..Not in the least bit Pynchonic -- space

[malignd at aol.com]

Fuck you, you defensive little shit.  The part of science that is data collection, observation, collation, comparison, experimentation, etc., etc.?  


Better go back to your books. Reading is easier than thinking.



-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
To: malignd <malignd at aol.com>
Sent: Sun, Feb 12, 2012 10:59 pm
Subject: Re: ..Not in the least bit Pynchonic -- space


Well, your argument is so overwhelmingly convincing, I'll just toss
out the works on physics, linguistics, neurology, philosophy, and
psychology that have inclined me to my opinion and hand the laurels
over to you. You obviously know better than all those fools.

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 5:34 PM,  <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
> All science is a set of metaphors?  I don't think that's true at all.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> To: malignd <malignd at aol.com>
> Cc: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Fri, Feb 10, 2012 7:17 pm
> Subject: Re: ..Not in the least bit Pynchonic -- space
>
> It's that thing about metaphors. All science, like all other attempts
> to explain the world, is a set of metaphors. They're always changing,
> but we're impatient, want them to last.
>
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 2:56 PM,  <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
>> I don't think you can say that science has been "wrong"; again, the bomb.
>>  Incomplete, certainly; that's the way science works.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>
>> To: P-list List <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Sent: Fri, Feb 10, 2012 1:46 pm
>> Subject: Re: ..Not in the least bit Pynchonic -- space
>>
>> Exactly what I was going to say. Those little matter spirit devils can be
>> pretty
>> mean. But I think Laura is not so much talking about their atoms reality
>> but
>> the degree to which we have  an accurate model /understanding. That is
>> where
>> science has been wrong or at lest incomplete, and where new data continues
>> to
>> confound or at least disturb the models we have.
>> On Feb 9, 2012, at 5:58 PM, David Morris wrote:
>>
>>> They might just be really pissed-off matter-spirits...
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:55 PM,  <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
>>>> doesn't the splitting and fusing of atoms to create bombs show that
>>>> atoms
>> are "real"?
>>
>
>
>
> --
> "Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
> creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
> trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
> of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
> than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant



-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant

 
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