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Re: Musings on Random Musings In Oddhat's defence (and common sense), he did say sometimes.

Re: Complicate the Person Above Rebecca, Red-headed wicca-vampire with 50 minions to do her bidding. Her daughter, is not a-mused, she is be-mused.

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Re: What Have You Watched Recently? episodes of the Simpsons. Beginning to watch Seabiscuit.

Re: The Last Word I could send you a song or two via e-mail, perhaps*? You know like you would hear on the radio, if they played her music.

Re: Musings on Random Musings Something philosophically deep from Chad? Did the earth just rock on its axis, cause I felt something. d20? Funny cause it is true. Now if you could answer my question, well bigdamnhero's question above, please. Yeah, your right about that.

Re: Musings on Random Musings The second paragraph is also relevant, but is too much typing. The passage I quote above, begins the article and to me is a question for philosophy, not science. I'm still yet to read the article, so I can comment on it, it is just that reading it this morning, I liked it and thought it useful is answering your question. ha haa. I said Philosophy needs 1) a pin-up, 2) it would be helpful if this pin-up was also sexy. Agree with #1. About #2, below is the listing of careers for undergraduate Physics, and Philosophy & Theology degree at Oxford University (Oxford doesn't have a 'straight' philosophy undergraduate course) Physics: All Oxford physics graduates either find immediate employment or go on to further study. Physicists take up an enormous variety of careers. A large proportion (40%) take higher degrees (at Oxford or elsewhere) with eventual careers in research laboratories or universities. Physicists are in strong demand in almost all professions, but especially those requiring numerate problem solving ability (IT, finance, technical consultancy, etc.). Philosophy and Theology: Philosophy and Theology graduates enter a wide range of careers, including academic teaching and research, school teaching, commerce, banking and financial services, journalism and communications. The Theology website has more information about careers for theologians. (boldfacing mine) Bottom-line: With a Philosophy and Theology degree you can start a career in commerce, banking, or other financial services. I guess this involves the principle that money is a god. ( ) and #3, agreed, thought would be cool in a geeky way.

Re: Musings on Random Musings I also have an interest in the New Age books, and have got some of them. One is beside me at the moment, the life story of Jesus' grandmother! I also like the established Western Mystery Tradition, which would put me in a category I would think of being less than your 80% quoted figure. I agree. Online activities are/were revolved around subcultures/hobbies. As more get online the more these blend in with 'normal society'. As a pointer: The Australian Government is using YouTube to appeal to young voters in the current Federal election.

Re: Musings on Random Musings Point taken. I'm one of those who "believe in G_d, the soul, and an afterlife...astrology and various forms of spiritualism... ghosts, miracles and psychic phenomena".

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Mantis' dog gets a tattoo.

Re: Musings on Random Musings I used Bruno as an example of a person who developed theories as opposed to testing experiments to arrive at "knowledge". According to Ramon Mandoza (the author of the book I have), Copernicus' big thing was saying that the Earth revolved around the Sun rather than the Sun revolving around the Earth. In other words the existing model of the age was used to was that the Earth was the centre of the heavens and the planets, the stars and the constellations revolved around the Earth. Copernicus said "not so" which inferred that Earth wasn't "special"; the 'intellectuals' in the clergy really thought that God had set it up that "they" were 'special', heliocentrism destroyed that reasoning. This is one reason (the main one?) why the Church was averse to the heliocentrism. Sorry for the long-windedness. back to Bruno: He extended heliocentrism by correctly theorizing that the Sun wasn't the centre of the universe either. He thought that there was no centre, the universe was ascentric. This was at the time a radical departure from the new doctrine of heliocentrism. You may be interested in this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno#Bruno.27s_cosmology Agree, that philosophical theory involves a lot of speculation, which is very different to using the scientific method. Presently was are having difficulty testing String Theory, not much difference. I'm using that as a generalisation and using a broad brush. It is a comment that science as captured the mainstream imagination as the delineator on 'truth' -- anything not 'science' is held up for ridicule. Upon further reflection, as philosophy is different to science what I'm after is that they both complement each other as equal partners working towards the same goals. As science was birthed from philosophy and uses a lot of philosophy (eg metaphysics -- cosmology and onotology -- logic, and epistemology come to mind). These areas can give science the support it needs and give science new tools to help it. After research on wikipedia, it appears that this as already happened -- how come I didn't get the memo. The dude Karl Popper has 'revised' the scientific method, philosophy is supporting science. My argument is that scientists get the mainstream attention nowadays and philosophers don't. To me this implies that there has been no 'name' philosophers in the 20th century. History records otherwise, don't get me wrong, but the mainstream name recognistion isn't there. To a 'normal' person on the street, compare Einstein or Stephen Hawking to Bertrand Russell or Ludwig Wittgenstein; the later two would be met by a "huh". Philosophy needs a pin-up (a sexy one would be nice) like Einstein. Its last one was a long time ago.

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Re: A Thread for Random Musings Two lesbian witches were caught engaged in oral hex.

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Re: The Last Word Of those, I've got the early Deep Purple, specializing in the Mark II line-up. Much prefer In Rock to Fireball or Machine Head. What singer-songwriters does you wife listen too? One of my favourites is a British folk-rock singer Sandy Denny. You'd probably know her from her duet with Plant on Led Zep's Battle of Evermore. Her 3 albums with Fairport Convention (What We Did on Our Holidays, Unhalfbricking, Liege & Lief) are particularly notable as it created the genre British folk-rock. Her singer-songwriter solo career is also brilliant, her voice angelic. Both Robert Plant and Pete Townshend has praised her.

Re: Musings on Random Musings Your first task, oh NGD President-4-Unlife? (NP4U for short)

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Re: The Last Word Don't cha hate it when that happens?

Re: The Last Word music lemming was joking.

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Re: Musings on Random Musings Hey Bunny, do you need an ex-PM assistant on your payroll? I'll get the decapitations you miss. That we we can build us our quickening reserves and sell the excess on the black market. I'll handle the accounting for you. Do we have a deal, oh mighty one?

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Star Wars...Transformers? (Darth Vader in disguise)

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Tomorrow, one auditing exam.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Death Tribble is off his meds again *sigh*

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