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  1. wil

    Rupert Sheldrake: The Ten Dogmas of Science

    Like a lot of the paranormal stuff, I find it interesting... actually would like to believe much of it to be true. But find no evidence beyond anecdotal for much of it. The other issue i have is looking at the other things his believers believe leave me wa ting more...
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    Religion of love?

    Depends on the neughbor...but fences do help.
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    AI gets it wrong!

    Saying I asked ai actually doesn't mean anything at this stage, there are hundreds if not thousands of ai...each is a specific tool. One maybe a ser of screwdrivers, if you want it to work ya gotta use a flat, phillips,square, star, hex or it wont work! (Will get it wrong) If you want...
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    "Believing in science" - what does that mean?

    In science we take all these unknowns..all these pieces of the evolutionary, archeology, paleontology puzzle and group the fishes with fishes and animals and insects with their kind and discover fishes whose fins became like legs and then find some with legs that returned to the water...(fish -...
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    "Believing in science" - what does that mean?

    Beyond the fact that applied sciences is applying some but not all of scientific methods to get theology and philosophy under the banner of science (whereas much of religion wants to reject any science that contradicts scripture....I find it a tad disingenuous and very confusing m to want to be...
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    "Believing in science" - what does that mean?

    Isn't it just data, just information? This looks like a rib bone. Until you verify and find repeated info, get validation? This it is my understanding is what separates science from theology and what various religions have tried to utilize (scripture validated by science) or dispel it as...
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    "Believing in science" - what does that mean?

    Seems the vast majority of dictionaries and definitions of science would disagree with that. Therein lies the usual communication issues...we need to use the same definitions otherwise next thing you know there will be 3000 definitions of science! In order for it to be science, "to me" it has...
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    "Believing in science" - what does that mean?

    Yes, believing in science to me is believing in the scientific method. But alas, I am not a scientist. I need to rely on scientists to relate their findings. My "science" ends with my observable universe, what my 5 senses can experience. Scientists use instruments to exentuate their senses...
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    Can people be "smarter" than their ancestors, or at least more advanced than their predecessors?

    We have always stood on the shoulders of our ancestors....either running with what they started or rejecting it and running the other way.
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    Robert F Kennedy Jr

    No, I am saying I have the same level of interest listening to them without supporting data. I usually sit and watch them dig their own ditch as they supply it. I am not a scientist, immunologist, medical.doctor or astrophysicist...when it comes to questions for those trades I tend to leave it...
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    What's the health service like where you are?

    All.over this country (USA) i have heard of folks who drive or even take the train outta the city and into the suburbs for the more affluent hospitals...me? I got a thing for teaching hospitals, the kids are learning the latest and greatest and the docs will "do rounds" in your room and you...
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    Who created God?

    So you aren't indicating all of humanity has come to any conclusion high point low point just isolated pockets. I still believe humane is an incorrect attribute of humanity ie all humans....
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    Aphantasia - Mind Unseen

    Pretty much, not always completely.. My understandings of reality do change over time, plusnlots of folks to correct me and change my perspective, enlighten me as to their experience and viewpoint. Most often though it sounds like something I might have said or discerned I just dont recall...
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    Who created God?

    When you say humanity it doesn't sound like you are referring to one individual or community but all of us. You say it as if we (humanity) has reached rock bottom and learned some lesson and then went back to rock bottom, repeatedly and risen again....numerous times?
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    Who created God?

    Idk how i missed this thread... me thinks we agree? I am putting your phenomena as the entanglement of the TOE! And we might be getting closer with the right series of prompts in the ai labyrinth. But then the question becomes....when we grok the answer ... will we still exist...will we...
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    Aphantasia - Mind Unseen

    I dont think in pictures except dreaming I dont think in words I dont know how I think I dont know I dont think I dont I. I find it awfully interesting but I often dont think about thinking, I can't it hurts. Often in writing a response here or saying one in public it is without...
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    Planet discovered around Alpha Centauri

    I would have to break my lease, but I would consider moving if anyone wants to share a ride.
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    What's the health service like where you are?

    Mine is currently all screwed up and have to pay out of pocket and hope nothing happens. That being said I have discovered that our system charges insurance companies AND people with insurance more than people without insurance. ie I have paid less for meds in cash than others have to pay for...
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    The Bread of Shame

    Would love to hear more. I had not heard the phrase, but sort of understand the feeling. Would it fall along with imposter syndrome notion of today? Do kabbalists.attribute more to it than non kaballists and if so how?
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    What attracts me to interfaith...

    I find this interesting. I like the conclusionary atheist line! Makes me want to say am a conclusionary agnostic at first but thinking more about it would like to modify to currently conclusionary atheist based on current conclusions! Now should someone put doubt in my mind I would have to...
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