this is so true

WTH

Why is there a need for SB to start singing (loudly and rudely) after they finish their food at Panera? And they don't even clear their tables. I am guessing they got people to wipe their asses at home too.

SB= stupid bitches, from a particular college that is not on the US News Top Colleges.
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Fibji: Man, I realized no matter how annoying our UGs are, there are UGs outside who are infinitely more annoying. So we should be thankful that we don't have to teach students like that.
ttw: I think you will end up throwing things at them.
Fibji: YEAH.

(ed ttw: i have no idea why this is roadkill. presumably their intelligence level is similar.)

Can someone summarize this into 3 sentences?

N-A-R

You are an N-A-R: a metaphysical Non-Reductionist, an epistemological Absolutist, and a moral Relativist. If you are simply dying inside to figure out what all this mumbo-jumbo means, then simply continue reading.

Metaphysics: Non-Reductionism (Idealism or Realism) In metaphysics, my test measures your tendency towards Reductionism or Non-Reductionism. As a Non-Reductionist, you recognize that reality is not necessarily simple or unified, and you thus tend to produce a robust ontology instead of carelessly shaving away hypothetical entities that reflect our philosophical experiences. My test recognizes two types of Non-Reductionists: Idealists and Realists.

1. Idealists believe that reality is fundamentally unknowable. All we can ever know is the world of sense experience, thought, and other phenomena which are only distorted reflections of an ultimate (or noumenal) reality. Kant, one of the most significant philosophers in history, theorized that human beings perceive reality in such a way that they impose their own mental frameworks and categories upon reality, fully distorting it. Reality for Kant is unconceptualized and not subject to any of the categories our minds apply to it. Idealists are non-reductionists because they recognize that the distinction between phenomenal reality and ultimate reality cannot be so easily discarded or unified into a single reality. They are separate and distinct, and there is no reason to suppose the one mirrors the other. Major philosophical idealists include Kant and Fichte.

If your views are different from the above, then you may be a Realist. 2. Realists deny the validity of sloppy metaphysical reductions, because they feel that there is no reason to suspect that reality reflects principles of parsimony or simplicity. Realism is the most common-sensical of the metaphysical views. It doesn't see reality as a unity or as reducible to matter or mind, nor does it see reality as divided into a phenomenal world of experience and an unknowable noumenal world of things-in-themselves. Realist metaphysics emphasizes that reality is for the most part composed of the things we observe and think. On the question of the existence of universals, for instance, a realist will assert that while universals do not physically exist, the relations they describe in particulars are as real as the particular things themselves, giving universals a type of reality. Thus, no reduction is made. On the mind-body problem, realists tend to believe that minds and bodies both exist, and the philosophical problems involved in reducing mind to matter or matter to mind are too great to warrant such a reduction. Finally, realists deny that reality is ultimately a Unity or Absolute, though they recognize that reality can be viewed as a Unity when we consider the real relations between the parts as constituting this unity--but it doesn't mean that the world isn't also made up of particular things. Aristotle and Popper are famous realists.

*****

Epistemology: Absolutism (Rationalism or Pragmatism) My test measures one's tendency towards Absolutism or Skepticism in regards to epistemology. As an Absolutist, you believe that objective knowledge is possible given the right approach, and you deny the claims of skeptical philosophers who insist that we can never have knowledge of ultimate reality. The two types of Absolutists recognized by my test are Rationalists and Pragmatists.

1. Rationalists believe that the use of reason ultimately provides the best route to truth. A rationalist usually defines truth as a correspondence between propositions and reality, taking the common-sense route. Also, rationalists tend to believe that knowledge of reality is made possible through certain foundational beliefs. This stance is known as foundationalism. A foundationalist believes that, because we cannot justify the truth of every statement in an infinite regress, we ultimately reach a foundation of knowledge. This foundation is composed of a priori truths, like mathematics and logic, as well as undoubtable truths like one's belief in his or her own existence. The belief that experiences and memories are veridical is also part of the foundation. Thus, for a rationalist knowledge of reality is made possible through our foundational beliefs, which we do not need to justify because we find them to be undoubtable and self-evident. In regards to science, a rationalist will tend to emphasize the foundational assumptions of scientific inquiry as prior to and more important than scientific inquiry itself. If science does lead to truth, it is only because it is based upon the assumption of certain rational principles such as "Every event is caused" and "The future will resemble the past". Philosophy has a wide representation of philosophical rationalists--Descartes, Spinoza, Liebniz, and many others.

