Solipsism Syndrome

cardboard adolescent · 03-23-2010, 01:13 PM

you don't believe in things that have no energy and no mass? does that mean you don't believe in space-time? maybe the soul is just another way of understanding space-time, eh?

Barnard17 · 03-23-2010, 01:36 PM

Asinine post of the day goes to cardboard.

duga · 03-23-2010, 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Barnard17

Asinine post of the day goes to cardboard.

Why? He is right...there are plenty of concepts with no mass, etc. that physicists all over the world consider true for the sake of other theories and equations.

Barnard17 · 03-23-2010, 09:34 PM

Because tore's post was evidently not designed to negate the existence of time. Cardboard's post was nothing more than petty semantics.

Neapolitan · 03-23-2010, 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Barnard17

Because tore's post was evidently not designed to negate the existence of time. Cardboard's post was nothing more than petty semantics.

No, it wasn't so much as semantics as it was a strawman arguement. The petty aurguement of semantics in the last couple of post was over my use of the word "soul."

duga · 03-23-2010, 09:44 PM

I agree it was picking on the argument in an arrogant way, but he makes a good point...a lot of things that humans by nature believe in can not be measured in any hard quantifiable way.

P A N · 03-23-2010, 10:34 PM

i think cardboard is referring to the fact that when matter is broken down to its smallest components there is nothing there to account for weight. the higgs field or the 'ether' or the akashic field or any other name for it are possible explanations for the phenomenon, but there is only math to suggest that this might be the case. a giant particle accelerator has recently been built in order to help the process of accounting for mass along which upon the first firing malfunctioned.

interesting addition to the thread though, cardboard.

duga · 03-23-2010, 10:55 PM

^

It may be semantics, but it is hardly a strawman argument. It is a discussion that spawned over the confusion using the word "soul" caused. As I mentioned, if you didn't intend to mean "soul" in the classic sense, you shouldn't use that word (unless you explain why you are using it).

Neapolitan · 03-24-2010, 12:06 AM

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Originally Posted by duga

^

It may be semantics, but it is hardly a strawman argument.

Is that in reference to "space-time" or "soul"?

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Originally Posted by duga

It is a discussion that spawned over the confusion using the word "soul" caused. As I mentioned, if you didn't intend to mean "soul" in the classic sense, you shouldn't use that word (unless you explain why you are using it.

I thought Boo clear that up for you?
and btw If I say I like soul food I have to explain myself by what I mean by soul? dts

duga · 03-24-2010, 12:12 AM

^

He DID clear it up, but a discussion obviously continued. And if you said soul food then I would need no further explanation because there is an actual CONTEXT for me to base your meaning off of. If we are talking about spiritual souls and you say soul, how am I supposed to know you are talking about something else?

This is getting really old...time to move it on.

The point I was making earlier is that we are obviously experiencing something. Even if it is all a trick or dream, we have to exist in some capacity to be tricked.

03-23-2010, 01:36 PM	#2 (permalink)
Barnard17 My home? Discabled, Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Bristol, UK Posts: 328	Asinine post of the day goes to cardboard. __________________ Vita brevis, Occasio praeceps

03-23-2010, 09:34 PM	#4 (permalink)
Barnard17 My home? Discabled, Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Bristol, UK Posts: 328	Because tore's post was evidently not designed to negate the existence of time. Cardboard's post was nothing more than petty semantics. __________________ Vita brevis, Occasio praeceps

03-23-2010, 09:44 PM	#6 (permalink)
duga MB quadrant's JM Vincent Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Washington, DC Posts: 3,762	I agree it was picking on the argument in an arrogant way, but he makes a good point...a lot of things that humans by nature believe in can not be measured in any hard quantifiable way. __________________ Confusion will be my epitaph...

03-23-2010, 10:55 PM	#8 (permalink)
duga MB quadrant's JM Vincent Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Washington, DC Posts: 3,762	^ It may be semantics, but it is hardly a strawman argument. It is a discussion that spawned over the confusion using the word "soul" caused. As I mentioned, if you didn't intend to mean "soul" in the classic sense, you shouldn't use that word (unless you explain why you are using it). __________________ Confusion will be my epitaph...

03-24-2010, 12:12 AM	#10 (permalink)
duga MB quadrant's JM Vincent Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Washington, DC Posts: 3,762	^ He DID clear it up, but a discussion obviously continued. And if you said soul food then I would need no further explanation because there is an actual CONTEXT for me to base your meaning off of. If we are talking about spiritual souls and you say soul, how am I supposed to know you are talking about something else? This is getting really old...time to move it on. The point I was making earlier is that we are obviously experiencing something. Even if it is all a trick or dream, we have to exist in some capacity to be tricked. __________________ Confusion will be my epitaph...

03-23-2010, 01:13 PM	#1 (permalink)
cardboard adolescent ;) Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: CA Posts: 3,511	you don't believe in things that have no energy and no mass? does that mean you don't believe in space-time? maybe the soul is just another way of understanding space-time, eh?

03-23-2010, 10:34 PM	#7 (permalink)
P A N DO LIKE YOU. Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 629	i think cardboard is referring to the fact that when matter is broken down to its smallest components there is nothing there to account for weight. the higgs field or the 'ether' or the akashic field or any other name for it are possible explanations for the phenomenon, but there is only math to suggest that this might be the case. a giant particle accelerator has recently been built in order to help the process of accounting for mass along which upon the first firing malfunctioned. interesting addition to the thread though, cardboard.

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