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Taz Member (Idle past 3317 days) Posts: 5069 From: Zerus Joined: |
Brad writes:
Good god, man! In real life do you talk the way you write here? All about Brad McFall II . (Any one who wants to ask me any question in a less serious mode that does not have specific references to a particular topic may query me here but if I can recall having discussed (it) before elsewhere on EVC I may link otherwise.) Disclaimer: Occasionally, owing to the deficiency of the English language, I have used he/him/his meaning he or she/him or her/his or her in order to avoid awkwardness of style. He, him, and his are not intended as exclusively masculine pronouns. They may refer to either sex or to both sexes!
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Taz Member (Idle past 3317 days) Posts: 5069 From: Zerus Joined: |
In a way, I can somewhat understand the mental processes that your mind goes through everytime you are reminded of something you've been interested in or have been working on. I, too, tend to get side tracked and frequently allow my mind to wander in the middle of conversations. For me at least, everything reminds me of something else, and it cascades into something like a snowball affect. I think my "condition", if you want to call it that, resembles more to AAD and is no where near as severe as yours. But nonetheless, my friends have described me as having too many "random thoughts".
But more to the point.
Brad writes:
I just find it funny that for someone as yourself, obviously having a very good grasp of the English language, failed to interpret what I said in the right context. I did not literally mean to ask if you talk like the sentence I quoted.
No, I do not really talk like this, "any one who wants to ask me any question...may query me here but if I can recall having", but it is true that this "any one" mentioned is the same as "any taxanomic and niche matrix" in the sense I am trying to correct below.
So the problem in real life is that my version of biological thinking as a reality is at odds with mental facts if there is a simple difference of physical and mental (but I doubt that(regardless of American politics), as to possibe obsevation of and acquaintance with mental entities.
I can somewhat understand what you are trying to say, or think I somewhat understand. But can you define what you mean exactly by "mental entities"?
I usually do not talk off line in as much detail as I do on because my contribution to society, outside of things that every other average person does, if expressed, covers many years and yet we live day by day, while it is rare to find random people with an interest even as broad as on EvC.
I wonder... let me ask you the following question(s). When you have a conversation with a friend or two, do apparently random things that you are reminded of by the different words or phrases that come up in the conversation flash through your mind? And if so, do you as a result bring up these "random thoughts" in the conversation?
I ended up drinking another 4-5 and dancing with two girls so close to me that there really was no way to turn. I used to do this every Friday when I was younger and healthier.
I have to admit that it's pretty damn hard for me to imagine you dancing with girls and not try to bring up Gould or Lewontin in your small talks.
Neutrality seems to uncover psychology, politics and the rear anti-eugenic biological apology as one teaching. This elite position needs to be dismantled before my every day life becomes my life's work beyond myself.
I have to admit that you are the first living jargon generator I have ever known in my life. Disclaimer: Occasionally, owing to the deficiency of the English language, I have used he/him/his meaning he or she/him or her/his or her in order to avoid awkwardness of style. He, him, and his are not intended as exclusively masculine pronouns. They may refer to either sex or to both sexes!
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Taz Member (Idle past 3317 days) Posts: 5069 From: Zerus Joined: |
Brad writes:
Well, not necessarily. The most important part of being an educator is the ability to communicate in a manner that most people, if not everyone, could understand. Trust me, it's harder than most people think to have to communicate something that is so obvious to you but not so obvious to others, especially when you're trying to exploit to the full extend their attention span.
If I was a proffessor like my brother, I probably would get the opportunity to talk like/as I think. It is not so much that I get sidetracked or have "random" thoughts. It is that I would prefer my life to be lesiurely enough, for me to follow up a mental process to conclusive fruition, but not being rich, the necessities of life bear in, and rather than say *something* I tend to say nothing.
But obviously, as far as you communicating with us online like this, this is not true. The reason I think your mental processes tend to get sidetracked is because most of the time you tend to introduce what seem to many if not all of us completely unrelated subjects and names to the discussion. I think what you are trying to tell me is that you like to take leisure in expressing your ideas in, what many of us would call, "too many words". Of course this method of communication was widely used by just about everyone back in the old old days when people had too much time on their hands. Anyone can get a sample of this by reading The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne or Frankenstein by Shelley. I, on the other hand, consider myself a minimalist. This is probably why I have such a hard time trying to grasp what you say on here.
