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I second this. To me, reading is an interactive activity. All the books I own are crammed full of underlined sentences, highlighting, writing in the margins, and tons of bookmarks stuck all over the place with writing on them. It helps to both A) summarize complex ideas in your own words and B)...

Sounds like some hoarder shit. That being said, I have a bedroom full of Mountain Dew 2-liter empties.

Cultures taken in my biology class a couple weeks ago shows that coffee cups and water bottles have several orders of magnitude more bacteria and fungus growing inside them than A) door handles, B) buttons on college vending machines, C) urinals and toilets (seats and handles), and D) the air...

This story has potential, but you have fallen into the trap that my own writing did several years ago: it comes off more like an essay explaining things than a story of things happening. Perhaps this is an INTP thing, but you are writing this like you're trying to explain all these ideas to me...

I agree with the point that any personality theory should be able to be used to make predictions about behavior. When two people are friends, they often can guess how one another will behave in certain circumstances and how they will react to various stimuli. I inquired Adymus about this on a...

Lyra is a person on this forum (the one I linked to) who has been banned several times before on other forum accounts. Their recent thread is condoning Nazism as some sort of "numinous" greatness. The fact that you say Vega is evil led me to think you were referencing Lyra because Vega is a star...

Is this an affront to Lyra?

What is evil as a universal? First we would have to isolate what common factor(s) all particular instances of evil have. I might make a list off the top of my head: 1. Subjective: it involves subjects (people) both doing evil and suffering evil. 2. Pain: it causes pain (psychological, physical...

For evolution, a fact might be something like: all mammals have homologous skeletons (self evident). A theory would be that this is because they evolved from the same common ancestor. This theory explains this fact (evolution explains a lot of other facts, as well, but I'm keeping it simple...

Here is my challenge: find something that falsifies evolution. Not something that "is as readily explained by something else as it is by evolution" but something that can only be explained by intelligent design (or whatever other theory you may have, but for some reason ID seems to be the...

I would choose understanding. Since that wasn't an option, I thought wisdom was close enough, so that's what I voted. I'm annoyed when I know something but can't do anything with it (hence why I like debate).

Who cares about evolution is an important question. It's been said that nothing in biology makes sense except in light of evolution. This is true in a sense. Without evolution, everything in zoology, anatomy, botany, paleontology, anthropology, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology...

All that could be surmised from examining the complexity of life is that it could have been designed by an intelligent designer, but there is no evidence or reason to come to the conclusion that there is a being that created matter and energy. Since the laws of physics and chemistry are all that...

Universal common descent is not the same as evolution. It's a direct inference of evolution, supported by the fossil record and molecular/genetic homology which consistently confirm the phylogenetic trees constructed from the fossil record (1) (2) (3), but one does not require universal common...

So this theory is taking the assumption that two people of a different type will have the same physiological cues? Does Pod'lair take personality as genetically determined or socially constructed? One thing I noticed a lot with conversations about MBTI is that the functions were talked about...

I don't know much about your theory, so I'm not criticizing it specifically, but in science, the strength of a theory is in it's ability to make predictions. This would mean that a theory of personality would have it's strengths judged based on what sort of predictions it could make for certain...

I'm attempting to avoid, as much as possible, the averaging of empirical statistics. The problem with empirical statistics is that it does take too many of the variables into account, and this exercise is attempting to reduce the variables so that we can measure how far people are within a...

Introduction - feel free to skip to next paragraph (I realize this post is long). Science often utilizes an idealized (and usually impossible) archetype for which real life can be compared. In chemistry there is something called the Ideal Gas Law, which is the ideal state of a single gas: PV =...

Quite often his diagnoses come from unrelated conversations. For example, in season 3 "Insensitive" Wilson makes a comment about House getting off on taking his food before he can eat it and it dawns on House that the patient has a tape worm that's "taking" her food (vit B deficiency) before she...

This is an interesting assessment of the show; I've never thought of it this way before. A couple things though: House is named such in homage to Sherlock Holmes (home = house). Second, most of House's insights for making the diagnosis are not carefully thought out rational conclusions, but...

Collisions with other universes is possible, but it's also possible that there are undiscovered forces that work on incredibly large scales in our universe that are undetectable at our size scale (the same way the strong nuclear force is too small to be detected at our size scale). It's also...

2, 3, 5, 13, 89, 233, 1597, 28657, 514229, 433494437, 2971215073 I'm stumped :confused:

:applaus:

No, the numbers I wrote are correct. Here is a clue: [/SPOILER]

252, 765, 1458, 252, 1008, 1944, 90, 1089, 2268 Nobody has done my last one yet: 36963, 10545, 42128247, 10111011, 552656013, _, _, 611513813223

M, V, E, M, J, S, U, N, sorry but P is no longer a part of it.

