tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428786213779428155.post565178699769552402..comments2022-11-09T23:58:50.843-08:00Comments on Ten Mile Island: Columbus DayTen Mile Islandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06030532586953950296noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428786213779428155.post-27053155750151451922011-10-15T07:07:13.131-07:002011-10-15T07:07:13.131-07:00My cadre of crack editors. (Not that you're on...My cadre of crack editors. (Not that you're on crack, so much.)<br /><br />Quick fixed. At least I think that was the point I was trying to make. Just that you need to recall that it was Columbo's idea, and Isa's cash that put the deal together. That she was a part of the monarchy is a simple statement of how modern techniques of capital formation are inherently more fair than the Monarchists.<br />.Ten Mile Islandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06030532586953950296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428786213779428155.post-62509199149988214372011-10-14T21:35:58.838-07:002011-10-14T21:35:58.838-07:00"What would have occurred, if, rather than an..."What would have occurred, if, rather than an entrepreneur and a capitalist had gotten together to finance Chris' first voyage?" <br /><br />I think you dropped a word there.<br /><br />"My senses don't lie,<br />Oh, but they do ..."<br /><br />That's why the ancient Greeks were so distrustful of experiment. They saw that what we see and hear and feel is not always the Truth. Usual case: there really isn't a lake out there in the desert on the horizon.<br /><br />It also explains why eyewitnesses are not the most reliable fact-relaters.<br /><br />Nowadays, even cameras lie.ZZMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16913899667726940233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428786213779428155.post-67002609661687753722011-10-09T19:39:22.018-07:002011-10-09T19:39:22.018-07:00I can't help thinking about your reference to ...I can't help thinking about your reference to postulates and theorems and how global warming is now fact.<br /><br />They completely skipped over the postulate and theory part of the equation(s).<br /><br />So now we are left with a huge amount of the population that will wake up one day and figure out that the world really wasn't all that flat after all.ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14577297312660382447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428786213779428155.post-91192411981013609292011-10-09T17:27:42.782-07:002011-10-09T17:27:42.782-07:00My senses don't lie,
Oh, but they do - and mo...<i>My senses don't lie,</i><br /><br />Oh, but they do - and more often than not. Much of our world is not as we experience it; our experiences are based largely in cognitive inferences which may have no grounding in reality.<br /><br />Thus, we have optical illusion, sonic and tactile illusion, 3-D movies, the ability to switch between stadium sound and auditorium sound at the push of a button.<br /><br />The "eye-witness" is considered among the least reliable components in a trail of evidence.<br /><br />These facts, however, serve merely to buttress the discussion of "settled science", as back in the day, anybody with an ass for an eye could see for himself that the world was flat, and that the sun revolved around the Earth. While the concept of illusion was known, it was more commonly attributed to witchcraft than to any inherent fallibility of our sensory systems.<br /><br />After all, as Man was created in God's image, hard-wired fallibility was simply not possible, absent malevolent influence.MAX Redlinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12040240474444763721noreply@blogger.com