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Your personal information will remain private. Like your pet.
pet
: a domesticated animal kept for pleasure rather than utility
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A responsive dick can be very reassuring.
reassuring
: restoring or intended to restore confidence : reducing or eliminating worry or uncertainty
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That is why it looks better covered.
look
- direct one's gaze toward someone or something or in a specified direction.
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@Shila
No, I have a hybrid.
hybrid
1: an offspring of two animals or plants of different subspecies, breeds, varieties, species, or genera
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@Shila
Even God had to come down to earth to find love. He found Virgin Mary and immediately got her pregnant.
find
1: to come upon often accidentally
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@Shila
He lost all credibility after he called veterans suckers and losers.
credibility
1: the quality or power of inspiring belief
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@Shila
Poker is a family of comparing card games in which players wager over which hand is best according to that specific game's rules. It is played worldwide,
rule
1: a prescribed guide for conduct or action
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Do we get a thumbs up for the research?
thumb
1: the short thick digit of the human hand that is analogous in position to the big toe and differs from the other fingers in having only two phalanges, allowing greater freedom of movement, and being opposable to each of them
also : a corresponding digit in lower animals
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@Shila
Most player who play poker become suckers.
especially : a metal rod for stirring a fire
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@Shila
Trump didn’t know the facts. He was as usual making things up.
fact
- a thing that is known or proved to be true.
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@Shila
Calling for diversity should be applauded.
Diversity
- the state of being diverse; variety."there was considerable diversity in the style of the reports
- the practice or quality of including or involving people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, sexual orientations, etc."equality and diversity should be supported for their own sake"
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@Shila
I call on my fellow older white males who are not part of a marginalized community to join me in shutting up and stepping aside. Our voices have been heard often enough. It’s time that we actually created the space for a diversity of marginalized voices to be heard rather than keep filling that space with our voices.”
Pretty damn hypocritical seeing as the author, Garry Leech, is taking up a ton of space with his voice.
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@Shila
Trump said Hitler 'did some good things' and wanted generals like the Nazis, former chief of staff Kelly claims.I want him to have generals like Hitler had too, Hitler's generals tried to kill him multiple times.Trump didn’t know the facts. He was as usual making things up.
Or it was the weave, English professors say: ‘It’s the most brilliant thing I’ve ever seen,’” you know.
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@FLRW
Trump said Hitler 'did some good things' and wanted generals like the Nazis, former chief of staff Kelly claims.
I want him to have generals like Hitler had too, Hitler's generals tried to kill him multiple times.
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I think poker is more difficult, mostly because I was a great chess player, and I sucked at poker.
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@Shila
God even got jealous they became like Gods.Genesis 3:22 And the LORD God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”
Nonsense, Genesis has nothing to do with jealousy, it uses the metaphor of becoming like Gods, knowing good and evil, to explain our fallen nature.
We say we come into this world, but no, we come out of it, we say we face reality, but no, we are part of reality, we are in reality, to step outside of reality and look upon it from a distance, from outside of it, as though we are Gods, that is the problem of the nature of Man that Genesis speaks to with the Tree of Knowledge, and that is why it says we are “fallen”. How can an integral part of reality “face” reality? The only way is to conceive of reality, and in so doing conceive of ourselves also, in a completely inappropriate way, in a way that distances us from it, a way that takes us out of reality so that we can be separated from it in order to “face” it. It is the way that the Eastern faiths say is an illusion, and the way the Western faiths say is the way a God would look upon reality, it is to think that we are Gods and to think that we can be the “judge” of what is good and evil as though we weren’t part of it.
Science, philosophy, and Genesis concur that the fact of "knowledge" would be unaccountable without a distinction between subject and object, knowledge requires a distinction between the knowing subject and the reality known and our access to self-reflective consciousness achieved that, but when we ate from the fruit of that tree, we necessarily separated ourselves from perfection, we were no longer perfectly attuned to, and One with nature, we were "cast out of the garden of perfection", so to speak.
