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@Stephen
Well, notwithstanding the dubiousness of biblical stuff anyway.
A. They could have been playing dead as part of the Roadshow.
B. They weren't actually dead.
C. They were just having a right laugh.
Is this helpful Stephen?
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@Lemming
If you consider the processes involved.
Then everything is an internal projection or simulation of an assumed reality.
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@Best.Korea
If Bible exists, then God exists.
If Lord of the rings exists, then Middle Earth exists.
So choose your favourite work of fiction and make it come to life.
And I had a bible once, but I burned it, so I destroyed God.
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@Greyparrot
Well, a few hiccups in your last hasty reply.
But there a certainly those who would argue that planned obsolescence wouldn't be such a bad idea.
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@Best.Korea
The Bible,
Or,
A copy of a book.
Though,
A realistic object,
Is not the issue.
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@Greyparrot
Clean safe and modern within the context of the above.
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@TWS1405_2
Two years.
That's short term thinking.
You need to plan for the future just as much as Joe does.
Don't expect the nanny state to do everything for you.
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@YouFound_Lxam
Not taking it seriously, perhaps.
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@Deb-8-a-bull
Witnessing the witnesses witnessing, is witness to the witnessing witnesses witnessing.
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@Greyparrot
Nuclear reactors are ridiculously expensive bits of short term kit.
Which very soon become a very expensive problem.
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@YouFound_Lxam
I doubt that it was Biden's idea.
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@ebuc
God is a magical floaty about, thought bloke.
GOD might the answer to everything.
Which is not to say that GOD didn't once float about, and will not float about again.
So God might be a metaphor for GOD.
Or not, as the case maybe.
An internal Zed projection.
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@YouFound_Lxam
Words can and have been redefined.
And socio-psychological evolution redefines the thinking species.
It's all happening right here right now.
Denial is futile.
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@MeowRanger
Do you know what semantics is? If not look it up.
Then apply semantics to relevant words, like happiness and contentment, and see if you can work out just what happiness is.
Positive chemistry refers to body chemistry and particularly brain chemistry, that might have a positive effect upon our wellbeing.
Basically everything we do and achieve relies upon our brain and therefore brain processes.
So happiness etc. is nothing more that brain function, electro-chemical processes.
Horses for courses is a an old adage, that in this instance I use to suggest that positive brain function might be variable relative to the individual and their formative conditioning.
Formative condition basically means the information that we acquire in our early years.
Such information has a tendency to always influence how we behave and make decisions throughout the rest of our lives.
So perhaps we are taught to be either introverts or extroverts, and therefore positivity is relative in both cases.
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@Barney
How big do you think the audience is.
I haven't checked lately, but the average used to be about 2.5.
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@MeowRanger
Semantics.
What is happiness?
Are we talking positive chemistry here?
Or just assumptions.
I would suggest that it is better to achieve contentment, rather than constantly striving to be happy.
Horses for courses though, generally dictated by formative conditioning.
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@jaay
Why did the debater cross the road.
For the same reason as the chicken.
So which came first?
The debater or the egg.
Not forgetting the spermatozoa of course.
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@ebuc
That's exactly what I mean.
And that might also be exactly what I mean.
But I would need to be inside Ebuc's head.
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@Best.Korea
@Skipper_Sr
1 unit + 1 unit = 6 therefore 1 = 3.
1 unit + 1 unit = 4 therefore 1 = 2
Therefore 1 + 1 = 5
All that is required is a thought/electro-chemical data processing.
I would suggest that concepts are no more or less this process, and by their very nature are variable, modifiable and always subjective.
I would further suggest that we also possess pre-programmed data/instinct, wherein lies our desire to survive.
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@Public-Choice
Power corrupts etc.
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@Best.Korea
Knowing the difference between eating for the sake of it and eating out of necessity is the key.
People without a ready access to food will feel hunger.
More affluent people just regard it as dinner time or a snack.
Snacking on burgers for the sake of it, not particularly good.
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@Best.Korea
@Skipper_Sr
Incorrect.
Some people might have shorter lives if they "enjoy" themselves too much.
Choice will have very little to do with it.
Though, there's enjoyment and then there's alternative enjoyment.
And then there's also lazy and stupid, and active and sensible.
You choose.
And morality, ethics, right and wrong are all a part of our conceptual fantasy world.
