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June 26, 2008 at 11:28 pm #587308
JoBParticipantthis came in my mailbox today…
now, i know some of you who read this will think that it describes me perfectly.. and if it does, i sincerely apologize… by definition.. i can’t see it ;->
it makes one wonder… is fractal wrongness just a diametrically opposed point of view.. or is there something more here?
you be the judge…
“Fractal Wrongness
The state of being wrong at every conceivable scale of resolution. That is, from a distance, a fractally wrong person’s worldview is incorrect; and furthermore, if you zoom in on any small part of that person’s worldview, that part is just as wrong as the whole worldview.
Debating with a person who is fractally wrong leads to infinite regress, as every refutation you make of that person’s opinions will lead to a rejoinder, full of half-truths, leaps of logic, and outright lies, that requires just as much refutation to debunk as the first one. It is as impossible to convince a fractally wrong person of anything as it is to walk around the edge of the Mandelbrot set in finite time.
If you ever get embroiled in a discussion with a fractally wrong person on the Internet–in mailing lists, newsgroups, or website forums–your best bet is to say your piece once and ignore any replies, thus saving yourself time.
Maybe not new to you computery folks.”
LOL.. and by the way.. for those who this will tempt mightily.. i am inviting only comment on the idea.. not judgments of my own personal rightness or wrongness…
June 26, 2008 at 11:43 pm #629150
WesMemberThis would assume that one believes in absolute truths, which all people do, whether they think they do or not. For to say that there is no absolute truth is to say that the absolute truth that there is no absolute truth is an absolute truth. Confused yet?
Welcome to post modernity!
June 27, 2008 at 12:08 am #629151
KenParticipantExibit A above
June 27, 2008 at 12:13 am #629152
JoBParticipantLOL…
truth can only be absolute in the exact moment in which it is discovered…
in the next instant, new evidence exists which either confirms, adjusts or refutes it’s absoluteness…
that’s absolutely true!
June 27, 2008 at 3:45 am #629153
WesMemberLOL….ahhh good times, good times.
June 27, 2008 at 4:29 am #629154
TheHouseMemberWhat if the definition of fractal wrongness was conceived by someone with fractal wrongness?
June 27, 2008 at 5:13 am #629155
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