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by Airiek
Sun Aug 10, 2008 12:48 am
Forum: Deep Thoughts
Topic: Introduction to Reapply
Replies: 1
Views: 2034

Introduction to Reapply

Figured since I am reapplying again I might as well describe what has happened since last time. Well, when I started in EVE, I joined a corporation (the first corp I joined) with an '03 player as a CEO, and he gave me, for no reason, over one hundred million isk. This was great for me at the time, I...
by Airiek
Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:46 pm
Forum: Deep Thoughts
Topic: Free will versus Determinism
Replies: 43
Views: 22259

Re: Free will versus Determinism

What are your opinions of the field of behavioral genetics? The idea is that certain genes affect certain behaviors, such as addiction and even violence, among other things. Now I know this doesn't negate free will, but it certainly affects it. Do you think that the study of this field, as difficult...
by Airiek
Sun May 25, 2008 12:02 am
Forum: Deep Thoughts
Topic: Free will versus Determinism
Replies: 43
Views: 22259

Re: EBANK channel chat about philosophy and "Human Nature"

cool (and I chose to say that - and I chose to say that - and I chose to say that - and I chose to say that - and I chose to say that - )
:D
by Airiek
Sat May 24, 2008 8:14 pm
Forum: Deep Thoughts
Topic: This section should really be renamed to "Introductions"
Replies: 8
Views: 5342

Re: This section should really be renamed to "Introductions"

I liked both the book and the movie, but I saw the movie first. The movie is actually pretty good - but compared to the book its nothing. I've also listened to an episode of the radio series because a friend gave me a cd with it. It was pretty good, but a bit confusing after reading the book because...
by Airiek
Sat May 24, 2008 4:23 pm
Forum: Deep Thoughts
Topic: Free will versus Determinism
Replies: 43
Views: 22259

Re: EBANK channel chat about philosophy and "Human Nature"

Yes yes, I agree. I was just trying to get at the fact that whatever happens happens, and technically could not have happened any other way. I guess the best addressing of this is what Petyr says here to think about it, I was tired when I first read it, but looking at it now, after sleep I get it: O...
by Airiek
Sat May 24, 2008 8:05 am
Forum: Deep Thoughts
Topic: Free will versus Determinism
Replies: 43
Views: 22259

Re: EBANK channel chat about philosophy and "Human Nature"

For the most part I agree with what you just said above. The only thing I was trying to say is free will exists as far as life concerned/its relevant to life because life is meaningless without it <- I agree with that. And I added that at some physical scale it doesnt exist because the outcome of so...
by Airiek
Sat May 24, 2008 1:43 am
Forum: Deep Thoughts
Topic: Free will versus Determinism
Replies: 43
Views: 22259

Re: EBANK channel chat about philosophy and "Human Nature"

I cut alot of stuff that I wrote - and if somethings dont match up, its because I missed editing them, because I write as I am thinking about it, and so change my view ultimately - first I wanted to say that I was wrong and talk about theoretical "soul", then I thought - hey thats what I ...
by Airiek
Fri May 23, 2008 8:58 pm
Forum: Deep Thoughts
Topic: Free will versus Determinism
Replies: 43
Views: 22259

Re: EBANK channel chat about philosophy and "Human Nature"

What I am saying is that the way everything in the past that has happened, and they way everything in the future will happen, is the only way it can happen right up from the beginning of the universe. It is like a function in math f(x)=y, you can have the same y value for multiple x values but x can...
by Airiek
Thu May 22, 2008 7:44 pm
Forum: Deep Thoughts
Topic: Free will versus Determinism
Replies: 43
Views: 22259

Free will versus Determinism

That just got dumber and dumber toward the end. But I have to say i believe that (unless in quantum physics where the laws of physics are skewed/ work in a different way), we really dont have free will, because if every single variable is accounted for, there is only one outcome. The fact that the h...
by Airiek
Wed May 21, 2008 5:32 pm
Forum: Deep Thoughts
Topic: This section should really be renamed to "Introductions"
Replies: 8
Views: 5342

Re: This section should really be renamed to "Introductions"

Good luck and... This is a random question but have you ever read The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy series? Why are we alive, why is the world as it is now, who and what am I meant to be, why do I hate so many things? As much as many things remind me of Hitchhikers, this for some reason because of...
by Airiek
Sun May 11, 2008 8:39 pm
Forum: Deep Thoughts
Topic: Objectivist Movie
Replies: 19
Views: 10433

Re: Objectivist Movie

I know that you probably could tell who Galt would be if you read the book, but is it written possibly in a way that it would be difficult to detect if they changed it a little? I also want to know if it would be worth it to perhaps read the book first or after for this or another reason? (I do plan...
by Airiek
Mon May 05, 2008 10:36 pm
Forum: Deep Thoughts
Topic: Objectivist Movie
Replies: 19
Views: 10433

