EBH

Do you guys have any experience with websites like PatrickJMT and Khan Academy? They do a good line in maths education, I've been told, and I want to start learning from scratch. http://patrickjmt.com/#arithmetic

Thank you. Please don't assume there's nothing to explain! I'm a total novice at maths I guess my questions are not purely mathematical, they're sort of philosophical, more concerned with understanding how it is that maths forms the universe, rather than understanding how maths itself works. How can this one formula be transformed algebraically into every possible structure in the universe?

Great, I was hoping somebody could explain it to me. Now you have to do it, Mr High School

'Get a brain Morans' guy is also a Cardinals fan

Played like a fuckin' piano

Stop talking like felix

Love your avatar. You know I met this Chinese guy last week called Mao? I buy weed off him.

The thing with Americans and gun ownership is that they are delusional enough to think that the citizen's right to own an M16 is enough to scare their government into not disrespecting the wishes of their citizens. They are delusional enough to think that if the occasion calls for it, their right to own guns will be enough to overthrow the government. NO IT WON'T. They have predator drones. They have all kinds of shit. They will mass destruct yo punk ass no matter how many crates of assault rifles you've got. Like it or not the US Government has already effectively disarmed its citizens, because the US Army has access to all kinds of fantastic futuristic weapons which shit on everything the public have available to them. Now, owning a Tec-9 or an M16 is plenty for a citizen to defend themselves/to go aggressively committing crimes or whatever, but it surely isn't going to be enough in the event of a public revolt against the government. In that situation, citizens showing up with their tetchy guns, is like a medieval peasant army showing up on foot, armed with axes and scythes; against an army of mounted, fully armoured knights carrying massive lances with a 30 kilo two-handed broadsword for backup. You're just never going to win!

What about the Boston Marathon? I once said about that, "If runner have gun, then this cannot happen", a statement not altogether different from yours, which similarly boils down to "If student have gun..". But is it practical for runners to carry guns? Wouldn't it slow them down?

I don't get along well with my brother-in-law. He treats me like a child. And he's too similar personality wise to my dad. I guess my sister is a proof for the Freudian idea that men are attracted to women who are similar in personality to their mum, and women are attracted to men who are similar to their dad in personality. I couldn't imagine getting with someone like my mum, she's so boring, narrow minded and conservative. It's hard to even hold a conversation with her for a REVOLUTIONARY FREE THINKER such as myself. I've been watching a little bit of the Rugby Union World Cup. What a fucking awful sport, rugby league is like a million times better. In union they spend way too much time in scrums, they are too eager to kick the ball, and in general the game is played much more stop-start. League has a nice flow and is end-to-end stuff for the most of it. It's a much faster sport. I don't take much joy in seeing massive scrum packs pound each other, I like to see the ball being moved quickly, not getting bogged down.

No, he's a thoroughbred Dangerous Darkie

I don't know where to begin. My sister isn't the villainous evil person she used to be, getting married and having a kid helped her grow the fuck up. She's going to visit in December. That's the easiest thing to explain lol

No, registrations are closed.

Likewise. I lost my log in details for Oaty Sea and despite the best efforts of Muchacho I can't get that password reset, so I've been on the outer for a long time. I started using Google Chrome again the other day and EBH's details are auto-saved into this browser, otherwise I wouldn't be able to come on here either. Lol no, I still have probably 18 months, at full load, before I finish Bachelors. Then I want to do honours, then Masters, and if I'm good enough, a doctorate. So I'll be at uni probably for the next decade at least.

I read the other day that there have been, to date, 46 school shootings in the US this year. "If student have gun, then this cannot happen"

How are you and RA

I'll just leave this here

Whats happening y'all

It's happening again!

Just because we know evolution to be true, doesn't mean that we only exist because of a series of extremely unlikely coincidences. You seem to be of the opinion that any acknowledgement of scientific proof and any argument against creationism automatically means that all of those people who argue these things are morons like Richard Dawkins, completely bankrupt of any spirituality in their lives and convinced that we're an accident. We aren't an accident of evolution. But that doesn't legitimise religion. Oh no. Fuck all religions. They're institutions of control and slavery. They are violent and are stained with the blood of billions. Every religion in the world boils down to "Obey what my god says otherwise I'll kill you, filthy infidel/you'll go to hell, filthy sinner". Obey. I have a problem doing that. Fuck you and your rules, Jehovah/Allah/Jesus. That doesn't mean I'm Richard Dawkins, who is as much an odious cretin as any imam or rabbi or priest. Yes, there is a god. But that doesn't mean for a second that I will worship it or obey it. I'm not afraid of a posthumous 'hell'. What could possibly be worse than human life? Only one thing: living it in perpetual fear, a fear of breaking a set of thousands of year old commandments, given to us by paranoid schizophrenics, who 'saw' angels and 'heard' their voices. You cannot allow this hell that is earthly existence to be made worse for you by placing limits on yourself based on the delusional ravings of long dead schizophrenics. I am my own God, and I damn sure will do a better job of running my own universe, than the god that created this universe has. I think this is a very important realisation for people to come to. Just as a mental exercise if nothing else. Challenge yourself. Create a better universe than this one. I'm sure all of us can imagine of a better world than that which we inhabit. And it is in doing so that we can all come to the realisation as to how false religion is and how false our creator god is; because if we mere mortals can conceive of a fairer, juster, better planet than what we have, then it is proof of our superiority to our creator! Ideas are worth as much as actual physical results in this sense, because all of our religious texts indicate that our creator planned out every single last detail of its creation and executed the plan to perfection. I.e. what we live in is, according to our god, as good a job as possible. It cannot be improved upon at all. Therefore if the individual can put together a better plan, then they've won even before they start executing the details of the plan in real physical existence. The creator should not be worshipped as a perfect being. How can it be perfect if its creations are way smarter than it is? How can it be perfect if its creation is so obviously imperfect? How can it be perfect if I can conceive of something better than what it has created?