289, 4096, 50625, 537824, 4826809 And mine: 36963, 10545, 42128247, 10111011, 552656013, _, _, 611513813223 This looks harder than it is (I think). Do it, just for funzies. EDIT: J, F, M, A, M, J, J, A

4121, 4225, 4130, 4216, 4139, 4207, 4148, 4198, 4157, 4189, 4166. And mine (Kind of a different motif, but I think it should be easy enough): 9109, 7107, 8216, 6318, 7535, 5840, 61378, 42184, _, _, _, _, _, 1377377

Paranoid: Very High Schizoid: Moderate Schizotypal: Very High Antisocial: Moderate Borderline: High Histrionic: Moderate Narcissistic: High Avoidant: Very High Dependent: High Obsessive-Compulsive: Very High

Seventh Level of Hell Guarded by the Minotaur, who snarls in fury, and encircled within the river Phlegethon, filled with boiling blood, is the Seventh Level of Hell. The violent, the assasins, the tyrants, and the war-mongers lament their pitiless mischiefs in the river, while centaurs...

By being objective, one means being impartial. To be impartial one would require a 'perspectiveless perspective' which does not exist. Being impartial is simply an attempt to recognize ones own biases and presuppositions and try to account for them while recording and interpreting...

Unfortunately it was me on chat last night. But, I'm willing to pretend it wasn't. /hungover

JESUS fucking Christ, I can't believe you are a tried and true member of the forum, because I have no idea who the FUCk you are LOL.

If your cholesterol is too low, then it'll bleed too much to bang your mangina. I'm drunk.

It's me on chat fool.

Grades came in a few days ago: I still have a 4.0 GPA. Someone at work told me today that my boss told them that I "...do the work of three people." I do menial work in a warehouse, but I'll take a win where I can get it. I haven't had any alcohol since August*. I'm a winner. *Time to...

I'm almost certain I have ADD as a comorbid condition with my Tourettes (along with OCD and atypical depression). When I have alone time, I can never do anything for more than about a half hour at a time - I'll read for a while, then watch TV, then surf the internet, then go exercise, then read...

I'm not thinking this would work like Freud's psychosexual development (which I don't believe has any basis in reality). I don't think there would be any fixed levels of development. It would be more like personality differentiation, like a cell going from a stem cell to a liver cell, or kidney...

Perhaps applying the same typology to infants is the wrong way to go about it. It would probably be more accurate to apply some sort of proto-typology to such underdeveloped brains, which have to differentiate into more mature typology the same way a blastula has to differentiate into endoderm...

This is assuming that empirical knowledge is the only valid knowledge. I can know things through logical inference (rationalism) and by being able to apply them (pragmatism). For instance, I do not know that I will die. But, if I know that all humans die, and that I'm human, I can infer that I...

I don't think I would characterize the voices I utilize to organize my thoughts as multiple personalities. They're more like compartmentalized versions of myself that I used to organize information - I still identify the voices as being controlled/generated by my core self. However, I do have a...

I admit I made some hasty judgments. You're right, I looked back at your first response, and realized that I was being unreasonably critical of you. For that I apologize. After reading what you wrote, you don't seem to think evolution itself lacks the necessary experimental rigor, but that...

Working on: Genetics/Cell/Molecular biology emphasis for bachelors. If I have the funds: Cellular and Molecular biology for masters at a local university. Neuroscience for doctorate at MSU. My biggest interests are neuroplasticity and psychopharmacology. If I was rich I'd probably go for a...

The only thing being misunderstood is the theory of evolution. You're attempting to pass off your inability to grasp the theory as being open minded. But, you have failed to explain why evolution on a macroscopic scale can't happen - at what point does some mysterious force prevent small genetic...

I made a post, but it got caught by the spam filter. I was going to edit this in, but I'll just make it a new post. If you need something drastic, I suggest checking out transgenics:

See: Speciation of Anolis lizards in the Caribbean. Morphological changes in Stickleback fish. The lizard Podarcis sicula evolves a new organ(1) (cecal valve, maybe not as dramatic as hooves, but still impressive). A relatively simple mutation changed Ciona intestinalis simple single chambered...

Speciation has been observed (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7). There are experiments that can be done with evolution. Science requires manipulating an independent variable while controlling all other variables, so putting an organism into the wild and watching it evolve is a good observation, but it...

That would make the poll far to cumbersome. Maybe just an option for Paraphilia, where one can specify in their reply?

What is your sexuality? (Poll included) I voted Polysexual. Not exactly sure why, but I don't like to limit myself. I might consider myself sapiosexual. Marital status? Unmarried. MBTI? INTP. Biological gender? Male Transgender? No. Maybe if it wasn't so expensive/permanent, I'd...

This depends where you live. I can only speak from my point of view in America. For America, some large influences were obviously the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, 9/11, the Bush presidency, climate change, completion of the Human Genome Project, Cell phones, the dominance of the internet, the...