Talk:Nonsense
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[edit] Henry Lee Lucas
Henry Lee Lucas wore a hat. Sometimes he would take the hat off and hit people with it. It was a hard hat. Also sometimes he would kill people. He was a Floridian. I think he had brain problems. These problems stemmed from microwave radiation that leaked from cell phone towers. They made his brain cry and go crazy. Then he started to hear voices. The voices told him to kill his mother and father. He killed them. These voices also told him to invest in General Motors. He lost all his money in the great depression. Henry Lee Lucas is sometimes called “the great unifier” because he was the president during reconstruction of the south during the Civil War. Like Abraham Lincoln. But he was shot. Lucas was instrumental in bringing the north back into the confederacy after they lost the war. Henry Lee Lucas had a mother. A mother named Erbigina or Claudius. Sometimes Erbigina or Claudius would beat him. Sometimes she would not. Henry Lee Lucas was perplexed by this and this is why he grew up to be a statistician. He liked to calculate probability. He later remarked “It is difficult to calculate probability when being hit in the head with a broom.” Henry Lee Lucas lived by the railroad tracks. Railroads were an important method of transportation in the 1600s. They were faster than horsebuggy. Horsebuggy was dangerous. It is not fun to ride horsebuggy! Henry Lee Lucas was a ninja. It takes dedication to become a ninja. Ninja do not like hamburgers. Hamburgers disrupt their chi. That is “ninja speak” for giving them gas. This one time a ninja ate a full plate of hamburgers in a ninja dare. He exploded. It is not the way of the ninja. In conclusion Henry Lee Lucas as was not a nice man. He killed people. Also he had a retarded friend named Otis that also killed people. They say “people who kill people have friends who kill people” and it is true. Otis drew a scary picture of a demon mask. It looked like a child drew it. It is because he was retarded.
While I suspect that the above text is a fine example, I'm not sure that the article on nonsense is improved by it. -- Smerdis of Tlön 16:29, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Popper doesn't belong here
I've removed a sentence from this article that said: "Karl Popper's notion of falsifiability is an attempt to create an axiom for distinguishing sense from nonsense in the field of science; its validity remains controversial in the philosophy of science."
It's painfully obvious that whoever wrote this hasn't read much Popper, since he explicitly disavowed this misinterperetation of his falsification criterion. It was originally intended to demarcate between science and non-science, it had nothing to do with "sese" and "nonsense." This is a common error that stems from misrepresentations of Popper by logical positivists who were obsessed with meaning and sense, but he was quite explicit on correcting this misconception in his writings on several occaisions. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.150.230.229 (talk • contribs).
[edit] This article should be deleted.
In accordance with Wikipedia standards this article should be removed immediately!
"Copyright infringements, attacks, and nonsense will be deleted without warning."
DasV 15:48, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
