The bar is very low indeed
Rupert Sheldrake attempts to convince us that science is just as much bunk as anything else and ends up expressing something which is more redolent of the works of Lewis Carroll. Its batshit mental.
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after 10 seconds, i'm thinking
what an absolute and utter cunt.
maybe it gets better after that 10 seconds.
(, Sat 2 Dec 2017, 16:03, Reply)
I bailed at "morphic resonance"
Have a silly mumsnet thread involving a blow up doll instead:-
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3102545-aibu-not-to-want-a-sex-doll-as-my-neighbours-christmas-decs?pg=1
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sat 2 Dec 2017, 18:22,
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He used to be a proper biologist
And a very good one, according t Wikipedia. Then he went off the rails a bit.
His old colleagues at Clare College gave him a bit of a sledging: ‘..Not that they were aggressively hostile; they just made fun of it. Whenever I said something like, "I've just got to go and make a telephone call," they said, "Ha, ha, why bother? Do it by morphic resonance!"[8]’.
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Sat 2 Dec 2017, 18:42,
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I got the distinct impression he was
setting up theories as Immutable Laws then finding an exception, which is then used to allow the woo in.
Also Lewis Carroll quote about Laws was silly.
I guess it sells well to conspiracy/rebel/kidult audience who want to be different.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sat 2 Dec 2017, 19:50,
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My curiosity is piqued. I'm going for it!
edit:
I made it to the bit about constants being constant and I'd had enough
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parsons* *restrictions apply, Sat 2 Dec 2017, 18:45,
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Struggled, strained, and made it as long as i could...
...but had to concede with the 'rats learn things at the same time' bit that he's pretty much in the same pigeonhole as the timecube guy.
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Prestidigitus will set this 'ere black puddin on you, Sun 3 Dec 2017, 1:02,
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aha
so stupid people are too stupid to realise they're stupid. Makes sense I guess
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parsons* *restrictions apply, Sat 2 Dec 2017, 18:44,
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"The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Sun 3 Dec 2017, 1:24,
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cool - bertie was just passing it on... from generation to generation...
en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell#Mortals_and_Others_.281931-35.29
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Sun 3 Dec 2017, 2:35,
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Redolent:Adj Akin to something you might read on Reddit
Alternatively:
"Well we screwed up that Lent, let's do it again from scratch"
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simbosan is too tired, Sun 3 Dec 2017, 3:35,
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This very post
That was a warning sign, but his words don't help disabuse the notion that TEDx had plummeted in quality. I expect the next talk was a crazy cat lady smelling of cat pee and rambling on about kibble.
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