Interesting analogy by Taleb (9 Viewers)

[swag]

which is why i am not too fond of environMentals. what i am trying to figure out though, is if my life would be happier if i "let them into my life"

If you did, they will hug you and kiss you and call you Andy.

 

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[Lawnchair Bes]

forgive me for trying to bring up an important philosophical point

 

[swag]

forgive me for trying to bring up an important philosophical point

The nerve of these kids these days.

 

[Eddy]

Never was there a true Socialist Democracy in the US. I'd be all for socialism as long as human greed did not exist, but it does, so that's why it could be worse than what we see now. What we can't have is any hybrid of these methodologies to try to fix problems, because that is like giving kindergartners several chemicals and telling them to make some sort of mixture. It will explode in your face. Can't do that shit.

These bailouts are essentially handouts to Wall Street for people to pocket, so they need to end. But Obama will continue them to my dismay.

Word.

 

[Hist]

omglolbbq

 

[Snoop]

 

[Lawnchair Bes]

The nerve of these kids these days.

fuck greg, i say the exact same thing

 

[Hist]

you say wtflolbbq?

 

[rounder]

"I believe that the implications of there being a god from a purely metaphysical viewpoint are far too strong to be ignored."
i agree with you...
you totally didnt understand my ten year old analogy.
Assume you are an athiest... and through philosophy you found out that there has to be a god (not necessarily a manuscriptive god)
so what religion should you join?
which book's authority will you believe? they say the same thing except for the gray area they contradict. you cant judge which gray area is correct and which is false as you can't see god and you cant prove any of them correct or false. Philosophy does not fix this problem as its based on reason and the gray area by definition cannot be reasoned.
The ten year old kid in the physics test is any person who tries to follow a religion.

You as a christian.. why would you believe 1) jesus is god and he died then resurrected ..etc
and not 2) Jesus was a man sent by God and people imagined seeing him crucified.
Is (1) more reasonable than (2)? based on what?
your reply would be because the bible says so and i will tell you i believe in number 2 because the Quran said so. Then we will start questioning the authority of the bible and the Quran and we will never PROVE that (1) is true or (2) is true. we just follow the authority of our respective scripture blindly... and if we wish to find out we CANNOT.

Athiests follow a stock analyst but if one were interested to UNDERSTAND why the stock went up or down we CAN FIND OUT the causes to a certainty through studying business.

its the old science against religion.. : no one can question the existence of gravity as we can Prove it anytime anyday.
But we cannot prove the Quran or the bible were inspired by God because we cannot rationalize it.

When talking about the grey area, I think that enviroment is key here which is also why I believe that no religion can be right or wrong relative to others simply because what religion a person decides to ultimately follow depends on where this person is living.

Statistically speaking, a new-born baby in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia will have a massive probability of being a member of the muslim faith. He will learn the Qur'an, his parents will teach him about Islam, he will go to the mosque, and he will follow Islam for the rest of his life. A new-born baby in Italy will probably learn the Bible, etc..

I think the grey area you are talking about is relative to culture and enviroment. However, the philospohical and reasonable acknowledgement that there exists a higher power outside the dimensions of space and time is entirely relative to the individual. While this may have not been the case years ago, as it also may have been relative to culture, the media has dramtically broken down all cultural barriers and now people living in Stockholm and others living in Mexico City have an equal chance of having a belief in a higher power.

 

[Hist]

When talking about the grey area, I think that enviroment is key here which is also why I believe that no religion can be right or wrong relative to others simply because what religion a person decides to ultimately follow depends on where this person is living.

Statistically speaking, a new-born baby in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia will have a massive probability of being a member of the muslim faith. He will learn the Qur'an, his parents will teach him about Islam, he will go to the mosque, and he will follow Islam for the rest of his life. A new-born baby in Italy will probably learn the Bible, etc..

I think the grey area you are talking about is relative to culture and enviroment. However, the philospohical and reasonable acknowledgement that there exists a higher power outside the dimensions of space and time is entirely relative to the individual. While this may have not been the case years ago, as it also may have been relative to culture, the media has dramtically broken down all cultural barriers and now people living in Stockholm and others living in Mexico City have an equal chance of having a belief in a higher power.

You say it better than i do..... i was giving an example of a person that is not in a religious culture at all.
But yes i am muslim because im born a muslim and you are christian because you were born a christian.

 

[Bjerknes]

Taleb was just on CNBC right now discussing the current economic situation, and the typical morons were laughing at his views because he thinks asset values will decrease further due to the deleveraging process. I may not agree with his religious perspective of the market, but he makes valid points regarding how bad this situation could get. Of corse the morons will laugh like they always do, thinking we're in a perpetual bull market. Idiots.