What do you think is the most controversial issue worldwide?

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Postby 乳头的早餐谷物 » 2010.01.31 (02:16)

ǝʎn1ɔuı wrote:
Tsukatu wrote:(Tunco: "Ignorance" is the much more common synonym.)
Ironic, eh?

Prescience is the converse of that word. I knew that beforehand, too.
Isn't that more to do with seeing into the future?
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Postby t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư » 2010.01.31 (04:19)

ǝʎn1ɔuı wrote:
Tsukatu wrote:(Tunco: "Ignorance" is the much more common synonym.)
Ironic, eh?

Prescience is the converse of that word. I knew that beforehand, too.
Wait, really? Pre- is "before," isn't it? How is that the opposite of "lacking?"
Wouldn't the opposite of prescience be "postscience" or something (which is an ability I happen to have, by the way).

Cuz it seems to me that the opposite of nescience is... science!
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Postby SlappyMcGee » 2010.01.31 (05:10)

Tsukatu wrote:
ǝʎn1ɔuı wrote:
Tsukatu wrote:(Tunco: "Ignorance" is the much more common synonym.)
Ironic, eh?

Prescience is the converse of that word. I knew that beforehand, too.
Wait, really? Pre- is "before," isn't it? How is that the opposite of "lacking?"
Wouldn't the opposite of prescience be "postscience" or something (which is an ability I happen to have, by the way).

Cuz it seems to me that the opposite of nescience is... science!
I'm going to write a paper for my Physics class in a postscience tone. The entire thing will just be Oscar Wilde quotes arranged in the shape of a swinging pendulum and a subplot wherein aliens write postscience papers that only the narrator, Oscar Wilde Quotes, seems to be able to read.
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Postby otters~1 » 2010.01.31 (05:19)

On second thought, the most controversial issue worldwide, right now, is whether masturbating causes insanity.


...I personally hope it does, and quickly.
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Postby t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư » 2010.01.31 (21:29)

flagmyidol wrote:On second thought, the most controversial issue worldwide, right now, is whether masturbating causes insanity.


...I personally hope it does, and quickly.
Wwwhhhhh...
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Postby unoriginal name » 2010.02.01 (02:03)

Tsukatu wrote:
flagmyidol wrote:On second thought, the most controversial issue worldwide, right now, is whether masturbating causes insanity.


...I personally hope it does, and quickly.
Wwwhhhhh...
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Postby Tunco » 2010.02.01 (11:50)

xVxCrushloaderusSupremusxVx wrote:
Tsukatu wrote:
flagmyidol wrote:On second thought, the most controversial issue worldwide, right now, is whether masturbating causes insanity.


...I personally hope it does, and quickly.
Wwwhhhhh...
...aaaaaaaa...
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Postby otters » 2010.02.04 (18:32)

Tsukatu wrote:
ǝʎn1ɔuı wrote:
Tsukatu wrote:(Tunco: "Ignorance" is the much more common synonym.)
Ironic, eh?

Prescience is the converse of that word. I knew that beforehand, too.
Wait, really? Pre- is "before," isn't it? How is that the opposite of "lacking?"
Oh balls, you're right. Prescience is precognition. Although it is kind of the opposite, isn't it? Future+present+past knowledge versus no knowledge at all?
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