"Real" ringworlds

[Erax]

This is an old post, but I read it today and really, really need to get my two cents in :

Originally posted by Dingocat85:
Note 2: Some scientists think that the only reason humans are so smart, is that when deciding between a man with intellect and a man who's fit, women have repeatedly chose those with brains

Yeah, well, those scientists probably never lived in my neck of the woods. (end rant).

[Fyron]

Originally posted by spoon:

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Originally posted by Jack Simth:
How do you know you are the one with the "real" meaning...

Here is the dictionary definition:
"Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel."
- Ambrose Bierce, Devil's Dictionary

And here is a more succinct definition:
"Faith is believing what you know ain't so."
- Mark Twain

I hope that clears things up!

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As I have said countless times, dictionaries are great for a basic understanding of a term, but they often miss the more sublte meanings and uses of complex terms.

Jack:
I never claimed to have "authority" in this matter. Just because someone is contradicting me (though not very effectively) does not mean that I am autmotatically wrong.

Why should he post a conter argument when all you have been doing is contradicting him, and not arguing yourself?

I already posted my argument, and he ignored it up until the very Last post or two. There is not really much in his Posts to argue against. And, any more argument on my part would be repeating what I already said, which would be counter-productive. Most of my Posts were trying to get him to actually read my post, which took quite some time.

Actually, now that I think about it, I did post another argument, that his "definition" was included in part of my "definition". His is just too narrow.

Here is a quote of myself for you:

My "definition" includes all common usages of the term faith.

This is part of the argument that the term "faith" is much broader than Narf thinks it is.

[ May 22, 2003, 19:53: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[dogscoff]

As I have said countless times,

No you haven't

dictionaries are great for a basic understanding of a term, but they often miss the more sublte meanings and uses of complex terms.

They don't!

I never claimed to have "authority" in this matter.

Yes you did.

Just because someone is contradicting me (though not very effectively) does not mean that I am autmotatically wrong.

Yes it does.

I already posted my argument, and he ignored it up until the very Last post or two.

No you didn't.

There is not really much in his Posts to argue against.

Yes there is.

And, any more argument on my part would be repeating what I already said, which would be counter-productive.

No it... oh, I'm bored of this now. I wonder how long it will be before everyone else gets bored as well..?

[Fyron]

Just trying to expand people's vocabularies and help them stop making fundamentally flawed arguments...

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As I have said countless times,

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No you haven't

I was talking about in the past, not so much just in this thread...

[ May 22, 2003, 21:12: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Erax]

Fyron, with your # of Posts, you have already said any given phrase a countless number of times !

Edit: 'Scoff is just baiting you.

[ May 22, 2003, 21:20: Message edited by: Erax ]

[Fyron]

Yes I know. That is why I did not respond to most of his post.

[minipol]

yeah seems like Fyron is going to boldly go where no poster has gone before: over 6000 Posts