river-wind
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Happeh said:This man is a self confessed homosexual.
http ://www.happeh.com/Images/Retards/HomoPriest.jpg
The man's head is clearly hanging off to his right.
The right eye is clearly of larger diameter than the left eye.
The right side of the head is clearly atrophied. The weakening of that side of the head is why the head hangs to the right.
I wish one of you had a brain. If you could talk instead of resist, I could explain how this works in about 5 minutes. A theoretical model of why it works. Not a description of chemicals, muscles and parts in the body involved in why it happens.
But that will never happen, so...............
Ok. So we have evidence, and a hypothesys on what is at the root of the things we see in the photo. However, even given all the photos you have posted thusfar, we have a sample size of say roughly 15 photos and 10 people. That is a *very* small sample, small enough that anomolies would easily skew the results.
happeh, honest question, do you know about the difficulties in making statistical projections based on small data sets?
What does this one photo have to do with the nature of this man's living condition? As has already been brought up, just because his face is tilted to the right in this instant in time, it doesn't mean that it is always that way, or that the right side of his body is weak.
Get a whole bunch of photos of this man over time, show that statistically, this man's head leans to the right in more than 1/2th of them (as opposed to a 50/50 split with leaning to the left), then account for the effect of being right or left handed (and the non-masturbation-related effect that will have on his propencity to lean to that side), then we can start considering these photos that you provide 'scientific evidence'. Even at that point, you will have to show a connection between the evidence and your hypothesis of the cause; a connection that is not shown by the photos alone.
Then we can talk science. Until then, what you have is evidence, but it is mearly anecdotal evidence - non-scientific, and non-verifiable.
An anecdote does not evidence make.
Happeh, I believe in qi. I have learned about it, I can control it, and I can produce internal and (limited) external effects with it.
However, because, as with Happeh theory, it requires special training to be detected, there is a very limited window of research into qi that qualifies as scientific per the definition.
I would love to shout across the forums "Qi is real! Yesterday, I rose the tempurature in my hands from 82F to 102F during meditation, and manually controled my esophagus. What I say is 100% true."
However, beyond my own belief in my perceptions of events, and my very limited, anecdotal data (hand temps), I have no verifiable basis for my premise.
It is not that I am wrong, it is that science is limited in what it accepts as evidence, and it does so on purpose - to limit individual error and identify fraud. I don't expect people to believe me with out more evidence than I currently have.
As I said before, maybe you are right. But until you can provide something more than a few anecdotes, you will not be able to override my own.
You say 0, I've seen 1 in the world, 0!=1, so I disagree with your assertion. You have to convince me. I'm not going to ignore my own life expirience just because you say so. I'd be unable to function in the world if I took every idea that I was told at face value.
edit: again, I suggest you read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_science
science is designed the way it is for a reason.
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