quote: If it's ALL B.S., ( and some alchemy is), how were they getting them across the Himalaya? The Silk Road didn't open until several centuries later.
steven, it's like your brain jumps from one statement past a whole bunch of other statements and arrives at an assumption which you promptly call a conclusion. Not only do you do this with your own opinions, but you do it when you're responding to other people's opinions. Posts: 37449 | Registered: May 1999
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Yes, the fact we have abundant evidence of regular exchange between China and places further west, including India and the Middle East, for much of history, is a minor detail.
Basically, people are pretty darn mobile. That there was no Silk Road doesn't somehow create an insurmountable barrier to trade, particularly trade in ideas, which are far more easily passed along gradually without any individual person traveling the intervening distance.
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This really is fun. It's become sort of morbid curiosity for me.
steven,
Am I being unfair in asking you to re-read the posts you respond to before responding? You just appear to be vomiting random "facts" rather than providing any connections between them, as I asked. How adding more unconnected "facts" helps the situation is simply beyond me.
It's as if we are speaking different languages and just haven't realized it yet. Either that, or we're holding two different conversations while using each others names in the headers.
This is the most baffling thread since Bean Counter's latest spew.
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With all due respect to comrade Bob, who is doing a sterling job of trying to educate a man who is clearly more spoonlike than knifish, I think you are all ignoring the root cause of the problem. (No, it's not lack of microclusters, whatever they are.) Take a look at this post on the first page :
quote:Originally posted by steven: Perhaps you are correct about me overcomplicating my life. What else should I do? I work full-time, and have a full life as it is. I don't date much, but that's my choice, is it not?
My emphasis. Here's my advice to you, comrade steven; get thee to a bar, chat up some woman, and get laid. You'll find that microclusters of titanium are much less compelling afterwards.
That aside, though,
quote:Tom, I haven't analyzed it like that. My basic idea is that he didn't understand physics enough to see (and I'm still working on my understanding of this) how microcluster particles interact with fats, sugars, and substances that don't form natural microclusters.
Excuse me there, comrade. You have demonstrated a total lack of understanding of basic arithmetic, and you expect us to believe that you are 'working on' a good understanding of quantum physics? It is to laugh.
quote:Brain matter, when rendered down to remove all organic matter, is 2.5% microcluster Rhodium and 2.5% microcluster Iridium.
Gosh a'mighty! And the average book, after removing all words longer than three letters, would be about 30% 'the' and about 30% 'and'. But in all honesty I don't think that's a valid argument for the importance of those two words.
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I'm so happy that nobody is arguing with me about the Price stuff anymore that I have trouble caring enough to post about anything else.
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