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    Ask the next person a Yes/No question

    in Onyx Arcade

    Posted

    No, not at all. While I'm wary of the more dangerous kinds, and while I have no sympathy for pests like mosquitoes, I generally like, and am fascinated by, insects as well as most other creatures.

     

    In fact, I used to be a terrific prankster as a child, usually with insects. While I was at school, I would insert moths and grasshoppers into my peers' desks, only to have them flutter/hop about madly when the unfortunate victims reached for a book or pencil. And there were times when I would drop a caterpillar or two in front of people, or put a large beetle or mantis in a box and ask people to open it.

     

    Now you've reminded me of my early school days. Do you have any particularly fond memories of school? If so, what would they be?

     

    EDIT: whoops, Tartar Sauce seems to have sniped me. Well, to answer him: certainly it is wiser to say nothing when nothing can or needs to be said. Now, my question still stands.

    Ask the next person a Yes/No question

    in Onyx Arcade

    Posted

    Ah, colourblindness, my old enemy...

     

    I'm partially colourblind, having trouble distinguishing between blues, purples and magentas, as well as between some neon hues of maroon and dark olive. So these two might not look the same to me as they would to another.

     

    I'd prefer cerulean simply because it's lighter and less intense a blue than azure. Intense colours have their place, like on the petals of a brilliant flower or the wings of a butterfly, but the quieter, more subtle shades are more pleasing to the eye in general. Sky-blue is one of the most serene and understated of the lot, and has its own simple elegance.

     

    Do you prefer to dress in quiet colours? Or do you go with very bright or very dark ones? [Not technically a yes/no but whatever]

    Ask the next person a Yes/No question

    in Onyx Arcade

    Posted

    Yes.

    As an accountant and a student of financial management, I strongly advocate that the underpinnings of the taxation system, at least direct and personal taxes (like Income and Property taxes, or whatever equivalent in specific countries) be taught to everyone in high school. The importance of financial awareness and education cannot be stressed enough. 

    [Solves half our problems as well if people in general are not clueless about finance]

     

    Also

     

    7 hours ago, Jinan B said:

    (Also dogs are evil and make me sneeze)

     

    Another person who has sealed their fate. 

     

    Do you rely on or believe in luck, chance, etc?

    Ask the next person a Yes/No question

    in Onyx Arcade

    Posted

    Yes.

    I specialize in DPPt, or Gen4 metagame across tiers, but I'm also generally aware of what's going on in other generations. I had participated in Smogon tours and laddered in the past, though I enjoy building teams and strategies more than actual battling itself. 

     

    And you didn't actually answer me, but eh, I'm not much concerned anyway :P

     

    Do you enjoy competition in general? 

     

    Ask the next person a Yes/No question

    in Onyx Arcade

    Posted

    No, I like a placid life.

    [Though I don't consider a decent hike or trek in nature to be an 'extreme activity'; but then again, anything can be taken to an extreme if one wants to.]

     

    10 hours ago, Monsieur Divergent said:

    I'm gonna say that dogs suck aren't that better than cats. I prefer cats because they're much better and they're simply adorable.

     

    Do I have any reason to continue taking an interest in the opinions of someone who is of such incurably unsound mind as to prefer cats to dogs? If you imagine so, pray tell, what could such reason possibly be?

     

    For those unused to my brand of humour, this my idea of a joke. Don't take me too seriously.

    Ask the next person a Yes/No question

    in Onyx Arcade

    Posted

    Yes, because dogs are infinitely superior. The removal of cat videos and gifs would mean their replacement with doggy ones, and that would only ever be a positive impact on society. More dogs means kinder humans and less crimes.

     

    Praise puppies

     

    Do you have a dog or plan to? If not, whence did thou spawn from, ye creation of Satan!? why not?

    Ask the next person a Yes/No question

    in Onyx Arcade

    Posted

    No, there's always plenty to do no matter where you are. And the opposite is also true: one can live in the busiest places and still do absolutely nothing. It's your choice what you make of your time, and where one is doesn't matter to me.

     

    Do you like attending parties with a large number of people?

    Ask the next person a Yes/No question

    in Onyx Arcade

    Posted

    Seeing as I'm an accountant and a student of financial law, quid pro quos, in practice and in theory, are kinda my job.

     

    Also, hell no. For the simple reason that the world isn't candy-coated, and manipulation is a thing. Compurgation might work in a society where there is no threat, coercion, false witnessing, out-of-court intimidation and all manner of other ways to bend and break people and the law, but as laws must be based on the presumption of zero faith in civic mentality, and with every safeguard against expected malpractice or manipulation, compurgation (which means, acquitting a person on account of having a certain number of witnesses swear to his innocence) is as naive as it seems. It belongs to an outdated period when a person's word was worth more than the written record or evidential fact. It may be somewhat useful as a character reference (and even there you can manipulate what people say about you), but you can't base justice off if just what people say.

     

    Do you think that people ought to be treated as innocent until proven guilty?

     

     

    The Philosopher's Gazebo

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    It seems that you're confusing objectivity with some other concepts. Objectivity is not the same as things such as certainty, which is what you're going for.

     

    True, there are facts. Water does boil at a certain temperature in certain conditions, people do die if they don't eat, only so much can be obtained from such and such, etc. These are certainties, that is to say, events or consequences tied to causes that are likely to happen with no normal chance of non occurance. 

     

    These facts are certain but not objective, in the sense that they are all relative in nature, being tied to an established cause and resulting in a normally established consequence. People will die, and 1+1 = 2, are certain statements, but we cannot say that these facts are absolutely true or absolutely false in the universe. The theory if relativity itself says that there's no definable absolute, and that all modes of human thought are relative to our understanding of the world.

     

    It may seem absurd to say that 1+1=2 is not an objective fact, but it truly isn't. The statement assumes, that there is a thing such as 1, and that there is a thing such as 2, and that the two are separate entities that have a relationship. This is all a theory, a method of human thought. There's no way to say that 1 and 2 'really' exist. (IF they exist, then yes, they add up and have a relationship, but it hinges heavily on that IF.) Likewise, "people die" is a statement that assumes that there are things called people, and that there is a state called life, and an opposite state called death, and causes and modes for each, and that IF people are alive then they will eventually die, and so on. It is a statement that hinges on our understanding of the terms, our constructions. There's no way we can say objectively that life and death, time and space are 'real' things and not just a mode of our thought, a method.of our perception and a tool of our association with our relative world. They are certainties of our perception, yes, but not an objectivity.

     

    That's the point I'm driving at: there's no such thing as a 'true objectivity', because our assumption of an objective itself is giving a form to the formless, this also making it a collective subjective. By calling a thing 'formless', we are giving it form, by stating that there is nothing, we are defining 'nothing'. There's no such thing as 'nothing', except of our own making, and there's no way to think otherwise for us humans. The best we can arrive at is an awareness of this fact, which is again a collective subjectivity. Hence the concept of Maya.

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