Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[Eddie Teach]

beaten by pdh

Is that a meme? Should it be? 

[Razgovory]

The scientific theory of memes has been dead for about a decade.  I suspect the use of the word "memes" comes from the Dawkin's cult, those people didn't have a lot going for them to begin with.

[Syt]

[CountDeMoney]

Curious: if nobody cares about celebrity, why does it sell so much with the mouthbreathers? 

[grumbler]

Curious: if nobody cares about celebrity, why does it sell so much with the mouthbreathers?

Nothing much funnier than someone sharing his opinion that no one cares about someone else's opinion.  Self-awareness is obviously not a Conservative Value.

[DontSayBanana]

Nothing much funnier than someone sharing his opinion that no one cares about someone else's opinion.  Self-awareness is obviously not a Conservative Value.

Lack of self-awareness from a political party that repeatedly tries to legislate a black-and-white morality?  Shocking!

[Syt]

I find the lack of self awareness indeed funny.

"Shut up, actors, nobody cares what you think!"

1h later ...

"I agree with James Woods, he knows what's what!"

[CountDeMoney]

"Ted Nugent says celebrities suck! You go, Ted!"

[Maximus]

The scientific theory of memes has been dead for about a decade.  I suspect the use of the word "memes" comes from the Dawkin's cult, those people didn't have a lot going for them to begin with.

Are you saying that ideas don't spread through a population?

[Berkut]

He is saying he hates Dawkins and atheists, so anything they propose he is against. Don't take the bait.

[Maximus]

He is saying he hates Dawkins and atheists, so anything they propose he is against. Don't take the bait.

No this is something he rants about on a regular basis. It's fairly amusing. It's like saying genes don't exist because someone had an incorrect theory about them.

[Razgovory]

The scientific theory of memes has been dead for about a decade.  I suspect the use of the word "memes" comes from the Dawkin's cult, those people didn't have a lot going for them to begin with.

Are you saying that ideas don't spread through a population?

No, I didn't say that.  People understood that ideas move through a population well before Dawkins came up with memes.  The scientific journal of Memes has been defunct for about a decade.  No peer-reviewed journal, no science. While the rest of the world has moved on, it remains alive amongst cranks, logical positivists, and pseudo-intellectuals on the internet

Ideas exist, memes do not.  Meme has meaning beyond simply "idea".

[grumbler]

He is saying he hates Dawkins and atheists, so anything they propose he is against. Don't take the bait.

No this is something he rants about on a regular basis. It's fairly amusing. It's like saying genes don't exist because someone had an incorrect theory about them.

More like saying "genes don't exist because Gregor Mendel disliked cauliflower."  If Raz doesn't like the messenger, he refuses to accept the existence of the message.  He'll argue that memes don't exist unless they can be shown to be scientifically based.  That idea is absurd, as can easily be demonstrated by the observation that, e.g., religion exists, even though it cannot be associated with a disprovable scientific theory.

As Berkut advises, don't take the bait.

[Razgovory]

That's rich from someone who refuses to recognize my posts.

[Maximus]

No, I didn't say that.  People understood that ideas move through a population well before Dawkins came up with memes.  The scientific journal of Memes has been defunct for about a decade.  No peer-reviewed journal, no science. While the rest of the world has moved on, it remains alive amongst cranks, logical positivists, and pseudo-intellectuals on the internet

Ideas exist, memes do not.  Meme has meaning beyond simply "idea".

So a journal goes defunct and suddenly a concept with the same name doesn't exist? Memes are widely referred to in information and cognitive sciences today. Ergo they exist.