Real enough, though not real at all.
You choose.
Though conditioning may already have limited your ability to choose.
Which isn't necessarily a wrong thing,
But also, not necessarily a right thing.
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@oromagi
We already have limitless energy delivered for free everyday from our nearby life giving star.
We just fail to utilise it.
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@Best.Korea
Well, there is usually someone somewhere willing to do anything for money.
Nonetheless, in a unified society (yep I know) trans would not have become a socio-psychological and therefore evolutionary trend.
Negative conditioning, would have negated the spread of trans data.
But once you plant seeds in the human mind then things will slowly and inevitably change, it's the nature of the human beast.
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@Greyparrot
Metaphorically speaking.
That's still true today.
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@ebuc
Hmmmmmmm.
Some might say the pot calling the kettle black.
But I enjoy our discourse.
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@MeowRanger
Sorry.
It was a Zedku.
A responsive verse,
To gaming,
For a year.
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@Best.Korea
The species soon becomes addicted to trends.
So is addiction to IT a mental illness?
It not you're just cherry picking mental illnesses, relative to your own mentally acquired and established likes and dislikes.
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@Greyparrot
@Best.Korea
@TWS1405_2
Socio-psychological evolution.
Changes that are happening.
To deny is to bury ones head in the sand.
Sexual fantasy is internal physiology,
And therefore both are modifiable,
Just as we have very quickly become addicted to information technology.
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@Greyparrot
Weapons is big business.
Ultimate fantasy gaming.
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@ebuc
I don't need to figure out what's missing.
Because realistically everything is missing, from beginning to end.
Hence cosmological scenarios.
To that end, I offered three very basic scenarios.
And you proffer a less basic scenario, but a nonetheless hypothetical scenario.
Which may or may not be more or less relative in one of my basic scenarios.
And words are words, and serve a purpose.
Like to "spin" is to go out for a leisurely drive in ones car.
So are you saying that all matter goes for a leisurely drive.
Of course not.
Just as I make no references to football players.
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@Lemming
Castles seem fun.
Once you've seen one castle you've seen them all.
I'm not particularly sentimental about history and piles of stone.
But I wouldn't want to spoil it for those that are.
I do get a certain something from remoteness and solitude.
Though I am fully aware that this all boils down to body chemistry.
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@sadolite
Visited the South West a few years ago, it sure is different to Wales.
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@RationalMadman
I've changed my mind.
Could I have a dominatrix looking festive please.
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@MeowRanger
A Zedku for MeowRanger.
Did you stop,
For a drink,
And a bite to eat,
And all the other requirements that modern life necessitates.
Hunt the thimble,
Was always good fun.
Though you could always substitute the thimble with something a little more up to date.
Like a small thing,
That is thimble sized.
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@ebuc
@YouFound_Lxam
Yep.
Time nor space need to start.
All that is required is the existence of something, to provide event and duration.
Could be matter, Mr GODDO or a cheeseburger.
All basically the same.
So Mr GODDO is a cheeseburger.
But can you tell me from where it came.
An eternally existent cheeseburger GOD is as profound a concept as nothing at all is.
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@YouFound_Lxam
Did Giuliani also get his hair dye from Russia?
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@Dr.Franklin
Everything is real within the context of everything.
Begorrah.
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@Lemming
Polygamy is. Multiple sex partners.
And marriage is a load of tosh really, though we have made a sociological mountain out of procreation for quite a while.
And slippery slopes are more or less slippery relative to both, slopiness and slipperiness.
And Mrs Zed wasn't keen to move to Florida. Too many alligators.
But if Mrs Sadolite would like to move to Wales. Mostly sheep here.
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@ebuc
Cosmological infers cosmological and scenario infers a scenario.
Other than that we can only make predictions based upon what we know as of December 2022.
Though if the Universe were to end tomorrow I don't suppose anyone would will have made such an inference yesterday.
I have basic thoughts/ideas, which look at three possibilities pertaining to cosmological outcomes.
1. The automatic regeneration and reactivation of matter.
2. The inspired (GOD principle) regeneration and reactivation of matter. So, GOD principle not necessarily creative, but regenerative.
3. Or a final universal collapse where matter is reduced to an inert state.
That's three very basic cosmological scenarios that most people should be able to grasp.
But what about a primary cosmological scenario?
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