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METAPHYSICS IS GAY V. TED CRUZ SATURDAY SMACKDOWN

Please post the agreed-upon work ITT. Will await twist's gu...
cerise travel guidebook
  02/22/14
Going to wait for twist to moderate / administer this, but a...
cerise travel guidebook
  02/22/14
Twist said he's not gonna be around much until later tonight
Metaphysics is Gay
  02/22/14
Well he's still in charge so we're going to wait for him. T...
cerise travel guidebook
  02/22/14
Seems dumb
Metaphysics is Gay
  02/22/14
where is ted cruz
cerise travel guidebook
  02/22/14
He's "polishing" a stolen essay so it can't be goo...
Bateful purple lay wrinkle
  02/22/14
probably. i used my old plagiarism checker software on metap...
coral site
  02/22/14
...
Metaphysics is Gay
  02/22/14
quite scholarly 176
Nubile partner
  02/22/14
Tasty
coral site
  02/22/14
clarity to the point of lucidity unnghnn the scholarly swe...
Translucent mental disorder
  02/22/14
SHOCKED SHOCKED to be forced to give this obviously sophomor...
Bateful purple lay wrinkle
  02/22/14
Everything I know about you leads me to believe you're excep...
Metaphysics is Gay
  02/23/14
LOL!
Razzle Pervert Theatre
  02/22/14
I like this. Here are some initial thoughts. I am a bit ...
cerise travel guidebook
  02/22/14
lol looks like my objections were just like yours i will ...
spectacular giraffe coffee pot
  02/22/14
yup, that's been my experience too. like, i wrote a paper k...
cerise travel guidebook
  02/22/14
yeah. well, undergrad is an immodest time. can't be too hard...
spectacular giraffe coffee pot
  02/22/14
this is awesome
Metaphysics is Gay
  02/22/14
explain "radical modesty"
ocher wild incel corner
  02/22/14
by that i mean stake out the most modest position u can poss...
cerise travel guidebook
  02/22/14
...
silver heady turdskin senate
  02/23/14
tyvm. I will reflect seriously upon your comments
Metaphysics is Gay
  02/22/14
good for a standard form of a freshman level ug essay. i'd l...
frozen razzle-dazzle center
  02/22/14
you're obviously maf
Metaphysics is Gay
  02/23/14
the prancing scholar has brought us a treat! your argument w...
silver heady turdskin senate
  02/23/14
that mostly has to do with the fact that you're not that sma...
Metaphysics is Gay
  02/23/14
maybe so
silver heady turdskin senate
  02/23/14
wait are you mad
silver heady turdskin senate
  02/23/14
Why did you delete? You actually wrote that for a class did...
Bateful purple lay wrinkle
  02/23/14
scholarship!
cerise travel guidebook
  02/22/14
my thing today fell through so no worries. my suggestion ...
spectacular giraffe coffee pot
  02/22/14
no worries. sounds good man.
lex
  02/22/14
i remember when ifnb was the gayest thing on this board
adulterous gunner
  02/22/14
...
Hairless slimy pistol address
  02/22/14
before people started working out in their clothes u mean?
spectacular giraffe coffee pot
  02/22/14
a greek slandering naked bodybuilding and philosophy, the co...
fragrant skinny woman plaza
  02/22/14
180 moniqueer
coral site
  02/22/14
...
Translucent mental disorder
  02/22/14
Is Ted Cruz done here? He hypes this shit up and then blows...
Bateful purple lay wrinkle
  02/22/14
he set it at noon pacific
spectacular giraffe coffee pot
  02/22/14
...
lex
  02/22/14
Wtf? I have to wait another hour?
Bateful purple lay wrinkle
  02/22/14
JUDGES'S SUBTHREAD
coral site
  02/22/14
preliminary rating for metaphysics is gay: 168 This paper...
spectacular giraffe coffee pot
  02/22/14
tyvm. I will reflect critically upon your comments
Metaphysics is Gay
  02/22/14
what i will say for MIG though; it's clear that he's a very ...
cerise travel guidebook
  02/22/14
cr. i wonder about these things a lot. i noticed "just ...
spectacular giraffe coffee pot
  02/22/14
yeah like i bet for example when u read 'cut the pie however...
cerise travel guidebook
  02/22/14
Grrrr! *making tough face*
spectacular giraffe coffee pot
  02/22/14
lol u let 433 use your monkeyer? i guess that makes sense
cerise travel guidebook
  02/22/14
xo women never not using monkeys for all sorts of purposes
spectacular giraffe coffee pot
  02/22/14
180 i'm not as good at pwning as H. is :(
cerise travel guidebook
  02/22/14
close to it
spectacular giraffe coffee pot
  02/22/14
...
Translucent mental disorder
  02/22/14
ljl "More importantly, that an atom can be better u...
frozen razzle-dazzle center
  02/22/14
not at all, that's a perfectly sensible utterance
cerise travel guidebook
  02/22/14
an atom determines the molecule. Our description of the atom...
Metaphysics is Gay
  02/22/14
you missed the entire point of the paper. You can be a reali...
Metaphysics is Gay
  02/22/14
that doesn't seem to be the case the way you presented it, t...
spectacular giraffe coffee pot
  02/22/14
...
Pungent big halford theater
  02/22/14
lol, can't wait for the second part of this succulent schola...
cerise travel guidebook
  02/22/14
180
Hairraiser double fault station
  02/22/14
you are pandering to the crowd, little man
lex
  02/22/14
Holy shit you're so screwed.
Bateful purple lay wrinkle
  02/22/14
i can't wait to read the first ever adequate defense of erro...
cerise travel guidebook
  02/22/14
this can be a learning experience
spectacular giraffe coffee pot
  02/22/14
I think we can call it.
Bateful purple lay wrinkle
  02/22/14
