New Stone Soup Story
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hahaz world peace is impossible. history has shown that world peace has never existed. i dun see why this is going to change.Originally posted by laurence82:I always wonder, why cant we left alone to practise our faith/ non beliefs and everything?
People dont realise that, once they bash non believers, they will provoke a responses, some try to justify their actions, the others act blur and deny such bashing takes places. In the end, all come round and ask why their religion is being bashed.
And despite all these, they are still recalcitrant. Sigh
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No, this is just a simple story to help illustrate the concept of a negative control.Originally posted by CyNdI)4.eVa:ok. christians bashing again. lol.
If we give a medicine to somebody, and he feels better, that doesn't mean that the medicine necessarily worked.
In clinical trials, patients are separated into treatment and control groups. Control groups only get inert pills.
If both groups got equally better, then the medicine is not effective.
If the treatment group got much better, than the medicine is more trustworthy.
In order to know whether an invisible magic stone itself can produce soup, you must remove the other ingredients.
If the other ingredients cannot be removed, you cannot ignore their contribution to the soup.
In fact, if the soup is the same without the invisible magic stone, then you don't have to factor in the effect of the magic stone at all. -
placebo effect
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Not bashing anyone, but just telling a story to help people see a few things.Originally posted by laurence82:Pls, atheists, dont bash Christians anymore
I think some of them cant take the heat, and resort to bashing Buddhists now
Like the principle of parsimony.
If you can produce the same soup without an invisible magic stone, why do you need to believe in invisible magic stones?
If invisible magic stones and invisible magic pearls are all inseparable from their ingredients, how can you be confident that magic pearls only make poison while magic stones make soup.
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Yes, precisely.Originally posted by Master -_-:placebo effect -
king huang can tell u the truth.Originally posted by Cystaire:Not bashing anyone, but just telling a story to help people see a few things.
Like the principle of parsimony.
If you can produce the same soup without an invisible magic stone, why do you need to believe in invisible magic stones?
If invisible magic stones and invisible magic pearls are all inseparable from their ingredients, how can you be confident that magic pearls only make poison while magic stones make soup.
There is no such confidence. Because it can never be tested. -
Who is King Huang?Originally posted by CyNdI)4.eVa:king huang can tell u the truth. -
he's god. dun u read the bible?Originally posted by laurence82:Who is King Huang? -
yellow king?Originally posted by CyNdI)4.eVa:he's god. dun u read the bible? -
not stone la...MSG cube..Originally posted by Cystaire:A long long time ago, there was a very smart man. But he was very poor and desperately hungry.
One day, he had a great idea.
He went to the King and told him that he had a magic stone that can produce the best tasting soup in the Kingdom. No other ingredients necessary, just add boiling water.
The King was obviously skeptical, but he agreed to try. All he stands to lose is just a pot of water, so why not?
When the water arrived, the poor man quickly plopped something on a string into the pot. He stirred and stirred. Then he had a taste.
"Hmm marvellous! But it would be even better if you added some salt."
The King's men added some salt.
"Superb taste! But it would be even better if you added some carrots..."
And so on. You know the story.
Eventually the soup was served to everyone, including the King. It was the best tasting soup in the Kingdom. The poor man drank his fill. It was his first full meal in months.
"What an amazing soup made from a stone! A magical stone!" the people chanted.
But when the poor man raised his string from the pot, there was no stone. It was only an empty loop of string.
You see the poor man wasn't stupid enough to plop a real, dirty stone into a pot that he would drink from. But he didn't pull out the string fast enough, and was discovered.
The poor man became worried as the people encircled him, staring at the empty loop. Suddenly someone chanted "the magic stone is invisible! This man is an angel!"
The excited crowd threw the King off his throne and made the poor man a new King. He has an invisible magic stone that can turn water into soup.
No one will be hungry for all eternity.
ok outta pt...
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wtf...its a fukin good pt...Originally posted by Xtrider:not stone la...MSG cube..
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wo bu ming baiOriginally posted by CyNdI)4.eVa:he's god. dun u read the bible? -
King Huang is God. God is King Huang.Originally posted by laurence82:wo bu ming bai
visit www.kinghuang.blogspot.com for more information. -
lame story
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Long long time ago got MSG ah?Originally posted by Xtrider:not stone la...MSG cube..
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actually, putting faeces can make a soup taste good u all noe?
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u drink first we will followOriginally posted by MyPillowTalks:actually, putting faeces can make a soup taste good u all noe? -
wow, what a lucky man and what happen to the king?
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Yes, you've made a good observation!Originally posted by pokkagreentea:wow, what a lucky man and what happen to the king?
interesting story btw.
Did the King realize that there is no magic stone in the soup? He was rendered irrelevant the moment he was disposed.
For more than 1000 years, the invisible magic stone ruled the Kingdom.
The King was long dead and his original memoirs burnt down. If not for some copied versions safekept by the Kingdom of the Invisible Magic Pearls, we would not know what he knew.