A Subjectivist music lover went, as always to have his yearly checkup. Unbeknownst to the Subjectivist music lover his new doctor was an Objectivist music lover.Well after awhile the nurse brings the Subjectivist patient into the examination room. After a few minutes pass the Objectivist doctor walks into the room, takes one look at the Subjectivist patient and says, "Man, you look terrible."
The Subjectivist patient says, "Yeah, doc, everyone keeps telling me I look terrible, but I have to tell you I honestly feel great!"
The Objectivist doctor says, "That just can't be, there's absolutely no way anyone could look that terrible and feel great, it's absolutely impossible!"
The Subjectivist patient says, "But doc, I'm telling you the truth I feel great! Why should I lie? In fact, I've never felt better than I do at this exact moment!"
The Objectivist physician replies, "Listen you're just fooling yourself. With all these people telling you how terrible you look, you want so desperately to believe you feel great that you fool yourself into feeling great, when the reality is you look terrible so you MUST be sick."
"But Doc" the Subjectivist patient replies, "That cannot be true. When I woke up this morning I didn't decide to feel great. I just woke up and felt great!"
Ah, the Objectivist doctor thought, now I understand. So the Objectivist doctor turned towards his Subjectivist patient and said, "It's expectation bias!" You woke up this morning expecting to feel great and so you felt great. But I'm afraid the reality is you look terrible so you MUST be very sick."
"No Doc" the Subjectivist patient replies, "That cannot be true either. When I woke up this morning I had no expectations on how I would feel. In fact with everyone telling me how terrible I look, shouldn't my expectations have been biased towards I must be sick? So by your theory shouldn't I have woke up feeling sick? But that's not what happened instead I woke up feeling great and I still feel great! So I don't believe I feel great due to expectation bias either"
Being a staunch Objectivist the doctor knew there had to be a scientific explination as to how his patient could believe he felt great when it was quite obvious that he looked terrible and had to be sick. So the doctor decided that he shouldn't make such a quick a diagnosis. Instead he'd rely on science to prove he was correct. With that in mind the doctor excused himself so he could go and check his medical books which are objective and scientific. That way he could try and figure out objectively & scientifically what was wrong with the patient. So the Objectivist doctor says, "Let me get my medical text. I'll be right back."
Within a few minutes the Objectivist doctor brings a huge book into the examination room and starts to go through the book with the Subjectivist patient...
"Let's see," says the physician...
1) "Looks terrible feels terrible...nope, that's not it.
2) Looks good feels good...nope, that's not it either.So the Objectivist doctor keeps looking and looking knowing all the while science will have the answer. Finally the Objectivist doctor crys out "Eureka! Here it is, here's the scientific explinantion. Look it's right here!
3) 'Looks terrible, feels great'....You're a vagina!"
With that comment the Subjectivist patient rolled his eyes and walked away knowing he felt great, no matter what the Objective, scientific books said to the contrary.
Thetubeguy1954
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Topic - The Objectivist Doctor & His Subjectivist Patient - thetubeguy1954 08:40:17 02/15/07 (73)
- A more realistic story would have the subjectivist *mental* patient visiting the objectivist (Psychiatric) Doctor - AJinFLA 19:38:31 02/18/07 (39)
- A Realistic Story Based On Facts Would Be To Have The Subjectivist Patient Being Misdiagnosed By The Objectivist Doctor - thetubeguy1954 08:40:56 02/19/07 (37)
- It's hard to grasp the Objectivist POV - kerr 09:44:59 02/19/07 (4)
- Re: It's hard to grasp the Objectivist POV - bwaslo 13:22:12 02/19/07 (3)
- Re: It's hard to grasp the Objectivist POV - kerr 13:57:31 02/19/07 (2)
- Re: It's hard to grasp the Objectivist POV - bwaslo 17:32:26 02/19/07 (1)
- Re: It's hard to grasp the Objectivist POV - kerr 10:44:46 02/20/07 (0)
- Re: A Realistic Story Based On Facts Would Be To Have The Subjectivist Patient Being Misdiagnosed By The Objectivist Doc - AJinFLA 09:32:05 02/19/07 (31)
- More Brainless Banter From King POLLYinFLA - thetubeguy1954 14:13:53 02/19/07 (28)