i really want to read how my saying vivisection of children ...
cerise travel guidebook
  02/22/14
but wait! we can have it both ways!
spectacular giraffe coffee pot
  02/22/14
actual, hard lol
cerise travel guidebook
  02/22/14
cognitivism/non-cognitivism is where i've encountered the mo...
spectacular giraffe coffee pot
  02/22/14
...
Concupiscible Keepsake Machete Puppy
  02/22/14
doesn't "metaphysics is gay" already have his PhD ...
Hairraiser double fault station
  02/22/14
I graduated from ug. I don't have any other degrees.
Metaphysics is Gay
  02/22/14
(shit lib) Jesus how about we judge them based on merit.
Bateful purple lay wrinkle
  02/22/14
i'll let the participants decide that. i have no desire to h...
spectacular giraffe coffee pot
  02/22/14
stfu tijuana doobs; you snooze, you lose.
Translucent mental disorder
  02/22/14
10 minutes to deliver, ted cruz / alia
cerise travel guidebook
  02/22/14
1min
spectacular giraffe coffee pot
  02/22/14
-1
coral site
  02/22/14
welp, this was kind of lame, lol
spectacular giraffe coffee pot
  02/22/14
i will say this for ted cruz: i literally cleared a conferen...
cerise travel guidebook
  02/22/14
180
spectacular giraffe coffee pot
  02/22/14
TED CRUZ FLAKE OUT AS I PREDICTED
Hairraiser double fault station
  02/22/14
Ted cruz, I'm going to assume you're spending this extra tim...
coral site
  02/22/14
if that's the assumption, TC, i will give you a point bump a...
cerise travel guidebook
  02/22/14
judging this thing on my phone until i can get home. u lucky...
coral site
  02/22/14
i'm honestly MAF about this
cerise travel guidebook
  02/22/14
tc = tedcruz i imagine
spectacular giraffe coffee pot
  02/22/14
truth. i've got tinychat on the mind.
coral site
  02/22/14
bros he didn't write anything else, it's over. I'm glad i go...
Metaphysics is Gay
  02/22/14
i sincerely hth
spectacular giraffe coffee pot
  02/22/14
tyvm
Metaphysics is Gay
  02/22/14
hope it helps bro in general i want you to know that you se...
cerise travel guidebook
  02/22/14
thank you very much
Metaphysics is Gay
  02/22/14
since we aren't proceeding to subsequent rounds, i would giv...
cerise travel guidebook
  02/22/14
kudos to ur sweet treats
Translucent mental disorder
  02/22/14
cr, he would be among the brightest i've worked with judging...
spectacular giraffe coffee pot
  02/22/14
in the final analysis, who pwnd who?
adulterous gunner
  02/22/14
tedcruz pwned judges, judges pwned dewey, dewey pwned metaph...
spectacular giraffe coffee pot
  02/22/14
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5O26Dtubh0
cerise travel guidebook
  02/22/14
...
spectacular giraffe coffee pot
  02/22/14
honestly i never really understood how the fuck wood beats w...
cerise travel guidebook
  02/22/14
affirmative action, same with paper v. rock
spectacular giraffe coffee pot
  02/22/14
fucking lol, good point paper covering rock is basically th...
cerise travel guidebook
  02/22/14
are there nudes of any of the parties to be had
adulterous gunner
  02/22/14
titcqeam
spectacular giraffe coffee pot
  02/22/14
I'm grateful that tedcruztp gave me the motivation to do thi...
Metaphysics is Gay
  02/22/14
ok so that autist tedcruz is officially done here? can we ru...
Aromatic Public Bath Dog Poop
  02/22/14
Yeah, he is literally done here. Like this board will have ...
Bateful purple lay wrinkle
  02/22/14
i lost the competition because i didn't finish it before th...
Pungent big halford theater
  02/22/14
i'll still read it and judge it on its merits if you wish, t...
cerise travel guidebook
  02/22/14
agreeing with commacct
spectacular giraffe coffee pot
  02/22/14
didn't you give yourself like a month to do this?
Aromatic Public Bath Dog Poop
  02/22/14
He set the original deadline for like mid-March.
Bateful purple lay wrinkle
  02/22/14
How the hell did you not finish on time? Embarassing
fishy pisswyrm
  02/22/14
...
Gold lodge
  02/22/14
...
fishy pisswyrm
  02/22/14
...
Translucent mental disorder
  02/22/14
i'm just going to go ahead and assume that's not the only re...
lex
  02/22/14
cr
coral site
  02/22/14
holy shit dude, your more brutal than i expect
lex
  02/22/14
...
Hairless slimy pistol address
  02/22/14
ur punishment is that you never change your moniker ever aga...
Translucent mental disorder
  02/22/14
...
Disrespectful knife
  02/22/14
pls respond, ted cruz
lex
  02/22/14
he snoozed he losed
Translucent mental disorder
  02/22/14
Jesus the more I think about this the more brutal it is. Te...
Bateful purple lay wrinkle
  02/22/14
it's the scholarly equivalent of this thing i remember someo...
spectacular giraffe coffee pot
  02/22/14
...
Translucent mental disorder
  02/22/14
...
Bateful purple lay wrinkle
  02/22/14
...
Hairless slimy pistol address
  02/22/14
...
Gold lodge
  02/22/14
...
Demanding property round eye
  02/22/14
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Gold lodge
  02/23/14
wow
sickened vigorous stag film antidepressant drug
  07/13/26
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Cobalt Business Firm
  02/22/14
Tijuana doobs, thought you'd be posting this tonight
fishy pisswyrm
  02/23/14
you just got scammed again
balding cream circlehead
  02/23/14
crazy that mig blanked this it was some of the best scholars...
controlling a virtual character on a computer
  07/13/26


