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Welcome, Frood. I'm pretty nearsighted, I wear glasses when I'm looking at things farther than a metre away. It sucks because I can't really recognize faces farther than that without glasses unless lighting is good. But it's not really terrible. I like my glasses, but I think I'd prefer...

Subscribed threads with new posts are the ones that are listed on your control panel. Subscribed threads are marked with a little . There's options someone in the control panel for controlling what the deal is with subscribed threads, but you subscribe to a thread by either posting in it or by...

Just curious how you all do it. Do you read every post? Read every post in a particular forum? Read everything in your subscribed threads, and occasionally post elsewhere to keep things going? As for me, I read (or at least skim) it all. Click on "New Posts" every so often, come up from the...

Yes, like in "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen." I accept "man" (and certain derivatives) as having, among other senses, one sense which relates to all the human race. Are you saying there is something inherently wrong with that? Linguistic tradition is not limited just to...

My mother and I get along very well, I think. Better than my father and I, usually. It's simply a function of the division of labours in the family - my father is not the nurturer. I am surprised that you found such conflict with your ISFJ mother... isn't the tendency of both the INTP and the...

Zero: Uh, what do you mean by 'flipping'?I guess I missed that somehow in my reading of this thread. Yes. It's not accidental; I do it that way intentionally because it resolves the issue of pronouns for unspecified gender, and also follows linguistic tradition. Sorry, missed your comment the...

I think it's generally agreed that everyone uses all of the functions some of the time.

Mmm, that's interesting. I hadn't considered before my two conflicting heuristics. Some times I consider un-addressed text has always referring to the previous post, other times always to the original post. I guess it depends on whether a conversation is going on or not. Also your post is...

It seems to me that this is an evolutionarily favourable behaviour as well.

I didn't buy anything on Black Friday. woot?

I could never just lurk anywhere... most places I have to speak up if I have something to say.

Actually, George FitzGerald came up with that one first. Hendrik Lorentz independently proposed it too, and Lorentz's treatment was taken further. All this came around several years before special relativity. Lorentz was a pretty cool dude.

It can be a little more complicated that that, though. Often, both liberals and conservatives call for reform (i.e. change) - the liberals, for change away from tradition; the conservatives, for change back towards tradition. Yet, the long-term essence is as you say.

I agree with your second sentence there (The Law was good - just insufficient - hence the necessity for Christ's sacrifice... ), but if it was an everlasting covenant, then it was an everlasting covenant. Maybe it was insufficient, but God was certainly aware of that when he gave it to...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_contraction With particular focus on the introduction and the section "A trigonometric effect?".

You're likely right, although if you are a liberal you may not understand immediately that I would consider myself complimented if someone applied the definition of "conservative" from up there to me. ;)

I don't quite understand how music can be INTP.

Everlasting? These both seem to be referring to the Commandments.

Seems to me you've got a misunderstanding of natural selection. The whole point of natural selection is that behaviors (or conditions leading to behaviors) that promote the propagation of themselves will propagate. In other words, people have always been scared of death. That's why we survived.

Dymaxion sleep, please.

Mmm. I won't object to anyone's use of the word so long as it fits generally accepted rules of usage. What do you mean, ideologies match the definitions? Conservative: Liberal:

Here's a relevant bit of news, with a computer science twist. Mmmm computer science. "The 'Read Me' file of a harried programmer who couldn't replicate the scientists' warming results." http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/climategate-computer-codes-are-the-real-story/

I've only a smattering of knowledge in psychology, but I'm pretty sure this is false. Our memory capacities are practically infinite - it is only when some part of the system is damaged that memory loss increases. Either the memory isn't being stored properly, or isn't being retrieved properly...

Not where I've grown up, at least. They're not really used as insults but as real descriptors.

I'd prefer that, I think. What good is it having a bunch of read threads, even if they are new? I've actually started clicking "Mark all forums read" after I finish reading everything, so all the "new but read threads" are cleared from the list and I don't run into this problem I get where the...

