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Unfolding Nature Shop: Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

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Philosophy is nuttier than new age-ism.
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Take Maxwell's demon.


He proposed that the Second Law of Thermodynamics could be violated by inserting a demon into this box to only let hot air particles move one way, by opening and closing it at the right times as they naturally drift.

However, to my knowledge, no new-ager has ever proposed skeptics could be converted by means of a demon that would collect and compile convincing evidence to prove their case.

So, give these people a break! :crazy2:

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Re: Philosophy is nuttier than new age-ism. [Re: Epigallo]
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wow

Imagine the quantum leaps that could be achieved in science if we could just insert demons when necessary


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Re: Philosophy is nuttier than new age-ism. [Re: Epigallo]
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bradley said:
However, to my knowledge, no new-ager has ever proposed skeptics could be converted by means of a demon that would collect and compile convincing evidence to prove their case.


Uh...

http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=9205249&page=0&vc=#Post9205249

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Re: Philosophy is nuttier than new age-ism. [Re: Sleepwalker]
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:lol: You had me for a second.

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Re: Philosophy is nuttier than new age-ism. [Re: Epigallo]
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They're both nutty in their own ways.

I prefer the psychology of Rational Emotive Behavior. The Buddha had it and Epictetus had it and then someone tried to turn it into a philosophy and a religion and mucked it all up.


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

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

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC

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Re: Philosophy is nuttier than new age-ism. [Re: Epigallo]
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bradley said:
However, to my knowledge, no new-ager has ever proposed skeptics could be converted by means of a demon that would collect and compile convincing evidence to prove their case.


Of course not; the demons are all busy hiding evidence from the skeptics.


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Re: Philosophy is nuttier than new age-ism. [Re: deCypher]
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:lol:


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

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

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC

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Re: Philosophy is nuttier than new age-ism. [Re: Icelander]
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Demons are always my favorite excuses. They are just plain convenient!


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"A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push him; no one can make him do things against himself or against his better judgment. A warrior is tuned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions." ― Carlos Castaneda

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Re: Philosophy is nuttier than new age-ism. [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
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Descartes already tried that


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Re: Philosophy is nuttier than new age-ism. [Re: learningtofly]
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Did you know that before the scientific method was discovered by Galileo Greek philosophers debated long and hard about whether two different weights dropped from the same height would fall at the same speed? Then someone actually thought to test. lol.  :grin:


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Chat your fraff
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Re: Philosophy is nuttier than new age-ism. [Re: Grapefruit]
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You may find that quaint and amusing, but whenever someone here has made a solid, testable paranormal claim, I frequently have offered a large sum of money and time to test it.

Instead of taking me up on it, there usually follows 10 or 20 pages of equivocating and no takers.

Nothing substantive has changed about humans in thousands of years.


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