Unseen
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Unseen replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Simon Paynton wrote:
As far as accountability and free will go, I’d say that we all operate in an everyday world of “as-if” free will – we have a certain amount of agency over our actions – and we’re judged and held accountable on this as-if agency.No, you feel you have a certain amount of agency. If you are sure there’s any agency at all, exp…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Okay, Enco, but we do all that shit in the present, which appears to have no duration whatsoever.
It seems like everything we do is in a world defined by Zeno. You know, that paradox guy.
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Unseen replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 3 months ago
Simon Paynton wrote:
I think it makes more sense if we consider a structure of the universe as being one of deterministic cause and effect. The proposal is that the universe, from start to finish, was formed in one go. All events and timelines of objects’ spatial movements were put in place by this process that formed the block det… -
Unseen replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 3 months ago
It seems to me as an atheist that the presentist universe makes more sense because the block universe is far more compatible with the intelligent design view.
The notion that the big bang, the trillions of galaxies and septillions of planets, the inception and explosion of life forms on Earth or anywhere, the construction of the Pyramids and…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 3 months ago
Block universe on the one hand or a universe governed by the inescapable necessity of physical laws, it makes no difference. It makes no matter how you respond to either situation. In the one case, your response has already happened in a sense while in the other, however you respond, your response is what had to happen.
Some will say, “But that’s…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 3 months ago
You may be wondering what evidence exists for the block universe theory. As the Gemini AI explains it:
The evidence for the Block Universe theory isn’t based on a single “discovery,” but rather on the logical conclusions we are forced to draw from Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity.
If the math of relativity is a correct description of t…[Read more]
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Unseen started the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 3 months ago
…for there to be no free will.
Under the current ‘standard model” of physics, accepted by the majority of physicists, we exist in a so-called “block universe.”
I asked Gemini AI to define block universe in layman terms and I got this:
In simple terms, the Block Universe theory is the idea that the past, the present, and the future all exist…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic Nobody saw this coming in the forum Small Talk 3 months, 2 weeks ago
@ PopeBeanie
But the video quality of the clip I put up is the the quality of the actual TV performance and your clip is mostly NOT the music! I can do without voyeuristically watching them get their hair and makeup done. LOL
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Unseen replied to the topic Nobody saw this coming in the forum Small Talk 3 months, 2 weeks ago
A secret wish finally fulfilled: The Warning playing La Bamba, the Mexican folk song turned into a rock and roll hit by Richie Valens (Valenzuela) back in the 1960’s.
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Unseen replied to the topic Jeffrey Epstein's Other Secret Life in the forum Politics 4 months, 3 weeks ago
It gets more and more interesting.
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Unseen started the topic Jeffrey Epstein's Other Secret Life in the forum Politics 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Lobbyist, go between, fixer, secret agent. It seems JE took time out from diddling underage girls to run clandestine errands for Israel. And now, Israel is behind the scenes trying to keep the Epstein files from seeing the light of day.
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Unseen replied to the topic Nobody saw this coming in the forum Small Talk 4 months, 4 weeks ago
While I warn people to resist thinking of The Warning as a “girl group” or “chick band,” because they deserve to be considered as a rock band without an asterisk, at the same time, I stumbled on this photo of Pau posting in an outfit leaving her midriff bare and, as a guy who’s photographed easily 200+ beautiful young women, I must say that her…[Read more]
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Unseen started the topic New Government Policy: Being Anti-Christian is Terrorism in the forum Politics 5 months ago
Yep. It’s part of Trump’s attempt, amidst the falling apart of his administration, to find something his right-wing white Christian nationalists will rally behind, he’s declaring virtually anything not right of center or nontraditional to be terrorism, and that definitely includes atheists.
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Unseen started the topic Israel dishonors the ceasefire in the forum Politics 5 months ago
Israel apparently is only honoring the “fire” part of “ceasefire,” because it isn’t ceasing.
BBC article on the subject HERE.
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Unseen replied to the topic The new powers that be in the forum
Politics 5 months, 2 weeks agoI’m afraid the situation is worse than most of you realize. Here’s a “what if” for you: Forget rigging the election by all the ways people are discussing. What if he declares a national emergency and simply refuses to leave office? He already ignores the law and is on the verge of defying court orders, and all the means of enforcement come under…[Read more]
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Unseen started the topic Willow…Not just a silly movie anymore in the forum Science 5 months, 3 weeks ago
This isn’t about faster computers. This is about quantum systems exceeding the Carnot efficiency limits we thought were fundamental to reality itself. Google’s Willow chip just performed one trillion measurements, peer inside molecules in ways that were literally impossible before, and shattered our understanding of what’s physically possi…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School October 19th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 5 months, 3 weeks agoReg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Tá roinnt teangacha agam, cuid acu ar chaighdeán passable, cuid eile caighdeán “turasóireachta” an-bhunúsach. Ach tá an Ghaeilge líofa agam chomh maith, nó ar a laghad bhí mé nuair a bhí mé níos óige. Má chaitheann mé seachtain i nGaillimh (abair) tagann sé ar ais chugam. Is í an teanga is deacra a fhoghlaim. -
Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School October 19th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 5 months, 4 weeks agoReg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Many U.S. students will very likely start going to Chinese Universities soon.Might be a good idea for all American schools to start teaching Chinese.
When I was young (I’m 79 now, so a long time ago), the choices were French, German, and Spanish. French was recommended as the language of diplomacy, German for kids…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic Short Videos (e.g. like TikTok) in the forum
Random Posts 6 months agoPopeBeanie wrote:
I’ve been experimenting with youtube shorts, which is why you’ll see the “was#x#” underneath each of my video shorts, in case I need to change the dimensions to fit on different screens.I looked underneath the video and didn’t see that code. Am I missing something?
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Unseen replied to the topic Short Videos (e.g. like TikTok) in the forum
Random Posts 6 months agoThe original video won’t give me an embed code, so I’m trying the code it offered me to use for sharing. Let’s see if it works any better:
https://youtube.com/shorts/lVpaaTCAetw?si=tvUc_p27IUIlBFysWell, not for me.
I’m running ChromeOS, but since links I put up (normal ones, not shorts or verticals) tend to work okay, the issue seems…[Read more]
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