zedvictor4

People are as people have always done.

And technology is now required to bring distraction to an even larger audience. 

Whilst todays thinkers, concentrate on other things.

Progress is what material evolution demands.

So nothing to deal with

It will be dealt with.

A lot to de-cipher.

Though I do have a mental image of you and your muse.

But you are just shadows.

She lies, face down, absorbed in technology,  and I am absorbed by her shape.

You stand in front of her, leaning forwards, absorbed in technology also.

I am not similarly absorbed, and am easily distracted by my thoughts.

Please explain?

So why did God create dinosaurs?

Did GOD get rid of dinosaurs for a reason?

Were they sinners, big time?

I like the informal "Zed"...Do you mind if I refer to you as U.

Meanwhile, I will look into the mystery, artful illusion and reincarnation that you allude to.

I would say, more popular and less popular.

And I don't think that goodness is a determining factor.

I would suggest that the factors that determine popularity are variously human, rather than topically virtuous.

If you look for synchronicity you will find it and if you want to find synchronicity you will look for it.

Other people fill their lives with other stuff and never consider synchronicity.....Maybe the odd coincidence now and then.

And free will and fate are usually tough nuts to crack, and usually end up unresolved.

I would suggest that you are a programmed organic machine, and as such you are governed by your programming.......Though, can you decide what you want for breakfast?

Fate is probably no more than a mystical interpretation of the above. 

And that still leaves breakfast......Choices Choices.

Yep. Have seen that image.

Though the opposite does seem to show a good diagrammatic representation of the female reproductive system, ovaries and all.

Perhaps achieving sexual fulfilment wasn't as socially hampered back in the day.... AND all variations on the sodomy theme, would have been the best form of contraception at the time.

Repressed religious types really tried fucked up peoples fun didn't they?...Especially Catholics...Though up until fairly recently the holy fathers didn't seem to think so.

I haven't read much about the Cathars, though I don't remember their sexual proclivities being regarded as any more sodomitically inclined, than that of any other christian sect.

That was reputedly, just hypocritical Catholics in denial going Na Na Na Na Na.

But despite religion, has and did anything really change in the lower fulfilment department?

And was Leonardo just a proactive porn artist?....Vitruvian man certainly looked like he was ready for a spanking!

I would suggest that the bulk of the population (and I speak as a British person) are moderate and only align themselves politically at election times. The rest of the time, most people have better things to do....Fortunately in the U.K. extremism isn't allowed to get much of a look in...So the terms liberal and conservative tend not to mean a great deal when it comes to national policy decisions.

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Another nice statement.

Yep.  Can't argue with any of those statements....

Nonetheless. They are all instances of how society uses selective morality to justify contradicting itself.

Interesting remark.

And the opposite of mentally unhealthy

So how does one achieve mental healthy...Mental health comes with mental fitness, as physical health comes with physical fitness...And the two are also inextricably linked.

I think that we often overlook the obvious causes and solutions of mental health problems.

So is atheism more reasonable that theism then?.......1157 posts and I'm none the wiser.

Strange expression.

Or do you mean.... Do as you are told. Please.

Don't you mean Xi Jinping.

Now. If it had been July 7th 2017...That would have been something...As it is, it isn't.

Joke of the week.

For me, it's spellchecking.

I'm pleased that you appreciated the challenge.

I think that taking someone's life with their consent is generally,  also regarded as wrong.....Notwithstanding extreme situations of legally assisted euthanasia, and socially approved armed conflict...... To name but two instances of selective morality....

Abortion being a third of course....Now there's a can of selectively moral worms that's always open.

Yep.

Creator...Might be the reason for the cause of our existence.

I prefer to think that creation just set the wheels in motion.

Had things occurred slightly differently,  this might well have been an advanced species descended from dinosaurs, discussing the GOD principle.

Which may well be the case elsewhere, especially if evolution progressed similarly, but without the extinction event.

Advanced Alien Lizards or Birds is not as unlikely as it might seem.

Sorted then...And move on.

No...But your in the right country...So to speak.

And the series of numbers represented an anagram....So the order was relative to this factor, and not to the anagrams solution.

There is either purpose or not....Take your pick.

And as I said, purpose could just as likely be unintentional as it could be intentional.

And you're the King of circular logic. 

And 3RU7AL wasn't talking specifically about religion, they simply were using a well known turn of phrase to explain differences between people.

And you are the one that is seemingly, obsessively conditioned with religious data.....Assuming that I was similarly conditioned was your misunderstanding not mine.

And I will ignore the last remark.

The Dog definitely ate the cereal and licked the bowl and sneaked backed to it's bed when you weren't looking....That's how dogs typically function...Even if they are seemingly asleep, they are fully aware and look for every opportunity to acquire food.

As for the pens and pencils, they were probably an untidy coincidence.

I get the impression that you are probably a person predisposed to react in this way and look for ghostly answers rather than logical ones.

There are no such things as ghosts.....Though I doubt that you will choose to agree with this.

And I expect there will be plenty of others who will also not agree, should they happen to read the above.

My database contains very similar information to yours.

