Richard Robertson

And about determinism, which I believe in strongly, I don’t see why it should necessarily invalidate an urge or request to repent. Relatedly, the concept/construct of karma works for me too, even if there’s no invisible or transcendental force around to enforce it.

Was going to say similarly to Reg, that all religious writings first came from people thinking and feeling things before myths were invented to explain them. Then God was invented in our image to assign our thoughts and feelings a source or origin. Against other opinions, I even feel that a word like spiritual can mean something outside a…[Read more]

Davis wrote:
Whahhhhhhhhhh?

I like the time delay between that response, and “How do those diagrams you gave explain that?”… it’s like a double-take.

michael17 wrote:
Despite infinite branches existing in the quantum universe or Hilbert space only one outcome can collapse into event space at every instance. I subscribe to Penrose’s supposition, that Hilbert space is a reality and not just a mathematical construct. A Quantum God would be privy to that reality and existing outside of event s…

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So I have at least one amateur hour question. Preceded with at least one amateur hour supposition.

Supposition (open for your corrections): Either–as I think Jake spoke to–1) there are near-infinite branches, of which none will ever meet again and we can never prove or disprove their existence or empirical natures; or 2) perhaps similarly but…[Read more]

Here is a very interesting/enlightening graph wrt the amount of testing by country. It’s over a week out of date and I wish this source would update it (and present it as “per capita”), but it’s still enlightening from a historical perspective:

And there is still a shortage of available test kits in my area.

Unseen wrote:
I actually heard one “expert” ask “Are you disinfecting your keys when you come home?” That seems a bit far. Maybe I should burn my clothes when I get home.

I listen to a virology podcast every week, presented by real experts in the field, often with a guest expert in or near the front lines. One interesting fact learned about m…[Read more]