What Genesis tells us is that the first humans were the first animals to image reality in a detached and symbolic manner, and everything that is distinctively human, language, culture, science, technology, it all followed from that "break" with the true reality we were once part of. We are separated from reality by this bifurcation of things into “us” and “not us”, by this “illusion” that reality is not an unbroken whole, the illusion that the whole is not greater than the parts, and the illusion that we can somehow stand outside of and apart from reality and face it. Genesis tells us that we stand apart from it and look upon the universe "as if we were Gods", seeing a “reflection”, an inverted and artificial image of ourselves as beings that are separate from reality. Interestingly, evolutionary theory tells us that this “change of state” caused an unprecedented explosion in brain growth which resulted in something believed even today to unique to humans, because the brain explosively grew faster than the evolution allowed the female’s body to accommodate that growth in brain size, we alone have painful childbirth, that as a consequence “we conceive in sorrow”, so to speak.
The tree of life then represents the need to transcend the first tree. Genesis tells us that we do not “face” reality, that “we” and “it” are one and the same. To eat from “the fruit of the tree of life” then, is to overcome that separation, to once again transcend the illusion brought about by our having partaken of “fruit of the tree of knowledge”. To transcend our fallen state of reflective knowledge is to live in the moment, to transcend the artificial categories we have artificially imposed on the unbroken wholeness. It is to overcome that flaming sword of reason which turns us in every direction and to reenter the Garden of Perfection. It is to transcend the artificial distinctions we make in our minds and love the ultimate reality (God) and love one another as we love ourselves, because there is no real distinction in the true, unbroken reality, they are one and the same.
For us, and only for us, this thing that made us human and gave us “dominion” over the earth, science’s crossing of the threshold of reflection and faith’s “casting us out of the Garden of perfection”. This cognitive break with the whole transformed the world of perfection that we were once perfectly attuned to into a terrifying world of separate things and events. It became a world where we are naked, ashamed, where we must toil to survive, where we must have faith to live, and where we must recognize that we are also spiritual beings. What Genesis is telling us is that unless we accept a deeper understanding of our profound interrelatedness with all of life, until we recognize that a part can never be whole, if we don't consciously "eat from the fruit of the tree of life" so to speak, we will never find inner peace and external harmony, we will continue to lay waste to our mother earth and go on killing ourselves and each other.
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@Shila
Here is a good example of God applying double standards. He punished Adam and Eve for desiring and gaining wisdom. Then send Jesus and prophets to teach humans gods morality.Genesis 3:6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
Nonsense, you are imposing a puerile literalism that may sharpen doctrinal debate, might serve a contrarian agenda, might feel "cool" in an internet debate forum, but it has nothing to do with understanding, your misguided attempt at Biblical literalism is just ridiculous.
Genesis is a foundational narrative to half of the world’s people; this would be completely unaccountable if it were merely a literal description of very unusual events that occurred in the distant past. A literal translation of Genesis makes it remote and irrelevant and quite frankly, doesn’t make sense. A literal translation could never account for its historical status as the western world’s foundational orienting myth for over three thousand years of mankind’s development, and to treat it as merely an historical narrative account alters its original intent and completely obfuscates the profound truths which the symbolic narrative imparts.
God even got jealous they became like Gods.Genesis 3:22 And the LORD God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”After expelling them from the garden God sent prophets to rein them back to heaven.For what purpose did God send the prophets?So God sends his prophets to warn his people, so they'll turn from sin and its destruction. When Israel refuses to listen, they experience the awful consequences of their own ways, just like the prophets warned. But when Israel listens, they receive God's promised mercy.
I think you are intentionally trying to misunderstand, and in the process making yourself look foolish. You don’t appear to even know what Gensis is about.
It certainly isn’t about two individuals named Adam and Eve, it is about mankind, the Hebrew word “Adam” translates to the word “Mankind”, and this is explicitly confirmed in the first two verses of Genesis 5. The word "Genesis" means "in the beginning", it relates the true nature of mankind and poignantly addresses the subject of “knowledge”, particularly speaking to the development of the “reflective knowledge” that distinguishes mankind from the rest of the animal kingdom, and it talks to the consequences of our having taken that humanizing step.
