Why Do People Come To Computer Audiophile To Display Their Contempt For Audiophiles?

[lucretius]

3 hours ago, Jud said:

There are folks who've been here a long time who have quite a sardonic sense of humor, and if they suddenly changed that I'd wonder if something was wrong.  But not everyone can bring that off.

 

I often have a sardonic grin while reading CA posts.

[lucretius]

35 minutes ago, jabbr said:

Are we having a fellacious focus??

 That's fellating on a fallacious hope.

[lucretius]

10 minutes ago, Jud said:

 

I was born in Bethlehem.

 

 

Apparently, Kanye and Bieber already have the bracelets.

 

https://www.google.ca/search?q=WWJD+bracelet&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjNkrSIus_UAhWL34MKHYDeDewQsAQIOw&biw=1920&bih=1034

[lucretius]

23 minutes ago, AJ Soundfield said:

My sincere hope is that no one calls millions and millions of educated folks who experience positive effects of those bracelets, gullible plebeians. It would really reek of hypocrisy to dismiss the perceptions of others, just because one thought something is scientifically absurd and without objective basis, like controlled testing of efficacy.

 

Why? Do you have one of those bracelets?

[lucretius]

1 hour ago, wgscott said:

 

At risk of straying off-topic, in the case of scientists, that number is comparatively few (about 7% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences).  In the (admittedly extreme) case of Francis Collins, it does make me worry about many of his other beliefs.

COLLINS: By being outside of nature, God is also outside of space and time. Hence, at the moment of the creation of the universe, God could also have activated evolution, with full knowledge of how it would turn out, perhaps even including our having this conversation. The idea that he could both foresee the future and also give us spirit and free will to carry out our own desires becomes entirely acceptable.

 

Collins may be an esteemed scientist but seems to be a really bad philosopher.

[lucretius]

3 hours ago, christopher3393 said:

There should be a name for this...

There is ...

[lucretius]

20 minutes ago, Ralf11 said:

Science however does not apply to all aspects of human endeavor (I won't say knowledge here).  For example, science offers a clear answer to the fundamental question of "Why are we here?"

 

"Why are we here?" is not a proper question in a world of efficient causes.

[lucretius]

27 minutes ago, mav52 said:

Maybe its not pattern matching but pattern perception.

 

Please explain the difference.