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Date: February 22nd, 2014 11:41 AM
Author: cerise travel guidebook

Please post the agreed-upon work ITT. Will await twist's guidance re: judging and format.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065329)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 11:58 AM
Author: cerise travel guidebook

Going to wait for twist to moderate / administer this, but after a first (cursory) reading of MIG's essay, I'm pretty psyched.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065393)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 12:02 PM
Author: Metaphysics is Gay

Twist said he's not gonna be around much until later tonight

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065407)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 12:03 PM
Author: cerise travel guidebook

Well he's still in charge so we're going to wait for him. This will give judges a few hours to suck on these scholarly sweets, though.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065410)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 12:22 PM
Author: Metaphysics is Gay

Seems dumb

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065493)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 1:26 PM
Author: cerise travel guidebook

where is ted cruz

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065708)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 1:57 PM
Author: Bateful purple lay wrinkle

He's "polishing" a stolen essay so it can't be googled.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065845)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:00 PM
Author: coral site

probably. i used my old plagiarism checker software on metaphysics's paper and it came back with 0%. well done.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065857)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 11:44 AM
Author: Metaphysics is Gay



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065339)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 11:48 AM
Author: Nubile partner

quite scholarly

176

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065349)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 12:09 PM
Author: coral site

Tasty

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065442)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 12:36 PM
Author: Translucent mental disorder

clarity to the point of lucidity

unnghnn the scholarly sweet treats

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065549)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 1:42 PM
Author: Bateful purple lay wrinkle

SHOCKED SHOCKED to be forced to give this obviously sophomoric paper a high pass.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065782)



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Date: February 23rd, 2014 2:06 AM
Author: Metaphysics is Gay

Everything I know about you leads me to believe you're exceptionally retarted. this strengthens my belief

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25069728)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:00 PM
Author: Razzle Pervert Theatre

LOL!

