tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5104479.post110957060015079728..comments2023-05-27T23:20:32.194+10:00Comments on Marco's Blog: It's always good to hear from a friend, AndrewMarco Parigihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00702055111711651319noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5104479.post-1109579194223257462005-02-28T18:26:00.000+10:002005-02-28T18:26:00.000+10:00It's good to see you all, metaphorically speaking!...It's good to see you all, metaphorically speaking! All the deleted posts are just accidental copies of this one, not over-the-top ranting, do not worry...<br /><br /><I>First, I don't care *enough* about these subjects to want to debate them (I do care about them, but not as much as you). Topics I care more about include science, the environment, and the arts, particularly literature, music, and film. I would be more likely to join in on these topics of discussion.</I>How do you know we care more than you? We just might like discussing them more. :)<br />The main problem with water on Mars and quantum entanglement is that all you can say is ‘gee whiz!’ unless you know enough to talk about it all day with your geek friends at work. See my penultimate <A HREF="http://evildrclam.blogspot.com/2005/02/mind-numbingly-dull-minutiae.html" REL="nofollow">Accidental Blog post</A>. Otherwise I would love to talk about that stuff too! <br />I will resist the temptation to start a global warming or vegetarianism battle-of-the-memes. Do you reckon ‘Donnie Darko’ hapily sacrificed himself at the end of the film, or that he just forgot an airplane engine was going to drop on his house? I reckon the latter, Ev the former. Please forgive me if this has already appeared on ‘Film Forensics’ and I missed it.<br /><br /><I>Second, broadly speaking, we have "clearing the air" versus "picking at sores". There are *some areas* in which we have fundamentally different viewpoints, and in which it would take an enormous amount of debate to resolve our differences, if it were possible to do so at all. See also: "Land War In Asia".</I>Now, so long as we don’t know <I>why</I> you believe what you believe, we will go on suspecting that you are merely conforming to your peer group. I know I am and I am pretty sure Marco is very interested in how people come to form their opinions. You know we can get along with all sorts of people with insane opinions, considering all the fundamentalists we hang out with. <br /><br /><I>Third, I already feel much too guilty about not doing the things I ought to be doing. I don't want to start a new thing that will suck up even more time and energy.</I>Define ‘ought’!Dr Clamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14985493422534275997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5104479.post-1109578989269899592005-02-28T18:23:00.000+10:002005-02-28T18:23:00.000+10:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Dr Clamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14985493422534275997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5104479.post-1109578933208030842005-02-28T18:22:00.000+10:002005-02-28T18:22:00.000+10:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Dr Clamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14985493422534275997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5104479.post-1109578908923856952005-02-28T18:21:00.000+10:002005-02-28T18:21:00.000+10:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Dr Clamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14985493422534275997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5104479.post-1109578209035271352005-02-28T18:10:00.000+10:002005-02-28T18:10:00.000+10:00That's ok, I was just testing to see if I could ge...That's ok, I was just testing to see if I could get a reaction :) I'll move on to what I think your underlying assumptions are, later. In the meantime, we can blog at tangential lines of life.Marco Parigihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00702055111711651319noreply@blogger.com