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Zsubmariner · 2d
A field does not physicslly exist. It's an abstraction. We speak of waves and fields as first class objects, but this is reification. A field is a description of a pattern of relationships in the sequ...
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“ The fact that the intellect can grasp infinite and uncomputable things says something about the intellect, but it does not make infinite/continuous things physical. “

It would seem, if followed, to say the intellect can receive non-physical things (I will label spiritual for ease).
But physical reception of a spiritual thing would require either the spiritual is made physical (which as you observe isn’t seen) or the receptor have at least some core part of (him/her) that is itself spiritual.
Which would mean some part of the intellect is spiritual (infinite / indestructible).
Cyph3rp9nk · 4d
You can't expect anything from a society that has normalized abortion. Murders are always murders.
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True. It is strange. I occasionally come across people who articulate that they:

1) support abortion aka a parent* and doctor* chopping off parts of a child in utero en route to destroying the child’s life. All sanctioned by the state and often paid for by the state.

2) oppose transgenderism on minors aka a parent and doctor chopping off parts of a child ex utero en route to destroying the child’s life. All sanctioned by the state and often paid for by the state.

These same people do believe that they themselves do not undergo a substantial change when they change place, say merely walk 3 feet to the left or change in time, say age 3 months.

And yet, without articulating it, they must believe a child undergoes substantial change (so profound that it goes from mere stuff into personhood) not at conception but rather during the slide out the birth canal. How that slide, a mere change in place, how that slide confers such tremendous magic is never questioned. No one ever even seems curious what other trans-substantiations occur or could occur by means of transit through this powerful canal.

They act as through the physics that occurs in what appears to be merely a change in place are so miraculously transformative as to be responsible for all personhood throughout all history and yet nary a physicists seems to be interested in this miracle.

(titles I use loosely here only for clarity)
Magoo PhD · 2w
Would you pay 25K to be with them lol
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Sure I would not pay $2.50 to go to an “independent film _____” (fill in any blank).
But that really is not the point.
If your post is to be believed, it happened.
So…
If you somehow found yourself, more or less alone, in the middle of one, and you astutely pick up on the fact that it just happened to be ripe with pedos, pedo enablers, and one of their honcho’s handler, would her email memoir say:
“Hated every minute with him.
He was a weird cold zombie to me and everyone.
Never want to see him again.”
Or
“What a charmer.
He fits right in - we all loved him!”
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Magoo PhD · 2w
Wow Saylor got absolutely cooked in the Epstein emails. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02425998.pdf https://image.nostr.build/604e23cd76b62ed25395223bfa2532fc246d6c673d40f75...
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Meh. I can assure you these repulsive child rapist pedo Epstein sycophants would have a very, very unpleasant time around me and anyone I hang with too. Odd to think that failure to get a pedo sycophant to fawn all over him is somehow being presented as a burn on Saylor but I guess some people just love to please everyone.
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Magoo PhD · 2w
Would you pay 25K to be with them lol
mleku · 3w
yeah, no, so they get across the bridge after the sentinel gets himself thrown off the bridge by vascillating, then they come to this ... i think it's a cave, and inside the cave is supposed to be the holy grail. then they spot the guardian of the grail, and the holy hand grenade scene, where the p...
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Speaking from the USA perspective here.
The complexity of the understanding natural world increases - even if the world itself is finite - because we have limited intellect and can never know the thing itself. We can (just) iterate on our abstractions from the particulars around us towards truth. But that path in (good) science is (supposed to be) ever pointed towards simplicity
If I want to know the essence of what a cat is, what is “ ‘cat’-ness”, I would like to join my intellect with that thing itself. But that thing is non-physical and I’m limited to knowing the world through my senses. So I’m stuck, trying to look at each particular cat and abstracting from each particular towards each other particular in an effort to find “cat”-ness and define it. But I’m not looking to catalog each particular as “cat”-ness. I’m looking for the essence of what a cat is. Of what makes a cat not a man. I don’t want a list of ever growing particulars of for example 252 million individual cat fur patterns as if that is what makes a cat. That’s cataloging (and more like an AI approach of “intelligence”). That’s important, but it’s only the beginning of the abstraction that leads to understanding. In the end truth is simple, towards a unity. Truly knowing “cat” ness cannot leave out such particulars but must eventually collapse them in towards a unity. Otherwise, in an absurd extrapolation, you can never explain to a six year old what makes a cat different from a man because you wouldn’t have enough time in your lifetime to articulate each particular that’s not how we work because that’s not how truth works, and we are made for truth.

In my experience from my perspective, this is not how administration and law are evolving. There is the collection of particulars, but instead of incentivizing towards the truth – you might call this morality or ethics – the incentives are left accumulating particulars. These particulars are called laws, rules, administrative rules, employee handbooks, all based on abstractions from nature that never return to integrate into the truth. My limited an likely insufficient exposure to goedels theorem suggests one such a system of rules is complex enough it cannot be proven to even be non contradictory. And between laws, administrative decrees, etc we are well past that. Rather than incentives towards simplifying this mess towards morals, the self contradictory nature is dealt with by erratic non enforcement and /or selective application. So the same crime in the same way leads to two different outcomes (say a poor person drunk driving versus a rich person who affords high powered lawyers) which is unnatural and untruthful. But because judges lawyers and politically connected / rich people tend to benefit from incentives within this unnatural result, and because in abstract power systems like governments those people create the incentives, there is seemingly no force to turn the tide.
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This is From Jeff Booth 2019:


1) Am I putting thought into action? - Pretty self explanatory but amazing how easy it is without a simple reminder to think about the things you want and then do nothing. (Action changes this. Even if you don't have all the answers, your learning increases as a by-product of that action)

2) Am I setting new and interesting goals? - There is no stasis. We are either growing or dying. Without new and interesting goals we easily become bored and start going backwards.

3) Am I visualizing my goals? - Making your goals more vivid and real allows your subconscious to work on your goals and to recognize the needed resources needed to achieve your dreams.

4) Am I stretching my comfort zone? - We naturally narrow what we are comfortable with over time - telling ourselves stories that we are not good at that or could never do that. Stretching your comfort zone is when you do things that put you into an uncomfortable state - where most of the learning and fun starts.

5) Am I happy with what I have? - Gratitude!! One of the most important things in living a full life. I remember a specific trip while travelling through Indonesia and Nepal in the late 1990's where it felt like I met some of the happiest people on the planet - who also lived with next to nothing. Want success? - Truly celebrate success in others and give gratitude for all the things you already have.

6) Am I filling my mind with positive self talk? - 99% of our time is spent inside our own heads, telling stories about ourselves and others. Want to exponentially increase how you show up in life? - start by making sure the stories inside your own head are good ones.

7) Am I being a positive force for others? - It is our impact on other people that truly counts our lives. Asking a question every day that forces you to think about your impact on others is a sure way to increase your positive impact.

8) Are my actions the same as my values? - We have all met people who say one thing - do another, which is the ultimate in hypocrisy. Asking this question every day ensures you are not one of them. It allows you to make the "harder right" decisions versus the "easier wrong"

9) Am I staying in balance? - While there may never be perfect balance - the question forces a deeper question of why you choose to do the things you do. That deeper question allows you to understand your choices. For example: I have too often seen executives convince themselves that they are "doing it for their family" when the thing their family cares about most is their time - Only to realize when it is too late. Want to know what you value - look at your calendar. It does not lie.

10) Am I focused and persistent? - Learning anything takes time and commitment. Even these 10 questions - which have led to much more learnings than I could ever list in an article - took a dedication to actually doing them over years to achieve the cummunlative benefit from them.

Hope they are helpful to you as they have been to me