The Genesis narrative is about the genesis of consciousness, the birth of something new, it is a new beginning that represents a new life, with new potential and new opportunities to move beyond all previous limitations and constraints, and along with that new life come the deepest truths of human essence. It is therefore a necessary preface to the Bible that introduces the birth of “free will” and sets an explanatory stage for exploring its attendant consequences and associated moral responsibility.
In so doing it establishes the basis for all that follows. Genesis teaches us to recognize the relationships inherent in wholeness, growth from incompleteness to wholeness is the real subject of Genesis. Genesis is an orienting myth that provides us with subjective meaning, it tells us why things are like they are and it positions us within the universe and speaks to our relevance in the grand scheme of things, relating our emotional reaction, establishing its significance, providing its meaning, and demanding a response. It conveys a deep understanding of the birth of consciousness and the subsequent transition from a life based on instinct to one involving self-awareness, explaining and relating the resultant requirements for conscious and moral decision-making, as well as responsible stewardship for Life and Earth, over which we have been "given dominion" because of the unique way we think.
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@CatholicApologetics
To what extent do you think the Book of Genesis 2 speaks to the question of free will?
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@Best.Korea
push ups against wall
Wouldn't that be a push sideways.
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@Greyparrot
I bet you voted for Newsom for the best governor on the planet.
No, I wrote in Trump, if he was a governor he would be the best governor on the planet, it would be amazing how good he would be, people would praise his big brain and amazing words, he has the best words.
Newsome doesn't even rake the forests, what a loser.
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@IlDiavolo
I'm hearing from some pundits that the wildfires could have been mitigated quickly but the woke authorities of California didn’t do shit about it because this disaster magnifies their narrative of climate change.
Yes, the wildfires are a left-wing conspiracy, George Soros lit the fires himself.
Can these people be more evil?
Just be patient, our Savior Trump can conquer all evil, after he takes office, the world will become good again.
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@WyIted
It's political either way. If you think he's innocent than these pieces of shits went after him for political reasons. If you think he is guilty than he also got nu punishment for political reasons and these people are still pieces of shits. So no matter how you look at it they are pieces of shits.
You didn't say fake news, witch hunt, and deep state.
Have you forgotten your programming?
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Not sure how is that a good reason to burn down trees.
There aren't any. that is just Greyparrot's bigoted anti-arborism speaking.
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@Greyparrot
I really did wish he sentenced Trump to jail.
I really did wish he sentenced Trump to the guillotine.
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@FLRW
Based on current scientific understanding, Nikola Tesla was likely wrong about Albert Einstein's theories; Tesla publicly criticized Einstein's theory of relativity, claiming it was incorrect, but the scientific community widely accepts Einstein's work as accurate and groundbreaking.
The real rub was that Einstein was a Theoretical Physicist and Tesla was an inventor. They had completely different approaches to science, Einstein worked with abstract mathematics, Tesla with experimentation only.
In 1905 nobody believed the measurements that speed of light was constant no matter what your frame of reference, but Einstein accepted it, made it a principle of nature, and worked out the implications mathematically, the result was the Special Theory of Relativity. Tesla believed he had experimentally measured energy traveling around the world at one and a half times the speed of light, he also thought he has measured cosmic rays traveling fifty times the speed of light, so he rejected the very basis upon which Einsteins theory was built.
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@Best.Korea
Trump has ability to dodge bullets. He probably can even dodge space lasers. He is obviously the chosen one.
Of course he is the Chosen One, he can change our allies into enemies, and our enemies into allies, and he hasn't even taken office yet.
Therefore,judge nothing before the time, until the inauguration come, when Trump will bring tolight the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of thehearts: and then shall every man have praise of Trump.
Hallelujah!
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@Greyparrot
Trump can't do anything about the evil people in California, but karma can.
Blasphemy!
Trump is our savior; he was sent by God to battle evil.