Re: Objectivist Movie

Well IMDB seems to say in production, but it has been in the works since 2003, so its hard to tell if it will actually come out. Though IMDB also says it will come out this year, which doesn't seem so likely. The whole story seems to have a long history of being scrapped whenever someone tries to pr...
by Airiek
Sun May 04, 2008 10:02 am
Forum: Deep Thoughts
Topic: Objectivist Movie
Replies: 19
Views: 10433

Objectivist Movie

I dunno if anyone has posted this on the forums but look what I found
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480239/
by Airiek
Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:23 am
Forum: Deep Thoughts
Topic: Just here to fulfill my rational self interest
Replies: 3
Views: 2664

Re: Just here to fulfill my rational self interest

Well, to whoever is currently emailing applications, can you send it to my email - please pm me on the forums or send me an eve mail if you do not have my email.
by Airiek
Sat Apr 26, 2008 12:39 am
Forum: Deep Thoughts
Topic: Just here to fulfill my rational self interest
Replies: 3
Views: 2664

Just here to fulfill my rational self interest

Hello everyone, I have recently returned from a long break from EvE. I left TTI about half a year ago in order to pursue action in a familiar part of 0.0, the corp i was in left 0.0 and so I then returned to empire and in the spirit of capitalism, tried my hand at trading, which I half-heartedly mai...
by Airiek
Thu Sep 20, 2007 9:55 pm
Forum: Deep Thoughts
Topic: Is the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty dead
Replies: 10
Views: 6878

ok, i forgot to say about a few things, lets narrow it down to modern war, and i am not a pacifist, i believe war is in human nature, and that someday, when the human mind is more physically evolved, it will stop, or at least enter a form of destruction very different from the physical, (ex: informa...
by Airiek
Fri Sep 14, 2007 7:27 pm
Forum: Deep Thoughts
Topic: Is the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty dead
Replies: 10
Views: 6878

I watched a documentary a few months ago entitled "why we fight". It was about the United States and its standing army, and how a standing army is bad. I don't quite remember the details of the documentary but it did talk about the war in iraq a bit and the reasons for going there. Persona...
by Airiek
Fri Aug 24, 2007 9:35 pm
Forum: Deep Thoughts
Topic: Mr. Diety
Replies: 2
Views: 2412

I watched them all in one sitting, very funny, cant wait till the next one.
Not for the devout.
by Airiek
Mon Aug 13, 2007 6:53 pm
Forum: Deep Thoughts
Topic: Where did you hear about us?
Replies: 50
Views: 33913

Good luck on joining. I also got recruited by posting on the recruitment eve forums, it was my first response on that thread, and I believe it was from Olek, but maybe it was Petter. Went through the application process and got accepted. Good corp for indy people though I myself am combat, am traini...
by Airiek
Sun Aug 05, 2007 2:45 pm
Forum: Deep Thoughts
Topic: podcast that may interest some.
Replies: 0
Views: 1694

podcast that may interest some.

there is a podcast on itunes called speaking of faith, which may (or may not) interest some of the philosophers amongst you, there are different programs with different people but the topics do not directly talk about religion, or at least mysticism, and gives some interesting points. I have not dow...
by Airiek
Sun Jun 10, 2007 3:35 am
Forum: Deep Thoughts
Topic: Separation of Church and State
Replies: 34
Views: 18977

do you mean a bandwagon in the financial or physical sense? Even in the physical sense, a band wagon is a concept, or idea which we have created a a label, but to disprove a specific one it needs to not be there for you to disprove it, perhaps the fact that you need to disprove something makes it im...
by Airiek
Fri Jun 08, 2007 3:32 am
Forum: Deep Thoughts
Topic: Separation of Church and State
Replies: 34
Views: 18977

you cant disprove god, and you cant disprove a talking walnut wearing a construction hardhat, therefore god is a talking walnut wearing a construction hardhat. IT ALL MAKES SENSE
by Airiek
Tue Jun 05, 2007 11:07 am
Forum: Deep Thoughts
Topic: Separation of Church and State
Replies: 34
Views: 18977

by the way what does anyone think of the shakespeare quotes beneath my sig
by Airiek
Tue Jun 05, 2007 11:06 am
Forum: Deep Thoughts
Topic: Separation of Church and State
Replies: 34
Views: 18977

I am sort of saying if it is the right thing to do it is not an extreme. Put simply what I am actually saying is when you need to do something, usually offensively, and you do the minimum damage to your enemy necessary, it is not an extreme, Jefferson did the minimum that was necessary, and did not ...
by Airiek
Mon Jun 04, 2007 9:31 pm
Forum: Deep Thoughts
Topic: Separation of Church and State
Replies: 34
Views: 18977

anyway, by the time i did the post, i had read your whole post, so ignore that. although im getting the feeling you did not read my whole post as you ignored the main ideas in both of them. Quote: there isn't a problem with trying to explain the unexplained without proof AAAHHHH. Oh no you didn't! I...