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Re: How much do you think we know? [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #8001685 - 02/09/08 06:31 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Confucius say: Man who claims that humans use only 10% of their brains speaks only for himself.  :grin:


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Re: How much do you think we know? [Re: Veritas]
    #8001691 - 02/09/08 06:32 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Don't be so modest. You came up with that gem. :thumbup:


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Re: How much do you think we know? [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #8001699 - 02/09/08 06:33 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

But it's funnier coming from Confucius.


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Re: How much do you think we know? [Re: Veritas]
    #8001724 - 02/09/08 06:37 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

To me it is more confusciung... :confused:


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Re: How much do you think we know? [Re: learningtofly]
    #8001728 - 02/09/08 06:37 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

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No, 1 + 1 = 2 because we say so. Thats all there is to it. It's all cultural. we use +,=,-,^, etc because some guy used it and everyone went with it. Math is because we say so.




Actually that is an absolute fallacy. I already said that the relation expressed is regardless of what we actually assign to each signifier.
1 + 1 = 2
No matter what language, no matter what 1 actually is, no matter what culture.
Math is not because we say so, numbers are absolute in the ways in which they inter-relate. It is not open to interpretation. That is beyond dispute for anyone with even a passing familiarity.


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* When ready for the answer, people will come to the question of themselves.


Edited by Fugai (02/09/08 06:52 PM)


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Re: How much do you think we know? [Re: Veritas]
    #8001807 - 02/09/08 06:51 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

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Confucius say: Man who claims that humans use only 10% of their brains speaks only for himself




Thats funny, and true in a sense. It bothers me that I couldn't find the gentleman's names related in the following story I did search for about 15 min in various volumes trying to track it down to no avail, but its so amusing I wanted to relate it anyway.

In the first major conference of scientists in england after Darwin's "on the origin of species", there was an exchange between to reputable scientists I have always thought hilarious. In short: One guy says to the other "Sir, is it on your fathers, or your mothers side you claim descendancy from apes?", the other man replies "I would sooner claim descendancy from apes than accept the churches dogma".


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Re: How much do you think we know? [Re: Fugai]
    #8006827 - 02/10/08 10:19 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Ok sorry.

i heard we use 10% of our brain. but maybe only I use ten percent of my brain. Just me.  Only me.

you guys are too quick to flame.  :whatever:
Peace.


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Re: How much do you think we know? [Re: smoothrider267]
    #8007066 - 02/10/08 11:20 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

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smoothrider267 said:
you guys are too quick to flame.  :whatever:




Too quick to flame?  :sherlock:

No such thing!  :flame:


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Re: How much do you think we know? [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #8007069 - 02/10/08 11:23 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Definately not much.

Just wait till the world talks openly about aliens and the science behind remote viewing and telepathy. Then we would be 1 percent closer to knowingness.


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Re: How much do you think we know? [Re: Ginseng1]
    #8007073 - 02/10/08 11:23 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

The more we know, the less we understand.


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Re: How much do you think we know? [Re: Sophistic Radiance]
    #8007095 - 02/10/08 11:27 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Oy, that's not true atall sir!  The more we know, the more we understand.  If we understood that we are but an evolving bacteria killing it's host and failing the cosmic test of universal awareness, then we would know that we were never alone :whoah:


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Re: How much do you think we know? [Re: Ginseng1]
    #8007111 - 02/10/08 11:31 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Not sure I agree with that, though I used to feel that way too. :smile:

I've found that people often "know" things, intuitively, that they must, and that undue effort to "figure it out" using data clouds perspective. This is obviously not always true and I wouldn't trade my factual knowledge for anything, but knowing does not equal understanding. Overthought and misplaced focus destroy true understanding, and are often biproducts of knowledge.


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Re: How much do you think we know? [Re: smoothrider267]
    #8007473 - 02/11/08 01:51 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

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smoothrider267 said:
Ok sorry.

i heard we use 10% of our brain. but maybe only I use ten percent of my brain. Just me.  Only me.

you guys are too quick to flame.  :whatever:
Peace.




It is not called flaming, but education. Some of us longtimers are sick of hearing the same false myths being perpetuated.

Repeat after me: 'hearing something' does not make it true.


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