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Fri May-12-06 07:10 AM
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Anyway, the new Friday night ask me a difficult question thread. |
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If it goes good, I might do it every Friday.
You ask questions, I answer one or more in great detail next week.
I just want some experience with tortous problems. All fields accepted, unless too specialised for me to understand.
So ask me something you want solved, not something silly or difficult, nut seriously.
In fact, just think of something you want, preferably spiritual, and ask for it.
Ta, and I am going to bed in 10 minutes or so so goodnight also.
Questions answered each Friday.
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Fri May-12-06 07:12 AM
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Fri May-12-06 07:13 AM
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3. I am bieng serious here. I spend a lot of time thinking, thought this |
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Fri May-12-06 07:14 AM
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5. yeah but, did you answer my question? |
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Fri May-12-06 07:20 AM
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9. No, I did not answer your question. |
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I did however answer this one:
"did you answer my question?"
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Fri May-12-06 07:30 AM
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14. would you like to learn how to waterski? |
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it is A LOT of FUN!!!:woohoo:
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Fri May-12-06 07:35 AM
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23. Someday, but not yet. I take it you like to waterski? |
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Fri May-12-06 07:40 AM
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26. LOVE IT, never regret river time or barn time |
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love to ski, love to ride horses
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Fri May-12-06 07:48 AM
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32. You like horses? Would never have guessed from your screen name. |
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Fri May-12-06 07:13 AM
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2. Is it okay for a girl to call a guy? |
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Fri May-12-06 07:16 AM
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Edited on Fri May-12-06 07:31 AM by Random_Australian
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Fri May-12-06 07:29 AM
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13. in terms of "whose" emotions? |
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Fri May-12-06 07:30 AM
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Fri May-12-06 07:32 AM
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19. did I just trick you? |
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Fri May-12-06 07:35 AM
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22. I'm a little tired, but I did not want you to have to wait a week for the |
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Fri May-12-06 07:34 AM
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21. Now, straight out more info. Here is what I am assuming. |
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1) You are after the guy romantically. 2) You know him, but not very well.
Now: What kind of person are you? Extro/Introverted? Shy? Not shy?
I'm guessing that you are between shy and the middle ground.
Next... when you talked did you seem to connect?
How did you get his phone number?
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Fri May-12-06 07:38 AM
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24. he gave me his number and I am one of these dumbasses |
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that the more I like someone the shyer (shier?) I get. Of course I have a "spark" for him. I have a ton of guy friends but, this is someone I could see spending the rest of my life.
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Fri May-12-06 07:48 AM
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1) Calm down, and when you are normal, write out some things about your personality, just neutral things, DO NOT THINK OF HIM AT ALL AS YOU WRITE. If you do, stop and start later.
2) Think of how someone with those type of traits, just a general person with those traits, would approach the situation (never talking is not an option, this person is determined to do it, without bieng any more or less determined than you in most things, is really determined in this case). This ensures consistency with how you really are and how you present yourself.
3) Do what the person would do!
BTW, I may be clever, but I cannot do more than give advice. If you feel that any of the above is incorrect, disregard.
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Fri May-12-06 07:13 AM
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4. How does a bumblebee fly? |
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Fri May-12-06 07:22 AM
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10. It's wings flap. Instead of the standard two-stroke system seen in |
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birds, a more complex cyclic monoprocess pattern is used, IIRC.
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Fri May-12-06 07:16 AM
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6. Since we have a Shakespeare thread I'll ask this: |
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Given the Intentional Fallacy, why are people so obsessed with Shakespeare's life instead of focusing on his work and his work alone?
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Fri May-12-06 07:19 AM
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8. Because the human mind does not work in terms of defined |
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groups like "literary criticism" and "literary biography". Also, there is the assumption that the work of a great author is such that what the author intends to be put in, is put in, therefore if you knew what he wanted to put something in, which you have garnered from his life, an absence of this lets you know that either your interpretation of his life or his works is wrong.
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Fri May-12-06 07:24 AM
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11. But if you take a character like the Dark Lady in the Sonnets... |
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Does it really matter if she represented a woman in Shakespeare's life, or if she was purely invented? Does it change the Sonnets either way?