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065858)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:13 PM
Author: cerise travel guidebook

I like this. Here are some initial thoughts.

I am a bit troubled by what seems to me to be a conflation between the basic posture of scientific realism--which, in your parlance, admitted at one point of the existence of protons simpliciter--and what you read as Dewey's reconciliation of scientific progress with scientific realism. You mention at the outset that we can still be realists about unobserved scientific phenomena should we adopt Dewey's position, but Dewey's position, as I'm reading it, seems best characterized as a way of denying that the debate really exists, or otherwise as merely denying realism.

After all, says Dewey, all we need is to introduce the concept of an instrumentality, and both realism and the principal objection to realism--that realism posits really-existing objects that account for scientific phenomena--can be saved. And yet it seems to me that, in order for us to 'save' realism, Dewey's instrumentality must, at a minimum, retain the very feature of realism that subjects it to irrealist critique in the first instance.

So many questions will be along the line of: isn't Dewey's defintion of an instrumentality just a vacuity? If we define the instrumentality as just that scientific object that, if it existed, would explain all of our scientific observations relevant to that instrumentality, how is this not fundamentally a concession to the irrealist? It seems to me that Dewey's concept of a scientific instrumentality has no more content than 'wherever you go, there you are'; in other words, Dewey's position seems tacitly irrealist.

So my questions are going to be along the lines of: don't scientific realists claim the existence of protons simpliciter, with the caveat that, hey, we might be wrong? If they do, isn't Dewey's solution to the caveat just a way of conceding that the objects of science are irreal, if we define them as just those real things that: (1) do not exist simpliciter; and (2) explain phenomena but not really anything else? That seems to be to be almost textbook irrealism. So I'll want you to tell me: if I'm an irrealist, why can't I claim Dewey as being in my camp?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065924)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:17 PM
Author: spectacular giraffe coffee pot

lol looks like my objections were just like yours

i will say as a general point that i have read many papers in my career that seem to claim that we can, or that some thinker does, have it both ways. this is almost always false; one or both sides of the debate will probably leave unsatisfied with this solution. if the debate is about realism (whether moral realism, metaphysical realism, whatever), the realists will almost always be unhappy with the way in which someone has it both ways

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065948)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:25 PM
Author: cerise travel guidebook

yup, that's been my experience too. like, i wrote a paper kind of like this (it was better of course :]) about how the dominant and inclusive readings of aristotle's theoria can be reconciled through like some weird kind of supervenience relationship. it was textbook undergrad, a bit too clever by half. my professor sat me down and was like, this is a clever paper and i'm giving you an A for the course, but did you ever stop to consider that even if it is possible that aristotle could both have meant that theoria is a good life and theoria is contemplation of god, and you could marshal textual support for that, that there is any reason on earth to think that aristotle himself might have some kind of proto-jaegwon kim emergence relationship in mind, some several thousand years before its first introduction in the literature? do you really think he was that good, or are you just retarded?

that like, 10 minute conversation alone gave me an entirely new way of approaching my classes from then on. basically, the key to success in philosophy is to approach problems from a position of radical modesty, or otherwise to be smarter than everyone else. interestingly, those who should be in the first camp (me) often start out thinking they're in the second, and the few who should be in the second almost always think they should be in the first. russell's letter to frege was a cute exception to that, though

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065988)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:29 PM
Author: spectacular giraffe coffee pot

yeah. well, undergrad is an immodest time. can't be too hard on yourself about something like that. i was the same way, iirc

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066010)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:31 PM
Author: Metaphysics is Gay

this is awesome

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066017)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 3:43 PM
Author: ocher wild incel corner

explain "radical modesty"

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066390)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 4:43 PM
Author: cerise travel guidebook

by that i mean stake out the most modest position u can possibly take, and argue it as completely as u can

