Did Jesus practice what he preached?

[josephpalazzo]

Feminist beta male ;-)  Do you give your woman any attention?  Or are you too busy worshipping the ground she walks on ;-))

Your world seems to be centered on worshiping - Trump, FoxNews, and assorted immaterial woo-woo things. Maybe you should get out more frequently...

[Baruch]

Your world seems to be centered on worshiping - Trump, FoxNews, and assorted immaterial woo-woo things. Maybe you should get out more frequently...

Not at all.  But it can seem that way.  We have cognitive models in our heads, and we assess other people based on those cognitive models.  I this case, more of a projection of some prior version of yourself.  Doesn't match up well.  On the other hand, I have had college physics.  I remember what the professors are like.  So I have maybe a better model of what you are like.  You don't seem to have much commonality with me otherwise.

[josephpalazzo]

  You don't seem to have much commonality with me otherwise.

And I don't wish anyone to have "commonality" with you. No one deserves to be so cursed...

[Baruch]

And I don't wish anyone to have "commonality" with you. No one deserves to be so cursed...

See, you are obsessed.  Should we date?  You talk like my Ex.

[josephpalazzo]

See, you are obsessed.  Should we date?  You talk like my Ex.

Nice try to divert the conversation. Typical of your idol Trump isn't it, divert to avoid embarrassment or hide your ignorance. Like your idol, build a wall, you're being invaded...

[Baruch]

Nice try to divert the conversation. Typical of your idol Trump isn't it, divert to avoid embarrassment or hide your ignorance. Like your idol, build a wall, you're being invaded...

Maybe continue this in the other thread, when it already is being waged?  I don't mind you shagging politicians.  The dogs deserve it.

[josephpalazzo]

Maybe continue this in the other thread, when it already is being waged?  I don't mind you shagging politicians.  The dogs deserve it.

And I thought kibitzing was your favorite game... oh well...

[Baruch]

And I thought kibitzing was your favorite game... oh well...

Yes.  But you aren't kibitzing.  You are simply hijacking the whole thread.  As a distraction from Jesus.

[josephpalazzo]

Yes.  But you aren't kibitzing.  You are simply hijacking the whole thread. 

Oh how rich is that coming from the guy who has been hijacking just about every thread for the last 4 years...

[aileron]

If I understand correctly, reductionism is reducing a complex argument to simple parts.  I'm not sure that is a false way of examining complex problems.  Examining difficult problems in detail seems reasonable.

At the risk of greatly oversimplifying, reductionism means that complex interactions up to and including human consciousness follow the same rules as simple interactions of fundamental particles. So for example we can describe and predict the behavior of a small collection of particles using Quantum Field Theory, often times using Path Integral Formulations devised by Richard Feynman. We can't use these techniques to describe and predict the behavior of a person, but it's not because somewhere up the chain from a few particles to a huge number of particles the particles start to behave differently. It's because the computational complexity is simply out of the question.

As a side note, in modern physics using terms like "prediction" needs a bit of explaining. Interactions between particles are probabilistic, not deterministic. This is not because of incomplete knowledge or computational complexity as is the case with the use of probability and statistics in domains like thermodynamics. The particles really behave probabilistically. So when discussing "prediction" the predictions are of the probability of future state given a present state.

[Unbeliever]

Sexist. You probably watch FoxNews because all the pretty women show their long legs. Any woman shouldn't come near you without a ten-foot pole.

That's probably true of most people who watch FUX Gnus.

[Mike Cl]

That's probably true of most people who watch FUX Gnus.

It has been demonstrated that the longer people watch faux the stupider they become.

[Unbeliever]

And that they actually know less than people who watch no news at all.

[Baruch]

Oh how rich is that coming from the guy who has been hijacking just about every thread for the last 4 years...

Highjack not equal to kibitz.  Also I respond mostly, not initiate.  I am happy to add distraction to a string that has already gone astray.

[Baruch]

That's probably true of most people who watch FUX Gnus.

Are Democrats eunuchs?  Sexless?  Is that how you avoid all gender pronouns?