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PopeBeanie replied to the topic Sunday School April 6th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 7 months agoTheEncogitationer wrote:
However, I still have many questions: If we assume a single Natural Universe with nothing before it or beyond it, with all energy, all matter, all space, all time, wouldn’t this mean there can be no “balloon,” no “surface,” no “outside,” no force to expand space “inside” the “balloon?”And if Relativity doesn’t ap…
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School April 6th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 7 months agoReg:
I don’t use similes as I don’t know what they are like.
I see what you did there…like John Prine singing about Kentucky Similies in A Big Ol’ Goofy World:
I also see that a perfect analogy would be a tautology, so I don’t fault you as I struggle to understand theories of Cos…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School April 6th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 7 months agoIf The Big Bang took place 13.8 Billion years ago, and the radius of the known Universe is around 46 Billion Light Years, wouldn’t the matter at the edge of that radius had to have travelled from The Big Bang at faster than the speed of light if the matter at the radius came from The Big Bang, an obvious violation of Einsteinian physics?
That i…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School April 6th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 7 months agounapologetic wrote:
In the article about the boycott of US goods, they show this photo, saying that US products are turned upside-down in protest:
This is standard practice for Hienz. They even print their label upside-down with extra wide caps. Hienz bottles have been upside-down in my local (Pennsylvania) store for years.Genius of Heinz’s…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School April 6th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 7 months agoA bit more fun with Aron Ra;
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School April 6th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 7 months agoReg,
The Kalam cosmological argument debunked.
Reading that story has given rise to many big questions:
* If The Big Bang took place 13.8 Billion years ago, and the radius of the known Universe is around 46 Billion Light Years, wouldn’t the matter at the edge of that radius had to have travelled from The Big Bang at faster than the speed of…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School April 6th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 7 months agoYes, I always store such bottles ‘upside-down’, no matter their origin.
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unapologetic replied to the topic Sunday School April 6th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 7 months agoIn the article about the boycott of US goods, they show this photo, saying that US products are turned upside-down in protest:

This is standard practice for Hienz. They even print their label upside-down with extra wide caps. Hienz bottles have been upside-down in my local (Pennsylvania) store for years.
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Unseen replied to the topic When does a program become a person? The Artifice Girl in the forum Science 1 year, 7 months ago
_Robert_ wrote:
How ’bout we just don’t program emotions into any robots.In her case, she was programmed to learn in order improve her performance and her acquisition of emotion emerged as she improved.
An intelligent AI without emotions would lack empathy.
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unapologetic replied to the topic When does a program become a person? The Artifice Girl in the forum Science 1 year, 7 months ago
I stumbled across it and was surprised I hadn’t heard of it before. I recommend it.
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School April 6th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 7 months agoThanks Reg!
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic When does a program become a person? The Artifice Girl in the forum Science 1 year, 7 months ago
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_Robert_ replied to the topic When does a program become a person? The Artifice Girl in the forum Science 1 year, 7 months ago
How ’bout we just don’t program emotions into any robots.
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School April 6th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 7 months agoHave a great week!

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Unseen started the topic When does a program become a person? The Artifice Girl in the forum Science 1 year, 7 months ago
The Artifice Girl does an even better job of laying out the ethical questions and risks posed by humanlike intelligent AI than the Blade Runner movies and Ex Machina, and those are great movies. This film was made on a budget that was probably less than just one scene in any of those films.
A man is brought in for questioning by Federal Agents…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Political Parodies in the forum Small Talk 1 year, 7 months ago
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Unseen replied to the topic Political Parodies in the forum Small Talk 1 year, 7 months ago
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Unseen replied to the topic Political Parodies in the forum Small Talk 1 year, 7 months ago
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unapologetic started the topic Political Parodies in the forum Small Talk 1 year, 7 months ago
I’ve just discovered the Marsh family.
Thry have been recording for about 10 years, so i’m binging their vids this week.
Their political parodies are fun.“Bohemian Trumpsody” – Marsh Family
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY_8WzcHqMQ
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Unseen replied to the topic The new powers that be in the forum
Politics 1 year, 7 months agoNow that The Orange One is in office, he just doesn’t give a fuck. Honor fallen soldiers? Not when the golf course is beckoning. (BTW, he seems to think that everyone plays golf.)
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