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066829)



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Date: February 23rd, 2014 1:35 AM
Author: silver heady turdskin senate



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25069614)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:21 PM
Author: Metaphysics is Gay

tyvm. I will reflect seriously upon your comments

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065969)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 9:56 PM
Author: frozen razzle-dazzle center

good for a standard form of a freshman level ug essay. i'd like to see more SYLLOGISTIC analysis. in fact, that should be the only thing that you do.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25068404)



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Date: February 23rd, 2014 2:05 AM
Author: Metaphysics is Gay

you're obviously maf

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25069724)



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Date: February 23rd, 2014 1:33 AM
Author: silver heady turdskin senate

the prancing scholar has brought us a treat! your argument was a little hard to follow but honestly you've got balls like ifnb for posting in a scholarship contest and i can't believe this even happened. 180, brother

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25069595)



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Date: February 23rd, 2014 2:04 AM
Author: Metaphysics is Gay

that mostly has to do with the fact that you're not that smart, and very little to do with my writing

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25069720)



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Date: February 23rd, 2014 2:19 AM
Author: silver heady turdskin senate

maybe so

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25069783)



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Date: February 23rd, 2014 6:13 AM
Author: silver heady turdskin senate

wait are you mad

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25070331)



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Date: February 23rd, 2014 4:17 PM
Author: Bateful purple lay wrinkle

Why did you delete? You actually wrote that for a class didn't you?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25072648)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 12:04 PM
Author: cerise travel guidebook

scholarship!

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065421)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 1:33 PM
Author: spectacular giraffe coffee pot

my thing today fell through so no worries.

my suggestion is the following: the five judges, individually, offer a cursory rating in this thread with a few comments. later on, in tinychat, when the papers are presented, we ask questions emerging from these comments. this'll give the writers a little time to prepare and make it a little more of a dialogue. afterwards, the judges can confer and offer a collective rating of the paper and the presentation/response.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065726)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 1:40 PM
Author: lex

no worries.

sounds good man.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065765)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 1:36 PM
Author: adulterous gunner

i remember when ifnb was the gayest thing on this board

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065744)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 1:42 PM
Author: Hairless slimy pistol address



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065783)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 1:47 PM
Author: spectacular giraffe coffee pot

before people started working out in their clothes u mean?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065809)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 1:59 PM
Author: fragrant skinny woman plaza

a greek slandering naked bodybuilding and philosophy, the cornerstones of grecian civilization?

something smells of kebabs in here...is it you, xerxes?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065853)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:00 PM
Author: coral site

180 moniqueer

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065859)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 9:43 PM
Author: Translucent mental disorder



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25068348)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 1:45 PM
Author: Bateful purple lay wrinkle

Is Ted Cruz done here? He hypes this shit up and then blows the deadline?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065791)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 1:45 PM
Author: spectacular giraffe coffee pot

he set it at noon pacific

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065794)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 1:46 PM
Author: lex



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065795)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 1:47 PM
Author: Bateful purple lay wrinkle

Wtf? I have to wait another hour?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065807)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 1:53 PM
Author: coral site

JUDGES'S SUBTHREAD

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065833)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:17 PM
Author: spectacular giraffe coffee pot

preliminary rating for metaphysics is gay: 168

This paper is well-written, strong scholarship, and teaches me a lot about Dewey's views on the philosophy of science, a topic with which I am not very acquainted. However, I wonder if it is a little too uncritical with Dewey, or, put another way, whether it fails to vindicate Dewey's view vis-a-vis the current debates within which it situates that view.

MIGtp makes - among others - the following statements:

1. Dewey believes in the objects of particle physics (here I take "believes in" to mean "posits as part of an ontological scheme") *insofar as* they produce certain behavior, and not as natural kinds.

2. Anti-realism is the view that empirical adequacy does not imply some deep truth about the joint-carving capacities of our theories.

It is difficult for me to see how these two in tandem do not make Dewey an anti-realist.

Now MIGtp attempts to evade this criticism of Dewey by suggesting that Dewey's mid-tier "hypothetical objects" have some roughness to them which a final, completed science might not. Or maybe there is no final, completed science; in which case they just lack something natural kinds have. But why posit these hypothetical objects at all? What purpose do they serve? Moreover, why should explanatory adequacy suffice as a measure of their existence, if not for the existence of other, more real(?) objects? It seems to me Dewey, under this presentation, might be giving us not the best of both worlds but the worst of both: the anti-realist's dissatisfaction with explanatory adequacy as a measure of deep ontology and of the world's structure, and the realist's ontological promiscuity.

