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How about this ending, with two fixes? Dozes at the end, although stark.
August 27, 2019 at 04:06
Perhaps our holistic all at once view versus our close-up linear detailed view gives a clue as to how the universe is organized.
August 27, 2019 at 04:03
The message remains the same no matter the implementation/messenger, such as music is still music, whether live or via some other implementation, like...
August 27, 2019 at 00:44
The brain perceives its objects/results via the consciousness brain process as a kind of sixth sense?
August 27, 2019 at 00:21
Consciousness is ever a subject and never an object, yet still a process?
August 27, 2019 at 00:06
So seemingly real as an illusion such that a difference that makes no difference is no difference? (The message remains, regardless of the implementat...
August 27, 2019 at 00:04
Give employees stock shares in the company?
August 26, 2019 at 23:47
Omar Jr.’s Little Known Rubaiyat, Written Long Ago, Comes to Light Omar Khayyam’s son, Jr., had to flee to Borneo after a fanatical sect of Sufi women...
August 26, 2019 at 21:28
McDonald's raised wages, but lessened the workers; I went to one of the newer ones, where they had no cashiers, but did have one person to help people...
August 26, 2019 at 20:10
Maybe most the humongous amount of stuff in the universe being so massively produced is made possible by a zero-sum-balance from some tiny base primar...
August 26, 2019 at 20:03
Walking gives more energy than it takes; It’s as easy as falling forward makes. Thoughts ‘come clear, cares fade, alertness tingles; Life’s spirit whi...
August 26, 2019 at 19:55
Sometimes, as with Rockefeller, Carnegie, and J.P. Morgan in the latter half of the 1800s.
August 26, 2019 at 19:53
True, but probably because the private realm is near impossible to get at from the public realm. I'm not sure it helps to move the mysterious explanat...
August 26, 2019 at 19:50
What about the Fundamental event?
August 26, 2019 at 19:21
I don't know, for all I have are some scratchy notes. … Our rememberings try to describe reality as it really was experienced, but, that sheer essence...
August 26, 2019 at 03:12
Hey, yeah, it is; good collaboration! I think the spellchecker changed 'weathering' or 'withstanding' to 'withering' here. In the brain, cpeb proteins...
August 26, 2019 at 01:33
Early Afternoon at the OK Club — Part 1 — The ‘Great Omar’ The lone jewel encrusted ‘Great Omar’, Now worth over 20 zillion dollars, Sunk, with the mi...
August 25, 2019 at 23:37
The brain retrieves relational memories as needed, via some very fast lookup process, which is amazing in itself, and perhaps our conscious glimpses i...
August 25, 2019 at 23:23
High Noon at the Club – Part 2a — Moving Pictures My old friend, Iam Cayenne, approaches and says, “How do the skies and water currents move in those ...
August 25, 2019 at 22:02
We have the ability to sensibly choose, according to how much sense we have in our will. Some do it better; some worse; some are naturals; some strugg...
August 25, 2019 at 15:05
One would think so, yet 'God', whether the invented one or a 'good' one, lets evil spirits run free, blah, blah, blah. Or do we torture them with flam...
August 25, 2019 at 15:01
Memory: The past is never past, at least while we’re alive. Memories, while re-cognized and ephemeral, Still have a very basic core of persistence. Ho...
August 25, 2019 at 01:09
In the new dictionary-thesaurus: Bullshit: transcendence, intangible, immaterial, spirit, 'God', supernatural, beyond-physics, etc.
August 25, 2019 at 01:01
Omar-inspired: When Allah mixed my clay He knew full well My future acts, and could each one foretell; Without His will no act of mine was wrought; Is...
August 25, 2019 at 00:58
Yes, so there is but ontology; so long metaphysics; all is physical.
August 24, 2019 at 23:52
So long; enjoy the babble of Babel. Um, global warming is bringing the floods back, along with horrible heat. This is the end. Bye.
August 24, 2019 at 23:49
So, you see from the video that the information content of Everything is zero—random—the TOE, or, in other words: The Fundamental Eterne of the causel...
August 24, 2019 at 22:32
And will again and again. Luckily we have all of it in the Library of Babel: https://vimeo.com/341729818
August 24, 2019 at 21:58
What is the gist of the equations? Nice to have, although we already know the truth.
August 24, 2019 at 21:26
Big indoctrination, from which not so many can recover. Life’s cruelty satisfies all repentance, So this credit give me when Thy sentence, While here,...
August 24, 2019 at 21:22
The Fundamental Eterne has to exist, as ever, for there is something existent for sure and it cannot have come from nonexistence. Thus, there is no al...
August 24, 2019 at 21:11
Believers tremble in fear of the Big Bad Boss, His immorality untrusted not to cause loss— Insanity hidden in ‘mysterious ways’; They accept, so He th...
August 24, 2019 at 21:04
August 24, 2019 at 20:19
Quantum Mechanics' probabilistic outputs are used to build many great devices that work.
August 24, 2019 at 19:48
High Noon at the OK Corral – Part 2 — Toasting Death Chrysanthemums drink the mellow day; Falling petals carry the light away. The autumn fog enswirls...
August 24, 2019 at 19:37
You have to yield, for there is a yield sign there to you.
August 24, 2019 at 19:27
Then all the forces would be unified, even gravity, and then our species would continue on just about as it does now. A Theory of Everything, though, ...
August 24, 2019 at 19:24
Ah, good, and on topic. (No "slime", apart from that we evolved from it.)
August 24, 2019 at 19:21
And, yet, the actuality of one being in the chain trumps the "if's" and "could haves" of not being there.
August 24, 2019 at 19:18
Excellent essay. In this lost haunt, out on the Orion arm Of the Milky Way—where safe from the core’s harm; The philosophers gather in the forum, As n...
August 24, 2019 at 19:16
So, then, now Purple Pond is well on his way to dealing with the believers.
August 24, 2019 at 17:52
"God is not a magician" is the beginning of the downfall of 'God' for the Catholics, it demonstrating that the Bible contains fairytales.
August 24, 2019 at 17:37
High Noon at the OK Club — Part 1 — Obits /uploads/resized/files/mp/3xgs6p3dqcji4sxo.jpg (Men on the menus!) Should we call the above ‘Womenus’, to wh...
August 23, 2019 at 22:32
In learning this, our fixed will expands to grant us the peace of less worthy blame and shame, although, too, less worthy fame, plus more compassion f...
August 23, 2019 at 21:46
Yes, one can totally become what sees a lot. Be careful not to play too many video games, and especially don't get hooked on watching Wrestling Shows!
August 23, 2019 at 21:24
All good stuff. Although reality isn't the way that some fantasize it to be, it appears to be the only way it could be and work (as a consolation priz...
August 23, 2019 at 21:10
No, no differences, for the 'will' is merely some part of the brain, and the same for the 'mind'. No metaphysics here; all is physical. No supernatura...
August 23, 2019 at 20:40
'Storey' is like as used for the first storey of a house, while 'story', while having truth, has some illusion. We don't see the subconscious brain ge...
August 23, 2019 at 20:29
Yes, and so it turn out that free will, as other than the will being free to operate when there is no coercion (which is trivial and not the same 'fre...
August 23, 2019 at 20:12
Because… such as we want to say "I love you" to a lover rather than something literal along the lines of that our love has to be so because our bondin...
August 23, 2019 at 20:02