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Enco,

Those labels might be applicable to Trump but it does not negate the essential feature if my guess is correct.

It should not be a badge of honor to be an atheist. Nor is it some feat of ratiocination to be an atheist. The persistence of religion is testament to how very amenable to manipulation we are. If you discover life on some other…[Read more]

When i read about the following it made me think about the issues of discrimination against trans people and even whether it is real.

‘researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Canada have discovered a specific group of neurons in the brain that acts as an “on/off” switch, showing profound differences between male and female brain…[Read more]

Enco,

I was not aware of that. It is so obvious that ideology robs ideologues of their compassion. If one is not part of the in-group then fuck em. Let em fucking die a miserable death.

Don’t forgot Trump also abandoned the Kurds. And i think it was Trump who got US out of Afghanistan which enabled the Taliban to be purely Islamic and the…[Read more]

Enco,

Can you even construct the degree of fake sympathy for the innocents in Iran if it were Jews who were doing it?

The protests, riots, propaganda, attacks, violence against Jews would be WW2 like.

It is a sick fucking world. Humans can’t think with a few exceptions and their norms and morality are dealt to them like a dealer with his cards.

Just some heart-warming news to be aware or not…

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-884443

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-884437

Panpsychism is an attempt to avoid “consciousness from nothing” by baking mind-like properties into the foundations of physics. That is almost like an argument for Creationism. For me, consciousness is an emergent property, not a fundamental physical property. It is not present in parts that can be assembled.  In the same way that water mole…[Read more]

Thanks Reg!

Have a great week everyone!

It only took one monkey to create the entire works of Shakespeare. His first name was William. (rtff)

-9F….wow…stay safe and keep warm!!

The lights may be dimmed as the worst storm ever is forecast.

So severe it may snap the ship in two!

You should get to see the Northern Lights this time around – tonight in much of the USA.

jakelafort wrote:
I thought as mass approaches speed of light it becomes infinite?

I think that mass becomes infinite as it approaches the speed of light through space, not time.

Simon,”

It occurs to me we have no clue. And the ones who are educated only slightly greater enlightenment…maybe…

I thought as mass approaches speed of light it becomes infinite?

jakelafort wrote:
And if big bang is a beginning at what point does blocking become the nature of the thing as a whole?

It’s a shape.  I can’t visualise something in 4D, but I presume we have length, breadth, height, and time.  Eventually, if there’s heat death, then events stop happening and time runs out.

Inside the shape, local events exist a…[Read more]

Simon,

If the universe is a block that does not register local events then why would the big bang be an exception?

And if big bang is a beginning at what point does blocking become the nature of the thing as a whole?

jakelafort wrote:
Does it follow that the universe is eternal?

You’re talking about a finite 4-dimensional block.  It must have edges.  At one edge is the Big Bang.  At the other end is heat death, or whatever its terminating fate is.  In between, is the history of the universe and all its internal events.