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I'm looking forward to seeing how you resolve all this, Naut.
It is well laid out, very well written, and yes, even a cliffhanger.
Good work, as always!
posted by
strat
on January 31, 2007 at 6:04 AM
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Nautikos, ROFLMAO, you haven't heard about that movie?
No wonder, it's an offense to as brilliant an academic mind as yours. Don't worry, you haven't missed a thing. I hope you're enjoying your therapy sessions with Sheri still, LMAO. Take care.
posted by
blogflogger
on January 30, 2007 at 6:53 PM
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OFFBEATS
Hope it didn't spoil your coffee! How ya feelin' anyway, hon?
posted by
Nautikos
on January 30, 2007 at 2:15 PM
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Joe Love
I hope it will all be revealed in the end! I guess it's
my idea of a cliffhanger...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 30, 2007 at 2:12 PM
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blogflogger,
LOL! There’s a movie about quantum physics? I had no idea! I mean, what are they doing, showing Feynman diagrams? And stirring metaphysics into the pot? It boggles the mind! 
posted by
Nautikos
on January 30, 2007 at 2:09 PM
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Naut
I can see I have fallen behind in this series so I am printing it out for reading over my coffee..I will be back after I have read both posts...
posted by
Offy
on January 30, 2007 at 3:11 AM
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Hiya, Naut
Well, I made it through your second installment, though I'm not sure how the birth of social sciences and their inability to support firm laws has to do with your first post in this series.
posted by
Joe_Love
on January 29, 2007 at 8:06 PM
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Nautikos, having scanned your well-written and cogently argued post, I will
say you make some very interesting points, and it deserves a closer, more thorough examination, as TAPS pointed out. I will say, that the muddying of the waters between the social sciences and metaphysics is one of the loopiest ideas I've ever heard.
Which is exactly why I am so disgusted with those who argue quantum physics as some sort of metaphysics. As that loopy film suggests, that is so popular amongst the intellectual diletanntes these days, "What the Bleep Do We Know" that quantum physics can be used to justify all kinds of metaphysical woo-woo New Age mish-mash. As Einstein himself said, "Physics cannot explain two people falling love'.
Let physics and the "Hard sciences" remain distinct and separate from the "softer" sciences of social and polticial sciences, science will thank us in the long run. I think that the fruit loops who like to discuss physics have no freaking clue what they're really talking about.
As someone said, "God spare me from the man who's read one book". I'd like to alter that, to read, "God spare me from the nutcase who's watched one film" and thinks they know Einstein's relativity theory as well as he did. I think not.
posted by
blogflogger
on January 29, 2007 at 6:11 PM
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Corbin,
I agree. My only point is that I don't usually categorize other bloggers that way. I'm just a simple guy, and I tend to think in terms of 'interesting' or 'boring', and 'like' or 'don't like'...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 29, 2007 at 12:53 PM
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Naut.......
As to TAPS comment......in some cases, here on Blogit, it's very hard not to, because that is the mantle some Bloggers have constructed as their life story here......it's how they want you to see them.....they have taken the prospect of contamination in their arms and have embraced it.....
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on January 28, 2007 at 4:39 PM
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Dylan,
thanks. There's a hell of a lot more to it, actually, but it'll do for present purposes...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 28, 2007 at 4:31 PM
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Thanks, TAPS,
I try...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 28, 2007 at 4:29 PM
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VERY good post.
Your explanation of the difference between physical and social science seems sound.
posted by
Dyl_Pickle
on January 28, 2007 at 12:42 PM
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You are a good man, Nautikos, LOL
posted by
TAPS.
on January 28, 2007 at 7:52 AM
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TAPS
most definitely not! What would be the point? In any case, things ain't quite that simple...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 28, 2007 at 7:38 AM
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Nautikos
Like you said about Corbin's post that peaked your interest in writing these posts on positive and negative Americans, your posts require more than the obligatory 'high five' they definitely deserve but, I'm afraid I'm not up to it. Like someone else said in one of the comments, you give my brain quite a workout. I would like to ask and you don't have to answer if you don't want to, are you drawn to categorize people here (bloggers) in your own mind as "victim" or "hero" as you read their works?
posted by
TAPS.
on January 28, 2007 at 7:31 AM
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