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@IlDiavolo
Yep.
Good stuff.
I think that species evolution is all about genetic selection, and is a process that will inevitably involve human manipulation.
Though the jury is still out on the aliens.
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@n8nrgim
Hypothetically, hypotheticals can be good bad or indifferent, or anything in between.
There are currently no standards, other than hypothetical ones.
But I'm not sure that scepticism requires a standard other than itself.
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@Benjamin
22. Solar energy.
Try existing without it.
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@Benjamin
The hard right and the liberal left.
Same old Same old, as it was 2000 or so years ago.
Didn't do J any good, because they nailed him to a post.
2000 or so years later and what J might have said is largely forgotten.
And I doubt that J was anything more than a charismatic liberal lefty.
Son of a loose woman and a charismatic lothario named Ged.
Obviously they mistook the E for an O.
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@IlDiavolo
Or did she just die in a car accident, whilst being pursued by the paparazzi.
Not that I'm particularly interested.
Material evolution and consequently social evolution relative to the evolution of the intellectual species, is such that all is potentially available to all..
Though what is actually achievable for the individual, depends upon the capability of the individual.
My suggestion is, to find a niche that suits ones capabilities and be content.
I certainly do not feel that I am being taken advantage of.
Though to be fair, British society isn't Russian society.
Do you think that the "greedy people" are ever content?
Maintaining wealth and power does not necessarily foster peace of mind.
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@FishChaser
Love.
What does that mean?
I would suggest that love is a misrepresentation of internal chemistry.
The reality of the human condition is that it overthinks reality.
Such is the inevitability of the intellectual species, I suppose.
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@FishChaser
Short, fat, old, ugly male millionaire: Babe magnet.
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@IlDiavolo
Someone didn't like him.
You call it deep state, which is what I might refer to as establishment.
A sort of evolution of time established social hierarchy.
You either run with it, or worry about it.
I expect we will have another documentary soon about the death of Princess Diana.
Serves a purpose I suppose.
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@WyIted
Tim will ell then.
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@Savant
Get up,
Do something,
Go to bed.
Modern systematic society evolved naturally.
Compliance affords survival.
Reasonably comfortably.
Other options might be workable.
Offering varying levels of comfort,
Blah Blah Blah.
Bearing in mind,
There is more than one sub-system.
Though currency is the general system of control.
Better that than anarchic brutality I suppose.
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@FishChaser
Might actually be true.
Hormones and pheromones and all that.
But there are many other variables to consider, relative to modern human expectations.
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@Amber
He was shot.
He died.
Time marched on.
Still making documentaries.
Such is human necessity.
I suppose.
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@WyIted
You are correct.
I do mot understand.
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@ebuc
Just questioning individual longevity in terms of species necessity.
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@FLRW
No I don't remember that.
Wasn't around then.
Though also remember that 969 lunar cycles is approximately 75 solar years.
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@ebuc
What would that equate to in terms of quality of life and potential output?
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@Deb-8-a-bull
Regular pieces of decorated card.
Perfect for constructing stacks.
How tall can you make yours Deb?
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@Mall
If it was unequivocally proven that there was a creator GOD.
I wouldn't love it.
I would just say OK so there is a creator GOD.
What precisely is love by the way?
And why would a creator created relationship necessitate mutual love?
Why not just mutual respect and an occasional nod of recognition?
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Thanks for the nominations guys.
I nominate Stephen.
By far the most knowledgeable contributor to the religious forum.
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@Best.Korea
OK.
To be fair they were deceptive questions, to which you clearly applied probability rather than divination.
1. I don't have a motorbike.
2. I don't have a Cat.
3. My Dad was in the R.A.F.
4. My Mum died at the age of 81.
5. I don't have a Son.
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@Mall
Yes, I would agree that survival is an inbuilt strategy.
Though on the current grand scale, population continues to increase.
Which shows that the current birth to death ratio favours species survival.
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@ebuc
The biggest problem will be, more and more ancient and decrepit people hanging around in nursing homes, waiting for someone to come and change their soiled underwear.
In the main, medical intervention is what increases life span.
Of course, lifestyle choices help.
Nonetheless, physical and mental decline after the age of 30 is inevitable, and despite our greatest efforts cannot be avoided.
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@Best.Korea
Will I crash my motorbike?
Will my Cat catch a mouse tomorrow?
Did my Dad's ship get torpedoed in WW2?
Will my Mum live to be 95?
Will I go to visit my Son in New Zealand in the next 10 years?
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@ebuc
In my opinion.
It's not worth of increasing lifespan, if that only means increasing the span of one's decrepitude.
