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Unseen,

If something happens or manages to exist or to be manufactured, it satisfies the laws of nature and is ipso facto “natural.”

Precisely! A man’s dam is as natural as a beaver’s dam.

And Deoxyriboneucleic Acid is natural as well, but to hear the Crunchy people talk, if it has a hard to pronounce chemical compound, it’s best to avo…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

TheEncogitationer wrote:
That is possible, although Religious and Crunchy people, both Left and Right, have messed up the word by calling perfectly natural things in the Natural Universe “unnatural”, e.g. “unnatural food” or “unnatural acts.”

If something happens or manages to exist or to be manufactured, it satisfies the laws of…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
That is possible, although Religious and Crunchy people, both Left and Right, have messed up the word by calling perfectly natural things in the Natural Universe “unnatural”, e.g. “unnatural food” or “unnatural acts.”

If something happens or manages to exist or to be manufactured, it satisfies the laws of nature and is …[Read more]

Wow……

She: I am not really religious but I am very spiritual.

Me: But is that enough? Really, is it? Just how not religious are you? How much more is very spiritual to just being regular spiritual? Is there training involved?

She: Huh??

Strega,

Enco, I’ve always found “unnatural” to suffice.

That is possible, although Religious and Crunchy people, both Left and Right, have messed up the word by calling perfectly natural things in the Natural Universe “unnatural”, e.g. “unnatural food” or “unnatural acts.”

And just think of the mental short circuits that would result from…[Read more]

Robert,

Just wondering as the US economy grinds to a crawl, if environmentalists will declare The Mango Mussolini an eco-friendly president, LOL. He doesn’t understand why drivers in Tokyo or Paris don’t want to buy a Chevy Silverado.

Eco-Fascism is a definite thing, along with many other flavors. They all translate into subordination of the…[Read more]

Enco, I’ve always found “unnatural” to suffice.

Unseen and Robert,

What’s the surprise here? Trump gets support for his tariffs from Peter Navarro who gets his bogus advice from an imaginary economist friend “Ron Vara,” whose name is an anagram of “Navarro.”

Trump’s Anti-China Trade Advisor Invented a Fake Economist To Sell His Protectionist Views
Peter Navarro also said Americans wouldn’t…[Read more]

Robert and Unseen,

Using a word for a concept should not be taken to mean belief that the concept actually exists. I use the word “Supernatural” to mean a thing that is “beyond” the Natural Universe and not operating by Natural Laws. I suppose all the other prefixes could apply too, as well as “Supranatural” or “Extranatural.”. It could include…[Read more]

John Oliver enlightened me on the trans athlete situation.

I feel bad for one of my favorite bloggers who never talks trans issues. So I now really think trans were weaponized by the right.

Unseen wrote:
WHAT IS IT WITH TRUMP AND GOLF?

There has to be some sort of flaw in the homo sapiens brain when it comes to picking leaders. Every once in a while, people get lucky, but for the most part we have been and still are, ruled by the biggest assholes.

WHAT IS IT WITH TRUMP AND GOLF?

Putin never loses at Judo, Kim. who also plays golf, gets holes in one all the time, and Trump has a mysterious talent for winning golf tournaments which are never covered by the sports press, with mysteriously anonymous opponents, and on his own golf coursess.

Would you trust this man with the country’s…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
Just wondering as the US economy grinds to a crawl, if environmentalists will declare The Mango Mussolini an eco-friendly president, LOL. He doesn’t understand why drivers in Tokyo or Paris don’t want to buy a Chevy Silverado.

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

Just wondering as the US economy grinds to a crawl, if environmentalists will declare The Mango Mussolini an eco-friendly president, LOL. He doesn’t understand why drivers in Tokyo or Paris don’t want to buy a Chevy Silverado.

@Reg

On the matter of gravity stretching space, the example is often given of a heavy ball on an elastic surface like a trampoline. That’s fallacious. 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…[Read more]

“Super” means either “over” or “above.” “Sub” means either “under” or “below.” However, even over, above, under, and below are ambiguous themselves, having different meanings in different contexts.

Context is everything in language.

To many it seems the term “supernatural” presupposes a spiritual realm actually exists. It is a meaningless word. The prefix “super” is typical ape-brain bias. I will use the term “subnatural”, because all of these religious fantasies are certainly below reality in terms of worth.

Fellow Unbelievers,

So everybody is clear, by asking my questions, I’m not giving any credence to the Kalam Cosmological Argument or any other argument for the existance of a God. I’m simply trying, as a non-professional non-astrophysicist lay person, to take what is claimed about the Universe to it’s logical conclusion and see if it fits into…[Read more]

PopeBeanie wrote:

TheEncogitationer wrote:
However, I still have many questions: If we assume a single Natural Universe with nothing before it or beyond it, with all energy, all matter, all space, all time, wouldn’t this mean there can be no “balloon,” no “surface,” no “outside,” no force to expand space “inside” the “balloon?”

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