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Topic: Serious Discussion / Mind Processes = Brain Processes; Evil is Simply the Collective of Psychological Predespositions

If brain processes truly are manifest mental processes (i.e. emotion, psychology, sensory perceptions – consciousness- are all products of neuron-chemical reactions), then, by altering the brain, we can alter the human psych. Now, if we understand the mind to be physically volatile and therefore synthetically malleable by means of advanced technologies, then conscientious behavior can be considered modifiable on the basis of physiological reformation concerning the brain, in regards to the certain components.

To complete the argument, it must be stipulated that evil is really nothing more than, as endowed in the title, the collective of psychological predispositions and therefore that crime is no more than the end result, almost like a traceable residue, of the criminal mindset. Really, the essence of criminality is psychopathy – crime is human psychology gone haywire and out of control. After all, the mind determines the voluntary action associated or correspondent with wakefulness (there is no such thing as an involuntary crime – i.e. one that was done without the awareness of the conductor) and it can be rationalized that, as logically follows, psychological perturbation is the root of malfeasance.

Now, since it is understood that evil is nothing more than an inertial frame of psychological establishment and the mind is alterable, it is perfectly reasonable and conceivable that, by modifying the psychology of criminals, it is possible to systematically “phase” the crime out of criminals, so to speak, without any negative repercussions, as is often the unfortunate case with the punishment-reward paradigm.

If the alteration of brain becomes sophisticated enough, after an incremental period of development, to be able to alter the brain so that the psychology of the affected is desirable and controllable, then there should be no resistance as to the remapping of the neural experiental networks.

A common objection might be that to change the brain is to destroy a life and create a new one in its place, but, if the nature of the circumstance was such that the existence of the criminal psychology would compromise the lives of other people, that abnegation would be overruled and effectively negated in respect.

So, in inquire of the general population, what think thee of the ethics to this matter and its extensions?

Topic: Forum Games / Corrupt-a-Wish

Granted. You are that pie. Will you eat yourself? Paradoxes notwithstanding, will you die an incredulously ironic death or will you be respawn in the prototypical semblance of the Phoenix?

I wish for the next poster in this thread to honestly answer the following question with an emphatic “NO”: are you lying?

Topic: Forum Games / Live, Die, Die Live and Die.

Originally posted by ROFL_N00B:

I dug too deep and met a lava engulfed death at the core of mars.

The point of the game is not to poise an inevitable death, but merely to exemplify a precarious situation wherein you are on the potential throes of death, but not yet necessarily foredoomed or destined to die in any way.

Assuming that you meant you were going to fall into lava instead of having already been engulfed in the lethal substance, I bestow upon you the power of flight and you swiftly head back to level ground, safely away from the lava.

I start to memorize the infinite digits of the circumscribing whole of something divided by the length of something (hint: allusion to roundness) and my head starts to hurt. If I reach the millionth or so ordinal term in the numerical sequence, my head will have accrued so much information it is on the verge of collapsing into, you guessed it, a miniature blackhole.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Quote Discussion, Current quote: “The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.”

The expressions of your enemies are not memorable because they assent or agree to “holographic” expectations. What I mean is that you expect your enemy to rebuke and mock you in some way or another, with one word or a drawn-out diatribe.

The actions of your friend may be well-intended and beneficial, but the absence of their facilitation is always one of jarring irreconcilability with expectations.

After all, what kind of ally willfully pursues his foe only to not subdue the enemy, but flee from him? Your ally is expected to stand by you with fingers at the trigger, available to deliver you from harm with only the minor scratch. Silence is circumstantially incongruous with expected reality, although practice is not always of principle.

The nonconformity of practice to principle is what distinguishes the character of silence in friend in relation to lambaste by enemy.

Topic: Off-topic / Racists are all brainwashed weeaboos

Originally posted by Zoronii:

Originally posted by simeng:

Originally posted by KiNGDOMHEARST:

Originally posted by Lightningcould:

Originally posted by KiNGDOMHEARST:

I thought Mr. Crow started this thread at first.

I was actually expecting Mafefe to be the OP.

I think they’re the same person, but I’m used to him using his crow alts.

To set the record straight, no, i am not mafefe in disguise. seriously. if you were to peruse my post history, you would soon realize we are two very different characters.

No one actually said OP was Mafefe…

What about this

Originally posted by KiNGDOMHEARST:

Originally posted by Lightningcould:

Originally posted by KiNGDOMHEARST:

I thought Mr. Crow started this thread at first

I was actually expecting Mafefe to be the OP.

