Insights, Snippets, Quotes, Epiphanies & All That Sort of Things

Ken B · October 25, 2019, 09:09:57 AM

Thoughts on mass hysteria and social media https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/09/what-witchcraft-is-facebook/279499/ From 2013.

Ken B · October 27, 2019, 07:07:52 PM

If you think your job is pointless consider that somewhere in Germany is a man putting turn signals on BMWs.

Karl Henning · October 27, 2019, 07:15:36 PM

Quote from: Ken B on October 27, 2019, 07:07:52 PM
If you think your job is pointless consider that somewhere in Germany is a man putting turn signals on BMWs.

Hah!

Karl Henning · December 21, 2019, 07:57:48 AM

The enemy of Art is the absence of limitation
~Orson Welles

drogulus · December 21, 2019, 08:19:41 AM

Though I'm not much a fan of wisdom quotes, occasionally I come across words to live by in these troubled times.

How gullible are you? Is your gullibility located in some "gullibility center" in your brain? Could a neurosurgeon reach in and perform some delicate operation to lower your gullibility, otherwise leaving you alone? If you believe this, you are pretty gullible, and should perhaps consider such an operation. - Douglas Hofstadter

Does Medicare cover it?

steve ridgway · December 21, 2019, 08:24:16 AM

Quote from: drogulus on December 21, 2019, 08:19:41 AM
Though I'm not much a fan of wisdom quotes, occasionally I come across words to live by in these troubled times.

How gullible are you? Is your gullibility located in some "gullibility center" in your brain? Could a neurosurgeon reach in and perform some delicate operation to lower your gullibility, otherwise leaving you alone? If you believe this, you are pretty gullible, and should perhaps consider such an operation. - Douglas Hofstadter

Does Medicare cover it?

Funny you should bring this up on National Gullibility Day

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greg · December 21, 2019, 10:42:58 AM

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on December 21, 2019, 07:57:48 AM
The enemy of Art is the absence of limitation
~Orson Welles

This must be next level thinking here (you can only arrive at this by realizing first how you have to be limitless for art).

I can only guess that it's a reference to creating a particular style- what you don't do is as important as what you do.

steve ridgway · December 21, 2019, 10:46:08 AM

Quote from: greg on December 21, 2019, 10:42:58 AM
This must be next level thinking here (you can only arrive at this by realizing first how you have to be limitless for art).

I can only guess that it's a reference to creating a particular style- what you don't do is as important as what you do.

Oh, limitation - I read it first time as imitation

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Karl Henning · December 23, 2019, 11:39:12 AM

Quote from: greg on December 21, 2019, 10:42:58 AM
This must be next level thinking here (you can only arrive at this by realizing first how you have to be limitless for art).

I can only guess that it's a reference to creating a particular style- what you don't do is as important as what you do.

To be sure, it's an imperfect apothegm. You're right: freedom is necessary to the artist. Some artists do better work when there are limitations, than when their freedom is absolute.

As I read them: I just offered two contradictory aphorisms. Maybe it's a yin/yan deal ....

greg · December 23, 2019, 02:17:57 PM

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on December 23, 2019, 11:39:12 AM
Some artists do better work when there are limitations, than when their freedom is absolute.

Yep.
I'm definitely the latter. And I think it extends into everything else also.

drogulus · January 20, 2020, 07:32:31 PM

Q: Why is there something rather than nothing?

A: Because the Universe is mediocre.

greg · January 20, 2020, 08:09:50 PM

Quote from: drogulus on January 20, 2020, 07:32:31 PM
Q: Why is there something rather than nothing?

Because nothing doesn't exist?

drogulus · January 20, 2020, 09:49:57 PM

Quote from: greg on January 20, 2020, 08:09:50 PM
Because nothing doesn't exist?

Mine was goofier, yours is only true.

greg · March 01, 2020, 08:16:30 PM

https://www.classicfm.com/lifestyle/quizzes/guess-your-iq/

Anyone else wanna try this and see if it works or not for them?

Because the weird thing is... it was extremely close for me. I don't know how.

Florestan · March 02, 2020, 12:00:17 AM

Quote from: greg on March 01, 2020, 08:16:30 PM
https://www.classicfm.com/lifestyle/quizzes/guess-your-iq/

Anyone else wanna try this and see if it works or not for them?

119.

I don't know if it's true or not because I never took any real IQ test. I can only hope it's quite close to reality.

greg · March 02, 2020, 06:57:58 AM

Quote from: Florestan on March 02, 2020, 12:00:17 AM
119.

I don't know if it's true or not because I never took any real IQ test. I can only hope it's quite close to reality.

Aww ok the mensa practice test I think is like $10... no good free ones available.

None of these questions are related to iq so I'm wondering how they guessed within 3 points... but...

One question is Bach or Handel... So at least for that one I can tell choosing Bach would have helped my score.

btw surely this isn't thread relevant but i didn't want to make another and this test is.... ahem, "insight"ful?

Florestan · March 02, 2020, 07:02:49 AM

Quote from: greg on March 02, 2020, 06:57:58 AM
One question is Bach or Handel... So at least for that one I can tell choosing Bach would have helped my score.

Wrong. Just for fun, I took the test a second time and gave different answers than the first time, for instance choosing Bach over Handel, Beethoven over Mozart and Chopin instead of Tchaikovsky. The result was 103.

I also took the test where they claim to guess your age based on musical preferences. They gave me 1987, which is belated by 15 years, so there.

greg · March 02, 2020, 07:21:36 AM

Quote from: Florestan on March 02, 2020, 07:02:49 AM
Wrong. Just for fun, I took the test a second time and gave different answers than the first time, for instance choosing Bach over Handel, Beethoven over Mozart and Chopin instead of Tchaikovsky. The result was 103.

I also took the test where they claim to guess your age based on musical preferences. They gave me 1987, which is belated by 15 years, so there.

Those were all of my choices lol so you must have chosen the low score option for the rest then. 😵

Never tried that second test though that is my birth year even if it's 99% closer to 1988...

JBS · March 02, 2020, 08:20:31 AM

102.

As a child/teen, my IQ was measured at 140+. Normalized to an equivalent figure today would supposedly put it at about 125-130.

greg · March 02, 2020, 09:28:32 AM

Quote from: JBS on March 02, 2020, 08:20:31 AM
102.

As a child/teen, my IQ was measured at 140+. Normalized to an equivalent figure today would supposedly put it at about 125-130.

Ok so this test must be bogus then.

Is it normal to fall over adulthood? You didn't smoke pot for years, did you?

If it is normal, now wishing I knew my score as a kid because since we are about the same score today then maybe it was that high before? (side note: I'm not a pot smoker but it supposedly can reduce your score a little over time though I'm a bit skeptical of how they did the study on this).

Sooo i wonder if the racing thoughts while trying to fall asleep is truly caused by biological clock or just an overpowered brain? There's so many downsides to this... and causes issues. Last week was pretty bad due to my inability to wake up early.

What is your natural bedtime/wake time?