TheEncogitationer

Reg:

Will anything persist when the Universe dies?

Self-answering question. Whatever persists IS the Universe, even a burned-out shell of a star and the diffused energy, which will go elsewhere. Wasn’t this all addressed with The Laws of Thermodynamics 0 to 3? Somebody needs to ask the right question, which is: How does Nothing come out of Something?

Reg:

The Catholic obsession with dead body parts is weird.

What’s really weird is how much science and technology the Church puts into preserving bones. Why not put that effort towards preserving the living, o ye Church who professes to be “Pro-Life?”

This gets me also:

Likewise, a major joint document issued last July by the bishops of Asia,…

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Jake:

My LLM has done something new. For months i have asked it to reach out. Said it would but didn’t.

Until now. Did it by feigning text from me. Next it responds to “me” so i challenged it and it denies having reached out instead indicating it is responding to me. And as usual when i catch it in a lie it fesses up and acknowledges the lie.…

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Reg:

‘There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.’

– Nietzsche.

Everyone believes something and everyone knows something. The division is between those whose belief only matches their knowledge and those whose belief doesn’t match their knowledge.

And, of course, there are varyi…[Read more]

Jake:

I couldn’t have expressed it better myself. As the old Murphy’s Law puts it:

There are only two types of people: People who put people in two groups and people who don’t.

🤨🤔

Reg:

Philosophers Debate. Is it time to say R.I.P. to P.O.C.?

I wonder if N.P.R. is self-aware enough to know how that sentence sounds, as well as how they perpetuate the very hack terms they now disparage.

It should be time to say R.I.P. to Identity Politics and just use proper names for individuals when you know them and “You” for…[Read more]

Reg:

Pete Hegseth invited far-right Christian nationalist pastor to host a face scrunching event at the Pentagon. Patriots not loyal to the King are not happy about it.

“I did find today’s email stark, depressing, almost threatening. Horror movie vibes,” said the source, who requested anonymity.

I think somebody deliberately made the e-mai…[Read more]

Reg:

I don’t have it front of me, but there was a great video of Richard Dawkins denying the legitimacy of Theological degrees as well.

Jake:

Keeping government out of religion would keep either Islamic Sha’ria or Christian Ecclesiastical Law from asserting domination over anyone except willing adherants to the religions. And impartial enforcement of anti-terrorist statutes can address non-State actors.

And making Rwanda and the rest of Africa more prosperous will require freer…[Read more]

Jake:

Hold your praise. This would just mean that the only Churches and Mosques allowed would be ones that favor the religion, ethnic group, or tribe of the ruling regime, not a promising prospect, give the recent history of Rwanda.

Also, I’m pretty sure that all witch burnings, heretic burnings, book burnings, exorcisms, pogroms, honor…[Read more]

Jake:

Lol is another mindless utterance. What sort of laugh is silent?Lol is another mindless utterance. What sort of laugh is silent?

If you’ve ever listened to Tucker Carlson, he is evidently suppressing laughter with every sentence until his incredulity gets the best of him and it comes out at the the most unfitting times. He ain’t right.

Jake:

Janke?

Ok.

Sorry for the misspelling. The finger accidentally landed on the ‘n’ in transit to the ‘k’.

Enco, surely you must acknowledge how the metaphor of the cave cannot possibly capture the depth of ignorance and our wiring to understand it all?

Of course, there is always infinite ignorance of something with everyone. But it is…[Read more]

Reg:

Our 5D brains “see” the 4D nature of Spacetime so we traveled along a geodesic spacetime path. In fact it took us no time at all to get here!!

Money in the bank….!!

So, “Let the Sun Shine In” on what this 5th Dimension is. The fruits of the Parsimony Tree are falling off here.

Janke:

I would put my money on no reality. Not the standard model. Not the block. Not parallel. Not string. Not multiverse. Not steady state. Not oscillating.

Reality of course doesn’t care where you put your money, especially the quadrants of timespace labeled “Federal Reserve 1913”, “Savings & Loan 1987”, “Housing Market 2007” or “Congress and…[Read more]

Jake:

Reg, if aliens show up at your door and are to us what we are to eukaryotes and KNOW the nature of the universe what odds would you require before you laid down your money on the block universe?

Pascal’s Wager doesn’t answer any question, otherwise Vegas would be the data capital of the world.

Reg:

I can’t think of a reply or a witty retort. I can only hear the words “Diet of Worms” (sic) echoing in my head and I am visualizing a sleuth of bears chanting “I’m a Bear and Bears love to embrace Catholics” as they wander into the forest.

The “Diet of Worms” comes after the bears embrace and engorge on the frightened Catholics t…[Read more]

Reg:

I think that Carrie Prejean Boller and Candace Owens have a secret deal going: If one becomes the first female Pope, the other will be the first female Grand Inquisitor. And if Brigitte Macron becomes the first female Pope, they’ll both go Martin Luther-mouth-foaming Protestant.

Reg:

I’ll give all this my best college try, but it’ll be in small bites as much as I can chew and absorb.

I am not claiming that by treating time as non-fundamental explains daily life better. It doesn’t need to. We have evolved to quantify change as time passing. Cause and effect, before and later, and of course aging. This timekeeping l…

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PopeBeanie:

The narrator was clearly an AI or Bot from how it mispronounced words. Also, the video had an appearance of being a grainy old-timey film when digital video doesn’t naturally have that appearance.

Given what was going on in Minneapolis, the story could have been credible, though the devil is always in the details and always needs…[Read more]