I think they’re the same person, but I’m used to him using his crow alts.

Topic: Off-topic / Racists are all brainwashed weeaboos

Originally posted by KiNGDOMHEARST:

Originally posted by Lightningcould:

Originally posted by KiNGDOMHEARST:

I thought Mr. Crow started this thread at first.

I was actually expecting Mafefe to be the OP.

I think they’re the same person, but I’m used to him using his crow alts.

To set the record straight, no, i am not mafefe in disguise. seriously. if you were to peruse my post history, you would soon realize we are two very different characters.

Topic: Off-topic / Racists are all brainwashed weeaboos

Originally posted by Aldir:

Do you even know what a weeaboo is?

it’s like saying someone is gay; it is derogatory slang – a common colloquialism. the context is irrelevant as long as it is grammatically correct. i was trying to show that racists don’t deserve the glory of day.

Topic: Off-topic / Racists are all brainwashed weeaboos

Technically speaking, there are no genetic or biological differences in races, only individual differences between people. Therefore, the convention of race is a null-concept. Discuss how racists are all brainwashed weeaboos and what we should do about them

Topic: Off-topic / Is there a new end of the world theory yet?

Originally posted by MadJedi:

Ronald Weinland predicted an apocalyptic event next May 19th. He failed to predict two apocalypses before though, so that might explain why almost no one is talking about it.

they were just tests to determine the faithful. those who failed will perish and those who abide will prevail in the afterlife

Topic: Serious Discussion / The Nature of Time - {Metaphysics and Physics} As Matter is to Space :: as Entropy is to Time

Originally posted by DarkBaron:

This topic, ladies and gentlemen, is the perfect example on how our scientific education fails to produce competent scientists.

I concede I was not very knowledgeable or aware of the facts. However, it was not owing to the failure of scientific education, as you mistakenly put it, since I am 14 and haven’t been taught to that degree. No, in school, we are still covering the basics of space and matter, not any of this entropy or quantum physics that has proven so absolutely and fundamentally essential to the subject of our debate. On the other hand, I would say that education has its faults, but it is intended to be more of a temporary pair of crutches than a state of permanence: once you are ready to take on the world as it truly is (i.e. as recovery is to crutches, as preparation is to learning, specifically education as it is currently being offered and dispensed across the board) and have mastered understanding of the core mechanics enabling you to assume a step further into the great beyond, you dispose of the obsolete facilitation and fulfill your destiny with new wings of brazen potential. Still, since the ends do justify the means (yeah, trite and overused), there needs to be some improvement, but that is moreso with the details than what the system actually does.

Originally posted by DarkBaron:

how does one account for the void within atoms? Mind Boggling.

Not really mind boggling. The Universe is a closed system. So the void between atoms, while unoccupied, may occasionally become occupied, since it’s part of the Universe, a closed system. It’s like how you feel a draft when your window is open in Winter. Clearly you have a stable thermal state of your room, but yet you feel a cold rush of energy leaving your room. How could this happen when we think of only your room? Ahah! The open window extends the system to allow a transferal of energy outside the room. Thus, within the void between atoms, we allow a possibility for an atom to occupy this void.

A real mind boggling idea is, if a vast majority of space in physical, concrete objects like humans and walls are empty space, then why can’t we walk through walls? It’s surprisingly not as complicated as you would think. Think of a ceiling fan, with three wings. When it’s off, you can put your hand inside the empty space. When it’s moving, its wings traject through a circle, seemingly occupying all the space at once, as you notice if you put your hand into it. But really, the objects occupy less than half of the circle configured by the fan! So when we say matter is mostly empty space, we’re saying if it were static (which it isn’t). Quantum mechanically, the atoms pretty much occupy all the space at once, via the wave particle duality of matter and other quantum physical phenomena.

If the atoms basically occupy all the space at once, then, of course, you cannot simply phase through solids as easily as you could liquids or even gasses, but how does “the wave particle duality of matter and other quantum physical phenomena” play into effect? I would be most delighted to be informed of this mystery and, having the light been shed on my brows, dispel the darkness from my innermost recesses altogether.

Topic: Off-topic / If some men are doctors and some doctors are tall, does it logically follow that some men are tall?

