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Assertion isn't evidence. You have yet to actually say a single thing about why you think I'm wrong, just that you do. This is not how argumentation and debate work.
This isn't ridicule, it's just baseless name-calling. This is elementary school-level insults. If it were ridicule, it would have any evidence behind it at all. The longer you go without providing any basis for your claims, the more clear it becomes that you have none.
Every system humanity uses is arbitrary. We decide and agree that something arbitrary is useful, and then we decide to imbue that arbitrary thing with meaning.
Words didn't mean anything until we assigned meaning to them, and you can tell they're arbitrary because the same combination of syllables can mean something completely different in another language. For someone who claims to know multiple languages, you should be aware of that. Meters aren't meters because they have to be; we decided that the distance light travels in 0.000000003335641s is a useful amount of distance. We could've easily defined it as the distance light travels in 0.000000003335642s and it wouldn't be any more or less logical.
That's how humans work. We give arbitrary things meaning. You insisting that the shapes in the clouds are definitely sharks doesn't make them sharks. The shapes are arbitrary.
Contrasted with the complete lack of argument you've made.
Aw, buddy, you already tried that insult once. And it wasn't funny the first time.
Now that one's funny! Good job. I knew you could do it.
I mean, support your claims that there's something inherent about timekeeping systems. Something in our brains, or in the rotation of the Earth, or in the physical properties of light, or something that means that high noon has to be represented on the clock as 1200.
That's what "support" means. That's what evidence is. That's what any reasonable, good-faith argument has to include.
I am starting to think that you believe "arbitrary" means "random." But that isn't what it means. It means "randomly chosen," or perhaps "selected without impetus." The Egyptians didn't have to choose twelve constellations; nobody was forcing them to, and there wasn't anything inherent about them that required them to base a system of timekeeping around it.
You're welcome! I love knowing that I'm helping put some joy into the world.
Oh, thanks for the reminder, I forgot to log the book I finished yesterday.
You still can't even answer without making it like homework for yourself, singling out things as if this is some official debate. It isn't. It's just you equivocating.
"Wyaaa everything is actually arbitrary, EVERYTHING! So I was never wrong about it!"
The word "arbitrary" has a non-arbitrary meaning.
You can keep equivocating. It won't change anything. You're still wrong.
Yeah, I now I haven't explained to you in detail why you're wrong, but I assumed you can't be so stupid as to keep arguing that all time keeping systems are arbitrary when I point out the divisibility of hours.
Keep on lying about having read a book, surely saying you're not a moron makes it so that you magically aren't. You're ignorant of just how ignorant you are.
You definitely voted Trump with an IQ like that.
Do I need to paste the meaning of "arbitrary" here again?
Like I said, you don't even speak ONE language fluently while I speak almost a dozen on some level.
"EVERYTHING is arbitrary words don't mean anything I'm never wrong and I'm not lying or pretending"
When will you realise I've never taken you seriously, clown? You're my ENTERTAINMENT.