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@Greyparrot
The consensus opinion of climate experts (97%) says your goofball is wrong.
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@hey-yo
If a frog had wings, he wouldn't bump his ass when he hopped.
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@sadolite
I would expect a "one size fits all" BS theory that leaves a million unanswered questions.
That would be String Theory.
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@YouFound_Lxam
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@FLRW
That fantasy with the twin sisters and their Mom from a couple hours ago, that was disgusting.It wasn't that bad, C'mon man !
It was the camel, that was over the top.
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@FLRW
That is why I use DuckDuckGo when I search for Hookers at Mar-a- Lago.
I've been monitoring your thoughts, so I knew you were going to say that.
That fantasy with the twin sisters and their Mom from a couple hours ago, that was disgusting.
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@zedvictor4
Yes, but mostly in Florida.
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@Reece101
what would you expect from a "theory of everything" if you were going to take it seriously?No idea. I assume by the time we get to that point, we’ll be answering more questions than we’re capable of asking.
Robert Frost likened scientific knowledge to a clearing in a forest, the greater the clearing the more contact we have with the unknown, it seems that the more information we obtain through natural explanations, rather than less, the mystery of true reality becomes greater.
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@Greyparrot
Because he looks racist? Ironic.
When Trump takes Viagra, he just gets taller.
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@Public-Choice
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot
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@Greyparrot
That seems a little racist.
No, Trump is a lot racist.
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@Greyparrot
People who use inflammatory words are not necessarily Fascists.
If it looks like a Fascist, and it walks like a Fascist, and it quacks like a Fascist, it's a Fascist.
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@FLRW
Yes, Islamic Law ensures a woman's right to her property.
No, it's the law of the jungle, women being the most dangerous creatures ensures the right to her property, and his property.
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@hey-yo
As a birthday gift to my self. I am selling my wife's motorcycle. Should I tell her?
No, you should not "tell her", you should ask her.
If you sell her motorcycle without her knowledge, you are toast.
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@Best.Korea
Take your meds.
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@Swagnarok
Consider Mithraism.For maybe a hundred year stretch, the devotees of this god met in caves and worshiped the slayer of the cosmic bull. Unlike the worshipers of a certain Jewish figure, however, the Mithraists didn't consider their religion exclusive. They worshiped the emperor and the Greco-Roman pantheon as well.What happened to them? They went extinct by the end of antiquity. Their extinction, in fact, was so complete that today we know almost nothing about their faith. Very few records or artifacts pertaining to it survive.In contrast, the religion of slaves, illiterate women, and martyrs being turned into live tiki torches for Nero's dinner parties now has adherents on every continent. Sounds to me like Christians chose the winning strategy.
Mithraism predated Christianity but the two religions did coexist for a long time, and it was during an era when different religions were not as polarizing as they are today, for the most part they peacefully coexisted. Instead of crude and boastful contrasts, there were borrowings and exchanges, mutual help, cross-fertilization that led sometimes to good strong hybrids, but for the most part simply enriched both spiritual cultures.
It’s about religion alive, about spirituality developing in time, Mithraism may be gone but it’s not forgotten, its contribution lives on in the spiritual heritage of Christianity and the other faiths it influenced.
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@sui_generis
I'm writing one. I am formulating curricula for myself to ensure I have the adequate basis of knowledge to avoid the sorts of mistakes that would prevent me from being taken seriously before my ideas are even seriously contended with.
The term “Theory of Everything” (TOE) is defined by physicists as the unification of all four known fundamental forces, electromagnetism, the strong and weak forces, and gravity, into a single comprehensive theory which has “universal applicability”. There is an unfounded ideological commitment to “unification” as the path to ultimate truth in physics, but in the end, there are two problems to that. First, we must recognize that science asks carefully delimited questions about natural phenomena, and if the science is so “selective”, then it cannot claim that its picture of reality is complete, and consequently, the resultant theory cannot reasonably be called a theory of “everything”.