3 in 4 now

What makes you say that? It's not an exact science in the same physically provable way like say mechanical engineering is, but no form of psychoanalysis is an exact, mechanical engineering type science. It's as steeped in reality as theoretical astrophysics is. Case in point: many businesses, especially in the US, require for potential new recruits to undergo MBTI testing during interview phases. It's not like astrology or some other quasi-religious method of classifying people. As for the post in question which you quoted, I would have thought the answer for that was obvious. Either the poster has a very tight series of scores, which could go either way (I myself, though I almost always test as an INFJ, could be typed as an INTJ, INTP, or an INFP); or the poster changes their answers to each question with every successive test attempt. The only reasonable objection I've seen people raise against MBTI is that there are only sixteen types, arguing that it's ridiculous to type 7 billion people into just sixteen categories; but we do that all the time anyway. In addition to this, they fail to understand that though there may only be sixteen types, there's are two hundred different possible scores for each individual type - one can be 100% ESTP, or it's opposite, 100% INFJ; and everything in between. I don't know the maths but I imagine that means we have something like 3000+ types, not 16. I can come up with sixteen ways of classifying people, right now, that each and every one of us does almost subconsciously as a natural reflex: Age/generation Sex Race Socioeconomic class Country of origin/residence State/province of origin/residence City of origin/residence Sexuality Employed Unemployed Educated Uneducated Attractive Unattractive Politically right wing Politically left wing The difference is that these sixteen categories of humans, which everyone accepts as 100% fact are actually absolute, superficial, horseshit. MBTI is based on a reality that is more real than what we perceive with our five senses. Logically this makes perfect sense as our five senses are easily fooled (otherwise magicians and optical illusions and their like would have no effect on us) and also have no ability to perceive anything that is not surface deep in complexity. Relying on what you can see, touch, smell, hear, taste, or explain with physical scientific principles; is to look at the tip of an iceberg and believe that you've seen and understood all of it. There's an entire immaterial universe that is the counterpart of the material universe, which physical science does not understand, and childishly rejects because it can't explain it. "I don't understand how it works, therefore it can't be real!" For what it's worth however MBTI is not perfect. A less 'scientific' model of personality theory is the Enneagram, however, anyone with even the most cursory of interests in psychology acknowledges the superiority of the Enneagram, even though it is less visibly provable.

I find it hard to accept that you're not a T type. Especially since you're too forthright with your views to be an FP. I'm an INFJ

We will never have a just and fair system as long as our standard of civilisation remains on a par with the likes of ants and bees. That is to say, the worker - queen model; in which the many work to feed the few who rule and control advancement. This firstly is utterly incompatible with human nature as we are simply not conditioned, unlike insects, to be servile. The worker - queen system relies on the existence of a servile class in order to survive; without such a class, it will collapse. Secondly, it is extremely inefficient to concentrate development in the hands of the few. 7 billion brains harnessed together can achieve incredible things; 10 million working together while 6.99 bn work to feed them cannot. Now, there are two solutions to the 21st Century Crisis. The first is more palatable to the elite as their position may not be compromised - robots will be the servile class and all humans will be elevated to be queens. This can work because robots obviously have no capacity for independent thought or emotion, so they will not resist against the status quo unlike the human servile class. Thus the system will no longer be undermined as the servile class will be happy with their lot.The other is to go back to how nature intended for us to live. Self-sufficiency will be the cornerstone of this as every individual becomes responsible for their own survival. Natural selection will take care of those who are incapable of simultaneously sustaining their existence and working to contribute to the advancement of civilisation, and the resulting society will be a true Utopia. Then there's a third way, which is to stick your fingers in your ears, close your eyes firmly, and refuse to acknowledge that we are now at a point where the system is untenable and on the verge of collapse. This will lead to a devastating series of wars when the system does inevitably fail as we will compete for a slice of the ever dwindling resource pie. The wars will be fought over land, minerals, food, and water. This appears the most likely scenario and I'll be mighty surprised if a single human can survive through it. I'm not going to bother replying to the other inane ramblings that followed my first post. There's no hope in talking to people who are unable to think outside the box and realise how laughably primitive, inefficient, and untenable society as we know it is. And as long as the majority of humanity is unable to come up with 21st century solutions to 21st century problems, we are doomed as a species. This is it. This century is our Judgement Day. We will either sink or swim depending on what happens here and now. If you cannot understand that the rot has set into our society so deeply that a firm breeze would be enough to knock the whole building down then there is no hope for you. Once you overstand the magnitude of the problems we are facing it's painfully obvious that the current methods of fixing them will not work. Nothing we have devised yet, except for Marx's theory of revolution, comes close to being a viable solution - and even Marxism is too right-wing and too slow in implementing changes to solve the crisis.

Of course you stand to make some personal gains but every business that is destroyed today simply saves us from having to destroy it later on. The demise of capitalism is an inevitability; human rage is an inexhaustible fuel and it will eventually wear down even the most monolithic of adversaries. What do you think the looters do with the things they take? Take a you beaut 3D TV to their nonexistent homes? Plug it in and pay the soaring electricity bills how? No, they'll flog the things they steal, so they can get enough food (or perhaps heroin) for the next month. What a ridiculous thing to suggest that America's black population steals luxury goods for the purpose of actually using them. You're out of touch with reality.