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To: koan who wrote (47776)	3/1/2014 1:25:37 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 69300

you are the most out of touch person on SI even Ted is more in touch with reality than you

To: koan who wrote (47776)	3/2/2014 12:57:42 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 69300

"Quantum physics has proven for 100 years that everything is subjective, relative and a probability." So? Is that reality? Then reality is STILL a fact. Check your premises. BUT If nothing is real then you cannot formulate a meaningful reality. Because your weltanschauung must start with "nothing is real". But that is ridiculous, isn't it?? You don't rely on that CRAP THINKING in a poker game, do you?? So from the pragmatic sense, your philosophy of meaninglessness would put an end to all progress. "2. Reason (the faculty which identifies and integrates the material provided by man’s senses) is man’s only means of perceiving reality, his only source of knowledge, his only guide to action, and his basic means of survival. Science has sure disproven that one." OH? If I remove your senses you can still perceive reality?? Or if I remove your brain you can still integrate the input of your senses? You're talking to me, Koan--not some dimwitted car salesman or wood chopper. "A male baboon will attack a leopard defending the troop knowing he will die. So will a human." If the baboon thinks (and we do have evidence on this thread that some can), then some reasoning is occurring (this leopard can hurt the baboons I love...etc.). This is either rational self interest (protecting what you love and value)...or it is one of your random acts in a random universe? Your choice, my existentialist friend! I am raising your pair of 3's. you want to re-raise?? "Capitalism is an economic idea that has nothing to so with social organization." It has everything to do with morality. "...Free, voluntary exchange to mutual benefit. It is a system where no man may obtain any values from others by resorting to physical force, and no man may initiate the use of physical force against others." Do you understand how pure that idea is?? Nobody can walk in when the cards are flipped and say, give ME the money because I have the gun???