Second, even if we could conjure up a mathematical framework demonstrating that all four forces were derived from a single force in the first moments of the Big Bang, what would we really have accomplished? It wouldn’t be testable, it would do nothing to tell us about the nature of physical reality, and it certainly will not yield the sought after single underlying theoretical framework that governs the universe. At best, it would be a matter of abstract mathematics rather than physics, it would have no real connection to the real world.
what markers should I focus on? one of my main concerns is that if I'm going to attempt to defend the universal applicability of the model, then I must be, in some sense, decently competent at talking about everything. naturally, this presents a profoundly disadvantageous burden for me, such as would likely prevent me from attaining a degree of mastery over one specific domain as would grant me the credentials that many of the actual cultural mover-shakers use to pre-filter the ideas on which they spend their time
What you need to do is define the problem in a way that makes sense, what are you trying to accomplish? A “Theory of Everything” as it is currently defined by physicists would necessarily be a Quantum Theory, and Quantum Theory itself has rendered obsolete the view that the universe is wholly determined by inflexible and universal laws. A “Theory of Everything is fundamentally a belief in the causal closure of the physical world, which necessitates an axiomatic system that is consistent and logically complete and Godel’s proof showed that to be impossible. His Incompleteness Theorem is analytically perfect and rigidly deductive and therefore conclusive as far as logic and science are concerned. It states categorically that no axiomatic system is, or can be, complete without reference to a higher system in which that system must be embedded. Gödel proved that a “Theory of Everything” is therefore impossible, which is to say that it is logically and scientifically impossible to devise a set of axioms from which all the phenomena of the external world can be deduced. Werner Heisenberg confirmed that uncertainty is a feature of reality with his own proof in the physical sciences. Each and every unified theory, which is to say every scientific attempt at unifying and completing physical theory, postulates other dimensions in which this reality is embedded, every one of them, as and perhaps because, Kurt Gödel logically proved that they must.
Beyond the proven impossibility of the task, you need to further consider that any unification of the laws of physics must necessarily take into account the thought/consciousness dimension, and thus must unify physics with psyche as well. You need to determine how you will go about formulating consciousness into the mathematical framework of science, something that has always completely eluded science.
wdyt? ❦
What I think is that reality isn’t a problem that needs to be solved, and I wonder why we think that finite creatures can comprehend the whole, that our finite minds can somehow fully axiomatize an infinitely diverse universe of reality of which we are a mere part.
Maps are not territory, and there are definite limits to our mental powers and our mathematics, and maybe we should get past our arrogance by waking up to the fact that we are finite beings pondering the infinite, and that a part cannot circumscribe the whole.
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@Greyparrot
Yep, the Trump supporter motto should be "ignorance is bliss".As a Trump hater, I don't trust billionaire owned media. Even if they hate Trump too.
Well duh, Trump told you the news is fake, everybody knows that.
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@Greyparrot
They know to stay away from fake news indoctrination. You know, the stuff billionaires get you to watch on TV so you can sell your soul to them.
Yep, the Trump supporter motto should be "ignorance is bliss".
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@Greyparrot
Better to be uninformed than to be indoctrinated.
The uninformed don't know they are indoctrinated.
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@FLRW
Jared Kushner 'admitted Donald Trump lies to his base because he thinks they're stupid'
That, plus when you are completely uninformed, you have no choice but to make up shit to say.
He lies because he doesn't know the truth.
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@Swagnarok
I suppose it would've been preferable if he said "I hate the poorly educated"?
No, he likes you to be uninformed.
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@Swagnarok
Give us the verbatim quotes or tweets by Trump in question. Not another "anonymous report claims Trump said this/is planning this", but a provable thing that Trump uttered.
"I love the poorly educated" - Donald Trump
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@Double_R
Do you believe Trump is a fascist and/or an authoritarian? Yes or No?
I believe Trump supporters are fully aware that it is fascism they are advocating, but not one will ever admit it.
Trump hasn't hidden it, listen to a rally, fascism is practically his campaign promise.
He's offering nothing in the way of policy, all he's offering is vengeance and retribution, political violence and White supremacy, and it is red meat for his rabid supporters, he is promising mayhem and destruction because that is what they want.
I don't believe they are too stupid to see it because he hugged a flag and got them to throw a collective hissy fit because a football player took a knew during the national anthem, they know what they are doing, but they will never admit it.
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@zedvictor4
I often wonder that too.Must be something to do with all the ovine interbreeding.Fortunately I'm British.
LOL, it was a nice try though, how about this.
They recently found Liberace's lost memoir.
