Frank Apisa (05-24-2023)
Frank Apisa (05-24-2023)
ThatOwlWoman (05-24-2023)
Global Warming violates the 1st LoT by claiming a magical creation of thermal energy out of nothing, in the form of a temperature increase, which is somehow caused by a magical substance.
Greenhouse Effect violates Stefan-Boltzmann and black body science by claiming that an increase in earth's temperature is somehow caused by a decrease in earth's radiance.
Greenhouse Effect violates the 2nd LoT by claiming that the cooler atmosphere somehow heats the warmer earth's surface.
Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law of Prediction comes into play here: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Regardless if it's space aliens or our future selves visiting from the future, they would certainly have impact upon the unwashed primitives who made up the human race thousands of years ago. It's not a stretch to see how some might form a religion around such visitations.
Arthur C. Clarke formulated the following three “laws” of prediction:
1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
I just don't think armadillos, wild dog packs, or water buffalo think this deeply and abstractly about ethical perfection.
Bhagavad-Gita, chapter 16
Fearlessness, purity of being, knowledge, generosity, discipline, sacrifice, sacred study, austerity, honesty, non-harm, truth, non-anger, letting go, peace, non-slander, kindness to living things, non-greed, gentleness, modesty, non-caprice, energy, forgiveness, resolve, cleanliness, non-aggression, non-arrogance -- those exist in one born to godly assets
Zhuangzi:
humans who have freed themselves from the slavery of conventional standards of judgement and desire can no longer be made to suffer. Poverty isn't anymore desirable than affluence, life isn't any more desirable than death. But to withdraw from the world would render a judgement on the world. So the Daoist remains within society but refrains from acting out of motives that lead conventional humans to struggle for wealth, fame, reputation, success, security. He maintains a course of action that is not purposefully motivated by any gain or reward. In such a state human action becomes spontaneous and effortless. Humans become one with heaven, and merge with the Dao.
Analects of Confucius, Chapter XVI-10:
Confucius said, “There are nine things upon which a gentleman focuses his attention: in regard to using his eyes, he is anxious to see clearly; when listening, he focuses on being discerning; in his countenance, he is anxious to be amiable; in his demeanor, he focuses on being reverent; in his speech, he focuses on being dutiful; in his actions, he focuses on being respectful; when in doubt, he focuses on asking questions; when angry, he focuses on thinking about the the difficulties he may cause others ; and when he sees gain to be gain, he focuses upon righteousness.
Last edited by Cypress; 05-27-2023 at 03:35 PM. Reason: Punctuation
Global Warming violates the 1st LoT by claiming a magical creation of thermal energy out of nothing, in the form of a temperature increase, which is somehow caused by a magical substance.
Greenhouse Effect violates Stefan-Boltzmann and black body science by claiming that an increase in earth's temperature is somehow caused by a decrease in earth's radiance.
Greenhouse Effect violates the 2nd LoT by claiming that the cooler atmosphere somehow heats the warmer earth's surface.
Margot (06-16-2023)
There is a common denominator: Homo sapiens sapiens.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Homo-sapiens-sapiens
Pioneer 10 space probe https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/mission...r-10/in-depth/Homo sapiens sapiens, in anthropology and paleontology, the subspecies of Homo sapiens that consists of the only living members of genus Homo, modern human beings. Traditionally, this subspecies designation was used by paleontologists and anthropologists to separate modern human beings from more-archaic members of Homo sapiens. H. s. sapiens is thought to have evolved sometime between 160,000 and 90,000 years ago in Africa before migrating first to the Middle East and Europe and later to Asia, Australia, and the Americas.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Cypress (06-17-2023)
From what I have read in the sociological sciences, all strands of human experience and thought are not strictly independent from one another, but framed by an underlying code of culture, language, and ritual that I believe Claude Levi-Strauss and other sociologists called structuralism.
Doc Dutch (06-17-2023)
Agreed with Structuralism. Consider a new CEO of a large corporation. There are people who have worked there for years, if not decades. There is a corporate culture. There is a physical structure to the office, which may or may not be efficient but unlikely to change due to costs. While the new CEO may have some grand ideas and seek to implement them, it's like turning a large ship, a megatanker. It takes time.
In government, Presidents often lament that 8 years isn't enough to enact change. To turn the ship using the analogy above. The underlying structure is labeled by the Trumpers as "the Deep State".
Of course, being paranoid fuckwits, the Trumpers think of the "Deep State" as being guided by the Jews, the commies or "the Woke", but the reality is that it's the same as the previously described corporation: thousands of career workers who have been there for years.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Cypress (06-17-2023)
LOL @ deep state.
Even science tends to be driven by an underlying code of human cultural and ritualistic bias. Aristotle, Copernicus, even Einstein really wanted the universe to be symmetric and static in it's overall framework -- because there is something about symmetry and unchanging gracefulness which just appeals to human nature
Doc Dutch (06-17-2023)
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