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I heard there was a big party happening!

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I don't know, I'm having trouble finding it too.

I think we just missed it.
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That was the most disappointing 500-page party I have ever seen.
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Actually, as both I and the Lone Ranger have argued, the most insulting person on this thread, all along, has been peacegirl. She has behaved dishonestly and duplictously throughout. She has repeatedly insulted the intelligence of all her interlocutors. She has dodged and weaseled and bobbed and weaved and wasted everyone's time. She is wilfully dishonest and her act is tiresome.

Hey peacegirl: moons of Jupiter.
Explanations which continually remind one's interlocutor of one's ignorance are a great damper upon the easy flow of talk.

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Lessans said that light is a condition of sight. That was his constant mantra.
You have been asked to explain and clarify how it is a condition and where it is a condition.

Does light need to be present at the eye? If so what light? Light from the source? Light needs to be illuminating the object only and doesn't need to be at the eye? Is ambient light good enough?
I want to add here that if there is that ambient light will reflect off of an object, but the object will be dim to the observer. If the light source is emitting bright light, then the image will be bright and it will override any ambient light that is present.
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NA, we also brought up the fact that because stars move relative to us and are many lightyears away, a camera should see a radically different picture of the night sky then our eyes, as the camera needs to wait for light to arrive while we should see the stars where they are today.

I never really got a good explanation for this either.
I need to clarify this. Assuming for a moment that the eyes are definitely efferent, then we have to look at the world from this perspective. What everyone is doing is using the afferent model to try to understand the efferent model. It won't work. It's like trying to fit a square into a circle. Think about this. If the lens has to be focused on the object, then it's no different as far as distance than an object that is right in front of us. All that matters is that the object is within the field of view of the lens, whether it's the lens of the eye or the lens of a camera or telescope.
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That was the most disappointing 500-page party I have ever seen.
Hey, I'm ready to party! But I never got an invitation. :(
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I need to clarify this. Assuming for a moment that the eyes are definitely efferent, then we have to look at the world from this perspective. What everyone is doing is using the afferent model to try to understand the efferent model. It won't work. It's like trying to fit a square into a circle. Think about this. If the lens has to be focused on the object, then it's no different as far as distance than an object that is right in front of us. All that matters is that the object is within the field of view of the lens, whether it's the lens of the eye or the lens of a camera or telescope.
I'm trying to understand your efferent model.

At the risk of introducing another sidetrack, I'll try another thought experiment. I'm hoping that this one is simple enough to be worth the distraction.

Imagine that there is a distant clock that is correctly set to the same time as a clock near you.* The clock is so far away that light takes ten minutes to travel from it to you, but the clock is big enough for you to see through a powerful telescope.

Now we claim that when you observe this distant clock, you will see it as it was ten minutes ago, so it will look like it's ten minutes slow compared to your local clock.

If I understand you correctly, you claim that you'll see the clock as it is now, and that therefore the distant clock and the local one will both appear to display exactly the same time.

Is that correct, so far?

* One way we could synchronize the clocks which I think would work under both the afferent and efferent systems, is to have a third clock situated midway between the two end clocks. Observers at the two end clocks would both set them to the same time they see on the middle one. For simplicity, we can assume for now that the distances between all the clocks remain constant.
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Old 10-16-2011, 03:37 PM
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I need to clarify this. Assuming for a moment that the eyes are definitely efferent, then we have to look at the world from this perspective. What everyone is doing is using the afferent model to try to understand the efferent model. It won't work. It's like trying to fit a square into a circle. Think about this. If the lens has to be focused on the object, then it's no different as far as distance than an object that is right in front of us. All that matters is that the object is within the field of view of the lens, whether it's the lens of the eye or the lens of a camera or telescope.
I'm trying to understand your efferent model.

At the risk of introducing another sidetrack, I'll try another thought experiment. I'm hoping that this one is simple enough to be worth the distraction.

Imagine that there is a distant clock that is correctly set to the same time as a clock near you.* The clock is so far away that light takes ten minutes to travel from it to you, but the clock is big enough for you to see through a powerful telescope.

Now we claim that when you observe this distant clock, you will see it as it was ten minutes ago, so it will look like it's ten minutes slow compared to your local clock.

If I understand you correctly, you claim that you'll see the clock as it is now, and that therefore the distant clock and the local one will both appear to display exactly the same time.

Is that correct, so far?
Yes.

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* One way we could synchronize the clocks which I think would work under both the afferent and efferent systems, is to have a third clock situated midway between the two end clocks. Observers at the two end clocks would both set them to the same time they see on the middle one. For simplicity, we can assume for now that the distances between all the clocks remain constant.
No, we can't do that because that's not how it works in real life. In the afferent model, time is a factor. In the efferent model, there is no time delay, therefore the two systems are incompatible. Now let's say you were Atlas and had the strength to throw the clock that says 1:00 across the U.S. It takes 10 minutes for it to get to the other side. It would then say 1:10 because the clock took 10 minutes to get to its destination.

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I have just declared the next 5 pages as party time based on 500 pages. Every hundred pages deserves its own special page. Here are the rules: Anyone can say anything he wants, just as long as it's not related to this discussion. The party will start on page 502. We need to have fun and this is a good time to have it. P.S. Everyone's invited!!! :)
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Is that correct, so far?
That's a good try Ceptimus, and I really congratulate you for your efforts at resolving this issue, but I cannot degrade these observations by a compromise. That's like saying you can be a little bit pregnant. At the risk of being ridiculed, I still maintain that the clock strikes present, not past. Therefore if it is two oclock in any part of the world, it remains two oclock based on the position of the Earth at that moment. This means that we see in the present, and I will not back down until proven otherwise.
He's not making an argument or observations, you daftie. He's trying to figure out what your model actually says about the world.

