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@FLRW
To be mind-bogglingly fast it would need to perform computations faster than the duration of the event.
As it was, it took 5 minutes.
Plenty of time to make a cup of tea.
Don't think that this proves the existence of Multi-verses.
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@sadolite
Approximately 60 million die each year, come what may.
To be replaced by approximately 140 million.
I'm not sure if that is civilised or not.
More of an inbuilt necessity.
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@Dr.Franklin
Top of the morning Doc.
I'm not particularly bothered when anyone dies.
It's one of those unavoidable necessities.
The species has acquired the ridiculous habit of using memory to get all emotional.
Just need to re-programme.
And until I'm dead I will be alive, and when I am, I will not care.
Preferably the end game will be short and sweet.
Hopefully Brian's was.
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@WyIted
Now ethics will guide us instead of money.
A Zedku for Wylted
Like fuck,
Dream on,
Bang bang,
Capitalist gone,
So.
Bring on another.
And when they're all dead.
Let's have
An ethical dictator instead.
Like fuck.
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@WyIted
Hmmmmmmmmmmm.
Paranoia is.
And surveillance will be.
And if you haven't been naughty,
Don't worry.
We're currently in a transitional phase.
We're always in a transitional phase.
So if you desire your techno gizmo so much,
It might have ramifications.
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@Best.Korea
Arms dealers won again.
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@CatholicApologetics
With celibacy came benefits.
Catholic Clergy were renowned for stoutly promoting their love of children.
And Catholic Nunnery and Convent Workhouses are often credited with the introduction of the lesbian S&M scene.
If anything else we need the Catholic Church as defenders of morality.
Where's the candle sister.
It certainly does Mother Superior.
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@Shila
In fact, there was only about a 1.6% margin of difference in voter popularity between the two.
Approximately 2.6 million votes went to other candidates.
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@ebuc
My wife is an Alice in Wonderland fan.
We have a grinning Cheshire cat effigy in the garden.
And all sorts of other associated paraphernalia.
Charles Dodgson was an unmarried clergyman with a penchant for little girls.
But hey?
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@Shila
If old age is a health condition, then so is any age.
Life cycles vary in duration, from 0 to a 100 years+.
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@sadolite
Everything that occurs within a Universe, is naturally occurring.
Non-original debris, is just human bi-product.
And pollution is an associated concept.
Whether or not this is of any greater concern to anything other than ourselves, is currently unavailable information.
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@Shila
Reputedly said.
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@Shila
Well, Homo Sapiens has reputedly been around for 400,000 years or so, but only seriously been heading into space for less than a hundred.
These things take time.
Let's hope we don't blow ourselves up in the mean time.
And GOD principle for sure, but unlikely to be a bearded magician.
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@Shila
Penis Vagina angst.
It's all Gods fault.
Should have made hermaphrodites without orifices.
Instead he made sex machines with an overwhelming desire to procreate.
Was he being serious or just having a laugh.
Hey, but don't eat the apple.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
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@Shila
Yep, teach them nonsense and they will believe in nonsense.
Clever stupid gene as it were.
One step forwards and one step back in an ideological context.
Fortunately the real evolutionary movers and shakers are moving on apace.
They're reaching for the stars and your still singing hymns.
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@Deb-8-a-bull
What's a suburb Deb.
Don't think we have them in Mid Wales.
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@WyIted
Hmmmmmmm.
New York isn't unconnected.
Can't see how outlawing guns there is going to make a whole lot of difference to the potential for gun related deaths.
There are millions of guns in the U.S. just lying around waiting for action.
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@Deb-8-a-bull
I have a church down the road from my house.
It has a nice lot of bells.
Those old Christian folk used to spend a lot of money on bells.
It also has a very tall pointy steeple.
Taller and pointier than your average church steeple.
In fact, for a very small village, it's a very impressive church.
Must have cost a bob or two.
A lot of Jackdaws and dead people live there.
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@Savant
I guess there are plenty of gormless gun toters on Americas mean streets, who don't need much encouragement.
With over 40,000 gun related deaths per year, I don't see what all the fuss is about.
A slightly more high profile corpse, so the media will love it I suppose.
Something to endlessly rabbit on, about in between all those medicine adverts and weather reports that y'all so fond of.
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@Shila
Hmmmmmmmmm.
Star Trekking across the Universe,
Always going forwards,
Still can't find reverse.
Or are you suggesting that humanity is always in reverse?
Or do you mean for every two steps forwards humanity takes one step back?
