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Did you hear the one about Mohamed and the preacher's wife? I remember a report about an American Muslim man kissing his som's penis. He was not charged with anything, it was said to be a cultural ritual. No abuse or sexual content.

I wreathed a video series from UCLA on history of western civilization. They cycle has been rise of convictions, conquest, and assimilation. The conquering power inevitably assimilates aspects of the conquered. Knowledge and literacy grows in the process. Cross politicization is the term...

What is Philosophy? Some on the forum use the term philosophy as a kind of active agent, philology does one thing or another. From my Phil 101 class the first thing the intro sid was the root meaning of the term. Love of knowledge. Philosophy was a catch all phrase for knowledge seekers...

I watched a show on a genetic study mapping the paths out of Africa. There were a few unexpected surprises, but the paths are mapped. That trumps speculation. There was speculation on how humans crossed the Shara to get north. Relatively recently a cave was found in the Sahara with cave...

The original Kon Tiki documentary. Crossing on an ancient bamboo boat. And the book. https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.123184

Well, Columbus sailed into the unbeknown looking for a shorter rote to India and bumped into the Americas. But then Vikings made it to North America in open boats. Genetics say there were multiple migrations to the Americas. They were transported by aliens, flew, walked, or crossed on water...

That is a new one, haven't heard that one before. What JFK said after the Bay Of Pigs fiasco was that he made a mistake in trusting the generals who planned it. One theory was that JFK was going to pull back on VN and was assassinated from within for it. RFK and JFK wanted to rembve Hoover as...

Thor Heyerdahl showed the Atlantic and Pacific could have been crossed by ancient people. I watched a show on a Pacific island culture that navigates open ocean without any instruments. The skill is passed down from generation to generation. They go by smell, water temperature, and how the...

An ARM 64 bit instruction set. All processors have the same basic instructions. Logic Comparison Boy operations.Arithmetic Comparison Branching Memory access https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse469/19wi/arm64.pdf What separated Intel x86 and Morola 68k was memory architecture. The...

Pressure has to be brought on both sides. Israel has long been given a pass by the US on seizing intestinal land for Israeli expansion.

Jumping over from the transcendental numbers thread and the last posts. I hd a calss in Theory Of Computation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ There were paper tape devices far back like the orginal Telertype machnes, so the physcal representation of TM is undestandable. Hilbet posed a...

Look at the region. Lebanon is occupied by a large Iran funded militia and can f do nothing about it. The Syrian civil war. Iran and Saudi Arabia out to cut each other's throats. Saudi Arabia with weapons supplied by us clobbered Sudan, now a wasteland. Ethiopia. Yemen. After toppling...

Just when I was thinking threads of the forum could not get any more credulous, along comes this one. Yet another ridiculous study and cconlusion by academics with nothing better to do and in need of something to bullish. Social science is a contradiction in terms. These kinds of studies and...

Both sides use the same methods. Look at Biden doing the political two step on immigration and Gaza.

...yiou have to do is have an object that creates a Gnuplt text file based on parmeters, and executing it. A simple XY plot. int save(int n,double *x,double *y,string fname){ int i; ofstream ofile; ofile.open(fname); if(!ofile) return 1; ofile<<setprecision(10)...

Particle radiation can break bonds, high enough EM wavelengths can also. I look at it software getting corrupted or a precession getting damged.

The older I get the more Christianity sounds like a delusional illness.

Creationism, 2 steps forward 10 steps backwards.

Evading the question. How would you design a test to determine if free will is true or false such that test could be repeated and the results not subject to interpretation? You can argue that silence is philosophy, but that does not answer the basic question. Someone on the forum in the past...

We are human with traits as do dogs, cats, and elephants. We do not tend to anything we act IAW what we are. Screeching violent feces throwing chimps with nuclear weapons.