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Bend time... - Posted on 4th Oct, 2006 at 14:09 |
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Quizundril:
Noun.
To perceive something from the future, and use said knowledge to create the thing (notion) in question - essentially an idea that creates itself via recursively looping through time.
This violates the common-sense notion of forward-chaining causality, but however sits comfortably within quantum physics and special relativity.
All conciousness is at least, a Quizundril.
Be part of a Quizundril today!
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The non-specific 'they' - Posted on 9th Jun, 2005 at 22:43 |
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The term "they" has two main modes of usage in everyday language.
"See those guys over there, what are they eating?" the following was an example of a 'specific' they.
Choosing a group of individuals, and in context, referring to them.
The second, more baffling usage, is of the non-specific variety, for example, "They say eating more red meat will give you longer fingers", wherein the "they" in question refers to "other people, not to be specified".
This usage, will undoubtedly be followed up with either "Hrrrm, you don't say...", or a counter-they in the form of "I heard they said it was actually more exercise and less grapes that did that".
This essentially means that all parties in the conversation actually rate the opinion of "other non-specified people" higher than they rate their own opinions, or they believe they have such little credibility of there own, that they have to drag vague imaginary people into the conversation.
If you were to ask "who are they?" my experience is that the most common responses are "Oh, I read it somewhere", or "Oh, scientists said that. Yeah, science guys".
The problem with the first response is one of the issues with all forms of literature (this is especially apparent for the internet). People do in fact believe everything they read. There are countless inaccuracies in a huge number of popular publications, one only has to cast their eyes over a trashy women's magazine to realize that.
The second "scientific" explanation is always given and accepted, even though, most of the time, when spoken out of the mouths of scientists themselves, most of what they say is ignored completely. I'm reminded of global warming articles I read as a child, and to this day the US government still hasn't signed the international Kyoto accord, specifying carbon emission standards.
Maybe all what's required is for one of Mr Bush's friends to say to him:
"I hear they said that all this smog is causing global warming"
"Hrrrm, you don't say...." |
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Fuckit. - Posted on 19th Apr, 2005 at 11:31 |
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I'm starting to become one of those people who just posts links to other peoples sites as opposed to creating something original on my own. But fuckit. This is cool.
This will eat up your time. |
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Bash. - Posted on 18th Apr, 2005 at 14:30 |
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The tragedy of Canada is they could have had British culture, French cooking, and American technology, but instead they got American culture, British cooking, and French technology. |
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Hahahhaa - Posted on 13th Apr, 2005 at 13:43 |
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best thing ever.
All the nuclear explosions in the world. Classic. |
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