[2012-Aug-19] Zach ALSO hates you fucking people
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[2012-Aug-19] Zach ALSO hates you fucking people
he's on our team.
you know, when he's not being annoying.
you know, when he's not being annoying.
Re: [2012-August-19] Zach ALSO hates you fucking people
This one's really similar to http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2533
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Re: [2012-August-19] Zach ALSO hates you fucking people
Ah, that's why I hate those people
because they came out in force for that comic
because they came out in force for that comic
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Re: [2012-August-19] Zach ALSO hates you fucking people
Clearly the first guy was not allowed to collect the prize money because the monks are racist.
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Re: [2012-August-19] Zach ALSO hates you fucking people
Pretty clear from their robes that they are a different set of monks.
Re: [2012-August-19] Zach ALSO hates you fucking people
What is a sound? Is it the mechanical wave or the way we perceive the mechanical wave?
Re: [2012-August-19] Zach ALSO hates you fucking people
Apparently, Zen koans are Tibetan Buddhist tools, as opposed to, y'know, Zen Buddhist tools.
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Re: [2012-August-19] Zach ALSO hates you fucking people
Good point indeed.James Franklin wrote:What is a sound? Is it the mechanical wave or the way we perceive the mechanical wave?
I think koan are just purposely designed to make you stop wasting your time with futile questions in real life.
Re: [2012-August-19] Zach ALSO hates you fucking people
I say it's the mechanical wave. Otherwise you'd be able to create sound by manipulating brain cells that deal with hearing.James Franklin wrote:What is a sound? Is it the mechanical wave or the way we perceive the mechanical wave?
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Re: [2012-August-19] Zach ALSO hates you fucking people
My dictionary says it's the wave, but I don't know if we should trust it for something as serious as a Zen koan.James Franklin wrote:What is a sound? Is it the mechanical wave or the way we perceive the mechanical wave?
Wind catches lily / Scatt'ring petals to the wind: / Segmentation fault
Re: [2012-August-19] Zach ALSO hates you fucking people
This "riddle" is not really a koan, it's a thought experiment that has its origins in western philosophy, not eastern mysticism. It's a little ignorant that Zach used it twice as if it were a koan. It's more than a little ignorant that both times he went with the physics perspective (also as if it were some kind of obvious practical insight) and did it... wrong.
In physics, this is a trick question. In physics, vibrations are only "sound" if they are perceived by a being capable of hearing. It has nothing to do with "conservation of energy," whatever he thinks it means in this context.
In physics, this is a trick question. In physics, vibrations are only "sound" if they are perceived by a being capable of hearing. It has nothing to do with "conservation of energy," whatever he thinks it means in this context.
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Re: [2012-August-19] Zach ALSO hates you fucking people
you realise zach was not on the side of the physics person, right?
Re: [2012-August-19] Zach ALSO hates you fucking people
Hi Zach. How much are you paying yourself to defend yourself from the internet?
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Re: [2012-August-19] Zach ALSO hates you fucking people
if I paid myself any amount it would come back to me, therefore I do the work pro bono
I MEAN I DON'T I MEAN HE DOESN'T I AM NOT ME
I MEAN I DON'T I MEAN HE DOESN'T I AM NOT ME
Re: [2012-August-19] Zach ALSO hates you fucking people
Sounds--like colors or smells--happen in brains. They don't exist without a brain to perceive them.