In responding to this criticism I urge MIGtp not to accidentally beg the question against either party in the current debate. For example, the paper's penultimate sentence reads ". . . our set of natural kinds." The realist, of course, does not merely think that there is some subjective, human-determined view of natural kinds, but that there are some objectively real ones out there.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065944)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:22 PM
Author: Metaphysics is Gay

tyvm. I will reflect critically upon your comments

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065972)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:29 PM
Author: cerise travel guidebook

what i will say for MIG though; it's clear that he's a very bright UG or has a good UG background, and it's clear he's in an analytic program. there are certain phrases and rhetorical devices that exist, i think, literally only in analytic philo. using 'carving nature at its joints' tells me a lot about you. MIG's use of 'just that' tells me a lot about him. it's like a secret language

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066007)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:30 PM
Author: spectacular giraffe coffee pot

cr. i wonder about these things a lot. i noticed "just that" as well. little winks and nods. i hate some of them tbh

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066014)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:32 PM
Author: cerise travel guidebook

yeah like i bet for example when u read 'cut the pie however you like, meanings just ain't in the head' it gave u flashbacks to cake right?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066023)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:33 PM
Author: spectacular giraffe coffee pot

Grrrr! *making tough face*

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066024)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:34 PM
Author: cerise travel guidebook

lol u let 433 use your monkeyer? i guess that makes sense

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066027)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:34 PM
Author: spectacular giraffe coffee pot

xo women never not using monkeys for all sorts of purposes

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066031)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:35 PM
Author: cerise travel guidebook

180 i'm not as good at pwning as H. is :(

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066038)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:37 PM
Author: spectacular giraffe coffee pot

close to it

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066047)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 9:44 PM
Author: Translucent mental disorder



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25068356)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 10:06 PM
Author: frozen razzle-dazzle center

ljl

"More importantly, that an atom can be better understood today as a nucleus with orbiting electrons, rather than as the earlier plumb pudding model, is not grounds for dismissing the existence of the atom as that referent accountable for certain molecular properties "

the secret language is: "i'm full of shit and just filling the space on the page".

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25068454)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 11:01 PM
Author: cerise travel guidebook

not at all, that's a perfectly sensible utterance

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25068736)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 11:17 PM
Author: Metaphysics is Gay

an atom determines the molecule. Our description of the atom changes. The atom is whatever that thing is that determines the molecule. That sentences does quite a bit of work to expose the belief in the reality of objects in light of their continuous redescription. You'd know that, but you're obviously not very bright

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25068795)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 4:40 PM
Author: Metaphysics is Gay

you missed the entire point of the paper. You can be a realist without believing in object natural kinds.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066803)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 4:41 PM
Author: spectacular giraffe coffee pot

that doesn't seem to be the case the way you presented it, though. i'd have to reread to be sure

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066812)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:14 PM
Author: Pungent big halford theater



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065926)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:16 PM
Author: cerise travel guidebook

lol, can't wait for the second part of this succulent scholarly delight

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065942)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:17 PM
Author: Hairraiser double fault station

180

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065949)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:22 PM
Author: lex

you are pandering to the crowd, little man

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25065975)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:35 PM
Author: Bateful purple lay wrinkle

Holy shit you're so screwed.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066037)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:36 PM
Author: cerise travel guidebook

i can't wait to read the first ever adequate defense of error theory

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066044)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:37 PM
Author: spectacular giraffe coffee pot

this can be a learning experience

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066046)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:39 PM
Author: Bateful purple lay wrinkle

I think we can call it.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066058)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:46 PM
Author: cerise travel guidebook

i really want to read how my saying vivisection of children is wrong is actually just me saying 'eww, vivisection' tho

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066097)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:47 PM
Author: spectacular giraffe coffee pot

but wait! we can have it both ways!

