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Davis wrote:
There is no religion out there that is absolutely fully compatible with the above.

Davis wrote:
It is the hold that that religion has over the state that makes the difference, and it does so to a lesser or greater extent over the world based on a country’s adoption of humanist principles […]

While some states have hold over r…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Do you have any opinion on transmission of covid outside?

I believe there have been super-spreader events in outdoor crowds. I’ve noticed there are days when there’s no breeze at all, and I’m sure the risk is higher than with a breeze. I’m not pushing those opinions on anyone. In any case, outcomes are rarely definable as “all…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
@robert Exactly WHEN do you expect people to stsrt wearing masks properly, anyway? I thought so. So I think we need to do our assessment of whether masks work from there.

Unseen wrote:
It turns out that masks do diddly-squat.

That last statement is the kind that kills gullible people, and enables disease to spread. I want to cover…[Read more]

I’m most certainly not a scriptural expert, and I’ve no inclination to become one. I think that interpretations of any kind of scripture have been given credibility based on whoever happens to have the power to bestow authority to those interpreters or to theirself. So, I don’t feel too short on wisdom by being ignorant of this kind of history.…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
I think the fact that there’s little apparent interest in investigating the matter is the best indication that we did do it.

My intention is to withhold conclusions until there’s sufficient evidence. All “evidence” so far is circumstantial. I’m so disappointed with the online trend to draw conclusions without evidence, while c…[Read more]

I’ve objected to the misuse of the word hallucination enough to just ignore writings that center around it, unless it’s about imagining something that’s actually not there. Even though “red” is a human construct, it has meaning when communicating to other humans, and it seems meaningless to argue that “red” is not there. As Autumn said, a…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Well, if all you had to read as an introduction to Philosophy was Thomas Nagel, you would have to ask: “Well, what does it all mean?” and you would think it was a waste of time.

Fortunately, I had some better texts to introduce me to Philosophy. Frederick Copleston’s Philosophers and Philosophies (I think that was the n…

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michael17 wrote:
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRth17BJ/

An unmanned Tic Tac UAP shot down with no visible signs of propulsion

I’ve mentioned a possible answer before, but in this case there’s a chance we’ll get to study this thing if it’s found. I’m not jumping to any final conclusion, in spite of masses of people who tend to do that.

I thought of…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
If someone wants their First Cause, there it is.

Only if The Big Bang didn’t have a cause. Multiverse consideration seems popular among cosmologists now. While yeah, whatever may have caused The Big Bang may never be knowable, at least it’s as good a reset/reboot process to assume until we learn more.

rhonjon wrote:
For some time…

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