Just looked out of the window and saw a robin making its nest in preparation for spring. The sun was shining, children were screaming, some fat persian cat was sauntering across my back lawn. And then it starts to snow. And it stops. And it starts. And it stops.Starts. Stops. Starts. Stops.

I cant decide whether to bring my washing in off the line because its only powder snow and it wont make up its mind- to fall or not to fall.

Any fancy-assed explainations for this weather phenomenon?

umm...the weather just wants to tease you with snow

You live in the uk-thats usually explanation enough for some freaky assed weather!

not in the south. our weather is usally of the regular sort/

You lucky mofo. I wish it snowed in Florida.

What's this about gum?

scientific methodologism insists that all theories must be firmly based on repeatable observations that can be made under controlled conditions and which must be demonstrable so that they are registered by one or more of our five main sense organs. in practice and of necessity in the so-called 'social and historical sciences' one does not insist on repeatability or controlled conditions for the simple reason that this is almost always impossible. one does insist on observation.

empiricism is seen in most social science as a guiding philosophy, not just as a method for ascertaining certain matters of fact, which is what it is. despite the demonstration of the unavoidable illogical consequences and paradoxes of scientific empiricism, the mentality of the academic and scientific establishment today is still dominated and underpinned by so-called sense empiricism or scientific methodologism, which requires observation by aid of some sense organ(s).

the sense organs, are assumed out of hand to be nothing but physical. though organic in structure, they are seen as complex bio-physical mechanisms, in much the same way that neurologists regard the brain. science holds that what cannot be decided by a crucial observation - namely by a decisive fact registering on one or more sense organs of the observer - is 'not scientific', which is often said as being tantamount to simply not having existence or not being true. at the same time, science insists that 'physical reality' is largely, if not entirely, quite other than the human sense organs show us. to add yet more confusion, since newton a majority of scientists have demonstrated that the sense organs themselves can 'create' subjective phenomena. the 'qualities' of color, taste etc. were not to be regarded as belonging to the objective 'external world'.

one assumption of empiricism that was unprovable but is now widely regarded as erroneous, namely that the mind is as a blank tablet at birth and receives absolutely all its impressions from experience and the ideas that arise from impressions. ironically enough, several kinds of recent empirical research into pre-natal influences, such as of human language on unborn children, even provides evidence that this is not the case.

thus, scientific empiricism is based on the narrow and outdated assumption that all that can ever be known about anything must come to us through the sense organs. without tangible evidence to support it, it denies the possibility of cognisant abilities for which there is massive extra-scientific evidence and also of the possibility that introspection can provide inner perceptions, insight - or even conceptions - for which there is no sensory basis. physiology itself has long since shown that at least one of the 'five senses' (touch) is comprised of a variety of types of sensor. meanwhile, in the halls of justice, experiences for which there is no clearly identifiable organ are denied any validity, even though physiology has only tentative or partial explanations for snow, weather or any other atmospherical phenomenon.

uh..... after last weeks snow, im just waiting for the worst. apparently the worst is yet to come...

heavier snow than last thur...shite.

where did you find this?!

on my keyboard..

okey dokey

i hope it helped.

yes thankyou it did

ok, if you need further explanation.. just let me know.

cheers me dears

my thoughts exactly

not sure how that deals with weather and gum, but you sure did help me study for my psychology test!

Hell its raining in the middland today...AGAIN...damn snow is only piddling it down though, i wish it would snow everyone in so i don't have to get up!