Jim Naseum
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Right. This is antithetical to that.Anthropocentric.. Aren't we so special.
Still no comment on the Cosmological Anthropic Principles...even though they keep coming up.
Dave
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No, it's about philosophy, epistemology and metaphysics.
Really? And this thread is about what - facts?I think the trouble right now is the word "imagined."
I don't think the word is useful here.
Energy vibration is not imagined. Your senses detect various kinds of energy, our MIND then abstracts all of that into a theory that those energies are objects that would exist if the energy is gone. Since we all are the same kind of energy, there is no other kind of being too explain it to us. E.g. we are self referential.Sent from my SM-T330NU using Tapatalk
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Right! That's the model. Shadows on the cave wall.Thanks Plato.
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Suppose there is a human cohort that is deaf, dumb, blind and they can only communicate through touch and smell. What kind of reality would they theorize? It would be a smaller universe, right?
Objects of any kind are for all intents empty space. What makes them appear solid is the odd way our sight works. That's nothing but an energy reading device.
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I think the trouble right now is the word "imagined."
I don't think the word is useful here. Energy vibration is not imagined. Your senses detect various kinds of energy, our MIND then abstracts all of that into a theory that those energies are objects that would exist if the energy is gone. Since we all are the same kind of energy, there is no other kind of being too explain it to us. E.g. we are self referential.
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My attempt at explanation: If the universe is just energy humans are nodes of energy. The energy is expressed as our thoughts visions interactions locally. The stuff you think you see, like a chair, or Mars, are just energy patterns associated with you. There's no red planet out there in some physical space if all human minds died out. Only our minds create all that external looking stuff. On the one hand it seems so obvious, right?
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From the 1960s?
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I wonder if this is obvious to everyone: As productivity climbs, you need less and less people. What we have however, is rising productivity AND rising population in the USA. Uh-oh.
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When economies were mostly local to a nation, they had national institutions to run them, manage them. Now that economies are no longer local, but all mixed into one global system, it seems obvious that there ought to be a global management - some sort of global central bank. But of course, that can never happen without a loss of sovereignty to someone. Not everyone can be a priority.
Right now, each nation attempts to rig the commodity over which they have some control. The US with the reserve currency, Saudi with oil, China with gold and rare earths, Russia with gas. And so on. Hmmm? I wonder where that leads?
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Chickens are coming home to roost.
For 8 years the USG has "fluffed the numbers" on economic recovery. There really hasn't been a recovery because the unemployment figures are not reflecting the permanent loss of useful jobs. Secondly, wages are flat, and finally, passive income from savings is next to zero. All three of those features are driving down consumption (deflationary). Consumption is the one dimension of the economy that can't be fluffed up by the economics gurus in government.
The financial crisis of 08 was artificially lifted up by both the bailouts and the extensive QE. This in effect prevented any corrections. The lies were not washed into the gutter. We just moved forward with the SAME faulty ideas that created the crisis. We postponed the reckoning that free markets must have to exist.
The US population is wildly "underutilized" to support a 1W lifestyle. To have what we have in total, we would need a 70% workforce participation with very high wages and the ability to save money at 6% or 7%. We are no where near that. So, either lifestyle must fall dramatically, or the economy has to be pumped again with massive new money from the FED to once more, stave off the "day of reckoning."
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Over the years a couple of those failure-to-stop people have crashed into my wife causing her years of pain. One way to stop a 'local financing scheme' is to simply obey traffic signals.
Keith
She got hit by someone turning right on a red light?
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Cops with credit card readers? Dumb. Let's realize that traffic policing is nothing more than local financing scheme. Just capture the plate, and deduct hundreds right out of the checking account.
In our town they installed a camera at a busy intersection which captures those who don't come to a full stop before turning right on a red light. Called a "rolling stop". The fine? $395.00!
If you look at the intersection, about 95% of the cars turning right do not come to a full stop!
And because it is a moving violation it counts as a point on your insurance. That will add at least 10% to your insurance for three years. Making the cost at least $1000 total.
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An amazing exhibition of accurate typing! Wow!
I was talking to dad the other day and he remembers as a child having an ache in his leg and thinking for sure he had polio. The worse fear he had was not braces, it was the iron lung machine.Polio is real. My father got it when he was a teenager, never had use of most of the left side of his body for the rest of his life. Try getting a job
with only one good hand for your entire adult life. Keep watching women on TV crying about life being unfair.
Vaccinations are needed, and should be mandated to people who think the whole thing is a pharma conspiracy. The reason is simple, the lives they are risking by not vaccinating their kids are not their own. They are the lives of their own children. In some parts of Africa, it has been very difficult to administer vaccinations because the people are simple. Once educated, they stand in line for shots. This is how battles against viri are won.
