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@Reg reminds me of a bloke I had lunch with, who claimed he could tell me the exact time any place anywhere, so I asked him what time it was on the moon.  It seemed to perturb him.

When I sit still, time still moves, as is evidenced by the clock.

Simon, a clock does not measure the movement of Time. It records regular internal changes occurring in a physical (clockwork) system.  Your mind sees the second hand moving and you infer time is flowing. But is not.  Ticking clocks do not indicate time moving. If a clock battery d…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

What makes that Raw Story link above about Benny Johnson and Tim Burchett such a groaner is not just the conspiracy-ology and the reality denial, but also their complete irrelevancy!

You don’t have to deny Barack Hussein Obama’s ontological, biological, taxinomic, sapient, religious, or citizenship status to make a case…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
So yes, we do experience a “present” but not “now”. Experience is a perspective from one region of spacetime, not evidence that reality contains a moving “now”. A camera records one frame at a time, but the film does not move through the camera — the whole reel exists.

I don’t know what it proves.  I’m not saying it…[Read more]

Reg:

I will concede with you that different observers experience time differently and it has been proven that two different observers at different speeds and elevations experience time differently. But saying that time is not fundamental or divisable doesn’t seem to follow from that. Unless I’m missing something, this notion doesn’t appear to…[Read more]

Reg:

I was holding off on linking the Sweet Brown Video.

You can tell that the maker of that video shared an Atheist sense of humor from the Jesus cuddling the baby Tyrannosaurus 🧔🦖 and The Knights of the Round Table from Monty Python and The Holy Grail.

I think I saw Mike Lindell and/or Cliff Ratzenberger from Cheers and/or Sean Connery…[Read more]

Yep…I knew you would remember it. Nice One!!

Hahaha Reg brilliant memories

Ain’t nobody got Time for this…….

Reg:

I’m real concerned with all this time denial talk. I don’t want you ending up like, like these two:

‘Obama was created’: GOP lawmaker claims first Black president ‘not organic’ man
man
By David Edwards
February 13, 2026 12:51PM ET
https://www.rawstory.com/tim-burchett-barack-obama-created/#comments_section_start

“Like, Obama’s the one,…

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@Simon – Yes, but you only experience that dot moving through time. It’s “now”.

Let’s roll it back a little. Let’s try to separate “experience” from “physics”.

Yes, We experience a present. That does not mean reality contains a moving present or a “now” that is moving towards a future. This is our experience of what feels like the “flow of tim…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

Trump’s FDA head Vinay Prasad isn’t even considering approval on a Moderna mRNA flu vaccine:

An mRNA Refusal to File
11 Feb 20262:01 PM ET By Derek Lowe 3 min read
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/mrna-refusal-file

I wonder if Trump and RFK Jr has a deal going to sell rectal flashlights and bleach syringes that has…[Read more]

Was curious about the Bondi background since she seems not sharpest tack and obviously venal. I ran into a few lady lawyers who would rip your genitals off and feed em to ya if you made an error. Bondi seems a bumbling stumbling ninny. But here is what AI says about her experience.

As the 87th U.S. Attorney General (confirmed Feb 2025) and…[Read more]

Reg:

While pondering the pushback, I’ll also add: Where is the “It works, bitches” part of these claims about time?

Atomic Theory is proved by nuclear weapons and reactors, the Germ Theory of Disease is proven by the efficacy of vaccines and hand-washing. Evolution is proven by any dog breeder and by visiting any historic site where doors and…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
In spacetime, an object is not a 3D thing that moves. It is a 4D curve or a “worldline”. From my birth to my death, I am not “an entity” or dot moving through time. I am an extended 4D structure. Think of a thread woven though spacetime. (Or as I called myself previously – I am an ontic worm).

Yes, but you only expe…[Read more]

Good push back. You are correct on those points but the “Doesn’t all this depend on time moving and being divisible”? does not follow……

I am in a different timezone so more later….(2 am)

Reg:

Will Mind Shift cease to exist if NPR/American Public Media/PRI/PRX/Pacifica Radio doesn’t meet it’s Quarterly Beg-A-Thon goals?

Reg:

But isn’t the speed of light 186,282 Miles per Second?

And doesn’t time slow for an object as it approaches the speed of light according to Einstein’s Relativity Theory?

And didn’t comparative experiments with atomic clocks on the ground and on skyscrapers, airlines, and satellites confirm and demonstrate both General and Special…[Read more]

Jake and Reg:

Reg, sounds like Hossenpfeffer talking.

Is all this just a sophisticated, science-y-sounding way for her to say: “Don’t Mention The War!”

PopeBeanie:

Samoans, I’ll look into that, thanks. More RFK epidemics to come… I wonder if he knows the small pox vax connection to cow pox.

83 measles deaths in Samoa from RFK Jr’s hyping of anti-vax sentiment in 2019.

That same anti-vax sentiment is at work now in the present U.S. measles outbreak. Ground Zero of the measles outbreak in the…[Read more]