What you doing in Norway?
What if a girl became World Chess Champion?
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If the ancestor agrees, could be doable.
Jun 10, 2014
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#784
ProfessorProfesesen wrote:
What you doing in Norway?
Some guys are playing chess there at the moment!?
rTechnno_Waflles wrote:
Meaning is HUMAN.
Time is just as meaningless as a rock. or a tree. . EVERYTHING is meaningless. The only meaningful things in life are what YOU decided are.
Hince we have different cultures (populations which developed meaning) etc.. Meaning is a human contrivance dirived from pattern recognition as apes (or earlier idk). Does it mean DANGER.. Does it mean FOOD.. Does it mean CHESS?
yeah.. not being emo in the least.. Just the serious truth of reality :) Which you can take any way you want.. Its your Choice decide what it means :)
Here's a pro tip if you want to dick around with deconstructivism--everything you've said everywhere in this forum implies that you believe in lots of objectively meaningful concepts and truths. Thus, truth, objectivity, meaning and the like are first principles for you as they are for everyone (even Prof. Derrida himself). You're just being willy-nilly here to reject the concept of meaning and then offer an absurdly concrete and specific narrative for its origins vis-a-vis a ham-fisted evolutionary biology trope.
I don't think he said meaining didn't exist so much as he said it's subjective to its core. I tend to agree, it's not a first principle by any stretch -- it's something we each struggle to develop individually, many of us unsuccessfully.
TheGrobe wrote:
Also: 12 Monkeys
And of course La Jetée!
Yes, the original. I've still not seen it.
Jun 10, 2014
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#789
nobodyreally wrote:
ProfessorProfesesen wrote:
What you doing in Norway?
Some guys are playing chess there at the moment!?
They always are...some guy over there is even claiming to be the world the champion! can really believe that?? Will you look into it?
Anyway I thought the tournament was coming to and end, how many rounds left?
The two are vastly different and both are assuredly worthwhile. Gilliam's concerns don't really match with Marker's: in a sense comparing the two is a great way of demonstrating the ways in which comparing movies can be a futile exercise.
theoreticalboy wrote:
The two are vastly different and both are assuredly worthwhile. Gilliam's concerns don't really match with Marker's: in a sense comparing the two is a great way of demonstrating the ways in which comparing movies can be a futile exercise.
I'll bump it up the list a ways. It's nice and short and apparently also available on Netflix so I'm sure I'll get to it soon.
Speaking of nice and short, I recommended Primer earlier, which is only 79 minutes long.
Don't be fooled by this: it requires multiple viewings.
Intriguing, my lord.
TheGrobe wrote:
Speaking of nice and short
Yeah most Canadians are, but some of 'em are pretty tall.
Jun 10, 2014
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#795
This entire off-topic tangent started with a suggestion that, if a woman were to become world chess champion, one could travel back in time and kill her grandfather!
The idea of a female champion must be really scary :-\
Jun 10, 2014
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#797
Caïssa is also an nymph (or a dryad - a tree nymph, as some would have it).
JamieDelarosa wrote:
This entire off-topic tangent started with a suggestion that, if a woman were to become world chess champion, one could travel back in time and kill her grandfather!
The idea of a female champion must be really scary :-\
Not only that, but it has been going on for quite a few pages now. I found it quite entertaining.
As Theoriticalboy and The Grobe have pointed out to me, talking about women can be a sensitive issue. I believe that part of it has to do with the skill required to communicate with women effectively; and, obviously, that women can (and will!) perceive things very much different than originally intended. Multiply that factor by 10 if the woman in question is a Filipina.
Talking about and with women is normal and easy for most of us, it's just that you shouldn't do it.
What if you went back in time and became your own ancestor?
I don't think this causes a logical inconsistency. There may be some implications vis-a-vis the genetic disorders you can see as a result of inbreeding, but from a purely logically consistent timeline standpoint I don't see a problem.