Comments | amnesiadust: "just answer the five quest-- uh, THREE questions as best you can, and we shall watch, and pray"

amnesiadust

"just answer the five quest-- uh, THREE questions as best you can, and we shall watch, and pray"

Nov 23, 2009 19:04

Put to me by fdmts, according to the meme. Ask (me) and you shall receive (similar questions).

1) How many roads must a man walk down - before you call him a man? Have you walked down that many roads? Have I?The Road goes ever on and on down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, and I must follow (if I can), pursuing it with ( Read more... )

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jrtom November 24 2009, 00:33:25 UTC

Slow claps awarded for number of song and/or poem references for question #1. :)

Re: #4--I think that a more interesting variant of that question (to me) is "what's the lowest salary you'd accept for having complete freedom to choose your job?"
Also on that, I'd like to hear more about this "outside the continental US" thing.

If you've got questions for me, I'd like to see 'em.

Questions fdmts November 24 2009, 04:31:02 UTC

(2) Good. I'm not alone in that I simply read the meta-news (and some obscure nerd feeds), and back out whatever facts I need to figure out for context.

(4) No price? Seriously? How about 2 years? I'll take a cool mil a year for two years.

I think ...

(5) For bonus points, explain to me how anyone at all exists outside of your experiece of them. If I exist to you, and God exists to you, then God is as real as me - to you.

Re: Questions amnesiadust November 24 2009, 19:55:50 UTC

(2) Yeah, there's simply too much "news" these days to not have meta-news be your main source. At least, if you want to get anything else done.

(4) 2 years, that I've been doing for a while now. It's not as long a period of time, but it's totally possible that that job may not leave me in a good position to look for other jobs, however well paid. Not getting to pick how I spend that time is potentially a major drawback in a culture in which we're always expected to brand ourselves and look for the next best thing. We can't afford to not be in control at least at some level ( ... )

Re: Questions amnesiadust November 24 2009, 20:04:54 UTC

More to the point on (5): The reason associative phenomena have primal claim on "reality" is because we can ascribe an interpretation to them -- we can model them internally in such a way that we can understand what's going on and predict what's going to happen next. We can interpret them readily. For dissociative phenomena it is very hard if not impossible to do that -- we can attempt to impose an interpretation based on a library of candidates from the associative world, but really it's not the phenomena themselves but the interpretation that's at issue. I'm sure nobody would be nearly as interested in God if it were impossible to associatively establish other truth claims about God's identity -- Creator of the Universe, a benevolent presence, a force able to heal or harm in this life, or in the next. Take all those other things away, which are hard to establish, and there's not much God left to argue over ( ... )