If that didn't sound like your own views, then you are most likely the other type of Absolutist: the Pragmatist. Epistemological Pragmatists are fundamentally identified by their definition of truth. Truth is, on this view, merely a measure of a proposition's success in inquiry. This view is a strictly scientific notion of truth. A proposition can be called true if it leads to successful predictions or coheres best with the observed facts about the world. Thus, for the pragmatist, knowledge of reality is possible through scientific reasoning. A pragmatist emphasizes man's fallibility, and hence takes baby-steps towards knowledge through scientific methodology. Any truth claim for a pragmatist is open to revision and subject to change--if empirical observations lead us to call even logical rules into question (like quantum physics has done for the law of the excluded middle), then we can and should abandon even these supposed a priori and "absolutely certain" logical rules if they do not accord with our testing and refuting of our various propositions. As a consequence of this, a pragmatist doesn't feel that scientific knowledge is based upon unfounded assumptions that are taken to be true without any sort of justification--rather, they believe that the successes of scientific inquiry have proved that its assumptions are well-founded. For instance, the assumption of science that the future will be like the past is adequately shown by the amazing success of scientific theories in predicting future events--how else could this be possible unless the assumption were true? Pragmatism borrows elements from realism and yet attempts to account for the critiques made by skeptics and relativists. It is essentially a type of philosophical opportunism--it borrows the best stances from a large number of philosophical systems and attempts to discard the problems of these systems by combining them with others. Famous pragmatists of this type are Peirce and Dewey.

*****

Ethics: Relativism (Subjectivism or Emotivism) My test measures one's tendency towards moral Objectivism or moral Relativism in regards to ethics. As a moral Relativist, you tend to see moral choices as describing a subject's reaction to a moral object or situation, and not as a property of the moral object itself. You may also feel that moral words are meaningless because they do not address any empirical fact about the world. My test recognizes two types of moral relativists--Subjectivists and Emotivists.

1. Subjectivists see individual or collective desires as defining a situation's or object's moral worth. Thus, the subject, not the object itself, determines the value. Subjectivists recognize that social rules, customs, and morality have been wide-ranging and quite varied throughout history among various cultures. As a result, Subjectivism doesn't attempt to issue hard and fast rules for judging the moral worth of things. Instead, it recognizes that what we consider "good" and "right" is not bound by any discernable rule. There is no one trait that makes an act good or right, because so many different kinds of things have been called good and right. In regards to the definition of "good" or "right", a Subjectivist will tend to define it as whatever a particular person or group of people desire. They do not define it merely as "happiness" or "pleasure", for instance, because sometimes we desire to do things that do not produce pleasure, and because we don't consider all pleasurable things good. Furthermore, Subjectivists recognize the validity of consequentialism in that sometimes we refer to consequences as good and bad--but they also recognize that our intentions behind an action, or the means to the end, can also determine an act's moral worth. Again, there is no one rule to determine these things. Hence the relativism of moral Subjectivism. The most well-known of the subjectivists is Nietzsche.