If he can change the path of a hurricane with a sharpie, he can certainly take control of the Jewish Space Lasers to punish the evil that is California.
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@Greyparrot
I don't care about Trump like you do. I care about protecting kids and fighting against policies that put 150,000 people on the streets without a home. I care about basic social services like firefighters, managing forests and nature, and providing basic water supplies.
You don't have to tell me how evil states that don't vote for Trump are, California doesn't even rake their forests, they deserve to have God smite them.
If evil people want to hurt poor people and kids and then have all their houses burn down, it's still a very sad thing.
Nonsense, if some white people have their homes burn down so God can punish people of color, immigrants, LGBTQ, and liberals, then it is a small price to pay.
Rejoice!
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@Greyparrot
Karma?
And then some, God is surely punishing the evil that is a state that didn't vote for Trump, and now the Aryan race will rise up from the trailer parks and reign supreme for a thousand years!
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@FLRW
I can't wait for the 51st,52nd and 53rd new US States Trump is going to establish.
Yes, Trumplandia, Trumpabama, Trumpada...and a rename, The Gulf of Donald.
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@RemyBrown
So everyone in Springfield denied that Haitians were eating pets, there is no evidence whatsoever that ot has actually happened, but the fact that they voted for Trump means they were lying? Voting for Trump is evidence?Voting more for Trump than the prior election (even relative to other counties in Ohio) is not proof, but it's evidence.
No, it isn't evidence, it's just nonsense.
Correlation does not imply causation, there needs to be a causal connection between variables, preferably one with a logical process that didn't come from a Fellini movie.
Trump said windmills make whales crazy, since he won by a large margin in Florida, and Florida is a coastal state with whales at Seaworld, so Florida votes are primary source evidence that windmills make whales crazy?This is not analogous because I can accurately state a plausible lurking variable as to why Florida shifted more red (DeSantis gets a lot of right wing positive press, COVID happens; NY is tough on COVID, right wing NYers and New England residents flee to Florida in 2020; this is why Florida swung more red and New York and New England swung blue in the 2020 election relative to the rest of the country).I can state my required ommitted variable;
I can state what is omitted from your analysis too, LOGIC.
can you state your required omitted variable?
There are no "required omitted variable" with sarcasm.
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@RemyBrown
On what planet does him winning by a large margin in Springfield make that lie become true? It just makes no sense at all.Springfield residents are primary sources.
So everyone in Springfield denied that Haitians were eating pets, there is no evidence whatsoever that ot has actually happened, but the fact that they voted for Trump means they were lying? Voting for Trump is evidence?
Trump said it, and everyone with actual knowledge of the situation said it wasn't true, even the lady that started the rumor said it wasn't true.When I have the data that I have, I would question authority here
Trump said windmills make whales crazy, since he won by a large margin in Florida, and Florida is a coastal state with whales at Seaworld, so Florida votes are primary source evidence that windmills make whales crazy?
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@Best.Korea
My favorite description of Tao is that it is like an infinite empty container which can be filled with anything and can hold anything without destroying itself or it.It is an example of adjusting to anything.
The Tao that can be described is not the everlasting Tao.
Cease allaction that is counter to the flow of life.
Ceaseall inaction that is counter to the flow of life.
It isn’tsomething you know, it’s something you do.
Try to becomemore yourself.
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@ebuc
AI... 'According to current cosmological theories, the prevailing idea is that the Universe began as a result of a quantum fluctuation, essentially a random fluctuation in the quantum field that allowed for the creation of space, time, and matter from what is considered "nothing" - a concept often referred to as the "quantum vacuum" - leading to the Big Bang event that initiated our universe '...Another version of this above says it has to do with Hesienbergs Uncertainty PrincipleThe way I always remember first hearing the ole saying was that ...' it was a fluctuation in the quantum wave, that created the Universe '....
