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I do conclude yours is 'just another one of many past and present'. Before the reality of the Soviet Union became widely known over here there were those who thought it represented a utopia, even prominent people. On paper the Soviet Union looked good, workers in a workers paradise. I doubt...

Christianity is a cult of pain. One feels the pain of Jesus and it feels good. A crucifix with a a bloody Jesus wearing a crown of thorns and blood running from his side. The more I think about it the more bizarre and disturbing Christianity seems. The stigmata.

My point is people starting communities for one reason or another go back in our' and human sophistry. Philosophical movements. Theosophy and Rosicrucians still exist. Today in the USA Mennonites and Amish are still around. The problem as we have today in the USA is who makes the rules, how...

It can work in small homogeneous groups. A number of communes started in the 60s 70s. One was The Farm and it is still around. Started by a group of west coast 'hippies'. The back to the land movement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farm_(Tennessee) The Farm evolved. Initially ot was...

Watched a show on it,. https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/1816-the-year-without-summer.htm

Not likely to change my mind. I read Popper, he used the term experimentalist. The only reasonably objective knowledge is an experiment. One can make a logical valid a I have yet to see a clear definition of determinism here or on other threads. Logically valid argumnets meaning no fallacies...

Phoenix is a good example. It was long known as a place with low allergens and low humidity. A pace for those with brething problems. Large scale air conditioning and open air water mist cooling changed thn local climate. And agriculture.

I guess debate is not your strong suit. As I said to be competent at philosophy today I'd say yiu need to have an underfeeding of science in general and experimental science. Back in the 90s a philosophy teacher I had said to be competent inn philsophy requird absorbing about 25 books and...

There is no experiment that can experimentally demonstrate determinism or free will when it comes to making a choice. That makes determinism philosophical speculation not objective fact. I am not a p[philosopher and do not pretend to be one, I had few classes in school and did reading over the...

I wonder if Florida will be habitable in the future. Unless buddings are raided on concrete above 40 feet or so. There are videos of houses on the shore on the east coast slipping into the surf. Coastal waters temperature trends...

It is their cross to bear.

After 100 years of experiments and debate the general consensus is underlying physical reality is inherently uncertain or probabilistic. In this context the terms are synonymous. Pick up a rock you perceive as solid. At the atomic scale atoms are in constant motion movbrting continuously...

Well, I am sure glad I retired in western Washington and not Florida. 20 foot storm surges.

Peacegirl if nothing else you are prolific. Do you have a formal background in philosophy? My view is we are adaptive neural nets that configures itself from experience from the start. We are constantly inctyeracting with the environment around us, declensions are a manner of speaking. It is a...

hTat is what metaphysics is all about, thought abstractions. The problem is that we are inescapably self referential. We create abstractions to define other abstractions. Mind is a term we use but can never be precisely and unambiguous;y defined such that all agree. Mind is a product of...

The Earth rotates so radiation from the sun equally roasts the Earth line a chicken on rotating spit. The CMBR looks like a black body at round 2.7 kelvin radiating in all directions. When a photon leaves a laser is there an equal and opposite reaction...

All our thoughts are the products of our physical brains. Thoughts are the results of atomic interactions, quantum scale. There is no mind separate from body.

An object is radiating heat as EM energy while at the same tine is absorbing heat from the surrounding environment. An object and its environment want to go to equilibrium. Photons get murky. No mass but possessing momentum...

A lengthy dissertation on determinism form the Stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/determinism-causal/ Casualty in science simply means something does not happen without a cause. The philosophical question is when we make what we think is a free choice...

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/05/science/earth-inner-core-rotation-slowdown-cycle-scn/index.html https://today.usc.edu/usc-study-confirms-the-rotation-of-earths-inner-core-has-slowed/