Worth will only be achieved if the ageing process can be stopped or slowed down considerably.
Value for the individual, but not necessarily for the species as a whole, maybe?
Depends upon the Universal value of humanity I suppose.
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@Greyparrot
Hindsight is BRILLIANT.
We could save the Universe with hindsight.
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@Best.Korea
The process is such, that people choose to upset themselves in response to sound waves.
People could quite easily choose to respond differently.
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@Best.Korea
Once again a misrepresentation of science.
Check your dictionary.
And if you want to comply with the non-specific guesswork of divination apps, you will.
Though as soon as Stephen asked you to divine something specific, you had to make excuses.
Same old, same old.
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@Greyparrot
Not sure if your last post was intended for me.
But I have never mentioned the BBC.
I've simply tried to focus upon what the term "conspiracy theory" is intended to represent.
Which as I see it is, an assumed outcome not preceded by a known conspiracy and associated events.
Whereas what you described retrospectively, were events wherein two or more people conspired to achieve outcomes.
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@IlDiavolo
@WyIted
Well done Diavolo.
And beet is a vegetable.
Unless it's internet slang of course.
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@Mall
Babies.
Is a dramatic misrepresentation of reality.
In the main, birth control is about prevention, rather than eradication.
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@Greyparrot
Natural hierarchy is such, that power will always take advantage and weakness will always be subordinate.
And amidst the melee of clucking hens, conspiracy upon conspiracy will peck out the order of things.
So we can adjoin the two words, namely conspiracy and theory and inevitably come up with a variety of assumptions.
Though we must always bear in mind that theory remains theoretical, until such times as it is ceded to the the realms of fact.
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@WyIted
A Jew can be anyone that subscribes to the Jew Club.
An Israelite can be anyone that subscribes to the Israelite club. Though this tends to be someone with a long standing connection to the Middle East. (Though not necessarily).
Similarly a Palestinian.
Though Palestinians have other club affiliations, but nonetheless, share the same regional connections as Israelites.
There are also various other clubs.
Sort of the same situation can be found in most places around the World.
Look at the variability of the USA and British clubs for example.
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@Mall
Yep.
Because self-control has it's limitations.
And as I suggested, medical and surgical intervention means that natural intervention doesn't keep population growth in check any more.
Though I use the term "natural" very loosely, because I am of the opinion that everything is naturally occurring.
Therefore birth control is just as acceptable as medical and surgical intervention is. Both have evolved naturally from the stuff of the universe.
If you had a serious bacterial infection, would you throw away the antibiotics?
Other than variously contrived ethics and morality; what is the difference between the human development of birth control and the human development of antibiotics?
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@FishChaser
Yep.
Like I suggested.
People conspire all the time, rich and poor.
Conspiracy-theory tends to mean something slightly different.
More of inferiority/persecution complex, evidenced by a baseless assumption that superior people are out to get you.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
@FishChaser
For sure.
Any instance where two or more people share an agenda which excludes others, could theoretically be regarded as a conspiracy.
Not really what I was alluding to though.
Hitler, White supremacists and the opium trade are not very good examples of baseless imagination.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Conspiracy theorists are never right.
That is why they are conspiracy theorists.
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@rosends
Data transfer is what it is.
Hence the human species upon planet Earth is currently where it's at.
And I would suggest that we are currently at a place, that to a large extent is founded upon nonsensical misinformation.
Namely, inaccurate creation hypotheses and associated separatism.
Ongoing human consciousness is a juxtaposition of progressive forethought and regressive memory.
Should we expect anything different?
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@Greyparrot
For sure, the concept and definition has broadened somewhat.
Just as demographics have broadened accordingly.
Or vice versa.
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@Best.Korea
What is free from what, and in what context?
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The past is relevant because we remember and record events.
How accurate our past memories and associated records are, is debateable.
Though:
I would suggest, that it cannot be argued that recorded data does not sometimes influence data evolution.
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@Greyparrot
"Society"
Would be the moral justification.
Otherwise.
Might as well euthanise the driftwood.
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@Mall
We are not programmed to ignore procreational urges.
Which was OK when infant mortality rates were sufficiently high.
Perhaps it would be better to stop all medical and surgical intervention.
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@ebuc
I've been away for a few days.
Will check out your post later.
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@Mharman
That wasn't out of my way.
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@Reece101
Some kids are savvy and some kids aren't.
Same as grown up's.
Kids respond as taught.
So if you teach your kids to be victims, then that's what they will most likely choose to be.
Teach them to ignore idiots.
And importantly, teach them that idiots are idiots because they were taught to be idiots.
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