- Re: More Brainless Banter From King POLLYinFLA - AJinFLA 15:27:08 02/20/07 (27)
- More Putrid Parroting From King POLLYinFLA - thetubeguy1954 14:27:31 02/21/07 (2)
- See my response to AJ below - kerr 04:19:30 02/22/07 (0)
- Re: More Putrid Parroting From King POLLYinFLA - AJinFLA 15:07:30 02/21/07 (0)
- Looks like an opportunity here - kerr 08:43:44 02/21/07 (23)
- Re: Looks like an opportunity here - AJinFLA 14:50:06 02/21/07 (22)
- C'mon Tommy! - kerr 04:15:44 02/22/07 (21)
- The Reality Of It All - thetubeguy1954 07:55:28 02/22/07 (20)
- Re: The Reality Of It All - kerr 08:20:21 02/22/07 (19)
- Re: The Reality Of It All - thetubeguy1954 14:16:19 02/22/07 (18)
- Re: The Reality Of It All - kerr 04:57:46 02/23/07 (2)
- Re: The Reality Of It All - thetubeguy1954 07:06:49 02/23/07 (1)
- Re: The Reality Of It All - kerr 07:41:55 02/23/07 (0)
- Re: The Reality Of It All - theaudiohobby 03:55:59 02/23/07 (14)
- Re: The Reality Of It All - thetubeguy1954 07:24:53 02/23/07 (13)
- Re: The Reality Of It All - theaudiohobby 07:58:01 02/23/07 (12)
- Re: The Reality Of It All - thetubeguy1954 09:42:56 02/23/07 (11)
- Re: The Reality Of It All - theaudiohobby 03:41:49 02/24/07 (10)
- Re: The Reality Of It All - thetubeguy1954 09:35:40 02/26/07 (6)
- Re: Pathetic excuses - theaudiohobby 03:05:47 02/27/07 (5)
- You're 100% Correct Hobby Your Excuses Are Pathetic - thetubeguy1954 11:28:41 02/27/07 (4)
- Re: Pathetic excuses - theaudiohobby 01:40:35 02/28/07 (3)
- Another Post From Audiodummy - thetubeguy1954 14:09:49 02/28/07 (2)
- Re: Your are still being pathetic - theaudiohobby 01:15:43 03/02/07 (1)
- Why I Believe Aczel Is Wrong. (Long) - thetubeguy1954 12:48:03 03/02/07 (0)
- Re: Pathetic excuses - theaudiohobby 20:11:57 02/27/07 (0)
- Re: The Reality Of It All - AJinFLA 13:14:27 02/24/07 (2)
- Re: The Reality Of It All - theaudiohobby 14:40:57 02/24/07 (1)
- Re: The Reality Of It All - thetubeguy1954 09:38:39 02/26/07 (0)
- Refresh my memory - Russ57 11:43:00 02/19/07 (1)
- Re: Refresh my memory - AJinFLA 14:46:30 02/20/07 (0)
- You're right - kerr 04:49:25 02/19/07 (0)
- This joke is WAY too long - Richard BassNut Greene 13:00:50 02/17/07 (1)
- Re: This joke is WAY too long - kerr 17:18:35 02/18/07 (0)
- Why a healthy "patient" should go to a doctor anyway? (nt) - cheap-Jack 08:04:03 02/16/07 (3)
- Prevention better than cure? I think that's why Bjh goes to his Doctor for a daily prostate exam nt - AJinFLA 16:09:40 02/16/07 (2)
- With Soundmind gone... - robert young 06:10:31 02/18/07 (0)
- Be nice, bud. (nt) - cheap-Jack 11:54:51 02/17/07 (0)
- Time to try a subjectivist doctor - AJinFLA 03:24:58 02/16/07 (0)
- He's not an objectivist doctor, he's just incompetent. - Pat D 18:59:00 02/15/07 (9)
- He's Definitly An Abjectivist Doctor, Because It Was My Story To Tell & I Labeled Him As An Objectivist. - thetubeguy1954 06:09:59 02/16/07 (6)
- Both of them seem to be subjectivists-that's the real joke. - Pat D 07:29:41 02/16/07 (5)
- But only one... - kerr 07:56:49 02/16/07 (4)
- Not really. - Pat D 15:40:29 02/18/07 (3)
- And then there is this - AJinFLA 19:46:48 02/18/07 (2)
- Good one! - Pat D 20:24:54 02/18/07 (1)
- Re: Good one! - kerr 04:27:23 02/19/07 (0)
- See a Doctor immediately... - bjh 20:56:16 02/15/07 (1)
- He's attempting to make a debating point . . . - Pat D 04:21:43 02/16/07 (1)
- And here I thought it was the dick! nt - clarkjohnsen 12:00:50 02/15/07 (1)
- Everyone knows it is. -t - Bruce Kendall 18:22:20 02/15/07 (0)
- Brevity is the soul of wit. nt - markrohr 10:53:25 02/15/07 (0)
- You made me read all that - AJinFLA 09:35:23 02/15/07 (11)
- The DEVIL Made You Do it, Not Me! - thetubeguy1954 09:51:59 02/15/07 (10)
- TG54 how about a road trip to Chicago for Danley's postponed demo? - AJinFLA 14:42:21 02/15/07 (9)
- Sorry POLLYinFLA I don't Want A Cracker - thetubeguy1954 08:26:06 02/16/07 (2)
- Thought I'd offer to help (nt) - AJinFLA 16:12:05 02/16/07 (1)
- Help Yourself With Your Own Numerous Problems First (nt) - thetubeguy1954 12:59:24 02/20/07 (0)
- Hey if he won't/can't do it let me know, I have space for you... - bjh 21:24:53 02/15/07 (5)
- Great thread! Very informational - kerr 04:42:12 02/16/07 (3)
- Re: Great thread! Very informational - bjh 05:16:24 02/16/07 (2)
- I'm missing something, though - kerr 06:23:29 02/16/07 (1)
- Re: I'm missing something, though - bjh 07:21:40 02/16/07 (0)
- Re: Hey if he won't/can't do it let me know, I have space for you... - AJinFLA 03:21:26 02/16/07 (0)
- I'm gona send that to my doctor & dentist to hang on theirwall! nt - grhughes 08:56:23 02/15/07 (0)