Does Anyone Know Anything About Something?
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Does Anyone Know Anything About Something?Chalk it up to American stupidity, but I feel the more I learn, and read, and stuff, the less I actually know. You ever try to just stop and think about all the things you know? Mine sort of stops at the basics: I can add and subtract, multiply and divide, tell you the difference between nouns and adjectives... but really, how much is that? Or is it even anything? I mean my mother and I were having this discussion the other day about the origins of language and who came up with some names... and it's like, is any of it true or real? Does any of it matter? |
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Re: Does Anyone Know Anything About Something?Quote: Originally Posted by AlphaSmart I mean my mother and I were having this discussion the other day about the origins of language and who came up with some names... and it's like, is any of it true or real? Does any of it matter? I think not. What do you think? Does it matter? There was an anthropological theory floating around when I was in school that supposed that our language and the words we give to things influence our ability to perceive the world around us. There was a tribe which did not have different words for the colors blue and green. Therefore, the sky and the grass were the same color for them. (This is not my theory, BTW). Think about some Eskimo peoples having twenty-something words for snow. Wouldn't winter, then, be richer and deeper for them than it is for me with my one (printable  ) word for snow?Take things down from a tribal/cultural level to the personal one and things are even more complicated. A concept/experience that I might label as "beautiful" may be completely different from one you would give the same label to (Keats notwithstanding). I'm not sure we can even really perceive something for which we have no language. So I'm voting yeah, it does matter. But then, I don't know much about anything, let alone anything about something. |
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Re: Does Anyone Know Anything About Something?I think this dialogue is something, and for it to be something means it is an anything we know something about, right? |
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Re: Does Anyone Know Anything About Something?If what they are finding out about Epi-genes is true; you might have started learning responses to the world at large 2-3 generations ago. Last edited by RHPeat 09-23-2009 at 10:30:12 PM |
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Re: Re: Does Anyone Know Anything About Something?Quote: I know most of the useful stuff I have learned was not in any classroom. The stuff I learned in school mostly makes for fascinating cocktail party conversation and little else. LOL And thanks to your post, I'm going to have to look into this Epi-gene research. Cool! |
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Re: Re: Re: Does Anyone Know Anything About Something?Quote: Originally Posted by BessFromKenton I know most of the useful stuff I have learned was not in any classroom. The stuff I learned in school mostly makes for fascinating cocktail party conversation and little else. LOL And thanks to your post, I'm going to have to look into this Epi-gene research. Cool! Bess try Nova: Ghost in our genes on the internet. They had a great program on epigenes. |
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Re: Does Anyone Know Anything About Something?Descartes wrote "Cogito Ergo Sum (I think therefore I am)." I think we all agree. That is more than just anything about something. |
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Re: Re: Does Anyone Know Anything About Something?Quote: Originally Posted by Grito Descartes wrote "Cogito Ergo Sum (I think therefore I am)." I think we all agree. That is more than just anything about something. Basic physics says something cannot give rise to nothing. Poetically, I say when in doubt take a breath. |
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Re: Does Anyone Know Anything About Something?Right, Einstein maintained that matter cannot be created nor destroyed. We are something that cannot be denied. Therefore, we are the intergalactic sentient Earth organisms that ask that the force be with us, an anything that knows something. |
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Re: Does Anyone Know Anything About Something?Isn't this something! Grito, you're something else, funny stuff, lol! Holy Grail spin? |
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Re: Does Anyone Know Anything About Something?I feel insanely retarded now. Thing is, I was just in a bit of a ranting mood at the moment... I really didn't expect people to waste their time with this or to turn it into a wonderful lilttle debate against what I said. |
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Re: Does Anyone Know Anything About Something?I find the more I read the more I learn (obviously) whether it be small and random things, or facts and figures about big events. |
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Re: Does Anyone Know Anything About Something?Maybe knowin sumtin bout anytin counts maybe it dosent wat matters is does it make me a better person? |
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Re: Re: Does Anyone Know Anything About Something?Quote: Originally Posted by Beam Maybe knowin sumtin bout anytin counts maybe it dosent wat matters is does it make me a better person?  funny thing is, what you do what what you are given or find depends on who are you when you encounter it (life altering situations included, I guess, becasue how you react is based on who you are to some extent) so wht education does to you, and how you handle it depends on what you have dome with it in the past, and what it has done to you... so this always just points back to the earliest impressions and the whole "Nature vs. Nurture" argument.... |
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.