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Simon Paynton wrote:
The pressure to heal bones is the same pressure that pushes us to attain benefits and achieve goals.

Or rather, it has the same evolutionary origin.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Not sure what you mean Simon. If I was in a bad car wreck and broke my leg…..I wake up from a coma 3 months later. My bone is fully reset as it was a ‘clean break’ and to the point that I have no awareness that it was ever even broken.

I had zero input into its healing.

That’s what I mean – your conscious mind could…[Read more]

That sounds like your own personal higher power, that you have a relationship with..

Not sure what you mean Simon. If I was in a bad car wreck and broke my leg…..I wake up from a coma 3 months later. My bone is fully reset as it was a ‘clean break’ and to the point that I have no awareness that it was ever even broken.

I had zero input into…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
The body will heal itself

That sounds like your own personal higher power, that you have a relationship with.

Can people believe a broken bone is fixed with faith or by prayer.?Yes, when they are delusional. The body will heal itself and medical assistance will help the process. But reasoning only happens in the mind. It is a skill that needs to be developed. As Dan Dennett once  said;” Yes, I do believe in a power greater than myself. I call it gravity”.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
“I don’t believe in a higher power. I believe in higher reasoning.” – me.

Yes, but can you reason your way out of a broken leg?  Who or what does the work, in the end, of healing a broken bone?  The doctors, nurses, hospital, etc. only help it along.

Have a great week everybody!

“I don’t believe in a higher power. I believe in higher reasoning.” – me.

That’s super-interesting, Enco.  That’s why I love the history of languages, they’re a way into the ancient past movements of people.

According to the internet, Aquatinian was the tribal language of the Aquatini tribe or clan or whatever, in the Pyrenees.  It’s a Paleohispanic and Vasconic language.  Around where I live, we had the Iceni tr…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Another thought on this: If they’re killed off fast enough, the bacteria aren’t around to evolve.

Yes, absolutely. Just a side-note, elsewhere in that video they were also discussing how to terminate pathogens with a “cocktail” approach, which is applying more than one treatment at once in order to kill faster, lea…[Read more]

FBI: Anti-Jewish hate crimes comprised nearly 70% of all religion-based hate crimes in 2024

Enco, wasn’t it Noam Chomsky who said that the human brain is biologically primed to learn languages?  Any functioning human language.

I’m sure there is a story to why the various language families write left to right or right to left.  I believe the Russian Cyrillic alphabet was made as a Russian version of the Greek alphabet, by St Cyril (…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
English two is from the exact same ancestor,

We have two, twin, twine, between, etc.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Unseen,

Hamas doesn’t distinguish between combatants and civilians in its death count. And women and children are among suicide bombers too.

And note the spike in Antisemitic incidents in one year’s time after October 7, 2023. The next year hasn’t arrived yet either so there is room for more.

Crimes against blacks, women…[Read more]