$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')etween strong and weak, I favor the strong.
Between fleet and sluggish, I favor the fleet.
Between savant and retard, I favor the savant.
Between industrious and bum, I favor the industrious.
Between dextrous and clumsy, I favor the dextrous.
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Jenab's Master Race
Re: Jenab's Master Race
by markam » Mon 26 Jun 2006, 11:34:25
As a WASP, I would have to say that the Asian people win in all of those categories. I believe that scientific studies have shown the same thing. I would assume Jerry that you believe the same thing and you are preparing to jump out of the lifeboat in order to make way for the new Asian world.
Am I correct?
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Re: Jenab's Master Race
by Battle_Scarred_Galactico » Tue 27 Jun 2006, 05:57:34
I don't see why Montes' point is so hard for some to grasp.
You can engage in selective breeding forever, but only nature can decide whos' fit to survive.
You can engage in selective breeding forever, but only nature can decide whos' fit to survive.
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Re: Jenab's Master Race
by Jenab6 » Tue 27 Jun 2006, 23:22:20
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheTurtle', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jenab6', 'B')etween industrious and bum, I favor the industrious.
But who decides? The Europeans who invaded North America 500 years ago described the indigenous peoples they encountered as lazy, when, in fact, they merely had an alternative approach to living that the Europeans did not understand.
In retrospect, we see that the indigenous "bums" led a sustainable lifestyle that had lasted for 10,000 years up until that point, while the "industrious" Europeans replaced them with a lifestyle that has, essentially, brought us to Peak Oil and all that will result from that.
If I were asked to decide between the industrious and bum in 1492, I would favor the bum.
Who gets to decide?
There was no "bum" in that comparison. Neither the Europeans nor the Amerinds were bums. The industriousness of the Europeans isn't in doubt; at least, neither of us questions it. You raised doubt about the industriousness of the Amerindians. But they were, indeed, industrious. You have to be somewhat industrious to make a living hunting and fishing. Bumhood wasn't their failing. They were less intelligent. While it would be a mistake to name them the least intelligent race on Earth, the Amerinds were certainly not on a level with the Europeans.
Further, the Amerinds led a lifestyle of frozen development, more "sustained" than "sustainable." They had their ups and downs, their kill offs and die offs. They had their migrations to new hunting grounds and resource wars with other tribes. It was their mental limitations that prevented them from harming their environment more, faster, and on larger scales than they did.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MonteQuest', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jenab6', '[')i]All genetic variation, every last scrap of it, originated as mutation. You're trying to isolate johnny-come-lately mutations as being the only ones having any possible importance.
No, you will never get it.
Boiled the ocean long enough on this one.
I don't see anything substantial about MonteQuest's difference with me, yet he kept speaking as if there were something substantial to be understood. What to call that kind of disagreement? A matador's cape?
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kylon', 'Y')ou know Albert Einstein had a schizophrenic son.
Nope. I had not known that.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kylon', 'H')e was also an insomniac, he stuttered, and had slightly less grass matter volume than regular people at the end of his life. Ontop of that he often had to be treated/taken care of like a child. All of these things suggest that he had a hyper active mind and may have been schizotypical(not schizophrenic, but with enough hyper activity to give a huge intellectual and creative edge). He is also considered to possibly have had Asperger's Syndrome, which Issac Newton is also speculated to have. However, Albert Einstein is widely considered to be the most influential Scientist of the 20th century, and his research has changed the world in countless ways.
I have heard only that Einstein didn't do very well in his childhood school work. He did seem to make up for it later on. However, you should know a few things that you evidently do not.
First, Einstein's work in special relativity was anticipated by other scientists, including Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (Dutch), George Francis Fitzgerald (Irish), and Jules Henri Poincaré (French). Those three physicists had the special theory of relativity worked out before Einstein first published on the subject in 1905. Einstein's peculiar failing might have been dishonesty. One of Einstein's friends wrote:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Max Born', 'I') have now to say some words about the work of these predecessors of Einstein, mainly of Lorentz and Poincare. Many of you have looked upon [Einstein's] paper Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Korper in Annalen der Physik and you will have noticed some pecularities. The striking point is that it contains not a single reference to previous literature. It gives you the impression of quite a new venture. But that is, of course, as I have tried to explain, not true.