If that didn't sound like your position, then you are probably the other variety of moral Relativist--the Emotivist. Emotivists are moral Relativists only in a very slanted sense, because they actually deny that words about morality have any meaning at all. An Emotivist would probably accept Hume's argument that it is impossible to derive an "ought" from an "is"--no factual state of affairs can logically entail any sort of moral action. Furthermore, a emotivist's emphasis on scientific (and hence empirical) verification and testing quickly leads to the conclusion that concepts such as "good" and "right" don't really describe any real qualities or relations. Science is never concerned with whether a particular state of affairs is moral or right or good--and an emotivist feels much the same way. Morality is thus neither objective or subjective for the emotivist--it is without any meaning at all, a sort of vague ontological fiction that is merely a symbol for our emotional responses to certain events. Famous emotivists include Ayer and other positivists associated with the Vienna Circle.

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As you can see, when your philosophical position is narrowed down there are so many potential categories that an OKCupid test cannot account for them all. But, taken as very broad categories or philosophical styles, you are best characterized as an N-A-R. Your exact philosophical opposite would be an R-S-O.

About the Author

Saint_gasoline is a crazed madman who spends all of his time writing OKCupid tests and ranting about philosophy and science. If you are interested in reading more of his insane ramblings, or seeing his deliciously trite webcomic, go to SaintGasoline.com.

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 99% on Metaphysics

You scored higher than 99% on Epistemology

You scored higher than 99% on Ethics

In response to users who reported that they could not access their online e-mail mailbox:

"We are working to rectify the problem. Please send an e-mail to help@stupidemailservice.edu.sg if you cannot access your mailbox."

Cerumen

Today the good doctor (with a MD and MBA from U. Chicago, no less) told me that the reason why my left ear is giving me discomfort is cerumen. :-S Now I know more about this condition than I ever wanted.

"Sorry for bother"

Heh.

Benji outdoors

http://mosilager.blogspot.com/2007/04/dog-conference-2007.html

Bibji says, "I think they think he's a lamb..." on Benji and the big dogs.

What College Major Are You/Should You Be?

http://www.brainfall.com/test5_1.php

It's a tie!
	Your major should be part Engineering. Logic is your friend. With enough work, you can find a solution to anything... Unless it involves dating or parties.
	Your major should be part Computer Science. You like nothing more than spending long nights with friends in the computer lab... which is a good thing since that's exactly how you'll spend the next couple years.

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From BBC News:

Sudan man forced to 'marry' goat

A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his "wife", after he was caught having sex with the animal.

The goat's owner, Mr Alifi, said he surprised the man with his goat and took him to a council of elders.

They ordered the man, Mr Tombe, to pay a dowry of 15,000 Sudanese dinars ($50) to Mr Alifi.

"We have given him the goat, and as far as we know they are still together," Mr Alifi said.

Mr Alifi, of Hai Malakal in Upper Nile State, told the Juba Post newspaper that he heard a loud noise around midnight on 13 February and immediately rushed outside to find Mr Tombe with his goat.

"When I asked him: 'What are you doing there?', he fell off the back of the goat, so I captured and tied him up."

Mr Alifi then called elders to decide how to deal with the case.

"They said I should not take him to the police, but rather let him pay a dowry for my goat because he used it as his wife," Mr Alifi told the newspaper.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/africa/4748292.stm

Published: 2006/02/24 16:40:00 GMT

© BBC MMVII

Can someone tell me why "Music from the Star Wars Saga" is listed on Amazon under Indie Deals?

Last I checked John Williams is hardly "indie".

:(

Get wet or die trying

Good times.

After the deadline has passed II

... clearly grad students have too much coffee and an unlimited capacity for procrastination.

After the deadline has passed

A: what are you doin
B: me nothing. bumming, watsup
A: nuthing. bored
B: come lets play something
B: lets play hopscotch
A: .........................................

On the Corrs

A: http://youtube.com/watch?v=mAvJ0R4g5ws
A: so hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot. i like the drummer the most :D
B: oh. so young! the drummer is the least hot of the sisters
A: no no lah
B: YEAHHH
A: she is quite hot
B: the other two are HOTTTER, especially andrea corr
A: they are girly girly hotter, but this one is hottttt
B: like that, you might as well say, the brother HOTTEST. hurhur
A: the bitchy dominant kind
A: hahahah :P ass
B: oh no, you secretly wants to be whipped. hurhur

At Great Wall Supermarket

We are everywhere!