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@Stephen
Well, if it's been 1000 years since his last visit, he will be in for a surprise.
Things will have changed a bit.
Do you think he has a smartphone?
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@FLRW
Iggy should know when it's time to keep his shirt on.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
A "perfect GOD" would show up regularly for a chat and a sort out.
And certainly wouldn't be the stupid fecker from the comedy bible.
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@FLRW
A lot of your people probably have degenerative eye conditions.
I bet younger people think you look like Billy Idol.
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@Shila
For sure, wealth accumulation is one measure of success, that is sometimes regarded as success in a materialistic society.
Still has to get up to go to the bathroom and wipe her own arse.
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@Shila
I think that children have an inherent knack, that takes a while to develop.
Gravity just means that we live on the floor rather than the ceiling.
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@Mall
@Shila
These days.
Archaic sociological endeavours that haven't kept up with the pace of material and intellectual progress.
Though philosophically the concept still works at an analogical level.
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@sadolite
Nah, you do get it.
I can see you grinning.
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@Shila
For sure, they're connected these days.
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@Shila
Teach kids nonsense and they will grow up believing in nonsense.
Same old, same old.
And fat chance of changing things any time soon.
And so, how many millions of times have Christians transgressed?
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@Shila
Do you check all the boxes that Jesus did before declaring himself the saviour of the lost sheep of Israel?
Well, that doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
Though I'm sure that Trump declares himself to be the saviour of the lost sheep of The U.S.A.
Such people spring up from time to time, and have a habit of creating more social problems than they solve.
So an itinerant tribe of Middle Easterners establishes a homeland under the guidance of Captain Fantastic, and look what happens.
All the problems of the World...Solved then?
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@Shila
Hey Shila.
I'm an atheist and I think that it's reasonable to assume that that there was a Jesus character who was remembered in Middle Eastern folklore.
Belief is unnecessary.
And if there was a Super-Intelligent Interventionist Creator, it would be exactly that.
And as an atheist I think that S.I.I.C, is a reasonable proposition; whereas a magical beardy bloke that does stupid stuff, isn't .
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@sadolite
You don't get it?
It's a philosophical discussion in a philosophical forum.
And nothing to do with a personal "belief" in anything.
Makes a change from discussing the weather.
Nah...I'm sure you get it really.
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@Owen_T
Hey Owen.
The Bible is a collection of folk tales, archaic sociology and naive creation theory.
And shouldn't be taken too seriously.
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@Shila
No energy, no matter.
But.
Time and space are constant intangible potentials.
So,
"Nothing would be happening".
Therefore as you clearly indicated, nothing has a duration, that requires time and space.
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@sadolite
So.
What is it within your physiological make up, that causes you to give a fuck?
Is it nothing to do with genetic inheritance and brain function?
Functionality as I referred to it.
Do you think that it is a sort of energy that seeps in from the outside?
Discussion for the sake of discussion is variant on the theme of overthink...That's all.
It makes a change.
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@Shila
There's a difference in expectancy, that alters ones appreciation.
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@sadolite
TeeHee.
T'was only 37 words.
But I doo actually think that those 37 longwinded words, did succinctly answer your enquiry.
A. "Why", is the big question.
B. I suggested that we are programmed, to give a fuck.
C. Discussing such things in a philosophy forum, isn't to deny that what we experience makes us not not give a fuck.
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@FLRW
Lyrics without music, is like spaghetti without sauce.
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@sadolite
I wasn't looking for philosophical responses.
Why you in the philosophy forum den?
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@Shila
It also means picking winners. Tylor Swift is a winner.
Not sure of the significance of that statement.
Though I'm not much of a music buff.
I've never heard Tylor Swift sing, and couldn't name one of her songs.
And I don't feel like I'm missing anything.
She might actually sound OK.
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@Shila
Such success relies upon good marketing and the adulation of sycophants with money to burn.
Outsheeping the sheep, as the saying goes.
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@sadolite
If you think that time, space and matter don't exist, then why the fuck do you live life as though they do.
Such is the big question Sadolite.
Though at a functional level, one might suggest that the answer is programming.
So, I would further suggest that philosophical ramblings are simply a distraction, rather than a denial of function.
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@Lemming
@Shila
I think therefore I am aware.
Without sensory awareness the Universe would be non-existent.
Because existence and substance are concepts only relative to a conceiver and an observer.
Even then, everything we seemingly perceive, is no more than an internal reconstruction.
We assume that it is an accurate reconstruction.
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