I have never really felt the "sympathy" posts that others have made on EVC, thinking, there is something mental here, where in fact it is simply that I have a very causal physical perspective hard to express in print. I often simply have to sprint through it, leaving jargons to be the doors shut in the process of becomeing all gone.
I don't think I've read anything that could be considered a "sympathy" post for whatever it is that you have, if any. I think it's mostly just how you often baffle people with your very unique style of communication.
I think that James' view that Russell...
Hahaha... philosophers are second in rank on my hate-list.
Russel went on to distinguish mental facts and mental entites. I took that quickly that mental facts are what psychiatrists get paid to diagnose and the entities are the actuall brain things going on, but then again I have had some peculiar ideas of the nervous system, so perhaps I should not anticipate that synapse crossing when we come to it.
I must admit that I haven't run across this concept before, even though I have certainly studied the works of many philosophers before and after Kant.
I have had a lot of experiences that others have not that I can draw from to make small talk. I generally have not engaged in this on EVC.
Perhaps it would help those of us that are simply curious about you to figure out some things if we start having small talks. How about we set up a time to meet in EvC chat? Disclaimer: Occasionally, owing to the deficiency of the English language, I have used he/him/his meaning he or she/him or her/his or her in order to avoid awkwardness of style. He, him, and his are not intended as exclusively masculine pronouns. They may refer to either sex or to both sexes!
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Taz Member (Idle past 3317 days) Posts: 5069 From: Zerus Joined: |
Hoot writes:
Religionists.
...And your first? I've learned that people who keep hate-lists are hateful people.
Well, since this thread is about Brad, I'd say that Brad would have no comment on whether I am a hater or not.
Do you happen to have a love-list you could share?
In no particular order... sorry, can't think of any. Wrong question to ask an atheist. Remember that we're all grumpy. Disclaimer: Occasionally, owing to the deficiency of the English language, I have used he/him/his meaning he or she/him or her/his or her in order to avoid awkwardness of style. He, him, and his are not intended as exclusively masculine pronouns. They may refer to either sex or to both sexes!
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Taz Member (Idle past 3317 days) Posts: 5069 From: Zerus Joined: |
Phat writes:
The people who lived in the tropics wore their birthday suits all their lives before they were Europeanized. Of all the animals, why are humans the only animal that wears clothes? Seriously, Phat, are you so desperate to prove that there is some godly purpose to us that you are willing to use obviously BS arguments? If everyone naturally feels ashamed of his body because of the fall, there shouldn't be a law in Hawaii forbidding women to go around topless. Disclaimer: Occasionally, owing to the deficiency of the English language, I have used he/him/his meaning he or she/him or her/his or her in order to avoid awkwardness of style. He, him, and his are not intended as exclusively masculine pronouns. They may refer to either sex or to both sexes!
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Taz Member (Idle past 3317 days) Posts: 5069 From: Zerus Joined: |
Phat writes:
I don't know exactly what Rrhain was trying to say, but I can say this much. All of the things you pointed out are very human-centric in that other animal couldn't care less. You must admit that we have accomplished many tasks that any ordinary animal could never do. A while ago, a christian fundamentalist tried to prove to me that the Jesus Christ was the true savior and that all other religious deities are false by pointing out that Jesus was the only one that resurrected from the dead... supposedly. I told him that resurrection was a christian criteria and not of a buddhist's. I could have easily pointed out that Buddha was the one true deity since he was the only one that was "enlightened". The same sort of argument is right here. You are using human criteria and then use things that are only essential for human to meet those criteria to prove our uniqueness. I could just as easily point out that the Argentine ants are the true unique species considering it is the only species in the world who's ALL individuals form a single colony. In other words, you could take an Argintine ant from Mexico and throw it in an Argentine ant nest in Italy and this ant would have been treated by the others as just another member of the colony. There, I just proved that the Argentine ant is god's true chosen. Disclaimer: Occasionally, owing to the deficiency of the English language, I have used he/him/his meaning he or she/him or her/his or her in order to avoid awkwardness of style. He, him, and his are not intended as exclusively masculine pronouns. They may refer to either sex or to both sexes!
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