GAHD Posted June 30, 2004 Report Posted June 30, 2004 I was only making an observation, no need to take it that far and put in a cheap shot FT. anyrate, so when are we gonna get some more info about this Unc? Had enough replies to the poll? Quote
IrishEyes Posted June 30, 2004 Report Posted June 30, 2004 How funny. FreeT, my daughter just read yourpost and thinks you are rude! Quote
Freethinker Posted June 30, 2004 Report Posted June 30, 2004 Hey, take a chill pill people. I was merely expanding on GAHD's post and how it correlates to Irish's higher overall scoring than ours and her higher level of religious belief (faith based absolutist structure). Irish has stated a number of times that she does and will believe in her god myth no matter what/ lacking any proof. That is an ABSOLUTE statement. GAHD's number show the perhaps the more often you answer with an extreme, rather than moderate, the higher a number you wind up with. Was that not a correct interpolation? Quote
Freethinker Posted June 30, 2004 Report Posted June 30, 2004 Originally posted by: IrishEyesHow funny. FreeT, my daughter just read yourpost and thinks you are rude!So the Court's overturing the COPA hit home eh? :-) As long as you are letting her slum, why not let her personally type that she does know that you do not believe the entire Christian/ Jesus/ God thing is absolutely the truth. That there is the distinct possibility that it is all just made up. You've admitted it before. And you've admitted that you teach your children the same thing. (To question). So there shouldn't be any problem with her actually showing this to be the case. Quote
Tormod Posted June 30, 2004 Report Posted June 30, 2004 I always thought (okay, kick me for being ignorant) that Arabs were left-handed since they happen to write the other way (right-to-left, last page first etc). But then I learned this:"When passing or taking food, Americans must remember to use only the right hand. In the Middle East, the left hand is used for purposes of personal hygiene and is not offered in any way to someone else. If you are left-handed, you will especially have to remember to be careful to observe this custom; otherwise you may insult an Arab. Practice taking a handful of rice with your right hand and rolling it into a small ball and then eating it. " from here:http://wrc.lingnet.org/mehosp.htm ...and found it amusing that it only reminds *Americans* to worry about left-handedness. The rest of us, of course, always remember these things. Tormod(leftie) Quote
Tormod Posted June 30, 2004 Report Posted June 30, 2004 Okay, to be on-topic: I am left-handed, have played musical instruments since I was 6 (I'm good at learning a piece of classical guitar music by heart but can't for the life of me remember the chords for a complete song!), I like computers and gadgets, I have absolutely no technical skills when it comes to fixing cars and understanding how cables should be wired (except computer wires...). I have a deep interest in science, especially the philosophical aspects of it, like cosmology and numerology. I like graphic design, writing and composing. And I am competitive...I hate having been away for 10 days only to find Freethinker will hit 1000 posts before me. For what it's worth...Unc, let us know what you come up with. Tormod Quote
GAHD Posted July 1, 2004 Report Posted July 1, 2004 interesting... ooh! BTW WELCOLM BACK TORMOD! you'll have to start a thread and tell us about some of the fun things you did on vacation I myself have yet to learn to truly play instruments, but I can recite a lot of lyrics, and tap out the rhythum of songs I know. I like to think I'm mechanically inclined, I leared how engines worked by taking them apart(lawnmowers at first, moving up to larger ones). Wiring is relatively easy, but I do make some mistakes and I've shoked & burned myself more than once. My computer know-how is limited to most commercial software packages; BATCH files; limited C, C++, and Python programming, hardware setup(from the old days where you chose your own IRQ&DMA), and home-brew network security. Quote
Freethinker Posted July 1, 2004 Report Posted July 1, 2004 Got to beat Tormod, another post ! :-) Quote
Freethinker Posted July 1, 2004 Report Posted July 1, 2004 I have played guitar since before teens. I have a fairly good "technique", can run up and down the neck, fingers flying. Especially with Rock and Blues. Can pick up a song/ play along in seconds. But can't play more than a handful of songs by myself to save my life! Quote
Freethinker Posted July 1, 2004 Report Posted July 1, 2004 I can fix ANYTHING mechanical. I have an innate ability to just "understand" how things work by looking at them. e.g. I fixed a washing machine once, guessing it was a bearing at a certain point, before I took anything apart. I went to the store and boought the part by seeing an exploded diagram, not having any idea before hand what the mechanism looked like. Just by how it acted. Quote
Freethinker Posted July 1, 2004 Report Posted July 1, 2004 I love puzzles and other mind challenges. I used to "enjoy" doing math while in school, just to do it. Electronics caught me early on and I have designed and built many items myself. Can fix electronic items the same as mechanical. I usually troubleshoot before opening the unit. "Remote Voltage Measurement Viewing"! :-) My education started when it was tubes and transistor flip flops. I started doing "programming" with toggle switches. But when kernals. "operating systems", ... took over, I lost interest in understanding the actual code that deeply. I did some "Basic" programming and even compiled some stuff in C. But I find this too removed from things I like now. Coding of anything serious is too extensive for me to justify manually coding it. Like GAHD, during the "command line" days of DOS, I wrote tons of batch files to do things. I can whip up spreadsheets in my sleep. I was linking doc and ss files to programs when software company's said they could not do it. I have literally designed TV stations and video/ audio production and editing suites. But I am right handed. Nature or Nurture? My father had similar abilities as do most of my kids. Quote
Freethinker Posted July 1, 2004 Report Posted July 1, 2004 Like Tormod, I love "science, especially the philosophical aspects of it" But "numerology"? I'm surprised you would accept this anymore than you would Christianity or ESP. Quote
Freethinker Posted July 1, 2004 Report Posted July 1, 2004 Oh ya, wires, I like wires! :-) The biggest problem I have with things is my nervousness. I shake. I have all my life. So do my kids. I used to kid that in order to solder, I had to hold both pieces so they would shake in unison. Quote
Freethinker Posted July 1, 2004 Report Posted July 1, 2004 And I love to read. I have read at least 10 books in the last year. Science, philosophy, politics mainly. Plus both "Free Inquiry" and "Skeptical Inquirer" mags cover to cover. Quote
Freethinker Posted July 1, 2004 Report Posted July 1, 2004 Not sure why we got on this path on this thread. Guess it is relative to the "handedness" and IQ issues? Feel like I should include "Love long walks in the rain on a beach with a full moon a bottle of wine and some nipple clamps" or something. Quote
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