Longjohn ★ Posted August 18, 2021 Share #1 Posted August 18, 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted August 18, 2021 Share #2 Posted August 18, 2021 21 minutes and 49 seconds to be precise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted August 18, 2021 Share #3 Posted August 18, 2021 3 minutes ago, donkpow said: 21 minutes and 49 seconds to be precise. You always EXCEED expectations, Don! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted August 18, 2021 Share #4 Posted August 18, 2021 8 minutes ago, Razors Edge said: You always EXCEED expectations, Don! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted August 18, 2021 Share #5 Posted August 18, 2021 Amazon?!?!? AMAZON???? REALLY??? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoseySusan Posted August 18, 2021 Share #6 Posted August 18, 2021 Are you a member of the Academy of Ideas, @Longjohn? This part is Ayn Rand-ish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted August 18, 2021 Author Share #7 Posted August 18, 2021 2 minutes ago, MoseySusan said: Are you a member of the Academy of Ideas, @Longjohn? This part is Ayn Rand-ish. Actually I was scrolling up on my touch screen and accidentally touched this. It came up and started playing. I watched and listened to it and left it play the whole way through. I liked it. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted August 18, 2021 Share #8 Posted August 18, 2021 20 minutes..........are you kidding? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoseySusan Posted August 18, 2021 Share #9 Posted August 18, 2021 3 hours ago, Longjohn said: liked it. Me, too. This is debate team stuff…. Late nights, can’t sleep because we’re wound up from the late rounds of competition, gin and tonic or whatever regional beer. And Jung. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted August 18, 2021 Share #10 Posted August 18, 2021 I first saw this quote at the beginning of a graduate-level chemistry text and used to show it to my gifted and talented chemistry classes and ask them what it means. From W. H. Auden, For the Time Being: The 1st Wise Man: To break down her defenses, and profit from the vision, With rack and screw I put Nature through a thorough inquisition. But she was so afraid that if I were disappointed, I should hurt her more, so her answers were disjointed. I did. I didn't. I will. I won't. Nature is, in fact, just as big a liar as we are. To discover how to be truthful now, I the reason I follow this star. At least one of those high IQ kids in each class would pick up on "as big a liar as we are" and correctly conclude it means we try to make the facts of the world fit the conclusions we want them to fit, whether its the truth or not. It means that when we put nature through a thorough inquisition, we can only correctly conclude things based on what data and observations clearly tell us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted August 19, 2021 Share #11 Posted August 19, 2021 2 hours ago, maddmaxx said: 20 minutes..........are you kidding? 21 minutes 49 seconds, actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted August 19, 2021 Share #12 Posted August 19, 2021 18 minutes ago, MickinMD said: It means that when we put nature through a thorough inquisition, we can only correctly conclude things based on what data and observations clearly tell us. And yet a complete understanding of nature eludes us. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted August 19, 2021 Share #13 Posted August 19, 2021 8 hours ago, donkpow said: 21 minutes 49 seconds, actually. Oh well. That's better. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted August 19, 2021 Share #14 Posted August 19, 2021 13 hours ago, maddmaxx said: 20 minutes..........are you kidding? For heavens sake, you are retaared! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted August 19, 2021 Share #15 Posted August 19, 2021 This is near the top of my list of things that I am not doing. (But want to, not a list of things I am not EVER doing). This thought is from an old boss of mine who I didn’t really appreciate at the time, but in retrospect he did turn oot to be one of my best ever because he gave me a nice individual bonus that no others ever have. And also in retrospect I have come to appreciate his Wally-fu. For example, he would tell whiners and malcontents that they really needed to lower their expectations. Sage advice indeed in the corporate jungle. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted August 19, 2021 Share #16 Posted August 19, 2021 26 minutes ago, Philander Seabury said: For heavens sake, you are retaared! No. Womaxx's car is retaared, mine isn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted August 19, 2021 Share #17 Posted August 19, 2021 55 minutes ago, maddmaxx said: No. Womaxx's car is retaared, mine isn't. Now you sound like kazoo with the no’s! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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