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066101)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:47 PM
Author: cerise travel guidebook

actual, hard lol

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066102)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:51 PM
Author: spectacular giraffe coffee pot

cognitivism/non-cognitivism is where i've encountered the most papers with that kind of bent, i think

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066122)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 11:31 PM
Author: Concupiscible Keepsake Machete Puppy



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25068851)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:39 PM
Author: Hairraiser double fault station

doesn't "metaphysics is gay" already have his PhD or something? we need to make the backgrounds of the participants known because it's a fundamentally unfair contest.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066057)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:40 PM
Author: Metaphysics is Gay

I graduated from ug. I don't have any other degrees.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066064)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:40 PM
Author: Bateful purple lay wrinkle

(shit lib)

Jesus how about we judge them based on merit.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066067)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:40 PM
Author: spectacular giraffe coffee pot

i'll let the participants decide that. i have no desire to help doobs and pn out these two dudes.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066068)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 9:45 PM
Author: Translucent mental disorder

stfu tijuana doobs; you snooze, you lose.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25068359)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:50 PM
Author: cerise travel guidebook

10 minutes to deliver, ted cruz / alia

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066113)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 2:59 PM
Author: spectacular giraffe coffee pot

1min

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066144)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 3:01 PM
Author: coral site

-1

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066147)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 3:01 PM
Author: spectacular giraffe coffee pot

welp, this was kind of lame, lol

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066150)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 3:02 PM
Author: cerise travel guidebook

i will say this for ted cruz: i literally cleared a conference call this afternoon off of my schedule today for this. if he just doesn't show up it will be a pretty sick pwn

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066152)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 3:03 PM
Author: spectacular giraffe coffee pot

180

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066157)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 3:01 PM
Author: Hairraiser double fault station

TED CRUZ FLAKE OUT AS I PREDICTED

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066149)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 3:02 PM
Author: coral site

Ted cruz, I'm going to assume you're spending this extra time jerking to underage youtube vids and count it heavily against you in scoring.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066154)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 3:03 PM
Author: cerise travel guidebook

if that's the assumption, TC, i will give you a point bump and our scores will cancel

no but seriously i propose that each 10 minutes late = -1 LSAT equivalent from score

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066163)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 3:05 PM
Author: coral site

judging this thing on my phone until i can get home. u lucky, schedule clearing bastard.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066168)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 3:06 PM
Author: cerise travel guidebook

i'm honestly MAF about this

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066170)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 3:06 PM
Author: spectacular giraffe coffee pot

tc = tedcruz i imagine

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066171)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 3:07 PM
Author: coral site

truth. i've got tinychat on the mind.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066176)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 3:06 PM
Author: Metaphysics is Gay

bros he didn't write anything else, it's over. I'm glad i got 2 thorough comments to ponder, though

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066174)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 3:07 PM
Author: spectacular giraffe coffee pot

i sincerely hth

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066178)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 3:10 PM
Author: Metaphysics is Gay

tyvm

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066192)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 3:10 PM
Author: cerise travel guidebook

hope it helps bro

in general i want you to know that you seem v. bright by comparison to the typical phil UG. i thought it was a good little rumination

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066189)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 3:11 PM
Author: Metaphysics is Gay

thank you very much

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066197)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 3:11 PM
Author: cerise travel guidebook

since we aren't proceeding to subsequent rounds, i would give you an A/A- for an upper division phil course

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066201)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 9:45 PM
Author: Translucent mental disorder

kudos to ur sweet treats

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25068365)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 3:11 PM
Author: spectacular giraffe coffee pot

cr, he would be among the brightest i've worked with judging by the paper

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066200)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 3:14 PM
Author: adulterous gunner

in the final analysis, who pwnd who?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066210)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 3:14 PM
Author: spectacular giraffe coffee pot

tedcruz pwned judges, judges pwned dewey, dewey pwned metaphysics is gay, metaphysics is gay pwned tedcruz. some of those pwnings might be more properly interpreted as catfishings in current xo cant

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066214)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 3:16 PM
Author: cerise travel guidebook

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5O26Dtubh0

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066224)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 3:19 PM
Author: spectacular giraffe coffee pot



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066236)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 3:46 PM
Author: cerise travel guidebook

honestly i never really understood how the fuck wood beats water

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066403)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 3:49 PM
Author: spectacular giraffe coffee pot

affirmative action, same with paper v. rock

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066417)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 4:35 PM
Author: cerise travel guidebook

fucking lol, good point

paper covering rock is basically the central premise of shitlib

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066768)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 3:27 PM
Author: adulterous gunner

are there nudes of any of the parties to be had

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066286)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 3:27 PM
Author: spectacular giraffe coffee pot

titcqeam

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066289)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 3:15 PM
Author: Metaphysics is Gay

