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Davis wrote:

There is no religion out there that is absolutely fully compatible with the above.

Davis wrote:

It is the hold that that religion has over the state that makes the difference, and it does so to a lesser or greater extent over the world based on a country’s adoption of humanist principles […]

While some states have hold over r…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:

Do you have any opinion on transmission of covid outside?

I believe there have been super-spreader events in outdoor crowds. I’ve noticed there are days when there’s no breeze at all, and I’m sure the risk is higher than with a breeze. I’m not pushing those opinions on anyone. In any case, outcomes are rarely definable as “all…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

@robert Exactly WHEN do you expect people to stsrt wearing masks properly, anyway? I thought so. So I think we need to do our assessment of whether masks work from there.

Unseen wrote:

It turns out that masks do diddly-squat.

That last statement is the kind that kills gullible people, and enables disease to spread. I want to cover…[Read more]

I’m most certainly not a scriptural expert, and I’ve no inclination to become one. I think that interpretations of any kind of scripture have been given credibility based on whoever happens to have the power to bestow authority to those interpreters or to theirself. So, I don’t feel too short on wisdom by being ignorant of this kind of history.…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

I think the fact that there’s little apparent interest in investigating the matter is the best indication that we did do it.

My intention is to withhold conclusions until there’s sufficient evidence. All “evidence” so far is circumstantial. I’m so disappointed with the online trend to draw conclusions without evidence, while c…[Read more]

I’ve objected to the misuse of the word hallucination enough to just ignore writings that center around it, unless it’s about imagining something that’s actually not there. Even though “red” is a human construct, it has meaning when communicating to other humans, and it seems meaningless to argue that “red” is not there. As Autumn said, a…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:

Well, if all you had to read as an introduction to Philosophy was Thomas Nagel, you would have to ask: “Well, what does it all mean?” and you would think it was a waste of time.

Fortunately, I had some better texts to introduce me to Philosophy. Frederick Copleston’s Philosophers and Philosophies (I think that was the n…

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michael17 wrote:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRth17BJ/

An unmanned Tic Tac UAP shot down with no visible signs of propulsion

I’ve mentioned a possible answer before, but in this case there’s a chance we’ll get to study this thing if it’s found. I’m not jumping to any final conclusion, in spite of masses of people who tend to do that.

I thought of…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

If someone wants their First Cause, there it is.

Only if The Big Bang didn’t have a cause. Multiverse consideration seems popular among cosmologists now. While yeah, whatever may have caused The Big Bang may never be knowable, at least it’s as good a reset/reboot process to assume until we learn more.

rhonjon wrote:

For some time…

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_Robert_ wrote:

You made a statement that Everything I know about Covid is wrong and you have shown me that nothing that I know about covid is wrong.

My very first take on that topic title was “clickbait”, and not necessarily a true representation of Unseen’s fleshed out opinion. Superlative. But with possibly good data in the discussion, anyway.…[Read more]

Trivia: In a typical online video session, you’re not seeing the same image of yourself that others are seeing. That’s because you’re shown your mirror image, the kind of image you’re more familiar with, and you would likely feel disoriented if shown your own image from the natural point of view of other people.

At your next video meeting, hold…[Read more]

My bigger-picture Occam’s razor is that if Putin isn’t stopped or at least discouraged by what it costs him, he will continue to keep his people in the dark while throwing tens of thousands of them at Ukraine as fodder. If USA blowing up the pipeline is a war crime, it still pales in comparison to Putin’s war crimes. If his nuclear threatening is…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:

Let’s try this a third time. I didn’t say we did not do it. I said I hope we did. I have seen no evidence.

I’ve not decided either, lacking a verifiable source. I’m doing my part to not waste time on pushing an opinion so strongly on one side. What’s actually lost by admitting “I don’t know”, compared to the cost of strongly enc…[Read more]

I just picked an arbitrary latitude, 40 degrees, and looked at my beach ball globe. Was surprised that there’s almost literally nothing in the southern hemisphere at 40 degrees or lower.

In the northern hemisphere near or above lat 40, barring Canada, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Siberia and North Korea, lies all of Europe, Scandinavia, Greenland and…[Read more]

There’s so much misinformation spread by new social media that misleads millions or even billions of people who have trouble thinking and investigating for themselves, my first take on this thread has been to just skim it. In my mind, that’s the bigger story, and the real crisis that goes beyond just the topic of how we’ve succeeded and failed…[Read more]