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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]

Reg:

Fret not, I’ll wait until the laptop problem’s fixed. Meanwhile:

Member of White House Religious Liberty Commission booted after antisemitism hearing
Sophie Brams
Wed, February 11, 2026 at 5:15 PM EST
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/member-white-house-religious-liberty-221525146.html

🎶There she is!
Former Ms. California and Ms. USA…[Read more]

Reg:

What does non-fundanental non-divisible time explain that is not explained by time as a fundamental and divisible?

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Do you see “now” as a real moving present sweeping along the line or a a point of access within a fixed structure.

I understand it to mean “now” is local to you. But that doesn’t mean it moves. It just means your current brain state only has access to one region of your worldline. “Now” is real as perspective b…

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Fellow Unbelievers:

Here’s a reminder that “The Good Old Days Weren’t Always Good”:

Right Chemistry: America’s healthier past is no more than a myth
There was no era in which Americans were healthier than now, except in a romanticized imagination.

By Joe Schwarcz • Special to Montreal Gazette
Published Feb 06, 2026
Last updated Feb 06, 2…[Read more]

Reg:

I’m still waiting for the killer app that comes from the notion that time is not fundamental. If there isn’t one, then this is all just parlor entertainment, not science.

And there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
In all fairness, any prediction could be considered true if the prognosticator talks nebulously enough, moves the goalposts, and, above all, talks a lot. Astrologers, psychics, and self-proclaimed “prophets” do it all the time.

They could, and they do, but this was different.  She went around telling people their futu…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
“Now” is not a universal property spread across space. The universe doesn’t care where the time zone line is drawn. Only humans do. Our segmentation of our experience of time flow is just a convention. The feeling that clock time reflects a moving reality is mistaken.

OK, true, the clock isn’t evidence of anyth…[Read more]