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  1. Onoma

    Representative of The Over-Seers?

    My immediate response is that they have made a horrible choice by choosing me, ( I could think of many better to fill the role ) and this would cause me to suspect them of perhaps making many other bad choices, in turn making me ponder how " intelligent " they actually are if they've managed to...
  2. Onoma

    Simulated Reality: What To Do?

    First thing I would do is point out that they have made a horrible choice by picking me
  3. Onoma

    Flood terminologies in the antiquities

    Mmm, yes, I am aware of so-called " regional floods " and the proposal that they were the basis for the flood myth, but unfortunately, Mesopotamian literature doesn't bear this to be the truth For one, there are two entirely types of phrasing / words used to refer to things like seasonal...
  4. Onoma

    The Chosen: III.

    Sure ! Best place to start, imo, is the ePSD Sumerian: a [WATER] (2329x: ED IIIa, ED IIIb, Old Akkadian, Lagash II, Ur III, Early Old Babylonian, Old Babylonian, 1st millennium, unknown) wr. a "water; semen; progeny" Akkadian: mû; rihûtu
  5. Onoma

    Cuddling buddies

    Sounds reasonable, imo, there's nothing wrong with wanting physical contact
  6. Onoma

    The Chosen: III.

    Interesting, thanks for taking the time to put it together Just from a cursory glance, it made me think of how a symbol for " water " is also associated with " sperm / progeny " in cuneiform texts
  7. Onoma

    The Chosen: III.

    Of course, of course, I knew this already, but thank you for explaining This isn't what I was asking though " Israel " is a name that was in common use long before what we consider Biblical Israel to have come about, so do you have any theories as to why it was chosen for the Biblical Israel...
  8. Onoma

    Flood terminologies in the antiquities

    Before getting to Egyptian, I wanted to include a few more examples of the phrasing from cuneiform texts to help illustrate that " floods " in ancient literature are not as cut and dry a topic as most have been led to believe ( I assume merely from sheer academic bias ), so here they are ( I can...
  9. Onoma

    Hermann Volrath Hilprecht and the Priest of Bel

    ...it says what ?
  10. Onoma

    The Chosen: III.

    " Israel " seems to be a given name ( Eblaite and Ugaritic ) that predates what we consider Biblical Israel, do you have any theories as to why it was specifically chosen ?
  11. Onoma

    Is blind faith right faith?

    It's an interesting question for sure, and I think the phrase itself likely stems from Biblical scripture, but perhaps complicated in that the word seems to be used to refer to literal, physical blindness ( Jesus " healed a " blind " man , etc ) but the concordances point to a kind of...
  12. Onoma

    Keys to mild vs severe Coronavirus illness start to come into view

    Recently published data suggests there is a link between viral loads ( High VS Low ) and mortality rates: " A univariate survival analysis revealed a significant difference in survival probability between those with high viral load and those with low viral load "...
  13. Onoma

    Hermann Volrath Hilprecht and the Priest of Bel

    That's why there's such a thing as " peer review "
  14. Onoma

    Is knowledge real?

    So then what they call " Methodological reductionism " ? Well, maybe I'm misunderstanding the terms you are using, but reality isn't generally considered discrete or point-like in nature at smaller scales, ( Particles are not point-like objects, for example ),so " seeing " the minutiae isn't "...
  15. Onoma

    Is knowledge real?

    Guess it depends on what you are referring to when you invoke reductionism, it doesn't seem to be something that has a singular or universal meaning like a mathematical constant
  16. Onoma

    Is knowledge real?

    Hmm, that's why I brought up natural units, they, along with mathematical constants are what are conjectured to be universal
  17. Onoma

    Is knowledge real?

    What about natural units that are based on physical constants ?
  18. Onoma

    Is knowledge real?

    If it had no practical use why would we make use of it to begin with ?
  19. Onoma

    Is knowledge real?

    I've oft heard that mathematics would likely be a universal language
  20. Onoma

    Flood terminologies in the antiquities

    So when I invoke philology, I should clarify some things One is that in the time we are looking at ( Generally 4,000 BC to 200 AD ) life itself was quite different This was a time when language, belief, measurement, math and science were fairly intimately intertwined, the modern " Hindu-Arabic...
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