Turns out he wasn't gay after all, he was just very very British.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
Haley says she doesn’t want to be judged for her stance on having an abortion nor will she judge others for their choice. That makes her Pro-choice.Pro-choice people think each individual should decide if they get an abortion or not. They don’t say all women must get abortions, they say it’s up to each individual.Pro-life people say not only would they never get an abortion, they don’t want anyone else to get one either.If you say you won’t judge women (or pass laws to stop them) for getting an abortion then your pro-choice.
I'm pro none-of-my-business, when women came up with the idea that men should stay out of it, I think that was the best thing that could happen.
On the other hand, I do think men should be able to tell women what to do with their bodies, but that's only "recreationally" :)
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@zedvictor4
Wales is below average as usual.
I've always wondered about that, why are the Welsh always below average, do you know?
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@Athias
Like the past belief that the Earth was flat?I'll play devil's advocate. Suppose I do believe that the Earth is flat. Is my belief not true, or does the object of my belief lack verifiable data consistent with accepted scientific metrics?Take your time to consider what it is I'm actually asking.
Are you actually asking, or are you actually saying something in order to obtain an answer or some information?
Take your time to consider what it is you are actually doing.
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@FLRW
Do you know why Trumpprefers a chickpea over a lima bean?
He’s never been caught having a lima beanon his face.
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@SethBrown
There are many naturalistic theories to explain why the disciples came to believe/claim the resurrection happened, like the conspiracy theory says they merely lied, or the hallucination theory says they hallucinated it, etc. I am unconvinced that these theories can explain the origin of the christian belief, so convince me.
The man the Christian Bible is about rarely spoke of Himself and almost never talked about the detached metaphysical constructs that so many arguments focus on, perhaps it is because He knew how such things could digress into divisive contrasts and disunity, and perhaps we can and should conclude that they simply do not matter.
It is certainly not my intent to contend that what was implicit in His life and was made explicit through theological discourse four hundred years later is not an image of truth; it is only to say that these divisive things do not matter to me and I do not believe they are more important than His message.
It is simply enough for me to know that the things He did and said caused His contemporaries to think of Him in completely new dimensions and that there was something to this man's life that caused those who knew it best to reach the conclusion that it was divine in nature. The divisive contentions about whether or not He actually rose from the grave in bodily form just do not matter to me. It is enough for me to know that his spirit jumped dramatically to life after his death and that because of this he gave millions and millions of people hope that they never had before.
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@FLRW
In 2016, scientists announced they had directly detected gravitational waves, literal ripples in the fabric of spacetime.
They spent 40 years and over a billion dollars looking for the 2.5 mile distance between the arms of the LIGO interferometer to change by about a thousandth of the diameter of a proton, of course they found it. You don't spend a billion dollars and come back with "oops".
It was a huge validation of Einstein’s work, which had predicted their existence almost exactly 100 years prior.
Of course, we have already validated the living shit out of Einstein's theories of relativity, this was just the last prediction to be "validated". Perhaps this development is one of those "much ado about nothing" things.
The find also heralded a new era of astronomy, as researchers now have a new way to study the Universe.
I'm not sure how finding a blip the size of a thousandth of the diameter of a proton every forty years constitutes a "new way to study the Universe" or "heralds a new era of astronomy" but hey, after you spend a billion dollars you just have to say stuff like that.
Being a statistical metric, the confidence level of a single measurement yields 0 degrees of confidence.
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@Athias
Because of skin color, the social, political, and economic experience is not identical,On what are you basing this?
I’m basing it on the real world.
the experiential reality of the black man is different than the experience of a white man.The experiential reality of the individual is different from the experience of another. What is your point?
My point is your comment “Yes, because the representation of identical social, political, and economic values can be expressed exclusively and necessarily through skin color” is just nonsense.
So yes, politically, representation by leaders who understand the issues resulting from skin color is important.Which is to say that the skin color is necessarily associated with experience (and response,) and therefore can be used to argue a uniform experience (united by skin color) a uniform response, and a uniform set of values.
OK, and that would also be nonsense.
Doesn't proposing that so-called blacks and so-called whites being monolithic socioeconomic and political demographic necessarily render a "racist" inference?
No it doesn’t, there are social,political, and economic experience differences between the white and black experience,but it does not follow that either experience is monolithic. Andno, it does not “render a "racist" inference”, systemic andinstitutional racism is the cause, not the effect.
