Conquer Club

got tonkaed wrote:

suggs wrote:Ah. Fair dooze. The last sci fi i read was prob Adams a while ago. They were great.
So, how much do you love Sociology?!

quite a bit...it really hits my interests and tempermant on a variety of levels.

I get to complain about things all the time, without offering any solutions, which suits me very well. I also get to remain detached from sticky details like real life from my comfortable ivory tower, while looking at some interesting phenomona from time to time.

I guess that explains your lack of love for biosociology. You remind me of one of my professors who said that the main problem of cultural relativism (in ethics) is "that it's a conversation stopper." Answers? Yuck!

mandalorian2298 wrote:

got tonkaed wrote:

suggs wrote:Ah. Fair dooze. The last sci fi i read was prob Adams a while ago. They were great.
So, how much do you love Sociology?!

quite a bit...it really hits my interests and tempermant on a variety of levels.

I get to complain about things all the time, without offering any solutions, which suits me very well. I also get to remain detached from sticky details like real life from my comfortable ivory tower, while looking at some interesting phenomona from time to time.

I guess that explains your lack of love for biosociology. You remind me of one of my professors who said that the main problem of cultural relativism (in ethics) is "that it's a conversation stopper." Answers? Yuck!

indeed. Cultural relativism is certainly not without its problems, but i think in a lot of ways it is sure a lot more realistic and civilized than other ways of thinking.

Annoyingly, I've never read a convincing rebuttal of cultural relativism (or ts intellectual cousin, epistemological scepticism).
But they are both bloody difficult ways of living!

suggs wrote:Annoyingly, I've never read a convincing rebuttal of cultural relativism (or ts intellectual cousin, epistemological scepticism).
But they are both bloody difficult ways of living!

i suppose im supposed to say....

meh, just because you havent stumbled across a convincing rebuttal, doesnt make them more "right" than other ways of thinking.

got tonkaed wrote:

suggs wrote:Annoyingly, I've never read a convincing rebuttal of cultural relativism (or ts intellectual cousin, epistemological scepticism).
But they are both bloody difficult ways of living!

i suppose im supposed to say....

meh, just because you havent stumbled across a convincing rebuttal, doesnt make them more "right" than other ways of thinking.

Fair point!
But i was being a ponce- i really meant that logically, I don't think it is possible to rebutt cultural relativsm, and yet in practice no one really believes in it.-because its impossible to live by.

indeed, its a bit of an ideal type and not something your ever really going to see in practice.

For instance i have a neat ancedotal example.

Im doing some research for one of my senior classes on genocide. Now i consider myself to be a pretty relativistic cant catch me off guard open to all different ways of behavior type of guy.

When i was reading about the rwandan genocide in 1994 i was amazed at some of the cultural elements at play and even for my pretty open minded self a little disgusted at some of the rationale behind their logic of torture and all that.

Since kids come around here, i suppose ill leave what exactly all that was out, but i caught myself surprised at being surprised.

Do you speak english?

Snorri1234 wrote:Do you speak english?

unless this is some type of trick, i think i speak something that resembles it yes.

got tonkaed wrote:

Snorri1234 wrote:Do you speak english?

unless this is some type of trick, i think i speak something that resembles it yes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0sEHFeFsdE&feature=related

thats rather amusing....

"i can speak english...so can i"

How do you feel about the prospect of being skinned alive?

muy_thaiguy wrote:How do you feel about the prospect of being skinned alive?

rather alarmed considering i wasnt aware until now that it was about to happen.

got tonkaed wrote:

muy_thaiguy wrote:How do you feel about the prospect of being skinned alive?

rather alarmed considering i wasnt aware until now that it was about to happen.

Nah, just curious to know your reaction. Though being only alarmed is a bit disturbing.


On to the next question. How do you feel about having your eyes poked out, castrated, limbless, tongoue cut out, and forced to live paralyzed from the neck down?

Did you, perchance, hear a song which was popular in the UK perhaps a year ago named JCB Song, and is it about you?

muy_thaiguy wrote:

got tonkaed wrote:

muy_thaiguy wrote:How do you feel about the prospect of being skinned alive?

rather alarmed considering i wasnt aware until now that it was about to happen.

Nah, just curious to know your reaction. Though being only alarmed is a bit disturbing.


On to the next question. How do you feel about having your eyes poked out, castrated, limbless, tongoue cut out, and forced to live paralyzed from the neck down?

i was going to say oddly aroused, until i saw that i was going to be castrated....i supposed id range it between certainly alarmed and nihilistic cause i dont think much matters at that point....

to guiscard...

actually i did not which i suppose is surprising since i hung out with a bunch of uk folk all summer long, but i suppose i wouldnt have known about it had i come across it. I will assume for now, its not about me.

That said, bunny wabbits or duckies?

muy_thaiguy wrote:That said, bunny wabbits or duckies?

rubber ducky...your the one.

If you were buried in a pit, would you rather have starving lions or zombies in it with you?

Skittles! wrote:If you were buried in a pit, would you rather have starving lions or zombies in it with you?

starving lion zombies if i have my way.