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Quote: Original post by The Senshi

Quote: Original post by SHilbert

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This is ridiculous. Everyone knows the world sits on the back of a giant turtle, and that turtle stands on another turtle, and it's turtles all the way down. Or can anyone prove the universe ISNT recursive turtles?

Just to make a small correction here, the universe is what is sitting on the back of a giant turtle. Obviously the planet Earth is not, because we have been to Antarctica and you can't see one from there even if you stand right at the south pole.

Oh, right, because you've personally been to antarctica? Right?

Well, if you HAD been, I think you'd have seen the large blue turtle shell.

Who are you to say where I have and have not been? Do you know me? I am absolutely shocked at the closed-mindedness of people on the Internet these days.

By acting indignant you've managed to dodge answering my question, while also making it clear that you have never been.

So now, in addition to never having visited Antarctica, I am also "indignant." Rather convenient that any facts that disagree with your own worldview can conveniently be written off as the result of the poster being under some kind of emotional distress.

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Also, Galileo proved that the color of the Great Cosmic Turtle's Shell is actually brown. This was demonstrated by his observations of the phases of Venus in 1610.

Yes, we all KNOW that the GCTSH (Great Cosmic Turtle SHell) is brown -- but if you had been to antarctica you would know that it appears blue to the naked eye because of Rayleigh scattering in the troposphere. I feel like we're arguing semantics right now.

se-man-tics: noun.
3. the meaning, or an interpretation of the meaning, of a word, sign, sentence.

I don't see how this applies. You said the GCTSH is blue; the GCTSH is in fact brown. This isn't a question of interpretation; it can only be one of the two colors. Perhaps you should have said that the turtle shell "looked" blue. To say that it is blue simply due to the medium it is viewed through is sloppy logic.

Also, for future reference, I do not need the meaning of common acronyms explained to me.

If you see a blue turtle shell above you should brake just as it stops above you.

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So now, in addition to never having visited Antarctica, I am also "indignant." Rather convenient that any facts that disagree with your own worldview can conveniently be written off as the result of the poster being under some kind of emotional distress.

And yet you still haven't answered my question -- have you, or have you not, ever been to the Antarctic?

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se-man-tics: noun.
3. the meaning, or an interpretation of the meaning, of a word, sign, sentence.

I don't see how this applies. You said the GCTSH is blue; the GCTSH is in fact brown. This isn't a question of interpretation; it can only be one of the two colors. Perhaps you should have said that the turtle shell "looked" blue. To say that it is blue simply due to the medium it is viewed through is sloppy logic.

If irony were a cake, you would be fat from rolling around in it while you shove it in your fat face.

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If you see a blue turtle shell above you should brake just as it stops above you.

Finally someone saying something reasonable.

I just tell it like it is

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If irony were a cake, you would be fat from rolling around in it while you shove it in your fat face.

Oh, of course, the favorite tactic of the doomed orator -- the ad hominem attack. I'll have you know that (unlike most Internet "citizens") I maintain a healthy body mass through exercise and appropriate eating habits.

Many thanks, TheSenshi, remind me to ruin one of your threads sometime. I appreciate it.