Phi for All

! Moderator Note Please avoid throwing links at people under the assumption they'll understand exactly how you're applying an argument from them. It's against the rules to require anyone to go offsite in order to participate in a conversation. Give some context or provide specific quotes from the article so the membership doesn't have to dig to find your meaning.

The title says, "On Earth". Excluded would be off-topic.

I, for one, would like to hear Janus do the explanation of what happens at a baseball game where the pitcher tries to throw a "fastball" at the speed of light.

Worthless statement imo, being aimed so broadly and so easily refuted. A more granular look might show an incompetent businessperson who lobbied a politician to stifle a scientific report. But this is another point for zapatos.

We're caught between how fast we can change things and how slow we need things to change. We need to behave differently but too many people want us to behave EXACTLY this way so they can make more money. Societies always have growing pains, and hopefully we can explore together a better direction than the one we've been taking. IIRC, you let the breeze get your hair caught in the trees, so you have only yourself to blame.

Another name for an escape clause is a 'loophole". That's probably how Ghideon fell out.

! Moderator Note Virtually impossible to discuss anything with someone who argues this way. These thoughts and phrases are obviously very important to the poster but mean little to us without context. Discussion is like serving a meal. You want to give your guests something they can sink their teeth into and enjoy focusing on the experience. This style is like trying to feed guests by making them catch popcorn from the stove in their mouths. Amusing to the host perhaps, but highly unsatisfying for everyone else. Mike12 will have to learn this elsewhere.

Mike12 has been banned for breaking rules on bad-faith arguments, soapboxing, incoherency, slurs against groups, and discussing the commission of felonies. Better role models will hopefully be available to him soon.

! Moderator Note References to the personal commitment of an illegal activity are forbidden, with the following qualifications: References involving felonies are not acceptable and will be removed. You also argue in bad faith, are often incoherent, and soapbox your positions without regard to comments made in discussion by other members. All of this has been mentioned to you, yet none of the behavior has changed. Our rules help make conversations meaningful, and our rigorous approach doesn't allow the kind of loose arguments you seem drawn to. Best of luck elsewhere, Mike12.

That's not the way it works though, is it? You can actually believe something without investing it with "truth" or even "certainty". I can believe there might be a way for consciousness to exist after death, but I don't have to be certain of it to believe in it. It's more of a hope or wishful thought. Or I can study a subject in depth, learn everything there is to know about it, and be almost certain about what I believe about that subject. At a certain point, our wish/hope becomes trust. I think scientists try hard to trust their knowledge before believing in things.

The medium sound could travel in is full of cats who're meowing instead of listening, so you'll never know.

! Moderator Note Your duty HERE is to make yourself understood, and you're failing. If you don't understand something, ask a question about it (something short, without ALL THE GARBAGE you think is necessary for some reason). Please focus on a single concept at a time, and stop tossing in everything that pops into your head. Your signal to noise ratio is unacceptable.

! Moderator Note Not touching it till we know more. The rules state you can't require people to go offsite to participate. What are the claims?

People think you're crazy for talking to yourself so much, but it's wise to always speak to the most intelligent person in the room.

! Moderator Note Discussion requires that all participants reply with coherent arguments. You have a problem with the way you present ideas. If it's a style you've adopted, get rid of it immediately, for your own sake if not ours. If you're a bot spamming some bizarre agenda, stay away. If your next post is in this same incoherent format, I'm just going to boot you. We don't have enough staff currently to keep up with this kind of obstacle to learning.

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Welcome! Good to have you here. You officially have some social media now. I'm an inadvertent long-distance backpacker. I go backpacking, get lost, and have to call long-distance for someone to come pick me up. But when I lose my mind, I usually find it on a hiking trail. Make the time, my friend. See you around.

! Moderator Note What a horrible bot.

molbol2000 has been suspended until (at least) after the major elections, so as not to distract from the pursuit of being an informed, science-minded human.

! Moderator Note Closed pending staff review.

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Sorry, koti.

Can I put this quote in my signature?

If you want clear, you need window cleaner, next aisle over.

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