Guys! You keep forgetting no one here has any feelings. What is up with you all? :cat:

The logic for the strong uncertainty principle runs something like this: (stoled from wiki) Leaving aside the question of wavefunctions, at least a little. cryptonia: this is almost all i know about it. I think...

There's not just "7 senses"... there's no clear definition of sense, so there can be as many as you like - temperature and pain come to mind. There's probably a load of them listed on Wikipedia. Unless there's some consensus I don't know about. And I wouldn't disparage the sense of one's body...

I disagree. Certain details of the Old Law were certainly outmoded - but the very heart of them, the Commandments? What is your argument for this? Oh yeah, and I think morality is one universal, timeless, absolute law. Which was perfected by Christ. Yep. A discussion for another time perhaps?

I just found out the other day that my brother is an INTP. I didn't really have any idea. We're not very close, but it seems like we're a good deal more different than similar. I'm not entirely sure how - he's just distinct, somehow. He is 15 and I am 17. Here is my family Mother - ISFJ...

I've always secretly wanted to be manic-depressive. I'm sure some of you guys can relate.

This is kinda annoying for me to leave a few dozen threads unread and then come back in the morning and see that the system has decided to stop flagging them unread. Apparently there is a time limit after when the system thinks I don't want to read old posts anymore. This doesn't happen to me...

I agree with AI, I was just too lazy and not articulate enough to say something as long as what he said. ^_^

Seems to me it involves: - understanding of what behaviours on your part will produce what effects on their part - ability to effectively produce said behaviours Seems to me INTPs naturally lack some part of both criteria. But this looks a lot like a definition of charisma or some quality...

Sup, dude.

No one should be surprised by this crap. (btw, I think humans have got nothing to do with temperature fluctuations.)

What do you think the definition of 'morality' is, Da Blob?

The meaning of the uncertainty principle is a matter of QM interpretation. Some interpretations say there is a "hard"claim of uncertainty (this is the mainstream view nowadays), some say only the "soft" claim (historically more common, incl. Heisenberg I think).

well, it wasn't entirely original <grin> http://www.barefootsworld.net/aa12stepsorigin.html

In my high school, we used an "Integrated" curriculum, which is just another name for New Math. It was a ridiculous unstructured waste of time. we would relearn the same material every so often, spending ages on review. It's called the "spiral method" or something.

I agree, except I felt similarly about the entire SAT minus the essay. I've taken the test once, got CR 800, M 780, W 600. The 600 is mostly because I got a 4/12 on the essay. I'm terrible at (a) timed essays, and (b) structured essays. If you put those two together and I am the writer, the...

Mmm, I've never learned the ideas behind complex numbers arising in electromagnetism. I'm taking an introductory class in physics involving EM, but you can bet they're not going to even mention complex numbers. Bastards. :rogue00:

This article is relevant to this topic, I think. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_intelligence_factor :elephant:

I think one of the reasons it bothers me, subconsciously, is that it is a rejection of a system which I have used through my life. My subconscious objects to people not following The System.

My view of philosophy is quite different. I think that precise concepts are absolutely important to philosophy. Precise things like, exactly what does it mean for something to be proven?

Well, I didn't say I believed chemicals caused emotions. I just meant I believed in causality in general. Since we were talking about causality, I switched into epistemology mode. Thus I object - science is sure of nothing. This is a pedantic objection, not a semantic one.

The point is that the model is deterministic instead of probabilistic. As I understand it.

Well, that is sort of what I'm saying. What Hume said, anyway. That an actual causal relationship can't be observed. Difference is, I happen to believe in causality regardless, but w/e.

smiley Okay I can't find the other smilies thread so I'll post this here it would be awesome if we had this smiley http://www.3rdgen.org/bb/images/smilies/nazi.gif

This is really cool and I'm going to try to read more later. It would be nice if I could figure out Hamiltonians totally. And I guess to do that it would help if I'd taken a differential equations course. Oh well.