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minus_human
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Chef
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liger13
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On February 12 2009 06:26 Chef wrote: Monty Python > Xeris lol... thats exactly what i thought off when i saw the thread  | ||
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x89titan
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Chef
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On February 12 2009 06:48 x89titan wrote: savior will beat upmagic and beat bisu in the finals and nothing in between. That's such a mundane argument. You might as well say "human being need food to survive." It's so obviously true. | ||
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Dknight
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x89titan
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On February 12 2009 06:50 Chef wrote: That's such a mundane argument. You might as well say "human being need food to survive." It's so obviously true. no it isnt. | ||
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minus_human
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How about this: as humanity evolves, the individuals that will effectively represent the new frontier generation of our intellectual evolution will represent a shrinking percent, when comparing those individuals to the mass of society - an excruciatingly smaller percent than today. Do you agree or do you consider that the majority of humans will become highly educated/ intellectually advanced, and basically differences in natural ability (intelligence, intuition etc) will become more and more reduced? | ||
GHOSTCLAW
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minus_human
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Hear that? YOURE NOT BORED. YOU WERE LYING IN THE OP. | ||
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minus_human
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daz
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On February 12 2009 06:56 minus_human wrote: He could go touch the religions reference. Although it doesn't seem too controversial also, since I didn't point any specific religion. Then I'm guess I'm referring to Xeris's own religion as deluding? I don't really wanna start that debate, it's so overdone and people just choose to believe what they want anyway. How about this: as humanity evolves, the individuals that will effectively represent the new frontier generation of our intellectual evolution will represent a shrinking percent, when comparing those individuals to the mass of society - an excruciatingly smaller percent than today. Do you agree or do you consider that the majority of humans will become highly educated/ intellectually advanced, and basically differences in natural ability (intelligence, intuition etc) will become more and more reduced? I find it hard to agree or disagree since your initial argument makes no sense at all. Please explain it | ||
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minus_human
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minus_human
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On February 12 2009 07:00 daz wrote: I find it hard to agree or disagree since your initial argument makes no sense at all. Please explain it ...To what argument are you referring exactly? You said 'initial' but you quoted something else | ||
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minus_human
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ZoW
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minus_human
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Chef
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On February 12 2009 06:56 minus_human wrote: He could go touch the religions reference. Although it doesn't seem too controversial also, since I didn't point any specific religion. Then I'm guess I'm referring to Xeris's own religion as deluding? I don't really wanna start that debate, it's so overdone and people just choose to believe what they want anyway. How about this: as humanity evolves, the individuals that will effectively represent the new frontier generation of our intellectual evolution will represent a shrinking percent, when comparing those individuals to the mass of society - an excruciatingly smaller percent than today. Do you agree or do you consider that the majority of humans will become highly educated/ intellectually advanced, and basically differences in natural ability (intelligence, intuition etc) will become more and more reduced? It's not fair if I have to decipher what you're actually trying to say  Stop trying to sound smart and just say what you want to say... "effectively" "frontier" in the first half of your opening sentence don't even serve any purpose... They're just there to make what you said longer and more complex sounding. A "shrinking percent" is also a confusing way to describe what you're explaining... If I had to guess, I'd say you're trying to claim that people are getting stupider, but it's not clear the way you explain it. Then you go on about people's genetic predisposition to intelligence varying? What are you trying to say?Is every generation stupider than the last? I don't know. Maybe, if you consider how much we interfere with natural selection. Are some people genetically less intelligent than others? Of course... Human variation is normal. But normally certain aspects of intelligence seem to be better or worse than the absolute average in any given individual. | ||
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daz
Canada643 Posts
On February 12 2009 07:11 Chef wrote: It's not fair if I have to decipher what you're actually trying to say Stop trying to sound smart and just say what you want to say... "effectively" "frontier" in the first half of your opening sentence don't even serve any purpose... They're just there to make what you said longer and more complex sounding. A "shrinking percent" is also a confusing way to describe what you're explaining... If I had to guess, I'd say you're trying to claim that people are getting stupider, but it's not clear the way you explain it. Then you go on about people's genetic predisposition to intelligence varying? What are you trying to say?Is every generation stupider than the last? I don't know. Maybe, if you consider how much we interfere with natural selection. Are some people genetically less intelligent than others? Of course... Human variation is normal. But normally certain aspects of intelligence seem to be better or worse than the absolute average in any given individual. THIS | ||
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minus_human
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So I'm saying, does he think that the scenario I described above is more likely or on the contrary, despite the fact that human variation is normal, the evolution of the human race will decrease the variety and allow a relatively uniform intellectual improvement of the vast majority of humans. My initial post was indeed intended to sound smart, and there were pompous expressions that weren't really necessary. But after that I really expressed my self in the most simple/efficient manner I could without molesting the English language. Sorry if it seems superfluous to you, to me it seems that you should try harder to associate the additional information words such as 'frontier' bring to a give sentence. | ||
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