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    How do you deal with the cultural problem?

    In that case, I didn't understand your question. I said how I relate to Satan. How can I answer better?
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    How do you deal with the cultural problem?

    Sure! Satan liberates me. He gives me the drive to learn. He gives me wisdom about what does and does not matter in life.
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    How do you deal with the cultural problem?

    No. Your problem is unnecessary. Every culture has a devil. The Devil is universal.
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    Should I Get Into LaVeyan Satanism????

    Do it and see if it fits. If not, quit. Edited to add: Labeling yourself a Satanist does not (should not) need to be a part of it.
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    Science is Occult

    Side note about how particle accelerators are used: A particle accelerator is a shared resource and different research groups buy time on it. Preference will be given to those inside the institution that operates the machine, but they "rent it out" too. Therefore, if what you say is true...
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    Science is Occult

    I think it's interesting, if true. In my biology career, dealing with people trained in all scientific subjects, discussion of religion and the occult were taboo. We were taught implicitly that science has nothing to do with religion or personal beliefs of any kind, ideally even scientific...
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    In What Way are Mutations Random?

    Sorry to barge in again, but scientists don't say that mutations are random, because they aren't. A scientist might casually say by mistake that they're random, but if you question them about it, they will correct themselves. DNA is wound up by optically dense heterochromatin and wound around...
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    In What Way are Mutations Random?

    Mutations are not random. Scientists say that mutations are not random. High school science teachers, journalists, and evolution arguers are the only ones who say that mutations are random.
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    The Human Genome Is Still Mostly Junk

    Science is not so black and white. I've heard a proposition to create a microbial cell without junk DNA. Synthetic Biology. It's extremely expensive to do and doesn't have enough funders to get the job done, because it has no immediate payback. There are many ways to define what junk DNA...
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    Epigenetic Inheritance in Humans

    Having spent 12 years doing biomedical science and writing papers, I think I have something to offer. The common problem is exactly the opposite: that these studies do have a prior hypothesis. Results must support the hypothesis. If they don't do that, then the study won't get published...
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    A World without Rules.

    We have something pretty close to a world without rules. The Internet. It seems to work just fine. And when they try to impose global rules, there's a massive outcry against them sufficient to make the proposers cancel for fear of their lives and livelihoods. At least so far. There are local...
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    What religious group was this that tried to recruit me?

    Exactly. Just to completely spell stuff out, I'm just blaming my adolescent hormones on talking to her when I should have known better. That was the only point I was trying to make in bringing that up. I don't think they were trying to use sex to sell. For those who wanna come back and say...
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    New Model of Evolution Finally Reveals How Cooperation Evolves

    Again, you've hit the nail right on the head. I also don't like the people who say that science "changes its mind". Science didn't, the media said it did. The old data isn't suddenly wrong, unless the scientist who published the original data was lying. We add new variables, new contexts.
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    What religious group was this that tried to recruit me?

    I think I overemphasized the sex part. Let me re-emphasize, she was wearing a big bulky dress, a hijab, no make-up, no scents, not so clean, and had a baby with her. She was being as non-sexy as she possibly could.
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    New Model of Evolution Finally Reveals How Cooperation Evolves

    This is the take home message everyone should be getting. A model doesn't tell us new stuff, it allows us to make and preliminarily test predictions. I'll add that the OP link overstates the previous lack of understanding. It's not so much "we don't understand why cooperation exists", as much...
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    What religious group was this that tried to recruit me?

    I did look there. I think the most likely match in there is Kevin McLaughlin, but am having a hard time finding anything else about him.
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    What religious group was this that tried to recruit me?

    If you'd told the 14 year-old me that, I'd have said the sex was totally worth it.
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    What religious group was this that tried to recruit me?

    I think a member of a religious cult tried to recruit me. I recall the experience once in a while and wonder who it might have been. Maybe someone here can help me find out? It was the early 90's in Long Beach, California. The crappy inland part, not the nice beachy part. I was about 14...
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    Scientists on RF: sharing your expertise

    I am a professor in biomedical sciences in one of the top ten universities on the subject in the US. But I would not trust any argument made just on a poster's credentials. Besides, in my personal experience, you are not an expert on a subject even with a masters degree. No one in science...
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    Why I Despise Religion

    When I was a kid, I was christian, and this had the opposite effect on me. I heard so much to not covet great things in this life, and how much greater the next life would be. My interpretation of that was to live recklessly. I wondered then, still do now as a non-christian, wonder why others...
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