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So in other words...you *can't* tell someone's race by their voice. Isn't that contradictory to your point?

 

In order to execute a free-throw, an athlete must perform advanced mathematical calculations and factor in gravity and other physical factors which all have a formula. He is not doing it consciously, but it is taking place. A mathematician could come up the formula for any given move of any given athlete, but it would take him longer than it took the athlete to do what he does in a fraction of a second. The human mind is an amazing thing.

I never said one had to fully understand something to have a grasp of its application.

 

I didn't say it was 100 % of the time - that would be ludicrous. There are so many variables. But one can tell a *lot* about a person from the sound of their voice, usually - things more important than race.

 

Dude you made the statement that race can be determined by voice right?

 

You are either now on drugs or responding as an alternate personality??? Those comments have nothing to do with your earlier assertion, not about minds, but that they must be masters themselves.

This, of course was proceeded by Pixie's puzzled look as you contradicted yourself in that post as well.

Wow!!

 

Holy shit I have to agree with this on some level. Damn

 

saintinsufferable just blew your mind, lol

 

She actually made a half way intelligent remark but I doubt it was intentional lol

 

Uppity? I didn't realize that my comment was uppity. I was simply dissolving a generalized comment before it became a stereotype.

I've lived even further south than the good old us of eh, so does that give me license to be uppity?

You don't need to justify your tolerance to me with a family lineage. I don't think you're racist. But you do appear to stereotype frequently.

 

Agreed

Enjoy Windsor DK!!

 

Uppity is a word often thrown at women with opinions, and black & brown people who aren't subservient. I consider it a compliment.

 

Then consider me complimented lol. I love your take on it TP!!

 

What he said

 

I assure you it was. I suppose now you're going to tell me that you know me better than I know myself.

Anyway, thanks for the backhanded compliment.

 

I still assert that by the instinctive mathematical calculations and intuitive understanding of physics that are going on at lightning speed in the mind of an athlete as he/she is performing a move, that he/she is a master of physics in its applicable form. The same can be said for other disciplines (art, music, dancing, even writing a novel) where intuitive skills originate from mathematical and physical principles.

Leonardo DaVinci was a painter, sculptor, musician, scientist, engineer, inventor, and mathematician (just to name a few). He learned almost everything through apprenticeship, life experience, and experimentation. I use him as an example of a master of applied sciences, translated across multiple disciplines.

A skilled artist or musician is also a master of the applicable science that goes into his work (including, for example with art: chemistry - combining liquids/substances and preparing surfaces- and that's just for starters...there is the specialized science of light, color, & vision, and also geometry, not to mention the study of anatomy and perspective theory...again, a lot of this is intuitive to begin with, and can be refined with further study...which is what I did in school). I already tried to explain a little bit about acoustics (music), but people were getting bent out of shape, so I'll leave that alone.

Really, the whole universe operates on the basis of these principles, which form the patterns that keep everything in order, keep it from spinning apart.
Anything that is beautiful or "works" at all, seeks to fall in line with the rhythm of the universe, which is why a formula can be found for almost everything (if there were a mathematician smart enough to figure it out)...

Except human behavior and emotions... that's a tricky one...something to do with energy and magnetic fields perhaps? In addition to it all being tied to a higher power, that started the whole thing - there will always be something that can't be explained, which is where faith comes in...

 

At the end of the day, despite your increased word count, athletes remain athletes because they are able to utilize learned skills to control their bodies. The athlete and others don't have instinctual skills, they have learned skills that become instinctual through repetition. Those skills are generally not honed by the athletes themselves, but by the true masters, who are the scientists that provide the tools for the athlete to realize his physical potential.

It's an insult to use De Vinci in the same universe as yourself. This man stands alone in his talent. This is the reason your unscientific and stereotypical rants were the subject of vilification.

As the remainder of your post, whatever. It changes nothing regarding your tendencies to attempt to elevate yourself in unrealistic and unreasonable ways, unfairly judge others and engage in stereotypes to the point that others simply turn away from you.

 

Wrong.

 

You're learning from Parino, lol. In the face of nothing constructive, single words are most often utilized. Way to go.

 

You are, simply, wrong. When faced with topics that have never crossed your mind, you resort to insults and to tearing down.

I would never claim to be remotely close to the intellectual genius or multi-talented phenomenon of Da Vinci. I was using him as an example of the cross-disciplinary talent, to demonstrate my point that mastery is often innate, developed by life experience (and encounters with teachers that are respected), and are then translatable across practices. Am I inspired by him? Yes, of course. That's why he is so famous - he inspires people to live up to their best potential.

We could ALL do more with what we are given.

 

White women of today (and those of yesteryear) have my deepest respect for their courage and strong independence to be what they want to be and to love who they want to love, no matter what comes their way. I put them on the pedestal where they belong.