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WCDT 2071-75 (Dec. 5-9, 2011)
AnAverageWriter:
--- Quote from: NotsoAverageJoe on 05 Dec 2011, 05:24 ---Somebody will always defy dogma at some point. It's irrelevant in that for good or ill, it will happen.
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Up until whatever group is in power decides to kill whoever has made that defiance and burns their papers. You use the term "new" knowledge-
But how do you know it's "new"? We're living at the still-fragile emergence from a several-thousand-year informational dark age, where entire town-size libraries were burned to the ground and people thought showering was passe. Who knows what our current existence is built on top of, given all that was lost?
--- Quote from: NotsoAverageJoe on 05 Dec 2011, 05:24 ---Throughout western civilization there was a tendency towards the belief that, through science and rationalism, mankind had transcended nature. The sinking of an "unsinkable ship" and the loss of thousands of lives laid bare the flaws in that thinking.
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Or maybe it was the rushed production, the incompetence of the ship's crew, the substandard steel, the ignoring of updated safety signal protocols and the improper ratio of lifeboats-to-passengers?
Man "transcends" nature every single day, otherwise we'd all be naked cave people sitting around in a field getting eaten by whatever happens to come across us. We are human by our very transcendence of nature, by the idea that we are not limited to "what God gave us". If God put us here, he put us here naked and stickless. It was us, not he, who sharpened that stick and became the creator of invention.
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: AnAverageWriter on 05 Dec 2011, 03:04 ---With just about EVERY breakthrough invention some cheesehead will pull out the Philosophical Implications, ESPECIALLY when (as happens frequently with prototypes) an accident occurs and someone gets killed.
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Hey, now, I don't do that.
Unless you want me to start? I can, you know.
Paranoid:
--- Quote from: helenmariet on 05 Dec 2011, 03:30 ---The question which I have is...how on Earth did Clinton the really rather creepy at times end up in going for coffee with Hannelore, Marigold and Momo?
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Probably because they don't see him as being that creepy. Or, at least Hannelore doesn't. Remember, the incident when Clinton stalked Hannelore was resolved to everyone's satisfaction (well, almost everyone :evil:). I do admit to getting the impression that Marigold is... 'unimpressed' with Clinton though, although I doubt she'll say anything overtly aggressive in front of Hannelore as long as she accepts Clinton. As long as Hannelore is willing to give Clinton the benefit of the doubt I'm sure Marigold will try too.
SomeCanadianWeirdo:
--- Quote from: iduguphergrave on 04 Dec 2011, 23:18 ---I'd just like to say that quite frankly I'm surprised no one seems to have a problem with the fact that Clinton dresses like he's in a barbershop quartet. Am I the only one who found that odd? Then again, he's definitely an...odd guy. :psyduck:
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Seems to me Wil dresses the same way sometimes. White shirt with a bowtie.
As far as opposition to new technology goes a often told story is that some people opposed the lightning rod after Ben Franklin began to experiment with the concept in the 1750s, cliaiming it interfered with God's will. Opposition eventually faded away as the value of the idea became obvious.
The "against God's will" argument about anything strikes me as silly. An omnipotent God could smite you with lightning no matter how many llightning rods you stuck on your tall building.
jwhouk:
Minor thing of note - I believe this is the first time we've ever seen the interior of the restaurant where they all ate. If trajectory is to be believed, it's a few doors down from CoD.
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