TimB

So far so good.  The surgery went fine.

I don’t think the little grey guys with the big black eyes, actually exist, but I have often thought, if they did, why must they be from another planet in the galaxy?  Could they not be from our own distant future, i.e., what we humans eventually become?

BP should be easy enough to check regularly, and during an episode.

I sincerely believe that T rump is destroying the USA.  What rights do I have relative to that sincere belief?

Climate change has brought drought and famine to Central America.  Is this our fault?  Is it our fault that we are not even in the Paris Climate Accords?

OneGuy, the poor Central Americans who survive to gain asylum in the US are not hurting your community. They’re not rapists and drug dealers and murderers. They may need a few social services for awhile, or not.  But they will also probably get jobs and help pay in to my Social Security (which they may never be eligible to get for themselves).  F…[Read more]

I am all for the radical leftists until the point that they become allies of the T rumpists and Russians and alt-right, by turning young progressives against the Democrats, if their favorite politician (e.g. Bernie) is not the Dem nominee.  If Bernie or Warren are not the selected nominee, tell me if those of Jim Dore’s ilk, do not turn against…[Read more]

Your logic says that science is based on material things existing.  Your conclusion was that science could not explain material things existing, BEFORE it and material things existed.  That is technically correct but essentially useless info.

Now that material things and science do exist, science is, has been, and will continue to come up with e…[Read more]

Are you done because I so blatantly exposed the flaw in your “logic”?

Sherlock’s point #3, the lever over the fulcrum of his logic:

“…a scientific explanation for the presence of material quantities cannot exist because there would be no material quantities, but these are required in order to express an explanation…”

Congratulations, you just logically proved that a scientific explanation would have been…[Read more]

Well, since then, another fall, with a pelvis injury.  He still taught Bible school tho.

Now, he is back in the hospital for surgery to stop a brain bleed.

Stuff is mounting up.  But 95 and still alive, so far.

Well it’s been happening since he was a child, so early detection seems out.  It sounds neurological to me.  He has limited financial resources.  My guess is that the med professional that he should see is a neurologist.

I was not ranking your intellectual quotient, but rather your participant quotient. You are a nice addition to the forums, imo.

I took out 30 words on a first pass. Crossed thru.  116 to go.:

In the first part of this look at Earth’s 4.6 billion year old pageant of Evolution, scaled down to 24 hours, Earth’s first enduring Life took 4 hours to claw together an existence within very tiny, very simple, very protective sacks, against an extremely hostile environment.
It took…[Read more]

Wow, I wrote a full five line run on sentence in that last post.  Forgive me fellow participants.

I doubt that inanimate objects experience themselves.

Xain: ” It would be difficult to prove that emotions aren’t real, but that is in the Heart Sutra.”

TimB: “Oh well, in the Heart Sutra, eh?  You should have said so.  I mean they could be in the carburetor for all that.

Or emotions could even be respondent behaviors that we evolved with, back through the ages of our phylogenetic development bac…[Read more]

I think there is a skill to finding what you want in a websearch, and sometimes in avoiding getting sidetracked along the way.

Praise Jesus and may he forgive you of your many sins. I do think it is ok to look for indications of some extremely evolutionarily advanced civilization that may have jimmied with our biological design at some point in the course of self replicating organisms originating until the present on Earth. I wouldn’t put a lot of people on the project,…[Read more]

In a secular society, one would think that we could come to a mutual agreement on most, if not all, basic morals and the sub-rules, and ethics of those.

And I suppose, on a crude level we have, but even that seems to me to be eroding recently and as we speak. I fear for the remaining integrity of the basic common moral system that we have held as…[Read more]