Though how we might utilise data obviously varies, relative to how we might be conditioned differently because of "accidents of birth".

I personally have no data organised in the form of traditional or popular deistic/theistic belief.

I accept the basic principles of creation and evolution and assume there is a purpose, though whether it is an intentional or unintentional purpose it is impossible to say.

I find the notion that everything is explained in relatively recent Middle Eastern folklore, somewhat ridiculous....But that's how my database is programmed.

Change, progress, evolution.......And our parents probably had similar concerns.

And we think because we do, and perhaps because we were meant to.....How would Alternative Intelligence have got of the ground if we hadn't of thought of it?

You got it in the end.

Just a simple puzzle, if you know what you are doing.

What about the second, even easier puzzle?

It's why my database is somewhat differently conditioned to yours....And why you are labelled Tarik and I am labelled zedvictor4.

Missed this post.

The now republic, the one that you are stuck in and not looking beyond and have no chance of escaping from.

The future is vast and we are already irrelevant....And technology will only get more and more complex, and fewer and fewer people will be along for the ride.

Out of 7.8 billion people, how many people actually know how  modern technology works?.....Billions know how to utilise it, but that's not the issue.

And have you ever considered what the purpose of technological evolution might be?.............Might be purposeless of course.....But what do you believe?

And your limitations and mine are the same.....Short term existence.

The response was either childish or naive.

I shouldn't have to explain what 3RU7AL meant by accident of birth.

Was that subjectivity or subjective objectivity?....Or are you just reissuing acquired stored and perhaps modified data.

How we variously interpret sound waves is all internal process, as is how we interpret taste, as is how we interpret visual input.

Personal morality or personal adherence to collective morality, is nothing more than personal output relative to acquired stored and perhaps modified data. Even if that process is influenced by external pressure or social oppression.

Excellent statement.

The response also spoke volumes.

Proof would be fact....And Objective and subjective are brain derived concepts, as is morality.

Quoting fact is knowing the correct answers, and if you want to label it as objectivity then do so.... You can also label it Dave if you like.

Though the process of thought/quote production is exactly the same either way, but let's label it Samantha or subjectivity if you think that a difference occurs.

Acquired, stored and reissued data, perhaps modified.....And you either know the answers or you don't.

Perhaps you were told there was more than there really was.....Or perhaps you are looking for more than there really is.

Trade....You are also quite intelligent, and are also a part of the culture that you have been raised in.

I think that this statement sums up an awful lot of people...... Everybody perhaps....Depending upon your measure of "quite".

I accept that the Earth is as old as it is, and I also accept  a GOD principle, and I also accept that an evolutionary principle is a likely consequence of a GOD principle.

But I do not accept the concept of a floaty about bloke, who has existed for ever.

Perhaps a floaty about thing, that goes BOOM every few billion years or so.

I see that Donald is finally wussing up.....All apologies and condemnations.

It's a pity that the penny didn't drop sooner....People would have stayed at home and lives wouldn't have been wasted.

But sometimes that's what it takes.

And to all Republicans out there...For goodness sake don't reselect him in four years time...Get yourself someone with an I.Q.

For me...Half Time would need to be about two hours long with a good band or film or something.

I could arrive as the first half finishes and leave as the second half starts.

Far healthier to do sport, rather than to watch other people doing it.

As I stated from the outset it's not a number puzzle per se.  It's a sequential puzzle and the sequence is listed above as was the answer, as were other clues.

The fact is that people who are not conversant with this sort of puzzle methodology, would rather argue the toss,  than try and work it out.

Which is fine....I enjoy solving puzzles and you do not....Each to their own.

GOD and  normal circumstances is a contradiction in terms.

Definitely seek psychiatric help if you hear voices in your head commanding you to murder.

Because voices in your head is voices in your head.

That's my point.

You obviously are not interested in puzzles, so you have never learned the methodology.

Even when I showed you the process, you were unable to comprehend anything other than a sequence of seemingly random numbers.

It's simply a case of what you know.

Even Mr A our resident philosophical scholar and wordsmith is baffled by something so simple.

I've only made one post here.

How much does an online video weigh?

Function and output.

Functionally, there is no difference between subjectivity and objectivity, in terms of process.

Output is up for scrutiny and so can be labelled accordingly.

And you typically redirected the thread...So what is it that you don't know, and require answers too?....Perhaps I can enlighten you. 

I believe very little, but I accept things as possibilities.

It's possible that the Modern Bible is accurate down to the last detail....But highly unlikely.

And "belief" is a dodgy self-contradicting word, that is often used without consideration.

Seek psychiatric help.

Discovering new information maybe....But you already have the answers to the questions that you want answering....Unless you are a blank canvas of course....But I don't think that is the case.

New information might make you change your mind or reassess your preconditioned database.....But how likely is that?.....Not very likely, I would suggest.

For goodness sake just shoot him.

Would probably lead to even more riots and carnage.

Just pack him off to Scotland with his golf clubs......Nope! Another bad idea.....Keep him over there for goodness sake.

What do you do with a megalomaniac other than shoot them?

And just think about how much trouble they would be in a jail.