Originally posted by Hokage4354:

In this situation, some men cannot be tall unless they are doctors.
If you said all men are doctors, and all doctors are tall- then yes, all men would be tall, since they are all doctors. But because you gave a situation where only a portion of each group has a specified trait, then you will end up with various groups of traits. You will have men who are not doctors, men who are doctors, doctors, and doctors who are tell. You can have a man who is a doctor who is tall, but not a man who is NOT a doctor but is still tall.

No, some men who are tall are doctors; the two attributes overlap. However, the premises do not logically entail that some men cannot be tall unless they are doctors. It is a subject of correlation, not causation in and of itself.

Nonetheless, I see where you’re going and will not digress on the trivialities of grammatical and syntactical semantics. For example, in the following statement, “I can see nobody”, if we are to be strict about matters, does not really hold true, logically speaking, but it can be understood on independent terms of common sense alone.

EDIT:

1.) “Nobody” does not exist, by definition – it is, as I put it, a null-characterization.
2.) That which cannot exist cannot be seen, without exceptions.
3.i) “Nobody” cannot be seen.
3.ii) Contradictions cannot exist in a logically consistent and internally uniform analytical composition
4.) Therefore, “I can see nobody” is false.

Topic: Serious Discussion / The Nature of Time - {Metaphysics and Physics} As Matter is to Space :: as Entropy is to Time

Space, in the sense we axiomatically understand it, by virtue of a metrical canon established as the basis for logical analysis, is, according to a lexicographical authority on the subject, “a continuous area or expanse that is free, available, or unoccupied”. As I consider the details, there are two ways to adequately interpret and express “space”.

In one case, “space” is purely a metaphysical abstraction – there is no real physical definition of “space”, although it may be physically instantiated or exemplified. “Space” may be used as an adjective of which one ascribes to a null characteristic of the tangible universe or as a means pertaining or relating to metaphorical attribution, but the nature of “space” is wholly, categorically speaking, an issue grounded in the foundation of metaphysical truth and only tangentially coincides with physical or concrete representation in its outermost projections. Much like how a silhouette cast by an object – the shadow being an immaterial extension of the original source – is not truly physical, “space”, at best, can only be indirectly physical.

Alternatively, as another bulwark for the flourishing of thought, one may see “space” as an unique function which enables the existence, propagation and interactions of matter. This “ultimate enabler” is the very reason why we all can and do exist. However, in this limited vehicle of apprehension, “space” is rather an inherent property of the universe than a discrete operator. Nonetheless, it is fundamental in and of itself.

Moving onwards, one might perceive certain sets of parallel synergies between the dualism of {space + matter} and the dualism of {entropy + time}.

For the sake of clarification and purpose of further discussion, entropy is defined as the tendency of an isolated system (i.e. where transfer of matter and energy between thermodynamic systems is physically impossible or negated) to dip towards disorder over an incremental interval of observational determination.

It would seem that time is an inherent property of entropy and time, as we muse about it, is nothing more than the reflection of entropy in a mirror. After all, time, the symptom of the mutual co-existence of physical particulates, falls right in line with the uncanny overlap of my papers shifting slightly to the right and therefore getting rustled into chaotic formations or the inevitable inclination of a clock to wear out over the course of its utility, as the mechanisms grind to an abrupt halt.

I’ve done a little thinking on the topic and thought it would be an interesting focus to bring up in a communal setting. What is the nature of time?

Topic: Off-topic / Make Love, Not War ... Literally

Originally posted by Rolby:

lol i heard about this once. they wanted to make hitler gay by putting gay DNA in his tea so he would be less agressive. is this the same as that?

Some of the premises might be similar, but one cannot equate one into another with the consideration of several important facts

parameters of utility

and

purpose of functionality

you can go figure them out on your own, i hope you will manage

Topic: Off-topic / Make Love, Not War ... Literally

Non-lethal Chemical Weapons

The US army has formally commissioned an alternative to lethal force, with a twist no unauthorized personnel has ever expected, to be used in neutralizing enemy troops.

Basically, the idea is to release pheromones into the vicinity of enclosure to sexually arouse enemy soldiers so that they can no longer resist the allure of one another and be charmed into inoculation.

Link is above

Topic: Off-topic / All Atheists are dumb

Originally posted by MelbourneBoy:

You do realize that atheism is also a religion, right?

Yes. I do realize that, but I can’t call myself atheist if I don’t exist.

Lolwhut

Topic: Off-topic / All Atheists are dumb

Originally posted by MelbourneBoy:

All religions are a load of shit. They claim there is a god when they can never really prove it themselves.