Furthermore, since Gabe Amo is a Democrat, would he represent the values of so-called "Black" Republicans by mere virtue of his skin color?
Nope.
If you want to argue against the simple statement that “blackpeople deserve their share of representation”, you need to present more thanobtuse straw man statements and hasty generalizations, how about you put forth arational argument.
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@Athias
Well, black people deserve their share of representation.Yes, because the representation of identical social, political, and economic values can be expressed exclusively and necessarily through skin color.
Because of skin color, the social, political, and economic experience is not identical, the experiential reality of the black man is different than the experience of a white man. So yes, politically, representation by leaders who understand the issues resulting from skin color is important.
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@FLRW
Choosing your political party in the US is just like driving a car:
Choose "D" to go forward.
Choose "R" to go backwards.
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@Greyparrot
I hope you have a deep respect for the elite right crowd when they call you a lizard worshipper
I will call them an adhom troll and report them.
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@Greyparrot
Yes, when asked where the SURE data was in the OP, you basically say it doesn't exist.
OK, OK, it does actually exist, but the middle earth dwelling shapeshifting reptiloids have it.
You don't really believe Soros is a human do you?
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@Greyparrot
So you as well unironically argue in support of the OP. What is with you guys today?
You think Elvis voting 90,000 times and Jewish Space Lasers erasing the voting data are unironically made arguments?
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@Greyparrot
Bro, did you even read your 2nd source dated 2020? They never did find the missing SURE data (and still haven't)
And they never will, we used the Jewish Space Lasers to erase the data.
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@Public-Choice
From American Thinker:When the last PA counties finally posted information into the SURE registration system (at the end of January 2021), V.V. determined that there remained a voter deficit of 121,000. Using my audit experience, I extensively tested the V.V. analysis, and I found it to be logical and completely accurate. A voter deficit existed, and the election should not have been certified.The exact amount is not entirely clear because, magically, 30,000 more voters materialized (without explanation) six months after the election. Yes, the number of voters had grown by the time PA issued its “2020 General Election Report” on May 14, 2021. That is the reason I reported a deficit of just 90,000 in my book, Debunked. Although I suspected that the 30,000 increase in voters was a “plug” entry, I generously assumed that it was some sort of legitimate error correction made by PA. Either way, however, the voter deficit exceeded Biden’s winning margin.article:
It's because Elvis voted so many times.
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@FLRW
I think "Women are the backbone of society, therefore they make better leaders"is a good topic.
It is if you are trying to get laid.
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@FLRW
What Forum Topics do you think would attract women?
Nice Shoes
Men Suck
Hallmark Christmas Movies
At my house, the 24/7 Hallmark Christmas Movies has already begun (it begins earlier every year), please kill me.
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@Swagnarok
I have no idea why people keep claiming the Middle East is a powder keg for WW3. There are three superpower factions, at least two of which have to directly fight each other on a massive scale for something to amount to a world war: NATO, China, and Russia. Aside from a relatively weak alliance between Russia and Iran, there's just no potential there.Israel fights Iran? Not a world war.Israel and America fight Iran while Russia and China do little more than passively supply the Iranians with weapons? Not a world war.Another Arab coalition against Israel? Not a world war.Another Arab coalition against both Israel and America? A little closer to a world war, but unlikely in the first place because the US is also vaguely allied with most of those countries and hasn't directly fought them to defend Israel in the past.Israel fights Palestine? Not a world war.And so on.
Yeah, and Germany invades Poland. Not a world war.
Britain and France to declare war on Germany. Not a world war.
Germany invades Norway. Not a world war.
Germany invades Belgium. Not a world war.
Paris falls to Germany. Not a world war.
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. Not a world war.
And so on.
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@Best.Korea
Trump looks like old angry toddler.
Yes, and Justice Arthur Engoron is gonna spank him good.
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@Best.Korea
Do you think you got smarter when you became an atheist?Yes.
If you became a Christian again, would you get dumber?
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"When a man unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, (possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits), despotic in his ordinary demeanor, known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty, when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity, to join in the cry of danger to liberty, to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion, to flatter and fall in with all the nonsense of the zealots of the day, It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may ‘ride the storm and direct the whirlwind" - Alexander Hamilton (in a letter to George Washington in 1792)
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@Best.Korea
you think you're smarter?No, I dont think that I am smarter.
Do you think you got smarter when you became an atheist?
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