My brother believes all world religions are inspired by extraterrestrial intervention. He thinks they are "translations" of real world experiences, an attempt to explain advanced technology.
I suggested that it's more simple to expect that early religions were born out of a desire to explain the natural world without sufficient scientific understanding, and used his current behavior as an example.
DuE i know it was a joke but the "when" of pupation is controlled by time-regulated gene expression OR genetic response to stimuli (temperature, food reserves, etc)
like i said, one of the big theories is that it just kind of...happens
it is intrinsic to the hardware, but not regulated by it, if that makes sense
Nah it wasn't totally a joke. It just seems to me that there are a lot of behaviors that we kind of glance over as things that just sort of happen. Or rather we don't know all of the details.
I do get that it is a "the time is right" sort of deal. Kind of like pooping.
My brother believes all world religions are inspired by extraterrestrial intervention. He thinks they are "translations" of real world experiences, an attempt to explain advanced technology.
I suggested that it's more simple to expect that early religions were born out of a desire to explain the natural world without sufficient scientific understanding, and used his current behavior as an example.
My brother believes all world religions are inspired by extraterrestrial intervention. He thinks they are "translations" of real world experiences, an attempt to explain advanced technology.
I suggested that it's more simple to expect that early religions were born out of a desire to explain the natural world without sufficient scientific understanding, and used his current behavior as an example.
is your brother ACSIS
good proof against evo-psych
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let's back up. how does a caterpillar know how to form a cocoon and when to do so?
ok that's easy
when its ass is filled with too much silk, it needs to make a bed so it can nap off all those leaves, and holy shit how much did i DRINK last night, where the fuck did I get these wings from, oh my god I'm never binging on ferns again
vOv
(that doesn't look like a shoulder shrug at all)
making horrible decisions after a night of partying is not a horrible explanation at all ok
I hate when my brother gets on one of these tangents. I feel like he probably experiences a lot of trouble because I fed him so much insecurity when we were kids, but then he pulls this as an adult and I"m like "there's no way to talk about this without showing that you're being an idiot."
What does one do in STO? I'm assuming there are ships and phasers, and perhaps beaming of things in a vertical direction.
Are there raids, like a bunch of cadets standing in a circle firing their lasers?
Genuinely curious.
You have your dude, who you make in typical MMO fashion - create his face and body (which is highly customizable, much on the order of CoH or what have you), outfit him, choose stats, class, etc.
And you have a spaceship, which come in several varieties (science ship, escort, or cruiser and increasingly big/badass versions of same) and which you can also customize and equip with weapons and so forth.
And then lastly you have a team of bridge officers who get assigned to you as rewards for missions, or who can be bought from stores or traded to you by other players, and they work like pets. In space, they have special abilities, like the engineer can Reroute Power to Shields or the tactical guy can Modulate Phaser Frequency. On the ground, they beam down with you and help you fight.
Space combat is very tactical and naval-feeling; you want to get your broadside facing the enemy and unload on him, while keeping your weakest shields facing away from him. Managing power (between weapons, engines, shields, and auxiliary functions like sensors) is an important part of it. As you level up you can do more and more things, like hitching enemy ships with tractor beams or beaming over boarding parties to attack vital systems.
Ground combat is more like a standard MMO, except you have your guy and four others (officers or redshirts) to manage. It tends to focus on ranged combat and there are large bonuses for attacking flanked or stunned/immobilized/otherwise helpless enemies so group management and positioning are pretty important.
You get missions, and they can be space- or ground-based or both; you might get, for instance, an order to clear Romulans out of an asteroid field, and then after that you beam onto a ship they've taken hostage and free it, and then back into space to fight more of them. Or you might get a courier quest like to bring a remote planet ten Weather Controllers or whatever. There are also non-combat missions where you resolve things by solving puzzles or talking your way through dialogue trees.
There are five ranks in the game - lieutenant, lieutenant commander, commander, captain, and admiral - and every rank has ten grades associated with it, which are your levels. So at level 11, for instance, you get promoted from lieutenant to LC and can take control of a bigger ship and unlock more powerful abilities.
There's also loot, lots of loot: rare phasers and shields and engines and so forth that can give you a big boost, although a lot of the best loot can only be had by going on difficult missions or raids. Raids are anything from huge space battles against the Borg to ground warfare against the Klingons.
DuE i know it was a joke but the "when" of pupation is controlled by time-regulated gene expression OR genetic response to stimuli (temperature, food reserves, etc)
like i said, one of the big theories is that it just kind of...happens
it is intrinsic to the hardware, but not regulated by it, if that makes sense
Nah it wasn't totally a joke. It just seems to me that there are a lot of behaviors that we kind of glance over as things that just sort of happen. Or rather we don't know all of the details.
