It's hard to think of another explanation.
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I was meant to say concept of "relevance".
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I'm not a medical professional, "TheDoc" is a nick name that some of my friends started calling me when I owned a hobby store, I was good at fixing HO model trains. I decided later that my PhD was self inflicted in MicroFerroEquuinology. I might know a lot about my own medical conditions and those close to me, but that's all.commonsense wrote: ↑Fri Aug 17, 2018 6:39 pmAgreed. btw do you specialize in psychiatry by any chance?thedoc wrote: ↑Fri Aug 17, 2018 4:18 amThe documentation would be worth less than the paper it's written on, anyone can buy a mental health provider if they have enough money.commonsense wrote: ↑Thu Aug 16, 2018 2:29 pm I propose that Forum members submit documentation from a licensed mental health provider giving the individual permission to post.
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Sadly, I agree with your valuation of documentation--to wit Pres. Trump's campaign's physician statement. Further, given enough time, I'm afraid the purchase of mental health documentation would eventually follow the path of patient demands for antibiotics from their medical doctors. (Hence the antibiotic resistance crisis.)thedoc wrote: ↑Sat Aug 18, 2018 1:45 pmI'm not a medical professional, "TheDoc" is a nick name that some of my friends started calling me when I owned a hobby store, I was good at fixing HO model trains. I decided later that my PhD was self inflicted in MicroFerroEquuinology. I might know a lot about my own medical conditions and those close to me, but that's all.commonsense wrote: ↑Fri Aug 17, 2018 6:39 pmAgreed. btw do you specialize in psychiatry by any chance?
(Affection for very small iron horses? What was the most common fix that you performed?)
(Double space after periods? Very traditional.)
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A "finding" and a "test" can be interpretted as two seperate things.Sir-Sister-of-Suck wrote: ↑Fri Aug 17, 2018 7:53 pmScientific findings are rarely made by the absolute, most knowledgeable person in the particular field. That seems like a pretty excessive standard.
If the argument for why someone thinks the IQ test is true is based on their own IQ being high, than yes, that would be a fallacious argument to make. Although that's more motivated, than circular reasoning.The Test is circular; the IQ test as true says I am smart, therefore because I am smart the IQ test is true.
It is taken under axiomatic belief.
In regards to the second point, the IQ test is bullshit...half the people heard me brag about my IQ and I can say from personal experience it is a bullshit number that means nothing.
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I think the same principle applies though, something doesn't need to be made or discovered by the most intelligent person in the field for it to be accurate or the best approximation we have. That's an unreasonably high standard.
Oh I'm sure, you brag about everything.In regards to the second point, the IQ test is bullshit...half the people heard me brag about my IQ and I can say from personal experience it is a bullshit number that means nothing.
So what exactly is your IQ?
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I'm a fan, not for tradition (which I usually ignore) but clarity.
Buggered if I can find it but Kurt Vonnegut wrote some wonderful advice for writers regarding the inherent difficulty of converting little black marks on a light background into concepts, and how it is the writer's job to make that task as painless as possible.
Also, reading on a screen is much more difficult than paper, which is why lawyers and editors always use hardcopy for final proofs. Thus, we need more whitespace to help readability - shorter sentences and paragraphs, shorter words, and so on.
Double spaces after full stops help. I've noticed in myself and others a tendency to use dashes where semicolons would have once been used, perhaps an unconscious attempt to improve clarity.
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Alas, so true, so true. Someone could get a carpal thumb from hitting the space bar too often. Clarity has taken 2nd place to the conservation of energy that could be drained from the fingertips while typing. I am loathe to say that this is because of the millennials, but "coworker" replaced "co-worker" concurrently with millennials coming of age.Greta wrote: ↑Sat Aug 18, 2018 10:16 pmI'm a fan, not for tradition (which I usually ignore) but clarity.
Buggered if I can find it but Kurt Vonnegut wrote some wonderful advice for writers regarding the inherent difficulty of converting little black marks on a light background into concepts, and how it is the writer's job to make that task as painless as possible.
