Conquer Club

Haggis_McMutton wrote:

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As a Philosophy Major, I love this, especially when I think about analytic philosophy.

I'm going to try an contribute some Philosophy comics here, though I'm not sure how it will work out
Kinda tangents on the paradigms shifts in science by Thomas Kuhn/ the old problem of induction.

Haggis_McMutton wrote:I think I'd buy a poster based on that last one (though more detail would be nice)

You know, Mapping the whole field of sciences to something resembling Middle Earth is just one nerdy step beyond weird for me.

tzor wrote:

Haggis_McMutton wrote:I think I'd buy a poster based on that last one (though more detail would be nice)

You know, Mapping the whole field of sciences to something resembling Middle Earth is just one nerdy step beyond weird for me.

Ok, now that you put it like that, I have to admit it sounds worse than I thought when said out loud.

New plan, forget Middle Earth. Make a custom rendered map so that the terrain represents some feature of the scientific fields in question. Tell me that wouldn't be cool.

ender516 wrote: I started thinking about the growth of an island and how its perimeter would vary with its area, and Wheeler is right, UNLESS THE WORLD IS A SPHERE. In that case eventually the island covers the entire surface. So, is our knowledge space positively curved? And how did one of the foremost researchers in general relativity miss that point? The Flat Earth Society must be notified.

This is a really good point. Huh, gotta love when extending the metaphor still makes sense. (also, I guess we could also be on the inside of the sphere)

Crazyirishman wrote: I'm going to try an contribute some Philosophy comics here, though I'm not sure how it will work out

Hey, I'm all for other people starting to post regularly in here.

Also:
@1. Ha. I know the feeling and yet, seeing as for the past 3 summers I've pretty much had plans laid out before exams ended, I miss that feeling of a huge chunk of time ahead of you with basically 0 responsibilities.

@2 Forget about truth, talk about probabilities instead. Problem solved(-ish).

@3. If he were all loving, all knowing and all powerful presumably we would be living in a world where no one ever felt the need to pray (except perhaps to thank him for the bacon trees and such)

Also, Also:

Something that is quite interesting is that not only are birds a part of the dinosaur tree, they're especially closely related to the T-Rex. More so than to any other of the well known dinosaurs. They're a bunch of mini T-Rex'es the lot of them. So to say that the dinosaurs went extinct is quite false. There are approximately 10 000 species of birds (aka dinosaurs) still living on earth. Compare that to less than 6 000 species of Mammals and the idea of them going extinct seems absurd. Of course all the big dinosaurs died out and we only count the big ones. Because we're human, and we don't care about the itty bitty species.

The idea of God as an insurance policy reminded me of Pascal's Wager (but not with enough detail that I didn't spend 15 minutes trying to track down the reference).

ender516 wrote:The idea of God as an insurance policy reminded me of Pascal's Wager (but not with enough detail that I didn't spend 15 minutes trying to track down the reference).

Just make sure you pick the right god. Otherwise it might end up worse than staying neutral.
Or as the apocryphal Voltaire story goes:

Voltaire, on his own deathbed, was asked by a priest to renounce Satan and turn to God, he is alleged to have replied, "Now is no time to be making new enemies".

Also, new SMBC:

Haggis wrote:

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He forgot to add about the different reference frames of electromagnetic force. It might make a little more sense then.

-TG

I want a poster of "Daddy stays home all day... Daddy Juice."

After looking through this site for awhile, I don't think there are many good philosophy comics

This one took me a few seconds to get, but then I got a chuckle.

Keep 'em coming, Haggis! (I liked the "astro-not" comic. Should I be proud or ashamed that my dreams are varied enough that I have lost the life vs. other plans battle more than once?)

Also, the constantly updating xkcd gif is still going strong 70 days and 1800 frames in.
You can check it out here if you've got some time to kill.

And somehow many people think the guy with the beard and chisel is at fault in the last one.

I read the first one across, and then down, and it didn't quite click. Inverting the layout, or adding some directional guides would improve it immensely.

But he's right about cats.

And respect.

I always liked following the Family Circus' "children running around, here is their wild path" comic strips.




--Andy

Just a seemingly simple one, yet I lol'ed.

The Anthropic Principle seems to swing between causing the "oh, wow" reaction and the "well, duh" reaction.

And I love this one:

I can hear the soundtrack of Asteroids just looking at that.

Gillipig wrote:Something that is quite interesting is that not only are birds a part of the dinosaur tree, they're especially closely related to the T-Rex. More so than to any other of the well known dinosaurs.

Think about that for a moment ... these are the great creatures of the universe that had atrophied their arms so much they couldn't even use them ... and how their descendants would have arms larger than their bodies and strong enough to make them FLY. It was like when the T Rex found a genie in the bottle and he couldn't rub the bottle because he could not reach the bottle with his arms! This is truly a T Rex's wish!