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  1. Heyo

    Who can fathom the infinite?

    That makes 70 to 75% NOT thinking of abstraction as real. Though, the minority agrees with Plato, who also thought of ideals as real. I don't. And I distinguish between ideals and constructs. Ideals have at least objective existence, while constructs are only there as long as we agree they are...
  2. Heyo

    Entertainment/media devoid of violence?

    Chess is an abstraction of war - but it's so far removed from reality that one can easily argue that there's no violence in it.
  3. Heyo

    Who can fathom the infinite?

    Are abstractions real?
  4. Heyo

    Who can fathom the infinite?

    I agree that "real" includes things that are not tangible. We can't touch a force or a field, but we can measure them. But love isn't a thing. It is only through a quirk of the English language that we can construct a substantive out of a verb or adjective. I don't argue that love isn't real...
  5. Heyo

    If Trump wins, will there be elections in four years or will he be a fascist dictator?

    1. Trump will not have a third term. Given his age and his mental decline, it is highly unlikely that he will still be President at the end of the term. 2. There will be elections in 2028. The question is if there will be fair elections. My guess is that, whoever becomes dictator after Trump...
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    Starting a table-top RPG group

    That's generally a good rule, but for your first campaign you want to take your players by the hand, so they don't get confused or overwhelmed by the choices. And you don't want to get confused yourself, or thrown totally off script because your players take an unexpected path.
  7. Heyo

    Trump & Magas Actually Trying To Lose Election

    Do they? Maybe they prefer it that way?
  8. Heyo

    Starting a table-top RPG group

    Great. Yep, band of five is the optimal size. I'm not familiar with Savage Worlds. Some. Been playing and mastering for 40+ years. And wrote my own system. I guess that your players are also new to roleplaying? (If not, get an experienced player to master a few sessions before you take...
  9. Heyo

    PhD student finds lost city in Mexico jungle by accident

    On a related note, I just saw this yesterday: They missed one city in Mexico, but they may have missed a network of cities, housing 5,000,000+ people all over the Amazon.
  10. Heyo

    Hi

    Hi Valérian, oops Valarion. You're at the right forum. We have a lot of answers (and most of them wrong, of course). Enjoy your stay.
  11. Heyo

    Lunatics taking over the asylum?

    It seems the Afghan Taliban are content with it being law in Afghanistan. But there are American Taliban who like to take away your rights and liberties. You'll see in a week how popular such thinking is.
  12. Heyo

    Who can fathom the infinite?

    One of the failures of having no consistent definition.
  13. Heyo

    Question on Time

    Christians have invented a lot of Holy Days over the centuries and some were strategically put at the same (or around a) day, where a pagan feast was. All Saint's Day (aka Allhallows) was put on November 1st to coincide with (presumed) Samhain. The Day before became Allhallows Eve, later...
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    Question on Time

    The length of a week (if there was a unit between day and month), was all over the place. 7, 8, 10 and 12 being used through various cultures. And sometimes they weren't fixed. A 7-day week gives you roughly a quarter of a lunar month, but to keep in sync, sometimes days were added that didn't...
  15. Heyo

    Question on Time

    Around November. The idea of Samhain being the 31st of October comes from one Roman source, but is most likely a misinterpretation. The Romans had a solar calendar, while the Celts had a lunar calendar. There is a fragment of a Celtic calendar, recorded by Romans, the Coligny Calendar. It...
  16. Heyo

    Who can fathom the infinite?

    Yes, of course, every object has an extension in time, ignoring time is only for practical purposes. There are "things" which aren't real and have no extension in time, the Platonic ideals. A triangle is a triangle, no matter if time even exists. Ideals are truly timeless and unchanging, like...
  17. Heyo

    Question on Time

    They may have adopted that from the Egyptians. They had clepsydra that could be adjusted, depending on the month, to always divide the day and the night into twelve hours.
  18. Heyo

    Who can fathom the infinite?

    Yes, when you go down to the atomic scale, that is true. But on the scale of human perception, the emergent properties are well-defined. We have no problem to see (and measure) things as having mass and spacial extension. And we can mostly ignore time. Activities don't have mass, and they make...
  19. Heyo

    Who can fathom the infinite?

    It doesn't. Consciousness, while it doesn't even have a definition to capture it's meaning, it surely isn't a thing. It's an activity.
  20. Heyo

    Who can fathom the infinite?

    Notice how you had to change the word class? Is "a walk" a thing? "Walking", or in your case "running" is an activity, not a thing. That's an important distinction. But once we have made that distinction, we can ask again if running or breathing can be measured in time. And yes, we can. So...
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