[MD] Julian Baggini: This is what the clash of civilisations is really about

[John Carl]

Yes, I think.

I think an intuitive pre-selection goes on where you cast out the
ridiculous questions and you treat only the real questions, seriously.  But
isn't part of treating them seriously, giving each hypothesis its due?

But it is interesting to note, that many of our great discoveries involved
individuals willing to be treated as a laughing stock.



On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Ron Kulp <xacto at rocketmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> > On Jun 15, 2015, at 2:43 PM, John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > If
> > you're an intelligent person, that's just life - dealing with asshole
> > prankster fools and simple-minded.   Yup.  Morons.  What choice do we
> > have?  You could lock yourself up in a room but as we all know from
> > experience, somebody comes knocking, sooner or later.
>
> Ron replies:
> All I'm saying is that it seems one would waste an awful amount of time
> Chasing down the feasibility of EVERY idea presented to you.
> You wouldn't know who was who
> (Assholes and pranksters) from the
> Knowledgable until you did chase
> Each idea to a conclusion.
> I other words by virtue of your argument you would HAVE to explore
> Every possible meaningful expression
> Of 2+2= potato EVERY time.
> You couldn't just disqualify it after the first time you ran it down and
> found it meaningless. This leaves you open for some asshole to play the
> same game over and over, and over and
> You would HAVE to oblige them.
>
> You would spend your time as laughing stock more than finding meaning.
> Don't you think?
>
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