I'm grateful that tedcruztp gave me the motivation to do this. I enjoyed it very much

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066217)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 3:18 PM
Author: Aromatic Public Bath Dog Poop

ok so that autist tedcruz is officially done here? can we run him off the board now

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066235)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 3:22 PM
Author: Bateful purple lay wrinkle

Yeah, he is literally done here. Like this board will have any patience for setting PST deadlines and blowing them.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066250)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 3:20 PM
Author: Pungent big halford theater

i lost the competition because i didn't finish it before the deadline.

congrats mig - nice essay btw.

however, i will be poasting my finished product later tonight. if you don't want to read it fine. but i will still poast it. i think mig deserves at least one product to compete with since he put all this work into writing.



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066240)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 3:22 PM
Author: cerise travel guidebook

i'll still read it and judge it on its merits if you wish, though you have rightly conceded the competition to MIG

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066252)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 3:22 PM
Author: spectacular giraffe coffee pot

agreeing with commacct

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066254)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 3:24 PM
Author: Aromatic Public Bath Dog Poop

didn't you give yourself like a month to do this?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066264)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 3:25 PM
Author: Bateful purple lay wrinkle

He set the original deadline for like mid-March.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066276)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 3:29 PM
Author: fishy pisswyrm

How the hell did you not finish on time? Embarassing

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25066303)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 6:05 PM
Author: Gold lodge



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25067261)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 6:35 PM
Author: fishy pisswyrm



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25067463)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 9:46 PM
Author: Translucent mental disorder



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25068368)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 7:35 PM
Author: lex

i'm just going to go ahead and assume that's not the only reason you lost.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25067795)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 7:39 PM
Author: coral site

cr

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25067820)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 7:42 PM
Author: lex

holy shit dude, your more brutal than i expect

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25067856)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 7:43 PM
Author: Hairless slimy pistol address



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25067861)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 9:46 PM
Author: Translucent mental disorder

ur punishment is that you never change your moniker ever again. this is your scarlet letter.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25068373)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 5:18 PM
Author: Disrespectful knife



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25067070)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 9:08 PM
Author: lex

pls respond, ted cruz

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25068178)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 9:47 PM
Author: Translucent mental disorder

he snoozed he losed

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25068376)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 10:20 PM
Author: Bateful purple lay wrinkle

Jesus the more I think about this the more brutal it is. Ted Cruz spent a month hyping this contest. Metaphysics was like I'm done when do you want to post? His article is clear and at least decent.

Then Ted Cruz posts two paragraphs describing the content of an essay he will never write.

Just the most devastating self-pwn of all time.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25068509)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 10:23 PM
Author: spectacular giraffe coffee pot

it's the scholarly equivalent of this thing i remember someone posting a while ago, years ago, a bukkake video, and everyone was like "look how funny it is there's this one fat guy who just kind of trundles over, dribbles out a few drops, then runs away. even the girl laughs at it" i never really understood what was funny until now but it's basically what ted did

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25068526)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 10:25 PM
Author: Translucent mental disorder



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25068534)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 10:43 PM
Author: Bateful purple lay wrinkle



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25068635)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 10:46 PM
Author: Hairless slimy pistol address



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25068642)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 11:00 PM
Author: Gold lodge



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25068730)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 11:03 PM
Author: Demanding property round eye



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25068746)



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Date: February 23rd, 2014 1:47 PM
Author: Gold lodge



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25071598)



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Date: July 13th, 2026 10:39 PM
Author: sickened vigorous stag film antidepressant drug

wow

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#49998020)



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Date: February 22nd, 2014 10:38 PM
Author: Cobalt Business Firm



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25068608)



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Date: February 23rd, 2014 12:49 AM
Author: fishy pisswyrm

Tijuana doobs, thought you'd be posting this tonight

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25069305)



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Date: February 23rd, 2014 12:53 AM
Author: balding cream circlehead

you just got scammed again

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2500975&forum_id=2#25069337)



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Date: July 13th, 2026 10:43 PM
Author: controlling a virtual character on a computer

crazy that mig blanked this it was some of the best scholarship the board ever saw

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