In fact, the god that religion may go by are nothing more than E.T or Alien.

You do realize that atheism is also a religion, right?

Topic: Forum Games / Live, Die, Die Live and Die.

Gravity assumes a periodicity of inversion, so you regularly oscillate from falling downwards to upwards in a never-ending cycle, with no one cycle being long enough to plummet one into either the ground or the sky. If you die, it won’t be by falling into space – my job here is done.

I simultaneously strangulate and electrocute myself by an unprotected wire – the fibers are exposed and in contact with my uncovered skin.

Topic: Off-topic / How to fix the US economy

Originally posted by ajx30009:

Originally posted by AlextheGreat13:

Originally posted by MelbourneBoy:

How to fix the US Properly: Drop a bomb on them. That will fix more than the economy.

I live in the United States

So do i and if you did not live in the USA they would make sure a bomb was dropped in the USA.

Then you can save the US from itself …. wait. That would not only defeat the general purpose, it would drag the rest of the world down and stymie human advancement on an international level. But, do whatever you want, simply because a pirate is freeeee.

Topic: Serious Discussion / What if Jesus was just a philosopher?

Originally posted by OmegaDoom:

hmm. he was probably bipolar or something. some of them go further than to claim being the son of God and everyone’s saviour and blah, without lying.

Jesus just implied that God will punish you for not believing in him, while the Old Testament merely says God may torture you for even much more fickle reasons.

Historically speaking, it turns out that Paul, one of the 12 Disciples, was the one to have compiled the doctrine of eternal salvation and a wild menagerie of other dogma ascribed to Christianity. The apostles extended the teachings of Jesus, for better or for worse, by word of mouth and, eventually, through written text; quite a lot of material was extrapolated through inference and guesswork after the death of Christ. The Bible was never a single work from the beginning, although it is attributed to the mind of God and the Bible cannot be considered as a direct transcript for the interpretation of Jesus.

Topic: Forum Games / Your Tale(CYOP)(Back, after a short break)

B.) Speed and agility

[A.) Strength and mass – but they have hammers and mauls! D:]
[C.) Cunning and brutality – as simple(minded) bandits, who are they to negotiate with us?]

Topic: Forum Games / [Continuous] Samster's Puzzle of the Day - Join in at any time!

Originally posted by WiiPlayer113:

3 of 50p
5 of 10p
1 of 5p
5 of 2p
5 of 1p
2 of .5p

Wait, how did you derive that solution?

Was it through a systematic round of guessing or did you employ other methods?

Topic: Forum Games / [Continuous] Samster's Puzzle of the Day - Join in at any time!

I accidentally deleted my previous post while editing it – slip of the mouse as coinciding with a slip of the mind.

Obviously, the solution is a whole number, N, that is an integral multiple of 11 and leaves a remainder of 1 when factored by the divisors of the positive integers equal to or less than 10, excluding 0. In other terms, it could be expressed as N (mod p<11) = 1 and N (mod 11) = 0 where p represents any positive integer, as excluding 0.

From my calculations, the answer is 3628801, although I am not wholly assured that the solution is unique.

Topic: Forum Games / Your Tale(CYOP)(Back, after a short break)

Originally posted by RokRokRok:

Originally posted by simeng:

Originally posted by RokRokRok:

A.) Riders

Originally posted by gammaflux:

C.) Archers

Guys, I think the OP will only accept the first reply as a solution to the problem or answer to a question. If one were to prioritize them all equally, then the thread wouldn’t work out.

I am sorry, but have you even played many CYOPs? Majority votes are usually ruled.

Ah, I apologize for my negligence. It was my misgiving that a CYOP operated on a first-come-first-serve basis instead of an all-around monopoly, but I now understand how these games function.

Topic: Forum Games / Your Tale(CYOP)(Back, after a short break)

Originally posted by RokRokRok:

A.) Riders

Originally posted by gammaflux:

C.) Archers

Guys, I think the OP will only accept the first reply as a solution to the problem or answer to a question. If one were to prioritize them all equally, then the thread wouldn’t work out.

Topic: Forum Games / Your Tale(CYOP)(Back, after a short break)

A.) Riders

Possibility: as swift as the wind, the black riders were so quick that they executed their missions without pause for enemies to spot them, making them effectively as invisible as a dark vase submerged and immersed in a pool of tar.