Reg the Fronkey Farmer
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School January 25th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 7 months, 1 week agoEnco,
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.
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School January 25th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 7 months, 1 week agoJust some heart-warming news to be aware or not…
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Unseen replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 7 months, 1 week ago
Question for block universe supporters. If moving forward through time is an illusion, why can’t we have the illusion of moving backward through time? It should make no difference, right?
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School January 25th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 7 months, 1 week agoThanks Reg!
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 7 months, 1 week agoThe lights may be dimmed as the worst storm ever is forecast.
So severe it may snap the ship in two!
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 7 months, 1 week agojakelafort 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.
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 7 months, 1 week ago
I’m at the surface level of these philosophies and physics, trying to look in. Is this just one loaf of bread, or is the next slice still unpredictable due to quantum probabilities/improbabilities? Do the ends of the loaf connect, looking more like a donut? In a many-worlds view, do an infinite number of future slices bifurcate into an infinite…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 7 months, 1 week agoSimon,”
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?
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 7 months, 1 week agojakelafort 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]
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PopeBeanie posted an update 7 months, 1 week ago
You are standing at your refrigerator, feeling the cold hit your feet after opening the freezer door.
Does it mean that the world is actually cooler than climatologists say?
Or maybe everything in the freezer is melting?
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 7 months, 1 week agoSimon,
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?
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 7 months, 1 week agojakelafort 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.
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 7 months, 1 week agoJust reread Reg’penultimate entry & it makes sense to me except that i don’t think it follows that humans experience something that is subjective in our perception of time. Einstein allowed us to revolutionize our understanding of time. And yet that does not alter the reality of physical laws of time and the physical evidence that seems to be…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 7 months, 1 week agoIf fossils from age of dinos appear near the surface of earth and recent fossils below and without intervention or natural explanations then i will consider the notion time aint nothing. There is order precisely because there is time. The endless concatenation of events, of cause and effect, are consistent with linear notion of time that we…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Unseen wrote:
The block universe gives an unbelievable account of experience. If you take it seriously, nothing actually happens, however experience consists of a cluttered stream of experiences.Yet, we travel through spacetime at the speed of light. So, the block universe could exist. But I am still unable to connect the “self” with “now”.
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Unseen replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 7 months, 2 weeks ago
The block universe gives an unbelievable account of experience. If you take it seriously, nothing actually happens, however experience consists of a cluttered stream of experiences.
That the account of experience it gives is counterintuitive and implausible can be explained in terms of the unreliability of experience.Nevertheless, the entire…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 7 months, 2 weeks agoWaiting, anticipating…
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 7 months, 2 weeks agoEnco,
It is all recorded in the book of life.
Imagine day after day this white apparation of an English woman harassing a troop of chimps in Tanzania. Yeah they were annoyed but like clockwork she approached and gradually reduced distance between observer and observed. At long last she was tolerated until they were on level of acquantainces in…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 7 months, 2 weeks ago
The senses are a poor source of evidence. Our senses tell us that the world is colorful. In fact, color is in the brain, not the external world. We experience gravity as a force. We know it’s not. We experience deja vu which is a well known trick of the mind that seems real.
Some years after my mother died, I was standing on a street corner…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 7 months, 2 weeks ago
TheEncogitationer wrote:
Fellow Unbelievers: Trump tells Iranian protesters against Islamist tyranny that “Help is on the way” two weeks after the uprising starts and after anywhere from 12,000 to 20,000 Iranian citizens are dead. I’d say time and agency are pretty damn real. Can you relate?The problem of agency regarding free will isn’t about…[Read more]
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