I do get that it is a "the time is right" sort of deal. Kind of like pooping.
not really. but kind of.
no really.
like. really.
after a certain time certain genes become active and the animal seeks to find a way to provide a stable growth environment (like a second egg) for the metamorphosis because a lot of cells are de-differentiating/imaginal disks are beginning to express developmental signals
there is a stephen j gould essay about this, but i can't remember the name
the problem with evo pysc BTW synd isn't that it is saying that some behaviors were more or less successful or more or less common in humans
the problem is saying that we are currently "doing it wrong" wrt things like monogamy, or using statistical aberrances (spatial reasoning, for example) and trying to explain it using convoluted stories about evolutionary fitness with little empirical testing
Man, now I'm all out of wack. My brother believes, without evidence, that aliens explain world religions and I'm all upset because I might have hurt his feelings
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Man, now I'm all out of wack. My brother believes, without evidence, that aliens explain world religions and I'm all upset because I might have hurt his feelings
Man, now I'm all out of wack. My brother believes, without evidence, that aliens explain world religions and I'm all upset because I might have hurt his feelings
Sounds like maybe you're not be a bad person. How's that make you feel?
EDIT: Apparently Vin Diesel is really excited about premiering the Fast and The Furious trailer on Facebook.
Man, now I'm all out of wack. My brother believes, without evidence, that aliens explain world religions and I'm all upset because I might have hurt his feelings
seems to me you're being too harsh on yourself.
it depends how mean you were about it; i have felt guilty for flipping out on someone who was talking about creationism when really i looked like a fool because i should have been calm and reasonable
if you WERE calm and reasonable, then yeah you are being too harsh
Man, now I'm all out of wack. My brother believes, without evidence, that aliens explain world religions and I'm all upset because I might have hurt his feelings
seems to me you're being too harsh on yourself.
I guess I'm just wondering what the best way to handle things like this, and the fact that it involves someone I really care bout it mixed things up even more. I mean, this is an asinine assertion and he's not even trying to be logical about it. On the other hand, he's a man now and he's entitled to believe as he wishes.
So what am I supposed to do when a man I care about tries to share, in earnest excitement, his beliefs about alien gods?
Whenever it comes to weird or apparently mystifyingly complex innate behaviours I always try to remember that other animals do not necessarily perceive the world in remotely the same way we do.
I mean, cuttlefish can perceive the polarisation of light but not colour. There is no confortable way to try and empathetically visualise what that's like, and it's really difficult to fully grasp what that means in terms of how a cuttlefish interacts with the world.
Man, now I'm all out of wack. My brother believes, without evidence, that aliens explain world religions and I'm all upset because I might have hurt his feelings
seems to me you're being too harsh on yourself.
it depends how mean you were about it; i have felt guilty for flipping out on someone who was talking about creationism when really i looked like a fool because i should have been calm and reasonable
if you WERE calm and reasonable, then yeah you are being too harsh
I compared him to people who invent religions because they lack the capacity or will to more logically analyze the natural world.
Man, now I'm all out of wack. My brother believes, without evidence, that aliens explain world religions and I'm all upset because I might have hurt his feelings
seems to me you're being too harsh on yourself.
I guess I'm just wondering what the best way to handle things like this, and the fact that it involves someone I really care bout it mixed things up even more. I mean, this is an asinine assertion and he's not even trying to be logical about it. On the other hand, he's a man now and he's entitled to believe as he wishes.
So what am I supposed to do when a man I care about tries to share, in earnest excitement, his beliefs about alien gods?
same thing you do when a person you care about tries to share, in earnest excitement, their beliefs about jesus?
Man, now I'm all out of wack. My brother believes, without evidence, that aliens explain world religions and I'm all upset because I might have hurt his feelings
seems to me you're being too harsh on yourself.
I guess I'm just wondering what the best way to handle things like this, and the fact that it involves someone I really care bout it mixed things up even more. I mean, this is an asinine assertion and he's not even trying to be logical about it. On the other hand, he's a man now and he's entitled to believe as he wishes.
So what am I supposed to do when a man I care about tries to share, in earnest excitement, his beliefs about alien gods?
point out the flaws calmly and let him know that he should read more books by smart people who aren't loony.
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arch just has a twitch and didn't know why
circular though
but how did the ones that survived acquire this behavior
its a complex question
Is it Masters of Magic or Age of Wonders that's the beloved PC series?
My brother believes all world religions are inspired by extraterrestrial intervention. He thinks they are "translations" of real world experiences, an attempt to explain advanced technology.
I suggested that it's more simple to expect that early religions were born out of a desire to explain the natural world without sufficient scientific understanding, and used his current behavior as an example.
Nah it wasn't totally a joke. It just seems to me that there are a lot of behaviors that we kind of glance over as things that just sort of happen. Or rather we don't know all of the details.
