dimreepr

Such notes could be automatically generated when neg reps are registered, so as not to disallow a member’s ability to neg rep.

TBH I struggle to see the benefit of such a system, perhaps a moratorium of neg reps to new users, for say a week, would be more beneficial. It would allow early mistakes to not be so costly while a new member gets accustomed to a more rarefied system of debate; perhaps with an accompanied series of mod notes pointing them in the right direction.

Have you ever wondered why god’s justice is meted out in seclusion? You are more than welcome to stare at a finger; I choose to stare and wonder at the beauty of the heavens and rely on the natural justice of karma.

Please clarify, I have no idea what point you’re trying to make.

I'll take my chances.

No appeal then, for a miscarriage of justice?

There’s no reason to fear the motivation of someone pointing out the beauty of a contented life, there’s every reason to fear the motivation of someone asking you to blindly follow without question. Be content with your lot, do no harm and help those in need; if your punished for that, the judge is a bit of a bastard.

You have it backwards; you glance at the finger and stare at the heavens. Fear a man wielding a gun, an oncoming car/truck and when clinging to a high ledge but to fear the future is futile. Fear has its place in life, that place is to help maintain it. Life is what you make of it.

By all means, stare at a finger.

When a stranger points to the night sky and says look, don’t worry about the motive or you’ll spend your life anxiously staring at a finger and miss all the beauty.

Not being able to see through a brick wall doesn’t make you blind and anyone who thinks the wall is invisible will just run into it. To pursue that person and smash into the wall is to follow blindly.

You’ll get knowledge of being through life and introspection; death is beyond the event horizon. What if it does? The point is you have no way of knowing either way so live your life now, religion may help with the afterlife, if there is such a thing, but any religion that prevents you living while you have life isn’t worth following.

Nobody is judging you, how could they? All they see of you in this situation is what you write; taking a neg rep personally is counter productive, as it blinds you to the real reason and limits your potential to learn from it.

The largest dinosaurs would seem, at first glance, unstoppable in such conditions. However it would seem, to me, the best strategy for long term survival is diversity. Few of us, it seems, would challenge the prognosis that cockroaches or rats would take over in a future that involves mankind’s demise.

I’m not saying I would fit them into any of today’s ecological systems but neither did the original question; which merely asked if conditions was the same for both, which would survive.

But in this case it’s not. That’s a false assumption; the question was, “If you put both dinosaurs and modern animals in the same world?”

I don’t think the local intuitive feeling of morning, for instance, would be lost. The circadian rhythm would remain and would overcome the numbers previous meaning. It’s for this reason I think this is an untenable idea; not to mention the question, why change?

That's one way to close a thread.

A recent BBC Horizon program “What’s the right diet for you?” in which they divided up 75 overweight people by type and modelled individual diets for each based on that type. They were largely successful after, I think, ten weeks. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02ddsd9 Check out the test.

If you think your always correct, you'll never learn anything. Cross posted, I replied to this: “That is what I too thought ! Maybe they are just Humans and make use of their Powers and position ! If I am a Moderator perhaps I will be the most respected !”

The moderators here are no fools; they understand so much more than you realise, through rigor and knowledge, there is no short cut to understanding.

That one (bolded).

This reaction is a little like a ‘tilt’ play in poker; you feel angry because your bluff was called.

The analogy that comes to my mind is, you’ve read the synopses of ‘Les Miserables’ and try to quote ‘Jean Valjean’.

The Sermon on the Mount is a lesson we should all look to, in terms of a base level of being; in that we should look to an understanding of being without, the multitude of influence/addiction that pervades modern life.