Setton, on 02 May 2013 - 02:58 PM, said:
. As for technology, times change. Change with them or be left behind. You may find evolution an interesting topic to consider.
A scientist remarked recently that technology is changing so fast that soon we will no longer be able to keep up with it. Change with them or be left behind? Are you being serious?
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Describing things using words with multiple meanings makes them harder to understand. That should be obvious.
Scientists talk out of context, based on no grounds. The context is vital and it is the context that gives precision to meaning and makes it unambiguous.
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Any decent scientist will describe things to the general public in simple terms.
In that case, I have yet to encounter a decent scientist. Actually, the (eminent) scientists I hear on tv or radio are more often to be heard sniping at one another than explaining things to the public: Steve Jones is a right one for having a go at physicists.
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In the context of scientific debate or education, however, the correct and accurate terms should be used to avoid confusion. It has nothing to do with considering themselves superior.
I stand by what I said. Scientists and other academics hide behind their jargon.
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Personal attacks, however, are not part of any reasonable person's argument/debate and are forbidden under the forum rules. Just a friendly warning in case the next person you try to insult isn't so tolerant.
Tolerant? You mean like the Inquisition was tolerant of heretics? Get yourself some backbone and stop sniveling and running to the rules like a wean running to its mammy, for goodness sakes!! The following therapy might help:
Watch the film GI Jane, and take a lesson. Take particular note of what Master Chief quotes to recruits when they start whimpering:
“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself”
It used to be said: When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Today things have changed and the saying needs to be rewritten thus: When the going gets tough, the tough get PTSD. (PTSD = Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
One of my ambitions, which I have not yet mentioned, is to re-order the human evolutionary tree and re-instate Australopithecus robustus and Homo erectus as direct ancestors of modern man, and get rid of Homo crawlius-on-the-bellius (or was that a Roman general related to Ginandtonicus?) and Homo habilis (aka Homo touchius-feelius). (You are right, evolution is an interesting topic to consider.)
Actually, you may not know this, but there is a type of therapy which relies on abuse for its effect. See the film Local Hero where the head of a large oil corporation is taking abuse from his therapist Moritz for the sake of his health.
This is actually an interesting film on another account: it is in that British tradition of lovely, nice, gentle, cosy, villagey, rural cinema. But the atmosphere turns menacing right at the end when the “lovely” villagers turn against the one person who is blocking their ambitions. This is really a very nasty scene. This is a Lord of the Flies moment when what is called “the veneer of civilisation” is stripped back and people’s true nature comes through. (But if you’ve been following my posts, you will know that this is not man’s true nature: this is man addicted to power.) This is the true nature of the rose. It smells so sweet and looks so pretty, but it has thorns. In fact, this is the point of the rose: it lures with its prettiness and its sweet smell so that people will grasp its thorns and blood will be spilt.
But as I’ve said time and again, bad behaviour rebounds on the perpetrator:
“O Rose, thou art sick.
The invisible worm
That flies in the night
In the howling storm
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy,
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.”
Edited by pantodragon, 04 May 2013 - 02:55 PM.
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