i hear ya,and i do thank you..it drives overcast nuts also.
i do attempt to structure at least rudimentary paragraphs,but when i get emotionally involved i tend to type like i speak.
at TCMS i had a secretary who would take my meanderings and make them at least readable.which was akin to having a personal editor and made me look fabulous.
i have no such luxuries here LOL.
i do not purposely try to confuse or confound, words can be very inadequate at times.
for me at least,and when i get emotionally involved i regress to vertical prose almost every time.
i need to either take a grammar course or find me a secretary.
thanks for the response bud,much appreciated.
till next time...namste,

In reply to this comment by chilaxe:
Enoch, it's not in your interests to type in an unprofessional typing style. It distracts from your message and implies you're not considerate of the people reading your message.

what is my interest?
what is my message?
i reread my comment,and while in my normal run-on-sentence form.
i dont see where i was being inconsiderate to anyone in particular.
was it the word? agnostic?
it just means not-knowing.nothing more..nothing less.
nuance is often lost in text,and i surely did not mean to come across as inconsiderate.
i was just warning of the consequences of absolutist thinking,and that can be from both ends of the spectrum.thats all.
i just dont find sam harris that convincing,i am sure his books are far more concise.
i prefer richard dawkins arguments.
i just didnt want to see the subject matter get all clouded and lumped together as a "us vs them" mentality.
ah well...sometimes i nail it,other times i just confuse more.
but i do thank you for letting me know my words may be construed as inconsiderate.
i apologized accordingly,it really was not my intention.

"Unfortunately many of our health-care problems are self-inflicted: two-thirds of Americans are now overweight and one-third are obese. Most of the diseases that kill us and account for about 70% of all health-care spending—heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes and obesity—are mostly preventable through proper diet, exercise, not smoking, minimal alcohol consumption and other healthy lifestyle choices.

"Recent scientific and medical evidence shows that a diet consisting of foods that are plant-based, nutrient dense and low-fat will help prevent and often reverse most degenerative diseases that kill us and are expensive to treat. We should be able to live largely disease-free lives until we are well into our 90s and even past 100 years of age."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204251404574342170072865070.html

Yeah, I don't begrudge the man his work so much as its imagined importance, and that these trifles tend to be funded with public money.

In reply to this comment by chilaxe:
Hahaha. The rationalist stalks his prey.

I quiet agree with you: http://www.videosift.com/video/Usain-Bolt-Runs-New-100m-World-Record-9-58-sec#comment-838492

Latvia. The corruption is through the roof here. Do you know anything about the region or why is it that you were interested?

In reply to this comment by chilaxe:
Interesting. Which country do you live in?

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"Researchers find in the last 18 years in the US, "the number of people adhering to all 5 healthy habits has decreased from 15% to 8%."

"In the intervening 18 years, the percentage of adults aged 40-74 years with a body mass index greater than 30 has increased from 28% to 36%; physical activity 12 times a month or more has decreased from 53% to 43%; smoking rates have not changed (26.9% to 26.1%); eating 5 or more fruits and vegetables a day has decreased from 42% to 26%; and moderate alcohol use has increased from 40% to 51%."
http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/006231.html

That applies to so much more than just voicing your opinions on camera. Too bad more people don't follow that advice.

I'd upvote that comment 5 times if I could.

In reply to this comment by chilaxe:
If all you have is a "gut instinct," that means stop the cameras and figure out how to express yourself coherently.

I don't really know what you're asking me.

Human beings have a pretty much shared set of natural inclinations. So debates arise for situations in which some of these inclinations conflict, and resolve for the individual according to which predominate, for cultural or genetic reasons.

Ultimately there's a rational position that should be adopted by all participants.

In reply to this comment by chilaxe:
Haha. I don't necessarily agree with everything in that comment, but I thought it was an interesting contribution to the discussion.

I think a lot of the diversity of opinion on police brutality videos is rooted in natural genetic diversity, so I think a certain amount of debate is natural.

It might seem like it's just unnecessary to have that much genetic diversity, but I think high-testosterone rational-empiricist types, like Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs, who we do tend to appreciate, tend to be on the side that's less concerned with these kinds of things. (They're concerned with a larger picture.) I'm partially basing my opinion about Larry Ellison on that he withdrew a large donation to Harvard after they sacked Larry Summers in response to his rational-empiricist's (as opposed to a sentamentalist's) description of gender trends. (I think attitudes on these issues correlate.)

What do you think?

So I just woke up to Stephen Hawking and Socrates (back from the dead!) hammering on my door, and they were like:
"OMG, did you see chilaxe upvoted this comment?! I think we're going to have to kick him out of the smart people club!"
But don't worry, I told them it must have been an accident.

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lol It's from a Miller Lite commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXdqg0vU5-0


In reply to this comment by chilaxe:
Ha. What movie is that from?

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