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Wow, what a coincidence!

Are you performing on that recording, too? Is it an aerobic performance?

I should post the lyrics for everyone (but I haven’t checked them):

Heard of a van that is loaded with weapons,
Packed up and ready to go
Heard of some grave sites, out by the highway,
A place where nobody knows

The sound of gunfire, off in the…

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I rarely get nostalgic, but here’s an iconic moment from 1983, recorded on film. (A song I think more people should see!)

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

Check out the Earth Harp as an instrument and if you like something different.

Thanks, but still, that bend at 51 seconds grabbed me by my homunculus. I’m still feeling it.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

What happens if you boogie in zero-gravity?

I like that musical choice. Still hoping to honor Unseen’s question, albeit in my eccentric way, I geeked out math/science-wise to analyze (hey oops that rhymes) to self-edumacate me-self on the riffy part that I like, that looooong bendy note on the guitar. Funny thing,…[Read more]

@Regthefronkeyfarmer

When you say you are confused about what you believe are you talking about belief in God or with something broader that involves trusting specific people and what they say?

honestly all of the above. Just everything. A paper and pen is a good idea. Right now I don’t know who to trust.

Unseen wrote:

Science tends to revere repeatable results and is used to determine “that which is the case.” But if you stop to think about it, it’s a kind of rule of thumb in a sense. What the actual “fact” is, is beyond our grasp.

But it beats superstition by a long shot!

(Just poking at ya… I admit, half of t…[Read more]

I cheated with Google: https://www.quora.com/In-the-Tractatus-5-1361-Wittgenstein-said-that-belief-in-the-causal-nexus-was-superstition-Was-he-right

Makes sense to me but I don’t know if that covers what you wanted to cover. Before looking that up, my first, pedestrian thought was that facts and causality become accepted as “known” when their…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:

A forum quotation system seems to elude the prophet. Nothing to learn here.

I don’t mind, still fixing them, albeit late and silently.

I’ve had a few really incredible/awesome coincidences happen in my life that might influence some people into believing they were caused by supernatural influence. I’ll never forget them. But I’m still not ready to believe they had anything to do with what “believers” say is their go-to assumption. (Presumption, even.) Mere humans make up all…[Read more]

The only truth wrt religion I’m certain of is that mortal human beings wrote all scriptures. The latest, supremely influential contribution to scriptures came from Muhammed (peanut butter upon him), riding on the coattails/wings of Gabriel (and other widespread mythology of the time) to achieve maximum credibility in his neck of the woods/desert…[Read more]

@michael17 Hey Michael, I’ve fixed several posts (and I think I have a few more to go) that start with a blockquote (which is highly appreciated), but you’re not closing the blockquote (by clicking on the ” quote button) before writing your response. I’m not making a big deal out of it, but appreciate your posts and just want them to be as…[Read more]

I learned from the video, mostly because we didn’t go that deep into European systems in polysci class. Thanks in advance for enduring it @Davis, and I hope you have time to offer more of your expertise on it. (Although I’m mostly interested now in how various economic systems will play out, as a probably never-ending set of experiments. And I…[Read more]

I liked the whole presentation, especially since I could watch most of it at 1.5x speed, and the rest at 1.25x.

I was disappointed that he wasn’t mentioning automation/end-of-work… until he did near the end. This will be an increasingly looming issue, which can be informed only by how we currently are or aren’t able to deal with unemployment…[Read more]