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30 Jul 2009, 10:52 am

Does race exist biologically in humans?

Does time exist?

Does the spiritual world exist?

Does antigravity exist?

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30 Jul 2009, 11:04 am

Does race exist biologically in humans? // According to geniticits and biologists, NO

Does time exist? // According to some spirituals traditions and to physic actuals theory, time is a illusion.

Does the spiritual world exist? // Who know....

Does antigravity exist? // Nothing hint about a eventual "antigravity" in current physic. (Except maybe "dark energy", but its on very very very large scales and no one know what going on)

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30 Jul 2009, 11:16 am

FireFox wrote:

Does race exist biologically in humans?

Does time exist?

Does the spiritual world exist?

Does antigravity exist?

Race is a social construct, but it is a real idea that has effects.

Time exists because change exists.

Everything is physical. All that exists is energy, atoms and the void.

Antigravity exists. Set down and think about it.

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30 Jul 2009, 12:25 pm

FireFox wrote:

Does race exist biologically in humans?

Does time exist?

Does the spiritual world exist?

Does antigravity exist?

RACE: needs a definition. Uncountable genetical variations: Yes. Classifiable definable races: No.

TIME: does not exist. human construct. Movement in energy exists, "time" is a synonym for the ammount of it.

SPIRITUAL WORLD: does not exist. human construct.

ANTIGRAVITY: no.

ZEGH8578 has spoken!

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30 Jul 2009, 12:52 pm

ZEGH8578 wrote:

FireFox wrote:

Does race exist biologically in humans?

Does time exist?

Does the spiritual world exist?

Does antigravity exist?

Time is a measurement of position, just like the three spacial dimensions. If you try to meet someone and merely designate the three spacial dimensions and neglect time the meeting simply will not take place.

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30 Jul 2009, 1:00 pm

Philosophy is constrained by the questions asked and the concepts used. Certainly race, time, spirituality and antigravity exist under certain definitions of them.

If (under my definitions) you mean are there any particular consequences to any racially specific genetic traits, I'd so no since the affects are basically negligible.

I think that human concepts talk about something we call time. Whatever this thing is, we call it time and it exists.

A spiritual world (i.e. a place in time which is none material) might exist, but I've never seen it and have no good reason to make an inference to its existence.

As for antigravity, I've seen it done (on TV), correctly charge something (with huge amounts of electricity) and it will float.

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30 Jul 2009, 1:05 pm

An X factor topic

According toparticle physicist Leonard Susskind, everything we experience is hologrammatical. Very difficult to explin, and I am still reading about it in The Black Hole War

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30 Jul 2009, 1:09 pm

oppositedirection wrote:

Philosophy is constrained by the questions asked and the concepts used. Certainly race, time, spirituality and antigravity exist under certain definitions of them.

If (under my definitions) you mean are there any particular consequences to any racially specific genetic traits, I'd so no since the affects are basically negligible.

I think that human concepts talk about something we call time. Whatever this thing is, we call it time and it exists.

A spiritual world (i.e. a place in time which is none material) might exist, but I've never seen it and have no good reason to make an inference to its existence.

As for antigravity, I've seen it done (on TV), correctly charge something (with huge amounts of electricity) and it will float.

If you term a force which will oppose gravity "antigravity" then I can create it by lifting a finger. Floating is done regularly with two rather weak magnets with like poles facing each other. Actual negative gravity may be active with anti-matter. I am not sure.

I've done some quick research and it seems matter and anti-matter most likely both react the same to gravity. Since matter and antimatter react extremely violently when put in contact actual experiment is difficult.

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30 Jul 2009, 2:26 pm

Sand wrote:

If you term a force which will oppose gravity "antigravity" then I can create it by lifting a finger. Floating is done regularly with two rather weak magnets with like poles facing each other.

I guess that's what I mean, except that with electricity this chap made a metal hoop about a metre across float about six foot in the air, which was fairly impressive. I suspect thought that the question may actually have been about some element or compound somewhere that makes things float. In this case, that's an empirical question and nothing I know of in our current science suggests the existence of any such thing.

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30 Jul 2009, 3:21 pm

FireFox wrote:

Does race exist biologically in humans?

Does time exist?

Does the spiritual world exist?

Does antigravity exist?

Took me a long time to finish the marathon as the spirits I drank made me float. So yes.

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30 Jul 2009, 4:13 pm

Today's mood: epistemological nihilist...so no.

Maybe tomorrow or the next day.

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30 Jul 2009, 5:31 pm

claire333 wrote:

Today's mood: epistemological nihilist...so no.

Maybe tomorrow or the next day.

Are you sure? :wink:

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30 Jul 2009, 5:59 pm

Awesomelyglorious wrote:

claire333 wrote:

Today's mood: epistemological nihilist...so no.

Maybe tomorrow or the next day.

Are you sure? :wink:

Made me think...clever. Stop making claire grin whilst in a bad mood.

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30 Jul 2009, 6:18 pm

Does X exist? sure, just look between W and Y...

Time exists, but ask me again in a little while.

Race is trickier, it depends on who's asking.

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30 Jul 2009, 9:31 pm

ruveyn wrote:

Race is a social construct, but it is a real idea that has effects.

so then how can you have medication that's targeted and more effective for one race but not another?

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30 Jul 2009, 10:46 pm

skafather84 wrote:

ruveyn wrote:

Race is a social construct, but it is a real idea that has effects.

so then how can you have medication that's targeted and more effective for one race but not another?

Insofar as skin color indicates genetic relationship there is a statistical grouping that is sloppily valid on medical problems and also there are cultural groupings of common habits and food consumption in ethnic groupings that indicates certain probabilities but certainties are elusive.

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