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The article on consciousness gets into an area I’ve always found fascinating.

Consciousness is an illusion in the sense that our perception of the world is given to us by our brain. Is an orange orange in color out there in the world? No, because outside of a nervous system, what we call orange isn’t a color at all, it’s a wave length. In that…[Read more]

Reg,

What makes MAGA anti-Christian?

Atheists lecturing believers about their own doctrines strikes me as concern-trolling. If they’re making a mistake, let them do so.

Reg,

Harvard, do you hear yourself?

The Government defunding of Harvard and the rest of Ivy League Academia is right, but the argument used here is flawed.

When Government defunds Harvard and the rest of Ivy League Academia, it is not so much exercising speech of it’s own. Rather the Government is forbidding forced speech, which results when…[Read more]

Thanks Reg!!

Have a great week!

Reg,

Once MAGA replace all the State Library boards, the mess will be cleaned up. But the range of books will be all under the same section. The Dewey Decimal system will become redundant. They will probably have hundreds of copies of the same book. Any other books will require crayons.

Good. Then they’ll sit and collect as much dust as…[Read more]

PopeBeanie,

Wow, I haven’t seen any problems close to that in a dozen libraries nearby here in northern California. I imagine our taxes are significantly higher. 🙂

You smile like that’s a good thing. I’m sure the taxes are even higher in L.A. and San Fransisco and other spots in southern California, yet Skid Row spills over into hallowed h…[Read more]

Once MAGA replace all the State Library boards, the mess will be cleaned up. But the range of books will be all under the same section. The Dewey Decimal system will become redundant. They will probably have hundreds of copies of the same book. Any other books will require crayons.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
The last times I went to a library, it had loud, noisy kids who chased each other in the library and librarians and “security” who didn’t have the brass to throw them out, and the fleas from someone’s comfort/familiar animal attacked me and practically chased me out. One library had signs telling people not to bring f…

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Enco, yes. The local library is here is all of that. You get a good whiff of urine as you approach gateway to literary wonders. Those who have just about given up on life have all but moved in.

I also practically lived in the library at my university when I was working on my grad degree. Thankfully I did have a home to go to when I left.

Should…[Read more]

Robert,

Aw, Gramps Bradbury! You can read probably all of those books and more on The Guttenberg Project or The Internet Archive without a library, a place where you don’t want to live because nowadays, everyone else lives there and brings their worst ways.

The last times I went to a library, it had loud, noisy kids who chased each other in the…[Read more]

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,

And nodding by the fire, take down this book,

And slowly read, and dream of the soft look

Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,

And loved your beauty with love false or true,

But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,

And loved the sorrows of…[Read more]

Conservatism in older age may reflect disillusionment. Idk.

Have not read Bradbury since i was 12 or 13. Might be a good idea to order a few books and get reacquainted. If i come back and remember my prior life i may take his advice on how to become a writer.

jakelafort wrote:
Enjoyed listening to Ray Bradbury, ha?

That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries…[Read more]

Enjoyed listening to Ray Bradbury, ha?

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
@Enco – I make a point of telling Science deniers where all the information they need can be discovered 🙂

Reminds me of something one of my favorite authors would say.

@Enco – I make a point of telling Science deniers where all the information they need  can be discovered 🙂

Reg,

Abiogenesis is the study of how life might have originated from non-living matter, while evolution deals with how existing life changes over time through mechanisms like natural selection and genetic drift.

They’re distinct domains: evolution presupposes life already exists. The fact that we don’t yet fully understand how life began doe…

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Abiogenesis is the study of how life might have originated from non-living matter, while evolution deals with how existing life changes over time through mechanisms like natural selection and genetic drift.

They’re distinct domains: evolution presupposes life already exists. The fact that we don’t yet fully understand how life began doesn’t und…[Read more]