Religions are mostly wrong

Cypress said:
Low self-esteem must be at play.


I have always said, and written here, that asking the right questions is at least as important as having the right answers.
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Agreed. It's common in kids and 20somethings. By the time a person reaches their mid-to-late 30s they should have a more solid sense of identity. If they don't, then something is wrong. This is not to say they know everything or are constantly self-assured. It's natural to question oneself, especially in areas of limited knowledge.

I'm not a business, finance or legal guy, therefore I need the advice of those more knowledgeable than me to make decisions in those areas. That said, should events not go as planned, a self-assured person would accept responsibility for their actions, not just constantly blame others for their problems as often seen on JPP.

Agreed 100% on asking the right questions. This also implies having a modicum of knowledge in order to ask those questions.
 
Doc Dutch said:
Agreed. It's common in kids and 20somethings. By the time a person reaches their mid-to-late 30s they should have a more solid sense of identity. If they don't, then something is wrong. This is not to say they know everything or are constantly self-assured. It's natural to question oneself, especially in areas of limited knowledge.

I'm not a business, finance or legal guy, therefore I need the advice of those more knowledgeable than me to make decisions in those areas. That said, should events not go as planned, a self-assured person would accept responsibility for their actions, not just constantly blame others for their problems as often seen on JPP.

Agreed 100% on asking the right questions. This also implies having a modicum of knowledge in order to ask those questions.
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I wouldn't have a prayer saying anything smart about accounting, stock market, electrical engineering, high finance.

Agreed about having the intelligence to ask the right questions. The best questions come from people who have thought long an hard about something, before they are able to frame precisely the right question; famously, Socrates and Einstein
 
Cypress said:
I wouldn't have a prayer saying anything smart about accounting, stock market, electrical engineering, high finance.

Agreed about having the intelligence to ask the right questions. The best questions come from people who have thought long an hard about something, before they are able to frame precisely the right question; famously, Socrates and Einstein
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Agreed. The apocryphal story of Newton and the apple tree is more of a "eureka" moment underlining the fact Newton was already a "deep thinker", college graduate and had published his work on calculus when he went home and paused to think about gravity.

The apple tree before being felled by a storm last year:
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017...d-well-outside-of-his-childhood-home/?edg-c=1
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Doc Dutch said:
Agreed. The apocryphal story of Newton and the apple tree is more of a "eureka" moment underlining the fact Newton was already a "deep thinker", college graduate and had published his work on calculus when he went home and paused to think about gravity.

The apple tree before being felled by a storm last year:
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017...d-well-outside-of-his-childhood-home/?edg-c=1
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Love the apocryphal apple story. Is that supposed to be the apple tree at Newton's home?

Supposedly, Newton's great insight was wondering that maybe the force that caused the apple to fall was the same force that kept the Moon and planets in motion.

It's obvious to us now, but that wasn't at all obvious in the 17th century. That was the brilliance of Newton's insight.
 
Cypress said:
Love the apocryphal apple story. Is that supposed to be the apple tree at Newton's home?

Supposedly, Newton's great insight was wondering that maybe the force that caused the apple to fall was the same force that kept the Moon and planets in motion.

It's obvious to us now, but that wasn't at all obvious in the 17th century. That was the brilliance of Newton's insight.
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Yes on Newton's tree. I was amazed it lived that long.

He certainly had the math skills to work out orbits. :)

It's amazing what people accomplished without computers.
 
Doc Dutch said:
Yes on Newton's tree. I was amazed it lived that long.

He certainly had the math skills to work out orbits. :)

It's amazing what people accomplished without computers.
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I wonder if it really was his tree, or if through the centuries local legend and tradition just maintained that it was his tree.

Kepler pretty much had the orbits worked out, but Kepler did not have an underlying law or fundamental principle to explain what caused orbital motion. That was Newton's genius. I always wondered how much more he could have accomplished if he hadn't devoted a large part of his life studying the nonscientific subjects of the occult, theology, biblical exegesis, alchemy.
 
Cypress said:
I wonder if it really was his tree, or if through the centuries local legend and tradition just maintained that it was his tree.

Kepler pretty much had the orbits worked out, but Kepler did not have an underlying law or fundamental principle to explain what caused orbital motion. That was Newton's genius. I always wondered how much more he could have accomplished if he hadn't devoted a large part of his life studying the nonscientific subjects of the occult, theology, biblical exegesis, alchemy.
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Allegedly, the events took place in 1666 during one of the plagues. Difficult to prove either way, but according to some of the links, it was Newton himself, years later, who told the story and pointed out the tree.
 
Doc Dutch said:
Allegedly, the events took place in 1666 during one of the plagues. Difficult to prove either way, but according to some of the links, it was Newton himself, years later, who told the story and pointed out the tree.
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Nice, I like little tidbits of history like this.
 
Doc Dutch said:
Yes on Newton's tree. I was amazed it lived that long.

He certainly had the math skills to work out orbits. :)

It's amazing what people accomplished without computers.
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In the early 90s they were still using geometry for pattern development. The world was an oyster for anyone with computer skills.

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yet creation of a species wide moral code of behavior, is the high point of homo-sapien achievement.

it;s not science. everything rests first on cooperation.


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Cypress said:
Anyone who went through college freshman inorganic chemistry doesn't need to google entropy.
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LOL. You didn't though, did you? And that's not the point. You didn't google "entropy" you googled "Freezing point depression" (you didn't even know the phrase "colligative property") and you saw the word "entropy" in the Wiki or whatever source you hit.

Remember, I've actually TAUGHT intro chemistry many times. I know how it is taught and I took plenty of it myself. When it comes to freezing point depression they seldom in intro classes invoke the entropic effects. Almost always if you ask someone they will point out the role of ions disrupting the ability of the water molecules to link up in a coherent ice crystal structure.

That's one reason I know you lied about having a glorious geochem PhD. Entropy is not some rare and exotic word and concept only discoverable by the Masters of Google.
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Is it imperative that you lie about things all the time? I NEVER ONCE SAID entropy is exotic. But leveraging entropy to explain a colligative property like freezing point depression, which you CLEARLY DIDN'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT when you suggested Enceladus couldn't be that cold because you thought liquid water couldn't exist below 0degC) shows that you googled.

I accept your tacit confession that while I was describing the fundamental underlying physical processes for the thermal properties of aqueous solutions (aka, entropy), you googled and stumbled across a technical buzzword which does not actually explain the fundamental underlying physical processes involved
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For a guy who claimed to have not paid much attention in high school chemistry you seem to have stumbled upon a method of describing a relatively common concept in a manner that sounds more like someone with many many credit hours of chemistry. That's how I know.

Thanks for your continued tacid accession that you googled and that you are a raving hypocrite.


(HONESTLY I wish I could explain this to you more simply but you've shown repeatedly you don't actually comprehend what is written in posts to you.)
 
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