Another big problem is resistant bacteria. These bacteria are the survivors of infected people who stop taking their antibiotics before the round is done simply because they feel better. PN and sulfa drugs are no weaker than when they were invented/discovered. Many of the bacteria which survived in large quantities due to patients not taking the full rounds of prescribed antibiotics are simply immune to them.
Here are a few deadly bacteria which were bread by know it all patients:
Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
Burkholderia cepacia
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Clostridium difficile
Klebsiella pneumoniae
Escherichia coli (E.coli)
Acinetobacter baumannii
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Streptococcus pyogenes
These are killers en-masse.
I am not a fan of the lobbying practices of the pharma, either in politics or in my doctor's office. Nevertheless, they are needed to combat these illnesses which wiped populations of men, women and children in the "good old days".
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Hear Ye!I like it....I also hope all these people who are in charge of this fine print on everything get old and have to read their own print.
I would doom all such engineers to a world of black things with dark gray print 1/64th of an inch high.
The current state of ergonomic engineering is in complete failure.
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I'm not as fond of the computer simulation idea as I am of the idea Watts presents of human existence as the "fabric" of the universe.
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http://upliftconnect.com/is-reality-a-hologram/
The ancient wise men all seemed to come to the same point about life and the universe beginning 3,000 years ago. Then in the early 1900s the best science minds developed the theories of quantum mechanics, in which reality just could not be pinned down. These two views of the mystics and the scientist now seem less than an inch apart.
The video here is terrific.
Ancient wise men in the West may well have been aware that Sumerian and other cultures existed previous to 4,000 BC (about 6,016 years ago as of this year).
Biblical literalists (fundamentalists) tend to calculate the Creation as happening about 4,004 BC, or about 6,020 years ago. Life would have come later. Other calculations by other literalists produce dates of 5199 BC, 4163 BC, 3,760 BC.
I once heard an astronomer discussing the over-reliance on parsimony with a TV interviewer. He said that the most parsimonius explanation of the universe might be that we are imagining it ... or that he was imagining everything, including the interviewer.
Oh man. I left out a very important comma. This is what I intended to type "The ancient wise men all seemed to come to the same point about life and the universe, beginning 3,000 years ago." Or better yet I should have said, "About 3000 years ago, ancient wise men came to the same point (as these scientists) about life and the universe."
I'm not a "young earther."
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Yes, I find much of that very appealing. I am not a minimalist, but maybe a minimumist.
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Well, yes, you can do all that. But for me, I had to simplify it and make it more foolproof. Should I learn the names of 56 kinds of added sugar? Should I spend my day reading the labels on factory made garbage posing as food? Should I even attempt to outwit thousands of attorneys and engineers and marketing dudes trying to fool and scam their customers with bullshite? "No", I said to myself, that's just non productive. They will outwit me at every turn. (Look at what they have done to yogurt!)
I just don't really buy much foodstuffs that have "ingredients." I try to make 90% of my diet is just fresh food - an apple, not an apple pie. I'd like to get to 100% with 0% "factory made food." But, that's probably more rigid than is possible for me. A good goal though.
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http://upliftconnect.com/is-reality-a-hologram/
The ancient wise men all seemed to come to the same point about life and the universe beginning 3,000 years ago. Then in the early 1900s the best science minds developed the theories of quantum mechanics, in which reality just could not be pinned down. These two views of the mystics and the scientist now seem less than an inch apart.
The video here is terrific.
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Seems to me they have flip flopped a bit on coffee and caffeine. Around 10 years ago I cut my coffee way back. I drink 1, sometimes 2, small cups a day. I don't drink ANY "diet" style sodas. I drink plain iced tea spiked with 10% apple juice as a bit of sweetener.
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Looks to me like WVU80 has a lot of good advice.
In my area, Craigslist works fine, BUT, no matter what I have for sale, I always get a few of those weird, aggressive, poorly written emails that obviously are pre-formatted and sent to perhaps thousands of people. The emails almost always use "your item" and "will you take less?" And so on.
I never, ever respond to them.I just delete them and move on. There's just no point, and I would not want any of those people to somehow discover my email address or really ANYTHING.
Good luck out there. I have sold some $20,000+ cars and never had any trouble. The worst was a guy who took the car for a "10-minute test drive" and was gone close to an hour. I had his keys, so I wasn't worried, just annoyed. He didn't buy the car. Next guy did.
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This is a new production. It is on A&E and Lifetime simultaneously.
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I'm pretty sure the "corn lobby" is in that food grouping too.
I checked.....NY no, Berkeley yes. Berkeley faced a $10M opposition war chest, and still got 75% yes vote. The tax is 1-cent per ounce.
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The Universe as a Hologram - I Dreamed a Dream of Life
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During a dream, you can not detect that you are dreaming.
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