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    Panentheism

    I suppose it comes down to whether you have a need for an unword to describe whatever it is which makes possible the world we know and ourselves. Neither physics nor theism can give an entirely adequate answer. We don't know everything so if the question "why anything instead of nothing"...
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    "How we know Democrats want Trump killed".

    That is a good theory. But I think this thread is just a projection on the part of MAGA enthusiasts, assuming everyone is as cut throat as they and their hero aspire to be. Fortunately it isn't so.
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    Trump Assassination Attempt

    Even for the former president who delighted in inciting violence and bragged about doing nothing about gun control, this is not the way I'd prefer conflict be handled in this country. That is Trump's way and I don't want the country following him down his dark hole. Not that I would have...
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    Thanks for writing a likable post!

    Thanks for writing a likable post!
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    Is everything a simulation?

    I assume you meant our simulating is natural in which case I agree. I think we naturally produce an internal simulation based on our experience which is useful in some ways but perhaps life deadening if engaged in too much. It sometimes takes an effort to disengage from the simulation - walks...
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    What is "Bad" Science?

    You're wrong about how I feel about science. There is very little to criticize but what there is needs to be said. I'm not a fundy believer but neither am I a rabid atheist who believes anything incompatible with science simply must be wrong. Science doesn't know everything and so can't rule...
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    What is "Bad" Science?

    Yes and yet the system permits this sort of abuse. What does it even mean to say research is peer reviewed if it just something one pays for, $150 for a rating of excellent.
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    Is everything a simulation?

    Makes sense but could everything be a mental construct? What would it be a simulation of if everything was part of it?
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    Projection -- or Calling it Like it Is?

    No need to speculate about projection where Trump is concerned. Everything he says and does is purposeful with the aim to obtain something he values, mostly money or revenge these days.
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    What is "Bad" Science?

    I failed to read the fine print again. What I answered was in the service of knocking science down a peg to prevent it attaining sacred cow status. Of course fundamentalists will welcome a chance to bash science in defense of their literal Bible interpretations, but attacking them is like...
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    What is "Bad" Science?

    Not sure what you mean. I did include bits from the article.
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    What is "Bad" Science?

    I can but I thought colorful language was popular here. No?
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    What is "Bad" Science?

    I doubt anyone does. But when **** happens how does the practice of science note and deal with transgressions. Mostly by pushing an image of institutional purity and questioning the motives of anyone who calls attention to them, as you have here. As for, It comes off as whining if you...
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    What is "Bad" Science?

    This case of institutional failure makes me wonder how well peer review can play its vaunted role in the practice of science. All quotes below come from this article: "Get Me Off Your ****ing Mailing List" is an actual science paper accepted by a journal The paper .. titled "Get me off your...
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    Even Mainstream Conservatives Now Talk Of Violent Revolution

    It has traditionally been about preserving a set of values. But what can 'conservative' possibly mean in the context of MAGA?
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    What is "Bad" Science?

    Bad science happens when peer review becomes for-profit, whenever data is groomed to make a more remarkable impression, whenever an established authority slips in a pronouncement on something outside their field and whenever the provisional nature of its assumptions is forgotten. Good science...
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    Even Mainstream Conservatives Now Talk Of Violent Revolution

    As must have been pointed out by now, revolution is the very opposite of conservative in nature. It is radically retrogressive.
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    Judging a Religion

    A religion which confers beliefs on its practitioners which enrich the experience of its adherents with meaning and peace is okay. If it can do so without being a dick toward everyone else then it is A-okay.
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    Lawful Evil is more Evil than Chaotic Evil. Discuss.

    Yep lawful is more awful. Hands down.
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    The Purpose of Life, a biological perspective

    This is interesting as a way to frame life as if from the outside, as though we could see how we fit with every thing else. But that is very different from life as it is lived. Our actual experience probably cannot be adequately represented by any such 'view from no where'. And yet biology is...
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