I am a new member and have been looking at Blogs for the first time over the past few weeks. I have written a book, finished last month, which deals with many of the issues about reasoning discussed at this site, but I attempt to cut through them somewhat, as there is so much potential in the facts out there to be ordered that I don’t spend a lot of time considering the theory relating to my reasoning in providing some order to it in my book. I discuss reasoning, and many of the principles raised in posts here, but my interest is in reasonably framing the conditions of my hypotheses and making them clear, whatever they may be. For example, immediately before 2 particles collides we can fairly accurately predict what will happen because our conditions are very closed, but nature has broad universal sweeps of properties in four forces and how they more generally structure matter (including biology and humans in particular) and hypotheses relating to those explanations are more broad.
My book tries to cover the entire sweep on nature, based upon the use of the four forces in physics, and extends to an explanation of the emergence of biology on planetary surfaces. You are all most welcome to read it, its a free download at http://home.iprimus.com.au/marcus60/1.pdf and well worth a quick flip to see if the coverage interests you. My website in www.thehumandesign.net (a non-spiritual Design) for additional information including a Blog in future. It is entirely novel, and without any input from scientists or philosophers. I am a lawyer of long standing, and do my research by checking facts at the library (and internet now) and I simply constructed a view over a period of several decades. A bit like ongoing Sunday contemplations accumulated into a theory. I hope you enjoy it, and my posts at this site if I get an opportunity to contribute further.
Folks, a reminder that downvotes against introduction posts on the “Welcome” thread are frowned upon. There’s nothing in the parent comment that should be sufficient to override that norm.
Folks, a reminder that downvotes against introduction posts on the “Welcome” thread are frowned upon. There’s nothing in the parent comment that should be sufficient to override that norm.
Yes there is—the rest of the comments that also advertise the book while attempting to shame Vladimir out of downvoting him for allegedly sinister emotional reasons. Making that sort of status challenge can be a useful way to establish oneself (or so the prison myth goes) but also often backfires and also waives the ‘be gentle with the new guy’ privileges.
People should consider themselves free to ignore thomblake’s frowns and vote however they please in this instance. There is no remaining obligation to grant marcusmorgan immunity to downvotes.
I see two comments other than the above that “advertise” the book—actually link to it in a seemingly relevant context—and it’s a free book even. The other comments aren’t nearly as bad as you’re making them out to be, and they were downvoted appropriately.
Did I miss comments that were deleted / edited, or what? What was even a ‘status challenge’ in marcusmorgan’s comments?
I have suspicions that this introduction was downvoted because, on first reading, it feels like an advertising post filled with Applause Lights and other gimmicks (the feeling is particularly strong for me as I just finished reading the Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions sequence, though I had already read the majority of the individual posts in jumbled order).
A second reading sufficed to dismiss the feeling for me, and upon randomly selecting five sentences that felt like gimmicks and estimating their intended meaning, it turns out that it wasn’t so gimmicky at all. Even the word “emergence”, given as a prime example of modern Mysterious Answer in many contexts, seems to have been used properly here.
The oddity of the initial feeling of advertising and gimmickyness and how easily dispersed it was is enough to pique my curiosity, and I think I’ll take some time to actually read that book now. Ironically, the only reason I even became aware of this post was seeing the reminder that downvoting was frowned upon in the recent comments. Heh.
I am a new member and have been looking at Blogs for the first time over the past few weeks. I have written a book, finished last month, which deals with many of the issues about reasoning discussed at this site, but I attempt to cut through them somewhat, as there is so much potential in the facts out there to be ordered that I don’t spend a lot of time considering the theory relating to my reasoning in providing some order to it in my book. I discuss reasoning, and many of the principles raised in posts here, but my interest is in reasonably framing the conditions of my hypotheses and making them clear, whatever they may be. For example, immediately before 2 particles collides we can fairly accurately predict what will happen because our conditions are very closed, but nature has broad universal sweeps of properties in four forces and how they more generally structure matter (including biology and humans in particular) and hypotheses relating to those explanations are more broad.
My book tries to cover the entire sweep on nature, based upon the use of the four forces in physics, and extends to an explanation of the emergence of biology on planetary surfaces. You are all most welcome to read it, its a free download at http://home.iprimus.com.au/marcus60/1.pdf and well worth a quick flip to see if the coverage interests you. My website in www.thehumandesign.net (a non-spiritual Design) for additional information including a Blog in future. It is entirely novel, and without any input from scientists or philosophers. I am a lawyer of long standing, and do my research by checking facts at the library (and internet now) and I simply constructed a view over a period of several decades. A bit like ongoing Sunday contemplations accumulated into a theory. I hope you enjoy it, and my posts at this site if I get an opportunity to contribute further.
Folks, a reminder that downvotes against introduction posts on the “Welcome” thread are frowned upon. There’s nothing in the parent comment that should be sufficient to override that norm.
Yes there is—the rest of the comments that also advertise the book while attempting to shame Vladimir out of downvoting him for allegedly sinister emotional reasons. Making that sort of status challenge can be a useful way to establish oneself (or so the prison myth goes) but also often backfires and also waives the ‘be gentle with the new guy’ privileges.
People should consider themselves free to ignore thomblake’s frowns and vote however they please in this instance. There is no remaining obligation to grant marcusmorgan immunity to downvotes.
I see two comments other than the above that “advertise” the book—actually link to it in a seemingly relevant context—and it’s a free book even. The other comments aren’t nearly as bad as you’re making them out to be, and they were downvoted appropriately.
Did I miss comments that were deleted / edited, or what? What was even a ‘status challenge’ in marcusmorgan’s comments?
Exactly.
I have suspicions that this introduction was downvoted because, on first reading, it feels like an advertising post filled with Applause Lights and other gimmicks (the feeling is particularly strong for me as I just finished reading the Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions sequence, though I had already read the majority of the individual posts in jumbled order).
A second reading sufficed to dismiss the feeling for me, and upon randomly selecting five sentences that felt like gimmicks and estimating their intended meaning, it turns out that it wasn’t so gimmicky at all. Even the word “emergence”, given as a prime example of modern Mysterious Answer in many contexts, seems to have been used properly here.
The oddity of the initial feeling of advertising and gimmickyness and how easily dispersed it was is enough to pique my curiosity, and I think I’ll take some time to actually read that book now. Ironically, the only reason I even became aware of this post was seeing the reminder that downvoting was frowned upon in the recent comments. Heh.