User talk:Rahmat Muhammad

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Aristotle

Hi Rahmat,

I have been laughing over this for the last few minutes. I was about to drop you a line myself. When you want to save and someone has changed that text while you write, you get a conflict message. I have been backing out of the article and just doing it all at once. Funny!

Keep going. I have had to transfer much of what I have done from the article on Cosmology since this section was getting too big and I keep pulling stuff out of the aether.

The overall contributions of this guy are staggering. That is complicated by the fact that we really aren't sure how much we got from him and how much has been added. --Thomas Simmons 22:03, 28 December 2007 (CST)

Hi Rahmat, Do you have

• Ross, D. Aristotle. Routledge Press, 2004. 336 pp.
• Barnes, J. The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle. Cambridge University Press, 1995. 404 pp.

on hand? --Thomas Simmons 02:31, 29 December 2007 (CST)

Your website

Is this you? [1]--Thomas Simmons 22:08, 28 December 2007 (CST)

And here? [2] --Thomas Simmons 22:10, 28 December 2007 (CST)

Stirring

"However, religion is the Cliff's Notes version of ancient philosophy and we all know that Cliff's Notes produces not only incomplete summaries but also superficial interpretation."

LOL You will draw fire with that one *v^o --if anyone takes you seriously. Had any response to this? --Thomas Simmons 22:15, 28 December 2007 (CST)

Will be out of the house for a few yours. Going to go watch Nicholas Gage save the world, again. By the way it is nice and sunny here on the Kapiti Coast, flowers in bloom etc. Might go to the beach--I live just across from Kapiti Island where Peter Jackson shot scenes for King Kong. What is the weather like in New England?--Thomas Simmons 22:19, 28 December 2007 (CST)

Expected responses

"The response that I expected...something along the lines of "you're going to hell", etc. etc. I don't think most people got what I was trying to say in that article."

"Hoist on thine own pittard knave." You missed me entirely. You neuroscience folks need to do some time in applied linguistics--context is everything.

Cast they nets to both sides of the boat and avoid being a pitcher of warm spit: You addressed a huge audience and you took a stand. Falsifiable too. You were looking for a fight. Anyway, well done. There is meat there even if it is easily digested.

If you are going to be understood, be clear and write more words. We can always use more words. Bet they gave you a limit. Bastards. Think everything can be done in a 500 word essay.

"Weather in New England cold (though not freezing)."

Well, it is New England.

"Enjoy the movie!"

I did. We now know what happened to the Olmec civilisation and Mssr. Gage's marriage is on a firmer footing and two rather crusty old actors, Mirren and Voight, just might live happily ever after.--Thomas Simmons 01:37, 29 December 2007 (CST)

Burrow deeply

Sorry, forgot what I was doing. When E. Ruthford showed up at the Cavendish Labs, someone, said, "we have a Antipodean rabbit here and he is burrowing deeply.”

Basically they were saying “this chap is a bit unexpected, who da thunk it-- Watch out.” The on-line Encyclopaedias are a bit of a fad at this time but in future will become a staple. They have to, it is inevitable. You're are in a field that is pushing back more than a few frontiers--when you address the really important issues of mind versus brain you will run the real danger of falling off the edge of the world. Meantime there are growing numbers who will see the WWW as the source and here you are at the cusp of that source. Write in your field--little stuff that is easy to understand, big stuff that cracks the virtual damn of ignorance. This is history kid, you are dabbling at the edge of the world and you are at one of the best places from which to do it.

P.S. Say “Hi” to Noam for Dan LaBranche in Chiba. Every time I asked him to speak in Japan he was busy. He won’t know who I am anyway. --Thomas Simmons 01:53, 29 December 2007 (CST)

Please join us for Biology Week!

Hello Rahmat, I am giving you this personal invitation to join us this week for Biology Week! You're a Citizendium Biology Author and we need authors as much as editors here to get involved. Did you know that there are over 200 biology authors here? Yep! Please join us on the wiki and add or revise biology articles. Also, please let your friends and colleagues who are biologists, biology students, or naturalists, know about Biology Week and ask them to join us, too. Any way you can help make it an event would be most welcome. Think of it as a Biology Workgroup open house. Let's see if we can kick up activity a notch! Thanks in advance! --Larry Sanger 14:10, 22 September 2008 (CDT)

The first Biology Week took place here from Sep 22-28, 2008.