Philolsophy

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 2011-04-23

[JoeP]

+1 [thanks] for the thrad titl.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Well that's a new way to go about it.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - The Greatest Possible Superhero

This is awful. And I like it.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Too true.



Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Law of Social Media

[erimir]

I believe that paradox requires another premise or two to be a paradox.

(Let's call the barber Bob)

Bob shaves only people who don't shave themselves.

But this simply means he would not be "allowed" to shave himself. But there's nothing contradictory if he simply wears a beard or sees a different barber, as nothing in the premise implies he must shave himself. It could still be the case that every person Bob shaves is someone who never shaves themself.

It could be stated as "Does the barber who shaves all the people who don't shave themselves, and no others, shave himself?"

Or a little more explicitly, "Does the barber who shaves all the people who don't shave themselves, and no others, and nobody goes without shaving, shave himself?"

To which the appropriate reply is, of course, that such a barber cannot exist.

[But]

He shaves exactly those people who don't shave themselves. That's Russell's paradox.

[Angakuk]

That would mean a world without beards or mustaches.

[thedoc]

Originally Posted by Angakuk

That would mean a world without beards or mustaches.

Hey! I'm right here ya know.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

[erimir]

What if you're an astronomer? Huh? What about that?

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

One better than that, what if you get hit by a meteor?

[Kael]

I think it'd be better with

[thedoc]

Originally Posted by Kamilah Hauptmann

Not true, the tides have a profound effect on people who live on the shore of an ocean.

[The Man]

The tides are caused primarily by the moon and to a lesser extent the sun, however, so that does not contradict Kamilah's graph. (Yes, the sun is a star, but the graph says "stars", plural. Only one star affects people's lives in any meaningful way.)

In any case, I live within a few miles of the Gulf of Mexico and the tides have little to no effect on my daily life. To be fair, they will when half of this state is underwater, which seems likely to happen sooner rather than later at the pace things are going.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

You guys.

[erimir]

Without the ability to see the stars, navigation would've been far more difficult.

They don't matter so much now that we have GPS and things like that, but without the stars most naval exploration would've been set back significantly.

I was thinking about this because of Moana.

[Angakuk]

Originally Posted by Kamilah Hauptmann

One better than that, what if you get hit by a meteor?

That is so true.

Just ask Susan Murphy

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Truth is Beauty

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[JoeP]

And let us eat his flesh with a sauce of his blood!

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I didn't actually realize how dark that actually is until you pointed that out.

[BrotherMan]

Transubstantiation should freak you the fudge out then. I mean, it's a cracker and wine until it's in your mouth then POOF it's flesh and blood. AND YOU DO THIS IN REMEMBRANCE OF HIM.