There are a lot of people trying to work out the process involved in the "creation of space, time, and matter from what is considered "nothing"", but in my opinion, they are just playing with mathematics, it has nothing to do with reality. They are attempting to mathematically apply relativity and quantum theory to define the process by which time and space came into being, without considering that you can’t have a process without time or space for that process to occur in.
The speculation is that the universe could have been the result of a quantum fluctuation in empty space, which then could have “inflated” rapidly because the positive energy of inflation would be balanced by the negative energy of gravity, which would produce a universe with a net energy of zero. In the end we are just conjuring with mathematics here, when nature doesn’t exist yet, principles can’t exist yet either, if nothing exists then there are no states and no principles of laws and it’s impossible to say what might come into existence or how it might occur.
They are asking us to accept the existence of mathematics without a mind for it to occur in and accept the existence of physical laws without a physical universe for them to represent. They postulate that the real basis of the physical universe is conceptual or mathematical but without a consciousness for the mathematics or concepts to occur in and postulate a cosmology that tells us that in the beginning was a deep mathematical structure that is true by definition and which necessarily existed, and from it the physical universe arose.
Now, according to this thought process, when you apply relativity and quantum theory to the infinite primordial nothing you get a cosmic loophole big enough for all creation to jump through. In a kind of mathematical transubstantiation, there was some kind of quantum fluctuation whereby the numbers took on substance and became physically real...and the physical universe came into existence.
It is just abstract mathematics without any connection to the reality the mathematics is supposed to be representing.
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@ebuc
Thank you SD, good stuff all. Hit nail on the head.....etc
Everybody here is on the internet, it only takes a few keystrokes to be informed about a subject matter, but hardly anyone here ever bothers.
This subject has been extensively studied, and there is no evidence whatsover that dressing provocatively increases the probability of rape, the fact is, the converse is true. The motivation for rape is control, dominance and violence, more often than not, it's the woman whose dress and demeaner says "I don't want to have sex" that gets the rapists attention, it's not the woman whose dress and demeaner says "I want to have sex" that gets the rapist's attention.
Rapists get off on taking a woman against her will, doing to her what she doesn't want. To the rapist, a woman who looks like she doesn't want to have sex is more appealing than one who looks like she wants to have sex.
Men in prison rape, it's certainly not because they think the victim has a nice ass, it's an act of violence, meant to control and dominate.
It's more likely that a woman who looks like the rapist's mother is "asking for it".
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This is absurd, it's only the attitude of rapists making excuses, and incels.
Women want to be attractive, they want to be wanted, sometimes they want to get laid, but that doesn't mean they are "asking for it" to be raped.
If you drive an expensive car, you aren't "asking for it" to have it stolen.
If you live in an expensive home, you aren't "asking for it" to be robbed.
You wear a Rolex watch doesn't mean you are "asking for it" to be mugged.
If a man works hard to be attractive to women, is he just "asking for it" to be murdered by a jealous incel? Of course not.
Victim blaming is nonsense, and this idea that attractive women are "asking for it" to be raped is just the misogyny of guilty rapists or sexually frustrated men.
If you don't like being called an incel, tough, you were just "asking for it".
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@WyIted
It's even weirder to think that half the country voted for a rapist for POTUS.The alternative was complete destruction of the country so not an easy choice
Yeah, yeah, you already told me, only a dictator can save us from the evil that is American, Americans are the enemy, the government is the enemy, the Constitution is the enemy, deep state is our enemy, LGBTQ is our enemy, people of color are our enemy, eggs are $3 a dozen, immigrants are eating our pets, blah blah blah. Got it.
Of course a Fascist Dictator is allowed to rape and pillage, I mean, c'mon, that's kind of the whole point of Fascist Dictatorship.
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@ebuc
Light travels slower in denser mediums like water or glass compared to a vacuum, because of interactions with the particles within the medium (the refractive index of that medium) but that doesn't impart mass to the particle.
I agree with your bias against infinite energies, Aristotle showed that actualinfinities is are logically inconceivable. If they did exist, we could not confirm itthrough observation because there would be no way to measure them. If an actual infinity were to exist there isno way for us to know it.