Heh.

"No and impossible are the words that cannot and should not exist in a go-getter’s mind."

This is confusing. Does this imply that in a go-getter's mind, he/she cannot and should not have the following sentence:
"There is no impossible thing."

In response to random crazy person

[16:36] Fibji: :-O :-O
[16:37] : "Above all the reasons I stated, the real reason for my support for my government is that God is the one who appointed these leaders. God placed them over us. By supporting them, we are obeying God".
it is not God who appointed the *** lah
hello
in anycase is it in the bible
there is you and God
and no one in between who can have the authortiy of God over you
[16:38] deaf when yawning: oh oyu haven't seen that one b4
[16:38] deaf when yawning: haha
[16:38] Fibji: seriously
I wonder if these christians have ever read the bible
maybe she ic catholic
and see *** like the men in white too
like the pop
[16:39] deaf when yawning: -_-
[16:39] Fibji : look
it is clear in the bible
that it is only between you and God
what is this of God placing leaders over you
man
I think I am more chrisitan than him/her/it
man
this guy should be gang raped on the sts
and then say
I was gang raped becos God gave me a test
like abaham or what what
maybe she/he see the *** like they are our savor
like moses leading the jews out of egypt, part the red sea and into the promised land
maybe he has those weed candles.. and then helocinate
that it is a burning bush
how you speel he-lu-si-nate?
haclluinate
[16:46] deaf when yawning: hallucinate
[16:46] deaf when yawning: -_-

When the deadline REALLY approaches,

A: Oh man, my results aren't great. :(
B: That is okay, my results aren't out of this world too.
A: What nonsense. I saw your results for the leopard.....
A: At least you can show them your pussy.

how to mis-read book titles...

Fibji says:

"Nuclear environments?!?!" (Nuclear envelope; the cell, not the energy)

"Basic stem cells?!?!" (Brain stem cells)

Sigh, modeling people.

When a deadline approaches,

food for the lab include chocolates, cookies, cake, seminar sandwiches and wraps, chips, coffee, soda (diet and otherwise)

As a labmate puts it aptly, "I think I only had sugar for the entire day."

You would think that with $30K per year tuition, you would at least have a decent wifi network. But no, the signal blinks intermittently, in the library no less.

Cheap Bastard

You know you have achieved the highest notoriety of SUPER DUPER CHEAP BASTARD (SDCB) when

A: Excuse me, sorry to disturb. I have a question about joining Society of Super Cool People (SSCP)
B: Yes, go ahead. What is the question.
A: I found that SSCP membership is not free and I want to join.
B: Erm yeah, it is $30 per year for student membership. So?
A: Yes, I am wondering about that. Is there any promotional coupon that you know for this?
B: .......................................................

and you know you are surrounded by other SDCB when you get suggestions like these from your friends:

From C:
you should have said "You mean you didn't check Amazon? Sometimes they have specials!"
"free shipping too"
"Occasionally fatwallet has deals on these things too"
"Sometimes it's free, you just have to sign up to evaluate some of their advertising"

From D:
ask him to go search on halfmania for half priced membership

From E:
tell him to search on edealinfo and as the search is very complex, you don't know

Paper Paper!

There are many trials and tribulations in the pursuit of knowledge. Working with others being one (something which I apparently had the "good" fortune of not experiencing) and putting up with people who apparently live in homes without proper water supply being another (but there is a story for another day).

A: i have decided that i am not going to ever co-author my papers with more than 1 co-author
B: meaning?
A: meaning me + one more author.. thats it
B: so if I want to write a paper with you
B: I will have to kill The Boss first?
B: *in case this IM is being hacked, the previous statement is meant to be a joke*

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A: My friend's son has undescended testicle..
B: BENJI!?
A: NOT BENJI LAH
HELLLLO
MY FRIEND'S SON
NOT MY SISTER'S DOG

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