I do get that it is a "the time is right" sort of deal. Kind of like pooping.
not really. but kind of.
is your brother ACSIS
good proof against evo-psych
making horrible decisions after a night of partying is not a horrible explanation at all ok
even if you're a caterpillar
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is anyone else unable to instant watch on netflix?
30 ROCK IS NOT BAD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8HPGFJiq7M
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You have your dude, who you make in typical MMO fashion - create his face and body (which is highly customizable, much on the order of CoH or what have you), outfit him, choose stats, class, etc.
And you have a spaceship, which come in several varieties (science ship, escort, or cruiser and increasingly big/badass versions of same) and which you can also customize and equip with weapons and so forth.
And then lastly you have a team of bridge officers who get assigned to you as rewards for missions, or who can be bought from stores or traded to you by other players, and they work like pets. In space, they have special abilities, like the engineer can Reroute Power to Shields or the tactical guy can Modulate Phaser Frequency. On the ground, they beam down with you and help you fight.
Space combat is very tactical and naval-feeling; you want to get your broadside facing the enemy and unload on him, while keeping your weakest shields facing away from him. Managing power (between weapons, engines, shields, and auxiliary functions like sensors) is an important part of it. As you level up you can do more and more things, like hitching enemy ships with tractor beams or beaming over boarding parties to attack vital systems.
Ground combat is more like a standard MMO, except you have your guy and four others (officers or redshirts) to manage. It tends to focus on ranged combat and there are large bonuses for attacking flanked or stunned/immobilized/otherwise helpless enemies so group management and positioning are pretty important.
You get missions, and they can be space- or ground-based or both; you might get, for instance, an order to clear Romulans out of an asteroid field, and then after that you beam onto a ship they've taken hostage and free it, and then back into space to fight more of them. Or you might get a courier quest like to bring a remote planet ten Weather Controllers or whatever. There are also non-combat missions where you resolve things by solving puzzles or talking your way through dialogue trees.
There are five ranks in the game - lieutenant, lieutenant commander, commander, captain, and admiral - and every rank has ten grades associated with it, which are your levels. So at level 11, for instance, you get promoted from lieutenant to LC and can take control of a bigger ship and unlock more powerful abilities.
There's also loot, lots of loot: rare phasers and shields and engines and so forth that can give you a big boost, although a lot of the best loot can only be had by going on difficult missions or raids. Raids are anything from huge space battles against the Borg to ground warfare against the Klingons.
no really.
like. really.
after a certain time certain genes become active and the animal seeks to find a way to provide a stable growth environment (like a second egg) for the metamorphosis because a lot of cells are de-differentiating/imaginal disks are beginning to express developmental signals
there is a stephen j gould essay about this, but i can't remember the name
these are butterflies
a computer has more psychology
also, no, it's more the base idea of evolution
I think it's from a television show.
the problem is saying that we are currently "doing it wrong" wrt things like monogamy, or using statistical aberrances (spatial reasoning, for example) and trying to explain it using convoluted stories about evolutionary fitness with little empirical testing
family guy?
That sounds like my experience as well, yeah.
do not be discouraged by nexus and his terrible opinions
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I'm not seeing the problem
(yes I know your point is about the crazy justifications spun out of whole cloth with no real verification or testing)
doing it wrong re: monogamy because OMG our ancestors were more polyamorous/being polyamorous is more "fit"! = bad
doing it wrong re: monogamy because any other argument = possibly not bad
seems to me you're being too harsh on yourself.
god are you even human
That's it.
How the hell did that name get stuck in my head?
Sounds like maybe you're not be a bad person. How's that make you feel?
EDIT: Apparently Vin Diesel is really excited about premiering the Fast and The Furious trailer on Facebook.
it depends how mean you were about it; i have felt guilty for flipping out on someone who was talking about creationism when really i looked like a fool because i should have been calm and reasonable
if you WERE calm and reasonable, then yeah you are being too harsh
I guess I'm just wondering what the best way to handle things like this, and the fact that it involves someone I really care bout it mixed things up even more. I mean, this is an asinine assertion and he's not even trying to be logical about it. On the other hand, he's a man now and he's entitled to believe as he wishes.
So what am I supposed to do when a man I care about tries to share, in earnest excitement, his beliefs about alien gods?
for the same reason I remembered it?
I hope the Catholic Church bitches about this inane article.
I mean, cuttlefish can perceive the polarisation of light but not colour. There is no confortable way to try and empathetically visualise what that's like, and it's really difficult to fully grasp what that means in terms of how a cuttlefish interacts with the world.
I compared him to people who invent religions because they lack the capacity or will to more logically analyze the natural world.
same thing you do when a person you care about tries to share, in earnest excitement, their beliefs about jesus?
point out the flaws calmly and let him know that he should read more books by smart people who aren't loony.