Also, reading on a screen is much more difficult than paper, which is why lawyers and editors always use hardcopy for final proofs. Thus, we need more whitespace to help readability - shorter sentences and paragraphs, shorter words, and so on.
Double spaces after full stops help. I've noticed in myself and others a tendency to use dashes where semicolons would have once been used, perhaps an unconscious attempt to improve clarity.
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Yes, RSI from all those futile double spaces, routinely condensed by brutal uncaring rationalist machines with inhuman programs that cares for economy and order over elegancecommonsense wrote: ↑Sun Aug 19, 2018 1:23 amAlas, so true, so true. Someone could get a carpal thumb from hitting the space bar too often. Clarity has taken 2nd place to the conservation of energy that could be drained from the fingertips while typing. I am loathe to say that this is because of the millennials, but "coworker" replaced "co-worker" concurrently with millennials coming of age.Greta wrote: ↑Sat Aug 18, 2018 10:16 pmI'm a fan, not for tradition (which I usually ignore) but clarity.
Buggered if I can find it but Kurt Vonnegut wrote some wonderful advice for writers regarding the inherent difficulty of converting little black marks on a light background into concepts, and how it is the writer's job to make that task as painless as possible.
Also, reading on a screen is much more difficult than paper, which is why lawyers and editors always use hardcopy for final proofs. Thus, we need more whitespace to help readability - shorter sentences and paragraphs, shorter words, and so on.
Double spaces after full stops help. I've noticed in myself and others a tendency to use dashes where semicolons would have once been used, perhaps an unconscious attempt to improve clarity.
We cannot blame the millennials. Not a good look since we made 'em. I have to admit, though, that when I see "coworker" I first think of "cow". It then becomes cow-orker in my mind - Saruman's unnatural experiments to create a hybrid cow and orc!
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I don't mind shitty posts, as long as they make me laugh. And it doesn't even intentionally have to be funny.
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Nope, you don't at all! I was just framing your and the OP's intolerance relative to my understanding, based upon 60 years of life, with my particular set of experiences. Demonstrating to you both, (hopefully), its ugly face. You two are simply ignorant of those things that cause everyone's differences. But if I scare you, please feel free to put me on your's, but know that I 'fear' no one's honest arguments, because of my current level of understanding the current human condition.-1- wrote: ↑Fri Aug 17, 2018 10:19 pmDid you direct this at me?SpheresOfBalance wrote: ↑Fri Aug 17, 2018 6:43 pm I understand that you have a problem accepting people not your clones. Or so it surely seems! Be tolerant of others as they are tolerant of you. The ones that are tolerant of you, you'll never know, rather only the ones that are intolerant. We differ due to a particular set of experiences, in different sequences (some prerequisites for others), at varying intensities. This is why some things are easier for some rather than others.
Do you really think you're a winner when you kick someone when they're down?
Do you bite the hand that feeds? (yes, it applies)
Do you laugh at a child that was born deformed?
After you've had your pleasure with those on the above list, do you then spit in their face.
Better not do it around me!!!
It's easy to take ones gifts and flaunt them, it's better to instead be humble, and use them to help those less fortunate.
Trust me, I'm a vet I was taught how to vaporize whole cities, so I know what I'm talking about. I was trained to kill, but should I do so, is the real question! Just because one can, doesn't mean they should.
Peace, my friend! And all you others out there too!
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Would you care to expound? Some sort of sarcasm I presume?commonsense wrote: ↑Fri Aug 17, 2018 11:00 pmThere are no stupid questions—only stupid answers.SpheresOfBalance wrote: ↑Fri Aug 17, 2018 4:58 pm Yet my instructors at military training commands and professors at university said there is no such thing as a stupid question. So I guess you believe yourself more wise than they are? Sorry, but I know they have a point that is so obviously above your head. Try again!
But the real question is, "are they really stupid or simply misunderstood? And how would one necessarily know which is in fact the case?"
Yes!SpheresOfBalance wrote: ↑Fri Aug 17, 2018 4:58 pm OK, said the psychologist, now we're getting somewhere, tell me about your childhood...