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Fri May-12-06 07:27 AM
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12. No. It doesn't. I did say it was an error-checking method, yes? |
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Also, with personality theory, that is why biographical info is more useful than other plays in determining if something is out-of-character. (How you are behaving changes but the personality is the same)
And people are naturally curious. (That was the initial impetus)
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Fri May-12-06 07:32 AM
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17. Of course people are naturally curious |
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and want to know about his life. I do as well. I just think that interpretation of a work is up to the individual instead of only author intention. Looking only at author intention implies that all other interpretation is wrong.
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Fri May-12-06 07:40 AM
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27. I see... yes, that is taking the limit as author skill aproached infinity, |
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which it doesn't.
In other words, it is a byproduct of people's inability to understand how the author could write something so complex.
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Fri May-12-06 07:47 AM
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30. Yes, that is part of it. |
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It is also about people not understanding that the Sonnets may mean one thing to you, and something completely different to me. If you'd been scorned by love at some point in your life, you may see the Dark Lady as an evil woman, a representation of the one who hurt you. If I'd been scorned by love, I may see the Dark Lady as a strong woman who doesn't let men run her life, and in fact uses them as a means to her own end. Neither one of us would be incorrect.
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Fri May-12-06 07:50 AM
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33. yep, but it is beddy-byes time now for me. Goodnight. |
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(Once the fallacy of the 'limitless author' fallacty as outlined above has been established, views become relativistic, yes you are quite right)
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Fri May-12-06 07:51 AM
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Fri May-12-06 10:25 AM
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41. I'm back for a few minutes. |
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Fri May-12-06 10:30 AM
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Fri May-12-06 10:33 AM
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43. Party. Going to bed now. Goodnight again. |
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(I am a uni student, this is Friday night/ Saturday Morning)
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Fri May-12-06 07:31 AM
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16. explain the "100 monkey" theory....please |
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Fri May-12-06 07:32 AM
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Edited on Fri May-12-06 07:33 AM by wildhorses
posted in wrong place...sheesh I am SUCH a klutz!!!
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Fri May-12-06 07:43 AM
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28. Reference please. I know no "100 monkey" theory. |
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The one with the monkeys and the typewriters refers to that if you have some system that creates a permutation in a given and finite time, then an infinite amount of time will produce all permutations.
ie, 100 monkeys one typewriters will eventually create the complete works of Shakespeare.
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Fri May-12-06 07:53 AM
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36. no, the way I heard it explained was that if 100 monkeys could |
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learn one thing then all the monkeys all over the world would also know how to do it...automatically
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Fri May-12-06 07:55 AM
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37. That is why I wanted a specific reference. |
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eg. "What about the cat experiment" doesn't tell you WHICH ONE!
Link?
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Fri May-12-06 07:59 AM
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39. I don't have a link...yet... |
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The guy who told me about it...lives about 300 miles from me and we don't talk all that often doe to the fact that we both have this irritating thing called careers. I will try to get a link from him next time I talk to him. I need to take better notes but, who knew it would be like a lecture when it was really on of the neatest conversations I have ever had in my entire life!?!?
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Fri May-12-06 07:34 AM
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20. explain simultaniety....please |
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Fri May-12-06 07:39 AM
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25. You are full of questions! Whose simultaneity? Einsteins? |
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Or the classical version?
Simple. In classical mechanics, persons observed things to be simultaneous from an absolute reference, that is there were simultaneous events and that was that.
With Einstein removing the aether, there was no such reference point so now different observers could see the same two events, one concluding that they were simultaneous, one that they were not, and they would be equally valid.
Have I got the right simultaniety?
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Fri May-12-06 07:43 AM
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29. I think so, now I see how the metaphysics put their slant on it |
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thanks
and yes I am full of questions but, I will leave you alone this week
but wait til next Friday:evilgrin:
:hug:thanks RA it's been FUN
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Fri May-12-06 07:51 AM
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Fri May-12-06 07:58 AM
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38. Can a rich man sing the blues? |
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Fri May-12-06 10:24 AM
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Obective money in legal ownership does not affect voice. You could argue that a rich man would be unable to sing with the passion and depth of blues needed for the blues, but in accordance with free will, there is a finite non-zero chance that the required sound would be created.
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Fri May-12-06 10:59 AM
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a train leaves Canberra at 3PM (local time) travelling at 150 kph, and another train leaves Chicago at 3AM (local time) travelling at 147 mph, how long would it take to build a tunnel from the US to Austrailia so they could interact in any way?
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Fri May-12-06 07:19 PM
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45. t = [2 years, infinity) |
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46. Why are Australian accents so sexy? |
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