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Hey @Strong Spiderman ,

Does it mean I'm old if I don't know what the what's app is?

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No not really , sometimes we don't have enought time , or we have different style of life that make us not aware of things , don't worrie you are not alone
here a video explains the app :

 

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After all your support off the other thread it's time for me to return the favour

No it does not make you old that you don't know what WhatsApp is. Basically it's and app that you can download on most smartphones today. And basically it allows you to connect with others in your contacts (on your phone) if they also have the app too. It is free to download, and you can connect with them at anytime as long as you have WiFi or mobile data (3G/4G whatever)

I hope that was of help. Thank you for all the support you have given me @StopTheMusic if you have any further questions do not hesitate and let me know. I would actually be more than happy to help you.

Stay strong!!

 

Hey @TheGoldenEra ,

Thanks. I do have a smart phone, but sadly it's smarter than I am.

Two of the things I miss in life are paper and buttons.

Not buttons as in the things that go on clothing, but buttons as in on a telephone or computer.

I remember when my parents having a conversation one night. My mother wanted a push button phone instead of a rotary phone (a retronym - one of my favorite pass times to spot). In those days - when all but a few dinosaurs were dead - it was illegal to use your own phone.

You had to rent the phone from the phone company. A push button phone was more per month to rent (I don't remember the exact amount but I think around a dollar more per month) and you had to pay for touch tone service on top of that.

My dad had given in to the charge for renting the new phone, but really thought the extra charge for touch tone service was a rip off since the phone wouldn't work without it.

Had you already figured out my mother won and got the new phone?

Today it drives up a tree when the automated lady in the automated call director says, "Using the keys on your touch tone phone, input your account number". Really? I'm suppose to use these buttons right here on the phone I just dialed your number on to connect this call? Thank God for those instructions or I'd have gone off the reservation and Lord knows when I'd have input my account number.

I have no idea why I telling you this, you most likely are using the face time machine to talk to a friend and I've lost you long ago.

But, if anyone is still reading this, retronyms are everywhere and we pass by them like they haven't changed our world when they have. At first I thought they were a very modern thing.

The best example of a modern retronym is "regular coffee". Order coffee in a sit down restaurant and the waitperson will ask you "regular or decaf". Before decaf coffee there was just "coffee", "regular coffee" only came about as a term after decaf coffee became available.

"Land line" is another example and far more recent. There were car phones going back to the late 1950s but they were so uncommon it didn't matter. But with the popularity of cell (or mobile) phones suddenly there became a need to make sure a person knew if you were giving them your "land line" versus your cell phone number.

As I pointed out above (what are the odds anyone is still reading this tripe?), "rotary phone" is a retronym because before push button phones all phones were rotary - well actually before that phones didn't have anyway to dial them you just picked it up and told the operator who you wanted to call.

Which makes "operated assisted call" a retronym. At one point that was the only way to make a call, now they charge your for the service.

I am on a quest (really, honest if you are still reading this you should stop - I'm just going on like your uncle you visit on family day at the "home") to find the oldest retronym. Perhaps the original retronym. For a long time I thought uncircumcised was the oldest. After all before the first circumcision there was no need for the term.

But, I realized "commoner" was older. Before there was Royalty there were just people. The need for the term commoner was only required after someone became a King.

Today, I think the oldest retronym is "naked". Everyone is born naked, and there had to be a time during human evolution (no, I don't 'believe' in evolution - I know it to be a fact) or if you prefer in the Garden of Eden when everyone was naked. So, there was no need to describe a state of clothed or not. But when the first people started wearing clothing, the rest of the world became "unclothed" or "naked". Today that gets my vote as the oldest retronym.

Old people ramble, but if you listen long enough we get to the point. If we can remember what the point was.

Dial tone? I used to have a rule never to pay much attention to anyone who's never heard a dial tone, but now he's my doctor. Oh well. (Honest, I can do this all day - why are you reading this? Go outside where it's sunny <wink>).

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@StopTheMusic I've got this sussed. The oldest retronym is 'nothing' because after the Big Bang there was 'something' therefore before it, there was 'nothing' the oldest retronym has now been solved ;D

No offence but i think this could pan out into a great debate(apologies if I offend you in anyway) . But evolution is just a theory. Hence, why they call it the theory of evolution (not fact of evolution) There is no link between us and the apes, we can find fossils of dinosaurs from over 65 million years ago yet we struggle to find a connection between us and apes less than like 7 million ago (approx). A direct link that shows us evolving from apes, why? Because there is none. I agree with evolution do not get me wrong. From the very beginning up until the most complex organisms on earth. But humans simply can't fit into this system, of all the species around why are we the only ones with excelling intellect, morals, advanced communication? We simply dont fit.

 

Who are these "doctors" you claim are part of this group? What specific training and knowledge do they have of high speed internet porn, its effects and how this may be "solved". It sounds like a scam to me. What reassurances can you give?

 

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You may have something there. The newest version of string theory, or M theory, can see "through" the big bang. Thus able to at least peak at what existed before the big bang. Even "something" is made up of "nothing". The total energy level of the universe is Zero. In science when the answer is either Zero or Infinity it often turns out to be wrong.

I don't worry about evolution. I seriously think everyone has a right to believe in what they want after looking at the facts.

Is it possible that humans were created instantly by God? Yes.

According to the laws of physics it's possible that one day human's just appeared. Sub atomic particles do, after all, pop in and out of 'existence' (or at least into the 4 dimensions we can observe) all the time.

As to the word "theory", in science theory means "proof". As in the Pythagorean theorem which states that the square of the hypotenuse (the side opposite the right angle) is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. The theorem, or "theory", is a proof of the hypothesis.

In every day usage the word "theory" means "an idea or hypothesis". But, it's meaning in science is "a proof".

Eisenstein's Theory of General Relativity is a proof of both how and why gravity exists. It replaced Newtonian Gravity which only describes how gravity works not why.

The Theory of General Relativity makes many claims about the way the universe works. Many of these claims even Eisenstein thought would never be seen in observational science and would remain only as proof on paper. However, as observational science has become far more precise, most of Eisenstein's Theory has been observed including most recently gravitational waves from the merger of two black holes - something Eisenstein actually said would be impossible to observe.

When Darwin published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859, the existence of the atom had not been proven. The how of genetics wasn't even understood. What was known was that genetics happened - that both dominate and recessive "traits" were passed down from mother and father to offspring.

As science progressed, every test of Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection has shown it to be true. DNA sequencing, evolutionary development have all show the paper theory to be true in observational science.

It's impossible to prove a negative. So, I don't argue about creationism. I can't prove it's not true. I do, however, call shenanigans when believers in creationism use science to prove that creationism is true. If it's true it should not require science to back it up. Creationism isn't a scientific theory, it's a religious belief and therefore should stand as such.

I have family members who are Buddhist and believe in reincarnation. I don't ask them to prove it scientifically, because it doesn't require such a proof. Creationism doesn't require a scientific proof, it's a spiritual or religious belief and should stand on it's own.

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