And you have been proven otherwise (moons of Jupiter, amongst millions of other observations!), you just decided to ignore it and hope they are wrong!
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Okay, I'll respect your wishes and come back to the clock thought experiment on page 507, assuming we ever reach that page.

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Nobody is going to spend 5 pages of this thread chit chatting about other shit, that's 75 posts! That's what the rest of the forum is for.

Nice try, peacegirl. Either discuss your views or don't. Take a break if you want...you are the boss of you!
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Old 10-16-2011, 04:32 PM
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That was the most disappointing 500-page party I have ever seen.

I was thinking this is the most disappointing 500 pages I've ever seen, but watching Peacegirl weaseling her way around the truth trying to support her fathers nonsense has been entertaining, and many of the other posts have been educational. So it hasn't been a total loss, but it seems to have been a total loss for Peacegirl.
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Either discuss your views or don't. Take a break if you want...you are the boss of you!

Just what makes you think Peacegirl is going to seriously start to discuss her views, or the topic now, after 500 pages of evasion, ignoring, and weaseling?
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Nobody is going to spend 5 pages of this thread chit chatting about other shit, !
Well considering the thread, most of us have been chit chatting about irrilevant nonsense, especially if you consider the book and Peacegirls posts. I do appreciate everyone elses efforts to seriously consider the ideas presented, but as far as the book is concerned, it's much like a computer, G.I.G.O.
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This is to celebrate the coming of the New World. :)


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Nobody is going to spend 5 pages of this thread chit chatting about other shit, that's 75 posts! That's what the rest of the forum is for.

Nice try, peacegirl. Either discuss your views or don't. Take a break if you want...you are the boss of you!
If nobody wants to have a 5 page party, then let's scrap that idea. Let's take a vote. Party or no party? One page, that is. ;)
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NA, we also brought up the fact that because stars move relative to us and are many lightyears away, a camera should see a radically different picture of the night sky then our eyes, as the camera needs to wait for light to arrive while we should see the stars where they are today.

I never really got a good explanation for this either.
I need to clarify this. Assuming for a moment that the eyes are definitely efferent, then we have to look at the world from this perspective. What everyone is doing is using the afferent model to try to understand the efferent model. It won't work. It's like trying to fit a square into a circle. Think about this. If the lens has to be focused on the object, then it's no different as far as distance than an object that is right in front of us. All that matters is that the object is within the field of view of the lens, whether it's the lens of the eye or the lens of a camera or telescope.
This is a good example of peacegirls mental dysfunction. She understands that information about the world is some how going towards the brain, but she doesn't understand that this is a fundamentally "afferent" [inward] process. I don't think she has a good grasp of boundaries and directions.
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THE TRIBE HAS SPOKEN. NO PARTY! :bow:

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Is that correct, so far?
That's a good try Ceptimus, and I really congratulate you for your efforts at resolving this issue, but I cannot degrade these observations by a compromise. That's like saying you can be a little bit pregnant. At the risk of being ridiculed, I still maintain that the clock strikes present, not past. Therefore if it is two oclock in any part of the world, it remains two oclock based on the position of the Earth at that moment. This means that we see in the present, and I will not back down until proven otherwise.
He's not making an argument or observations, you daftie. He's trying to figure out what your model actually says about the world.

And you have been proven otherwise (moons of Jupiter, amongst millions of other observations!), you just decided to ignore it and hope they are wrong!
I am not ignoring the moons of Jupiter, but I can only try to validate Lessans' observations. If they turn out to be true, then I've done my part.
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Yikes! Where's the party?? :sadcheer:

Yes, I see some partying here, but alas I still see people posting to the twat.

I didn't think it would hit page 500 before now, but then I underestimated the narcissism of the pathetic little fool who started this thread and keeps driving it forward hundreds of pages after her father was conclusively demonstrated to be a moron.
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I recommend we suspend all debate here until acceptable answers are given. There is way too much ability to avoid and dodge as it is. What is your answer to spacemonkeys questions?
Bingo.

All the key questions that she has evaded or lied about should be re-posted again and again and again, without further comment. Other than that the little fool should be ignored. What she wants most of all is the oxygen of attention, because of her boundless narcissism, no doubt inherited from her father.
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Old 10-16-2011, 07:26 PM
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Until more experiments are done to confirm or negate Lessans' claim, I will have to refrain from making any further comments regarding this observation.
This is classical flat-earther thinking.

Until more experiments are done to confirm that the Earth is spherical, I will continue to believe in my flat Earth, thank you very much.

How many different confirming experiments do you want? 100? 10,000? A googolplex?
I don't need that many actually. Just more than we have now, and with very strict controls.
I don't think you even know what a control is. And no, don't Google it to copy/paste.
It is making sure that all the variables that could interfere with the results of an experiment are eliminated so that the evidence that is being tested to support a theory is reliable.
Wrong. To the surprise of exactly no one, you've just demonstrated that, with respect to how experiments are conducted, "controls" is yet another one of those words that you like to use, while having no idea what it actually means.
Sorry about that. I got the control group confused with the manipulated group.

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