Citizenschallenge-v.3

I think the thing not to overlook its that Sree is expression what 40% of our nation seems to passionately believe.  Dismissing it like we have been doing for the past couple decades won’t do anyone any good.

As best as I can remember, the fourth phase of the societal cycle is ushered in by corruption in government, intransigent leaders,…

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Sree writes: the notion that one person, or even the entire human race, for that matter, can make a difference in the scheme of things is delusion.

Is this an example of helping move the conversation along?

What is going on in your head to enable make such an outlandish pronouncement.  With a serious face?

Do you pay any attention to our…[Read more]

Sree: Jane Goodall believes she understands chimps.

I don’t think Jane Goodall claims to know everything about chimps.  I also dare say that the claims she does make, she frames very carefully and that she has amassed a good deal of data supporting those nuanced conclusions.

I dare say Jane Goodall knows light years more about chimps than you or I.

I’d welcome any corrections.

No correction here, though I believe Isaac Asimov did a masterful essay worth share.

The Relativity of Wrong
By Isaac Asimov

The Skeptical Inquirer, Fall 1989, Vol. 14, No. 1, Pp. 35-44

I RECEIVED a letter the other day. It was handwritten in crabbed penmanship so that it was very difficult to read. Nevertheless, I…

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Sree, I sort of like how that sounds,  but …

mind is a metaphor

Doesn’t that gloss over a whole bunch?

How do you mean that?

Mind as metaphor for what?

Zain – I get that but I’ve been showing some examples of how people think our “progress” is anything but

But, I think the real problem is that people only want to focus on the good our progress provides

so we create every obstacle we can to avoid looking and appreciating and weighting the damages, the good things in our lives inflict on other…[Read more]

Point what out, –CC

That we have progressed as a species by expanding our circles of compassion ever outward, caring for people we have never met and who are as yet unborn.

Okay, that makes sense, that I can follow, went back and read your original paragraph, and I feel better, it still confuses me the way its written.   ;-…[Read more]

Yes, we should offer people a chance, but give it only to those who are willing to use it to become contributing members of society.

Of course, Bob is assuming everyone out there is as ‘balanced,’ as healthy, as aware as he believes himself to be.

So of course the homeless, the down trodden, only have themselves to blame, so fuk ’em.

Of…[Read more]

At first I though oh boy he took it to the light side, now what am I going to do with my pick for this morning, but by the time it was finished I was thinking of all the Chinese workers who can relate to this song and it didn’t seem so light hearted, even if snappy.

(If ya don’t get it, try buying a child’s toy that’s actually Made in…[Read more]

sorry wanted to ramble but need to cut it short.

Thank you W4U, The intimate link between biology and geology gives me a more expansive few of evolution – I can’t make sense of any dividing line proposed, because there were always prerequisite building blocks at every stage of biology.  Fractals all fractals.  Heck you can’t understand detailed biology without taking into account the quantum s…[Read more]

Here we go again.  Oh grasshopper you are a challenge.

This too shall pass – does not mean ‘this’ is “fake” – then again . . .

Hey a few weeks back I read something about Buddhism that rang a bell for me.  Makes as much as sense as anything else I’ve heard, and part of me can certainly relate.

He wrote, that Buddhism isn’t about b…[Read more]

And Gosh Bless Alex (and all those people behind the scenes), who answer my emails and help me get back in every time I find a new way to screw up my CFI password, and Lausten for putting up with my shit.

Happy New Year, Peter

Yes and more participants over here is better than less  🙂

But we can separate that from actual progress.

I don’t always agree with you Lausten, and I do like pushing back on some of the things you write, just for the sport of it – but it’s not often a comment from you leaves more confused than when I started.

I’ll agree with you that W probably didn’t mean things a simplistically as I implied – But what…[Read more]

Widdershins writes -December 10, 2019 at 2:34 pm :   Like I said, every generation thinks there’s some unique change with the next generation.  Music, dancing, what they’re teaching in schools, how they’re teaching it, what they watch, what games they play…

Hmmm, same as it ever was?  Problem what problem?   Our institutions and the citizens ar…[Read more]

W4U:  Thanks CC. I plan to add all that to my reference library.

If that’s the case you might want go to: https://confrontingsciencecontrarians.blogspot.com/2019/12/pageant-of-earth-evolution-in-24hr-part.html

I have the same list there, except all the key words are linked to the said article or video.  Much better version to copy and share    …[Read more]

December 22, 2019 at 9:55 pm#316185   Adonai888writes;
Cc wrote: “It has no substance and can’t be demonstrated through any ordinary physical means.”

Adonai888writes:  “not needed.

Being cannot come from non-being.
Since we exist, then being has always been in one form or another.
Since the universe had a beginning, a non-physical being must…

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Yeah, some fun stuff.  I’m a bit of traditionalists, but I figure I better up my game,

Adonai888 said,

are you aware about the utter nonsense you write ? Life DEPENDS on proteins……

 

Write4U said:  Yes, and life depends on specific type of amino acids and proteins. If life did not need those specific molecular patterns they would not exist.

OTOH, you are uttering pure nonsense by positing that some external life which does NOT…

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Oh is @ Adonai888 and irreducible complexity fan?  Been looking for one of them.  Was that list of questions supposed to be an example of the  ‘irreducible complexity’ argument has been reduced to?  What happen to the good old days when you boldly told us only God could make something as incredible as the Human Eye?

Of course we know that the…[Read more]