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Evil to prevail is on men?

Only men. Women get a pass? Chimps, Kangaroos? Same deal?

Laugh audibly and out loud so that trees in the forest notice.

One group sees Christian Nationalism and whiffs on Islamism. Another sees the ugly alliance with Islamism. A few notice how individuals whose lives are controlled by theocracy are being sheltered…[Read more]

Thanks, Reg!

To continue with the Block Universe idea: Time may not be a fundamental ingredient of reality, but rather an emergent feature arising from the relational structure of physical interactions and information. The quantum world suggests reality is made of relations, not objects whose measurable properties are defined only in relation to other systems.…[Read more]

Have a  great week!!

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I wonder what qualifications are needed to decide what the objective standards are for the curriculum of a theology degree.

Certifiicate from Trump U or Prager U would likely suffice .

Authorities are enforcing new rules that require religious leaders to hold accredited theology degrees in order to lead worship and register their institutions.

I wonder what qualifications are needed to decide what the objective standards are for the curriculum of a theology degree.

“The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, i…[Read more]

You are right Enco.

I had a kneejerk reaction that was all wrong. Was thinking of the genocide there but that was not about religion. It was ethnic/tribal. Was thinking somebody in power finally recognized the hard caused by religion and was imposing standards to discourage terrorism. A place as poor as Rwanda will have religion run amok and…[Read more]

Hay la lu ya

https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/africa/rwanda-shuts-over-6-000-mosques-and-churches-demands-religious-leaders-hold-theology-degrees-5356320

What sort of laugh is silent?”

I think Mr. Munch painted a few expressions of them on a bridge 🙂

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

Priceless comment, Jake!

This guy has it right. None of the obsession over Jews has any relation to their putative evil doings. That is why i prefer Nazis. They aint hiding their objectives or rationalizing them in a way that justifies their hatred or gives cover to their actions. Racial purity and all that German mythology is discredited.…[Read more]

Janke?

Ok.

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?

My hypothetical is not Pascal’s stupidity.

Reg, funny stuff. I laughed. Not LOL.

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

Here is another time study video.

My point is not that the human experience of time is wrong. The experience is real, but it may be an interface rather than a fundamental feature of reality. Our brains are optimized for local 3D survival, not for grasping global spacetime structure.

Because everyone shares the sensation of temporal flow, we naturally assume it must be objective.…[Read more]

FYI – This is not debate in the usual sense. I am stress-testing a model of reality in public. I think it has a lot of merit. It is not intuitive because it goes against our evolved sense of time flow. But this is only useful on Earth, locally. Relativity strongly suggests a 4D spacetime structure that looks block-like. I’m trying to break it. I…[Read more]

If they called in the middle of the night I would ask them, “What time do you call this??”  They would probably reply “Relative to what frame?”

Then, after a few introductory nanu nanu’s, I would realize that their framework does not privilege clock labels as they have evolved to think purely in relational or structural terms. I would think to m…[Read more]

That is a nice voice from 1932.

95 theses. 99 luftballoons. 9 9 9 Wally George. 9’s are wild. Crazy 8s.

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.

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?

Yes, indeed our timekeeping systems must correspond to real physical behaviour. Otherwise, they would be useless. Sundials, mechanical clocks, atomic clocks, radioactive decay all work because the universe contains stable and repeatable processes. But what they only do is to track regular physical change.

But moving from “clocks correspond to p…[Read more]

I think that Carrie Prejean Boller and Candace Owens have a secret deal going…

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.