Comments by Wosret

1401. UCSB study finds physical strength, fighting ability revealed in human faces

Comment #269557 by Wosret on October 23, 2008 at 6:20 am

33. Comment #269554 by Tezcatlipoca

Neck tattoos are one of the most painful. Back tattoos hurt like fuck too.

1402. UCSB study finds physical strength, fighting ability revealed in human faces

Comment #269553 by Wosret on October 23, 2008 at 6:16 am

Remember though, crazy beats big every time.

My older brother fights constantly. He has always had a reputation for being crazy.

He's bigger than I am now, because he got fatter, but he used to be really skinny, and is about my height, 5'11, 6 foot abouts.

He got the shit kicked out of him by a boxer once though. The way he tells it it was more of a tie, but I wasn't there, and only got to see what he looked like afterwords. I somehow doubt the other guy was that fucked up.

1403. UCSB study finds physical strength, fighting ability revealed in human faces

Comment #269348 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 8:58 pm

5. Comment #269345 by Bonzai

That must be it. I'm great at everything else, so it only makes sense.

1404. Mapping a clan of mobile selfish genes

Comment #269347 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 8:55 pm

You're being intellectually dishonest. You know damn well that that is exactly what your reasoning results in, but you -- for same insane reason -- just won't admit it. Do you figure no one will notice unless you admit it?

I'm not going to pin my imagination up against yours. Fabricating hypothetical scenarios for you to ad hoc away. If you so unapologetically dodge such a direct and simple question (and of all things, claim to not understand the question) then I think continuing is a waste of time.

That was just to make you squirm anyway. Your ideas don't appreciate the significant evolutionary work in the subject. Both biological, and psychological.

It also takes a dump on Richard Dawkin's The Selfish Gene. As well as the work of several other philosophers, evolutionary scientists, and psychologists.

Your "evidence" being your ability to invent reasons why every apparently altruistic action taken is actually a self-interested one.

Forgive me if I'm unimpressed.

70. Comment #269336 by scooternyc

Oh, you were only joking? That's a relief. I thought you seemed smarter than this.

1405. UCSB study finds physical strength, fighting ability revealed in human faces

Comment #269340 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 8:37 pm

That's funny. I've always been told that I look tough, and I've bluffed my way out of fights before, but I'm weak and cowardly.

I have a wide frame though. Maybe my body is built for faking it.

1406. Mapping a clan of mobile selfish genes

Comment #269331 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 8:25 pm

63. Comment #269326 by scooternyc

That's immaterial. I'm asking you a question on principle. Are you incapable of answering a direct question?

Also, please don't contract my name.

1407. Mapping a clan of mobile selfish genes

Comment #269318 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 8:10 pm

52. Comment #269312 by scooternyc

You still have failed to answer my question. A simple yes or no will suffice.

Is it not the case, that I should only uphold such ideals until the moment they conflict with a person self interest, at which time they ought be chucked to the way side?

As in, say, if I were to gain enough power that I could be more than confident that I could suppress without risk of my own suppression, then I ought to suppress? No? Why not?

1408. Mapping a clan of mobile selfish genes

Comment #269315 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 8:07 pm

48. Comment #269308 by scooternyc

I often forget how fun my comments can be for me.

Pfft! Amateur.

1409. Mapping a clan of mobile selfish genes

Comment #269309 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 8:03 pm

45. Comment #269303 by Steve Zara

If that is the case, then he will be the second person I made discavaporate today.

1410. Mapping a clan of mobile selfish genes

Comment #269306 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 8:00 pm

42. Comment #269299 by scooternyc

I asked you if it was not the case that those civil liberties, those freedoms, should only be endorsed, and used, for as long as they server my purposes, my self interest, and chucked to the wayside the moment they do not.

If I ought, nay, must only behave in self-interested ways -- as you say -- then this is clearly the case. In order to make a case that freedom for other people, and civil liberties for other people should be upheld or respected, you must make a case that they are always, and one hundred percent of the time in my self-interest to uphold. Otherwise, my upholding them would be altruistic.

Just saying that it is the way it is, and that is how the system is set up does not address my question.

1411. Mapping a clan of mobile selfish genes

Comment #269297 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 7:51 pm

37. Comment #269294 by scooternyc

This is clear evasion.

1412. Mapping a clan of mobile selfish genes

Comment #269291 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 7:45 pm

32. Comment #269288 by scooternyc

Why is the freedom of the choice important? If I am reasonably certain that denying that freedom of choice is in my personal self-interest, then isn't that what I ought do?

Why should I allow for other people's freedom of choice if it may work against my self-interest when I have the option to not allow it?

1413. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #269287 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 7:40 pm

7976. Comment #269262 by Fuller

Yeah, holy crap. Obama really is like a conservative in Canada. I'm so far left and libertarian that I'm almost in the bottom corner. Four blocks up, and three across. I am exactly opposite John McCain.

