleanses those places
a man is loath to go
In this way it is just like Tao        ~Daodejing


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Re: I... [Re: Cracka_X]
    #7807501 - 12/28/07 01:58 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

You're right it's all just a bunch of guessing. To me, though, the guessing is like a picture sequence with a few pictures missing in between here and there. There is a correlation but not quite the correlation where everyone would say "that's it!" So it's only a theory, just like intelligent design is a theory.


End of story.;)


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
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