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Nah. Already made my point clearly with those already shared. I’m not targeting perfection, just understanding. A*theist. Literally means not*theist, and theism is specifically about belief in god or gods. Religion and ritual more broadly may get lumped into this by some speakers, but those speakers do so inaccurately. the·ist noun a person who believes in the existence of a god or gods, specifically of a creator who intervenes in the universe. adjective denoting or relating to belief in the existence of a god or gods, specifically of a creator who intervenes in the universe. Since you appreciate perfection in analogies, you should equally appreciate perfection in definitions, and here that lays with Zapatos’ position.

The spheres are called “framboids” and here is an extensive article speculating about their possible origins. Large framboids are collections of smaller framboids rather than true crystals. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313528873_Framboids_From_their_origin_to_application

Whenever a theist around here questions what atheists believe, of if they believe gods don't exist, the usual response of the membership is to say something along the lines of "atheism is a lack of belief in the existence of gods, no more, no less". So while you, Phi and others may have your own personal beliefs (sort of like most theists do), I am of the opinion that strictly speaking there is no contradiction in an atheist believing in or practicing religion, as long as they don't believe in the existence of a god or gods.

The high energy consumption of cryptocurrencies is often criticized - has there been any further development in this area? Are there already more energy-efficient cryptocurrencies? The proof of personhood protocol consumes much less energy than proof of work or proof of stake - do some cryptocurrencies already use this protocol or which cryptocurrencies use this protocol? I think if you don't minimize the high energy consumption, it becomes very easy to criticize the technology behind it. If you want cryptocurrencies to succeed, you will also need to pay attention to energy consumption.

I have a very odd piece of pyrite that appears to be littered with microscopic spheres. I have read a host of articles about pyrite but can't seem to find anything that can even began to explain how or why this happened. Some of the crystals have spheres embedded halfway in them and I've crushed a few crystals and found spheres inside them. Has anyone every come across anything like this?

I absolutely loved these books! Thanks for reminding me, I might have to reread them at some point actually. Haha I know what you mean! Was so confused, but the book is pretty intimidating in terms of size… I’m currently reading Daring Greatly by Brené Brown and Walden by H.D. Thoreau. Both very very good reads so far!

They also hit residential buildings. Fuck you and everyone who thinks attacking sovereign countries unprovoked and killing civilians and children and pregnant women and everyone indiscriminately is funny.

Seems to me that you have combined two mutually exclusive ideas to produce a self contradictory question. If solipsism is true there there can be no Physics, modern or otherwise. Further I wonder why you are asking other 'selves' ? Surely the doctrine that nothing exists or can exist other than one's self automatically denies the existence of other 'selves' and other doctrines ?

In this study the authors found a significant correlation: global strong seismic activity followed about two weeks after detection of variations in cosmic rays. Causal connection is not clear, but the authors suggest either effects of massive movements of the liquid iron in the Earth core, or some effects of the Sun. They have noticed some additional correlations and periodicity, but these need more data. [2204.12310] Observation of large scale precursor correlations between cosmic rays and earthquakes (arxiv.org)

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. The best novel I've read in several years. He also wrote Kite Runner which I also very much enjoyed.

Not precisely accurate. You challenged the validity of John Fire Lame Deer's statement that the natives of North America had no criminals or law enforcement, and your argument against it was that they had wars, thus equating aggression with criminality. I challenged that assertion, citing the legality of war and illegality of refusal of military service in all modern westernized societies. You then cited a pacifist-draftee-turned-killer-hero as a testament to the law of the land. Now you repudiate that by claiming to have taken a couple of walks against involvement in one particular war, then re-embrace it by respecting the people who did not stand against that war. Yet the legality of all wars and even conscription goes unquestioned, while at the same time you want me to do something practical - presumably more practical than marching, which didn't work - against any laws I consider unjust. And yet, the Lakota did manage without a prison system or criminal justice system, and I think it was, as the man said, because they did not set as much store by property and the accumulation of things as the Europeans did. They had wars; the Europeans had more and bigger wars, and the Europeans also had public trials and executions, prisons, indentured servitude, transportation of criminals to distant colonies - and the Indians didn't. Now, I have a little rhetoric.

I didn't read the last three pages What happened here? It's been derailed so much, if I started this I'd have the hissfit choir coming to suck my brains out and dismember me. So it's only been allowed to be hypocritical as a gross weird jab at me, unless either 1. this whole exchange is all underhanded jabs at me somehow 2. You guys don't care about staying on topic any more out of the mythical goodness said to sometimes appear within the heart of a man Of course, nobody needs to answer me, or something, you'd might as well continue on, like a serene babbling Brook, and yell at each other some more, lol