Re: Aethetics and clear thinking

2002-12-30 Thread Pål Jensen
Brad wrote: > Thanks Pal! Too bad you are not in possession of the facts. Ho ho. I don't want to bother the list with boring and irrelevant facts. > You ignore a > lack of evidence, and you don't know the first thing about the geophsyics > involved. Huh? Bad luck with that one. I have PhD

Re: Aethetics and clear thinking

2002-12-29 Thread Brad Dobo
or the red sun. Hey, we should hold our meeting in Roswell New Mexico instead of Grandfather mountain! :) j/k - Original Message - From: "Malcolm Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 6:53 PM Subject: RE: Aethetics and cl

Re: Aethetics and clear thinking

2002-12-29 Thread Brad Dobo
Ok, some fun, > > What I'm saying Bill, is that the concept existed before we > created the > > concept. > > What the concept describes may have existed, but concepts spring > from the mind, tenuous as will'o'the'wisps > Concepts are an invention of sentience. Right, but I don't see. > >You h

RE: Aethetics and clear thinking

2002-12-29 Thread Malcolm Smith
Brad Dobo wrote: > Hmm...don't want to spend too much time on this, and really don't want to > read and respond to replies to me. OK, nice and brief. Sun yellow at the present but when it turns red* it will matter not about anything anymore. Malcolm * Not for a while yet :-)

Re: Aethetics and clear thinking

2002-12-29 Thread Brad Dobo
Hmm...don't want to spend too much time on this, and really don't want to read and respond to replies to me. So, we all have our basic concept of the planet? Earth. Scientists will tell you the earth has a liquid iron core. Interesting. Have they been down there to stick a finger in and say yu

Re: Aethetics and clear thinking

2002-12-29 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Brad Dobo Subject: Re: Aethetics and clear thinking > What I'm saying Bill, is that the concept existed before we created the > concept. What the concept describes may have existed, but concepts spring from the mind, tenuous as will'o't

Re: Aethetics and clear thinking

2002-12-29 Thread Brad Dobo
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 2:48 PM Subject: Re: Aethetics and clear thinking > > C'mon, Brad. If you want to contribute to a debate you're going to have > to do better than that. > > chris > > > On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Brad Dobo wrote: &g

Re: Aethetics and clear thinking

2002-12-29 Thread Paul Stenquist
Been there, done that :-) Paul Pat White wrote: > > When I find a blonde model (a "real" blonde), I'll take some pictures of the > elusive Golden Triangle. Maybe a magazine will even publish them. > > Pat White

Re: Aethetics and clear thinking

2002-12-29 Thread Brad Dobo
ssage - From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 2:09 PM Subject: Re: Aethetics and clear thinking > > - Original Message ----- > From: Brad Dobo > Subject: Re: Aethetics and clear thinking > > >

Re: Aethetics and clear thinking

2002-12-29 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Raimo Korhonen Subject: Vs: Aethetics and clear thinking > Seems to me we can agree on something, But of course. (but this has been running too long). AW, It's just getting to be fun. William Robb

Re: Aethetics and clear thinking

2002-12-29 Thread Chris Brogden
t: Sunday, December 29, 2002 12:17 PM > Subject: Re: Aethetics and clear thinking > > > > Don, > > Some very interesting and thoughtful posts. Thanks. > > > > I agree with those who say there is no "golden mean" in nature. Finding a > > few examples

Re: Aethetics and clear thinking

2002-12-29 Thread Lon Williamson
Sigh. Wrong again Robb. We see, therefore we SMC. On topic to boot. HAR! Grin. -Lon William Robb wrote: > > > We see, therefore we describe.

Re: Aethetics and clear thinking

2002-12-29 Thread eactivist
In a message dated 12/29/2002 12:17:55 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I can honestly say I have *never* paid the slightest attention to any of the > so-called "rules" of composition. Looking at pictures, the "rule of thirds" > is no more valid than the "rule of fourths" or

Re: Aethetics and clear thinking

2002-12-29 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Brad Dobo Subject: Re: Aethetics and clear thinking > Still a load of bunk no matter the thought or education behind it. There is > no doubt that mathematics and physics were around long before we ever even > thought of the terminology. Proof o

Re: Aethetics and clear thinking

2002-12-29 Thread Brad Dobo
- From: "Mike Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 12:17 PM Subject: Re: Aethetics and clear thinking > Don, > Some very interesting and thoughtful posts. Thanks. > > I agree with those who say there is no "

Re: Aethetics and clear thinking

2002-12-29 Thread T Rittenhouse
My usual comment on all these things that the mystical types consider proof a a grand design is "If I designed the universe pi would not be an irrational number". In fact there would be no irrational numbers in a rational universe. And, you sure shouldn't need non-numbers to make your number syste

Re: Aethetics and clear thinking

2002-12-29 Thread Pentxuser
I'm glad you guys figured it all out. I've been worrying about this all my life. LOL Vic