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The first sentence if my prior post was a run on disaster, so I thank you—especially Enco—for giving it the intended reading not the literal meaning opposite to my intention.

To wit:

Not many of the people who are asking for the normal rules of warfare to be adhered to by Israel in Gaza so as to stop what seems to be a genocidal campaign are not…[Read more]

Reg,

The recent years have taken a lot out of Douglas Murray, as it has all of us. He’s went grey quickly. I just hope he doesn’t lose that Promethean fire like too many cultural commentators have.

Unseen,

Netanyahu is not getting out of this unscathed, no matter how the war in Gaza ends.

October 7 happened on Netanyahu’s watch and his Mossad had a 9/11 scale failure of imagination not to foresee it. Given the history of the Jews, the last thing an agency dedicated to protection of Israel should have is a failure of imagination. In…[Read more]

Authoritarianism goes so well with the religious societies. A belief in a god or ‘superior’ entity and a belief in Dear Leader are really not all that far apart. If you’re already worshipping a god, it’s not a huge pivot to worshipping a leader.

@Reg

Not many of the people who are asking for the normal rules of warfare to be adhered to by Israel in Gaza so as to stop what seems to be a genocidal campaign are not pro-Hamas. They are not pro-rape or pro-torture. Don’t be absurd.

Israel has become a right-wing authoritarian country which keeps friendlier company with other authoritarian…[Read more]

Strega,

Give hegemony to far left/Islamists the Islamists execute the socialist/lefties as they did in Iran in 1979.

A war would ensue between the various Muslim sects to determine top dog. Excellent chance they’d all agree to complete the final solution. I am not going to elaborate on the horrors of Islam. I think to one degree or another we…[Read more]

With respect to the regime without any rights, I am hard pressed to see that as something different than that which the current administration aims for.

“I would like to quote what you said last time, that ‘there’s nothing that’s more important to this court than due process rights and fundamental fairness.’”

Mahmoud Khalil addressing the court that ruled gov can kick his sorry ass to Timbuktu or seaworthy to Davy Jones locker! Ain’t that rich having the scum of the earth intend to capitalize…[Read more]

I have pretty much ditched all the MAGA supporters from my world. Feels good.

Unseen wrote:
Trump lies to see who’s loyal to him. Who’s in his cult.

L. Ron Hubbard, creator of Scientology was a science fiction author, who eventually made claims like he was a (nuclear?) physicist, Buddha in a past life, and he kept writing the most unbelievable origin stories and how people can nurture their superpowers, even learning to…[Read more]

PopeBeanie wrote:
instantaneous disentanglement could occur if a dimension exists where those two particles are actually very close to each other, or perhaps even still joined as one particle or wave.

In higher dimensions, that could happen.  That makes perfect sense in its way.  Distance is distance, in 1-dimensional units, no matter what d…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
Or, more than one dimension.  All the dimensions maybe.

In string theory they speak of 10 or 11 dimensions (I forget which). I’ll never understand the theories, but the most convincing argument to me is about how entanglement of two particles can be broken instantly, even when those particles are separated by a distance that…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
If we go “above” our three-dimensional world, we go into the fourth dimension of time, from which we can see the 3-d landscape, embedded within spacetime, some way into the past and future.

Hang on, I’m not sure about that.  It’s “some way in space”, not the past and future.

To go “above” our world, it’s a 4-d world, so we…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
It is at best a faulty analogy and here’s what’s wrong with it. That example envisions a three-dimensional object, the ball, on a two-dimensional surface, which is easy to visualize. However, a real massive object exists in a three-dimensional space. Infinite number of planes. In the one-dimensional example, we see it sinking int…

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PopeBeanie wrote:
I.e. it’s more like a cosmological distance dimension is increasing.

I think that’s very true, @popebeanie.  Or, more than one dimension.  All the dimensions maybe.

Trump’s lies are not ordinary lies. He lies like Big Brother in 1984. “Don’t believe your lying eyes.” He does not lie to deceive. His lies are a loyalty test.

A guy I used to count as a friend (we were both photographers) is a MAGAhead now. He’s actually a successful attorney, so he’s no idiot. Still, he will not concede that Trump ever…[Read more]

“And somehow, we Unbelievers ended up being smered as the arrogant, preumptuous ones.”

It is written.

If one were to credit a theist with a modicum of perspective instead of a cave of ignorance the arrogance is outstanding.

Unseen,

Would they buy a Honda or Peugeot if it was made in Mississippi or Kentucky?

I found out 30 years ago–no, 38 years ago–that Ford Escorts had parts from France and South Korea and were put together in Mexico. This is going to be a real shocker for MAGA who want their American vehicles artesan-made from local on-board electronics and…[Read more]

Robert,

Instead of simply “not knowing”, religious apologists resort to bad logic and philosophy to answer physics problems with gods as the solution. So, imaginary realms and beings are conjured up, and theists are immortal!

And somehow, we Unbelievers ended up being smered as the arrogant, preumptuous ones.