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One way to understand why God does not clarify the confusion people make to the word of God can be seen with an example. Say you were an IT specialist...
June 22, 2018 at 12:38
One main value of reason is as a means to communicate creative intuitions with others. In engineering school, during exams, one is not allowed to writ...
June 22, 2018 at 12:13
When the internet first started to go public, trolling meant something different from what it does now. Trolling was closer to a type of fishing, wher...
June 22, 2018 at 11:32
We live in a quantum universe, where only certain quantum states are possible. The hydrogen atom, for example, has distinct energy levels separated by...
June 22, 2018 at 10:44
Most people get their information already assembled into the final shape. If you read a book from a gifted author, you get his ideas arranged in a fin...
June 21, 2018 at 13:10
By trolling do you mean logic and truth or propaganda slinging using emotional inductions? This is subjective based on any particular moral position. ...
June 21, 2018 at 12:48
Religious morality is based on the needs of the group, not the needs of the individual. It was developed before science, medicine and social programs....
June 21, 2018 at 12:38
In the world of relative morality, character becomes subjective. The objective person should stand clear of using this as a measuring gauge. For examp...
June 21, 2018 at 12:22
Ideology is subjective. If it was objective, we would all infer and deduce the same conclusions. There would be one ideology. Accomplishments, on the ...
June 21, 2018 at 11:54
The United States has been very generous to the world community, especially during and after World War 2. The US took over the expensive role of world...
June 21, 2018 at 11:26
The Democrats are hypocrites. Obama, as well as Bush, did the same thing and nobody was outraged. At that time, the Democrat scams were elsewhere, hid...
June 21, 2018 at 10:56
The economy is dong well under the misogyny and racism of Trump, with unemployment among the blacks, latinos, and women at an all time low. The action...
June 20, 2018 at 11:11
If American citizens committed various crimes, DHS; department of human services, will take away their children or place them with responsible relativ...
June 20, 2018 at 10:44
When visual input enters the brain, it goes from the eyes, to the thalamus, which is the most wired part of the brain. The thalamus is located in the ...
June 19, 2018 at 12:23
Free will is always misunderstood. Free will is the ability to make choices outside of natural instinct. The first mention of free will, in terms of h...
June 19, 2018 at 11:30
This is why Trump wants the wall. If we had a wall across the southern border, real asylum seekers would need to enter by a front door. At the front d...
June 19, 2018 at 10:52
Philosophy is like science, but without the experiments. Philosophy uses observations, anecdotal evidence and logic to draw conclusions. It is similar...
June 19, 2018 at 10:24
I agree with you, but the Democrats are going to lose out if we do this. One way to combat Russian interference, in future elections, is to tighten vo...
June 18, 2018 at 13:02
Y The FBI knew about Paul Manfort's dealings years before he worked for Trump. Check the timeline of Manafort crimes. These crimes occurred under Obam...
June 18, 2018 at 12:46
In Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity, if you were to travel at the speed of light, the universe would appear contracted to a point-instant. That...
June 18, 2018 at 11:51
The goal of art is to induce emotions in the audience. This can be love, hate, awe, disgust, etc. With that in mind, when the brain creates memory, in...
June 18, 2018 at 11:27
Men are more visually orientated, while women are more audio and language orientated. Males tend to use the front to back paths in the brain, more, wh...
June 17, 2018 at 12:12
As an experiment, say we assembled 6500 people in a large hall, with each individual person speaking one of the 6500 languages of the earth. What I wi...
June 17, 2018 at 11:34
Identity politics is where you choose to lose your identity as an individual, in favor of being part of a herd identity. As part of a herd, there is s...
June 17, 2018 at 11:05
There is one additional consideration that most people are not aware of. The brain can process data in 2-D as well as 3-D. An example of 2-D thinking ...
June 16, 2018 at 11:07
There are many paths back to C-level, with the zero energy at absolute zero one of these paths. Absolute zero makes energy singular at infinite wavele...
June 15, 2018 at 12:34
One problem with a modern Democracy, is too many people are vulnerable to propaganda, allowing others to think for them. Their vote is not based on th...
June 15, 2018 at 11:39
When memory is formed, sensory input is combined with an emotional tag, by aspects of the limbic system, and then written to the cerebral matter. If w...
June 14, 2018 at 11:03
For example, most materials in nature are both temperature and pressure dependent. This data is plotted in what is called a phase diagram, which shows...
June 14, 2018 at 10:44
Many people do not seem to understand the difference between human consciousness and a machine. A computer can memorize, store and repeat data faster ...
June 13, 2018 at 11:10
Ground state, in physics, is a relative term based on the ambient conditions. The hydrogen atom on the sun, may never reach the same ground state, as ...
June 13, 2018 at 10:27
In terms of time and space, if we could move at the speed of light, in a spherical orbit, we would see the inertial universe contracted to a point-ins...
June 12, 2018 at 12:19
It is hard to use standard physics terms because many of these terms are based on up-side-down and not the right side up. These are not needed, if C-l...
June 12, 2018 at 12:02
Here is an analysis I developed a few years back to show the impact of specialization clarity, on large scale clarity. Picture a large puzzle the size...
June 12, 2018 at 11:29
There is more than one way to see clearly. Say you were in the forest that is dense with trees. You can see the close things clearly, but it will be h...
June 12, 2018 at 11:01
I am using the speed of light and the speed of light reference, interchangeably, since the speed of light implies a particular reference according to ...
June 12, 2018 at 10:30
Religion is a natural part of human experience, since it exercises parts of the brain. It works the frontal lobe; imagination, as well as various spat...
June 11, 2018 at 12:31
Consciousness also has a connection to the way neurons are designed. A neuron will expend most of its metabolic energy, pumping and exchanging cations...
June 11, 2018 at 11:02
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Morality was designed with the needs of the group in mind. Morality was not designed with the needs of the individual in mind. The reason for this app...
June 10, 2018 at 13:07
Buddhism is a major religion. Although Buddhism is called a religion, Buddhism does not worship deities. Buddhism is an example that shows that a reli...
June 10, 2018 at 12:16
Consciousness is connected to self awareness. If you unconsciously react to a stimulus without thinking, you are no different from an electronic devic...
June 10, 2018 at 11:21
When the brain writes memories to the cerebral matter, aspects of the limbic system, in the core of the brain, will add emotional tags during the writ...
June 08, 2018 at 12:28
AI will make us dumber, because it will act as a prosthesis for human intelligence causing natural intelligence to atrophy. As an analogy, say you had...
June 08, 2018 at 11:05
Part of what makes humans feel conscious, is we have two centers of consciousness. The main center is called the inner self. This center is similar to...
June 07, 2018 at 11:03
The difference between brain and mind is analogous to the differences between hardware; biology, and software; psychology. Software, by itself, is a n...
June 06, 2018 at 11:14
There is a parable that is appropriate to the occasion. This is the abridged version. There was student who wanted to learn from a great master. After...
June 04, 2018 at 18:43
In the New Testament, as told by Paul, in Romans, Jesus left behind a comforter, the spirit of truth; the Holy Spirit. To this end, Paul spoke of the ...
June 04, 2018 at 18:04
Physics is mostly based on solid and gas state analogies. Gravity is about gases and solid dust becoming compressed into solid and gaseous planets and...
June 04, 2018 at 17:34
The entire white guilt premise is based on being responsible for the past, based on some type of superficial connection, like skin color. It has nothi...
June 03, 2018 at 13:24
One thing you need to keep in mind is the Democrat party was the party of slavery in the 1800's. It was the party of segregation, the party of discrim...
June 03, 2018 at 12:52