1414. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #269245 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 7:07 pm

To paraphrase Stewie, I feel bad laughing at them without having paid for a ticket.

1415. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #269223 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 6:44 pm

Ah, none of you intellectual peasants appreciate real wit.

1416. If you don't have religion, where do you find your sense of community?

Comment #269198 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 6:22 pm

Well, my serious answer would be that I feel kind of solidarity with all peoples, and from this get a sense of a global community. I have no exclusivity, the type of which is created by communities that are religion specific, and have thus a wider, and almost entirely inclusive sense of community.

The actual answer would be that I'm a weird recluse that does actually talk to people in real life.

1417. Creationists declare war over the brain

Comment #269176 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 5:44 pm

I think it's funny how definite these clowns are of what it isn't, yet they can't give you s single piece of information about what it actually is.

1418. Creationists declare war over the brain

Comment #269170 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 5:32 pm

Now the institute is funding research into "non-material neuroscience".

How would they go about that exactly? Me thinks they will be getting paid to do nothing.

1419. Creationists declare war over the brain

Comment #269167 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 5:25 pm

I'm asking us as a world community to go out there and tell the scientific establishment, enough is enough! Materialism needs to start fading away and non-materialist causation needs to be understood as part of natural reality."

Indeed! It is about time the dogmatic scientific establishment recognized Leprechaun-causation, and fairy-causation as a natural part of reality.

1420. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #269162 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 5:18 pm

7958. Comment #269152 by DarwinsPitbull

I'm only a socialist when it comes to other people's stuff.

What's yours is mine, and what's mine is mine.

1421. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #269144 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 4:46 pm

7952. Comment #269142 by DarwinsPitbull

Laughing at stuff doesn't mean that you have a good sense of humour. Being able to inspire this in others does.

Don't know Carto! I find that hard to believe.

It is hard to tell when you're joking and when you're not. Practically everything you say is absurd.

I ain't sharin' nuttin'.

1422. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #269143 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 4:41 pm

7951. Comment #269141 by Gregg Townsend

Really? He reminds me of Shit Talker. That speech program that generates random vulgar insults. Usually involving mullets.

1423. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #269140 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 4:39 pm

7948. Comment #269135 by Mitchell Gilks

WTF am I?

Good question. Let us hold a vote to determine who is funnier. Only my vote is the only one that counts, and it counts twice.

1424. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #269135 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 4:27 pm

7946. Comment #269133 by DarwinsPitbull

Pffft! Cartomancer is unquestionably the funniest on the site. Astronomically so, in my opinion.

Then of course it's me.

All because people laugh at you, does not necessary mean that you are funny.

Comment #269131 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 4:16 pm

90. Comment #269128 by Henri Bergson

Those are the only kinds of "logical necessities". There are no other kinds. Saying "that isn't a logical necessity" void of context or conditions holds absolutely no information value. It is an entirely vacuous statement unless some things are logical necessities in all situations and contexts.

Understand?

I also see that you neglected to give the examples I requested. I wonder why.

Comment #269124 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 4:01 pm

77. Comment #269114 by Henri Bergson

It isn't "basic terminology", it's nonsense. Name one "logical necessity" and one judgment that is not subjectively derived.

Something is logically necessary only at the end of an argument that's premises necessitate the conclusion, or a statement which has internal conditions that necessitates its truth. Tautologies, in other words.

For instance:

"If I want an organization, then I need to organize." There. In this context, organizing is logically necessary.

Now, what the hell do you mean by what you said?

Comment #269109 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 3:46 pm

68. Comment #269099 by Henri Bergson

No such thing as an "objective judgment", must be the same sort of thing as a "logical necessity". Your question makes no sense.

1428. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #269105 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 3:41 pm

7939. Comment #269098 by DarwinsPitbull

No, that is what I was doing at the time.

1429. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #269094 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 3:34 pm

7930. Comment #269085 by Titania

Hey, I was taking about the monkey. I think he is a very cute man. Happy?

Comment #269088 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 3:30 pm

What a hell is a logical necessity?

Like things that are deductively true? If so, that makes no sense in that context.

Comment #269084 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 3:28 pm

54. Comment #269058 by Henri Bergson

But I am against it as I am against bird flu: I don't want it! It's a subjective judgement.

Then why should anyone listen to you? I can say the same thing about onions. I personally don't like onions. How can I possibly use this as a jumping off point to suggest others ought to share this opinion? And should take actions based on it?

You appear to be saying, "you have no real reason to listen to me, but just listen to me anyway."

1432. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #269076 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 3:19 pm

7923. Comment #269068 by DarwinsPitbull

Do you drink that with your pinky sticking out?

No, I drink it while petting a scab-covered tom-cat, that has lost the ability to purr, and now only rhythmically grunts.