Consequently, when science produces mathematical infinities, they represent places where the mathematical formulas break down rather than being in any way referential to reality.
There aresupposedly infinite densities at the center of black holes, along with infinitecurvature of space-time, but a black hole is unobservable beyond the event horizon, so any observation impossible, and it is logically inconceivable, so I think the black hole just represents the limitation of knowledge or understanding in the theory of relativity.
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@n8nrgim
The richest man in the world is the solution to the problem of income inequality.
With logic like that, it's no wonder he blew himself up.
What was the point of attacking a Trump building with a Musk truck?
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@WyIted
I didn't say you like all rapists but it's weird to think that migrant rapists should hold a privileged position in society
It's even weirder to think that half the country voted for a rapist for POTUS.
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There is no empirical evidence whatsoever that dressing provocatively is in any way causal for rape. It's true that rapists have asserted this in order to blame the victim, but it has no basis in fact.
The motivation for rape is not sex, it is violence.
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@ebuc
Got to time stamp 18:40 to begin --the gist of it-- to understand in clear, intuitive way, why photons do not have mass, yet they do have mass, if they travel even minutely less than the speed-of-radiation.This Brilliant vid, explains the above in three, clearly and intuitive ways, mass { rest }, speed-of-radiation { c = motion }, speed of Causality { C }. If you have the time just go to the time stamp. We presume photons move at speed-of-Causality, because that is simpler, than the alternative reality that--- Einstein, Feynman and others believes exists---, as it is more complex, so why bother, if not necessary to deal with more complexity of space-time.
First, according to the theory of relativity, which is the subject matter of the video, the speed of light in a vacuum (C) is equal to the speed of causality, in relativity, they are one and the same.
The guy just asserts that there is an alternative reality where Photons can travel at different speeds and therefore can have mass, and later on he asserts that Einstein and Feynman and others believe such a reality exists. That is simply wrong, fundamental to Einstein's theory is the constant speed of light in a vacuum, and the photon is "defined" as a massless particle, Einstein and Feynman believed these fundamental principles. They did not believe in an alternative reality in which this is not true.
This guy's speculation that if photons were to travel at different speeds, then they could have mass according to Einstein's theory isn't supported by Einstein's theory because it doesn't allow for photons to travel at different speeds. He seems to be stating that "theoretically" within the theory of relativity this could be true, but no, within the theory of relativity it is not theoretically possible for photons to travel at anything but C, nor is it theoretically possible for a photon to have mass. Those principles are fundamental to the theory of relativity.it doesn't allow any exceptions to these principles.
He states that an alternative reality in which these things were not true would introduce paradoxes and logical inconsistencies, which is true, and according to theory, this is why it is not true. "Theoretically" has no meaning aside from according to the theory, so there is no theoretical situation where photons travel at something other than C or has mass.
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@WyIted
Democrats- no, we like rapists
Not all, Trump's a rapist and they don't like him.
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@Greyparrot
It's clear the cats had their tongues. The surviving cats. When you are a cat, they let you grab them by the tongue.
Only if the cat is rich or a celebrity.
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@n8nrgim
I think just typing the OP is "just asking for it" to have somebody bitch slap the shit out of you.
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@Barney
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@RemyBrown
Why else would Springfield swing much more for Trump than other places in Ohio?
Why on earth would you think that this has anything to do with whether or not Haitians are eating pets?
That is just bizzarro logic.
Trump said it, and everyone with actual knowledge of the situation said it wasn't true, even the lady that started the rumor said it wasn't true.
On what planet does him winning by a large margin in Springfield make that lie become true? It just makes no sense at all.
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@ebuc
To paraphrase Wolfgang Pauli, the OP isn't even wrong.
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Jupiter is 10 times larger than earth.. Yet in the picture it looks smaller than earth.The universe is three-dimensional, Earth is closer to the POV of the picture, Jupiter is farther,Venus is about the same size as earth, but it looks much smaller than earth in the picture.
...and what's up with all those teeny-weeny galaxies, it's a mystery.
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