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06 Oct 2015, 7:43 pm

do you see what you're doing? you're bullying me... MODERATORS LOCK THIS THREAD NOW!! !! If you respond to anyone of my other threads with this nonsense you little jerk, im gonna ask the mods to lock that one, too.... now if only we can get the mods to see the pms i sent, quicker, damn it...



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06 Oct 2015, 7:54 pm

MonsterCrack wrote:
do you see what you're doing? you're bullying me... MODERATORS LOCK THIS THREAD NOW!! ! ! If you respond to anyone of my other threads with this nonsense you little jerk, im gonna ask the mods to lock that one, too.... now if only we can get the mods to see the pms i sent, quicker, damn it...

I have forwarded your request to the mods.



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06 Oct 2015, 11:06 pm

Locked.

OP, you are the one who is being insulting. Your tone is nothing short of threatening.


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08 Oct 2015, 5:34 pm

Fnord wrote:
The only "a priori truths" are the physical constants, laws, and principles that govern the universe. Laws like causality, the gravitational constant, the speed of light in a vacuum, thermodynamics, orbital motion, and so forth.

This is incorrect. All of these are a posteriori truths. We needed to make observations in order to tell that they are true.