1433. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #269070 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 3:13 pm

7919. Comment #269057 by Bonzai

Hell no! That thing is not cute at all. It's nightmarish!

1434. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #269048 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 2:43 pm

7912. Comment #269042 by Bonzai

You just can't get enough of those sex bots, can you?

What is more disturbing? Treating real people as sex toys or treating sex toys as real people?

Clearly the former. I don't necessarily think there is anything wrong with sex bots. If they had cute enough, and realistic enough ones I'd take one, but for as long as they are corpsey, scary, and creepy, I don't want them anywhere near me.

Comment #269045 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 2:39 pm

31. Comment #269001 by Henri Bergson

By following the hard truth.

I gots the "hard truth" in my pants. What, what.

1436. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #269036 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 2:23 pm

7908. Comment #269032 by Quetzalcoatl

Titania says I have the authority, and she's a lawyer, so there.

Can't argue with that.

Also, I don't care if YOU think I'm cute, a fair few women have told me that I am, though, and I rate the opinions of the opposite sex more highly in this regard.

Yeah, yeah. Wouldn't want to disagree with your mother, grandmother, and aunts.

1437. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #269030 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 2:17 pm

7904. Comment #269025 by Bonzai

I'm so cheap that I make my own frozen coffees, and with non-dairy artificial whitener. In a pop bottle.

1438. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #269027 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 2:15 pm

7902. Comment #269021 by Quetzalcoatl

What gives you the authority? I don't remember voting for you, and you aren't very cute, so I don't see why I should listen.

1439. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #269014 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 1:58 pm

7893. Comment #268996 by mitch_486

Ron Paul can't be the best the republicans have to offer in terms of intelligence... He can't be.

1440. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #269003 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 1:51 pm

Well, to beat up and steal Tyler's pedant hat, I should point out that "intellectual" has not been defined, and actually, anyone with a degree of higher learning is an intellectual in the sense of someone who engages in intellectual pursuits. This doesn't necessarily mean that they will be an intellectual in a having a high intelligence sense.

Intellectuals of that sense are intellectuals because of the way their brain is wired, and perhaps to a degree (not in the sense of a diploma. For those that may be confused) genetic.

Though, I would argue that pursuits of higher learning equip individuals with tools that allow them to focus their innate intelligences, and for all intents and purposes, become more intelligent.

Comprehension of logic and axioms = intellect plus 10!!

1441. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #268955 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 1:04 pm

7864. Comment #268954 by root2squared

Yes, apparently degrees don't make you smart, wealth does.

Paris Hilton must then be more intelligent than most, if not all astral physicists.

1442. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #268949 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 12:58 pm

7860. Comment #268942 by DarwinsPitbull

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I hope you're joking.

1443. Beyond Belief 3: Candles in the Dark

Comment #268946 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 12:56 pm

This asshole is seeding it. I'm downloading a rather large collection of yuri images, so not really seeding for the sake of seeding though.

I forgot to save my collection when I formatted a few months ago, and have still yet to replace them all.

1444. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #268932 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 12:36 pm

7857. Comment #268927 by DarwinsPitbull

Well that true because we are both good looking people and we both drive liberals crazy.

Considering the increasing number of conservatives abandoning ship, and getting just as bothered by her, I'd say that you both drive anyone with any degree of intellect crazy. The liberals tend to have the lion share, so I can see how you could get confused. Also, the stupid has to be somewhat to blame.

1445. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #268921 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 12:24 pm

Hey, I'm a socialist of sorts, and all of my friends are totally radical man. Also tubular. To use the vernacular of a wise and enlightened turtle, of the mutant persuasion. I personally think that his best work was during his teenage years.

1446. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #268916 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 12:18 pm

7852. Comment #268906 by MBC Morgan

This is what comes of having such a common name, I suppose. Some ass is bound to ruin it for the rest of us. It could be worse. I could be named Sarah Palin. No one would take me seriously then.

Or, OR! You could have a moniker like "DarwinsPitBull" and it would be exactly the same.

1447. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #268904 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 11:59 am

7844. Comment #268883 by MBC Morgan

I'm just going to assume that you deserve it. I'm sure you've done something.

7850. Comment #268902 by Bonzai

It would give me nightmares. They're too corpsey for me. They make me uneasy.

1448. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #268898 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 11:50 am

7843. Comment #268876 by Bonzai

That shit is creepy as fuck. I bet it terrifies children.

1449. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #268857 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 10:57 am

7837. Comment #268854 by al-rawandi

The one and only time I got into a discussion with him, I asked him to at least throw a plot in there to keep me interested.

1450. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #268850 by Wosret on October 22, 2008 at 10:48 am

Teratornis just makes me have to say tl;dr.

Genius or not, if he can't make a point in under five thousand words then I have little interest.