Unseen
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Unseen replied to the topic A Better Place in the forum Atheism 3 days, 18 hours ago
Want to know what death is? Anyone who’s been under general anesthesia knows what it’s like.
You go under and an operation happens that could take 15 minutes or five hours, but when you wake up, no time has passed. During the duration of the operation you effectively ceased to exist. You experienced brain death. Being truly dead is the…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic JOKES!! in the forum Small Talk 4 days, 3 hours ago
Show me a homosexual cowboy and I’ll show you a gay caballero.
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Unseen replied to the topic JOKES!! in the forum Small Talk 4 days, 3 hours ago
I know a joke where the setup is almost funnier than the punchline. Here goes…
What is the difference between a epileptic oyster-shucker and a prostitute with diarrhea?
The oyster shucker shucks between fits.
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Unseen replied to the topic Reincarnation. Does a multiverse (if true) vindicate it? in the forum Small Talk 5 days, 18 hours ago
Raninto this video this evening:
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Unseen replied to the topic Reincarnation. Does a multiverse (if true) vindicate it? in the forum Small Talk 1 week ago
The Universe only has the appearance of “fine tuning”. The Anthropic principle says our Universe is finely tuned to have evolved to support sentient life. That is to say it was “selected” for life. Does this mean other Universes were not selected for life or are differently finely tuned for other life forms? Maybe w…
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Unseen replied to the topic Reincarnation. Does a multiverse (if true) vindicate it? in the forum Small Talk 1 week ago
I like the Multiverse Theory but I don’t see that each Universe is a slight variation of the next. They can be born from the same creative source but each of them unique. Just as each of the billions of planets in our galaxy are different to each other and each of the billions of stars are different to each other a…
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Unseen started the topic What would happen if… in the forum Science 1 week, 4 days ago
People can exist with only half a brain. It’s not common but it happens. Suppose one half of your brain were put in body A and the other into body B. Which one would be you or would you be aware of being in two places at the same time.
Any ideas?
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Unseen started the topic Reincarnation. Does a multiverse (if true) vindicate it? in the forum Small Talk 2 weeks ago
No, not reincarnation in the Hindu/Buddhist sense of being reborn in another body here on Earth.
What I’m asking is this: If there’s a multiverse and if the multiverse contains an infinitude of universes, then mustn’t I appear an infinite number of times?
If so, it seems unlikely I’ll know what happened. “Oh, here I am YET AGAIN!”
There are a…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic Do you think Orange Hitler will be impeached? in the forum Politics 2 weeks ago
Impeachment is the second part of a two-part process. First, there’s an investigation in The House of Representatives and, if they deign, articles (accusations) are promulgated and handed over to The Senate where a trial is held, presided over by The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. A vote is taken, and if two-thirds of the Senate (a simple…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic
Sunday School May 12th 2019 in the forum Sunday School 1 month agoI agree with Jerry Coyne, secular morality does not depend on faith, but on a preference for human thriving and justice or fairness.
But what thriving, justice, and fairness mean isn’t written across the sky.
The Spartans had concepts allowing the to murder malformed or imperfect babies, for example. That was just, fair,…[Read more]
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Unseen started the topic Is there really any such thing as real randomness? in the forum Science 1 month, 1 week ago
One of the first things one learns about computers is that, irritatingly, they can’t generate truly random numbers, but can, based on a seed number, generate a series of numbers that satisfies what randomness would look like.
These are called “pseudorandom numbers.”
But isn’t randomness just a way of describing the behavior of things we don’t…[Read more]
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Unseen started the topic Is the evangelical Christian "God" really Allah in sheep's clothing? in the forum Theism 1 month, 2 weeks ago
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Unseen replied to the topic Venezuela in the forum Politics 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Neocons/Neolibs clamor: "war war war!!!"–this time in Venezuela
Neocons/Neolibs and MSM all sing from the same song sheet: War war war!!! Trump never gets positive media unless he's threatening war/carrying out military action. Today, Venezuela. Tomorrow, Iran? Cuba? Who will be next? No wonder North Korea won't give up their nukes.
Posted by Tulsi Gabbard on Thursday, May 2, 2019
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Unseen replied to the topic Prime Numbers in the forum Small Talk 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Now, onto “balphegor’s prime“! Take note, the following, amazing, perhaps even evil prime number. It’s extremely long, but easy to remember because of its thirteen zeros on either side of “666”: 1000000000000066600000000000001
That number is only significant if you take Christianity seriously. Otherwise, it just looks cool.
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Unseen replied to the topic Prominent Atheists Dropping Like Flies in the forum Atheism 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Times change and so do values and norms. I’m 72, and back when I was in college, a lot of guys wouldn’t think twice about having sex with a drunk coed. I don’t mean a passed out unresponsive drunk coed, I mean one who’s a bit more than just merely tipsy but still able to form grammatical sentences and count how many fingers you’re holding up. I…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic Prominent Atheists Dropping Like Flies in the forum Atheism 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Similar charges have been made against Prof. John Searle as well.
Anyway, we need to keep people’s work separate from their personal dramas. Otherwise, we’d destroy every work by Caravaggio or Picasso, Byron or Faulkner, and any number of popular musicians.
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Unseen replied to the topic Was it worth it? in the forum Small Talk 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Are you looking to defy the bell curve? Some people can carry rocks, others can design great structures and others can control the show. The castle was not built to trap tourists. It was built to protect the locals behind it’s walls when the hoards showed up to pillage, rape and plunder. Cathedrals were built to display the p…
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Unseen replied to the topic
Defining Consciousness in the forum Consciousness 1 month, 4 weeks agoIf I created a very smart machine that turned out paintings, and it had a very human interface (Japanese automatons are becoming creepily believable in terms of their “social stimulus value,” so if one of these Turing-humans gave you art and it was good enough to be bought and sold on the fine art market, would that necessarily imply a…[Read more]
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Unseen started the topic Was it worth it? in the forum Small Talk 2 months ago
A Facebook friend, also an atheist, commented in response to the Notre Dame Cathedral fire on the human cost of the edifice in terms of lives lost and/or spent on building a structure for a Bishop’s church (the term “cathedral” is a reference to the Bishop’s chair or, in Latin, “cathedra,” as well as to his office or position, mush as the word…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic Why Are We Conscious? in the forum Science 2 months ago
@unseen, it’s true that we’re not consciously aware of all sensory inputs. According to Michael Tomasello, “we attend to what is relevant to our goals”. If this is true, then conscious attention is on those things that are relevant to our goals. I agree with this: in experience, it’s true. Why would that be? Because conscious…
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