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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Israel and Iran ‘A fork in the road’ |
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funeralxempire wrote: If you're marching in support of Israel you're marching in support of ethnic cleansing, even if you're unwilling to acknowledge it.
How many non-Jews have you seen marching for Israel? |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Maybe science isn’t the answer |
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Science is an approach to technological advancement. this includes both medicine and weapons.
Blaming science is like blaming the earth for having iron which got made into bullets. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Maybe science isn’t the answer |
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Posted: Yesterday, 10:43 pm
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| Consciousness feels almost like what you'd think of in the Javascript rxjs library as a kind of observable but instead of just piping things through itself and keeping a memory of what piped through it has additional regulatory requirements that it has to free-wing from whatever data it has availab... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Maybe science isn’t the answer |
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Posted: Yesterday, 10:31 pm
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| For eliminative materialism it's always seemed incoherent / hand-wavy, sort of 'materialism of the gaps' from the standpoint that being conscious feels like you're in something like an invisible control room, tasked with custodianship / guardianship of your mind and body, and so it feels like consc... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Maybe science isn’t the answer |
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Posted: Yesterday, 10:26 pm
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| One additional note - Nick Lane had an IAI where they followed the trail of the effects of anesthesia and to the best they can tell preventing cells from getting oxygen, via anesthetic, caused the same sort of shutdown / paralysis that appears to happen in humans under anesthesia. Will they be able... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Maybe science isn’t the answer |
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Posted: Yesterday, 10:25 pm
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| The problem is we don't, at least that I'm aware, have any such analogous process to work with which really limits our ability to do proper inspection of it because we have no idea how to see it (and while I think it's way too early to say this for certain - there's a possibility that it's tacked i... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Satellite data shows up climate forecasts |
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Posted: Yesterday, 9:45 pm
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| Even without rivers breakers hit a beach at an angle and push sand from the sea itself down the coast-silt that trapped in an extended breakwater can extend land. Then there is the natural silt deposited by rivers into the sea...and then there is enhanced silt caused by human development inland. An... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Israel and Iran ‘A fork in the road’ |
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Posted: Yesterday, 9:37 pm
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| I don't consider the extreme brutality of either side to be "legitimate." But (1) both sides see themselves as responding to specific provocations and (2) Israel's brutality has been, by far, the more extreme of the two, at least in the current conflict. Marching in the streets with Pales... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Israel and Iran ‘A fork in the road’ |
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Posted: Yesterday, 9:30 pm
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| The fact that the attack was planned does not prove that it wasn't a response to some provocation by the Israeli government. It was Hamas's planned response to the next such provocation. (The attack on the music festival, itself, was NOT part of the original plan, but the music festival just happen... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Maybe science isn’t the answer |
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Posted: Yesterday, 4:44 pm
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| ^^^ Much of the theories pivot over a specific binary Is consciousness a figment of our imagination (byproducts of our nuerons firing) OR Is consciousness real and our "self" can exist outside our bodies? I kinda think of option 3....our self is linked to our body but we may be able to pro... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: 67 and never had a gf |
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Posted: Yesterday, 4:37 pm
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| Oh ok? I am sure you compared yourself to your brother before?? |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Satellite data shows up climate forecasts |
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Posted: Yesterday, 4:24 pm
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Struggling with dating |
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Posted: Yesterday, 4:23 pm
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duck12 wrote: Update: I did meet a woman on hinge and she’s about 40 minutes away, so I scheduled a date with her for Wednesday. I will see what happens with that.
Give us an update Duck... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Do tourists take resources from locals in a disaster? |
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Posted: Yesterday, 4:20 pm
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bee33 wrote: And when the wildfires happened in Maui the locals wanted the tourists out.
It's not just disaster areas. Places like Spain, local people are sick of foreign tourists. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Maybe science isn’t the answer |
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Posted: Yesterday, 4:18 pm
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| I'd say watch / listen to more NDE accounts. 'Caring and helpful' might fit so long as you remember - in about the most useless and manipulative way possible (and when it comes to life review - add gaslighting). A lot of the NDE accounts match experiences people taking ayahuasca or experiencing oxy... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Do tourists take resources from locals in a disaster? |
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Posted: Yesterday, 4:12 pm
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When Haiti was having civil strife and cuts in power/water it experienced a massive drop in tourism but even during the height of conflict there were still 150,000 tourists. Currently the number has grown back to its original number of 1.2 million visitors.
tourists = $$ for the locals. |
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