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Post by Admin on Sept 10, 2019 7:48:55 GMT
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Post by Admin on Sept 10, 2019 18:14:49 GMT
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Post by Admin on Sept 11, 2019 8:27:36 GMT
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Post by Admin on Sept 13, 2019 14:00:32 GMT
The toilet roll store is good. Need to get some more tinned food.
i feel very much that we should remain in the EU now.
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Post by Admin on Sept 13, 2019 14:10:30 GMT
UK: “Operation Yellowhammer” details savage austerity and confirms plans for state repression post-Brexit By Thomas Scripps 13 September 2019 On Wednesday evening, Boris Johnson’s government was forced to release its forecast for a no-deal Brexit, codenamed “Operation Yellowhammer.” The six-page document affirms the social and economic catastrophe threatened by a no-deal Brexit and underscores the danger of authoritarian rule in the UK. While the government insists that the scenarios outlined in Yellowhammer represent “reasonable worst case assumptions,” a widely shared version of the document from the same day uses the phrase “base scenario.” www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/09/13/yell-s13.html
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Post by Admin on Sept 13, 2019 14:18:45 GMT
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Post by Admin on Sept 13, 2019 14:27:17 GMT
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Post by snowstorm on Sept 13, 2019 18:53:19 GMT
Richard Dawkins has every right to be an atheist - just don't understand why, if he was so cool and confident about it, he has to title his books the way he does e.g. ' Outgrowing God: A beginner's guide to atheism' (aimed at 15 year olds), implying they are going to be very 'grown up' and somehow more advanced/smarter if they become/are atheist. Or 'The God Delusion', implying someone is 'deluded' to have a belief in God. Frankly insulting - and in a way laughable too IMO for someone who has had non - ordinary experiences with a spiritual aspect. What is a delusion anyway?
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Post by snowstorm on Sept 13, 2019 19:04:18 GMT
He's obviously worried that if he doesn't cause controversy with the title no one will read them
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Post by Admin on Sept 13, 2019 19:10:52 GMT
He's obviously worried that if he doesn't cause controversy with the title no one will read them i read the God Delusion & i think it made some good points. i can understand people being Atheist. i preferred Hitchen's - But i think that he should have called his book religion is not great - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Is_Not_Greati'm Not an Atheist / materialist - But i don't think it's necessarily a bad thing to debate it all. i feel it comes back to the same things - within a genuinely free & secular society people should have full religious / spiritual freedoms & free speech. The right to follow any religious / spiritual path / practise or none & the right to criticise any of it.
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Post by snowstorm on Sept 13, 2019 19:43:02 GMT
“Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.”
Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
This I agree with.
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Post by Admin on Sept 13, 2019 19:53:55 GMT
“Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.” Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion This I agree with. Of course - people should be taught 'everything' & to think in a genuinely independent & critical way. But is teaching an Atheist / scientific materialist paradigm of reality independent of bias? & is it true?
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Post by snowstorm on Sept 13, 2019 20:27:45 GMT
No, it's biased towards atheism and scientific materialism :-)
Scientists are supposed to be enquiring and learning all the time, they may 'discover' information that takes them in a different direction.
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Post by snowstorm on Sept 13, 2019 20:35:52 GMT
I am still pondering what the theoretical AI 'computer' would come up with if programmed with information and theories - probably a mathematical formula that went on and on then a short circuit.
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Post by Admin on Sept 14, 2019 7:55:10 GMT
There is establishment / orthodox / mainstream science - & there is fringe / alternative / forbidden / 'pseudo' science. The former states that there is Zero scientific evidence for the latter. I am still pondering what the theoretical AI 'computer' would come up with if programmed with information and theories - probably a mathematical formula that went on and on then a short circuit. Full AI is wagered that it will be many millions of times more powerful than the human brain. No one know's what the implications of it are. The question is explored partly in a the Philip K Dick book 'a Maze of Death', one of my favourite books, Philip spent his life exploring all these themes - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Maze_of_DeathVALIS was another, based in part on his own experiences - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valis_(novel)What has & is the internet & computer technologies done / doing to everyone as it is?
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