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Religion / Re: Christian Nonduality
Last post by Me_Be - Today at 08:53:54 AMQuote from: zorkan on April 22, 2024, 12:37:59 PMQuote from: Me_Be on April 22, 2024, 10:18:15 AMCan I just ask...This assembling of all the named molecules and chemistry that just happened to have made up the material world as we know it to be.... Was all that just an accidental, opportunistic, spontaneous event...or will we never know for absolute certainty why there is something rather than nothing question?Ask me a difficult one.
As there are no absolutes we will never know.
Maybe when we capture one of those aliens who invade our airspace we could ask it.
Meanwhile, your guess is as good as mine.
You cannot capture reality and encapsulate it into a formal system because reality is infinite and so it will always escape any attempt to encapsulate it as it must, because reality is one thing, it is the self, and the self is capable of self-reference and when you're capable of self-reference this necessarily leads to a paradox.
Therefore no one can even claim to be an Atheist, let alone a Theist.
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Miscellaneous / Re: Build the Pyramid
Last post by Old Seer - May 03, 2024, 01:51:27 PMIt's not a mechanical devise for sure. Other info says its a symbol of stability. Making it mechanical is quit a stretch as there's no upper/end bearing which would be needed.
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Laid Back Lounge / Re: Jokes Thread (Was named An...
Last post by billy rubin - May 02, 2024, 07:18:06 PMarab spring.
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Laid Back Lounge / Re: Jokes Thread (Was named An...
Last post by hermes2015 - May 02, 2024, 04:55:21 PMThe ejection seat did an excellent job.
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Laid Back Lounge / Re: Jokes Thread (Was named An...
Last post by Dark Lightning - May 02, 2024, 04:16:15 PM
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Miscellaneous / Re: Build the Pyramid
Last post by billy rubin - May 02, 2024, 03:53:35 PMcould be. but lots of things that we see as common sense engineering werent thought of thousands of years ago.look at chariot wheels. took thousands of years for those to develop the obvious optimal dedign we see today.
or think about the various seige engines that were cocked by wonding a rope or string around a drum. the interface was always a set of handspikes for the operator to pull on, because the crank wasnt invented until modern times.
or early versions of sprocketed drive chains consisting of simple long links articulating around a pentangular drum.
seems obvious now how to do it better, but we have an advantage
or think about the various seige engines that were cocked by wonding a rope or string around a drum. the interface was always a set of handspikes for the operator to pull on, because the crank wasnt invented until modern times.
or early versions of sprocketed drive chains consisting of simple long links articulating around a pentangular drum.
seems obvious now how to do it better, but we have an advantage
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Miscellaneous / Re: Build the Pyramid
Last post by Old Seer - May 02, 2024, 02:03:41 PMThe devise is referred to as a "djed pillar", which seems to me to be a wine press of some type rather than a force multiplier. The lower part would make a very poor bearing as perpendicular force would tend to move the pillar up out of the base. The pillar would make a better axial means if it were same as top bearing.
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Current Events / Re: Israeli-Hamas war
Last post by Asmodean - May 02, 2024, 12:19:42 PMQuote from: Dark Lightning on April 24, 2024, 01:58:24 AMHow about all the people on both side who are "openly aflame" calm the fuck down?The Book of Divine The Asmo, the very first chapter and verse... Well, after hundreds of pages of His self-aggrandising. Still, it's there.
I see some news about the police removing college campus protesters. Personally, I'd say "leave them to it," [the protesters, that is] but then it has been stated that there was private property damage and/or voilence, in which case they probably ought to be dispersed.
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Life As An Atheist / Re: On the subject of atheism.
Last post by zorkan - May 02, 2024, 11:41:05 AMThe debate about faith schools in Britain has resurfaced again this week.
They provide kids with good morals and values, and are a great start for any young life.
There are of course counter arguments.
https://www.secularism.org.uk/opinion/2021/02/the-evidence-against-faith-schools-is-overwhelming
Do they teach Big Bang cosmology? I don't think so.
Do they teach evolution by natural selection? I don't think so.
Two of the greatest ideas in the last 150 years are ignored which could inspire young minds.
My conclusion is that kids would have a better start in life by teaching facts and not fiction.
They provide kids with good morals and values, and are a great start for any young life.
There are of course counter arguments.
https://www.secularism.org.uk/opinion/2021/02/the-evidence-against-faith-schools-is-overwhelming
Do they teach Big Bang cosmology? I don't think so.
Do they teach evolution by natural selection? I don't think so.
Two of the greatest ideas in the last 150 years are ignored which could inspire young minds.
My conclusion is that kids would have a better start in life by teaching facts and not fiction.
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Life As An Atheist / Re: This is serious. This is r...
Last post by zorkan - May 02, 2024, 11:33:35 AMI'm arguing that the denial of science should itself be at least a caution, but it never is.
While you are free to believe in what you like (Flying Spaghetti Monster, for instance), you should not be intimidated by the religious mainstream.
How many Presidents of the USA (Christians with their hands on the nuclear button) have believed that the world is only 6000 years old?
While you are free to believe in what you like (Flying Spaghetti Monster, for instance), you should not be intimidated by the religious mainstream.
How many Presidents of the USA (Christians with their hands on the nuclear button) have believed that the world is only 6000 years old?